Filler – Scarlet Avenger Armor
Aug30
As Hollum continues dealing with the political upheaval in Venezuela, CD has given us a look into what Red has to deal with in her job as the model for The Scarlet Avenger.
As Hollum continues dealing with the political upheaval in Venezuela, CD has given us a look into what Red has to deal with in her job as the model for The Scarlet Avenger.
I believe it, comic book costumes for the women characters may only come close, but not exceed fantasy online game gear. But, I will admit some games are better about it than others.
do we still have to point out the spelling errors in the fillers? cause Red misspelled the word stomach at the level 20 panel.
I mean, you don’t HAVE to point them. But I’m sorry I missed it. It’s fixed now.
So what armor is level 100? A transparent bikini?
We can only hope!
Ehh… We all know it’s all about the fan-service and sexual appeal rather than the practical or magical stats with equipment concepts like that. Though theoretically, maybe your characters’ in-game stats are utterly jacked by this point (LV 80s) that you’re near invincible to get away with wearing next to nothing for armour.
Seen it for Xenoblade Chronicles.
Probably a wisp of strategically-placed fog.
Strategically placed wisps of vapor. And there’s a rumor on gamer Reddit that if you move her fast enough, the little clouds can’t keep up, and you get to see stuff.
People underestimate how good bikini armor actually is.
The mere fact a single squared inch of material can be used as armor means the material is god level knowledge.
It of course generates a flexible force field of mixed and alternating properties all around the subject to protect them of much more damage than a mere piece of forged metal could.
And did I mention the flexibility the user gains not having a rigid piece of heavy material hanging from their body???
That, and ofc the female body is so good to see XD
Yes. Level 1 characters need to wear armor where all the protection is from material. On higher level, characters get progressively more magical armor up to the point when the protection of material is negligible and all the protection comes from magic. For that, how much skin is covered is irrelevant. In fact, if the wizard who made the armor didn’t deliberately put “turn off when worn over or under other clothes” function in, you could just have it in pocket. Or you can have the same magic in earring.
Besides, spidersilk is better material for armor than kevlar, not speaking about steel. Only … it needs to be in multiple layers like kevlar.
Unfortunately, spider silk is not flame-resistant like steel and kevlar are.
Spider silk is very fire resistant and self-extinguishing. Cobwebs only tend to be fire hazards because they trap flammable dust.
Nope, it burns great; I’ve tried it on fresh webs. According to Wikipedia, it can only handle up to about 220 degrees.
Kevlar threads can withstand 170C. While complete decomposition happens at 425°C, since 170°C the mechanical and dimensional characteristics decrease. Standard spider silk can handle 220°C, but spider silk of Trichonephila edulis showed excellent heat resistance (up to 371 °C).
And steel wool burns great as well. If you weave spider silk the way kevlar is, there will be less air inside so it wouldn’t burn so easily.
So, level 81 goddess armor prevents penetration “only” by sharp metal things.
So you’d still be in danger from stone knives and flint-tipped arrows, huh? Seems like that’s a flaw.
The more exposed female flesh, the greater the distraction factor and therefore the greater negative to-hit modifier. This applies to all opponents because males endure great discomfort, and females are subject to greater envious rage.
See Modesty Blaise and “The Nailer”.
What, did Hideo Kojima design that last armor?
Actually, he couldn’t have. Too much material for him to put on the female form.
Grrl Power (webcomic) has an example of how bikini armor COULD work.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-473-exiguous-couture/
Level 81 armor is when Red has to infiltrate the Harem room in the palace and belly dance for the sheik.
It almost makes sense – I mean, why would a god ever need any actual physical protection?
I assumed “divine armors” are the ones deities grant to their higher champions.
“Goddess” armor would presumably be infused with divine power for protection, anyway. Once you get above Adamantium armor, the additional protection is magical rather than material, as HKMaly mentioned.
Or the ultimate armor is anything that makes opponents not want to hit you at all.
As Sun Tzu wrote, a battle averted is a battle won.
In Panel 3, it looks like Tiffany really missed with the lipstick – it wound up between her eyes! LOL !
That’s blush.
