Grrl Power #1191 – Security risk
Maxima and Dabbler flew back from their DC meeting on a plane, since there was no way Max was going to carry Dabs across country that way. She can carry people obviously, but her own personal deflector field doesn’t help the person being carried much, so she can’t even approach Mach 1 unless the carry-ee has their own toughness or protection. Dabbler could cast a force field spell or use a gadget, but again, Max would much rather sit back and relax in a Corinthian leather plush bucket seat and have a beer on a private plane than bridal carry Dabbler 1,200 miles.
There’s no way that kiosk doesn’t have an air vent in it. Although, in a fit of paranoia, the vent also has a lockdown in case a detector detects anything like knockout gas or carbon monoxide or the like. See, the lobby was designed by smart people who have also seen every heist movie and also read a bunch of comic books. They sat around a table and pitched entryway security, like, “Okay, above the kiosk there are super tough security windows with murder slots in them, and the guards wear armor…” and the next guy cuts in with “What about magnetic powers?” and the first guy snaps back “Let me finish! The metal wires of the security windows can be charged to set up their own magnetic field, which would interfere with magnetic powers, obviously depending on the magnitude of said powers. And just in case, have the guards wearing kevlar, ceramic plates and Oobtek inserts instead of metal armor. Now, how do you get through that?”
“Uh… lasers would go through clear windows.”
“Right, we can polarize the glass and UV coat it, and make it opaque to several other parts of the EM spectrum.”
“What, like put one of those microwave door cover weaves over them?”
“Something like that.”
“Well, a gas attack preceding an ingress would work if you could hit all the guards at the same time.”
“The guards would have gas masks on their outfits while on duty, and there will be a suite of sensors in the alcoves.”
“What about the person in the kiosk? Presumably we don’t want them looking like a Heavy Armored SS Trooper from a near-future anime.”
“The kiosk will have its own set of robust but more discrete defenses.”
And then the designers learn there’s going to be a large stretch of open skylights on the top floor and they throw their hands up and say “Fuck it, we did our job.”
All that is to say whoever’s is in the kiosk, or whoever is in there with them, must have elbowed a switch or something, because it shouldn’t normally steam up like that.
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I don’t know Dabbler, Sydney’s lunchbox is probably rated to securely contain chlorine trifluoride, if not FOOF.
… is anything ever rated to securely contain FOOF?
I would be shocked if the answer to that question was anything resembling an affirmative. Like, I’m not an expert, but considering the stuff explodes when exposed to basically anything, including nasty thoughts from across town apparently, it makes me wonder what could possibly contain the stuff, securely or otherwise.
Some kind of zero G, hard vacuum gravity bottle?
Sydney’s stomach and slash or intestinal tract?
Don’t a few metals do a film thing with it, like aluminium does with oxygen?
Teflon. Polyfluoroethylene. Maybe Calcium Fluorite.
It’s certainly not rated for C2N14. C2N14 explodes if you expose it to infrared light, or *any* friction or movement. Even if youre unfamiliar with it, “C2N14” should make you break out in a cold sweat.
While we are hving fun with Nitrogen compounds, try Nitrogen Triiodide. That stufe has one, and only one property: It explodes.
But it’s just stable enough to have fun with.
I mean, unless you make a jar of the solution to play pranks with, and then forget it on a shelf for a year while it slowly evaporates, you look up on the shelf, and there’s A FREAKING NITROGEN TRIIODIDE CRYSTAL sitting in a a dry jar.
Just waiting for somebody to look at it wrong…
C2N14 is not stable enough to have fun with, unless you think sitting completely motionless in a cold dark room is fun.
You WILL relax and do nothing.
No, seriously, you will. If you do anything, this will explode. Find your inner peace.
I am moderately familiar with organic chemistry notation. That does indeed make me wonder how in the fuck that exists, and gives me a sense of how eager it is to cease existing. Likely rapidly and with great gusto.
Like the bunny in ‘Igor’
Not to forget: not cease alone :P
Let’s say it that way, in an explosives specialized lab they where not able to measure how sensitive this stuff is because it was too sensitive for their instrumentation. They also exploded one of their spectrometers because the IR source set it off.
An internet search on things I won’t work with c2n14 should give a good read as the first result
For fun reading, you should give Derek Lowe with his scienche/chemics blog “in the pipeline” a go, especially the sections “thins i won’t work with” and “things i’m glad i don’t do”.
It covers bits of how azides (those very exciting nitrogen compounds) work, and how some people try to add even more nitrogen/instability/excitement to that. It gets up to a point where switching on the light several rooms removed is enogh to trigger explosions.
It’s very entertaining to read.
Can you throw out a link to the best place to read them?
https://www.science.org/blogs/pipeline is the address of of Derek’s blog. Mostly drug research but the articles do have tags.
The SCP may have something
No, you can’t use 682 to dispose of sydney’s lunchbox contents ;) he would likely turn end up turning it into a flamethrower capable of melting stone…
black rock cooler?
When I first saw this I thought of the Pentium CPU bug.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug
glitch in The matrix indeed!
Better not take any risks with Grakz.
Good thing Maxima’s toughness extends to her clothes, or she might have suffered a very embarrassing wardrobe malfunction.
Tits a good thing she got that problem off her chest.
Yes, breast to have avoided that titfall – uh, pitfall, otherwise Ashley would look like (or at?) a boob.
Yeah, would have been a tit-anic challenge for Ashley to deal with it, but luckily Maxima’s powers are absolutely bust-ed.
You could even say her powers are very well-rounded.
They lift and support in many ways.
She almost slipped up.
It’s a bit nippy in there.
It’s one of the breast thing about her powers.
It’s It’s uncannipple the amount ot puns we can cum up with.
Yeah you can milk these puns a lot.
Max could cut them out of there now! Just hug the glass and move in a big circle!
just nipple and diamonding it, eh?
Well, you know how “sharp” Max’s wit is…
Well ya’all have good points there and tthere and over there…
Especially with no Pander around to nip it in the bud.
You can bet that she is still nips in every once in a while just to stay abreast of the situation. It warms my bosom just to think of it.
well you know I’m sure the braille community appreciates this
Butt they can find theirfun elswhere.
In the author commentary, Dave re-invents red-teaming.
A normal red team knows that movie-plot attacks don’t happen in real life.
In this universe, supervillians are both real and stupid enough to try them.
Dabbler mother? Can’t recall seeing her in the comic yet.
That’s because we haven’t, she was a vote incentive once though
She was? When?
Unfortunately, the external harddrive had been using to store all invotives died (really hoping it was the power source and not the external itself… ) so can’t check the stash
Apparently I was wrong, I either misread or misremembered the stuff around the Xerxa vote incentive from awhile back, because I could have sworn DaveB specifically said she WAS Dabbler’s mom. Unless there was another one that just didn’t come up on my search of the patreon? I dunno.
