Grrl Power #1203 – Nethertemp
No, they’re not going raffle off the succubus at the comic shop. Or more accurately, raffle off a chance to have your mana capacity drained by a succubus. There’s probably some state ordinance that would make that illegal, unless someone wanted to get pedantic about laws only applying to humans specifically. Of course, if a prosecutor wanted to press charges for sex raffles against a demon, that would set precedent by the state that demons are people. I guess they could try to go for a beastiality angle, i.e. having sex with a living thing that isn’t human, but I don’t think that would fly since a demon can give consent, and also some demons might punch you in the face or worse if you tried to legally define them as livestock.
But since there is no succubus raffle, they don’t have to worry about that. I guess Parfait just has to keep her mana sensing organ tuned to sniff out when someone walks in with some mana they’re not using and also hopefully has good hygiene.
Yes, Parfait has panties on. They’re made out of the same stuff as her smoke dress and can probably be banished with a thought, but she is technically decent.
Oh, and I modeled the church that Sydney’s store took over after the Presbyterian church that my parents took me to while I was growing up and didn’t get any say on what I did with my Sunday mornings. Gun to my head I couldn’t tell you what the difference is between Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Methodists, and all of the other “Catholic Lite” flavors of Christianity there are. The point is – yes, the main floor of the comic shop is where the church services used to be held after they cleared out the pews, so there is a raised pulpit and a humongous pipe organ against the back wall. Presumably the store hires an organist on some days to come in and knock out some Iron Butterfly or Hall of the Mountain King and other songs that sound cool on an organ. The church also had offices, an indoor basketball court that you could crank the hoops up against the ceiling so you could use the area for everything from dodgeball to plays to potluck lunches, and off of that building was a two story building with a sunday school and rooms for crafts and other stuff, and looking at it on google maps now it seems there’s also a full on pre-school? It wasn’t (or isn’t, I guess I should say) a megachurch by any means, but it was in an upper-middle class neighborhood in a suburb settled by oil executives and doctors and other muckety-muck professionals, so the collection plate was fairly bursting each week.
But now in the Grrl-verse, church attendance diminished, the collection plate got lighter and lighter and Halo-Co. bought them out, and now the shop has dedicated rooms for board games and tabletop games and Warhammer and all that stuff, and probably have people on staff who DM professionally and run games, and it’s turned into a bit of a non-school day-care. Not to mention they have at least one room serving as an arcade, and another with everything you need for a LAN party, and another set up as a theater with weekly showings of Rocky Horror and a big Halloween lineup that includes Evil Dead 2 and The Thing and people can vote for other movies. So, business is good.
Tom let Parfait go assuming she would have her pick of the team, or would “siphon” a few points off Sydney, but he probably wasn’t aware of Max’s no-zonking policy. It’s not the sex she has a problem with – well, her rules might be slightly biased against Dabbler on general principal – she just doesn’t want a critical member of the team out of commission if she needs them. People can be recalled from PTO or whatever the military uses (granted this team is very different than what you’d find at a regular military base, so maybe they actually do get PTO) but if they’re insensate and drooling on Dabbler’s sexual detritus couch, they’re not going to be much use to anyone.
I haven’t forgotten about the vote incentives. The nude version of the new one is basically done. I need to do a clothed version and the mini-comic still, but it’ll still realistically be next monday before it’s ready. The reason I’m so far behind with these is my mom had a fall, and she’s at that age and condition where that’s a big deal. So the last time I went down to help my parents out, I was spending a 2-4 hour chunk of my workday visiting with her at a physical rehab hospital thing where she’s staying until she can walk on her own again. I kept up with the comic but didn’t have a lot of time for much else.
The good news is that she’s doing well. The fall happened about 3 weeks ago and she’s recovered to the point that she’s able to move around with a walker in short bursts, and she’ll probably be getting home in by the end of this week hopefully?
