Grrl Power #583 – Everyone owes each other a coke
Dabbler should have known something was up, because her hearing is way better than anyone else in either of those rooms. Her glamour has human sized ears, but she’s still rocking those pitcher plant ears of hers for real.
Ok, maybe she shouldn’t have expected that Cooter would grow a tentacle arm, even though I feel the pieces of that puzzle were pretty well laid out there. And the box with the finished picture was sitting next to all the pieces. But she’s never met whatever race Wyrmil is, and the artifacts in the vault introduce a lot of variables.
I was sorely tempted to make “what” the only dialog on this page, but I don’t quite have that editorial discipline.
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Seems that even though Dabbler is aware of tentacular hentai, the default succubus response to the Lovecraftian subtype of it still meets with full-body apprehension.
This is good information to know. For reasons.
Their illusion spell is the only thing about a succubus meant to be inpenetrable, and tentacle sex is the only type of sex they don’t want to have.
Well, everybody has flaws.
i dunno about not wanting to have it, she just wasn’t expecting it to happen to him
Now would be the perfect time for one of Dabbler’s sleep spells and amnesia hammer. Doubly so if it works on both Wormy and the big Coot. Interview/Debriefing/Interrogation round 2 will be much more fun when you already know a bunch of answers and can ask more loaded questions.
So, Cooter has Wyrmil?
I heard for dogs there are pills against that kind of stuff.
Will he start dragging his butt across the floor once he is free?
I hate to say this, but I have to mention what looks like a continuity error in the story. In the “flashback” sequence, not very many pages ago (page 573 /archive 2671), Sciona destroys part of one of the artifact-holding “pillars”, and Deus talks about how a death field will expand to fill the room. And Wyrmil’s entire body is in that room, at least for the time it takes Team Deus to get the artifacts on his shopping list. Then, days go by before the Twilight Council and some ArcSwat folks show up.
Meanwhile, Cooter’s body is splattered all over the other room, from which Team Sciona bored their way into the artifact room. The wall separating the two rooms is thick enough for us to maybe assume the death field stayed in the artifact room, but I’m finding it difficult to swallow the notion that Wyrmil recovered enough from Sciona’s betrayal to crawl through that hole, with the expanding death field permeating that room,
We have explored this in threads elsewhere. Nobody else by the way has assumed that days went by. There has been nothing which hinted at any significant lapsed time. It is possible mind, but the sequence laid out tends to imply that Archon were probably inbound whilst the robbery was being concluded. Just that there was no chance to get there before they escaped.
Minor spoiler, for anyone who has not read the conclusion of this scene yet:
Had it been days then I am sure Wyrmcoot could have looted the rest of the complex and just swum out. Unless his recovery took a long time. Which is possible, so I am not discounting that option.
Even with his head dead Wyrmil was clearly capable of still acting. So we should floor our suspension of disbelief, over any act which he could achieve, as we have no human experiences to compare that ability to.
For example without sight, smell, hearing or taste, or brain, we would have great difficulty doing anything. But he is a worm-like being, so clearly has some de-centralised thought and presumably some other sense, beyond just touch, in the rest of his body.
So there are two routes. One he would likely have had to play possum, so that the others did not spot that he was still alive. Meaning that, whilst they were busy looting the place, he could have waited for an opportunity to snag the artefact next to them. Deus had a rack of pot plants conveniently nearby, for him to grab with a tentacle, when folks were distracted.
Or even let them do the hard work, and grab the artefact out of the shopping trolley, when they turn to get the next one.
Alternatively he could have slithered away a bit each time that they were looking in some other direction, to escape the death field. Also because of the urgent need to try and absorb Cooter bits, to replace his lost tissue, and avoid dying. This version though would prohibit him from accessing the artefact we know he got, as it would be protected by the death field.
Up until he heard Archon’s arrival (and the big bangs of the construct smashing through the door and it being destroyed by Maxima). At which point he could deduce that they would deactivate the remaining defences, fearing that the intruders had reprogrammed those too.
Thus giving him a brief window of opportunity to safely return to the room with the artefact which he wanted. Perhaps holding a tentacle ahead of him, and walking slowly, to make sure that the death field had indeed been turned off (and if not, keeping poking it, loosing a bit of skin to necrosis each time, until it was)?
Either route though would fit the continuity. Even with the elapsed time you propose (albeit with the reservations I stated about that). Of the two the latter would fit better, with the longer wait. Exiting a complex, which still had active defences, and being afraid to follow either of the other groups (assuming escape routes to be boobytrapped or guarded), could have resulted in Wyrmcoot being trapped, until the defences were turned off.
Dabbler’s face in the last panel is priceless!
was half expecting her glamour to slip a bit from the surprise, like her eyes show their true colors
Her eyes already were, that’s how we knew it was her
Bit of original head features popping out then maybe?
