Grrl Power #106 – The very best sense
This page exists mostly to establish the existence of porno sense, which amuses me tremendously. Also I’m pleased with “psionoclast” which doesn’t actually make any sense but it seems like one of those quasi-portmanteaus you’re likely to read in fiction. Weird that Dabbler didn’t know “indistinct” yet she can bust out nonsense like psionoclast. I guess she’s been focusing her English study on science and… comic books I guess.
So we don’t know exactly who “tingles” is yet, but this page tells you basically most everything but the name. BTW “tingles” (oy, that name is going to stick) is aware sound occlusion is an issue with stealth, but it’s one thing to avoid blocking an obvious audio source like a TV or even a humming vending machine, but Dabbler’s hearing is good enough that even creating a void in the ambient room noise from lighting fixtures or air conditioning is enough to make her suspicious.
I have a new vote incentive up, which is a work in progress. Read up on it here and vote in the usual place. When it’s done it will be wallpaper/fanart starring Dabbler and Zintel from Flaky Pastry, which is quite recently one of my favorite webcomics. Maybe throw them a vote as well if you enjoy it. I think it’d be kind of funny to try and knock Félix up into the top 10 for a week, see if he can figure out what’s going on. Hi Félix! :)
SuperheroThey're super, thanks for asking!
Meatspace ComicSeriously these are awesome. Check 'em out!
Not UpdatingNo longer updating or only updates sporadically, but definitely worth reading.
SeriouslySeriously you guys. If you like Grrl Power the check these out.
"Mature"Mature subject matter and occasionally something explicit but usually safe. Can't guarantee the ads are safe though.
Dongs Ahoy!Full frontal and backal. Lots of skin, sex on some or all pages, explicit or otherwise.
He He HEH! Shes so cute when she blushes.
I so wish those last two panels were bigger for that very reason.
Well, David did add a larger version of the image from the final panel to the rotation in the cast banner at the top of the page. See this link to the blushing Halo image.
Yeah, and she does it a lot. Which is surprizing when you remember her hentia tentacle joke.
lol,,, how does that foot in your mouth taste sidney :)
It’s not the taste that’s bothering her, it’s the “tingles.”
I’m reminded an episode of the “Mary Tyler Moore Show”, wherein Lou Grant describes Ted (the on-air personality):
“…it’s not so much that he might put his foot in his mouth – it was trying to figure out how he was gonna get the OTHER one to fit in there NEXT to it!”
:P
(…apologies for the paraphrasal…)
porno sence cant be that good, way too much background noise in comparison to other sences or sensors.
Depends on how much you use it…
Practice makes perfect you know.
OH yeah Practice that porno sense!
i think succubi get more than enough practice with it
I suspect that humans & succubi have very different interpretations of the term “enough”!
Dabbler can probably fine tune it and narrow her senses in this area. She may have the ability to detect not only the aura but the chakras, breathing, pheromones etc that accompanies the increase in excitement of sexual arousal. After all succubi and inccubi use sex as the means of predation.
Being a handler or watcher of Dabbler is one I should have considered enough to write down. One now wonders how many other handlers are watching people. With that stealth cloak it would be hard to detect them. Add to the paranoia many feel in our own country of spy drones.
she an sucubus-alien-ghost-n more. any one of thoes things you dont just want wandering around. especially if you havent told the general population you have one on staff.
ghost?
Oh you might mean Doppleganger. No, I think he means Doppleganger in the modern fantasy setting sense (a shape shifter essentially) and not the classic meaning of a ghost double/omen.
Well, that answered the question of why he was there.
MIB exist in this world too i guess.
it sounds like it was hired by ARC though, so it is probably another super that ARC found, and told them to watch Dabbler, since she could probably build a weapon that could destroy the earth 6 ways in her sleep.
or any spell above A-class and your looking at a WMD level attack. S-class spells can level buildings and take out whole towns. Omega level spells (which we have no reason to believe yet Dabbler can do) can do anything from destroy whole cities up too cause extinction level events *Dragon Slave, and Giga Slave are both Omega level spells (although a weaker Dragon Slave can fall under S-class* Ragna Blade would be in a hard to classify spot due to range vs energy capabilities issues (on the one hand it is very short ranged and designed for a single target, on the other it can slice through dimensions can kill multi-dimensional beings).
Is there like a chart or a pamphlet where the explanation of magic, its function, and power is all written down? I had no idea anyone had given Lina Inverse’s spells that much thought.
