Grrl Power #449 – A surplus of succubi
When two succubi get together, the usual outcome is either a vicious fight (not the sexy kind) or… a vicious fight. Either way they’re establishing dominance.
All succubi are fantastic at all things carnal, but most of them are schooled in social graces and all the other things Decollete mentioned. A sort of Succubus finishing school. Dancing, everything from ballroom to salsa to pole. They’re usually skilled in several musical instruments, culinary arts, etc. Basically super geisha, and you can imagine the local succubi finishing school gets invited to all the dances.
Dabbler has some education in that sort of stuff, but not to the weaponized degree that a “full succubus” does. While her cohorts were learning how to make crepes so good as to be sexually arousing, she was spelunking a forbidden ruin, and trying to concoct some sort of gravity bomb to pull enemies into one spot to make her fireball spell more effective. It was either that or make her fireball spell a double spell that launch a ball of accelerant out just in front of the fireball spell, so she’d get bonus damage on it like when she used a lightning spell on dummies standing in puddles. It was super effective. She wound up burning the ruin to the ground. She only got to loot the first three floors before it all went awry, and to this day her crepes look suspiciously like pancakes.
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One of THOSE Succubi, eh?
Dabbler is calling Decollete ‘a foodie.’ To a succubus having sex is like eating but Dabbler has so many interests she only has time for take-out or home delivery – fast food. Decollete OTOH is a gourmet of seduction. Sex IS her interest.
She is a ‘gourmand’
She is also a gourd-mound.
More than one infact ;).
Took me awhile to move off the first panel
“Literally hypnotic”?
The reason chain-mail bikini works in fantasy worlds. What it lacks in protection it make up in distraction. My guese is these hypno bobs girls use mickro chain-mail bikini. A thinn steel vire
Naa, they probably have a racial ability that works on the same technomagic principle underpinning the Fly Ball, a kind of anti-gravity.
In the second-to-last panel we can see eleven orbs being held up that way.
OK, go ahead, you can count them again. You never can be too sure.
*pats Yorp* Good dog. Good joke. *gives biscuit*
Honestly though, I think succubi (and from the looks all supers), utilize a type of psychokinesis that allows for lift and for them to be pushed together without hindering bounciness, flexibility, appeal.
Nearly every anime and video game character with a cup size larger than a C has utilized this ability. They have a name for it, it just escapes me at this moment…I keep on losing my train of thought whenever I scroll back to the top of the page for some reason.
‘The Return Of The HypnoBoobs’.
I’m hoping for another sequel: “The Daughter of Hypnoboobs.”
I’m generally in the “Garfield Camp” when it comes to Mondays, especially mornings. Grrl Power is quite likely the only good thing about Monday mornings & I have to admit that there’s a very short list of things I’d rather see on any morning than those two things right there.
From where that comment started, it was quite disconcerting, for you to declare you were in Garfield’s camp. I thought you were going somewhere else!
Damn it Yorp!!!
You made me look…. :(
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO BOOBS!
To be followed by:
‘Abbott & Costello Meet The HypnoBoobs’
‘HypnoBoobs’ Revenge’
The HypnoBoobs Versus Godzilla’
And (dare we think it?) ‘The HypnoBoobs Cartoon Show’.
Spanish-speaking countries call this pechonalidad, a portmanteau word combining pecho (chest) and personalidad (personality) that often derogatorily refers (but not always) to a celebrity who is more famous for her natural assets than actual talent.
I could see that applying to guys, too. Fabio, FE, definitely had pechonalidad.
Took me a while to GET to the first panel: Somebody provided a link to a kitten video, and you know you can never watch just one of those.
Whose name you won’t mention?
Someone who lives in Dallas, and has a bunch of really cute kittens, looking for a home. If you look, you can find a link to the kitties playing!
Ahem. Not as cute as puppies, of course!
*sticks nose up in the air, and looks disinterested*
*peeks over shoulder, at kitties*
*distracts Yorp with fresh Yorpie Snax* No, you don’t want to eat those
I would not eat a kitten!
Nor would Buffy, she loves them. So long as they do not try to take her food! If they are scared of her, she will sit with her back to them. Peeking, every now and then, until they have relaxed. Then she will then give them a sniff, and sit companionably beside them.
In fact, yesterday, on returning from walkies, we found Feral Cat sitting on our pathway. Buffy paused a moment, decided that Feral Cat was outside of the 2 metre exclusion zone, around the front door, and ignored her. Walking past, without batting an eye. So close that their whiskers touched!
Buffy got halfway past, before Feral Cat freaked out, and scarpered.
*sneaks off, with Yorpie Snax and munches it*
Fanku
No, Yorp doesn’t eat kittens…Those are for his neighbor, Alf. As a sort of “welcome to the neighborhood” gift for moving in.
You mean Gordon Shumway?
A succubus apologising for a double entendre? That’s one for the books!
And sorry Dabbler, but I like Decollete. Love you, but I like her.
Well her name literally IS french for “cleavage”, after all.
I’m guessing that succubi have a lot of trouble avoiding double entendres, even when they really want to.
The succubi lexicon probably include double entendres for every word. A average succubi conversation consist of ninety % double entendres.
The remaining 10% are single entendres.
110% innuendo.
In whose end-o?
^_^
inevitably theirs
Double entendres are for the lazy. Go for the triple, or not at all.
But I have to say Dave, I love the idea of Dabbler being a tomboy among succubi. Makes her even better (re. Hotter).
