Grrl Power #375 – Intergalactic waitress of mystery?
Of course it’s almost immediately after Zephan has his revelation that Sydney starts to discover something is up. I guess that sort of thing could happen all the time in the real world, it’s only because we’re third party observers that we’re aware of the serendipity of the timing. So for those of you who guessed it would have something to do with her truesight, you get a know prize!
Now that Sydney is cluing in on something, she has to figure out what it is. I shall refrain from my own pseudo speculation as it would likely all be red-herrings anyway. At least she didn’t try and hit Jeanie with a chair.
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Wait, Sydney just uncovered a Super? Or maybe someone not of this earth? o_O
Out of this world!
She certainly is. Rawr.
Well Dabbler seemed to think that Humans did not come in green.
I know that you’re referring to what Dabbler pulled out of the General’s mind to use as a Glamour image at the time, but why would she have a problem with the idea that some women just might be green? After all, Dabbler already knows about one woman who’s gold with purple hair…
Ok, maybe Dabbler might not have a problem, per se, about it. To her, it might be a bit surprising to be seeing the wide variety available to skin color. After all, even normal, non-super, non-alien pure strain humans displays a pretty wide variety of colors.
If I remember the scene right she said that she didn’t know Earth had green women and then started touching herself. So I take it she was rather surprised.
Aliens are among us!
And they deliver food. Neat.
well zaphon was right about one thing this is definitely way above sydney’s pay grade
That WOULD explain a great deal.
It also does explain that guy at the Grand Canyon.
And the Grand Canyon itself.
“Dennis Rodman is an alien? That’s not much of a surprise. Not a very good disguise.”
As quoted from the end of the movie “MIB”
;)
Just so long as her most important book is not “How to Serve Humans.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_%28The_Twilight_Zone%29
Jeanie: Sydney, I heard you were a vegetarian so I added a side serving of Soylent, er, soy sauce.
Dangit. Beat me to it.
It explains their fascination with cow mutilation and crop circles. They probably just have different cooking methods.
But what about their fascination with anal probes, then? o.O
Anal cocking
They study Earth broadcasts, but get the details a bit mixed up. They have learnt that thermometers must be used to monitor cooking temperatures. But, when they check how you do this, they find that you have a choice of oral or anal thermometers. Clearly the oral ones would interfere with eating, hence the option they chose.
You mean meat thermometers?
Every time I read about anal probes, I remember this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU6gPaQrQrQ (From the movie Paul)
And yes the temptation to link goatse was really strong
I know that was for the sake of humor, but aliens really can learn a lot from an @$$.
Even Earthly Anthropology can learn all sorts of information about someone’s diet (which includes indigenous flora & fauna) & specific nutritional needs by examining corproliths. So it seems reasonable that aliens can learn a lot about humans by examining…well, corproliths in their natural situation…
Supposedly, the President cannot use public restrooms when traveling abroad, but must use private self-contained facilities, in case any enemies may hide in sewers and steal his poop to study it and learn his diet and general health…
I think it has more to do with old superstitions about how magic can be used against someone if they have things like fingernail clippings, a few strands of hair, etc. In the Grrl Power world, magic really does work & that would be a bigger motivator to steal some $#|+
Even in our “real” world, knowing what the President’s diet & health are like would be of little use, unless those enemies had a way of influencing their way through the security about everything the President does. More likely, the President has to use private facilities that have been security checked already, to prevent some wacko genius from using the sewers to make a more direct attack.
Don’t know if flushing a flashbang counts as being a genius. If it does there were a few of those around when I was in the military.
And while it might not kill or even wound you if you’re lucky you do not want to be in any of the buildings restrooms when that grenade goes off.
A flushed flashbang is something that I don’t consider to be inspired…Just copied. I’m talking about someone who would have a bit of real genius & creativity.
No, I’m referring to something that’s even more insidious than a flashbang. Perhaps some newly-made virus loosed into the sewer system, then a forced backup in the pipes to deliver it right to someone’s opened orfice.
…Or even something more creative.
Book I read long time ago, ninja killed his target by waiting in the “depository” of the castles bathroom and shoved a spear up the gentleman’s opening.
I hope that he ensured he had the right target? It would be most unprofessional to assassinate the wrong one, after all. I am guessing it took many hours of practising rectal recognition.
It was stated as being the gentleman in question private “depository”.
And people have complained about aliens performing anal probing…
For most ninjas of that time, they became ninjas for the sake of survival against the Shogun tyranny of of the feudal age. Because of the political situation, everybody was already in deep shit, but ninjas figured they could handle a little bit more when the time called for it.
However, with modern day plumbing facilities, it takes a bit more cleverness to pull off the same kind of task.
Dag-nabbit! only the word “aliens” should be in bold.
Ninja gets typo ninjaed.
MWHAHAHAHA!
Actually I think the cow mutilation and the crop circles are likely just due to the red necks after one too many sips of the home brew, they just confused the cow with their Purdy cousin.
Ahh, Zeph’s comment makes a LOT more sense now! Knew it’d be with the truesight, but not that it would be like this! Nice one!
Yeah, Zeph’s comment reflects that he’s just now understanding the significance of the fact that Sydney discovered & pointed out X…Without even TRYING!
DAM IS SYDNEY’S TRUE SITE REVILING THAT ALIENS DO LIVE AMONG THEM?
fu*king caps lock
Add this to your registry (Note this changes the keyboard layout for all users):
;ReMaps Caps Lock to Shift; Scroll lock to Caps Lock
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
“Scancode Map”=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,2A,00,3A,00,3A,00,46,00,00,00,00,00
Refs:
https://www.faqforge.com/windows/make-caps-lock-behave-like-shift-windows/
Microsoft Keyboard Scan Code Specification
or google “remap caps lock” or “remap scancodes” or similar
I pry that damn key off of my keyboards
Hmmm…Not as much finesse as coding your registry, but significantly more satisfying in a primal & visceral sort of way…
It does make a convenient little snack holding tray too. A nice compliment to the slidey-out cup-holder.
I don’t know about you, Yorp, but MY snacks are a bit too big to fit on a single key…
;)
A several peanuts, a couple of cashes or a nice sweet will all fit nicely, in that gap. With varying risks of subsequent ‘sticky keyboard syndrome’.
“cashes” = “cashews”
“Sometimes you feel like a nut.”
~Advertising jingle for Mounds & Almond Joy candy bars
“Sometimes you feel like several nuts.”
~Me
And sometimes you feel like peanutbutter.