Actually yeah, most series that use magic have these long databases on how it functions and why. Slayers is no exception; if you look into the expanded universe stuff you will find full listings of the known spells, their energy requirements to use, sources of power, why certain spells work better under certain conditions or not at all; ect…. Slayers is actually pretty complicated about it as it also adds the primary and secondary effects of magic in relation to things which can defend or absorb mystical energy.
Not sure that they use the (F,D,C,B,A,S, Omega/G) rating system, but most Japanese stuff does for anything with varying skill/power levels.
I use this same rating system for the magic in my Aesperia series. (granted deciding if something is A or S can be difficult given conditions that have to be taken into account. I ended up taking spells I actually put the word “Omega” in the name of classed down to A or S due to range and effect).
What is weird though even Harry Potter has a long set of rules for its magic (not something I picked up on in the movies where it just felt like they were ruleless spells made up on the spot).
Since I’m pretty much a layman, though since I’m trying to write a novel with supernatural overtones, do you suppose you could point me in the right direction for researching that kind of thing?
The “Right tone” depends entirely on what kind of magic system you are using. Rigid classification schemes are generally suitable for the modern ‘magic as science’ schools of thought. In these magic is generally considered to be the manipulation of some sort of energy field. This varies from psionics to the force to JRPG “Omega blast” type set-ups.
Older schools of magical thought generally defines magic as an appeal for aid to some supernatural entity. This covers everything from coptic summoning magic to lovecraftian sorcerers. Technically Slayers magic also works this way, which is why black magic was worthless against Shabranigdo, since he was himself the source of (most) black magic.
Then of course you can also have the supernatural, without having wizards or clerics who can access it. Most horror films fall into this category.
Whatever you want to do, it’s fine really, although it works best if you plan it out in your notes ahead of time, even if the readers never sees the work on the pages, it improves the story.
In Slayers it was that black magic comes from Mazoku (monsters in dub), and to fight something you had to use a black magic spell from a greater Mazoku than the one you were fighting, or a shamantic or divine attack spell of greater power *divine magic being very rare for reasons too long to explain here* and the specific example in the show as that Dragon Slave the strongest black magic attack spell doesn’t work on Shabranigdo, because it calls power from him *its like asking someone to help you kill them* as Lina put it. So she had to use Giga Slave (which calls power from The Lord of Nightmares) to fight him.
Yeah magic can be anything using supernatural or (beyond normal understandings quantum mechanical) stuff. But its always a good idea to get at least your basic principles and world building down in notes as it helps you keep your stuff straight.
Interesting. That sounds a bit like the magic classification system used in the Archipelago universe.
I love the expressions on Dabbler this page.
Somehow I get the idea that Sydney and Dabbler are going to be very, very good friends.
Two minions of Chaos? No reason they shouldn’t, then they can tag team Max. =P
Joking aside, I can see Sydney getting along with most of the agents we have seen so far. Math might get on her nerves, and not sure how she is going to get on with some of the “Authority”.
What if she chooses to accept Math’s challenge, & learns enough to put him on the defensive?!?
Why do I get the feeling that Syd is gonna become Dabbler’s “Little Sister”.
She will probably have that effect on most of the team. It will drive her crazy trying to prove she doesn’t need help. I speak as a veteran of two “Little Sisters”. They end up surpassing themselves and others sometimes.
Was thinking if something happened to Syd, Dabbler would show why demons are feared in every culture in the multiverse.
Erm…well, those demons that I know of who aren’t completely evil tend to be very protective :p
I think protective goes perfectly with their possessive nature. They are being who like to keep what they have, and if what they cherish turns out to be an individual or something like family (it happens) then they really don’t want to lose that and become extremly protective of them.
It can be a bit bothersome for none-demonic or supernatural beings when the demon becomes protective of an individual to the extent that they turn into an uber-mother hen *which is typically where the demon starts to lash out anything they think might harm or take their prized human from them*.
If used right you could be looking at a great partner or living weapon type deal, the negative aspect is more common though. A demon’s possessive/protective nature is trully a triple edged sword.
Now I’m picturing Dabbler holding Syd and yelling “MY HUMAN!!”
Well she is “fun sized”. =P
I imagine Dabbler & Halo having 2 very different “flavors” of A.D.D., & in the process of (good-naturedly) getting on each others’ nerves (to the amusement of Max & Adrianna), teaching each other different kinds of focus, & restraint.
:)
“This page exists mostly to establish the existence of porno sense, which amuses me tremendously.”
Works for me too.
Given how smart Dabbler is supposed to be, she probably had already guessed that there would be someone keeping an eye on her, so was looking for any unusual things that would give Tingles away. I see we still don’t know even what gender Tingles is, though those in the room probably will, unless Tingles is using something to distort their voice.
