Grrl Power #1217 – It’s exactly what it sounds like
Merry Xmas if you partake, and happy whatever else if you don’t.
I think the idea of a tantric stock exchange is pretty funny, like somehow a bunch of demons have stock in how many boners there are on a given day, or how many 1st – 4th base makeout sessions are realized, and stuff like that. I’m not sure what the inherent value of that kind of thing would be, unless, like Lulu’s family, there are a lot of devices out there which can capture some of the free-ranged tantric energy in the universe. If there was, it seems like the owners of such devices could amass a lot of power.
Even if the mechanism of something like a tantric stock exchange is a little suspect, you can be sure that the succubus version of Las Vegas takes bets on how many people are doing it in their hotels. They can monitor that sort of stuff. And yeah, it’s a massive violation of privacy, but you might imagine there are certain benefits to staying at a resort owned and operated by a coven of succubi. Like, the food and drink and swimming pools are all 1% love potion. Well, not love potion, exactly. Boner tincture or whatever. Plus all the activities available. Topless beaches, topless brunch, bottomless ice skating, that sort of thing. And the whole resort is covered with sigils allowing the coven to gather a percentage of the tantric energy released without draining their guests to the point that they can’t participate in naked hurdles or the naked-whip-cream-making-and-then-using-class the next day.
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Ok, I’ll grant that as far as succubus lord drops go, that one was pretty fun. Just a fun little time. I also think a tantric stock market is pretty funny.
*lore. I had to get up at 5:30, I’m cutting myself slack on the typos
“succubus lord drops” would be Thothogoth doing a slut drop.
Wang computers stock. It has it’s ups and downs.
Liquor Quix energy additive
Frenching Toast – The better way to get up in the morning
Hardies (actual diner)
(Wang was a real stock at one point – they sold computer PCs : an ideal place to collect a little bit of energy)
My husband earned his computer skills on one of those. – The former one, that is.
Don’t remind me, those computers we’re a nightmare to program on during the 80’s
Don’t forget Blow, the energy “drink.” (I wonder if it’s still around?)
And BJ’s, the warehouse store
And BJ’s, the restaurant
sure, it’s now known as Bang, though
Bang is another good one, however I couldn’t find any evidence that Bang and Blow are one in the same.
Bang is made by Vital Pharmaceuticals, which is now owned by Monster Beverage Corp., [1] while Blow is associated with a guy name Logan Gola, whom news sites specifically and exclusively label “Blow’s founder.” [2] I can’t find any evidence that Gola has any association with Vital Pharmaceuticals.
[1]: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230703372090/en/Monster-Enters-into-Asset-Purchase-Agreement-with-Vital-Pharmaceuticals
[2]: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/OnCall/story?id=4360607&page=1
(Side note: How the heck do people do inline links in comment sections like this?)
What I *can* say is that trying to find a link between Blow and Bang pulls up some rather interestingly-titles XVideos links…
> (Side note: How the heck do people do inline links in comment sections like this?)
There’s a small amount of http formatting that the parser doesn’t eat. url tags are one of them.
Ooh, neat! Thanks!
Sydney!
Stop getting distracted and just open that can-of-whoop-ass.
She’s trying be a responsible Law Enforcement Occifer, by not starting shit they can’t finish
A Tantric Stock Exchange makes it sound like Succubi that absorb excess Tantric Energy can sell it on, and that families of Succubi can sell so much it’s become commercialised with it’s own companies and exchange system.
Tantric mana batteries have already been established as a thing that exists.
Just be careful when it comes to flooding the market, and market saturation.
On the other hand, it is a product where customer satisfaction is guaranteed. As is producer satisfaction.
It’s a very…liquid…market.
yes but the profits tend to be sticky.
Competition is stiff.
Pun detection senses… tingling.
Send out the ninjas.
Ninja sense … tingling.
Just be careful with market saturation and flooding the market. You might end up in a sticky situation.
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It was hinted at back in the way back. Where adolescent succubus need to have things with Vitamin D
Has it been explained why everyone is covered with ivy scrolling?
Yes.
They are under a tree and it is casting leafy shade.