Not during high school
A succubus walks into a bar and orders a double entendre, and the bartender just… gives it to her
Well done sir. You win.
A toasted crumpet with grilled cheese and bacon.
My favourite breakfast.
Usually when I go to my local I order a long slow screw up against the wall.
And then I have something to drink.
I’m kind of fond of Sex on the Beach with Slippery Nipples.
…Yes, those are drinks…But I like the way you’re thinking.
;)
What about Long Deep Kisses?
That’s good as “appetizers.” A nice way to build up to those other drinks.
I think it was intentional, but brushed off as an accident. It just sounds like a thing THOSE kind of succubus would do to keep sex at the forefront of people’s minds without appearing intentionally vulgar.
If you’re going to have an entendre, you might as well have another.
Personally, I’m very interested in learning how old this new demon is. I feel it could be very important to learn more about DecolletAge.
Old enough to have gone to de college..
I think it was intentional, but brushed off as an accident. It just sounds like a thing THOSE kind of succubus would do to keep sex at the forefront of people’s minds without appearing intentionally vulgar.
Now I am curious as to how dabbler is only part succubus, and more over if that is held against her, or if she is simply anot adventurer among courtesans.
She’s a hybrid between several species of aliens, as explained on the cast page.
Which makes me curious. How was Dabbler ….created?
Because, as a human I’m only really familiar with the earth mammalian way of procreation.
i.e. Two parents of opposite genders create an offspring.
But Dabbler has like at least three parents according to the cast page sooo… hows that work?
In the same way a dog can be part Labrador, part Poodle and part Collie. One of its parents was a mongrel too.
*facepalm* I… don’t know why i didn’t see that. I blame the fact that I’ve been up for over 18 hours.
I’d say that *** both*** Dabbler’s parents have/had “interesting” family trees. Put them both together and …. well, my guess is that illustrating Dabbler’s combined family tree would probably require five-dimensional physics AND colour-coding that extends well beyond the human-perceptible spectrum.
But that’s only a guess. ;)
it’s actually sixth dimensioal physics and Color/shape-coding. There aren’t enough colors even using every shade.
That’s why they have to hire a were- mantis shrimp to do it.
Oh that armour made me laugh out loud. I now want Mantis Armour!
Mantis shrimp actually suck at mid-shades, meaning they see less colours than we do, even if they have far more primary ones.
All that means, is they can’t see why the colour they picked out for their bedroom wall is not the same that was used (things like ‘taupe’ and ‘vermillion’ and ‘egg-shell’ were invented by interior designers to fool the idiots)
You just lack the constant training from birth.
I don’t think that anybody could tell that for sure. Speculate with a reasonable degree of confidence, maybe. But not for certain, until they have walked a mile in mantish shrimp shoes.
Although I would be interested to learn the methodology they used. Scientists can be very cunning sometimes.
“Although I would be interested to learn the methodology they used.”
It’s always the same, colour coded rewards:
“Hanne Thoen from the University of Queensland […] presented the animals with two optic fibres, each displaying a different colour. If they attacked the right one, they earned a tasty snack. Thoen then changed the colour of the off-target fibre to the point when the mantis shrimp could no longer tell the difference between the two.”
The outcome, as Spicefreak said, is interesting:
“Despite their 12 photoreceptors, mantis shrimps are worse at telling apart different colours than humans, honeybees and butterflies.”
And the implicancies even more:
“They must be using the information from those receptors in a very strange way.”
https://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/01/23/the-mantis-shrimp-sees-like-a-satellite/
Sorry, accidental premature deployment, italics should end at “…between the two.”
I concede, cunning indeed.
Almost as unpredictably devious as gamers!
I can see a flaw with the methodology, such as was presented. This is why I like science reporters who cross-examine the scientists presenting such reports. The very best spot the kind of thing I am about to raise. Often the scientist has taken it into consideration, but it just did not find its way into the material presented to the press.
The article did, at least, stipulate that the researcher’s methodology was good, but then failed to take it any further. So all that I can take from their comment is that, say, the scientist ensured that the fibre-optic chosen was capable of handling the spectrum being produced. Given that they were not built for such a purpose, this is not something that we should assume out of paw. But I will, to that degree, in this case.
However, looking beyond that, if you have super-sensitive eye sight (and are used to living under water), how would you take it if somebody shone a light in your eyes? Personally, I would turn my head, so that the glare did not affect me too much.
This would still allow me to get my treats, yet not overwhelm my sight.
in other words, what might be a low enough intensity for the researcher to look directly at, might be too much for the shrimp. So they can still respond to the trick, by looking indirectly, but not doing so to their full potential. Or if they are looking at it, the pure light is unlike the quality of the light they are used to, and they are getting ‘spots in front of their eyes’, ruining the quality of their colour perception.
Further, were these tests conducted in the shrimp’s natural environment, where their eyes were evolved to function. Or were they done in a laboratory? Perhaps under artificial light? Which, although it may look pure white (and thereby unlikely to contaminate the results), it probably looks very different, to shrimp eyes.
This is not just me nit-picking, for arguments sake. It is because I follow the results of hundreds of breakthroughs, every year. And I do spot a pattern where subsequent research, reasonably often, finds a flaw in the methodology, and corrects the previously reported results.
More than a few of those corrections have been to issues which I had felt to be poorly addressed. However here I just did not have enough data, so can only speculate. Needless to say the source cited, by that article, is hidden behind a paywall.
