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! :)
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So the masked man in the corner is Dabbler’s handler.!? Huh, I didn’t even think of that though it makes sense when you think about it. A being as unusual as Dabbler would be assigned one whether they knew it or not just because the powers that be don’t fully trust her to be left alone unsupervised.
the powers that be, whome ever they be, don’t trust anyone to be left alone unsupervised. Even retailers place the cameras in places meant more to watch their employees than customers (as according to their statistics employees are more likely to shoplift than customers).
Most place only the camera with the monitor right inside the door is pointed at actual customers or exits. The rest focus on the loading dock, the employee lounge, and cash registers.
I think the only reason they are not in the bathrooms is potential lawsuits.
I don’t think we’ve seen a handler for anyone other than Dabbler. Then again, she is an exceptionally suspicious individual.
But wit handlers like this one available, would you expect to see them? Tingles here was only revealed by accident, and there could well have been a legion like him just outside Sydney’s Truesight beam.
TYPO: “wit” should be “with”
Well that was funny and also made a lot of sense. XD
Is it bad for me to say that I find Dabbler more attractive in her natural state than in her glamoured state?
Not in the least. Could you imagine all four of those arms wrapped snuggly around you? I know I sure could.
And that tongue still gives me pleasant thoughts all over.
Morrigan. Dabbler. Some Succubi are worth the risk.
AM glad to see am not the only one having my mind run scenario two page ago.
I do like her eyes too, so full of life and wow Dichromatic wtf!
Also: three piercings man! *blush*
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Keep the pen out of the compagny well
Keep the pen out of the compagny well
Keep the pen out of the compagny well
the WTF was suppose to be For The Win… (or FTW) damn you dyslexia! (and no, Dyslexia is not a super hero/vilainness name!
In the age of the internet, it exists already …… if it does not then it soon will …. mwahahahahahahaa …. I said that out loud didn’t I …. *twitch*
Beware Dyslexia along with her sisters Dysgraphia and Dysmathia!
(I’m mildly dyslexic, majorly dysgraphic)
On the other hand they’re limited compared to the full might of Dyspraxia. (and he’s the hardest to detect)
None are as mighty as Dysuria, Dabblers least favorite side kick.
six peircings…
Arrrrgggghhh!!!!
Why must you put these thoughts inside my head? Now I can’t STOP imagining that!
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Now I'm thinking all perverted-like.
Hah, you are now a furry.
Same here hon. Although I admit I might not have the resistance to say “no” to Glamour, especially when she admits she was pumping “Lust” into every mind in the room.
I could probably resist…but then there’s a good reason why *points at avatar*
Wait a minute. Isn’t that Roomie? She so is a lesbian, or at least bisexual. She would totally go for it.
Artemisia is writing a story. Her Avatar is HER succubus character.
The avatar was drawn by Chloe C of GGAR. But, yes, my main character in my story is a succubus :)
But get both of you in the mood… Do the succubi have a word for a multi-succubus positive-feedback-loop?
They are all children of Lilith, so…Family reunion?
Nuclear meltdown?
I have a story where the original Succubus/Vampire Lilith (many other names) is one of the characters. She is a beauty and very very dangerous. Very few can block or are unaffected by her powers. In my story she had been created in an ancient lab thousands of years ago as an espionage/assassin.
Mine is a very complex story…it actually has to do a lot with how humans would respond to having non-humans in their society.
Individuals would be fine, as a species, they’d panic and do something extremely stupid.
Have to agree with that. Mob mentality and the inbred xenophobia of a large part of the human race would lead to war and probably genocide. Were I an alien I’d use robotic surrogates to contact the human race much like we do to explore the planets. Only safe way to do it. The “Dark Mirror” episode of Enterprise is probably a truer face of humanity.
Durn spastic mouse!
Have to agree with that. Mob mentality and the inbred xenophobia of a large part of the human race would lead to war and probably genocide. Were I an alien I’d use robotic surrogates to contact the human race much like we do to explore the planets. Only safe way to do it. The “Dark Mirror” episode of Enterprise is probably a truer face of humanity.
I really enjoy stories like that. Is this a story in your head or are you publishing it anywhere?
Re: stories about Mob mentality.
Foundation series by Isaac Asimov.
