Grrl Power #1203 – Nethertemp
No, they’re not going raffle off the succubus at the comic shop. Or more accurately, raffle off a chance to have your mana capacity drained by a succubus. There’s probably some state ordinance that would make that illegal, unless someone wanted to get pedantic about laws only applying to humans specifically. Of course, if a prosecutor wanted to press charges for sex raffles against a demon, that would set precedent by the state that demons are people. I guess they could try to go for a beastiality angle, i.e. having sex with a living thing that isn’t human, but I don’t think that would fly since a demon can give consent, and also some demons might punch you in the face or worse if you tried to legally define them as livestock.
But since there is no succubus raffle, they don’t have to worry about that. I guess Parfait just has to keep her mana sensing organ tuned to sniff out when someone walks in with some mana they’re not using and also hopefully has good hygiene.
Yes, Parfait has panties on. They’re made out of the same stuff as her smoke dress and can probably be banished with a thought, but she is technically decent.
Oh, and I modeled the church that Sydney’s store took over after the Presbyterian church that my parents took me to while I was growing up and didn’t get any say on what I did with my Sunday mornings. Gun to my head I couldn’t tell you what the difference is between Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Methodists, and all of the other “Catholic Lite” flavors of Christianity there are. The point is – yes, the main floor of the comic shop is where the church services used to be held after they cleared out the pews, so there is a raised pulpit and a humongous pipe organ against the back wall. Presumably the store hires an organist on some days to come in and knock out some Iron Butterfly or Hall of the Mountain King and other songs that sound cool on an organ. The church also had offices, an indoor basketball court that you could crank the hoops up against the ceiling so you could use the area for everything from dodgeball to plays to potluck lunches, and off of that building was a two story building with a sunday school and rooms for crafts and other stuff, and looking at it on google maps now it seems there’s also a full on pre-school? It wasn’t (or isn’t, I guess I should say) a megachurch by any means, but it was in an upper-middle class neighborhood in a suburb settled by oil executives and doctors and other muckety-muck professionals, so the collection plate was fairly bursting each week.
But now in the Grrl-verse, church attendance diminished, the collection plate got lighter and lighter and Halo-Co. bought them out, and now the shop has dedicated rooms for board games and tabletop games and Warhammer and all that stuff, and probably have people on staff who DM professionally and run games, and it’s turned into a bit of a non-school day-care. Not to mention they have at least one room serving as an arcade, and another with everything you need for a LAN party, and another set up as a theater with weekly showings of Rocky Horror and a big Halloween lineup that includes Evil Dead 2 and The Thing and people can vote for other movies. So, business is good.
Tom let Parfait go assuming she would have her pick of the team, or would “siphon” a few points off Sydney, but he probably wasn’t aware of Max’s no-zonking policy. It’s not the sex she has a problem with – well, her rules might be slightly biased against Dabbler on general principal – she just doesn’t want a critical member of the team out of commission if she needs them. People can be recalled from PTO or whatever the military uses (granted this team is very different than what you’d find at a regular military base, so maybe they actually do get PTO) but if they’re insensate and drooling on Dabbler’s sexual detritus couch, they’re not going to be much use to anyone.
I haven’t forgotten about the vote incentives. The nude version of the new one is basically done. I need to do a clothed version and the mini-comic still, but it’ll still realistically be next monday before it’s ready. The reason I’m so far behind with these is my mom had a fall, and she’s at that age and condition where that’s a big deal. So the last time I went down to help my parents out, I was spending a 2-4 hour chunk of my workday visiting with her at a physical rehab hospital thing where she’s staying until she can walk on her own again. I kept up with the comic but didn’t have a lot of time for much else.
The good news is that she’s doing well. The fall happened about 3 weeks ago and she’s recovered to the point that she’s able to move around with a walker in short bursts, and she’ll probably be getting home in by the end of this week hopefully?
I didn’t want to post about it until I had better news than “my mom broke her hip.” Normally I wouldn’t post about that kind of stuff at all, as I just want to post my inane ramblings on sci-fi/fantasy tropes and leave all the personal drama out of it, but it is impacting my work schedule and I wanted to assure you guys that I’m not straight up shirking on stuff I’ve promised. Somehow I’ll figure out how to get caught up. I’m not saying the team will fight “Guy Who Sends His Enemies to the Stick Figure Dimension” for 2-4 pages will definitely happen, but I’m not saying it definitely won’t. :)
The August vote incentive is up! Yeah I know it’s late, so hopefully I’ll manage to get some bonus (read: overdue) incentives up as I attempt to catch up.
Oh no! Sydney’s been injured! A Wampa may or may not have been involved, I’ll leave the exact nature of the incident up to you. It’s not relevant to the picture. And before you’re like “Dave, Bandaged Rei is one thing, but floating unconscious in a bacta tank is probably an even narrower fetish.” just check the picture out.