I didn’t want to post about it until I had better news than “my mom broke her hip.” Normally I wouldn’t post about that kind of stuff at all, as I just want to post my inane ramblings on sci-fi/fantasy tropes and leave all the personal drama out of it, but it is impacting my work schedule and I wanted to assure you guys that I’m not straight up shirking on stuff I’ve promised. Somehow I’ll figure out how to get caught up. I’m not saying the team will fight “Guy Who Sends His Enemies to the Stick Figure Dimension” for 2-4 pages will definitely happen, but I’m not saying it definitely won’t. :)
The August vote incentive is up! Yeah I know it’s late, so hopefully I’ll manage to get some bonus (read: overdue) incentives up as I attempt to catch up.
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It’s just called vacation, but yes the Military gets it, and yes it’s paid. A month a year, if you take it. If not you can sell it back, with a cap of 3 months, when you get discharged or retired, assuming you don’t get chucked out for stupidity.
So is there a lingering holy vibe from the place being a former church, and does that mildly annoy demons?
Churches get de-sanctified when they’re sold, but what if it was sanctified by, like, the pope, and then de-sanctified by a guy with atrocious latin pronunciation?
Or are Earth rituals not efficacious, since we don’t really know what we’re doing?
Succubi in the Grrlverse aren’t demons, I think. But as for actual demons, I think it’s a function of how much belief affects supernatural entities (and/or whether YHWH is an actual being around here and what his relationship is with demons – the topic is very iffy though and I wouldn’t blame Dave for not touching on it).
Anyone else remember the SG1 episode where one of the idiots-in-charge said, in the face of a Goa’uld invasion: “There’s only one god, and you ain’t it” as though that would actually have an effect?
(The SG1 writers/studio were cowards though. YHWH was obviously a Goa’uld in that universe)
They got around that by having a Goa’uld play Satan. Also, I don’t think it’s the writer’s fault: the network would never have approved them having YHWH as a villain.
Then the network were cowards.
They tried with the Ori, but c’mon.
Yeah, the Ori were pretty clearly Mormons. Or 7th-Day Adventists, or something.
Succubi are kind of demons – they were created using infernal blood, which arguably makes them artificial demons.
We know that they can be summoned like demons.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-996-dat-ass-assin/
Unless the person who did the sanctifying was some kind of wizard or super human there probably wouldn’t be anything about earth’s religious sites that would really bother a demon or any other kind of supernatural entity.
I certainly can’t remember anything in the comic that suggests there was anything that holds any power we can perceive in any human religions.
If demons are real, then some part of the other side has to be real. Just because most 21C Christians are basically socially rather than religiously Christian, doesn’t mean that those of a half century or more ago were. So it’s almost certain that there are Christian holy sites that have real celestial power invested in them.
I’m not going to search up where Dabbler did a sciency presentation on the different planes (in the sequence where we find out that Deux has a PhD in Math) but if we have infernals and celestials, and demons are real, then angels are real etc.
I mean, the very last comic featured a flashback to Parfait’s Angel-wannabee-Boyfriend, so some portion of the other side being real is a given. But that doesn’t mean that either side has any relation bar surface level to Christianity or any Abrahamic faith at all bar surface level. Christianity et all might just be someone’s cargo-cult fan-fiction about observed Angelic/Demonic beings in-universe.
Unless succubi and Angel Boy are just strange looking aliens…
“Can’t they be both?”
Per the comic, they’re both (at least, succubi are). “Alien” means they’re from a planet other than Earth, while “Demon” appears to refer to the type of mana they have access to (in this case, Infernal). Angels presumably have access to Celestial mana, but it’s unknown if they are also from another planet, or from a completely different plane of existence.
“Christianity et all might just be someone’s cargo-cult fan-fiction about observed Angelic/Demonic beings in-universe.”
As per the abrahamic Mythology, angels and devils are, in fact, originally the same beings. A fair part of them just had a revolt against “the Boss”, and were “cast out” and had their aspects …warped…
Again, going by the abrahamic Apocrypha, angels and *devils* are both essentially still the same: same origin, highly hierarchic, able to use magic/”causing miracles”, and they can be “comuned with” or even summoned through pretty exact(ing) ritual magic.
Also: angels are very much NOT the nice fluffy creatures “modern” myth portrays them as.