If the suit manages to keep him/her from generating any noise, it’s probably safe to say it’s not his/her actual voice they’re hearing.
So while Sydney and Arianna where thinking “Not a lesbian!”, what was Tingles thinking? My possibilities are, depending on specifics:
1) “Not a lesbian.” – Female, straight (hardly original, but suitable)
2) “I know she can do this, but man I want her” – Male, straight/bisexual OR Female, lesbian/bisexual (see Harem’s response)
3) “Not a breeder. Not a breeder.” – Male, homosexual
Given the pointy nature of the word-balloon that DaveB gave to “Tingles”, I’d say that while the voice is no longer cloaked, it’s probably still distorted in some manner to prevent recognition…
…which might very well imply that if it *was* heard plainly, she’d know who it is!
Leon? He/She’s too tall for Harem, too small for Anvil or Brooke.
Not Leon. As the team hacker he’s too busy running the (computer) boards to be following Dabbler around everywhere. Part of his job (IMHO) would be riding herd on various tracking programs seeking developing problems which might require a response from Max and the team. While the programs could trigger alerts for obvious situations, it takes a mind to look at a pattern and say “This may need the team at this location to counter it in time.”
Or it may just be because the sound is coming from a helmet.
@ DaveB: I’m sure he did. (Had a) Hot wife but lived with his guardian through most of his life? ;-) I’m sure he didn’t want Aunt May intruding on him and Mary Jane.
Okay, at least he’s a friendly. But what kind of a super is he? And it seems like he’s part of the military machine like Max is.
it says something about spiderman married to a hot girl, but still lives with his Aunt May
that spider-man was totally whipped by his aunt to the extent that when given the not so Sophie’s choice by the devil to either extend the life of his aunt who only has a short time to live, or throw away his marriage, including memories, and anything that resulted by Spider-man and Mary Jane being a couple through out their history; *which any super-hero worth his salt would consider was Mephisto’s true goal to “unsave someone” or alter the path of someone else that was only saved because of the specific events in Spider-man life with Mary Jane allowing him to be in the right place at the right time* decided to erase his marriage and all that to save his aunt may.
Sure its seems like a hard choice, but if the choice is being given to you by “the prince of lies” a being you personally have encountered and know other heroes have too, that is a being of pure evil with only evit intentions for any of his actions…the choice is obvious, ignore him because there is a hidden agenda.
this singularly killed the Spider-man franchise for me. and all because the real reason was because the editor in chief didn’t like Mary Jane or could move past the base premise of Spider-man.
Sing it brother! I completely agree.
Pure bloody-minded idiocy is what I’d call it.
AFAIK, the @#$%^&* responsible STILL doesn’t think he did anything wrong.
One of the reasons I quit reading most Marvel Comics myself.
Crappy wrighting. Stupid heros who are supposed to be smart.
I mostly quick reading comics, still watch most superhero animation and live action, and Invincible. I also read IDW’s ongoing Star Trek series (set in the timeline of the new movie and declared officially “canon” by Paramount and the creative staff on the movie series). I had quit reading DCs line after they killed Superboy [Kon El] and Kid Flash [Bart Allen], and was slowly being enticed back following “Final Crisis” and the resurrection of those characters… and then they pulled “Flashpoint”… just can’t do it anymore.
Marvel screwed the pooch for me with bringing back Bucky, then Civil War, Secret Invasion, and Brand New Day (the aforementioned stupid spider-man story).
OK, rant over, sorry.
Marvel had a great thing going for a few years, the cosmic series.
pick up “Annihilation” go for the trade paperback (easier to get all the mini-series that lead into the main mini-series this way, then “Annihilation: Conquest” followed by “Nova” and “Guardians of the Galaxy” finished up with “Thanos Imperative”. the War of Kings series has its main stuff in those two titles also. and the very last was “Annihilators” which had potential but the Earth series authors ripped it apart thanks to using Silver Surfer for Defenders and turning Ronin back into a villain; throwing away about six years of character development that actually gave him depth.
However, thanks to several incredibly stupid status qou mistakes made by Fantastic Four authors mostly, such as the aforementioned turning Ronin evil again, I prefer to think of the cosmic stuff as a seperate universe from the rest of Marvel. They brough Thanos, Drax, and the Guardians all back in Avengers Assemble…and it felt like it didn’t mesh right with the cosmic stuff (mainly due to the events of Thanos Imperative).
I think he’s part of the black ops that also disguised the bank robbers.
