My Co-worker Is an Eldritch X! - Ch. 4 - Time and Decay

[EchoGirl]

Surprised no horror tag since they killed a a guy but you’d think she’d have eldritch powers to just disappear her body vs limited power in a human form besides the telepathy lol

 

[Jatopian]

Surprised no horror tag since they killed a a guy but you’d think she’d have eldritch powers to just disappear her body vs limited power in a human form besides the telepathy lol

welcome to the list of people who didn't read the part where they explain why she didn't do that

 

[JustSomeoneElse]

What is Senukin cooking?

 

[Xelarion]

So long, First Body. We'll miss you.

 

[BaladikG]

Remember Mythbusters demonstrated that not only would the mix they used in Breaking Bad fail to dissolve a body, it also would never eat through the tub in the first place. That's not how acid works.
You need a way stronger acid to even get close to dissolving a body, and even then it's a long horrible stinky process. Yeah no way you can do that in an apartment without alerting every single neighbor you have.

That's why you need to turmix down everything you can. That way it will be so much easier.

 

[jipowap]

I get the sentiment, but I would not describe Nyarly's relationship to humans as anywhere close to "stan", personally. At least not in the original mythos.

Lovecraft's point was that it sucks how the universe is utterly indifferent to us, but we also shouldn't forget it would also suck if it did take notice.

I get the general interpretation, but still Nyarlathotep interacts with humanity. The emissary of all that is above and beyond explicitly takes on the form of a human.
Remember Lovecraft was a deeply christian man, somewhere of the same level as Tolkien, though of obviously different viewpoints. His worlds evoke as much love for man as indifference and malice, for more we often see humanity learn of dangers and wizen up to them than outright perish.
By miracle, cosmic forces parted to allow for meek man to exist on a speck of dust in a seemingly hostile universe. A power, an induced luck, greater than any fell star. It is no wonder the intelligent eldritch would be interested in our strange persistence.
"Oy, isn't that where Cthulhu squats? How them monkeys able to even breath?"

 

[ultrabread]

For some reason absolutely unknown to me, I read the winged woman's voice as the tf2 scout. It worked too well.

 

[EchoGirl]

welcome to the list of people who didn't read the part where they explain why she didn't do that

Yeah sorry I skim half asleep on mobile sometimes

 

[hamoda]

That's some hardcore nihilism in that last panel there

 

[Llangion]

Casually giving him an existential crisis through the door. 😂🤣😂

 

[Valle_reading_manga]

Do any of your kind possess a pair of wings atop their heads

Yeah, I'm curious about that too.
Cashier really said to her customer

I wanna bury my face in yo tits

though

 

[rookienumbers]

It's common knowledge for chemists and people working in the funreal industry. In fact, this kind of thing is a "green" cremation-like method funeral homes sometimes offer.

I love the funeral. Seems better than a funeral. Anyway, this kind of info is limited, right? Wouldn't want anyone doing an illegal cremation

 

[finalm]

I love the funeral. Seems better than a funeral. Anyway, this kind of info is limited, right? Wouldn't want anyone doing an illegal cremation

Not sure what you mean by "limited". People don't usually share how to turn a human body into sludge, because it's not the most tactful conversation topic, especially during a meal. If you mean that governments actively try to keep such info out of the public sphere (like with the methods of crafting explosives and related stuff), then no, not to my knowledge. Someone who's determined to plan how to commit a crime and hide evidence will find out either way, after all - it involves commonly available materials and requires no specialized skills. Of course, since you'd need a lot of it, your purchase history might be problematic unless you happen to run a construction or soap production business, where large amounts of lye are used. Hell, you can read on regular old Wikipedia, that the stuff is great for "digesting tissue", so it's not a big leap of logic, even though they don't directly mention that the tissue can be human.

 

[Amylase]

For the record, HF does not dissolve human flesh.