As an occasional tech support person, I have to say:
Never, ever, ever tell someone to edit their registry. The ones who won’t screw it up already know how and can look up the settings; the ones who will screw it up outnumber them by a huge margin. And even a minor accident with the registry is dangerous.
+1.02
you must have one of those faulty CPU’s that can’t add correctly, right?
No, that was the 1.01 model. The 1.02 is self-correcting.
I am holding out upgrading until they get the idiot-user-correcting perfected.
How does that old saying go? Something like: “Anyone who says that something is foolproof is underestimating the ingenuity of fools.”
Or “Anything that is foolproof, remains foolproof only until the universe invents better fools.”
There are only 2 things that are infinite.
The universe.
And stupidity.
And I am not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein.
+c
her true sight reveals all truth.
seeing past such a camouflage is a trivial matter for the eldritch artifact.
Would make sense that she would only start seeing it now, as she would not have had the chance to use true sight in public. Government sponsored vivisections and all that.
Didn’t sydney only learn how to use the true sight function after ‘leveling up’?
She used truesight to spot Dabbler’s shadow during her ‘interview’ but it’s possible that if there was nothing hidden around her when she’d used it before, she wouldn’t have known about its function.
It just showed her that the forest fire she started is really there, so no change from her expectation, so she missed its power.
Sydney has been periodically using the true-sight orb, to scan for ninjas, ever since she uncovered Dabbler’s true form, and X (as RBZ says). It is just that, until now, she has only uncovered the one other blue-skinned alien. Albeit that she failed her spot check, that time.
The thing that she learnt, after levelling-up, was how to toggle the detect/analyse magic/super-power function, on the true sight orb. Which allowed Halo to sense the, otherwise undetectable, aggro aura.
Syd is definitely going to have an ‘I told you so’ moment with Peggy regarding their previous conversation on this topic. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/671
Peggy was, and still is, correct on every point she queried.
Note the ‘alien’ could just be a cos-player (using regular make-up), who has cast an illusion, so that she can work her shift, without being told off by management. Then she can leave, straight from work, to her party. Without having to waste several hours on doing her make-up.
that’s because at that time, she was expecting a cloaked spaceship.
the second she touched the ball, she looked in the direction opposite to the blue man, and released the ball as soon as she was disappointed.
Sydney didn’t know about the True Sight until she saw dabbler’s true form she just knew about the projection and ability to see though it’s eyes.
When she leveled up she gained the ability to see aura’s like Vehemence’s rage aura.
Sydney needs to find Dabbles, statter than stat!!
I wonder if Dabbler knows about this
I would guess that she does.
Well, she is the only one Sydney knows who is both an alien and a demon and a shapeshifting illusionist…
If Dabbles doesn’t already know Jeanie, she may be able to figure out who she is and if she has an ulterior motive for being there (other than minimum wage) without arousing undue attention
IIRC, technically Dabbler’s shapeshifting is an illusion but descended from a doppelganger, shapeshifting runs in the family.
we have not seen any shape shifting yet.
and here we see that her change is nothing more than an illusion. she keeps her hands… invisible..
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/607
Just like the guy at the Grand Canyon possibly.
That’s why added the “illusionist” bit, because even if she is using illusions, she is still shifting her shape
the contraction of muscles that allow us movement is NOT a sufficient change to earn a designation as a “shape shifter”
she still had a pair of invisible upper limbs.
i probably used all the improper words here. hope its not too difficult to understand.
Yeah, the only actual shape-shifting we’ve seen has been done by Mr. Amorphorous. In all other cases, it’s been a matter of illusionary disguise, no actual “shapes” being “shifted.”
Until he is alone with Heatwave.
“without arousing undue attention” This is Dabbler we’re talking about?
Anyway, a sensible person would assume that nightclub bar staff is unlikely to be an infiltration route for the alien invasion that’s, frankly, years overdue.
So Sydney will probably, um…
… recall that Dabbler has pointed out that aliens could find water easier from icy comets. But now she knows that they are here after our alcohol!
Or maybe our girls? You get those at night clubs.
Ooh, or perhaps unicorns? We know there is one of those here.
Why use booze protected by sophonts wielding nukes when there is ….
https://mentalfloss.com/article/51271/there-are-giant-clouds-alcohol-floating-space
Well we know that alcohol contributes to birth demographics on Earth. It would be a nice irony if the fundamental building-blocks of life were also alcoholic in origin.
This particular alien is harvesting which has already been filtered & treated against potential parasites (which could not be obtained from our oceans), by taking the ice from the ice-making machine…That’s even more devious, because she’s taking our water right out from under our very noses…
FNORD
Ad Fnordium!
That’s why said “undue attention” :P
I still think saying ‘both an alien and a demon’ is redundant. Pretty sure they’re the same thing, in this world.
So are we taking a Man In Black detour?
Aliens live among us and the government knows?
What, you thought Dabbler was the one and only?
Well no, but there is a difference between aliens working with the government, being on vacation (that guy in the crowd during the flying lessons), and one working in an earth club
Wait what alien on vacatio…. DAVE you sneaky BASTERD!
That was a very, very subtle insert. Well done.
Holy CRAP was that ever well-played, Dave.
I had to zoom in to see it.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1856
Link for your convenience: Sydney’s truesight orb did reveal someone and she didn’t even notice…
Isn’t it stated somewhere that Dabbler herself is on working vacation? Maybe not all aliens have her skills and/or want to work for a government entity.
At least Sydney didn’t see that one nudist sorcerer illusionist, keeps saying it feels like “nothing at all”
by any chance does he go by the name “Emperor”?
Nah, just a nudist mage who uses illusionary cloths to avoid breaking the law in most civilisations.
He did once try to convince a cop of that whole “only the worthy can see my clothes” thing to avoid getting arrested when he got caught with his illusions down (remember kids, don’t drink and cast). Didn’t work though, he only got off because the cops don’t have Archons ability to detain mages, and the fact that he’s an illusionist makes him hard to identify.
Of course, if I have to see his naked arse ONE more time at the local Mage Club, I will knock him out, dispel his illusions, lock antimagic shackles on him, and leave him in front of the cop station myself.
We’re Sorcerer’s Dammit! We’re supposed to have dignity!
But dignity is a bit of a pompous prat so we set him up on a blind date with common decency.
Hmmm…Your reaction certainly qualifies as “quick to anger,” but falls pretty far short of being “subtle.”
No one said Sorcerers HAD to be subtle, we’re actually quite big on the dramatic and flashy. Why learn to hurl fireballs if you have to be sneaky about it. ( Note that I do not recommend throwing fireballs very time you are angry, you must be sure to stop before you cross the line)
Or at least ask permission.