Hillbilly inbreeding, its a serious problem down south.
That’s a whole lot deeper in the South than I am.
mebbe Madorakas meant as in where snowballs are unlikely to have a good chance, that sorta south; ofc, i realize Madorakas didn’t mean that, but still, Hades has a 3-headed guard dog; 3 heads irl are the result of either surgery or mutations or abnormal birth
Cerberus’s parents were Echidna (half-woman half-snake) and Typhon (winged, snakes for foots). It’s wonder it resembles dog at all.
sorry, by irl i meant in real life, i am well aware Cerbypup has weird ancestry; same goes for Odin’s horse
Ah yes, Loki’s baby.
yes and loki is the mother of that eight legged horse.
As well as being the mother of Hel, and the father of both fenrir and jormungandr
You guys all done showing off your mythology knows?
The nutty part of this is “Down South” also refers to the genital area
Shapeshifting turnabout is fair play… :D
WHAAAAT!?
Wat?
WHAAAA-oh wait we’re doing a bit, arent we?
Hey Al!
WHAT?
what surprises me most is that dabbler is actually showing shock, rather than going all: ohhh kinky <3
Dabbler may be insatiable, but it’s always on her terms. As soon as the surprise wears off and she is confident that whatever this creature is won’t try to devour her insides and steal her face next, I wouldn’t be surprised if she suggests something that makes Maxima facepalm in disgust, but it would be her choice at that point.
WhatEVER!
I’m glad this wasn’t all “WHAT?!” Works better with the dialogue you have.
John Carpenter’s The Thing. Should have done the blood test.
The Strain…
Personally, I was figuring on Cooter’s blood boiling or turning to ash. This actually does surprise me.
I’ve seen enough hentai to know where this is going.
Wyrmy didn’t strike me as that sorta gent; breaking metal and stuff yes, but not sex; besides, he knows that if he delays for sex at this juncture he ain’t gettin away
Okay, if it wasn’t confirmed that wyrml was involved, I’m going to take this as full on confirmation.
As there’s only one other voice, I’d say there’s no artifact possession.
Now, artifact involvement… and possible requirement of that potion in the first place… it could be complicated enough to make occam scream.
Only if he tried dry-shaving his bikini line, and slipt…
This comic seems to be going somewhere strange, like a dusty backroom, in Japan.
Oh noes the Wrymil has turned!
Say, I wonder if Cooter will remain true to his code and kill the tentacle-monster? Well, try to anyhow. I doubt anything he could try in here would work.
So, Dabbler looks like Harley Quinn out of makeup, and the way the vampire on the right reacts-forgot her name-is very much a line phrasing I expect to hear from The Doctor.
Who? o_O
Succubus, not vampire. Decollete.
From the Who’s Who (pun not intended, but not avoided)
You know, I am really anticipating the reaction to Dabblers Glamour as it adjusts for the presence of Wyrmil. I mean, can you imagine how traumatic would that be for Coot?
No, that was already said to only work on Dabbler herself, back around the bank heist
Yeah, Dabbles set her glamour to Coot, it’s not going change just because Wyrmil is now in the drivers’ seat
Might it even be possible that Wyrmil’s mind sees one image of Dabbler at the same time Coot is seeing a different image? Granted, it would be difficult for DaveB to show that in a single panel, but it could easily be shown in a single page.
Dabs chooses a glamour from her target’s mind but everyone sees the same thing.
Everyone saw what the general’s: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/660
sorry, not-native-english-speaker here, could some one explain me the pun on “what” and the connection with a Coke?
Native English speaker here. I have no clue either.
In some circles, two people saying the exact same word at the same time spontaneously is considered a jinx (sort of a minor self-cursing event, cursing one with bad luck for a while).
This has evolved into, when this occurs, both people then racing to say the word “Jinx!” to ward off the magic (the idea that the jinx will go to the person who does not acknowledge it first).
At some point, this further evolved into saying, “Jinx! You owe me a Coke!” with the idea that the bad luck curse is silly, but just in case, buy me a Coke and that will set your karma right.
I have encountered this superstition in both Oklahoma and Colorado.
The version we had as a kid started as whoever said Jinx last couldn’t talk until someone said their name and if they did there was a punishment, which evolved to giving the other person a coke, which evolved to just owing a coke from the start.
I feel bad for not realizing this sooner, since it made the most sense of any explanation.
Hey, don’t feel bad. Dabbler is a super-genius and did not get it.
Nobody else has said it, so I will: the arm we see here is extremely reminiscent of the video for “Fantasy” by DyE, which also features a man’s arm shapeshifted into a giant earthworm with comically normal-sized fingers hanging off the sides.