Calling it now: Lulu either has no hands, or they are sooo weird she doesn’t let anyone see them (or… she has a mundane reason why she has not taken them out of her jacket pockets this whole time)
Hate to disappoint, but page #1213 shows her pointing and tapping on her glasses.
Spoil sport :P
Also in the flashback last comic
“Guesticules on the breakaway, he’s got an empty net, he shoots, aaaaannnd…..
HE MISSES ENTIRELY!!” ;-D
More than likely, Aster told her to stand that way, and she has to obey him.
Brelx is Lulu’s master, not Aster.
Sydney needs to be careful. We already know that two members of this high-school brat pack have immensely rich and powerful parents. It is quite possible that the rest of them fall into this same general category. They might well be carrying the latest in super high-tech weapons and defenses, even if they have not yet chosen to flaunt it.
(PS: I kind of like the shadows, so I will overlook the fact that the sun does not actually work this way. Not unless it has suddenly become something more like a radiant point source, or it is being reflected off some kind of shiny, collimating surface.)
Yes, and one of them is Besties with Sydney
just a piece of artistic advice, you might want to soften and fade the leaf shading a little to make it a little less jarring on the characters because it looks like Sydney has a facial tattoo and shirt patterns or got soil splattered on her.
I really like how the Baldur’s Gate 3 dice roll has crept into so many things now.
So, this “succ-off” – guessing Lulu x Parfait? (Yes I used ‘x’ instead of ‘vs’, and you all know why), first to O loses? Or do succubi have a more nuanced method of competing?
That seems like a really bad idea. Parfait is currently powered up from having fun with a super, and is bonded to an interstellar warlord. Lulu is by all accounts weaker.
Did you *read* today’s comic?
It seems like a massive, MASSIVE oversight if Lulu’s master can just say, “Give me/liquidate all your family’s shares on the stock market” and then she can do that. She is, essentially, a teenager. She might get a handsome allowance because her family is rich, but I really do not believe she has the keys to the proverbial vault.
Probably not that OP, but I imagine the reason Lulu’s keeping her hands on her pockets is to hide the several rings and bracelets she’s wearing, each of them a tantric energy battery. They’re expensive, yes, but her family is Big Money.
Please, the correct punctuation is slash. Just remember Strunk & White refers to their collaboration on grammar, and Strunk/White to the fanfic romantic match.
Sydney: WAIT!! Don’t I get to add a stat bonus to my roll?
DaveB (as GM): Sure, you can add your Wisdom bonus.
Sydney: *blinks* never mind.
Sydney has high Wis, but seldom uses it outside of combat, because she’s Sydney. ADHD superpowers.
Eh, high Int, low Wis, but that’s open to interpretation, YMMV.
Sydney’s ADHD (homebrew): When making a Wis check, roll a d4. On a 2 or higher, add your Int modifier to your roll. On a 1, subtract it instead.
That would explain the failed roll here.
At some point in the future, Sydney is going to suddenly jolt and realize the ‘weird coincidence’. At a point where it would be both ‘funniest’ and long after the last time she’s seen Lulu.
Either that or be defeated instantly by her without a blow exchanged. She doesn’t have her shield up yet and auras and magic are highly likely.
Expecting a panel of her lying on the floor clutching her crotch basically out of nowhere.
Happy Yule.!
Also, if Lulu’s family doesn’t have that device hooked up to their advertising, they’re missing out. Women’s clothing ads have been emergency spank material since the dawn of publishing. And with online ads, well, it’s a rich vein.
SPEAKING OF… anybody notice their ads on the page shift a touch… HA…
Uh… um….
There are fights and then there are FIGHTS…
Syd? RUN!!!!!!
If you don’t celebrate xmas, today is Monday.
This seems to be the only holiday that people who observe it apologize for doing so.
Hiding behind ‘inclusiveness’ to demean your own practices is what’s offensive about the day.
Disclaimer: I’m not christian, but I’m not going to burn your tree down or interfere with your shopping trip.
“This seems to be the only holiday that people who observe it apologize for doing so.”
Well there’s always National Apology Day (February 13th).