So not specificly super, but more using techology and magic
He or she doesn’t have to be a super of it is all black bag technology from DARPA or Areas 44-51 to make any human that way.
You have too wonder.
Do the other areas make fun of Area 51 for being NOT “Top Secret”. HAHA, ya give A51 the project that way EVERYONE will know about it. HAHAHAHAH. Silly, A51 could not keep a secret from a 2 year old.
Poor A51
It did for a very long time, and misinformation got people barking up the wrong trees and coming up with all sorts of crazy stuff.
Alot of the Area 51 documents are now declassified, there have been a few shows telling the story about what went on back when it was a major secret holder. Funny fact is, despite everyone knowing where it is and all their crazyness, it is still keeping secrets.
Answer this: what project are they working on right now? Why do the lights come on and off at night and what is with the sudden fast lights in the sky that are never spotted to land?
You can say UFO all you want, but what specifically are they doing? Its easier to learn what DARPA is doing than Area 51, (which isn’t easy, DARPA can be scary).
Answer: Scramjet fighter/bombers
Basicly supersonic aircraft that can be kept up in the air for weeks at a time because they dont need refueling and can in a pinch go to mach 6 or higher to get to any area on the planet in a short time and blow the s@#$ out of it.
Also: assuming Tingles is tech-based and not superhumanly or magically cloaked, that would mean Syd’s telepresence orb’s truesight covers not just supernatural phenomenon but technology as well. That is one powerful… thing.
Dabbler pointed that out last week. Impenetrable Succubi-illusion got penetrated…..Ok that didn’t come out right…
Truesight is what it says: seeing what’s really there. It doesn’t matter what the source of the disguise is (magic, psionics technology or otherwise), if what people see is not what’s really there (this excludes makeup: you’re looking at the makeup) then truesight will see through the illusion.
Um… I don’t get why Syd went “I figured it out!”.
Sydney probably thinks she should get the credit because she was the one to point him/her out. Likely Dabbler would have just let the General think that she didn’t know she had a handler.
Two things A) I’m guessing right upper arm is the cybernetic one. Just because of the arm bracelet( Real term eludes me) B)If she’s known for sexy powers, why not have just 3 X’s on her collar. Or is the fourth because she’s that much more extreme.
XXXX is a popular beer is some parts of Oz.
there is a joke about it too.
Why do they call it XXXX? Because Queenslander’s can’t spell “Beer”
Are they too drunk from drinking the beer to remember how to spell it?
Ithe poppies. It’s basically cheap Uzo.
Then I need to make a trip over the rainbow.
Dabbler’s given name is Xuriel, so that is the first X. The other 3 Xs come from her highly sexual nature.
Dave once mentioned that Dabbler, being a succubus, goes above and beyond the human XXX rating. Hence the extra X on her collar, because a new rating had to be designed just for her.
What happens when Sydney learns of Xuriel’s artificial arm?
Sydney: Cybernetic? You mean you have a bionic arm?!
Dabbler: Well, I had an accident, so I replaced my mangled arm with an artificial one that …
Sydney: [ Ala Oscar Goldman, cutting off Dabbler ] Gentlemen, we can rebuild her. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s first bionic… [ quick glance at Dabbler] big purple succubus. Better than she was before. Better, stronger, faster.
Dabbler: More like weaker and slower, but I can fit a lot of tools in here. Let me show you.
Max: She isn’t cleared for that yet!
Dabbler: She isn’t cleared to see my real form either, but the rabbit has flown already.
Sydney: What? I think you mixed your metaphors there.
Yeah, Dabbler seems the type to do a “Ziva”, Doesn’t she.
Yeah, she does. OTOH maybe rabbits [or the closest analog there is] really do fly where she comes from.
An NCIS reference, nice.
Dabbler: I was just going to show her the adjustable vibrater settings ;)
“the arm bracelet( Real term eludes me)”
= arm ring, armlet, armband, “Vangi” in Tamil.
*sighs*
I think I am fully in Lust with Dabbler.
I would fight you for her hand(s)…but something tells me there’d be enough of her to go around. :p
I’m suprised DaveB didn’t have all the women do a laugh/snort when she said that.
Maybe they’re too busy thinking “oooh yeahhh.”
you also notice that in that panel there are ONLY women seen?
I wonder how well Sidney’s orb of truesight would work against an SEP Drive if they existed?
Well the SEP doesn’t actually make anything invisible, but just deflects the attention of those who aren’t expecting to see what it’s protecting…I would think Halo’s ADD would make it MORE effective on her…
Nah, she’s *always* expecting to see stuff. I expect she would totally see whatever is in the field. However, she might not bring it up to anyone else. “What, you guys didn’t notice the pink elephant juggling monkeys? I thought it was just a normal set piece around here. Hey! Lint!”