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Since gov agencies are in on it now, couldn’t they run her by say…. a military base to see if any of the grunts are interested in partying? As someone who grew up on military bases, I’m positive that a run by the dorms would turn up… a few…. dozen or so interested parties. Airmen and boots aren’t exactly big on the thinking ahead part and would likely take some legal stimulants the next day to walk it off. I’ve seen them drink to the point of three sheets to the wind only to wake up still plastered to do PT and somehow pull that off. Pretty sure this one would be on par if not a cake walk for them.
Max just banned her from one base. I think asking to visit another would be pushing their luck.
Ah, Navy foreign port safety videos.
I knew you were airforce when you said “dorms” everyone else calls them barracks or “bricks” lol
From what I’ve heard about the current U.S.A armed forces policy on “solicitation”, I’d say it sounds unlikely.
DaveB: “Yes, Parfait has panties on. They’re made out of the same stuff as her smoke dress and can probably be banished with a thought, but she is technically decent.”
“Fully clothed” is not the same as “decent.” Parfait is NOT decent by any stretch of the imagination…She’s downright superb!
Try to remember a string bikini is technically “decent” as the “naughty bits” are covered. Leaves NOTHING to the imagination but technically decent.
He is making a play on words :)
Who are you and what have you done with the real Pander?
I only despise bad puns. Which is most, but not all puns. If I sent ninja assassination squads after the few good ones aswell, the poor ninja would be too tuckered out for the truly evil ones. Which again is most of them.
We broke her.
One could even say we’re responsible for her decent into madness.
Broke or unrelentingly encouraged to be more awesome?
that’s descent, and it’s worth every penny
Ninja…. Squad…. Sent.
Aw come on, I thought that was a descent pun.
But glad to see you’re back to normal.
For those wondering when they moved into a Church: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-779-sydney-a-portrait-in-light/
Dude, I’m sorry to hear about your Mom. I went through something similar with my Nan almost a decade ago.
Wishing her a speedy recovery.
I hope your mom keeps getting better each day!
So, how long was Sydney listing at the door? Did she hear Dabbler admit she is breaking the law and still controlling the members of Archon for pure personal reasons? Is Sydney joining Gwen as an accessory to the crime?
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1046-four-on-the-force-field/
Panel 3
Unlikely, she was still with Max when Dabbler and Parfait left and the first panel of page 1201 shows a fair way clear of people behind Dabbler and Parfait
It’s rough Dave, I know. My wife took a simple fall and snapped the ball clean off her hip, they had to do a partial replacement. that was back just this January, she’s getting around better, but has other health issues that’s making it go slower for her. (Stage 4 COPD, full-body tremors, brittle bone disorder) She’s only 59, but we don’t have much hope for her to reach 70.
Dave, if you are stuck on the vote incentives, couldn’t you do a simpler one once in a while? I would like to request versions of the random teeshirt designs some of the characters wear.
Falls suck.
I am so glad I learned Aikido when I was younger, because if I didn’t now how to fall, I would have killed myself at least twice while working for Amazon. Even then, it hurt like hell to roll on a concrete floor.
Mom is what matters, DaveB. Treasure the time you have and take what time you need. I wish I had done more to remember my mom because it is hard now to remember even the most basic things about her. We will be here when you get back.
I always tell my students that ukemi (“receiving technique”: aka falling) is the most important part of Aikido training. Face it, most of us will never be jumped in a dark alley, but every single one of us will fall down. Gravity is always attacking!
When I took judo in elementary school back in the late 60’s, (It was offered as a summer recreation course.) they wouldn’t let us do anything else until we’d mastered falling.
Of course, that *might* have been because the next thing we’d be doing was throwing each other…
Just for the record, in the army anyway, PTO was called, “leave.” As in, “I’m gonna take a week’ leave,” or, “I’ve got thirty days of leave saved.” Other branches may use a different term, but I think that officially it’s the same for all branches. Also it’s accrued at a rate of 2.5 days per month, enough to give a serviceman (or woman) 30 days a year. It might be different for Archon as they’re not a standard branch of the military. There’s some rules to taking and saving leave I could fill you in on if you’re interested, although Archon might be different their rules might be similar. Also leave is different from a, “pass,” although the mechanic are the same in some ways.
And before all you “PFC’s” (And no it does not mean Private First Class) start to moan the 30 days is a lot … No it is not. You take 2 weeks off (10 Days) you get 16 with the weekends … We have to take ALL 16 days. No weekends for us.
Been a while since we last saw Joel and his comicbook store
No shade from me on the whole mom & vote incentive thing. Stuff like that happens on occasion.
She had them at “boing” !
Wait a second… This sounds like rock and/or roll…
If they have in an organist, they will definitely be playing The Misty Mountains Cold, Song of the Lonely Mountain, and other selections from the Tolkien movies.