This may be a OLD call back
I could probably resist but then again I wouldn’t bother, she is sexy in her natural state. XD
Oh come on, Dabbler is kitten cute, busty cute, grotesque cute fangs, handles attacks with acrobatics requiring 4 hands and doesn’t take it personally, and could sense which porn movies would be your top 100 if you had magically watched all of internet and then want to watch ’em with you.
Plus the horns. Somehow. And the ears have a weird cute of their own, much like cat or owl ears.
How could people NOT get horny?
Get the pen to feel well in her company…
Get the pen to feel well in her company…
Get the pen to feel well in her company…
P.S.: we want to see cat type ear movements! Or owl! Like when they put their head to the side like a chicken. It’s not erotic if anyone or anything else does it!!
Porn sense tingling. You just made my day. :D
I just KNOW that phrase is now going to be a cultural meme on the internet now, and will show up on one or more TV shows in the next two years.
So Wikipedia, this is where it started.
Ah that makes good sense.
You have a bunch of supers, What happens if one goes off the rails and becomes a villain?
The handler is there to 1) observe and report and 2) prevent collateral damage by overexcited heroes.
I can not wait too see how this develops.
is it known how dabbler came to earth? did she come from space like an alien or from another dimension/realm like a demon? if the later did she come herself or was she summoned? zephan is a demonologist after all.
her character description doesn’t mention it. and i can’t remember that this came up in the comic.
I don’t think it has been brought up.
In wereworld she has a space-pod, but I kind of doubt its the same universe *as in perhaps Dabbler can jump realities* and just happened to be captured and controlled by the evil aliens in that world, so they had her use one of their space-pods.
well in Wereworld, she also has twice as many tits…which would seem to suggest at least a small degree of polymorphism capability
Did I just see a point I made many pages ago come back and used against me?
yes, yes I did.
totally forgot about that. It has yet to be explained, simplest answer would be alternate reality version of the character. As I think DaveB and the author of wereworld don’t have a timeline figured out between the two apperances.
I kind of had my fingers crossed that they were inflatable sacks that actually served as secondary lungs to adapt to alien atmospheres or something equally weird.
It appears that the events of Wereworld happen in the future, so between now and then, she gets another pair.
Dabbler [of the future]: Some women get bigger breasts when they get pregnant. I just got more breasts. Yeah, I’m okay with that.
I thought that the Wereworld storyline basically explained how she got her cyber-parts (Enigma put em in while she was being controlled?) That would put it in the past…
Okay, if Wereworld is in the past, did she have a double mastectomy between then and now?
Doctor: I’m sorry young … lady, but some of the biopsies came back positive. Your lower two breasts have cancer, and I would recommend their removal.
No, a good reason to read the comments, especially DaveB‘s where he explained he found drawing her with two sets of breasts just too much trouble to make them look right so he dropped on. Dabbler simply lost them–absorbed back into her body.
So succibi get an extra pair of breasts for that time of the month instead of turn into a bloodthirsty monster? wow. If she was on TV breeding worldwide might take a 50% decline from Dabbler as a distraction (or perhaps it would quadruple OR MORE! depending on Dabbler’s actions and lust auras). No wonder she has a handler!!!
But Psionoclast isn’t strictly nonsense; it’s “psion” from ‘psionic (itself made up of ‘psi’ + ‘onic’, as in ‘bionic’ or ‘electronic’), plus -clast, greek ‘break’, as in “iconoclast” (etymology: breaker of religious art; meaning: destroyer of religious art or conventions) “pyroclastic flow” (e: breaking fire; m: a wave of superheated rock and gas from a volcano) or “cataclysm” (e: down-breaking; m: you gotta know this one.)
She’s saying that she’s a tantric psychic-breaker, which is probably the opposite of what she actually is (perhaps a psionopath/psionesthete/psionohapt- psychic feeler/senser/toucher?)
Sorry to be a stick in the mud about etymology; it’s just weird she’d say that when there’s perfectly valid Greek constructs that could be used.
…There again, ADHD is a hell of a drug.
Tantric Mind-breaker…sounds right actually.
Erospath, practicing erospathy. That would be the right combination. Eros being being Greek for sexual feelings or desire and tack on the -pathy for feeling or sensing. That would be quite literally exactly what was described.