The first assumption seems a reasonable one to make. Given that the results “prove” that mantis shrip have worse colour recognition than humans, humans must be able to see the difference, thereby proving (no quote marks) that the fibre can display the difference. Whether they would be suitable in testing for the inverse result, I do not know though.
Second, according to Duende, treats were given based on colour attacked, not colour looked at. Assuming that the light wasn’t omnidirectionally surrounding a section of the tank, the shrimp wouldn’t have to stare directly at it to attack.
Colour spots would likely pose problems big enough to negate the possibility of coherent results all together but I could be wrong there.
Artificial lighting and the colour of the water are genuine concerns but, given that the fibre is transmitting light, not reflecting it, artificial room lights should be /less/ of an issue.
If the light is being shone at another surface, presumably a painted plain white wall (as we have nothing else to go by), then you need to ask ‘did they test the purity of the white paint across the entirety of the spectrum?’
This was one of the first things I wondered, but reading the initial comment, it sounded to me like the fibre was the thing being attacked, ergo it must be pointing directly. As opposed to the spot it created.
But, if it was the latter, it reminds me very much of a colour blindness test I was given. They showed me a card, with loads of dots on it, and asked if I could see a number. So I carefully looked at each dot, and could not. Nor on others. Had I not, towards the end of the test, gotten bored, and started looking at the ‘big picture’ that I noticed the contrasting numbers.
Here the poor shrimp might have been having the reverse problem. What looks like a plain white wall, to humans, very likely is a blotchy mix of colours to them. For everything outside of the human-visible spectrum. And even when trying to pick out light, which is being shone in that range, you still have the distractions of other colours, visible to them, but not to the control group of humans.
If the BBC misses out mentioning juicy details like that, I contact them and give them a bollocking!
By all of the gods that ever existed, i want to recruit mantis-shrimp into my ninja clan!
…I hope I’ve got enough sparring partners for training them though…
O.O
Finally had a look at that, much thanks :D
Thank you, that was an interesting search. Amazingly it’s not only “colours”, they see same wavelenghts that humans, plus ultraviolet, plus infrared, and on top polarised, not only normal (honeybees can too) but also circular (spinning) being the one known animal that can do that. Not enough? They can tune the receptors according environment.
https://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2008/03/21/mantis-shrimps-have-a-unique-way-of-seeing/
She could have been hatched from an Uuryuom egg…
A what? Is it better fried, scrambled or omeletted?
Milk shaken.
SCENE: A bar room. A sleazy man approaches a woman, at the bar, on her own.
SLEAZY GUY: (preening himself) How do you like your eggs, in the morning?
WOMAN: Unfertilized.
SLEAZY GUY: Don’t worry, babe. I got plenty of rubbers.
A Guy & a Gal standing on the front porch after a dinner/movie date.
Gal: “I had a wonderful date tonight. Maybe we could make an early start next time with having breakfast.”
Guy: “That sounds terrific! So, should I call you tomorrow, or nudge you awake?”
Well magic could have been involved so I guess it’s possible. Considering that we are talking about a succubus and/or a incubus parent it’s even rather probable.
this universe doesn’t have incubi, only females
That seems like a waste of a few potential jokes but whatever Dave wants of course.
Not true: Dabbles told tod Sydney that there were Incubi, and they were all entirely male (or was it, if there were males, they would be Incubi? do remember Dabbles mentioning Incubi, when Dabbles was on the couch dabbling with her tickle-gun)
Almost remembered it correctly: Dabbles said that it was ‘complicated’, but all Succubi were female (she didn’t actually say there weren’t Incubi
They are monogendered but somehow they can produce halfbreed offspring. Ah, who cares, Dave says it’s complicated via Dabbler, that’s enough for me.
Halfbreeds in monosexual species are doable…
In El Goonish Shive, Uryuom (who have only one physical sex) reproduce by depositing DNA-laden tissue from two-or-more parents in an egg (the eggs they make come with holes for this purpose). They aren’t restricted to only two parents, and they aren’t restricted to Uryuom tissue. The upper limit on the number of individuals contributing to one egg is more than ten, and the upper limit on species is not less than four.
In Wapsi Square, sphinxes are always female, and typically mate with the most common sapient species: humans. (Pretty much all paranormal beings either are human-shaped normally, or can shapeshift to human.) A female offspring will be a sphinx. A male offspring will appear to be of his father’s species, with a slightly (not conspicuously) longer natural lifespan and no other known sphinx-related attributes but the question hasn’t been studied, and may or may not carry the critical DNA segments, so his daughters and granddaughters have some chance of being sphinxes. So if a girl turns out to be a sphinx because Grandma was a sphinx, that leaves Mom’s species open – and thus there can be halfbreed sphinxes.
And mom was a Titan who slept with Grandma’s son without her knowing about it
Well, that matches with the history of the myth.
There are two set of words from Latin to name lust demons. One is: succuba and succubae (female singular and plural); and the other is: succubus, succubi, incubus and incubi (female singular and plural, male singular and plural). The first set was used in early times while the latter was a “second wave” more “digested”.
But there was no male variant in the original myth, “succubae” were all females. The concept of a male contrapart was a later addition (I bet due envy but I will not say which side). And then even later interpretations fused both kinds into one daemon able to gendershift.
A pretty weird lore says the daemon turns succubus, take semen from a man, twist it (genetic engineering?), turns succubi and use the corrupted semen to make a woman pregnant of a daemon child. Or something like that.