No worries :)
Was she the one with 6 arms?
No, that was specifically not Dabbler’s mother.
We haven’t, but the way Maxi reacted, seems like they have met (wonder how bad {or ‘naughty’} it got :) )
We also don’t know which of her mothers, seeing how she has at least two of them
Given the way Max reacted and the lust aura issue, it is almost surely the succubus one, and they met in the past. Chances are she acted as an overbearing matriarch, and/or she hit on Max even more forcefully than Dabbler does.
The over-baring, MILF cougar, the bane of every newlywed couple, she hits on the groom in front of everyone while the bride yells “MOOOOM!” Like Troy’s mom on TNG, little wonder she put off getting married until the actor and character passed away lol! The classic romcom TV/Movie trope, still funny.
I imagine it more like the milf cougar kissing the bride (yes, her own daughter) as she squeezes the groom’s butt, to get the bride and groom closer together.
In mutual grossness I now pronounce you man and wife. you may now vomit on the bride’s mother.
hmm, I don’t remember making it gross, you’re the one who pictured it that way.
Besides, MILF just stands for Multifaceted Individual Learned Female.
generally kids find the idea of their parents ‘getting it on’ gross. parents generally try to deny that part of their children’s lives. I’ve been told adult siblings don’t like knowing that the other one is active in this area. (but they like to make a fuss over the nieces and nephews.) here in America we don’t make sense, we make dollars.
Kids find the idea of anyone ‘getting it on’ that is not them to be ‘gross’ and must be stopped (or at least let them join in or watch)
It gives me a chuckle to think that whole extended families lived in a single room for most of human history, if they had a room at all. Everybody knew when you were doing it.
And with whom (or what)
Oh, never thought about that, but Max would need her clamps to be a pair of vice grips to even start to feel it. I weep for her.
Not necessarily.. tactile sensitivity and pain tolerance are 2 different things. Also, things feel different when you’re horny… for example I’m not ticklish but my belly becomes my kryptonite when I’m… y’know.
Also, Max can drop or at least lower her defence, if needed.
Why would she need to, I cannot think of other reasons than our topic.
Thanks, I not have a design for a pink, latex jackhammer in my head.
Thanks, now I do! lol
Picture one beefy lady using it on another beefy lady, both are wearing hardhat, earplugs, and safety glasses…
I had something darker in mind, but yours is effecting my dinner….lol
mine was along the lines of someone yelling “Is this hard enough!!!”
(insert evil laughter)
Why would Max think it was Dabs’ mom? Unless it happened before when she visited prior to the beginning of the comic.
Dabs literally just said it was familial, which means family-related
Yes, but the family she knows (as far as we know) is Parfait. So, why did she suggest her mom?
Because she’s a big fucking nerd and expected a Lwaxana Troi situation.
I’ve been working at a plasma center for a while now, as a processor. I made a very nice poster for the breakroom that reads, “This is not the Starship Enterprise. Plasma leaks should NOT be a Daily Occurence!”
As others have stated, they have met before, personally can’t remember so hoping someone can post a linkage
It never happened on-screen to my knowledge, so it occurred either before Max and Syd met or in an off-screen interlude. Quite possibly when Archon negotiated Dabbler joining with the Twilight or Matriarch Councils. Maybe some day Dave shall grace us with a flashback. Like others, I am very curious about the succubus version of Lwaxana Troi. More seductive than Decollete, a better sorcerer than Dabbler, way overb(e)aring, and hitting on Max even more forcefully than her daughter.
I know this time it’s Parfait, but we could have been barrelling toward a Lwaxana Troi bawdy farce.
Please, can we barrel toward a Lwaxana Troi bawdy farce?
My instinct is that Max really wants there to not be a doppelgänger body snatcher whatever in HQ
i absolutely LOVE the idea that max has … *cough cough* entertained…. dabbler’s mother at least once.
All things considered, I can easily imagine that following this incident they’ll be looking into ways to protect against such auras. For many intents and purposes ARK HQ is highly vulnerable as a result of the lust aura of a very young succubus. I’m sure many could still rally a response in the face of obvious threats, but they’re still all considerably compromised in their ability to respond in general and to maintain duties integral to the security.
The humidity in the lobby security box being the most clear example…
They may already have such protections in place in the outside of the building. But the lust is coming from… inside the building!
Maybe, my problem with that is if the protections only go as far as the seal on the floor, there doesn’t seem to be a great deal of security to stop people getting to that point. A Succubus could easily walk in the door, unleash her aura and start some long, wishy-washy conversation with the kiosk clerk about needing to see someone, similar to how Delta waited to see Achilles.
They have access to magical practitioners and magical artifacts of their own so it seems prudent to at least have something to detect and alert when the presence of such an aura is in the building.
Although it is very obvious I would argue that the humidity in the lobby security box is anything but clear. translucent maybe.
They ought to have been looking into aura countermeasures after the Vehemence fight.
They probably did, but they didn’t expect an attack to cum from within: all defences are on the outside (note how Maxi wasn’t affected until she got close to the kiosk)
They were still negligent for not making defenses against mental manipulation area-wide, since Vehemence affected them this way and their HQ was invaded by hostiles using area attacks in the past.
Again: defences on the outside, preventing invasions or attacks from getting not, not defending against ‘friendly fire’ from within
It is not so much an issue of ‘friendly fire’. They know from V’s incident that auras can encompass an area, and their perimetral defenses have been breached before. All it takes is a hostile with an aura attack invading their HQ again. They were very lucky this time that it was the powers of a friendly agent going out of control and causing some harmless horniness on a quiet night.
Cum from within? Really?? After noticing the latin word in the seal as everyone was noticing a different use of the word… including those in the kiosk (probably not alone) in what that alien movie Contact thing was “A proper introduction”
They have a defense already: Sydney’s shield orb.
Problem is that nobody knows how it works, and nobody knows anything about blocking Thaumion (?) auras either. Including the people exuding said auras. V had no interest in blocking his aura, quite the contrary, and it seems that succubi handle the issue of their lust aura as: do not let it get out of control (that’s why we send you to that expensive finishing school). They probably subtly distract magical researchers from pursuing such a field of study as it would take away a large portion of the power that succubi wield in their society.
There may be a humorous story arc (far) down the line where a delegation of succubi matriarchs come visit Archon, ostensibly to establish diplomatic contacts, but in reality to covertly investigate Sydney and her orbs to see if they represent an existential threat.
(this of course assumes that regular forcefields as employed by space tech level cultures like Cora’s do not block auras)
I would think that the lust aura creates its own defense, since an intruder would be affected at least as much as the ARC personnel.
