[0655] Firearms Expert
└ posted on Monday, 2 February 2015, by Novil
- Larisa: Before we begin I’d like to check your prior knowledge.
- Larisa: Which goddess was honored by the lighting of the Olympic flame at the ancient Olympic Games?
- Luna: Hmm… Athena?
- Larisa: What’s the color of the flame when burning Cadmium?
- Luna: Maybe… green?
- Larisa: Name a fictional character with special fire powers.
- Luna: Uhh… Gandalf?
- Larisa: You’re attacked by a genetically mutated Stalin cyborg. What’s your weapon of choice?
- Luna: A rocket-propelled Molotov cocktail launcher?
- Larisa: I’m pleased to inform you that one of the world’s finest firearms experts is attending our workshop this year.
![[0655] Firearms Expert](/comics/2015-02-02-0655-firearms-expert.png "[0655] Firearms Expert")
i really want a print of robo Stalin
him and mecha Hitler can fight.
@ Lucario:
Comic number 64 in which Larissa is being talked to about the fact she uses insulin and the stupid drug thing arc.
I like how she got every question wrong until the rocket launcher thing (and then came up with something that doesn’t exist for an answer), but is then instantly declared an expert. I suppose that is Larisa through and through.
For those curious, the flame honors Hera. Cadmium burns red. And… well, I guess she got the Gandalf one maybe. He was very noted for fireworks among the Hobbits and did a few little fire tricks with the Goblins. If magic that happens to include a few fire related spells counts as ‘special fire powers’ then sure. Just lots of better examples out there is all.
Suddenly I want a game that has a rocket propelled Molotov cocktail launcher
Karadan wrote:
Actually, I could imagine how one would build that. Notice, however, that Luna got the WEAPONS answer right when she was having trouble with simple fire details – what color random things burned, mythology, and fiction. But the moment the situation became practical, all be it impossible, Luna came up with an answer that fit the situation she was in. Likely, Larissa noticed this too.
Silly Name wrote:
Her answer was wrong — the flame was in honor of Hera. It’s still being ignited at the location where the temple of Hera used to stand.
@ Ud the Imp:
It seems that all of her answers are wrong. I can’t find any information that cadmium burns with a specific color, someone else mentioned that the Olympic flame probably honors Zeus, Gandalf doesn’t have any “special” flame powers (and isn’t well-known for flame powers), and she didn’t answer the last question.
@ Adam:
Cadmium burns with a medium red color if I remember my chemistry right, although different compounds of it may burn differently. As for Gandalf having special flame powers, she is one hundred percent correct, and has shown herself to be a proper nerd in the process. Gandalf was the bearer of Narya, the “Ring of Fire,” the third of the Elven rings of power. It was given to him by Cirdan the Shipwright upon his arrival to Middle-earth from Valinor.
In addition to what Keith said about the Ring of Fire, Gandalf tells the Balrog, “I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor.” (Anor being the Sun.) As Gandalf is in fact an angelic power sent to Middle Earth, that’s not just hyperbole, and he’s got rather more than “a few little fire tricks” — but he was sent with the limitation that he couldn’t use his full powers against most enemies, so as not to be a deus ex machina.
She impressed Larisa with fire-orientated knowledge! That is a worthy feat!
@ MasterofKittens:
Cyborg, not robot. He’d take that paradox like he were a genetically engineered human with cybernetic implants. Which is exactly what cyborgs are.
@ Xellos:
I AM NOT. A MORON.
Cheap bottle rockets ($3.25/144) with lit sparklers taped to them as pretty tracer rockets: COOL!
Learning just how small a segment of sparkler you need per bottle rocket because you DON’T want it to still be on fire when it hits the ground: Priceless.
My pyro brother and I learned just how easy it is to make a broadcast arson device. Luckily he was entranced with the up close flame; setting other people’s stuff on fire thankfully did not appeal to him because he was disturbingly good at igniting things you’d think wouldn’t burn… like stainless steel.
Razule wrote:
sorry, all I got it Borderlands’ rocket-powered rocket launchers
@ myth buster:
Because they are probably going to play an pen and paper RPG together.
@ Aris Katsaris:
Yup, Hera was honoured by lighting flames because she was the goddess of the home and the hearth.
Larisa looks more like a psychologist than an interrogator… 🙂
@ AckAckAck:
A fire team is four people. This is too big to be a fire team, but too small to be a full squad. Spec ops squad, perhaps?
Fell special, Luna. You are now friends with three of the worlds’ most dangerous and potentially-powerful teenagers.
Bespectacled-labcoated-Dr.Larisa is kinda sexy..
I would have gone with either the trolls from Inkheart or every Dwarf from the Lord of the Rings.