I guess it’s a clever explanation for why the child next door resembles you.
Presumably, succubi can have children with every possible race. So the succubi were the link between the other races.
I’m surprised that there ARE pure succubi. Given their natural… proclivities, I’d expect their bloodlines to get quite… diluted, over time. They must have very dominant genes (double entendre intended).
Dominatrix jeans.
*wink-wink, nudge-nudge*
Bad Yorp, that leg is not for humping!
*squirts with water*
Yip!
*runs away, looking back, worriedly*
[thinking: what did I do wrong?]
Given how many pure Succubi we’ve seen (through flashbacks and the like), Dabbler may very well be the exception.
In most mythology, Succubi just always get Succubi children, regardless of father.
Succubi have complete conscious control over their conception. They only get pregnant when they want to.
She’s also part Doppleganger. I’m assuming that particular species in this world possibly Requires a different race to procreate, which would also explain any and all other mixes in her genetic code. (Hard to be a pure-ANYTHING when your species requires different species DNA to mate)
DaveB once said her mother was a succubus, and her father was a doppelganger who had shape-shifted into a hitherto undisclosed alien species, making Dabbler 1/2 succubus, 1/3 doppelganger, and 1/6 undisclosed alien.
Wait, if her dad shapeshifted into another species enough to provide DNA, then how did his Doppelganger DNA get into the mix? o_O
Shapeshifting into a hybrid?
Have I mentioned that you are cunning?
*covertly checks Duende Sociopata, for a bushy red tail, and foxy ears*
Alternatively, tri-parent humans are infact a reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_donation
I think the insult was aimed at what Dabbler does, ie Dabbler studied sciences, adventured, where Decolette has studied purely arts that complement her “Natural Abilities”
She’s saying she is birth succubi both in body and action, and Dabbler is purely succubi by birth..
Also Decolette appears to be the one responsible for the Angel and Vampire tormenting a purple coloured demon student
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1698
ON second thoughts, probably not…
I don’t think they’re the same succubus – different hair colour, different horns.
Yea, the second thoughts are right. Although hair can be recoloured, I agree with Dean that the horns are the clincher. The school-girl’s are textured and coloured similarly to Dabbler’s, with ridges. Whereas Decollete’s are smooth and much darker.
Given that the school-girl’s horns are the same size as Decolletes, I doubt that they will have changed significantly over time. Horns only usually significantly alter whilst they are growing. Plus these do not look like antlers, or horns, that might be shed, and replaced.
They are aliens mind, but ones compatible enough to breed with humans, so it is not unreasonable to assume that they will have some commonality with terrestrial biology.
reminds me very much of how the Liberal Arts majors would sniff and turn their noses up at the business majors and engineers back in college…
As a science major who used to know some engineering majors quite well, the disdain went both ways. Example engineering students joke: “What did the Liberal Arts graduate say to the Engineering graduate? ‘Do you want fries with that?'”
I guess one’s nose tends to lower a bit after a few Human Resources Directors say, “Who needs to pay for philosophers when we have the internet?”
It used to be true that philosophers could earn a living by finding wealthy patrons who liked to have people sit around & think for them, but the Classical Greek Era is long gone & Socrates is dead too.
Don’t I know it. :-/
Not that I ever went out of my way to become one. I thought it was a weird subject for my brother to choose to study, at university, for example.
The Principal to the secretary: “Jeez, the Engineering guys are always asking more budget for expensive devices and whatnot, why can’t them be as Mathematics, that only need paper, pencil and eraser? Or Philosophy that don’t even need the eraser.”
Actually, it’s not the Engineers that are expensive on the equipment budget…They really only need pencil, paper & maybe a calculator. It’s the Technicians that need all of that other stuff.
Engineers work on the design, Technicians work on the equipment.
Well… technicians try to work on the equipment.
Remember the early generations of computer cases? Designed by engineers who apparently weren’t thinking about us poor technicians who had to take them apart, fix them, and put them back together again.
One notable example that I recall was about 15 years ago, all the customer wanted was a memory upgrade. To get to it, I had to remove a brace that ran from front to back of the case, and then the power supply, to get to the memory slots (which were behind the power supply), thereby turning what would have been a 5-minute job on any other computer, into a 15-minute job.
I met an engineer that was paid to come into the workplace to show us how to use the equipment that he designed. He was familiar with the blueprints & schematics well enough, but had trouble with it actually sitting in front of him; he couldn’t even find the power switch to turn it on…
I’m well aware of that problem…I was initially schooled in the Navy in Electronics Engineering, but was also trained on how to actually work on the gear. The basic job description required enough understanding on why the computer systems worked (the Engineering side) well enough that we could perform regular maintenance as well as troubleshoot problems for repairing it. I even had prior college (before joining the Navy) in computer programming too.
Even so, there were a few SOP maintenance cards that I had to re-write because of some schisms between the tech manuals & the actual hardware.
Where? In my college engineering careers had a bunch of laboratories and equipment. The Fluid Mechanics laboratory had a 10 feet diameter wind tunnel just to start with.
In college, they have to have the equipment there in order to teach/train you about Engineering. But if you’re hired into a place where Engineering & Technician are separate positions, the Engineers get their computers with designing software, while the Techs get tool boxes…and they keep complaining about each other.
;)
Yeah it also works between Business and Engineering. My brother (an engineer) would say the ones who couldn’t handle the math went into Business.