I was wondering about that myself. Doesn’t “psionoclast” mean “anti-psionic?”
I came here to say something similar, however, it could be from a deeper root of the word: psi comes from psyche, meaning mind, so psionoclast could mean simply “mind breaker.” This derivation makes a little more sense – Dabbler’s abilities allow her to disrupt other minds with sexual urges.
You do realize you just gave meaning to a word, that the Author himself outed as nonsense?
And your point?! Who decided a rock was to be called ‘Rock?” Why not “flaggersmit”
Dabbler’s “Porno-Sense” would overload if she ever went to Las Vegas! :D
Don’t be silly, Las Vegas wants your money, not your sex. More likely she’d think of it as an all you can eat buffet.
Now if you sent her to a comic/RPG-con… you might get back a chubby succubus.
Right – sex is what Vegas OFFERS, in return for money.
Mustn’t confuse the GOAL with the MEANS to that goal.
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HM-m-m-m-m…
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How would a succubus interpret a “lust for money”, or a “lust for cash”, etc. …?
(OK, I’m just quibbling with the language – I’ll stop now…)
Technically, that’s Greed, not Lust, completely separate “sins”.
Not by much, remember there used to be more than seven deadly sins, some of the past ones were merged together as some countries didn’t have different words for the different concepts or they were too simular.
Lust can be interprited as a strong overbearing desire for something, not always sexual. Greed is kind of the same thing. But in our language we usually think of lust in the sexual sense as “Lust” is a more raw emotion than greed. Greed is a desire for everything, really selfishness is greed. Lust is more a driving force to a specific goal that is overpowering.
Really Greed, Lust, and Gluttony, are the same thing only for (possessions, carnal wants, food).
Various areas around the San Fernando valley in Los Angeles would cause an overload of Dabbler’s porno sense. Much of the American pornography industry lives and works in this area.
I don’t think she would sense much there. Dabbler senses lust and most of the actors in the porn industry are doing just that, Acting. Not much real lust.
Changed my mind about the Fanboi-con. It’d be like getting sick from eating unripe apples.
I bet her next vacation is goung to be to Tokyo.
Is the Dabbler from Wereworld canon to this series? She worked for a shadowy organization, ENGIMA, she is a badass tracker who had her mind control broken by that MC. Currently going to finish destroying said shadowy organization then go back to what she wants.
I like Dabbler character design, maybe I’m weird for liking half-human hybrids more then normal people.
The Dabbler from Wereworld is this Dabbler. In most of the scenes in Wereworld where Dabbler showed up he has as a footfootnote that Dabble is being used with Dave’s permission.
ambient sound from lights and air conditioners? what about the ear-ringing, window breaking exchange of blows between Maxima and Dabbler from a few pages back. maybe she was intentionally pushing Maximas buttons because she sensed Tingles and needed a big enough sound to pinpoint him.
I like how Dabbler’s face goes from cutesy to menacing and back.
Ok, now I got to ask, is it the ‘handler’ or the suit that allows him to um, er handle Dabbler? (Man, now I know how Sydney felt towards the end.)
I’m all for working Psion into everyday conversations ;)
Now if all of the Harems were having sex at the same time, and they all orgasmed simultaneously and exponentially between each Harem,……would Dabbler go blind?
Maybe – unless that sense is not visually based…?
It might tie into an existing sense (such as hearing), or it may be completely separate.
As this is a webcomic without any sound-track, DaveB used a visual, but we may learn sometime later that her awareness is non-visual. Meanwhile, Panel_8 makes it sound almost “tasty”, so perhaps a “Harem Orgy” would leave Dabbler “well-fed”?
It probably a foregone conclusion dabs vacations in Las Vegas
Dave, we must discover the answer to this question.
Well her porno sense allows her to locate… tantric activity. Much like your sense of smell can lead you to a BBQ, but not nourish you directly, Dabbler can’t feed off tantric energy unless she’s involved in a more direct fashion.
Participating in a 6 way with Harem would give her quite a nice boost. Probably keep her going for a week or two.
Would it be a Six-Way to a succubus? i was under the impression that there after more spiritual sex energy, and harem is just one person with five bodies.