And maybe even more, if they haven’t been exposed to a succubus before.
>I would think that the lust aura creates its own defense, since an intruder would be affected at least as much as the ARC personnel.
That is fairly easy to counter with the right resources. First you flood the area with a lust area, then attack with minions that are immune to it, such as say golems.
Just as Dabbler has a trinket to prevent debuffs I could easily imagine there are other such things out there which could protect against auras. It might be that permanent artifacts are hard to come by but if they need nothing more than a potion to protect them specifically against lust auras for an hour, I could picture those being much more readily available to procure or produce.
I also noted that many of them still might be able to maintain themselves in the face of clear threats. Similarly, a group of invaders, while somewhat distracted, might more easily be able to remain focused if they’re aware of the lust aura and it’s purpose of distracting others.
I’d easily imagine that as a Succubus herself, Dabbler might be aware of magical or technological means that could be readily deployed to both detect and dampen such effects.
I’d bet that they considered such defenses, if possible, but found that containing the aura to a limited area DRASTICALLY intensifies the field, like flooding waters- let it flow it’s 2 inches deep, wall it off and it’s 2 feet deep.
What they really need is a block on summonings, at least in most of the building. Maybe have a single chamber (with other defenses set up) to permit extra-planar guests from arriving. (A more general block on teleportation would be an even better idea, but may not be feasible.)
After all, a single infiltrator is likely going to make it further into the building than a large strike team–and such an individual might bring a prepped, folding circle in with them. Lay it on the floor, charge it up, and start portalling your strike force from inside the walls.
Every time someone talks about “gas attacks” to knock out everyone in a large room/building, I remember the time Russia killed a bunch of hostages they were supposed to rescue (Moscow, 2002). I have to allow that this is fiction (with magic & sci-fi tech), but it’s still a peeve.
Yeah, “Correct Dosage” and whole room gas cannot be in the same plan. Where ever you are inserting the gas to the room _will_ have a higher concentration that other parts of the room.
Extra complication: every drug that can knock you out will kill you in a higher dose. Normally not much of a higher dose. What a slim 80year old female needs to knock her out will be like 1/3 or less than what a male body builder will need.
I mean, if you don’t especially care about whether everyone survives or not it’s a very effective way to neutralize a building full of threats, but yeah, gases are extremely difficult to get the dosage right since you need enough to fill the space the target is breathing in to ensure they actually get some, but then NOT so much that they’ll inhale too much and overdose, which is basically an impossible balance to find and is made infinitely more complex when having to factor for more than one target, different body types, different sized rooms, etc. There’s a reason Anesthesiologists use a tube and mask for you to inhale in, because that’s basically the only way they can actually control the dose you get.
In order to reliably knock someone out with a gas attack AND keep it reliably non-lethal, you’d basically need something that can knock someone out with an extremely low dose, while having an LD50 so high you basically can’t OD on it in a reasonable timeframe. You want a low dose so you can pump very little into the room and have it be effective so that you can ensure they’re still getting the air they need to breathe while they’re passed out on the floor, but then you need to figure out a way to ensure it actually disperses throughout the room so you can know everyone will get some. But then you want a high LD50 for fairly obvious reasons. I’m not a chemist but I am fairly confident that anything that would be that effective that quickly in such a small dose basically can’t have a high LD50.
There’s also a reason anesthesiologists have the highest malpractice insurance rates of any specialty.
And, the anaesthesiologists have to carefully monitor the ‘patient’ at all times to know when to stop
The sadder end to that story was that most of the hostages were alive when they were removed from the building. In addition to sedating the people, the drug had the effect of greatly reducing muscle control. The people were brought out and laid on the ground on their backs. The muscles could not hold their tongues in place, causing them to slide back into their throats. They choked to death with blocked airways. If they had been laid on their sides most would have survived.
Well, sad indeed, but it was Russia, not to mention the Putinist regime at its inception. They have shown no great aptitude to use force with finesse or care about expendable lives in like forever.
case in point the worst school shooting in human history where the russian military opened fire at a school filled with hundreds of children with thermobaric explosives, tanks and attack helicopters
in general destroying schools and killing civilians seems to be the only think putinist russia is good at
There’s some funny future story potential of Dabbler’s mom coming to visit and being some crazy hyper powerful succubus sorcerer or something.
And who brings cookies and baby pictures. And smilingly declares, “I’m a MELF!”
A MELF?
“Mother Everyone Likes to F–k!”
I’ll only accept that if her go-to method of driving away hostile entities is to conjure acid arrows.
“Cum amplus potentia venit amplus onus”
I’ve said this before. Your Latin is ungrammatical.
The noun potentia is feminine, onus is neuter. The adjective (amplus) must match the gender of the noun; “amplus” is masculine.
Corrected:
“Cum ampla potentia venit amplum onus”
I’d bet Dave was simply looking for a way for Dabbler to be standing on the word “cum”.
Pretty sure that Dave’s only motive was finding a way for Dabbler to be standing on the word “cum”.
It roughly translates to ‘with great power comes great responsibility “. But yeah.
Thank you Dwight. -_-
Well. Google translate did not make that clear. Is there an all neutral way to say it?
Also, Latin sounds unnecessarily complex.
that was the entire point of Latin. I mean, would you be able to summon a creature from hell or hell adjacent if you couldn’t pronounce its name properly?
Don’t worry about it, only Grammar Centurions care :P
This would require at least a Grammar Tribune ;)
In an Ædile world, maybe.
At least we now know what uncle Ben has to say to Peter if Spider-man is ever translated into Latin.
Obligatory Monty Python skit:: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAfKFKBlZbM
cum amplus potentia venit amplus onus
“With great power comes great responsibiity”
….and not whatever Dabbler pretends to misread it as:
“coming into a lot of power when you come in my ass”.
Considering how everyone else reacted, Maxima has Superhuman Willpower.
Or she’s further away, hasn’t been in the aura as long, has likely had more exposure than most of the others (I do recall there being references to building up a tolerance or resistance over time), doesn’t have someone she would consider a viable partner close at hand, etc. I mean, Arianna just started texting someone, she didn’t immediately rip her clothes off and start twiddling away.
Also, IIRC the lust aura just makes you horny and lowers your inhibitions so you’re more *likely* to act on it, there are plenty of people who would still observe propriety no matter *how* horny or uninhibited they got, and Max is almost definitely one of those. It isn’t really a matter of willpower, per se, so much as just not being a thing she would do under any circumstances. Like, there’s a difference between an inhibition and something you’d never do. It might be harder if someone like Hiro or maybe even Deus were present, but it would still be pretty out of character for her to do anything actually in public, even while under the effects of a run away lust aura.
Not superhuman, really…
Just highly trained combat reflexes taking over when something out of the ordinary happens, like now..