I love that page, because one of my favourite table-top role playing moments was similar to this. I was playing an elf who was extremely xenophobic. Exemplifying her sub-race, who barely even considered other elves to be people. And humans were the lowest of the low, given that their kingdoms surrounded hers, and were driving her sub-species into extinction.
Then, one day, on a diplomatic mission to the most powerful of the human kings, his court came under attack. The purpose of her audience was to seek his aid. And she could not risk provoking a war with the humans, as they would easily wipe out the depleted elves.
So it irritated her to see that his security was insufficient, to even protect himself. Requiring that she intervene, to aid him. Something she was loathe to do. But consoled herself that there was only one way to guarantee killing the numerous foes (given that the king was clearly tougher individually than the assassins, but was failing due to weight of numbers.
“May I have permission to centre a fire-ball on you, your majesty?”
I prefer to use the spells , Targeted muscle cramp, and Targeted muscle spasm.
In AD&D, I had a mage character research certain types of Cantrips (Zero level spells, learned during apprenticeship while earning Level 1 Mage). Of course the character had advanced quite a few levels before considering it, having acquired some resources & materials for better results.
Here’s a few of those Cantrips. The names given suggest what they actually do.
Bursting Bladder
Instant Diarrhea
Rash (an advanced form of Itch), which can be targeted to specific areas on the body.
Tounge-Tied
As you can probably guess, being Cantrips & not full-Mage spells, they were quick & easy to cast…Which can prevent other mages from even casting at all. Also good for subtle use in social situations…
Mine are from GURPS, just modified to do as the name says.
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…this thread seems to be taking a turn to the Dark Side…
not a problem we have because we have cookies, or chocolate, or tofu even. yes come to the dark side my young padawan.
What kind of cookies?
I’m assuming dark chocolate.
We has bacon to.
The irony would be if by this point everyone except her family are now at least half alien, but they’re all too busy maintaining the masquerade to swap notes and figure that out…
Reminds me of a comic (I think it was a comic) about 3 criminals in a drug deal, and each revealing they are part of a different law enforcement agency under cover. Noone on sight being an actual criminal
That’s an old story. G K Chesterton wrote a novel in 1908, The Man Who Was Thursday, about an apparent anarchist syndicate consisting entirely of counter-agents of various descriptions.
It was also an episode of the old Get Smart series.
You forgot to start that comment with “Would you believe…”
Rats! Missed it by that much!
You’ll need to report that your target was missed…Call up HQ on your shoe-phone.
I like to think she remembered her true sight is supposed to be a secret, and that’s why she’s fumbling instead of just shouting out ‘ALIEN’
I suspect that she’s trying to figure out how she should react.
Good thing she’s reprogrammed her reactions since the last time. Arianna will be thankful, at least.
Don’t think it’s so much reprogramming her reactions as being completely unsure which set or mode she should use here. I can sympathize.
Should she say something to the person? Eat something to allay suspicion, or stay the heck away? Warn her teammates? Take a picture? Scream and point? Scream and leap? Run away? Ready her zapper and/or forcefield? What? And in which order?
The REAL problem with having abilities “far beyond those of normal people” is that, in surprise situations like this, it can mean you end up with way WAY more viable (or simply doable) options than you know what to do with.
If you meant in panels 4 to 6 when she hid it under the table, it was more she wanted to check if what she saw was what she saw, and panel 10 is her wondering “Whatdoidonow?Whodoitalktoaboutthis?!?!Isthatatail?”
Oh, and DaveB? It’s a “No Prize”, not a “Know Prize” (if you are referring to the Old Marvel practice of giving an award for spotting, or explaining, something that happened, like why Hulks black pants turned purple
That might just be a pun – because those guys “knew” all along.
Actually, if you really want to get technical, it’s a “No-Prize”.
Damn, knew forgot proper punctuation :(
A “No-Prize” is a Stan Lee invention. (and at this point an Intellectual Property of Disney)
DaveB can; however, hand out all the Know-Prizes he wants. And without fear of reprisal.
[hehe. I made a funny.]
Know he can’t. It’s knot possible.
;)
Can I opt for the Knox-prize?
A vault with a swimming pool’s worth of gold. Preferably one located with a fairly short staircase leading down from the surface.
In the words of Kirk… Eh, I’d tap that.
Puh-leez. If it looked female and walked semi-upright, Kirk would tap it.
not even sure “upright” would be a qualifier.
Kirk does seem to prefer women to be horizontal…
In other words, this lady has lots of practice in telling guys “no” but still managing to get a tip at the end of the evening. That reminds me, where did Math get off to?
Pretty sure most of his day will be taken up in practice. So odds are that he will be in the dojo or out jumping from branch tip, to branch tip, between trees. You know, the usual.
Or maybe even hunting rabbits with his bare hands…You know, stealth to get close then a quick grab to catch.
It was part of my own ninja training back when I was still knee high to a knee. If I couldn’t catch a rabbit, I went hungry.
Better not Let Bunny here you.
That’s the whole point of doing the stealth exercises in the first place…
;)
*nods*
Otherwise the bunny hares away.
I would not try stealthing Bunny though, she has acute hearing. And, more to the point, a cute tail. So I would seek to gain her attention, rather than lose it.
And if she has Darth Kyoko with her well death will be a blessing when it comes.
Still back in ArchonHQ, locked in his room dutifully following Maxi’s last order to him :D
Sounds legit. ;p
Which means we may not see Math get into a combat situation at all for the entire run of this comic…
Ah, yes. The desensitization training. Hasn’t really worked for me and I have been trying for a couple of decades. I still seem to like looking at the female form.
Math is busy following orders tonight. Max gave him directions on how to deal with certain distractions during combat.
I’m assuming the “reveal” is that Earth is CHOCK-FULL of Aliens in disguise, similar to Dabbler. That could potentially lead to some mass paranoia if it became public knowledge, yes.
Would knowing about it make Earth SHOCK-FULL of aliens?
*WHAP*
Ouch!
I probably deserved that.
*Ka-anvil*
Yes you did.
Well we knew there was more contact between Earth and everywhere else than just Dabbler- If you remember, Vehemence was very specific in his sarcastic response to Dabbler during his villain reveal- he wasnt just guessing, he *knew*.
“There are more aliens” is obviously not the secret. The secret is that there’s probably LOTS of them pretending to be human, and that they’re more deeply involved with world affairs than you’d think. Heck, it might be a core reason for Archon being established in the first place. Now THAT is information above Sidney’s paygrade.