Dabbler isn’t a pure succubus by birth. She’s roughly 1/2 succubus, 1/3 doppleganger, and 1/6 some unidentified alien species
“some unidentified alien species”. We need to check for 2 hearts.
I wonder Who is it you’re thinking about?…
“My dad, the Doctor of the family.”
;)
Ooh, that would make Billy Piper practically a surrogate step-mum. Now you mention it, I can see the resemblance. Similar mouth. No wonder I like her.
But Amy Pond became an actual mother in the TARDIS.
…Things got a bit…complicated…after she gave birth though…
O.o
Yeah Dec and Dabbler haven’t met before.
*Dabbler spelunking snip* Is this “Demon High” material I sense?
*throws Cup of soda at the ground* ANOTHER!
I’d also love to hear some demon high stories.
Still confused how she burned a forbiden ruin to the ground with a gravity bomb (if you ask me a tendril bomb is easier And usefull in more situations (this is the cubi class i presume)), or did she end up going with the molotov variant?
Also she was really lucky to find a forbiden temple near the school. Besides I prefer pancakes anyway.
Do they teach battle cheff tehniques or food golemancy in Demon high?
Sounded more like she burnt it to the ground with the fireball that had an accelerant leading, or was it the lightning bolt in a puddle? o_O
The new character reminds me of High Mother Moonlight in The Monster Under the Bed (especially the scene when she’s told that her domain has guests).
I’m gonna have a hard time getting my mind off Dabler and Décolleté starting a supernatural orgy. It’s just kind of stuck there now
Think of the shockwaves that would send out. A sudden spike in the national birth rate several months down the line and many an awkward moment in the office.
… And the elevator, and the coffee shop, and the street, and the subway, and the church social, and ….
And maybe even out here, beyond the 4th wall…
If you mean the bedroom ceiling, then it’s probably already happened from this page alone.
So much for Gregor’s assertion that they control their reproduction rate.
Ahh, he represents the lycans, not the succubi.
I learned a new word today! Thanks, Dictionary Dave!
Orgy?
My money is on “muliebrity”.
;)
Seriously though. I thought I was a human dictionary. I guess I need to start hanging out with smarter people…
As the saying goes, if you’re the smartest person in the room, then you’re in the wrong room.
That’s why I’m here so much…
I picked up a quote from somewhere “I talk to myself because I’m usually the smartest person in the room therefore the most interesting”.
IMO, that’s saying something similar to “Some people call me an egotist, but that’s wrong. Egotism is a fault & I don’t have any.”
Personally, I pride myself on my incredible modesty.
Reminds me of a good joke.
Two men die and go to heaven. St. Peternal meets them at the gates and says, “sorry, we only have room for one more. So, which of you is more humble?”
The best answer would be, “I’m sorry to say that it’s him.”
I really am wonderful – smart, thoughtful, kind and caring, wealthy and generous, handsome and charming. And of course humble.
All of those attributes, in me, only barely exceed my modesty. Sadly I cannot boast about any of them, due to the curse of being the modest person, in all the world.
I just refer people to this song.
Hey, I make a living by being the smartest person in the room. Nobody else in this company can write a computer program.
How many dogs, in my company, does it take to change a lightbulb?
Just one. I hold it in place, with my mouth, and the world revolves around me.
That sounds more like a cat’s attitude.
That’s one of the reasons I enjoyed college. I didn’t have to dumb down my vocabulary. It was quite refreshing to just use whatever words I wanted to.
Seems like Dabbler is an Int/Cha build whereas most succubi pump Cha.
Nah, Dabbs just gets massive boosts to her CHA, whereas she just shoved all of her points into INT.
Most Succubi probably put their points into DEX.
Hmm, apparently you can nest blockquote tags. Because I did not intend for that to happen.
Some points in DEX, which likely has a racial bonus [to DEX & CHAR, IMO]. I’m better she has more points in CON [for stamina – otherwise how can you … -erm- ‘last’?]
Maybe they build LCK, after all they regain mana when they get lucky.
Ah yes, as noted in the 1st Edition of the Champions game book, there’s nothing like the Joys of DEX.
CON builds a better character… Four Ways!!
The higher you’re CON rating, the harder it would be for police to pin the scam on you.
;)
I think I want to see a ‘vicious fight’ for next february.
Either way it goes, it looks to be a real 4-way mashup in the making…Refer to the last panel to understand my counting method.
Why do I get the feeling that Decolette is similar to Inara from Firefly?
Inara was basicaly a succubus. Now exuse me while i imagine Inara dropping the glamour spell and reveal that she is actualy Dabbler or Decolette. Or both.
She was nice. I preferred the engineer though.
Special ability: Capable of using smudges of oil like beauty spots.
That reminds me of the episode where she charmed a whole bunch of upper class gentlemen with her tech babble. Not suprising realy, it would have worked on me as well.
i know right,, beside i always had a thing for jewel staite since she stared in fast forward,, but yeah she surely was hot in her own way as kaylee,, make you wonder what she could have accomplished had she gotten trained as a companion!
Kaylee just need to be Kaylee. Many women don’t need any companion training to be charming. Almost all women in fact.
Companion training and natural charm likely don’t go hand in hand most of the time, though I feel Inara genuinely suited her role.
Kaylee is one of my top 5 fantasy girls. Smart, upbeat, nerdy, energetic, cute, confident…*eyes wander to far off places and a smile runs across my face*
I liked Kaylee too but I will admit (most won’t) River was my choice. Yes I know Summer was rather young but I mean the Character not the actor. The idea that a waif could become a killing machine is weirdly an attractant to me thus my Sydney crush.