General Faulk does not look happy. I’m guess he’s realizing just how powerful supers are and how beyond his and the government’s control they can be.
Jea, knowing that is one thing, realising it quite another.
And since not all supers in the team are actually in the military, he might even get worried before this meeting is over.
…Or else he’s thinking about how Dabbler had no intention of letting them know that she knew – until Sydney spilled the beans…
…I picture his face in Panel_3 going through some rather trying thoughts:
“How long has she known?”
“What-&-How-Much has she gotten away with while we were assuming that she didn’t know?”
“What will it take to plug this security breach?”
“Still can’t get my mind off that ‘Company Inkwell’, though…”
“Oh, My Dear Merciful Lord – how much longer until retirement?!?”
Nah the last one should be :”3 years, 10 months, 3 weeks, 4 days, 8 hours, 38 minutes till retirement…if my Ulcer doesn’t kill me first.”
I agree.
Or these crazy supers don’t acidentaly blow up the building with one of their stupid stunts first.
I love how Dabbler looks when she’s being chibi-ish(hope that’s a word) though she just showed that she can be dangerous if ya piss her off loved the whole I couldn’t snipe ya, but could still use a fireball to take ya out lol
Lina Inverse logic LoL, why worry about just hitting the guy hiding on the second floor when you can just take the whole building out.
So one of my guesses who he is was correct.
Given Dabbler’s powers they should send a remote though.
WELL, THANK GOODNESS HE’S A GOOD GUY …
It sure would take a lot of explaining (and a lot of panels) to explain what they would or could do to get rid of him. So with him as a good guy … he can just disappear into the back gound and not be seen again … until he is needed to brighten a dull spot in the story line.
Not good or bad, just a goverment spook.
That in itself could be bad. As a good movie quote said “Governments are run by people notably ungoverned.” or to that effect.
from wikiquotes:
A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned.
Shepherd Book, Firefly, episode “War Stories”. (Shepherd is quoting Capt. Malcolm Reynolds).
woohoo Firefly quote/reference :)
Wished I’d watched it when it first came out but the movie converted me even though I liked the series better (once I got the box-set).
It makes alot more sense in order. (One of the problems the show had was that on top of constantly changing the nights it was on, they didn’t show the episodes in order. Fox looked like it anted the show to fail.)
One of the many things wrong with Fox is they JUST DON”T GET IT. In the world of fewer over-the-air viewers and more interesting content available instantly online they killed off some of the best new programming through mismanagement or bad judgments. Another Fox blunder killing “Dark Angel” by James Cameron starring Jessica Alba WTF???
Yeah, the last half of the second season on “Dark Angel” was filmed with the execs telling Cameron that the had a third season, then suddenly they told him “Your cancelled” I think while they were filming the season finale! That’s why the end scene *With the flag being raised over zone*basically SCREAMED that there would more to the story.
Joshua was my favorite character. If I had to chose which Manticore/Sandeman genetic experiment I was Joshua would be my choose.
I liked Joshua too. Kinda wierd how the X- program evolved from Joshua to the..X-6 series I think was the latest in the show? I’ll take either being an X-5 or like that Panther woman Alec tracked down.
You’d almost think most of them came over from NBC or something the way they keep screwing up good scifi shows.
Sci-Fi has always gotten little to no respect from the IIC (idiots In Charge) they either dumb it down or kill it mostly (i think) because they don’t understand it. Good shows that last are rare as diamonds. I would love to see some studio hire REAL Sci-Fi authors to write a show but in this “Reality Show” (oxymoron) world that will never happen.
The bead of sweat rolling off Tingles is the best though. :). No need to sweat and be embarrassed. Own your lust. Own. It.
Musta been really – ya know – to sweat THROUGH a tin suit…..
mmmm no name? in Romanian “haunt” would be Obsida, or in Japanese is soukutsu, or in dutch rondwaren. or just go in English with “haunter”
you want him to be named after a pokemon?
He shall henceforth be known as Tingles until DaveB get’s around to naming him.
I was calling him “Trenchcoat Hoodie”
Honestly I was just thinking of him as ‘that guy’
That guy with the hat was mine.
there’s a character in Excel Saga called “that man”
of course there’s also
This Man, That Man There, That Man Over There, That Man Over Here and This Man Over Here.
Can’t see the collar if he/she has one but Spook would fit, both because of the powers and being a government “spook.”
I’m calling him Ted.