Lizardman Illuminati confirmed.
It’s been quite a few centuries since Moth Men were our biggest threat. Lizards eat insects ya’ know…
And lizards make great luggage.
Snake People, or “Sneeple” control our government at the highest level.
I’m more concerned about the penguins controlling the Internet.
You need not fear, my minions are there to protect people, not harm them. Although they are not too smart, so you need not worry about them being over-controlling.
I dunno about that. They aren’t always cute and cuddly . . .
That’s more true than you realize. Have you ever seen the inside of a penguin’s mouth? It’s pretty much teeth, all the way down. Which makes sense, really… when your primary food source is live, slippery, and wriggling, you want to make the one-way trip as one-way as possible.
Image here: https://sociorocketnewsen.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/ps-7.png?w=580&h=315
I’m not sure if Halo is rolling 1’s or 20’s for her Random Encounters but she’s hitting it a -hell- of a lot… Bank, Restaurant, Club… its like she’s a Super-Magnet :P
New Sid’s Nopower: Random Encounter Critical
A power like that can be a double-edged sword; Critical failures are as likely as Critical successes.
So THAT’S what one of the unknown orbs is – a coincidence generator!
+1
Or, hidden within the depths of the orb, unseen & known to all, is the true home of the Heart of Gold.
Ooops. “unseen & unknown to all.”
Now I have a craving for a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster . . .
Keep that list handy…The list of institutions that can help you in the recovery after.
There are some who would say I should be institutionalized whether I drink it or not . . .
I think those people are referring to a different kind of institution…
if that were the case, she’d have to be actively using an unknown orb, unless that’s what the connector dots are for.
Pasive stats
What if Syndey’s natural power is as a coincidence generator, leading her to find the Halo orbs etc, one of which pushes the coincidence level down to Normal when she wields it?
Nah, she’d never want to use it. Heck, she’d probably try to get Dabbler to invert it.
The orb’s improbable encounter function is powered by a nice hot cup of tea.
Wrong, it is powered by capsaicin.
Almost nobody on Earth uses illusions, but its not an outrageous coincidence Sydney happens to encounter an alien waitress working in a club still willing to host celebrity superheroes so soon after the super brawl.
It’s more, like: “oh, more things make sense now.”
I think the main take-home is that Vale is not as well-informed as she thinks she is. Humanity may not have many illusionists, but others, who are, are clearly on this planet.
Although Deus wins the know-prize for predicting that Halo would meet them.
Well, obtaining accurate census counts of illusionists and shapeshifters is inherently tricky.
Almost nobody on earth uses illusions THAT HE KNOWS OF. There’s no reason to expect he knows everything.
Well back when Harem was playing ‘agent for everyone’ spilling secrets to that one possible Big Bad and the Truesight is mentioned and dismissed as of low value due to how rare illusion-using sorts are he responded by pointing out given her new line of work she’d likely encounter all of them soon enough.
I think the GURPS Disadvantage “Weirdness Magnet” covers this pretty well.
I figure that Sydney being a Weirdness Magnet is why she found the orbs in the first place.
:)
Plus the Archon HQ is probably built on a Hellmouth. That also used to be an indigenous American burial ground. And a Viking vineyard.
soooooo sydney’s the slayer? guess that forces us to use geller to play her in the movie.
Well, I can understand that an audience would appreciate Geller having bigger boobs than Sydney, but that would be a bit our of character for portraying a tom-boy type.
Champions used to have one like that too. I don’t know about the current version.
REMEMBER, SID! PRIME DIRECTIVE! PRIME DIRECTIVE!
Which one? Star Fleet’s or Kirk’s? o_O
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Directive
Dabbler Explained also before at the bathroom. Before Hipnoboobs
I’m… pretty sure that Dabbler has both.
Star Fleet’s PD is “Do not interfere in the evolution of other world’s” (or something like that), whereas Kirk’s is “Leave as many little Kirk-lings on as many worlds as possible!” or simply, to paraphrase the Daleks: “Impregnate! Impregnate! Impregnate!”
It is a cunning work-around to bypass the prime directive. You can’t interfere in the affairs of other races. But, if you have kids with them, then they are family, and you can tamper as much as you like!
Heh.
If I remember correctly, the PD boils down to not interfering in the culture and development of a race/world that has not yet developed FTL transit technology of some sort.
Once a race/world has achieved FTL capability, their encountering other star-faring cultures can be considered an inevitable fact, so making open contact with them becomes a matter of forward-looking diplomacy.
And here I thought that if the Daleks were encouraging that sort of behavior, they’d be ordering people to in-sem-in-ate, IN-SEM-IN-ATE!!
Hopefully she won’t share what she’s seen before they get a chance to warn her the world is like the film They Live.
Sydney’s here to kick ass and eat ghost peppers… and she’s all out of ghost peppers.
Now I want to see a remake of that movie with Sydney in Rowdy Roddy Piper’s role. :)
So instead of PUT ON THE SUNGLASSES! it’ll be HOLD THE ORB!
To be fair, discovering that an alien is serving nachos at the local nightclub shouldn’t merit more than a “Huh. Figures.” at this point. Y’know, now that Sydney’s proverbial ET cherry has been popped.
Not sure why Zeph would feel the need to let her in on aliens living on Earth, considering that simply knowing Dabbler exists is already so very, very far beyond that. I’d hope Sydney would have at least enough mental clarity to assume that if one alien exists, then more of them probably do. The most shocking thing, I would think, is the sheer banality of said alien’s apparent lifestyle.
Dabbler is more succubus than alien or atleast she gives that vibe most of the time and it still won’t make it any less surprising to see a Demon or alien serving in a club don’t forget that Syd has a very impulsive natüre. If th girls face was covered with lots of piercings her reaction would be same.
There is a difference between ‘aliens exist and visit us’, and ‘aliens are serving nachos in an earth nightclub’
True dat.
Just wait until she checks the press crew with true sight… Anybody want to bet the anchorman guy is alien?
It would explain alot about USA news
https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=831
You forgot the James Cameron reveal =p
He is an alien? Ooh, I guess that makes sense.
well no, not quite…
He used to be an alien, but then they found a cure?
https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=835
https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=876
and
https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=877
You believe that is what Zephapod was referring to? o_O
well, apparently those who knew its about true sight have won the “know prize”, so yes. we believe that is what he was on about.
May have had something to do with the “ICU” ball, but personally have doubts it was about Green Jeanie or anything to do with the OONTZ Club
That boring ass lifestyle is what concerns me.