Peeps tend to forget Max *is* a highly trained veteran with a looong track record in the Weird and Unusual. And very much can recognise and resist a succubus’ lust aura.
Especially when, like now, it’s not targeted but merely leaking out.
What she does is not unlike a thing any healthy male has gone through: Puberty, and the lovely way our “little brain” tended to have a life of his own.. Usually at the most importune moments.
You learn to ignore it..
When we were first introduced to Dabbler, she used a lust aura on everyone in the room, even X, which is how she found him. Parfait is just bleeding out hers on accident, so it’s random and under powered. Maybe if Sydney “helps” her, it’ll fade out. But if dab’s can reach her before then, so much the better.
Superhuman willpower (or at least mind control resistance) has been pretty much confirmed since the scrape with Sciona’s construct (also, built-in tinfoil hat).
I did not really think about it, but the aura is on EVERYONE – this includes the support staff, the good doctor, anyone who is currently on guard patrol.. the Civilian HR team the lot.
The aura is expanding what is already possibly there, so Hiro is possibly in a situation of holding his door at bay evil dead style while multiple hands claw around it.
Hold the Door Hiro.. Hold the door.
Hiro’s shirts are of course utterly lost. he needs a new box.
He keeps ripping off the current one whenever he sweats through it enough, and throws it through the crack in the doorway. It seems to help with the press of bodies.
Double the usual tuesday delivery.
I’ll be meeting that guy in a few weeks!
If they flew back on a jet, it’s probably hours later. So the aura might not be as strong as it was when it first got out of control.
Lunchbox? Is that code for something?
Also, who’s getting hot and heavy in the reception booth? Anyone we should recognise?
“Hotter than whatever’s in Sydney’s lunchbox” is referencing her tendency to consume weapons grade spicy food.
Weapons of ass destruction.
Sydney can handle inhuman levels of spice. a lunch of hers early on caused a low level gas attack over a wide area. this is not unusual as the cashier had a full on gas mask to cash Sydney out. its somewhere just before the bank heist.
I suspect Harem’s involved as this attack would affect all of her simultaneously. 5 bodies, one mind, all horny.
It’s a reference to Sydney liking hot (spicy) food.
Nope, literally the box Sydney carries the thermonuclear radiative crap she has for lunch
As for who is in the booth, probably just whoever was assigned as doorguard today
Dabbler is saying her “porn sense” is ringing hotter than anything in Sydney’s lunch box, which considering the level of spice Sydney tends to eat would be significant. Not code for anything, since they didn’t know Dabbler’s Sister is with Sydney…
Countdown to Dabbler’s Mom getting an appearance.
*queues up Stscy’s Mormon the 1MC*
That does sound intriguing. The alpha milf of succubi or something.
Intriguing… and an invite to a week-long coma, but is it worth it? decisions, decisions….
What are the worst and second worst types of humidity?
Operating Room AKA Surgery
because there are lots bio scum in that wet air from the bodies.
Which is second only to Nebraska Hog Farm in August.
I’ll raise you Michigan humidity during summer after rainstorm. Even putting clothes out on the line to dry they never really get dry The only get less wet. well the jokes we always had was the only way we could tell it’s raining was the air was moving sideways
Having lived on the Wisconsin side of the lake, I feel you.
The thing about Hog Farm humidity, is that the microscopic bits of hog shit cling to the microscopic bits of water, creating this unholy miasma. Not only is it sticky, it permeates everything, and gets _everywhere_.
I don’t even have try, and I can recall the way the air tasted.
…scuse me, gonna go gargle mouthwash for an hour.
Halitosis humidity, and wet August heat.
so, can Max just grit her teeth and cross her legs hard enough to get to Parfait, or is she going to have to trust Dabbler? given that some of the security setups will specifically have Max in mind (defend against threats you know!) how hard is it going to be to bypass the rather distracted guard.
that hand thing must be a reference to more than the Saw movies.
Titanic
As Guesticules said, the hand thing is a reference to the movie Titanic starring Lio D’Caprio and Kate Winslet.
Well, now I have to see Dabblers mom.
Since there appears to still be time: For the love of god Dave, do NOT have Parfait & Sydney have sex. Look, what’s happening to everybody else is questionable at best but them? Yeah, no, that would be entirely rape with the aura. Even with it being unintentional. You may think you have a good explanation but I guarantee it won’t be, we’ve been here before.
If you need to make it sexy here’s a scene idea for you: Parfait is too close & strong for Syd to immediately throw up the shield so she throws her off using the tentaorb . . .
. . . grabbing her by the neck in the process. Parfait cums her little brains out, you get your cheesecake, Sydney doesn’t get raped, everybody wins.
Imagine the possible banter between Dabbler, her mom and Maxima. Could be really funny.
Hell, the aftermath would make a Perfect Patreon picture.
Sydney and Parfait laying naked on the couch, Syd’s clothes strown everywhere and her panties hanging off one of her ankles. Both women looking exhausted with large wet spots under their butts and faces looking like glazed doughnuts.
Sydney : “Damn, I can’t believe we did that.”
Parfait : “You can’t believe we did that? How can you NOT believe we did that? We did it FOUR TIMES!”
Had no idea was more resilient to lust than Maxi is (or whoever is in the kiosk)
I don’t think Dave is going to have it go much further than the surprise kiss we saw two pages ago, as you pointed out Sydney has ways she can get free in a hurry, and the Lust Aura just makes you horny and lowers your inhibitions, even at its maximum setting, and IIRC there was mention of repeated exposure building up a tolerance/resistance to it, making it easier to keep your wits about you in future exposures and Syd has been exposed to Dabbler’s lust aura a bunch. Simply put, it shouldn’t be able to mind control Sydney into doing anything she couldn’t be eventually convinced to do without it, and I’m pretty sure she’s fully straight (and this would be really weird time to change that), so the only way for Parfait to get much further than she already has she’d have to be able to fully over-power Sydney which the orbs make basically not possible. Unless there’s more mind-affecting magic going on than just the lust aura, but it doesn’t seem like Parfait is in any state of mind to be casting, and if she were she’d be more likely to cast something to get herself under control than to make the situation worse.
Succubus magic can explicitly introduce attraction that otherwise wouldn’t be there, so under the influence Sydney can potentially be seduced by Parfait even though she’s straight.