Tingles, makes me think of that 35 year old fairy lover from the Legend of Zelda series.
Sorry Dave B has spoken and Ted will be too reminiscent of the Movie.
What Movie?
Did I make another reference subconciously?
Ted “Theodore” Logan, and his buddy Bill S. Preston, Esquire. :P
Bill & Ted?
ehhh, I’d hope that’s not what I would think of. I’d sooner hope I’d jump to “Super Ted” LoL.
Maybe it was Ted Raimi that came to mind
https://www.xenaville.com/cast/joxer.jpg
yep Ted Raimi, great now I am hearing Joxer when I read the lines
https://www.asherasarchive.com/joxergabbeachten.jpg
Actually I was talking about the movie “Ted” about a living cussing teddy bear. It was freakin’ funny.
Poor blushing Syd. Oh well, she’ll get over it as soon as Look a squirrel!
Also Flaky Pastry is full of win although Nitrine is my favorite character and hopefully is about to lose her humour sapping prosthetic conscience.
I can’t beleive no one has mentioned this yet….given the lot we are.
Regarding the last 4 panels…. I’m wondering if Ron Jeremy would be saying, “Porno sense. So that’s what it’s called.”
Guess I should include a link for those who don’t know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Jeremy
Dabbler and Sydney are going to get on SO well, after Dabbler gets her back for the orb to the head.
Unless she counts beet-red Sydney as revenge enough. I love Dabbler’s expression when she says it’s pretty great.
Gets back?
Dabbler came in guns blazing, reeking of “I’ll do just what I like to you, you and you, ha ha ha”.
A little tap of the old “hit me and I can hit back” is a leveller in my book.
I don’t think Dabbler’s the type to truly hold a grudge. When your lifespan is centuries, you tend to get the whole “Living well is the best revenge” thing down pat. But Goddess help you if she actually DOES get mad.
…a Tom Cruise line:
“…you have never SEEN me upset!”
So, when Sidney has her ninja sense tingling, it’s really her latent Porno sense going off?
Also, is it just me or does the red silhouette in panel eight look like it has its boobs on its back? There’s a lot of weirdness going on in that panel (Dab’s arms looks asymmetrical in length and stuff).
The red silhouette has her lower half turned foreward and her upper half slightly turned back to kiss the guy. If you look at their right hands you can see it better. Her partner is behind her.
That’s not its back. The female has her back to the male (thus her front towards the camera) and is turning her head around to kiss him over her shoulder, while reaching back to pull his head towards hers.
If you realized that and still think you’re seeing boobs on her back, I’m afraid it’s just you.
Dabbler has the power and the whimsical nature to make Sydney’s crazy ideas actually work. Clearly the brass has not yet realized what sort of nightmare they’ve unleashed by letting these two meet, or they would be in much more of a panic than they are now.
Also, Dabbler’s handler. Interesting. I guess they don’t entirely trust her. (not in a “she might betray us” kind of way, but in a “she might decide to make kittens rain from the sky and cause orgies in the streets if we don’t keep an eye on her” kind of way.) Can’t say I blame them.
Kittens raining from the sky? Orgies in the streets?
Anyone help me get rid of that guy?
I would join you, but i feel like i don’t want to threaten any organization that Max is apart of.
Hey… as long as no kittens are harmed the SPCA can’t do squat!… @LegionAuthor, I’m right with you on that…
They probably had him there to watch if she let any teck secrets out and to make sure she wasn’t a villian who only pretended to be a hero and was setting them up to all kill a large segment of the population on national TV then die horrably.
These are spooks I’m talking about, they live their lives thinking someone is out to get them. In other words, extreme parinoids.
Looking into the future, Sydney “Hooking Up” is going to be a great source of teasing and awkward moments most likely greatly enhanced by her team-mates! :)
That look on Dabbler’s face in the second panel… That’s the look of a cat playing with its food. That look right there should be enough to tell everyone in the room that, yes, she may be friendly and on their side, but if she wanted to she could be very, very dangerous indeed.
So just like any feline.
She is half demon after all.
In some modern fiction, occlusion also occured when a paranormal creature tried to stealth. They’d leave “holes” in the ambient energy field where they were.
Sorta like when Claude Rains would leave a man-shaped bubble in a cloud of cigar-smoke, in those earliest “Invisible Man”-films. As H.G.Wells himself pointed out, most attempts at invisibility are never truly successful, because your body is just going to bend light to the same degree as empty air…
…but how often is air TRULY empty? Plus, if the back of your eyeball is invisible, then you can’t see light. Rain, snow, road-dust, (half-digested food), etc.