I feel that National Apology Day should be February 15th for all those significant others that forgot Valentines day.
could you get away with saying ‘sorry, I don’t celebrate that one’?
Someone will always take offense and someone will always apologize for it. Not necessarily the same people.
I am not going to apologize for the few happy moments I have had in my life. If that bothers people? Tough shit. I am sick and tired of being told that I HAVE to be unhappy because random people on TV or the internet demand I be.
Christmas was intended as a good thing, so everyone and anyone have to make it bad, otherwise SOMEONE might be happy and we cannot allow that in the modern world. If someone is happy, they may not be paying attention to the self entitled special people and that might diminish the hate and fear that said self entitled special people rely on to keep the masses of lesser being and slaves that they consider ‘theirs’ in line. That must not happen or the self entitled special people might wind up less than special or less than alive in some cases.
So, by all means. keep spreading the hate and fear. That cannot POSSIBLY backfire on you any more than it did Robespierre, now can it?
*smirk* Don’t lose your head now.
> Christmas was intended as a good thing
Actually, Christmas was because no-one the Christians were conquering was willing to stop their “Winter is really miserable, lets have a party to cheer everyone up” parties, so did their usual “hey, you’re celebrating our thing” thing.
(Hogmanay is the better party anyway)
Of course, peace on Earth is NEVER a good thing when you can spread hate and fear. Got it.
One tin soldier rides away.
Not really sure Christians or Christmas have done much peace spreading…
The original Christians believed Peace = Never Make War, Ever. Then it spread to the Romans, who believe Peace = No One Is Fighting Because Everyone Who Disagrees Is Dead.
Unless my memory is playing tricks one of the apostles canonically cut the ear off somebody during Jesus’ final days
> Of course, peace on Earth is NEVER a good thing when you can spread hate and fear.
That’s the christian motto, isn’t it?
The real one, not the one they tell people.
I think you should give some consideration to the idea that most of these people telling you that you have to be unhappy are just figments of your imagination.
You talk in incoherent riddles, and act like the hounds are at your door, your numerous enemies ready to break in at a moment’s notice and take everything from you. You constantly seem on edge, about to have a complete mental breakdown.
Maybe just take a few deep breaths, and contemplate that maybe you’re not as alone as you feel, and not everyone is out to get you.
I’m an atheist, and I still celebrate christmas.
I think it’s actually fairly common for people to celebrate christmas a a cultural holiday removed from its religious roots.
Well, spreading hate and fear are far better for emotional manipulation than understanding, peace or love so that is what the masses have been taught to do. Short term profit is always better than long term strategy nowadays too.
It is always a bit funny to me, coming from an Army family, that I am far more peaceful than so many others who have no idea what war really is. My family always tried to celebrate Christmas and it was never about the gifts, the food or the petty rivalries that sprang up around so many of us. It was us trying to make a little dent in the madness of the world. Remembering how fragile human lives actually are no matter how many these days think they are immortal if they scream slogans loudly enough or con enough people into thinking their way of thinking is the only way of thinking.
I am so very grateful to my grandparents for making me come to eat Christmas dinner with everyone even though I often despised my sisters and wanted nothing more than to get away form their emotional crap. Now, I am older and see what they wanted. Not to control me, like so many others do in this day and age. Not to demand my worship, like so many who parade across TV screens every day now do. Not even to make me think the way they did, like so many now.
No. They wanted me to understand how fragile life is because they knew exactly how fragile it was, growing up int he Great Depression as they had, seeing WWII in all its horror as they had. They didn’t want to me to merely survive. They wanted me to live. I failed for a long time and now? Maybe, I can succeed a bit.
Christmas is like all things human. It is what you make of it. Good, bad or indifferent. I choose to make it something good, no matter how many across the internet demand I stop, make it bad, wrong and evil.
Why?
Because I know what is coming and I have the sense and sanity to be afraid. I cling to what little good I still see in the world, because I KNOW it will vanish. There is no short term profit in ‘good’, therefore, it must die on the altars and crosses of greed and hate. The only question is how many, if any, of us will survive the madness. I won’t. I know this and can even accept it. Taking me down will cost a lot more than the shortsighted fools think though.