Probably not permanently, but I’d guess it’d be a fairly effective distraction/screen for any other activity going on in the area. A light bulb might not blind you, but it certainly makes a candle flame less obvious.
Hey, shouldn’t Tingles have a spot on the Who’s Who list, since he’s got a speaking part?
He doesn’t have a name yet
Not that it matters, he’ll be called Tingles for the rest of his career.
PORNO. SENSE. TINGLES.
wow
love the handler’s design. Very low-key, almost golden-age/pulp-ish
Geez is this ballroom scene going to go on for the whole series? <.< Still a very cool comic but some variety would be nice.
Yeah it’s getting a little long, but it’s almost over.
Never mind the ballroom scene. What about the whole series? It was two years old recently (but if there was a party, I missed it), and it’s still in day 1 of the story.
It’s very funny, and the pacing is fine if I read a long sequence of pages back to back. I guess I shouldn’t complain, but it *is* a little frustrating. How long, I wonder, before Sydney actually joins the team and they start *doing* something?
Oh how I wish I could put these out 3 a week. More even. Fred Perry (who does Gold Digger) can do 3 full color pages a day when he’s on a roll. He doesn’t do 11 panels on a page and he does simpler coloring on the characters, but his backgrounds are way more involved most of the time. Still I’d be satisfied with 3/week. The way I see it though, as long as it’s entertaining it doesn’t really matter what all is going on, but yeah I’m ready to move on too.
Don’t worry about it. What’s important (in life as well as stories) is not how much time passes but how much happens in the time. If you can put out an interesting and attractive page every week, who cares if the action occurs over three days or three seconds?
Many years back, Dragon magazine included a (usually) two-page comic called Wormy. One issue was devoted entirely to a troll falling out of a tree, maybe sixteen panels of this hapless humanoid bouncing off branches. That was a leetle bit eye-glazing, but I’m happy to say that I find your pacing very good.
Occasionally, though, I think you could do with fewer but larger panels. In the penultimate panel on this page, Dabbler’s grin seems to consist of about three pixels. Alternatively, you might go for a more stylized cartoony look in the small panels. Or, you could do it your own way. It’s working well so far.
I would love to do larger art/fewer panels. The trouble is having a page that can stand on its own for 3-4 days without every other page being some mid conversation cliffhanger.
…you SURE you’re not a lesbian, Syd?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBUdxLsS5g4
That’s the same guy that did “Dead Skunk In The Middle Of The Road”.
Panel #1 is exactly the response I expected from the others.
Panel #11 – crickets chirping.
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This is all just asking for a ‘My common sence is tingling’-joke…
So, basically her hearing is like Daredevil? She could “hear” that sounds were going around the spot where Tingles was, etc?
Not quite that good, or even up to the level of real echo-locating humans, but she can tell when sounds that she should be hearing are being muffled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsr1Mix0R-I
Oops.
Heh. Sydney is a true blonde.
(Although that stereotype is unfair to fair-haired people: the worst source of “blonde-isms” I ever knew was actually brunette.)
Plus, she’s a nerd, so she notices the unintentional double-entendre (after saying it) and blushes self-consciously. So cute!
Serious accidental pun for Sydney, “porn sense”… “tingles.” Just… think about it a few minutes.
Aww, a handler for Dabbler? I liked the idea of him being a bodyguard for the general.
That was his/her job up until now. There’s probably a reassignment coming up.
Yeah, can’t be a “Secret” Handler if your charge knows you exist.
She would probably prefer a more “hands on” handler. :)
I bravely volunteer for the strenuous and possibly hazardous duty. =P
I hereby volunteer to be Sydney’s handler or more likely spin doctor/apologist and focus-er. “Over here Sydney!” “The bad guy went that way Sydney!” “Don’t push that button Sydney!!” LOL
You can have that job. As much as I like Syd I fully admit I’d pop a gasket eventually trying to keep up with her.
I have a natural advantage as I have ADD too. And she would hold my attention quite well. Only problem I can see is I might give her ideas for getting back at anyone who messes with her. One of the few pluses of a military school education is a plethora of pranks in the memory bank.