“…there is nothing quite as visible as an invisible man!”
In a series called “magic of Recluse” one of the problem with a “stealth” spell is that since it shunts light around you, you can’t see anything either.
I’ll have to look that up, thanks!
Good, luck, there’s like 20 books in the series.
Found a link:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._E._Modesitt,_Jr.]
Hope ya like them, I could only get 4 of the series at the same time.
glad I’m not the first person to think of that. Mostly because I would have thought it would be common sense to anyone who has contemplated invisibility that given how we see, if light is being moved around us that if can’t bounce off objects and into our eyes and thus we are blinded.
At the very least your eyes would need to be seen, or else some other aspect of sight would be needed which means there would be someway to detect you (heat, sonar, ect…) if you see through them and its only visible light moving around you then you can hide your eyes, but this means some wavelength that you can translate into sight has to reach you.
In film it’s been used to comic effect as early as 1940=[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032637],
& as recently as 1992=[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104850]
…the 1940 film even includes Shemp Howard in the cast!
Also, if light bends around us, it travels further than if it were to pass THROUGH us, which would cause a lens-like distortion of the view behind us. Imagine the “Predator”-films for an exaggerated example.
Star Trek has the Romulan cloaking device, of course, but Star Wars also has cloaking devices. It’s just that they are basically useless (unless you are a genius), because, yes, you can’t see out or even radio out, and they still show up on mass detectors — really sensitive ones, because even a Star Destroyer doesn’t impart much curvature to space-time. (Excepting Interdictors when powered up.)
A cloaking device is mainly used for one of two reasons.
1. Observation of possible hostiles
2. Getting close to your enimies and killing them before they know what is going on.
Of course there are other uses for stealth technology but those are the main reasons they are built. So even though someone with a good sensor setup might be able to in time detect a cloaked starship, odds are if that starship is attacking they will usualy kill a large portion of their enimies before they are detected.
Well, there are some (imperfect) ways around that. If you can keep the light-bending field close and carefully aligned, you could leave two tiny pin-prick sized holes in it, that would appear black (complete absorption) from the outside. Wear some light-amplification goggles under your “light-bending field” and you would be able to compensate for the small size of the holes, and see pretty well.
Of course, if you are going to be wearing goggles anyways, you might as well make them near-infra-red or UV, and then bend all visible wavelengths, leaving “black” pin-prick holes in one particular wavelength outside of normal vision. Only draw-back: must pick a wavelength that most light-bulbs give off, and you still get “lensing” effect….
Avoiding the lensing effect is much harder. It could be reduced significantly by swapping the bending effect for coating yourself in light emitters and sensors, which are wirelessly linked to their counter-part on the opposite side of your body. Radio waves travel about the same speed as light, and can travel through you (for the most part, switching to gamma radiation would negate the “for the most part” but would probably not be healthy). Since you are denser than air, the radio waves would travel a bit slower, but it would make the lensing far less noticable, and the “ripples” in the lensing caused by bone-structure “shadows” would help break up the human-like shape of the lensing)
Down-side to this technique is the it makes you VERY noisy in the radio (or gamma) spectrum.
No free lunch, I guess, but some of these, while not being perfect, would make it VERY hard to see someone against a busy background, especially if you didn’t know exactly what to look for.
In Recluse’s case we’re talking about a (Mostly) Sword and Sorcery culture. No goggles, but another mage can find you because of the magic used, It’s like Dabbler’s explanation Couldn’t put an arrow in your eye, but could roast ya with enough firebolts.
porno sence i dont know if thats awesome or awkward.
“My Porno-Sense is tingling! … … I’ll be in my bunk!” ;)
I just remembered: There was a show on showcase (Canadian) called Lost Girl. The titled character was a succubus who could also see/sense the flow of sexual energy moving around a room.
It’s on ScyFy here in the States, right after Wrestling (STILL haven’t figured that out.)
It’s the homoerotic power hours,
first you watch a bunch of mostly naked muscular shaven oiled up men grappling each other,
and then a bisexual succubus and her adventures.
Lost Girl is still going. They have been recording the next season in Toronto and area for some time.
Good to hear.
iam really loving that toothy smile in the 2nd panel
ok ones agin Sydney has proven to be too much like me im now looking throw my crap for cameras O-O
but ya =-= porno sense i like it
Darn porno sense I need a cold shower now.
My cool sense is tingling, and my complain-of-details-in-details sense is not. Good job!