River was my second choice. Who can resist a waif in need? Even if she could rip your spine out, through your chest! The companion had that thing going with the captain. Despite the fact that she refused to acknowledge it, due to professional reasons.
While the dichotomy between apparent frailty and actual strength/capability is definitely an enticing trait, River was always more of a little sister type IMO.
Actually, the rest of the cast didn’t appeal to me as waifu material personally. They were great characters, don’t get me wrong, but I tend to fall for the nerds solely. So, basically every character Alyson Hannigan has ever done. But that’s just in the fantasy waifu territory, since it’s much easier to describe a fictional character as a simple archetype.
I actually had to explain to someone once that just because someone enjoys a certain type in fiction, doesn’t necessarily mean they like that type IRL. This came up because of me mentioning that half my favorite characters were Tsundere, and they though I liked to get beat up. I had to tell them that fantasy doesn’t always need a reality base. I like those characters because I see the dichotomy within them, and enjoy the way they interact with their respective love interests and the other characters presented. I find them the most fun to see episodes centered on, and if I was dropped into their world as whatever mental OC I would come up with, I would gear that OC towards being a love interest for that character. IRL, I don’t want a quick to punch me in the face girl who mistakes every little thing as me trying to get with another girl. It amazes me how few people understand that difference between the “waifu” fantasy and the actual marriage material.
I was recently at a convention and I swear there was a couple there where the girl was constantly acting like a Himedere. I could see her boyfriend’s face every time she made a demand or said something outlandish. I don’t know if she was just acting a character (she wasn’t in costume) or if she was always like that, but the guy’s face looked like he was just really tired of it, but didn’t want to embarrass her in front of a crowd. But she was horribly annoying. About the only thing I didn’t hear her do was the OH HO HO HO HO laugh.
But I find it funny how many people will debate and even argue over which characters are the best *insert category*. Best is at best an opinion different for each person unless there is an actual set way to accurately pit them against each other with definable scores. And that’s really hard to do with personality, since what one person sees as endearing, another will see as annoying.
Sorry for the rant…just seeing people rate their characters made me suddenly feel all preachy. You may now return to reading other comments.
Yea, I like Alyson Hannigan too. Not quite the same without the red hair mind. Or the world-shaking magic and black veins.
Weirdly I prefer Willow to Buffy. Yet I fancy Sarah Michelle Gellar, more than Alyson Hannigan. But, of course, they are both married with kids, so this is more a ‘back in the day’ thing.
And apologies ladies, if any of you happen to be reading this. One of the unfortunate sides of celebrity.
Mind you, there are worse things than being liked a lot.
Even today, if Alyson Hannigan wasn’t married with kids and came up to me and wanted to date me, first I’d stammer over my words trying to give her a yes, then I’d faint. She is adorable even at 42 (which only makes her 11 years older than me).
Granted, I’ve never seen her when she wasn’t on camera, and I’ve known too many celebrities that have a character they play for public appearances, and are completely different in private. But if she is even 50% of who she is on camera, I’d be very happy.
Mannerism. And intentions.
Inara: I am grateful, you know, for the ill-conceived and high-handed attempt to defend my honor, although, I didn’t want you to.
You could get lost in that valley.
I’m sure many people have.
.. Some of whom may still be there.
…Living happily ever after.
The caney valley
A cunningly spoken, and deserved, compliment to DaveB.
is it me or is Decollete wearing an archon choker?
Maybe the supernaturals have their own chokers?
no i just looked at the rest of the twilight council no one else has a choker
Maybe it’s just fashion then? Or a subtle way of saying I empathise with you?
Dabbler have hers from before Archon, maybe is a succubus thing.
And Archon saw it, liked it, and
stoleborrowed the idea?Maybe?
Succubus’ chokers seems to be just fashion (Dabbler connect thru implanted cybernetics), Archon’s ones are throat mics and stuff. I will attribute external resemblance to Convergent Evolution.
I hear Apple is suing Convergent Evolution, for copyright infringement.
It really depends on how long Dabbles was wearing her choker, and when Archon decided to make their throat-mics coded visually to the wearer
Could be a way of tracking her. Consider how much chaos she could cause. Maybe a tracker is a condition of free movement on Earth without interference.
Noticed that as well, but either Dabbles isn’t the only Succubae at Archon, or it’s simply a fashion accessory
She’s wearing a choker. I have a thing for them.
Well that explains a few thing’s
Goes well with the lead and other attachments.
Which makes me wonder if somewhere there’s a succubus on the other end of the spectrum.
“Hey! My eyes are up here!”
Couldn’t they develop hypno-eyes?
Every part of a succubus is literally hypnotic. If they say “look into my eyes”, beware!
Boobs just jiggle more, and catch the eye, without having to say anything.
Oh yeah, boobs like that do say something! They tell me that they’re just like Charmin bathroom tissue & that I should pretend to be Mr. Whipple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQurmhwP3ag
First thought? I want to see Decollete & Dabbler on a double date with Suzy Wen and Arianna!
If your first thought wasnt”boobies!” I doubt that you are a straight male.
First thought, on concluding the page. :-P
Mind you the breasts are eye-catching, but really too big for my tastes. They just put me off. Sydney is perfect.
That said though, for those comic purists, who think that Dave’s art is too detailed, I shall present panel 1 as a significant counter-argument!