To be fair Christmas is also acknowledged as a secular holiday, at least in modern practice, in addition to being a religious one.
Which is why the U.S. government, recognizing the day as a federal holiday, basically acknowledges certain secular aspects of modern Christmas practices. I actually know an unusual amount of Buddhists who celebrate Christmas (at least the more secular parts – christmas trees, wreaths, santa , presents in stockings, presents in general, etc.
Addendum – Modern Santa is basically an invention of poet Clement Clark Moore and cartoonist Thomas Nast from the mid-1800s – although a lot of people mistakenly think that modern Santa was invented by Coca Cola or Macy’s. Very secular concepts which tied into the religious holiday.
Coca Cola are responsible for the red and white suit becoming the *only* thing he wears. Before then he dressed in a variety of blacks, browns and greens as well.
Which is appropriate for an aspect of Odin.
Santa Claus is an insanely commercialized secularized saint. So many myths and legends all rolled into one image.
Thing is, modern day America in general and the GOP in particular won’t like him because he was supposed to be about ‘nice’. About ‘love’. About MORE than making money. Bad. Wrong. EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kinda funny. Odin was always pragmatic, always playing the angles, manipulating people for his own uses. So, why would an agent of his (or him depending on the myth) act in such a way? Giving out gifts of all things when he could simply slap slave chains on people like so many modern US politicians seem to want to do?
Answer: He was smarter than they can ever hope to be and long term strategy was kind of his thing.
> If you don’t celebrate xmas, today is Monday.
> This seems to be the only holiday that people who observe it apologize for doing so.
> Hiding behind ‘inclusiveness’ to demean your own practices is what’s offensive about the day.
> Disclaimer: I’m not christian, but I’m not going to burn your tree down or interfere with your shopping trip.
I’m guessing you’re a Republican, right? I have good news! There is no war on Christmas and if anyone has ever said “Yes, I celebrate Christmas, sorry for that” then I sure haven’t met them, or seen any evidence of their existence.
Something like 2/3 of Americans identify as Christian. Christmas is a federal holiday. Most big-box stores have yards and yards of aisle space devoted to Christmas-related stuff (candy, wrapping paper, etc, depending on the store). The whole “they are coming for your Christmas tree” thing is a myth, made up by Fox news and a handful of conservative pundits to scare their base. Don’t worry, Christians are still firmly in charge of everything in this country.
I really love how the Baldur’s Gate 3 dice rolls have been showing up in so many other things.
That’s just a generic D20 throw. It could be any TTRPG that uses a D20.
The dice roll is generic, the way it’s presented might be coming direct from Balder’s Gate 3 (I haven’t played it)
Having established that Lulu comes from an elite succubus/demon background, and she seems smarter than her master, one wonders how and why she got bonded to a loser like Brelx, who in all evidence got his peak in high school. I can hypothesize that it was an act of rebellion against her rich and powerful family, she got charmed by his bad boy/jock act, and she got trapped in the succubus equivalent of marrying after dropping out of high school, before she had learned how to say to a master.
Brelx might be a dumbass, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t come from an influential family himself.
If their home realm is anything like ours, it is actually MORE likely! :-)
Lululemeriel’s hair reminds me of Lum Invader’s “true” hair color from the comics.
It was originally iridescent and constantly changing in rainbow hues, but it was later retconned to be a cyan color because rainbow hair was a real bear to animate when they made the anime.
It’s a bit unnerving how cocky Sydney is without having grabbed her shield.
Does she have some kind of secret technique we don’t know of that would protect her from a sudden superpowered jab to the throat and Brelx having a gore-covered Invincible-style “I thought you were STRONGER?!” panic attack before her reflex is anywhere near touching any of her orbs? Especially after being so traumatized that she sleeps with her orbs on her hands and her reflexes are so very unfortunately human in limitation?
If this is how we find out that she had an off-screen level-up and actually did the smart thing of taking the shield passive, I will be both annoyed and relieved.
This is a valid take. She should really have her shield up.