Visiting here for tourism I get.
But traveling interplanetary/stellar distances just to get a job as a waitress in a club full of pretty lights and sounds (great for an Octopi #justsayin) is such a waste of energy and resources …
Unless the being in question is a spy. Spies ADORE boring ass pay no attention to the nice quiet average looking guy from the upstairs flat.
But then spies don’t go in for stupid attractive (like a super) disguises. (unless that’s what blends into this particular club)
OR
Cultural anthropologists (need to change the name?) on the other hand; do like to look appealing wherever they go (positive modifiers to diplomacy checks are a necessity for their field) to encourage social interactions.
I definitely can see the reasoning behind a C.A. working at a club.
Maeby, for them to travel interplanetary is as cheep as international travel here. The refugees and those with desire of new wolrd (literally) could come
If that were the case… it would be the equivalent of traveling to the amazon rainforest to live amongst the Yanomami. No wonder they leave us alone…
And yet there are tribes that the ONU [I don’t remember the initials in English… United Nations Organizacion?] tries to protect from knowing the existence of the first world.
Similaritis increasing
if I recall, there’s somewhere between 10-20 of them. including one we tried to make first contact with, but they don’t want to. after a Tsunami in the area, we sent Helos over to check and see if they made it. they were fine.
course, that’s the whole “still have survival skills” part.
Maybe the noise and lights of the nightclub consititute a restful or pleasant environment for this particular alien? Without further data, one simply does not know.
Who’s to say she’s first-generation? Maybe her parents came by, liked the planet, and decided to settle down, so she’s actually a natural-born citizen.
But she won’t know if it is a casual friendly alien or some sort of invasion that no one knows about. She’ll want to warn everyone. Hopefully she goes straight to Max and not to Harem
First, this is Sydney. Expect her to still be a spaz. Second, even knowing of Dabbler, it’s still an uncommon sight especially once we account for more than one type of space alien being around. Heck, as a reader, I didn’t expect to see another alien in this page. And third, well, it’s an alien serving nachos. Pretty unexpected if you ask anyone else.
One way Jeanie could be a major problem, while still being effectively completely “human”, is that she is a political refugee. An entire star fleet might show up to demand her return if they knew where she was. And it is fairly easy to dream up excuses/reasons for her to be given protected refugee status. [A couple of super science secrets, or we just assume the law gives her the right to claim refugee status and we actually keep our word.]
With the risk of the world being turned into a second [smaller] sun, Jeanie would thus be top secret, not to be known about by crazy grunts who talk too often and too loud, unless they have an orb or something that makes it all too likely they will find out anyway. In which case, you may have to give them knowledge beyond their paygrade.
Why am I suddenly reminded of MIB 1 when Jay first found out how many aliens are actually in the world? The next thing I could see happening is Sydney going to see an old teacher to see if they are an alien or a super or something.
MIB, yeah That was my first though too. Wonder if Dabbler isn’t the only Crayon Colored member of Archon aside from Maxima?
Sydney’s paranoia is going to get a major helping of Hot Sauce soon.
Chameleon Girl!!!
This raises interesting questions… if Aliens/Demons/Angels live amognst us in disguise, do they interbreed with humans? If they are here in sufficient quantities it should fuck up our gene-pool something fierce, unless they have an Asari thing going on. Didn’t Dabbler say something on that? or DaveB himself? That succubae only have succubae offspring? Or am I not remembering things correctly again? Or are there a multitude of half-breeds and quarters out there as well? So much pondering to be done…
Yes I believe DaveB said that succubi only birth succubi, nomather what they breed with
the thing is that no alien should be able to interbreed with humans unless there is a specific alien mechanism to allow this. look at humanity’s closest relatives chimpanzees you can’t even cross breed with them. yet all the stories about aliens seem to think it would just happen even if they looked like us the different evelusenery path they would have had to go thru to get there would leave them totally incompateble with the human genome
Who says human’s can’t cross-breed with a chimp? o_O
The very defintion of what a species is
not quite especially when you get to ring species but its an ok lay definition
Biology. the major subdivision of a genus or subgenus, regarded as the basic category of biological classification, composed of related individuals that resemble one another, are able to breed among themselves, but are not able to breed with members of another species.
There are exceptions where a horse and a donkey (for example) can breed, but they aren’t the same species because the offspring can’t reproduce. That’s the actual line
but again not full like with some types of birds that cant reproduce but anther can reproduce with both without problems. it normally occurs when a species spreads around an obstacle adapting as it go’s
biology contains no strict boundaries or lines, but rather a gradient spectrum. it is humans who create those, often arbitrary, lines. there are many cases of what we think of as separate species that reproduce with varying levels of difficulty. we know from extensive genetic studies that homo sapien interbred with several other hominid species in its history, including homo erectus. we also don’t really know whether to classify as one or three species a group of, say, frogs where region A and region B frogs can breed, and region B and region C frogs can breed, but region A and region C cannot breed. then we have an asexual species of Molly fish who still require sperm donation from a similar sexual species of Molly fish. we thought it was just for the stimulation, but it turns out that the Molly fish takes in about 1% of the male Molly from a different species when reproducing. are they the same species? no, according to biologists. these are just a couple of the many many many many examples of how the Elementary School Biology definition of species as “a group that can successfully breed” is a gross simplification of the Spectrum of Biology.
but for this comic… if Homosapien can breed with Succubus, and Succubus can breed with… Xyrilian, but Xyrilian cannot breed with Homosapien, are we the same species, are are Succubi super flexible with breeding? it’s possible that Succubi are like the Molly fish, cloning “essential succubus” parts of their genome, but otherwise being receptive to any species that uses DNA with the rest of the genome for things like uh… fur and extra limbs.
hehehe you said erectus
…he was also talking about homos too…
*Beavis & Butthead laugh*
“Roundhouse Three Stooges slap”
Then explain Liger’s
Tiger and lion DNA lines up well enough that a viable offspring can result, but there are enough mismatches that the males are infertile; females may or might not be fertile. It turns out many large cats can do this.
Human DNA does not line up well enough with any other ape DNA for anything viable to result. Be glad for that; the child would be stupid by human standards and the baby’s head would be much too large for a non-human female pelvis.
A big obstacle would be the different numbers of chromosomes: humans have 23 pairs, all of our living close relatives have 24 pairs.