I am straight and it wasn’t my first thought, though I am seriously over tired. Also I think you would disappear down her cleavage Yorp, especially if there is a few packets of Walkers down there.
My first thought was “Where’s the story?” My second thought was, “I hope there’s a point.” Not all of us suffer from Math’s failings. Because of his obsessions, his team mates had little in the way of backup.
i agrree,, beside i am more of a butt man myself,,and also as they said in the old dream girl movie,, anything that doesnt fit in your hand is a waste,, including breast flesh :)
The story (for panel 1) is that is what was pulling Sydney, like a magnet. She was recognising the same effects, as in this scene. It was more than just visible cleavage, at work.
I have to agree with you. Just because the boobs are big does not mean they are attractive to all. While they are more noticeable thus get more looks so are semis but I don’t want to drive one. There is a reason there are many different sizes and shapes out there. If all the breeding males wanted big boobs the small boob women would all be out bred and gone. It sometimes annoys me how men are stereotyped much more than women.
There will be a pair of points if the wind turns chilly /wink
First thought? I want to see the photo reference that Dave used.
DaveB probably didn’t need a photo for direct reference. He’s already done an extensive study on boob-physics & the results have been peppered throughout the comic so far. I mean, if you’re an artist who is going to portray “hypnotic boobs,” then you darn well better know the subject from all angles.
I salute his dedication to the art.
Indeed, if there is something Dave have skill, dedication and experience in doing it is drawing boobs.
In his place I would be willing to update the research.
Photos can only do so much. We aught to organise crowd funding, to get him some life models.
Dave seems to have mastered the bigger sizes, mind, looking at panel 1. So this should focus on ‘the A-team’. Of course the readership are always very interested, in the behind-the-scenes artistic process. So streaming would be essential!
Yorp! I’m surprised that you forgot all about https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/153 !
Then again, the comic was still in the early stages, DaveB had yet to fully research the subject & his artwork has greatly improved since then.
Well yeah, I think he could stand to put a bit more focus on the A Team too…
;)
It’s such a nice contrast between these two succubae. While Dabbler seems to be more outgoing and playful, Décolleté comes of as passive aggressive and stuck-up.
Décolleté somewhat reminds me of a Courtesan/ Oiran/ Hetaira. and half expecting her to hold the back palm of her hand at the side of her lips while exclaiming “O-hohohoho”.
One of the pages I’ve really enjoyed in a long while… Since they entered this cave/castle place.
I totally misinterpreted what was happening here at first.
Seeing Decollete being so friendly with Sydney and then seeing panel six where Dabbler comes up behind our heroine with that expression on her face made me jump to the wrong conclusion. I thought for just a moment that Dabbler was jealous and wanted to intervene before the two of them got any closer. Given their nature, I wonder if a succubus is even capable of getting jealous . . .
Probably more of a territorial thing. Predators tend to want a certain amount of space as their own hunting grounds with no competition. Dabbler might see Sydney as “Hers” and the other succubus as an interloper. If anyone would get to drain Sydney it would be her. Even if she doesn’t want Sydney she’s a resource in Dabblers “territory” that must be protected.
Actually, territorial behavior does have jealously at the core of it. Defending one’s territory is preventing some other from taking away what you consider to be yours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmx1jpqv3RA
I think its more a bit of inferiority complex on the part of dabbler. Even when you go off and do your own thing because you honestly want to, it doesnt mean you dont have a bit of that lesser feeling when you see someone who took the expected path and did really well at it. To phrase it another way, even a dyed in the wool super geek can be jealous of how awesome and popular the high school quarterback is. Decollete is the “ideal” succubus, while dabbler is the different one who ran off to do her own thing. “Im not a full succubus so I can never match up directly. Better master all these other skills instead.” Though there may be some childhood trauma involved with that.
*nods*
Dabbler’s info page supports that.
Suddenly, melons!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPVgKoruWdA
They were very effective!
In GURPS terms, they cause a “Mental Stun” effect.
in both rifts and DnD it would be simply a stun
both roll save vs spell
DnD and int. check
Rifts roll % vs int
Boobs fall, everyone dies.
See, another reason why smaller is better.
…Less likely to drown while motorboating…
I needed to look it up, so I’m going to assume that somebody else out there doesn’t know what it means either:
Muliebrity [myoo-lee-eb-ri-tee]
noun
1. womanly nature or qualities.
2. womanhood.
3. femininity.
Thank you, thought it was Mule + Celebrity = Any member of Kardashians :p
Hey that’s not fair on Mules you know! At least those asses have some standards.
And some of their family are highly respectable sorts, far better than any TV-spawned nonentities.
Too true, some mules earnt their celebrity status, one even went to West Point with Spock :D
Sexual tension between two demons of Sexuality? Would that be like the Hypothethical parking lot orgy, or would that be a whole order of magnitude higher?
I would place it at an 11 on the Mulder-Scully Scale.
Obviously it would be higher, but Succubi just do not have that kind of staying power. Not when it comes to restraint.*
* Unless you are talking handcuffs. But Mulder and Scully were good with those too.
My brain went here:https://youtu.be/PscnNFyyZK0?t=12m1s
Why WHY!! WTF
The link appeared to be “I’ll teach him to move in on my girlfriend…”, but the rest of it rather overwhelmed that, rather loosing the message. If that was the intent.
The intended reaction was the catfight hisses and the not-so obvious foe yay.
It would seem that these two maybe know each other??? I was figuring that a fight may break out between them?