Quite the contrary, and the relevant lore warns about that explicitly… Even more so than dealing with “Devils”.
We also know that there have always been Earth humans with a, for humans, exceptional capacity for mana and thus magic.
And we also know for a fact that people in the Ancient Days not only practised ritual magic, but had a firm belief in it.
It’s pretty easy to see how at some stage some exceptionally gifted ancient mage-priest did figure out how to summon “Angelics”, got *their* version of the Story, and proceeded to dominate the local area using the aid of those Angelics under an Exclusivity deal.
Over time, people with actual enough mana/talent to pull this off dwindled or Disappeared ( breach of contract is , of course, pretty serious …) , and the whole thing became ritualised canon and myth.
A mere shell of the original practise, but pretty handy to keep the unwashed masses in line. Branching out into varieties according to Contemporary Opinion, as these things do over time.
This, of course, happened on occasion all over the place on Earth, giving rise to the Myffology about Demons, Devas and possibly even Gods.
All much more…chaotic and disjointed.. but essentially all “Aliens” with access to the “Infernal” and/or “Celestial” mana fields and a pencheant for Slumming, or even some youthful power trips…
The abrahamic version is simply one of a very specific subset of those alien species with an ancient Beef.
Which is “settled” *now*, but still remains on record in Earth history as part of Religion.
Damn… there’s Method behind the Madness..
That doesn’t mean we can’t do it right on accident. Humans have a huge capacity for ‘Pass the sacrimental wine and watch this!”
Probably not. Part of officially closing a church is deconsecrating the building and land. They don’t like leaving holy stuff just laying around for laymen to mess with.
Count yourself lucky. Like you, I was dragged to mandatory Presby church as a very kid (until my parents decided to stop pretending, ie they got the inheritance they’d been faking for) and then went atheist for life, but I’ve had far more firsthand exposure to Christian cults than I want over the decades. The Presbys are mild as milk compared to most of them, and nowhere near as full of self-hatred and bigotry as most. If you ever feel like you might feel like reverting to believing any of that BS, I suggest attending a few walk-in bible studies with Born Agains and it’ll cure you real quick. If you can fake sincerity you can make a personal challenge out of seeing how long it takes to get some of them going about how all Jews should be made to pay for killing JC or how the Catholic church is run by the forces of Hell. My record was three minutes back when I was forced to attend weekly groups to keep my bed in the homeless shelter.
At least Dave wouldn’t have to change Sydney’s character design if she got sent to the Stick Figure Dimension. I think that would be the same universe as Blue Milk Special and Order of the Stick.
That would be the gag: She’d look exactly the same…
In developed countries paid annual leaves is a thing , 25 days in mine, 20 in United kingdom, 20 in Germany, 10 days in Canada , 12 days in Mexico… 0 in US
And paid public holidays also 11 in mine, 10 in UK , 10 in Germany, 7 in Canada, 7 in Mexico … 0 in US
And in UN security council only US don’ have a minimum paid vacation.
China have
France have since 1936
Russia have
UK have
US haven’t
For Military in my country it’s 40 days at minimum, nuclear submarine crew had much more paid vacation
UK holiday is 28 day including public holidays (known in the UK as bank holidays). The company that you work for can (but most don’t) dictate the days that you take off for holiday. There is nothing that requires public holidays to be taken off, as long as you get the 28 days off at some point.
The UK has also had 9 public holidays this year; one additional public holiday due to the King’s coronation this year. The UK generally has 8 public holidays.
I am also unsure if the government increased the amount of holiday entitlement due to the additional public holiday, as some years they did and other years they didn’t.
Thanks I’m just an UK neighbor and EU member citizen …
I hadn’t n exact view of UK leaves.
ah the good old US a beckon of rampant corporations and corrupt politian’s screwing over the average man
I think you meant ‘beacon’?
I’m pretty sure they meant bacon.
Come on… Parfait is a succubus… They are never “decent”… Moderately risqué at best..
That REALLY depends on how one defines “decent”, IMHO she is absolutely a “decent” addition to the comic shop staff!