But is that part of the Lust Aura? Like, if a magical effect makes you horny, it can be easy to misattribute your arousal to being specifically due to the stimulus being provided, in most cases a sexy succubus, but there is a difference between being aroused and being attracted to someone, Sydney has been under the effects of the Lust Aura before, she was specifically told that Parfait’s Lust Aura was going out of control when it happened, and she has resisted it before specifically *because* she knew she was straight and it was magic making her horny and not direct attraction.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there WAS succubus magic specifically designed to expand someone’s sexuality to include attraction to people they otherwise wouldn’t be attracted to, so while I don’t recall the specific instance you are referring to, I believe you when you say it was mentioned. I am pretty sure it was not mentioned as part of the Lust Aura, or if it was then whatever attraction it creates shouldn’t override free-will and thus my argument regarding Sydney being able to free herself before this turns into r*pe stands. Sydney’s made it clear on multiple occasions that she isn’t interested in experimenting with lesbianism any time soon, if ever, even with Succubus assistance, previous exposure to the Lust Aura has not changed that (and has, in fact, been the inciting incident to cause Sydney to make that clear most of the times it’s come up), so there is no reason to expect this instance to be any different, Syd should be able to bubble up and then she’ll be fine.
> I wouldn’t be surprised if there WAS succubus magic specifically designed to expand someone’s sexuality to include attraction to people they otherwise wouldn’t be attracted to, so while I don’t recall the specific instance you are referring to, I believe you when you say it was mentioned. I am pretty sure it was not mentioned as part of the Lust Aura
It was in https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/gp0100/. Author quote: “And just to be clear, Sydney’s not into girls at all, but gender preference doesn’t mean a lot to Dabbler, especially when she’s doing her succubus thing.”
Also note “This page shows the lingering effects of Dabbler’s “lust aura” enhanced entrance. It’s an innate succubus ability which she has leveled up considerably, but she wasn’t pushing it very hard when she came in. On a scale of “Girl Lookit that Body” to “Insta-Orgy” this was about “6 Jello Shots.”” from https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-101-what-else-would-you-do-with-two-invisible-arms/
This confirms that:
– Lust aura can give straight women the hots for a succubus
– It does have ‘insta-orgy’ potential, which sounds like overriding free will
To be fair, Parfait probably isn’t that powerful, but her aura still will make her very attractive to Sydney, making lesbian experimentation much more appealing. Note that the ‘not a lesbian’ reaction came after Dabbler turned it off.
Sydney will probably still have her wits about her, and she will be aware that her desire is artificial, but she still needs to resist it, and Sydney isn’t known for her impulse control. On the other hand, just knowledge about the effect was very useful against Vehemence, so all bets are off.
Alright, thanks for providing the source for that. I still say Sydney should be able to resist long enough to bubble up, especially after being specifically told this was an emergency, and IIRC her bubble has been shown to stop magic auras before, so once she’s bubbled up she should be free from the influence. Having a history of impulse control problems should actually make her better able to resist, at least if her impulse control issues are anything like mine, anyway. Also, IIRC her orbs react to subconscious cues as well as conscious ones, and she made reaching for the shield orb her instinctive reaction to danger and surprise, so she shouldn’t have an issue getting it into her hand even if she can’t resist getting into the kissing. From there it’s just a question of can she bubble up in a way that will force Parfait off of her while she’s making skin to skin contact, and I’m *pretty* sure that should be possible, but I don’t think we’ve seen that specifically come up before.
> Having a history of impulse control problems should actually make her better able to resist, at least if her impulse control issues are anything like mine
The experience would help, but not as much as having normal level impulse control to begin with. Her issues aren’t like yours where you have to deal with particularly strong rage (judging from your description two strips ago), which indeed sounds like it could help with other strong emotions. Her issue is the impulse control itself. She finds it hard to concentrate when she wants to do something else.
> From there it’s just a question of can she bubble up in a way that will force Parfait off of her while she’s making skin to skin contact, and I’m *pretty* sure that should be possible, but I don’t think we’ve seen that specifically come up before.
I think it’s the opposite and the shield naturally only appears where it’s free to. If she could use the shield to escape a grapple, she could have used that when Troll!Sciona grabbed her in the warehouse, so it’s at least safe to say it won’t happen by instinct, and if it’s possible at all she will need a clear head to come up with it.
She’d need to use the Anti-Molestorb to pluck Parfait off, but that requires more deliberate action.
We’ve seen repeated examples of Halo not just overcoming the lust aura from both Parfait AND Dabbler, but making it clear they won’t make her do anything she doesn’t want to.
Halo is not a virgin, or an ace. Halo is an adult who has had sex with a studly furry alien, masturbated with a body pillow (of a fictional character who is himself underaged in the canon storylines for both animes), and has propositioned a powerful young mage in the hopes of inserting herself into an established relationship and turning a couple into a threesome. She’s a lot tougher than you’re giving her credit for.
Apart from the implausibility of Syd of all people being more resilient to lust than anybody else in the building, can you accept the notion that somewhere in the world two friends can have sex while drunk or high, decide it was a good experience and they like each other that way, and agree it was a good one-night stand, they become FWB, or start dating?
Are you 100% sure Syd cannot be a latent bi and like her friend that way, even if she did not realize it until Parf kissed her, and the above sequence cannot unfold for the two of them?
Regardless of whether the above happens within this event sequence, can you accept the possibility that Syd and Parf can agree it was a genuine and unfortunate accident that does not need to ruin their friendship, and after further self-reflection and discussion at a later meeting, Syd decides with a sober mind that she is bi after all and likes Parfait as a FWB, and the two agree to have more or less the same long-distance relationship that Syd has witrh Frix, within the frame of Syd’s pursuit of polyamory?
“can you accept the notion that somewhere in the world two friends can have sex while drunk or high, decide it was a good experience and they like each other that way, and agree it was a good one-night stand, they become FWB, or start dating?”
Not what’s happening here. One friend is drugging the other. “Not intentionally!” Doesn’t matter, still happening.
“Are you 100% sure Syd cannot be a latent bi and like her friend that way”
What if she is? What if she isn’t? What if the world is pudding?
I can’t argue against a hypothetical question. All available info, including her own words, says she’s thoroughly straight.
@Archone
Wasn’t a threesome, just both dating Leon. She literally yelled “I’M NOT INTO GIRLS” when Leon asked if she meant a threesome.
You keep ignoring that the lust aura activated and went berserk against Parf’s intent and beyond ability to control. She pleaded for (unavailable) means to bring it under control, if necessary by sedating herself, and she was affected by it as much as everyone else in the building. Until the incident is resolved, it should be treated as an independent entity, acting on an instinctual level, that is attached to Parf’s body/mind/soul.
The closest mundane equivalent would perhaps be someone accidentally releasing a psychoactive substance known for lowering inhibitions at a party that everyone ingests, including the one that made the mistake.
>Wasn’t a threesome, just both dating Leon. She literally yelled “I’M NOT INTO GIRLS” when Leon asked if she meant a threesome.