P.S.: Dabbler could make the ultimate porn vid top 100 by rating their porn vibes. Or perhaps even with porn compatibility powers, make each individual a different top 100 they’d enjoy most! (or be ashamed to enjoy most, if she so chooses!!) I mean, she could easily make a living off THAT lol.
P.P.S.: if you are lost and need Dabbler to find you, just think sexy!!! MUAHAHA that’s so bait for a gag! Or hidden morse communication!!
if you need a succubus to tell you what porn you like that’s kind of sad.
the sexy radar is a nice and funny idea but i doubt it has the range to be very effective at it.
Nobody’s said anything about finding one of Dave’s famous easter eggs. Could it be there isn’t one?
Somehow, I feel cheated.
*points to panel 9*
Dabbler’s forehead stripe…
Aw son of a! I thought I had it this time. I even included chair backs.
In the same “nit-picky”-sense, notice the stripes on her cheeks in Panels_2-&-4 are consistent, then note that in Panel_1, they have “slid down” much closer to the point of her chin.
:P
Isaac Asimov used to tell a story of a proofreader who would return almost every page of his book-drafts with nit-picky corrections. Recalling R.W.Emerson’s quote, “A Foolish Inconsistency Is The Hobgoblin Of Little Minds”, he’d simply write “Emerson!” next to each “quibble” that was too trivial to spend time correcting.
:)
Perhaps “in homage” to the Dearly Departed Good Doctor Asimov, we might revive this tradition…?
;)
A reference is given near the bottom of this article:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dying_Night]
Shouldn´t also the edge/tip of Dabbler´s top right horn be visible behind Sidney´s orbs in panels 9 and 10?
*feels bad for pointing it out now*
Instead of “Tantric psionoclast”, wouldn’t it be simpler to say “empath with a secialization in sex/lust”? What Dabbler describes cetainly seems to fit ’empath’.
two words vs seven?
Besides Dabbler is supposed to be uber-smart, she should use the bigger words. Like Paul from the movie “Paul” his descriptions of his abilities could be said on several levels of simpler, but wouldn’t have the same vibe.
Perhaps simply: “Tantric Sex-Empath”
tantric is sex or arousal i believe
D’OH!!!?!
Nailed by the Redundancy Squad Squad!
:P
:)
what language did “Tantric” come from
Panel 11 she matches the P.P.O. exactly lol.
I wonder if Dabbler can “Incubate” (Not the usual meaning, the one in Piers Anthony’s “Pornucopia” which refers to a Succubus’ ability to shapeshift into a male “Incubus” form to more easily seduce straight women)
I think its been stated that she can’t shapeshift.
Perhaps her “Glamour”-illusion might be used instead, to reproduce the appearance of someone specific…?
Given her height, this may be problematic, since most subjects will be significantly shorter in stature.
Well in Wereworld, she’s got a double helping of titties…that means she either lost some before coming to Earth, or she does have at least a bit of shapechange capability…going from Male to Female should be child’s play for a demon/mutant/sorceress/cyborg…
Actually gender change in the truest sense is actually a bigger shift than you think. Surgical transgender is actually only surface and not true gender shifting. If you changed gender fully, you are looking at skeletal, tendon, muscular, organ, glandular, and bio-chemical shifts. In fact the first thing I’d expect someone to do when they shifted gender for the first time to do, is fall down due to rebalance issues and how they walked before simply due to the difference in the pelvis and change in the center of gravity.
I had a funny thought when writing a scene of a woman turning into a man via a spell for the first time of sitting down and falling over in pain as she accidently moved her legs in a way that crushed her own balls against her legs. and the man she body switched falling over and trying to learn to walk again as the legs and center of gravity are so different.
I said it would be Easy for a sorceress/demon/cyborg/mutant, not that it would be “Simple”
Spider-man has incorporated spider sense into poker. I’m gonna assume that he has incorporated spider sense into foreplay.
Go onto FanFiction.Net and search up a fic called “Snikt Thwip”.
I liked the one where Mary Jane said she could imagine what he could do with fingers that could hold on to surfaces like his could. She almost fainted just imagining it,
Okay, who has the scarier grin: Dabbler or Flow of Freefall?
HA. Did not see that coming. Yeah Dabbler is pretty awesome when she’s not cracking wise. And even then channels a level of cool you’d expect from a sex focused being. That aside pretty darn clever method of sussing out the invisible man’s location.Nice to see that succubi aren’t just complete nymphomaniacs. There’s a method to the madness, which probably explains Dabbler’s genius like ability. She’s probably good at what she does :p
Consider also that she’s had more than a century’s practice, so the stuff we find “cool” may already be “old hat” to her. Gotta continue to keep it fresh, as it were.