Not quite. Dabbler went full prude outfit once on-screen.
How can Parfait be so danged adorable like this. I want to hug and cuddle her and give her well parfaits!
And I’m sure she wants YOU to hug and cuddle her – and why stop at that?
Well, she DOES neeed to recharge, so, go for it!
Over the weekend I heard “Paint It Black” played on a pipe organ and I’d like to suggest it be added to the list of “songs that sound cool on an organ.” LOL
Inna Garda Da Vida is great on the organ
Kind of shocked the author didn’t mention that, or as it is sometimes known In the Garden of Eden.
He did, I think, using the band name (Iron Butterfly).
Yeah, hadn’t read the blurb at that time :(
Sydney would certainly insist on Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor be in the repertoire, as well as Tiptoe Through The Tulips. which was either in The Man With Two Brains or possibly one of the later Peter Sellers Pink Panther films.
Seeing as she probably can, is Syd going to ask if this is how karma works?
I would think a prosecutor would avoid the question by pressing charges against the store instead, for hosting a sex raffle.
I wonder if it would be legal in Nevada?
You know, about the vote incentives, I really don’t think most people would mind terribly if you just kinda cut your losses and skipped September and October.
Just call the next one the November Vote Initiative, and explain in the info blurb that you were so far behind that catching up with a two-month backlog of missing drawings was too impractical, and I’m sure the vast majority of us would understand.
Seconded.
Yups, skip Sept-Oct and go just with November
Or conversely, make an announcement that November and December will not have vote incentives and anyone who votes during those months will be appreciated, but not incentivized. (I would have to do this personally because I feel obligations and promises very strongly and would rather adjust something in the future rather than go back on something I promised in the past. But this is my issue and I do not hold others to it).
Officially or not, the world recently witnessed live an army of ‘what could only be described as demonic monsters’ (to quote Suzie News) trashing Mozambique’s military as part of Gaitlyn’s invasion force, including blurred pictures of Tom. Official confirmation may be lacking, media and net speculation on whether they are alien or supernatural is surely rife, but I’d say the cat of the existence of ‘demons’ is out of the bag and gone roaming. Moreover, if anything, I’d expect regular customers at a comics/gaming shop to be more aware of these issues than most of the public, if their nerd credentials are legit. If she advertises herself as a succubus, and looking like she does, they should get the picture. Besides, this is exactly the kind of shenanigans I’d expect to happen in the shop of a genuine superheroine.
Store should announce a cosplay contest.
and in keeping with tradition, Sydney would dress up as herself… and lose
Now I want a “DOCTOR WHOM” t-shirt.
Right? Need to find me a custom T-Shirt place!
I’m surprised that Max didn’t object to Sydney taking Parfait to her comic shop…
(If this was an alternate reality,Sydney would be running a head shop instead…)
You think they told Max?
Who says she doesn’t have a room dedicated to that purpose, alongside the Warhammer, LAN, and theater rooms he specified?
I think panel 5 to 7 show Dabbler’s suggestion, not an actual event.
It’s well known now that young, first-bound succubi are “accident-prone”.
If this arc means Parfeit got over it and now has good control of her powers, then yes, go for it! Parfait is nice and cute and all…
If Parfait is still having “accidents”, the comic store would have to put up some “18+” and “adults only” signs or something like that. (I have my own misgivings about Love Potion stories, but others may go for it)
If the comic store is open to the general public it would be a disaster if Parfait had another “Oopsie…” while she is there. Most customers will be college age or older. But at any given time there will be teenagers in various stages of develeopment/maturity. And you will have the occasional pre-teen or younger child, too… (It’s called “general public” for a reason ,-))
How would Dabbles know how Joel felt working with Sydney for four years? No, this is real
Anyone not crazy, no matter how horny, wears underwear while wearing a skirt.
You’d need to be truly reckless to just let whatever the wind blows, or surface you sit on, hit your unmentionables with 0 filter.