There is still the case that at the time she made an inaccurate or unsincere statement in the heat of the moment. Circumstances were not optimal for precise self-awareness. E.g, she felt the need to reassure herself, Leon, and/or Krona that such was the case, even if the actual case was more nuanced. Or she changed her mind from back then to now.
Just because it’s an accident/mistake doesn’t mean she isn’t responsible for the consequences of the actions she might take while under the influence. In this hypothetical Sydney might decide she’s okay with what hypothetically happened, and might choose to forgive/absolve Parfait of any guilt on the matter between them, but it would still be pretty messed up that it happened in the first place, and “oopsie, it was an accident” wouldn’t really help if Sydney *doesn’t* decide she’s okay with it having hypothetically happened, nor does it help regarding liability for all of the other stuff that may be going on in the building due to this mishap. She’s not doing it on purpose, but it’s still her fault, nobody is obligated to forgive people for accidents or mistakes, and the law certainly doesn’t particularly distinguish for most crimes, and for those that it *does*, the accidental version is still a crime, like manslaughter (always remember, you can’t spell manslaughter without laughter!).
>There is still the case that at the time she made an inaccurate or unsincere statement in the heat of the moment.
There is still the case of Dave also explicitly saying she’s not into girls…
Nope, the possibility that Sydney and Parf could even remotely become more than friends is unthinkable to some people
No. Don’t even try it.
You’ve been far too much of a coomer for the last 3 comics to try to play the homophobia card NOW, Guesticles.
… What? o_O
Wasn’t talking about me, was talking about Emma and everyone who is adamant that Sydney is still straight as a cucumber
I don’t know about anybody else, but I’m adamant about believing her when she’s been consistent about it every time it’s come up, including in instances where she’s been under the effects of a succubus lust aura. If at some point *Sydney* says anything to indicate that’s changing, I’ll trust she knows what she’s talking about then just as much as I have in the past, and will be just as fine with it since I don’t really have any reason to care what her sexuality is, but it does kinda bug me when people insist on ignoring character traits that are established canon in favor of their headcanon or shipping.
Also, do cucumbers tend to be straight? I admit I don’t spend much time around them as they aren’t a vegetable I like, but I could swear most of the ones I’ve seen were curved at least a little bit. I get that line was meant to be amusing, and it was amusing, it just sparked my curiosity.
It was mostly (partly?) added because of the middle syllable
And yeah, also waiting until for an official update about Sydney, either from herself or DaveB, but doesn’t mean can’t still ship her with another female (or another alien)
By the way, never heard the phrase “The lady doth protest too much!”?
You can ship them (“Parfalo”?) as much as you want – you just don’t get to pretend it’s compatible with canon.
Never said it was
Except she’s not protesting too much, she’s protested when it’s specifically come up. I’ve found that in most instances when I’ve encountered that expression it’s in instances where someone is pushing a boundary, the person being pushed reasserts that boundary, and the person pushing the boundary uses that quote to justify ignoring their wishes and continuing to insist the person being pushed somehow doesn’t understand their own mind as well as the one doing the pushing.
Now, someone subconsciously projecting about something they are insecure about IS a thing some people do, and it CAN take the form of “protesting too much”, but that can only be made clear if it’s protested about when it *isn’t* specifically relevant. Like if she just blurted out that she’s not into women when a particularly attractive (not a succubus) woman started interacting with her, as that would indicate some feelings she’s trying to repress. Considering how open Sydney is, the kind of company she keeps, and the specific ways in which she’s grown and evolved regarding her sexuality, I feel like if she was gonna suddenly figure out she’s bi she’d have done it already, and even if it somehow hasn’t happened yet but might still, I really don’t think this is the moment for it, either from a psychological stand point OR a narrative one, it would just be really bad timing.
Also, I agree you can ship whomever with whomever, but some people in this comment section seem to be really pushing the distinction between what they want to see happen (their ships) and what is actually supported in the canon of the story. I don’t think that includes you, just the line about people being adamant that Sydney was definitely straight just felt like a good lead in to what I wanted to say about not projecting one’s headcanon on top of the actual canon. One of the pitfalls to a long and involved conversation involving lots and lots of people is that sometimes you wanna make a point to one person or some people, but the natural place to say it is in response to something somebody else entire said.
I know. You’ve made it pretty clear you want them to have sex because you want to see/hear them have sex.
Don’t pretend you’re arguing for it because it’s supporting the LGBT community and your fighting homophobia.
> Are you 100% sure Syd cannot be a latent bi
We have WoG that she isn’t, so yes we can consider it certain.
A decade ago, when the comic was in its infancy, Syd was a virgin, and yet to have so many life-changing experiences, starting with Archon recruitment. Dave could have realistically changed his mind on the subject like 20 times since then. Esp. since the current arc so far does not seem most likely headed to confirm and reinforce that particular bit of canon.
I get that you REALLY want her to be bi but unless Dave issues a retcon, she simple isn’t. End of story.
> Dave could have realistically changed his mind on the subject like 20 times since then.
But he hasn’t. You can’t just contradict established canon with nothing but “the author could potentially decide to retcon it”. Especially when many opportunities to do so have passed.
> yet to have so many life-changing experiences
General wisdom is that sexual orientation is fixed.
> Esp. since the current arc so far does not seem most likely headed to confirm and reinforce that particular bit of canon.
It’s also established (in the same sentence, even) that succubus magic can override sexual orientation, so nothing that happens while Sydney is under the influence of Parfait’s lust aura can contradict this canon.
It isn’t unheard of for someone to not *realize* they’re sexual orientation was different from what they had previously believed, people can think they were a Kinsey 0 and later realize they’re more like a 1-3, for instance if they had previously misidentified their attraction as something else, like friendship. Orientation is still fixed, they just misidentified where they fall on the spectrum.
Personally I’m either a 0 or a 1, and the only reason I’m not certain is because I’m *pretty* sure I’m not attracted to other men, but I am capable of identifying which men are “attractive” (by current societal standards, anyway) about as easily as I identify which women are “attractive” (my personal preferences regarding women do tend to align with the societal standards in most ways, much to my own annoyance, as those standards are far more restrictive than I would like them to be), and I am capable of becoming aroused by the actions of a man (not even talking physical stimulation, as far as my brain is concerned erotic movement is erotic movement); I have received conflicting reports as to whether any of that counts as being some amount attracted to men so I just say I’m somewhere between a 0 and 1 but I’m not interested in exploring any attraction to men I may or may not have.
I over-share this to illustrate the point that people can be bad at identifying what is and is not attraction, and even when you put as much thought into it as I have (which some have argued is entirely too much) it isn’t impossible to have an epiphany that moves your self-assessment up or down the spectrum.