Not a geneticist, but I suspect that losing or duplicating a big chunk of their genome would cause serious problems for the offspring.
achely to of ours fused in to one the human genome project found were the 2 joined together
Absolutely. They could still see signs of the ‘join’ in that chromosome (number 2, IIRC).
my old bio tech was a lab tech for the hgp for a while and he would go on for hours if you let him
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee
Having different numbers of chromosomes is not an absolute barrier to hybridization; similar mismatches are relatively common in existing species. In fact the chromosomal disparity can be very wide – check out the horse–zebra hybrids; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebroid
By comparison a human chimp hybrid would be as easy as mating the Przewalski’s Horse (Equus przewalskii) – with 33 chromosome pairs, and the domestic horse (E. caballus) – with 32 pairs. The offspring of such are semi-fertile: Male hybrids can breed with female domestic horses.
It is interesting to note that bonobos are genetically closer to humans than they are to chimpanzees. There is a small proportion of bonobo dna which matches human dna, but not chimp. And a slightly smaller amount of chimp dna which matches human but not bonobo.
In fact both species are more closely related to humans than to each other. This despite the understanding that bonobos only diverged from chimps one or two million years ago. Whereas humans diverged from chimps about five to seven million years ago.
well, succubi can at least.
“unless there is a specific alien mechanism to allow this”
succubi live off tantric energy and only have offspring like themselves it makes some sense that they would have a adaptation to breed with other races.
There is another problem with breeding with another primate species: physical dimensions. While humans are the second largest ape, after the gorillas, we have the largest reproductive organs by far, male and female, which all comes from humans needing such large brains at birth. A baby is born with a very large head compared to its body to accommodate the vast intelligence potential that we are born with. This means that a woman needs a large birth canal, which in turn means wider hips and larger diameter vagina to allow passage of the baby’s large head. A larger vagina is easier to contaminate with pathogens, so it needs to be longer as well to give the body a chance to fight the little buggers when they find their way in. Thus a male penis needs to be longer to get the sperm past all the anti-bacterial activity in most of the vagina and deposit the sperm close to the cervix. A larger diameter penis also makes this easier (cross-sectional area = strength), but also to block the sperm from flowing back out. The larger diameter also allows the man to stimulate the woman better and help induce her orgasm which increases the chances of the sperm making into her womb.
Yes, a vast potential intelligence. Too bad so many of us do not live up to our potential.
If your ‘potential’ is too vast, you might not have enough blood, or vascular capability, to fully erect it.
You are thinking about the wrong part of the anatomy! Keep in mind, I was referring to the head and brain. No, not that head!
If angels breed with humans, it results in something called a Nephilim. They get brought up once in Genesis Chapter 6… and scarcely mentioned ever again.
They’re supposed to be gigantic, or something. It’s weird.
They are supposed to have all died out in the flood (Noah).
To be precise they pre-dated the Biblical flood. Do note though that the waitress might well have gills.
really? wasn’t it of an angel and a demon?
Demon’s tend to be fallen angels, or corrupted humans
The biblical demons are only angles who signed up for Lucifer’s coup attempt sometime before the sixth day. Jeremiah says that a third of heaven’s angels were following Lucifer when God kicked him and his followers out of heaven to the physical realm (ours). How many total that is does not get stated. All the descriptions of angels and demons in the bible report them to be genderless.
Just how do you sex a wheel within a wheel, with eyes along the rim? Or see the gender of a being that has to cover up it’s visual form, with six wings, to avoid making you spontaneously combust?
You could always ask nicely . . .
Maybe.
If angels breed with Demons, and you use a banish spell, do they end up split in two? How about if it was a demon born in heaven with an angel born in hell but the majority DNA was also from an angel/demon pair whose alien hells and heavens are different from ours? Plus 1/14 ghost and 1/13 reptilian and 1/17 summoning error and 1/pi eldritch abomination of course…
Um cross species interbreeding for the sake of making half-breeds is Not encouraged in Nature.
Except as an excuse for character creation min-maxing.
i got to wonder about jeanie’s reaction assuming she knows what she is and a person with known classified superpowers refers to you by the color of your real skin that you are hiding and her reaction is to think sydney needs a coffee?
i mean cum on there should have been some reaction
OONTSA OONTSA OONTSA “WHAT?” OONTSA OONTSA OONTSA
she heard sydney call her greenie that should set off alarm bells
A well practiced pokerface
yeah…
person “A” drops says person B is something.
person b: but how did you know?
person a: i didn’t until now.
one person “knowing” is not the end of the world, but if she started panicking some other people may start paying attention, which would be rather troubling.
and then there is the chance that the next morning the one person will think “i mist have been too drunk”.
so you postulate she has a lot of experience with her cover being blown.
Well, in a club, there are lots of dunken people spouting all sorts of nonsense. The chances are she has encountered at least one tinfoil hat fanatic who randomly calls people aliens.
The only thing that ever gave me atomic butt hole was White Castle. *shudder* Or: White Asshole gave me flaming red asshole. For. four. days. *double shudder*
‘Ring of Fire’ I’ve heard that called….
at least it wasn’t this
https://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-666-and-a-half-j
This is closer to what the Unmaker sauce would do…
Okay, quick question.
Why would the alien girl with amphibian features have hair?
Because alien? also WHO says that those are gills and not some sort of scales?
They could also be tympanic membranes. We can’t see under her hair to see if she has ears.
Also, the hair could be a wig, but in that case, it should be the same color whether under glamour or not.
UNLESS!!!….
she glamoured the wig too into a different color, to fool any who would see through…
GENIUS!
Why would she have breasts? If we are going to quibble about likely anatomicly incorrect features on a non-terrestrial biped amphibian(not yet proven).
Couple of assumptions about “why hair (and boobs):
1) She’s not an alien, but a human super (very likely).
2) She’s a halfbreed (unlikely).
3) Because she’s an Alien! (unquantifiable)
4) She is wearing a wig, and had plastic surgery for the other bits. (Humans do both of those.)
Remember, Sydney’s true sight doesn’t go through physical disguise aspects.
Because they are aliens. You can’t superimpose earth life logic on aliens that evolve in different environment. Could just as easely be a mamal like creature (on earth, only mammals have tits) with reptillian features.
amphibian is an earth biology term when dealing with xenobiology you can’t expect the rest of the galaxy to conform to earth norms
How terracentric! :)
Better question: Why would a person with amphibian features have boobs?
Storage maybe – the equivalent of a frog’s “fat bodies”?
Platipus. Amphibian, ovoviparus and mamal.
Dunno…
Maybe silicone implants to help with the disguise.