:P
Looks at Scots…
(Yes, a kilt is a skirt)
“And just because I wear a skirt don’t think I’m fucking gay!” – The Evil Scotsman
Scots have always worn underwear beneath their kilts, the whole “regimental” nonsense is exactly that.
Am Scottish, can confirm you’re talking shite.
A kilt is NOT a skirt.
It’s a dress.
It’s nearly a toga.
You’re thinking the Great Kilt (which might still be technically illegal in Scotland).
I’m thinking the Dress Kilt (which is the one that scots actually wear).
At least Parf wears panties ;)
Of course she does…Scanty panties are sexier than no panties. Except on Scotsmen…that would be weird.
cue a confusing number of tourists and a tour bus called the “Succu-Bus” providing rides to visit the interesting new employee
Why are the customers so tiny?
Wouldn’t even an ex-church be uncomfortable for a demon to be in?
Maybe if she was a demon, or that there were actual demons running around when the church was consecrated and the church mucky-muckies had spells that actually worked against them
Why would you think a church is anything more than a building? Unless they have extreme claustrophobia…
This kind of thing really depends on the setting. There’s at least one fiction series where, unknown to most humans, churches are among the MOST susceptible places to ‘demonic’ incursion, because we more frequently focus our thoughts on matters of good and evil there…
Worse, even…
Just as succubi get attracted to ( lingering) carnal emotions, churches have the tendency to “collect” the residual emotions of the people going there.
Which *isn’t* piety very much, but rather fear, (self)loathing, desperation, pettyness, even hatred.
If there’s such a thing as an Infernal running on negative emotions the most likely place you’d find them would be in Church, especially the pulpit-pounding hell-and-damnation varieties. Quite possibly even *be* the priest, or “A Respected member of the Community”.
Parfaits (ex?)-friend is an angel. So she should be pretty resistant to “holy”.
It would be normal for a church to be deconsecrated before releasing it to be used for general secular purposes. That would make it be not special at all from the perspective of anything infernal.
Panel 5, the poster next to the “Boing”…I had been thinking that was Conan then I took a closer look.
Is that from our pop culture or part of grrlverse. I can’t identify but I think I want to…
Seems to be a MidJourney generated image “Breaking the chains, Girl in Boris Vallejo style”
The others, from left to right:
– Power Girl, the famous cover variant of JSA Classified Vol 1 #1 (2005), by Adam Hughes
– No idea.
– Green Lantern and Star Sapphire, the cover of Green Lantern Vol4 #18 (2004), by Moose Baumann
Wait, succubi drain your capacity to use mana? … also if dabbler gets supercharged by feeding on supers, does that mean they all have great aptitude for mana capacity?
No, people have an innate ability to use mana (or at least store it?) so it’s safe to drain them of it (like what the vampires do at bloodbanks)
“Oops, I’ve said too much. Smithers, use the amnesia ray.”
“You mean the revolver, sir?”
“Precisely. Be sure to wipe your own memory clear when you’re finished.”
They are talking about how much she can hold, not how much mana she has. It’s along the lines of working out, each time you spend effort in the gym, you gain a small amount, it’s tiny, but overtime you can notice. And lets face it. Just getting turned on is enough to put out a small amount of energy, all she has to do is play the helpful, bubbly store clerk in cosplay, and make her gains just by the hordes of hopeful teen-aged boys. Sydney’s place will fill up face, just by word of mouth! “Hey guys! head over to the comic book store, they got a ditsy clerk there cosplaying today, and she is HOT!!! (man do I feel tired…)”
Maybe you should just skip a few months with the Vote incentive?
You are currently 3 months behind. No way you are catching up.
Just focus on your mom. Then work on the Incentive for December – January.
Go for the comics, stay for the cleavage enjoyment.
I remember this one comic shop YEARS ago (they repurposed a bunch of buildings in that section so it went bye bye after being there for longer than I was alive at the time) and one of the women working there… well, I’m pretty sure many of the customers were only there because of the K-cups resting on the counter.
A local chain of comic book stores here used to prefer hiring women as staff. It kept customers in the store longer.
To the stores’ credit, they did go out of their way to hire women who were knowledgeable about comics, collectibles, and collectible card games rather than only for their looks.