Having said all that, I agree that it feels pretty weird to ignore a character trait that is firmly established canon in favor of headcanon or shipping, I get bothered by it pretty much anywhere I encounter it, and Sydney is pretty thoroughly established as straight. I’d be fine with it if DaveB decided to change that and have Sydney have an epiphany and realize she isn’t as straight as she thought, but this almost certainly isn’t a good time for it. Plenty of prior situations that would have been better for it, and I’m sure there will be plenty more later, but I really don’t think this is a good time for it to occur if it ever is going to. I also don’t think it’s going to change, for that matter, but the possibility for DaveB to prove me wrong exists. I remember being baffled when that one actor from the Supergirl tv show was cancelled on twitter because he made a reference to the Lena/Kara fan-ship and said it wasn’t going to happen while laughing, and people called him a homophobe, but like, Kara had been confirmed to be attracted to men and had displayed no evidence of being attracted to women, beyond perceived “chemistry” (I have really good chemistry with LOADS of people I’m not sexually attracted to), so it isn’t homophobic to say a character established as straight isn’t gonna wind up in a same-sex relationship. But I digress.
> It isn’t unheard of for someone to not *realize* they’re sexual orientation was different from what they had previously believed, people can think they were a Kinsey 0 and later realize they’re more like a 1-3, for instance if they had previously misidentified their attraction as something else, like friendship. Orientation is still fixed, they just misidentified where they fall on the spectrum.
Yes, but that doesn’t matter in this case, because we’re not relying on Sydney’s self-identification. We have WoG that she’s a Kinsey 0.
Sure, Dave can change it, but that would involve a comment to the tune of “Sydney was originally straight, but I decided to change that”. It would be a retcon, not just a revelation.
It doesn’t have to be a retcon, it could be a natural progression of her character: she was straight, then she started to open up and found she is also attracted to certain females (just like she’s not attracted to all males, she won’t be attracted to all females)
> It doesn’t have to be a retcon, it could be a natural progression of her character: she was straight, then she started to open up and found she is also attracted to certain females
The WoG is clear that she isn’t attracted to females. It’s NOT “she thinks she’s straight and hasn’t found out yet”. She is actually straight, not bi in denial.
If can’t be “opening up” or “finding out more about herself”. If it’s a change, it would have to be a change of her actual sexuality, something that’s currently generally believed to be impossible.
Yes, at the time of the WoG, that is true, that doesn’t mean things can’t change
And that was an example of how things could change without it being a retcon, not something that has happened
Just like how, over time, she is more and more open to polygamy (or whatever she was planning with Mr Woof, Leon and Kronachrome)
> Yes, at the time of the WoG, that is true, that doesn’t mean things can’t change
Yes, but only because retcons can always happen.
> And that was an example of how things could change without it being a retcon
And I explained why you’re wrong about that. Because sexual orientation doesn’t change like that.
Becoming more open is a thing that can happen, but becoming more open doesn’t create attraction to women when it simply isn’t there.
I’m not sure WoG necessarily defines canon. Like, it certainly clarifies the intent of the author when they wrote the scene being referenced, but I’d argue that if that intent later changes and they can work the new intent into canon without directly contradicting the previous canon, which Sydney discovering new aspects of her sexuality she had previously not been aware of would not contradict anything actually presented in the story itself, then it isn’t a retcon since the continuity of the story is not changed retroactively.
Having said that, I don’t expect that to actually change at any point, and even if it is going to at some point, I really don’t think it will *here*, as this is kind of an icky place to put it. Far too many places that it would have made more sense have come and gone, and I fully expect more later simply because it keeps being relevant.
@Psychie: You’re right in a vacuum, but there’s also to consider that her straight has impacted scenes already – if she were repressed bi, she would react differently to superheroines in the shower.
And there is also a difference between finding to be beautiful and attractive
You can find someone be beautiful and not be attracted to them
Who can predict the aftermath of this???
Maybe Max should court martial everyone involved or just Sydney?!?
What would be the justification to court martial anyone? It was a genuine supernatural accident (and Archon failed to establish proper protection against aura effects after dealing with Vehemence), there are not any rules against fraternization within the team (Amorphous and Heatwave openly date) or having casual sex at HQ (we saw Dabbler doing it at least twice), and everyone was minding their business at a quiet time. Letting themselves be distracted by horniness and taking appropriate steps for relief outside of an energency or looming threat is hardly a CM offense. At most, I can can easily see Max chewing out everyone (esp. Syd) and dealing some hellish physical training as an informal punishment (ditto).
In Sydney’s case, she’s in a secure military facility; Did she take Parfait in through the front door and get her cleared? I don’t think so… No, she just bypassed every security procedure.
The fact Max says “Yeah, that makes more sense” to Dabbler’s realization that it’s Parfait, rather than “Why is your sister here?” indicates she’s already aware of Sydney summoning Parfait (or intending to do so), which further implies that Sydney did, in fact, clear with her higher-ups the whole “I’d like to summon Parfait into the building” thing. The whole thing’s gone ass up (and down and side-to-side and in a gyrating motion..), of course, but I don’t think she broke the rules with the summoning (heck, Gwen even helped her). It’s also possible she summoned her into a non-sensitive area and then had her go through the normal security checks between pages, although the fact they hit the showers right after the summoning implies that wasn’t the case.
Syd says she checked with Anvil when Gwen asked about permission.
I don’t think she’d lie about that.
Looking back at that page, Gwen asks if Maxima knows about it, and Sydney says she thinks so, and that Anvil definitely does. But… that doesn’t necessarily mean she asked permission – Sydney mentioned she met Parfait in Galytn, and checking that I see that Anvil was present when Parfait gave Sydney her “card.” So… I’m thinking she didn’t actually ask for permission, just went with “Anvil didn’t object when I got the ‘card,’ and she probably told Maxima, so since she didn’t tell me not to summon Parfait that means it’s fine.” That’s going to be… problematic.
If we go with the belief the lust aura is not mind control but can be resisted, then you court marshal everyone who is on duty right now. We aren’t sure who all that is, but at the very least all the guards who gave in to horny instead of raising an alarm or at least resisting the urge.
If we go with the belief the lust aura cannot be resisted, then we court marshal Sydney. Parfait is a visitor and is Sydney’s responsibility; Sydney is liable for not stopping Parfait’s aura by any means necessary before base security was compromised. Also, if the aura cannot be resisted, Parfait herself can be tried for a host of crimes.
There is also a very real chance someone will (once they calm down) destroy security camera footage. Depending on how the footage is erased, what else the footage was supposed to cover, what other regs were broken in order to access the footage to erase it, and if anything else happened during the time frame erased, this could lead to a court marshal.
The least likely court marshal possibility would be whoever is in charge of implementing security procedures. If there were countermeasures put into place to prevent such an event, possibly in response to Vehemence’s aura, and those countermeasures failed (or the implementation of them was delayed), someone could get the axe for that. This might not be “fair” at all, and would likely only occur if something critical happened and higher ups were trying to assign blame to somebody, but it could still happen.