Funny Farm ran a similar joke a long time ago, I think it was “Orgy sense… Tingling!” or something. ;)
Classic way to find steathed people: look for where something isn’t. Meaning a distinct lack of anything usually does mean something. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/428
Grrrr. Stupid holiday made me forget to view new comic.
SCORE!!!, Yea for me. I called it! Masked Spy Guy is Dabbler’s handler.
Grrr. Stupid not-edit button…)(*#@!$#%^$ software. My URL…
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WAIT!… My, porno senses are… Tingling~♥
Tingles looks like Cobra Commander.
Well The Commander had to find work after going bankrupt financing his organization’s evil schemes during the sub-prime mortgage fiasco.
Ha, i’ll bet it was due to the henchmen that ALLWAYS SURVIVED…i mean come ON!… you are diving down the road in your Cobra-issued tank, and those Joe Schmoes come along and blow it up!!!… yet nobody ever dies in those explosions… i’ll bet he went bankrupt from all the medical bills and workman’s comp claims.
and notice the H.I.S.S tank’s turret was completely unarmored? And the choppers without even windscreens/canopies?
Poor planning and bad science. I was just as annoyed at the Mechas in the Matrix trilogy. Fighting tentacled robots in OPEN COCKPITS!!!??? At least put safety glass around them or “Force Fields” something, ANYTHING!
You were expecting sense from The Matrix??
Honestly, that film had brilliant special effects, good direction, adequate acting, a banal script, and the most mind-numbingly idiotic plot that was ever foisted on the public.
The sequels got worse.
Like I say bad science poor planning. We ought to have a name for Sci-Fi movies with bad science like maybe Science-NOT-Fiction.
The name for that is Sci-Fi. True Science Fiction fans shudder whenever they hear it. What they read is known as SF to the cognoscenti.
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looks like Sydney and Dabbler are going to get along just fine XD
I really like the team of characters you’ve come up with so far. They are dynamic, lively and complement eachother well :) cant wait to read more.
I kinda understand Sydney’s frustration. This whole meeting was supposed to be about her and her orbs. Now all attention seems to have shifted to Dabbler and Tingles.
Psionoclast.
Noun, derived from Psion and Iconoclast.
One who attacks the mental defenses of another. I like it.
“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 call BS! Unless her hearing is such that hasn’t yet been explained and deviates (either in supernatural, or that particular universe’s physics sense) from the what “normal hearing” entails, there’s no way this can make any sense.
Because of the way sounds propagate, there’s nothing that can cause no sound to be in a certain area unless it’s a vacuum. And even then, there’s no way for an observer detect a “void” from sound waves (due to the diffusion and propagation of the waves). What they CAN do, however, is detect sound distortion caused by objects (the way bats do), assuming they aren’t magically cloaking themselves that way or somthin’.
Sound canceling is the science idea, his(her?) suit outputs inverted waveforms of the sounds made by the wearer and ambient noises around them thereby effectively muting sounds in it’s vicinity. Obviously the effective range is only a few feet but that would be far enough to silence the wearer’s movements including them touching/moving/stepping on things, however it would cause a “hole” in the background noise of the room if you walked near or past the wearer. If you’ve ever been in an air conditioned office building and had the power go out you’d instantly notice how much “more” quiet the room was, or if you entered a soundproofed/dampened room in a similar setting. The effect can be quite jarring even if you are used to it.
Called “pink noise generator” it selectively renders certain sounds like engines and tire squeals mute. But inverted waves that cancel them out. So you can have a noiseless noise area. And since Dabbler isn’t human her brain could operate differently. She would notice that certain ambient sounds are quiet. No BS here boyo or girlyo.
Personally I,for the record, find white/pink noise has never muted or canceled other sounds it only makes another source of sound to filter out. Once you can do that you start doing things like picking out a specific person in a orchestra or a conversation in a room. Your ears are similar to your eyes in that they can perceive ‘depth’ and ‘location’. The weakness ears have is approximately a plane that splits the brain up and down and front to back. So a sound in front of above or behind you is hard to distinguish. It’s also why dogs dogs tilt their head to locate a sound. So ears can sense ‘3D’ like your eyes.