The pipe organ needs a sign : NO STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
Fine, ‘Highway to Hell’ it is
play both, melded together, and call it ‘Long Distance Pizza Delivery’
The fact that there is a stairway to heaven but a highway to hell shows the anticipated levels of traffic.
BAdum TISH!
and the ease of travel
Okay Parfait, show me the ‘special stuff” in the back room.
All comic shops have their that back room, I know ‘cause I used to own one.
Stick dimension its the best dimension.
Dave’s description of a church building in a middle class or upper middle class neighborhood is pretty spot on, at least in North Central Texas. The organ would be a bit of an exception unless somebody in the church with big money wanted one. It happens. Child care isn’t cheap and we took advantage of both the Methodists and the Presbyterians for their preschool daycare. I think we came out on the better side of that deal as my son was hyperactive and the kid who askes uncomfortable questions. As for churches that have ancillary structures my favorites are the “Cowboy Churches” that have their own attached riding arenas.
Wait, so succubi drain people’s max mana capacity? Does the cap increase naturally overtime or are they permanently less magical? Can they increase it back or beyond?
no, succubi drain their mana, which increases their OWN mana capacity.
“Does one of your orbs erase memories?”
“Not that I recall…”
Get well soon Dave’s Mom!
I want a personal shopping succubus.
At last check Presbyterians aren’t “Catholic Lite” and will take severe offense at any suggestion they were. They’re a Calvinist sect, and part of their beliefs is that the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church is the right hand of The Devil.
By contrast, the Lutherans _are_ a Catholic-derived denomination, with a very specific set of differences of practice, based on a combination of using a corrected set of translations from Hebrew and Aramaic into Greek and from there into Latin and German (the official Roman Catholic version at least used to have a horrific number of errors in that first step, which were used extensively to mispresent and vilify Jews), and eschewing a number of practices that the Catholic Church adopted over the centuries which Martin Luther expressly called into question as nonsensical or hypocritical.
Episcopal is functionally Anglican without the deference to the British Crown; it’s the US offshoot in the aftermath of the American Revolution of the 1770s. Methodists appear to be another offshoot of Anglican, one of several to pop up over the years. Someone versed more in comparative religion rather than history would have to tell you the differences between Methodist, Puritan, Separatist, etc., and their various offshoots-in-turn.
I didn’t think the Presbyterians were old enough to be pre-pope?
Are they from back when France and Germany both had their own popes?
I would imagine that… at a comic shop, even with the new public knowledge of aliens being real, Sydney could pass it off as alien-technology shape-shifting cosplay, that Parfait is indeed an alien but playing the part of a ditz and ‘dressed’ as a succubus.
Is that Abby Sciuto among the customers?
Waitwaitwait, mana CAPACITY?? They don’t just refill their batteries, every time a succubi absorbs mana, they also increase their maximum mana storage?
…How are Succubi not the most broken beings in the universe??
It’s no different than body-building, IF you eat right and work out regularly, you gain muscle mass and strength. Each day you work out you gain a small amount, but if you eat junk food or skip, you’ll lose the slight gain you had. It must be the same for succubi, the more they gain over the limit, the greater their limit becomes. Dabbler made a comment like that when they were fighting Kevin, her limit is so high that if she was fully powered up, not even Max could take her down. That would be a fight I’d rather not be close enough to watch!
I think Dabbler’s regular capacity is much less than what that comment implies. Apparently having sex with one guy is enough to fill her back up after a large battle.
I imagine after the orgy equivalent of the parking lot battle, she would be overcharged and unable to hold onto the power for long, if quite strong while it lasted. But that means she’d have to set up an orgy right before a big fight, whereas Malumi, who are actually considered overpowered, can just have a smaller fight before the big fight, and are also gaining while fighting.
“…How are Succubi not the most broken beings in the universe??”
They are.
Near-unbreakable personal illusion/disguise, resists mind control as coming-of-age test, uses mind control magic as easily as we walk…
I guess the only reason they haven’t conquered the universe is because they’re too busy having fun.