That urban legend comes from somebody googling 'most dangerous acid' and getting HF, and assuming that meant it was the strongest acid in the world.

It's not. What it is is a powerful contact poison. If you spill HF on yourself, the Fluoride ions will penetrate through your skin and start a catalytic reaction with the Potassium that your nerves use to communicate with each other. A small cup of HF is enough to use up enough of the potassium so that the nerves in your heart can't communicate with each other, killing you from a heart attack.

Once you spill it on you, it will take about 30-60 minutes to kill you, and even with immediate treatment, chances are you will still die.

Yeah I know a guy who got exposed and he was burned and poisoned and down for the count for months from a relatively small exposure. 50% HF is terrifying and irrc fumes. Even 1% is not good.

That said for smaller exposures the symptoms are actually often delayed by up to like 48 hours.

You treat it with calcium gluconate and water if its on your skin or in your eyes and if you do it fast enough youll be fine. No painkillers allowed as pain is one of the only ways to tell how the patient is doing.

Not sure how to treat inhalation.

 

[Daviot]

For the record, HF does not dissolve human flesh.

That urban legend comes from somebody googling 'most dangerous acid' and getting HF, and assuming that meant it was the strongest acid in the world.

It's not. What it is is a powerful contact poison. If you spill HF on yourself, the Fluoride ions will penetrate through your skin and start a catalytic reaction with the Potassium that your nerves use to communicate with each other. A small cup of HF is enough to use up enough of the potassium so that the nerves in your heart can't communicate with each other, killing you from a heart attack.

Once you spill it on you, it will take about 30-60 minutes to kill you, and even with immediate treatment, chances are you will still die.

Slight correction: HF preferentially reacts with the with the calcium in your body, leaving too much potassium in your nervous system, causing the above (also extreme pain as the excess potassium can flood out of your nervous system, causing extreme pain in what is known as "hyperkalemia"). It also reacts with the calcium in your skeleton, meaning that it can weaken or partially melt your bones while leaving the flesh above only burnt or "raisined" but technically intact.

I used to do industrial safety/HSE, and had to lecture a few companies that used "truck wash" or "chrome wash" that was 20-40% HF acid by volume. Some chose to stop using it altogether; a couple places that insisted on using it had to get specific teflon-coated protective gloves/jumpsuits, train the specific staff, and specifically stock calcium gluconate* as an antidote in their first aid kits.

*It dampens the effects by providing the acid an even-easier to break down form of calcium to attack. You'd still want to take them to a hospital, because sometimes internal burns/organ damage might not be apparent or might take a day or two to manifest.

 

[CalebPlowmann]

We got a classic acid bathtub and a weird otaku cosplayer or another eldrith waifu

 

[ThePhysician2000]

Yeah, ideally you'd go for lye, basically ~5–10% NaOH by weight in water.
So, for every 10 liters of water, you’d add 500g to 1kg of sodium hydroxide, you can use higher concentrations (up to ~20%) speed up the process but it's more dangerous to handle, and you need to aim for 150°C (302°F).
The good thing is that alkaline hydrolysis doesn’t smell “rotten” so it's generally less stinky, but it's a messy process (you are literally making soap and that bitch will probably never drain in the tub).

Is nobody gonna mention Piranha fluid? That crap gets the job done!

 

[pandatime]

Girl i know you kinda clueless but having worked in public service and seen a bunch of humans you would think that she would atleest think hey wat none of hte human i seen have feathers on their head
but then again i guess yeah she rly woudlnt know that maybe theres just some sort of species of human that does She dont know. for all she knows humans can sprout wings

 

[Reincrop]

Death is inevitable, so making the path to it at least somewhat entertaining's kinda necessary, or said death would only come sooner.
Despair can kill quicker than most diseases, after all, so stapling a smile onto yourself each day's a must!

Thanks for the chapters!

 

[SmallerRidley]

She's gonna kill the second body standing in a closed room with a tub full of 50% HF.