Writers always have this problem. If a female humanoid lacks boobs, humans have trouble seeing them as female. For example, the Na’vi in Avatar weren’t supposed to have boobs, but the writers had little choice:
Anthro characters almost always have two human-style boobs, whatever logic would say.
someone has found an anwer to that question… in a way
https://elohell.net/chill/316659/ez-and-nami
The female of any species needs a signal that says to any acceptable, but dumb, male [which most girls will tell you is a redundancy], “I am a fertile female”. For any race that spends a lot of vertical time, and thus allows a lot of frontal advertising time, the boob is a possible choice.
Very fine dermal papillae for absorbing oxygen from water, they only resemble hair. The Earth equivalent is the Hairy Frog (a real thing, look it up).
Alien girl is in disguise. Her encounter suit has hair and boobs (and a butt I’m sure) because drunk ass mammals get grabby so having something to duplicate those bits when touched is important.
Presuming the “girl” is actually a bio-mechanical “encounter suit” the extra bits could be used for all manner of purposes; as stated above (dermal Papillae, storage of extra water/information/energy, additional sensory organs/instruments) in addition to the primary purpose of sufficiently “blending in” to not contaminate any acquired cultural data.
May not actually BE hair, just something that (possibly with help) looks enough like it to pass as such here.
Did anyone specifically guess aliens? We got the truesight guessed accurately, but did anyone guess aliens?
…
Here come… the Men In Black!
Galaxy Defenders!
Now will Sydney be eyeing her nachos with suspicion??? Or will she be too paranoid to eat them???
https://www.egscomics.com/comics/20070411_m9J4.gif last 3 panels
FALLOUT 4!
Just started playing myself (got it on day one but my laptop turned out to be insufficient to the task and I had to accelerate plans to build a gaming tower). …What a series of horrible gut-punches those first few minutes are… :(
I fortunately took seriously all that nonsense about how powerful a system I needed to play Witcher: Wild Hunt. I shouldn’t have to worry about computer sufficiency for a while.
And ah, yes: the Fallout Flu. That’s going around.
Yeah, I figure it should be some time before anything needs enough of my shiny new 32 gigs of RAM to warrant an upgrade. :D
I just finally got Dogmeat his real name. I guess until you get to a certain point he’s just called “Dog”
What was ‘above her pay grade’ is disclosure that MIBs are for real… wonders who is working at the Post Office ?
Postal Workers, of course.
So was Zephan looking at a cross reference to Club Oontz and noting a placement on their “watch” list?
It could be alien. It could be a very long lived magic user. It could be a meta with a strange body formation but the single power of “look normal but hot”.
Wait wait wait! Hold the intergalactic tourbus!! Green Jeanie knows Daphne personally by name? o_O
Just how long has underage Daphne been going to that nightclub? Or do they know each other from elsewhere? o_O
Maeby Harem has been there 4 times simultaneosly in the last day. You would learn that name
yeah that’s just good customer service.
“Green Jeanie” – So, she’s a Bowie fan?
Yeah, that was initial thought when reading this page :D
Strangely enough, I’m old enough to remember the sidekick that hung around Capt. Kangaroo. He went by the name of Mr. Greenjeans…
please, as a Christmas present to me and the rest of the readers, have Jeanie a regular or sub regularly occuring character
If he does that with every nonhuman, pages will become painted chapels fast enough
^truth^
Yeah, I think DaveB has already expressed the difficulty he had just getting through drawing all of those supers during last night’s free-for-brawl. Most of those were even human…
I concede to the fair points made, so just keep in mind valentines day
Goat eyes at least suggest she’s an herbivore (pupil slitting horizontally versus vertically has something to do with the way you’re oriented to look at the world, can’t recall the details).
Then again, some of those herbivorous aliens can be nasty. I wouldn’t want to deal with a K’Kree armada demanding we (a) go strictly vegetarian forever and (b) kill every obligate carnivore in our entire ecosystem.
Not strictly. Toads have those eyes and are carnivorous.
ALL HAIL THE HYPNO-TOAD.
Math – “ALL HAIL HYPNO-TOAD GIRL!”
Jeanie – “You’re look at my boobs. Not my eyes.”
Math – “ALLHAIL HYPNO-TOAD GIRL!”
Those eyes…
Almost as hypnotic as Dabbler’s Hypnoboobs.
Almost.
so do Cephalopods.
Ahh, so you are saying Jeanie is a pod-person?
vertical slits are predators that need to focus on their pray horizontal for pray animals that need better peripheral vision
the full explanation is more complicated but thats an ok thumb nail
Worth noting that the pupils of sharks vary enormously in shape, depending on the exact species.
Eating habits via eye shape are the least of your concerns…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Uplift_Universe_species
What does a four-pointed star shape pupil mean?
https://sta.sh/01rg21unf365
Anime character.
Species 8472>/a>?
Omnivore.
*consults horoscope*
Destined for stardom.
K’Kree plus Virus. Enemy of all life.
Oh, gawd. PLEASE don’t bring Virus into it. As a long-time devotee of Traveller (especially its rich diverse background prior to TNE), I consider Virus to be the most ghodawful obnoxiously stupid idea ever inflicted on an RPG background.
Put it this way – way WAY worse than Midichlorians.
Not just herbivorous aliens. In Africa, more people are killed each year by hippos than by crocodiles.
… And then there’s that much-alleged line about more people world-wide being killed by coconuts than by sharks.
You realise why, when you see them without their illusion!
Ohhhhh-kay. I might never look at coconut palms in the same way ever again.
For that matter, sleeping might also be an issue now – that’s first-class nightmare fuel right there.
The only issue I have with ‘aliens are among us. And have been for like ages’ plots is the question of: Why hide?
I mean I know humans are xenophobic assholes at times, but it still seems a bit extreme a countermeasure.
Zulu Empire Masacre.
Everyone has hide shields and stone spears.
And one tribe bought fireguns
Figure wat hapend.
Now figure wat would hapen with allien tech
People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it – mib
Then ban the tech, not the aliens. Make it a law that ‘only tech below this level allowed on earth’.
I mean the tech is still on earth, just hidden.
At the moment it is like the Zulus, but the people with alien tech are chilling among them in blackface. :P
Because we humans treat wel those who are not like us. Right?
I mean, we are only one civilicied race in this planet and we are all in peace
^Sarcasm^
Because Humans have treated “others” as either yet another resource to be exploited,or a competitor to be in some way overcome and/or eliminated.
“others” defined as anyone outside their social group.