This also why musicians tend to ‘test the room’ and can tell you if it is more ‘mute/sound absorbing’ than others. for example the best places to sing are ones that have large mostly hard, flat polished surfaces (eg glass / marble), and with out things like thick shag carpeting (soft thick surfaces)
here’s the rub, you need one more ‘sensor’ per dimension to pinpoint things. eg 4 sensors for 3d space location. (telemetry/GPS)
it’s a fascinating subject TBH and the brain is an awesome thing.
A technology or magical effect that dampens sound could be quite noticeable, especially when it is placed between a known sound source and the listener. As I sit here, writing this on my lap top, by desktop machine is doing stuff, and I can hear the fan in the desktop box quite clearly ( it is getting old ). If Tingles were to move between me and the desktop, then I would notice a decrease in sound level, with no recognizable cause. Also, if Tingles is standing still and I walk by, then when I am in line with the computer and Tingles, then again the sound levels would decrease. In either case, I would notice something is happening. Encounter these effects enough times, and you can figure out what is going on; for someone as smart as Dabbler is supposed to be, that would not take very much time at all.
don’t forget she’s a cyborg too. she could have implants that do this, or to use a slightly bad example, the shoulder weapon that the Predator had in the first movie, when Arny threw the rock to distract it, sure the biological alien was distracted, but then it stopped and used the weapon to track the sound, and it showed him right where he was hiding… Dabbler COULD have something like that, but because it was working with an ABSENCE of sound, it wasn’t as accurate as it could have been with something MAKING a sound, therefore her “between the eyes” comment.
Characters like dabbler trigger traumatic flashbacks in tabletop rpg players. See trope for details. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MarySue
Dabbler’s earliest incarnation was actually from tabletop RPG. I was playing Marvel Heroes, 1st edition (is that game even still in print?) and under character origin I rolled (I forget how the table is actually laid out, but it was something like) 98-00: Dual origin, roll again, add one power, then I rolled Demon, then Dual origin again, then mutant, then dual origin, then cyborg and alien or something.
I don’t recall what that original characters powers wound up being, but it gave me the idea for a semi-joke character that was alien/mutant/psychic/cyborg/mage/demon/etc, basically one of everything, and over probably 15-20 years that character evolved into Dabbler. So yeah, she’s Mary Sue-ish in that way, but when I think of a Mary Sue character it’s the really abusive sort that’s better than everyone at everything and may or may not be an author stand in, and Dabbler is really good at a lot of things, I’ve made sure to make her at most the second best at many of them. Except the succubus stuff, no one on the team beats her there. At least no one on the team.
Yeah. I had one randomly generate once who was so rediculously overpowered I chose to give him a set of crippling phobias (heights, spiders, women, bathing) in order to keep him playable.
I once rolled up a character who would have made a perfect Warrior. So I made her a Mage.
The book you are referring to using is T$Rs Ultimate Powers Book for the Marvel Super Heros Advanced Set.::
So as a handler for Dabbler they would need someone completely asexual. There are those people, but they are hard to find. Other then prude people they don’t always talk about sex and how bad it is. And they do not avoid the topic, they are just not interested.
One way to find one would be to send Dabbler on an inverse search. But that somehow defeats the purpose.
It may be hard to find those people, but…not so difficult to make one, when you get right down to it. A volunteer, by preference.
something maybe amoeba or plant. Aspen trees come to mind. they can use m/f sex (flowers/pollen seeds) to reproduce or they can grow under ground to new ‘trees’ above ground.
Forgetting “indistinct” may be one of those little things the brain does. My wife’s first language isn’t English, and though she’s beyond fluent sometimes she’ll still come out with things like, “The… the… what’s the word, what do you call it…”
“Cat?”
“Yes! Cat!”
And mixing metaphors is fairly common, Modern English being a mish-mash of a half-dozen languages, and borrowing phrases and words from even more.
Borrow? English does not borrow from any language. It follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them out and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
My brain does that on a regular basis. English is my first language, and my vocabulary is larger than most, but every now and then words just go right out of my brain. I have to resort to describing what I’m talking about.
“One of those things, you know, it has four legs and a back, you sit on it…”
“Chair?”
“That’s it!”
Morrigan. Dabbler. Some Succubi are worth the risk.
I can just see that on a t-shirt or a bumper sticker somewhere…
With silhouetted poses as the background.