Field Day Part 6
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By Gianluca Burdon Sun Apr 7th 2019 at 11:30 pm
So a Supervillain was able to produce such a device, where every single do-gooder failed?
By Brother Parvus Mon Apr 8th 2019 at 4:02 am
See panel 4.
By Otaku Mon Apr 8th 2019 at 5:00 am
Who says Claw is the only one to have it? 😉 Though I do love playing devil’s advocate, so pardon me as I try to explain this away… In real life, polygraph results aren’t usually admissible in court. If they haven’t refined it more than Claw, it may be too cumbersome. Some just don’t have a need due to superpowers (their own or others). Though unlikely, perhaps part of the research process involves something ethically questionable, something that Claw is willing to do but which would give the heroes some reservation? Oh, and perhaps we’ll get a “bonus” panel where sure enough, this guy totally is Dread Moth and Claw’s device just doesn’t work. XD
By Brother Parvus Mon Apr 8th 2019 at 4:26 pm
It’s what comes from purchasing parts from Acme instead of Yoyodyne.
By 7eggert Thu Apr 11th 2019 at 8:19 pm
With ACME products, be sure to RTFM.
By 7eggert Thu Apr 11th 2019 at 8:20 pm
He has a science division
By Lahvak Mon Apr 8th 2019 at 9:52 pm
Quite obviously, the very idea of an infallible lie detector device is purely evil.
By Brother Parvus Mon Apr 8th 2019 at 4:04 am
The expression in panel 1 is sublime.
By CK Mon Apr 8th 2019 at 4:33 am
Maybe he has a truth-proof vest.
By Smythe Thu Apr 11th 2019 at 3:00 am
Oh for heavens sake!
It was mentioned that the Dread Moth has a twin brother. So either it’s the twin of the principal who is the Dread Moth, or they both are (meaning neither one is THE Dread Moth, merely A Dread Moth). Thereby sidestepping any truth-gadget.
By Towering Barbarian Mon Apr 8th 2019 at 6:26 am
Irresponsible thought: Since Claw does kinda have access to Time Travel why not use that to make all 3 events? ^_%
By Targ Collective Mon Apr 8th 2019 at 11:01 am
He doesn’t have time travel. The time travel was an accident and fixing it took all the residual charge that made it possible. He does have a temporal duplicator, but it acts like a temporal mirror for duplicating a small window of space (and in theory the entire Universe around it).
Claw could choose to find some way to attend all three events. The obvious way is that Claw attends one school, Diane the other and Anna the third – Dynamo’s would be a good fit.
If space and time both share and resist each other then that creates a prevalence of temporal-spacial energy flow. We know that we have total freedom in space, but in time that variance is speed of motion. In theory, if we want to travel to the past in any place then we need to expand time and contract space relative to when and where we want to go. It also works the other way, depending on which emphasis is the easiest path. This might be through a tunnel that takes us when or where we need to go… Or it could be as simple and easy as blinking.
Regardless, one would expect going to the future would be easier than going to the past. Time naturally flows that way, after all. If each past moment is not replaced by the present, with the present instead adding to and varying it, then there might be a threshold where you can’t go further back because the temporal flow of future-centricism would bounce you back. If you go to the future, then you would in theory have to swim against the current of the past to return. If Time and Space have choice, then it is that there is total freedom of motion in space, and time is how you measure that motion, for example our world’s spin defines our clocks.
Of course, defining the problem and a theoretical solution is relatively simple. A tool for this would have to be quite simple and probably also complex the other way to be of practical application in this regard. It might help to think in terms of spatial-temporal lensing, or perhaps not.
The real question is, if you travel through time, can you make lasting changes? Possibly, but you would need to sustain them in past-present-future connection. This would be easier in a future direction, but remember to your past you *are* the future. If you travel to your whole past, all at once, then if you sustain your future-connection you can change that. The interesting thing is you would notice this in the past and present both if possible. If you align your future with all possible futures, then within the range of possible futures you could choose which future choice or choices are worth most.
The real difficulty is application of this. We are always moving through time relative to space, so a tool for that would simply help us steer, and find a pathway, with enough energy to steer through time relative to space as well as space relative to time. So understanding how to steer temporal energy, and how to charge and discharge it, is really all that is needed. If the energy transfer of time to time were steered and energised for instantaneous transit then you could be anywhen. Teleportation in space as well would be trickier, you would need an anchor to translocate to where you wanted to go, or you would need to project one. There are various ways of achieving this, the easiest of which is to be there already.
By Marscaleb Mon Apr 8th 2019 at 4:54 pm
Unless he wiped his own memory so that he could pass lie detector tests!
By Kat Tue Apr 9th 2019 at 9:37 am
Or only one of his personalities is Dread Moth! Or he’s Possessed by the spirit of Dread Moth occasionally! or a disturbingly well planned series of hypnotic triggers!
And this is why I can’t write for the Mutants and Masterminds game anymore.
By Reagent-52 Fri Apr 12th 2019 at 6:00 am
Could still be lying. He’s not dread moth he’s the principal. Doesn’t mean he wasn’t dread moth at somebpoint
By Hinoron Sun May 10th 2020 at 4:37 am
I suspect “Biometric data collection” is every bit as phony as polygraph tests (which are measuring the same, irrelevant things, AFAIK.)