I suppose the better question is: Why come to a planet where you literally have to hide what you are 24/7 or face the very real danger of getting the xenophobic response of kill first ask questions later? I mean, Earlier analogies here about it being like going to the amazon for vacation are accurate not so much because earth might be primitive next to a given alien’s native tech level. But because you are going someplace where making a mistake at almost any point during your trip will potentially cause your life to take a tragic and terminal turn of events.
Given that, there’s a few possiblities of Why you come there. Either A you’re someone like dabbler and feel confident that even if you did get found out you can defend yourself against any likely aggressive natives. B: your life is already in danger and you’ve basically gone to this non-aligned word to hide from authorities or organisations. Or C: your arrival was involuntary, maybe you got sold by slavers, survived a crash or some like circumstance has put you in a world where you cant afford to be outed but you also cant escape.
or D: you’re just that much of a crazy thrill seeker. (technically D and A are not mutually exclusive).
Of course given that this comic is meant to have more light hearted themes my money is on that she’s here on some kind of cultural exchange program, doing some kind of short-term alien vacation deal with explicit (though covert) approval and, if needed, support of the government. Or, maaaaybe, she’s actually Not an alien, she is a human super who Does actually have the ability to assume an alternate, alien looking, form for battle or what have you… and Sydney’s true sight orb lets her see the hidden form for the same reason that it let her see what Dabbler’s succy veil was hiding.
One argument in favor of this is that as far as we can see the “Jeanie” is completely humanoid, two arms and two legs that appear to bend and be structured very analogously to humans. (the hand has one thumb and 4 or at least 3 fingers that look like they bend in the same ways ours do, ditto for the elbows and overall body shape). So if she is an alien then she’s a very, very curious example of parallel evolution across the stars (or she actually is some kind of alien hybrid). Heck she even has boobs in the same general place and shape as do humans. So yeah, my bet is that she’s just a little Too human to be a full, genuine, space-alien like Dabbler.
For a moment, it looked like Dabbler was messing with her (again). Good to know I’m not the only one who got a MIB vibe.
Those Eyes. I’ve seen them before…
O.O Oh right!
In an octopus video.
So that’s what it feels like to open a Know-Prize. Hey there’s a note at the bottom…
Dear valued reader:
Aliens are real. But you didn’t call that. You did however call the “Octopi are aliens!” theme.
Congratz.
signed DavB
Aww signed and everything such a thoughtful artist.
Now I’m torn …
between the amazing Science (#wow! #soShinysoChromeMustWitness) that went into the design and manufacture of that Human (or whatever it is they call us) Terrestrial Encounter Suit that Octopus is wearing
… and …
the unsettling feeling I get when I realize this T.E.S. has advanced far enough beyond “proof of concept/we did it for Science!” stage to Approved for field work. The Social-Political implications are staggering …
it may not be an alien maybe she’s an atlantean or a transformed mermaid or some other earth race that has hidden itself
tecnically, that it is still alien. Eartling alien but alien.
Make it both. A sentient Octopus in a Human Encounter Suit.
Octodad’s baby girl?
A rival for Vance? o_O
So like Sam in
Dang it. Always screw up links:
Like Sam in Freefall?
https://freefall.purrsia.com/
This gives you a handy sandbox to test links out:
https://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_links_w3schools
No. Most octopuses are cute and cuddly. They do not have a law passed that indicates they are never to remove their environment suit within sight of a human!
Not so. Unless you are making word-play with “illegal alien”. Any species native to this planet is Terrestrial, be that octopi, Atlanteans or Bigfoot. Even lawyers! An alien specifically has to be extraterrestrial in origin.
My mistake. Let me add the “with tech sufficiently advanced that it resembles magic” descriptor to that sentient Octopus. Thus the extraterrestrial angle.
Yes, even lawyers are Terrestrial, albeit one the genetically-deficient side of moral/ethical mental capacities. But Career Politicians just have to be aliens…I figure that they’re from another dimension, completely uncomprehending & unheeding of the reality of this Universe of Three Spacial Dimensions & Time.
So, wait, is a creature from a genome originally evolved on another planet, but BORN on Earth, considered an alien? mermaids, for example, may be alien, but if they’re lived here for centuries, and birthed offspring here, the definition becomes murky.
actually, extraterrestrial is specifically from off-planet but alien is simply outside a set frame of reference.
for example if you get two people of different cultural backgrounds it is very likely that they would have concepts that are alien to each other.
as such it is rather common to refer to other terrestrial sentients as being aliens within science-fiction. They’re using the older, broader sense of the word rather than the more modern very narrow definition.
the majority nonhumans and psychics on earth living boring, normal lives is a rather core concept to my Divine Blood setting, so this is cool to see.
Or, as one of my friends said who didn’t really consider this a big reveal “Of course she can be just a waitress. Why wouldn’t she be?”
There are two species of aliens on Earth working as wait-staff. They both are like Dabbler and live off emotions. The first species feeds on gratitude and provide excellent service. The second species feeds on aggravation and ignore you, get your order wrong, spill things, and put extra things you did not order on your bill.
so the second group V’s family?
Actually, so far the only non-humans I’ve shown in the restaurant industry are jurougumo and even then, I’ve only shown one “full blooded” jurougumo (who would have been considered a half-breed about fifty years ago), each generation of them has been getting more human and they’re pretty much totally fine with it.
To quote them on why they’re going extinct: “Humans are cute and have very aggressive genetics.”
True sight orb is now the “they live” sun glasses.
Nice reference! :D
I honestly hope Sydney overreacts.
Reptilians are working for bark-bark. Also: howling at the moon-ly pretty! Cool.
I mean, Dark-ark. And she’s got moons! I mean, boobs!
Pro tip – don’t drink the coffee.
Pro pro tip: double her tip
THEY LIVE!
…and have crappy service jobs…
I just want to point out that Jeanie’s reaction also makes sense if she doesn’t know she’s not human. She might just genuinely believe that she’s a normal human and Sydney’s being a little weird.
+1
Is it gonna read something along the lines of half of everyone home schooled isnt human and the reason the home school is so they can learn their to hide their lack of humanness? because that would explain these folks i grew up near.
Huh, that’s something I never considered before. Your theory seems legit.
No, they deal with hiding their lack of humanness at the Gryphon School in Minneapolis. (Which isn’t restricted to gryphons; in fact as far as has been shown there are no gryphons in attentance. Sirens, mermaids, satyrs, naiads, fae, werebears, and quite a few others, though.)
There is a similar institution in New York but I don’t know the name of it. Presumably there are others elsewhere.
From what I’ve seen of Waspi Square, Gryphon’s are apparently animals since Castela was petting one at a petting zoo.