I can see Sydney being chewed out by Max, and Parfait by Dabbler, about the …Unwisdom… of their actions.
Probably followed by some Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
And honestly… There’s nothing a court-martial can accomplish as a punishment that’s worse than what those two can come up with.
It’s code for “Sydney loves ungodly levels of spicy food, so whatever is in her lunchbox is probably super hot”
Is Parfait eating Sydney’s lunchbox? Will there video?
Right, Maxima has like, super resistance against debuff… they do affect her, but she can just right away “ignore it”
though, the porn debuff may be harder (giggity) to resist
It’s not so much that she has resistance to debuffs; That’s Dabbler.
Maxima is just so powerful that she’s still very powerful AFTER being hit with debuffs.
Yups, remember how she was still functional after even Dabbles got debuffed when they visited the Black Reliquary?
Maxima doesn’t have resistance to debuffs. She’s just so strong that strength debuffs don’t matter much to her.
She has no power that would help her ignore a horniness aura.
I like how I can *hear* the TUMP…. squeaaaak sounds in my head. And feel that humidity. Ahhh, car parking in my teens…. good times, good times.
I assume the steam is coming from the powers of whoever is in the Kiosk. Having someone with powers that can obscure vision would make for a nice line of defense for such an open space.
Unless Vahriah is in there as well, it’s more likely to just be a non-super security personnel
The powers to perspire heavily while gettin’ it on
I feel very badly for Parfait.
She’s about to have a very unfortunate conversation with Sydney or Maxima along the lines of, “We can come to your house but you can’t come to our house anymore.”
*sad chibi noises*
I can easily see Max laying down that kind of law (at least until Dabbler certifies Parf learned enough self-control) like she did with Tom but IMO Syd is too forgiving with a friend to do it on her own initiative. Esp. since it was her idea to summon Parfait and pepper their sleepover with sexy stuff.
Shouldn’t the page title be: “Security risqué”?
Beat me to it.
Well done.
I agree. I don’t even understand what DaveB was going for, if not that.
Of course it’s familiar. They must have seen the movie.
No matter how many times I see her in profile, I will also smile seeing Dabbler that way. I mean she is cute face first, but there is something about her facial profile that draws me in more.
Was expecting Dabbler to appear to do an intervention before things got too far, given the whole ‘the lust aura is just a bit rapey’ conversation held earlier in the strip.
She has literally just arrived, and we have no idea how much time has passed (well, obviously long enough for Steamy McGuard to turn the kiosk into a steam room)
The old parkay commercial- except now I’m hearing “Mother. Paaarrfaiiitt”
definitely this.
Also good thing the medals aren’t situated at the point raised. As tough as maxima is and as fast as they reacted, she’d have accidentally opened the kiosk with medal shrapnel
She can do that with her new purple glass cutters, matching pair in fact ;)
Her “glass cutters” are red, in fact they are the same shade as her lips. Unless you’re thinking they’re purple from being pinched, but I doubt her uniform is enough to do that (and while the uniform itself is purple-ish – it’s referred to as “Dress Purples” – it’s not going to be doing any glass cutting, her nipples will have to cut their way through the fabric to reach the glass to cut it.
Score one for the home team!
reminds me of the old Spike Tv channel cartoon Stripperella lol
At least didn’t call them ‘golden cutters’
Stripperella? Wasn’t that the one with Pamie Anderson?
Yep lol
That kiosk is probably over the occupancy limit. The dehumidifiers can’t keep up. Maybe… six people… and one had laid down upon the AC remote.
The simple fact that even Max had glass-cutters pop out, that no one on the base wasn’t effected. New “friends” made, all minds totally in rape mode to anything and anyone. Archon is totally defenseless. Umm… I think someone is going to be VERY pissed off at both Parfait and Sydney. Sydney should of talked to Max or Dabs or both before summoning her! Parfait should have warned Syd but she’s new to the whole bonded slave thing and didn’t consider it.
As others have remarked, the way Max and Dabs react when they realize it is Parfait and the fact Gwen aided Syd suggest that Syd did clear her summoning intentions with her higher-ups. In all likelihood she forgot to mention her sleepover plans included a watching a hentai anime marathon, ogling hot guys, shopping for sex toys, and having sex talk about the succubus bond with a young, inexperienced succubus in a bedroom. I mean, what could go wrong (or deliciously right)? As you point out, even if all involved in the event enjoyed what happened and there are no bad feelings, the fact is Archon was left with its pants down (pun intended).
Gwen isn’t military, so the idea of giving a crap about it makes sense. Plus I doubt Dabs knew, or she would of explained it better to Sydney about the “dos and don’ts” so it’s a grey area. Plus Parfait didn’t bring a potion that would of delayed it for her, so she is at fault as well. We’re just seeing what happens when a succubus is still in training and makes the “newbie’s” mistakes. Plus we see how easily Dabs could take control if she wanted to ;) A lust aura is very strong and without training it can do what we are seeing with weaker supers and regular humans.
Good lord… could you imagine her mother? Imagine a family reunion with her entire family.
A Dabbler is a serving plate of many types of cake. A Parfait is a desert made of multiple things. Want to bet mom is a Sunday? Nana Splits to her extended family.
Being part doppleganger she’s probably a twin, because Twice on Sunday.
… Has Max actually met Dabbler’s mother?
They better not get upset at Sydney and Parfait over this. Archon has been working with the Twilight council for a long time, so the idea of an aura being used to attack isn’t new to them, and Vehemence carved a line under that.
If their security measures are failing to contain an aura, then that’s a failure of their security measures. This is Archon’s failure, and it’s a good thing this will hopefully force them to confront the issue before somebody else decides to hit them with an anti-life aura or something.
That said, Sydney needs to get her force field up.
Did Dave do this entire story arc just so that he could do that zombie movie esque hand on the window?
Think “Titanic” and the car scene
And was referenced in Mass Effect 2 under the specific choices with a certain Asari NPC. I’m pretty sure it’s not the only game to reference it now- just one I actually played.
“cum amplus …”
I never thought maxima could be affected by this lust spell. There will certainly be some choice words for this when all is said and done.
I see that Dabbler’s tongue is not forked and not pierced. This is either an error, or Dabbler has slipped into her Chibi-esque form she gets when emotionally charged up; like when she last met her ‘ex’.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1044-familial-foibles/
Parfait was also there, so it may be a proximity effect of being near her. We need more research.
Well, she does have the Chibi-eyes in the last panel…
Tongue is probably curved, where the piercing and fork are resting against the back of her lower teeth, as would happen with that facial expression.