Why would they bother conquering the universe? Which of their needs or desires wouldn’t getting met as it is? I don’t think they have any motivation to do so. They’d have to run things, instead of just benefit from other people doing so.
That too.
They will also be masters (mistresses?) of running things as “the president’s wife.” All the fun and power, none of the bopring bits.
Well, first, we don’t know how much one point of mana is.
Second, it’s entirely logical that as mana capacity increases, each additional point costs more and more.
Three, we know that the power of mana does not last as long as super-powers, by Thothagoth’s talk in Africa (Battle mages with deeper mana pools).
So, having a ton of mana may sound nice, but it may turn out that without an easy way to increase mana capacity you’re horribly, pitifully weak because the pool needs to be absolutely huge.
Diminishing returns is likely true, given that DaveB imagines Dabbler to have only 4 times more than Parfait after 200 years.
“If Dabbler has, let’s say, 200 mana, Tom has around 300 (Dabbler spends as much time on tech and gizmos as developing her magic) and Parfait has like… 50?” https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1193-kiss-monsters-gonna-get-ya/
” I guess they could try to go for a beastiality angle, i.e. having sex with a living thing that isn’t human, but I don’t think that would fly since a demon can give consent, and also some demons might punch you in the face or worse if you tried to legally define them as livestock.”
Also, the legal definition for bestiaility is “unnatural carnal copulation with an animal” – not “sex with a living thing that isn’t human” – so sex with a succubus would not considered bestiality unless they make a legal definition in the federal code to define demons and succubi, etc as animals, or they try to argue that succubi are not legally sapient beings (see below). Since Dabbler has already been recognized as a U.S. citizen (not sure how she managed that since it would have involved fraud on the citizenship papers), if the citizenship is valid, then the United States has already legally recognized succubi as sapient in order for her to be a naturalized citizen.
And before someone argues that man is an animal, so sex with humans would be considered bestiality under the law, the legal definition for animals are “all vertebrate and invertebrate species, including but not limited to man and other mammals, birds, fish, and shellfish” (7 USC sec 136(d)) BUT…. for legal purposes, if an animal is sapient it is not bestiality (of which only humans are definitively sapient as far as the law is concerned – although scientifically, there are animals which might straddle the line of sapience, but not for legal purposes).
Given the normal method of reproduction for many forms of sea life(spray and pray) one should not masturbate into the ocean for fear of getting charged with beastiality, among other things…
That would not be unnatural carnal copulation though. :) Just weird. :)
I’m a bard so I am having trouble understanding this. Copulation is one of the strategies I consider for every Random Encounter, naturally. You should have seen the me when I fought a dragon.
Truly sir you live up to your name.
Spank you very much.
Best wishes to your mother! I just got out of rehab from having a fall myself. Simplifying I used to be an endurance athlete (100 miles a day on my bicycle was a normal day, 120 mile round trip to have lunch with my girlfriend in a nursing home was a normal Saturday) and my normal rest pulse was low 50s to high 40s and sometimes dropped to low 40s when I meditated. Well I had a low BP incident and a low pulse incident at the same time which caused a fall incident of 3 days in hospital followed by 10 days in rehab.
I’m mostly back to right angles to reality now (EET joke) but I still need to be careful.
This seems like the perfect part-time gig for Partfait, actually.
She get’s a chance to do some field study, feed off the obnoxious horny customers, learn about humans in a controlled environment (and with a responsible supervisor, in Joel), and still hang out with her new friend, and likely spend time with her sister. And we know she’ll help drive sales.
Olivia might get jealous-ish, mebbe? I dunno if she’s sensitive about being the prettiest girl at the air field.
…whatever! I vote for Parfait joining the comic shop crew!
It does make sense for Parfait to join the comic shop staff at least occasionally. The customer demographic leans heavily to males with a lot of accumulated sexual urges and an appreciation for bouncy, scantily clad females such as Parfait; a succubus could probably get by just metaphorically filter-feeding from all the ambient lust and cleavage gazing.
My thought exactly, if intent and mind is enough she should be filled up in minutes