Grrl Power #183 – Confirm skill upgrade Y/N
I really had to resist the temptation of digressing the conversation into exactly what portion of the EM spectrum succubi can see and drawing a panel of how the world looks through Dabblers eyes. For instance a shot of her looking at Maxima and Anvil but she sees Max with much more muted purples in her hair because she doesn’t see as far into the violet/ultraviolet spectrum as we do, but further into the red/IR spectrum, so Anvil’s hair is blown out.
It kind of bugs me how other races in everything are always human plus. Klingons are taller and much stronger than humans. Vulcans are smarter and stronger and have tactile telepathy, elves have infravision and live for 1000 years or whatever. At least an orc is stronger than a human but presumably less intelligent to balance out the point totals. Dabbler has a lot of advantages over humans even without all her extra curricular skills, but at least she has trouble telling mauve from lavender. Until she tweaks the dials on her cybernetic eye that is. Normally it’s set to match her natural vision exactly, (with some added heads up widgets of course) ’cause otherwise I’d imagine having mismatched vision would give you a headache. However her cybernetic eye is capable of a broader range of vision than most natural eyes. It’s just not always scanning into radio frequencies.
I realize just before I posted this page that the orb switches hands between panel 3 and 4… it was too much work to redraw her arms or flip her around so late, so lets just say she can switch hands while spending the point as long as at least one is still touching the orb.
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Well it could be communication-based then.
“you now know the dominant language of the planet…”
Oh, oh no, what if it upgraded her vocabulary!
The dominant language of the planet is Mandarin. Unless you exclude mutually unintelligible dialects, in which case it would be Spanish. Or unless by “dominant” you mean “lingua franca”, in which case it would finally be English. :P
Lingua franca is English??? The French language is English?
The origin of ‘lingua franca’ is back in colonial times the ‘language of diplomats’ was French. Rather than have a diplomat that spoke the local language, or a translator for them, the diplomat was expected to speak French and if needed a French translator for the locals. This way two visiting diplomats from different countries could understand each other. This was, of course, before England had colonies in America, multiple places in Africa, India, Hong Kong, Australia, and various islands. By the end of it between the English colonies and American settlers enough people in enough areas spoke English that it was easier to learn English and look for an English translator, then speak French or learn a local dialect.
Welp, we found out what it does later on…
D&D balances all of their races with the level adjustment and racial hit dice system, which causes some problems for things that are inferior to humans like kobolds. On the other hand, they do balance most of the common playable races against humans, even if they do give the sense that they all used humans as a starting point.
you might like Hambone’s “Deathworlders” where humans are ‘alien plus’. its a fun read, and can be found here: https://deathworlders.com/page/10/
there is an essential reading order page that includes other authors that have added to the canon at: https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/wiki/ref/universes/jenkinsverse/essential_reading_order
I’m waiting until Sydney notices that the upgrade gave her perfect senses, hence vision, when holding the Orb :D