(Last panel) I don’t mean the pink on her cheeks – I mean the bright red vertical streak between her eyes.
It’s in almost the right place for eye shadow, but I’ve never seen red eye shadow before.
Not a big deal, I just thought it was funny. Like the makeup artist goofed.
Oh! Yes, that’s eye shadow. If you look close, you can see it over her other eye as well, just poking out beneath her hair.
I actually like the Nightshade costume; I’ll have to think about making one of those. With real metal under the fabric, of course.
Clearly the typical “Bikini Armor” of female barbarians projects a magical force field to provide protection in the “Exposed” areas against high speed war mallet swings and sword thrusts. Clearly it’s one of those “The slow blade penetrates the shield” situations. This allows for Seduction based skills to work, while protecting against arrows, big hammers and swords.
The sword blade in panel One looks longer than her are. How does she draw it out without slicing off her left ear?
Oh, that’s easy; the scabbard only fully covers the lower half of the blade; the upper half has one open side, for drawing it. There are a pair of ‘hooks’ at the scabbard upper end that the guard hooks into, keeping the sword in place, and the wearer safe from injury. Realistically, that’s the only way you can carry a sword on your back and draw it quickly, without stopping to unsling it, unless it was a VERY short sword.
Historically, though, blades were typically only carried on the back for convenience while marching; if you were going to go into a fight, you’d stop and discard the scabbard and baldric as being just a nuisance in battle. The exception to this was during the later Renaissance period, when civilian rapiers sometimes reached ridiculously excessive lengths – to the point where they were carried behind, by servants, because they had become far too unwieldy to hang at your belt.
It looks like you know a lot more about swords than I do. Tht was good info. Thank you.
It’s a long-time interest. I’ve done medieval German sword fighting for a number of years.
Hollywood and TV have really spread a lot of misinformation; they make it look like swords would routinely carried on the back. But if you watch, in movies you. never see them being drawn, for exactly the reason you noted. Instead, they show the guy starting to reach over his shoulder, then cut away to something else, and by the time they cut back, he has it in his hand. The only series I’ve seen that tries to get it right is “The Witcher”. The scabbard used isn’t really the best design, but at least it could plausibly work.
Whenever I’ve been out in public with my weapons and armor, it’s been fun educating people about how things really were done. People are always fascinated to handle real swords and see how different real fights are from what you see in movies.
Its kind of like why you always mount the horse from the left. If you mounted from the right you ended up sitting on your saber. Cavalry problem that just became tridition.
That and the fact that it kind of freaks out the horse, because they aren’t used to people trying to do that; they tend to shy away.
Horses can be trained to be to be mounted from either side. Unfortunately retraining my muscle memory to mount from the “wrong”
side hasn’t proven so easy. It’s like when you get in the habit of crossing your arms right over left crossing them left over right feels weird and uncomfortable. Also horses are “handed” just like humans, only in horses it’s called “hollow” and “stiff”. All of my horses have been hollow left/stiff right. Supposedly it stems from the way they curled in the womb but being constantly mounted from the left might have something to do with it. I’m stiff right from a lifetime spent driving cars. Decades spent either pushing on the accelerator or holding my foot off it has made my right leg stiffer than my left.
I just remembered that silk actually is helpful at protecting you. All the Mongol warriors wore it when riding their horses into battle because arrows couldn’t penetrate it. They would still get shot, and have that large hole in them, but the silk by not being punctured would allow for easy extraction of the whole arrow without breaking it off. It really didn’t really help in the battle itself, but it made it easier to save the guy’s life afterwards.
Indian warriors in the pre-Columbian Caribbean area wore protective armor made of many layers of quilted cotton. It was fairly effective against flint-tipped arrows and wooden spears, slowing down the projectile velocity and preventing penetration. Didn’t fare so well against Spanish bullets, though.
I hope to see more from Melvin and the crew.
Melvin? My long-term memory must be breaking down………
Any word on how Hollum is doing? Has his situation settled down any?
His situation is probably about the same as ours is going to be in four years.
He’s actually gotten back in the saddle and a new page will come out this weekend.
#JustStabMeNow