Or at least keep her distance. Getting right up in his face and poking him in the nose like this is suicidally stupid – if he loses it and takes a swing at her, she won’t be able to defend and given that his biceps is bigger than her waist, she risks serious injury.
It doesn’t even have to be a real attack: If he just slaps her hand away in annoyance, she could easily end up with a broken arm.
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Sydney might be missunderstanding the situation here.
Lulu will be forced to fight on Brelx side. Being collared by him.
And she might well be the strongest enemy there, probably even in excess of Dabblers magic.
Sydney must be waiting on a chance to out Kamehameha this guy.
If he begs confusion, she’ll give him 5 years to bone up. It will be tested.
He can buy starter materials in the store.
Suddenly Sydney appears to be channeling a Khajit merchant.
making profit from ones enemies. that’s an American tradition. get the communists so hooked on rope they will forget how to make it themselves.
And then we forgot our own lesson, and are being schooled by the Chinese.
Who make ALL our rope, for FAR less than we can manufacture, or even maintain, it ourselves.
Bottomless ice skating? What if they fall down? The HORROR.
Sydney should be careful. A suck off has been proposed; two succubi are involved and Sydney is suggesting but spanking.
Hello, Fire monkey forge? can I order a paddle? there’s going to be some butt spanking…. no no antlers. holes to let the meat through.
I cracked a smile when I read fire monkey forge.
So, Merry XXXmas…?
The betting in the Succubus Las Vegas wouldn’t necessarily be that major of a privacy invasion so long as it’s just a sliding spectrum., not a direct count. So you couldn’t bet on if the people in room 204 are getting down, but you could bet on what percentage of the hotel or how many total times.
Sort of like how some places will drug test the sewer water, not to get any single person in trouble, but to have a general idea of how much cocaine the whole neighborhood is doing.
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Merry Christmas from Australia
Wash you hands, Syds! You dont know where that nose has been!
Skirts are up.
Pants are down.
Underwear remains unchanged.
Sydney: Another thing I have is teamwork. [ Looks upward at a descending shadow ] Hello Major, Achilles, Krona, Dabbler. [ Back to the demonic collective ] I know, you guys can work as a team too, but this puts things sooooo in my favour.
Major Hiro: I was told you had some trouble here. Is all there is?
Lulu: I could go over there and … distract that big guy.
Aster: No, stay here.
Lulu: Phooey!
Yeah, that’s a valid take on things. Sydney doesn’t exactly have a secret ID and getting all her friends killed or kidnapped would hurt her efficiency.
So I’d expect ARC monitors the security cameras at her shop just so they know when to send out a team.
Well this does open up another possible reason for the “I can’t disobey him” repetition.
If a succ-off is something where the 2 succubi compete I think Brelx has pre-planned it and Lulu might not want to do it (possibly because she respects Parfait’s right to choose whether she agrees with the choice or not)
Now look who’s playing Baldurs Gate 3 here ..
I think on some level…Brelx likes Sydney. O.o! Wouldn’t that be something.
I hope you all had a great Christmas yesterday…Did you get what you wanted? If not,hopefully most of you will have birthdays coming up…
My birthday was the 18th, actually. But Christmas was great! My sister gave me climbing chalk, a chalk bag, a ‘biner, and finger tape. Super thoughtful, especially since I am just about out of chalk.
I hope your was good too. Did *you* get what you wanted?
Happy Holidays to all my fellow GrrlVerse fans.
Is anybody else curious as to why Lulu has not taken her hands out of her pockets once since she appeared? She’s kept her hands in her pockets for a rather prolonged period of comic frames at this point.
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HO. Lulu is, I think, subtly letting slip that she has access to a whole lot of tantric power on demand for this little power play. Perhaps clutching it in those pockets?… And Sydney not realizing Lulu deliberately let slip some important information about any possible duel.
I wonder whether this qualifies as a low roll on an Intimidation check. I could see a GM telling Sydney’s player that the 3 they just rolled means “you were in the middle of telling them you could easily take all of them at once”
“Which I could, that’s not a bluff”
“Which you could, As Far As You Know, but then you got distracted mid-threat by Lulu’s yoga pants.”
“…Yeah, that tracks.”