I would have said ‘definitely’, but re-reading it, maybe not. Dabbler may just be familiar with her type.
Background story wise though, I would say it is likely. Archon have clearly had past dealings with this council. And Dabbler would bound to have been involved in that previously. Clearly neither would have been able to ignore the other, had they ever met before.
Hey, Dave, are you in dire need of new readers? Because with that opening “salvo”, you’re bound to get a lot!
Vote early, vote often (at Top Web Comics). But not for Democrats because they’ll cast your vote for you, even if you’re dead (Remember the ACORN incident?)
No politics!!!!
Is there anywhere in this world where politics doesn’t touch? It’s in the workplace, it’s in academics, informal social situations, etc. etc.
Don’t let it touch your genitals. You could catch something nasty!
Politics are not conducive to logical or unemotional conversations.
Sure they are. You just need the degree.
The third variety.
Speaking as a scientist, I can get behind the names of degrees in Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science (writes computer programs), Electronics Engineering (designs computer chips, etc.) and other Engineering (the really smart study Engineering Physics), Biology, Statistics (the really smart study Actuarial Science) and other Maths. Even looking at Business degrees (the mathematically inclined there study Economics), there is Management Science, which uses objective measures and experimentation to determine optimal procedures for a particular business or business unit.
Political Science is an art, not a science! Two reports that espouse opposite and contradictory positions can both be considered correct in this field. It is not the quality of communication that is being marked (that is for English class), but the validity of the position, which is highly subjective. In a true science, if two reports are contradictory then at least (maybe both) reports are incorrect.
A scientific position must be objectively observable and measurable. A good theory should accurately predict outcomes, which are repeatable given the starting conditions. It should not matter who does the experiments or where (depending on adjustments in the starting conditions) for the results to be repeated. Economics uses objective measures (sometimes the wrong objective measures, but objective none the less). Political science? usually uses subjective measures to determine the validity of a position.
Okay, that is my subjective rant on PoliArt.
This thread begun by me mentioning Decollete’s boobs. How the hell did we end up here?!
Science! And the readers tend to be a bunch of nerds and geeks :P
True, but the name of the discipline (and the endowed university chairs accompanying it) dates back to the 1800s, when they thought many silly things were sciences.
oblig. xkcd and its inevitable followup.
I wonder where Randal would place philosophy, on that scale of fields?
*peers, off the edge of the cartoon, to the right*
Oh, there it is!
Unless you can repeatably, objectively test and measure it, starting thinking art. Philosophy is about coming up with consistent reasoning, based on observations, but stops short of actually testing anything against reality. It can be argued that philosophy + experimentation = science, but without those last two parts, it falls short. To make really good science, you also need to add mathematics and precise measurement, but even without those tools, you can still have good science.
Aristotle postulated that heavy things fall faster than light things (it made sense at the time), but did not take the next step to test his assertion. About 2000 years later, Galileo Galilei tested this philosophy and found it false (Myth Busted!). Legend has it that Galileo went over to Pisa and started dropping a bunch of balls of different weights off a tower there to see if weight made a difference in the rate these objects fell. He found that weight made no difference, but only by testing the hypothesis. This is the difference between philosophy and science.
Ahh, the reason why I asserted that, is because philosophy questions what you assert to be “reality”. If reality does not exist, conducting tests against it proves nothing!
Philosophy has proven that the only thing you can say with absolute certainty is “I think”. From which you can deduce that “I exist”. Everything else, beyond that, is supposition.
So, whilst you are free to make the subjective decision that “if I can see it, it is real”, just realise that you are making an artistic decision and buying into the image, that has been painted before you, by an unprovable agent.
I know what you’re talking about when you say that Political “Science” is really just an Art. Some people refer to Politics as the Art of Compromise, but they’re wrong. The best expression I’ve heard comes from Dune; when Paul’s father tells him that they “live in a world governed purely by self-interest.” IMO, Politics is NOT the Art of Compromise, it’s the Art of Selfishness.
I am more interested where and when Sydney acquired the plaster on her nose seeing as she didn’t have it prior to entering the secret entrance.
She put it on after that tree got in her way.
Yeah, such an arrogant tree, just to jump right into Sydney’s way like that!
;)
On the bright side, if you do that often enough, you will build up your facial damage resistance. I have a cousin who is 7’2″ tall (2.18 meters). He has bashed his forehead on so many door frames and ceiling fans that you could probably hit him over the head with a piece of structural lumber (also known as a 2×4) and he wouldn’t even flinch.
And yet, despite my klingon-esque forehead, low ceilings still do me a good deal of damage. Childhood made me more wary than hardheaded. Atleast in the litteral sense.
At least she probably has physical resistance on her face at this rate.
But hohnestly just check for a hinge before assuming it’s a door (amd unlocked)
If you only look for hinges to be sure something’s a door, you’d miss doors that open away from you, garage doors and sliding doors in general.
Secret doors, as a rule, do not have their operating mechanisms openly visible.
But, yea, Sydney you must not watch any more Harry Potter movies, until you have been properly educated, in how the world really works!
I mean most secrwt doors aren’t push-operated, you usually have to pull a branch or a root for thwm to open.
Hey, any bets on the tree actually beeing a super seecret entrance for ninjas or something?
Maxima was rather embarrassed, as it is actually one of the Twilight Council delegates!
Ooh, we have not seen the dryads yet, have we?
Sydney might have accidentally head-butted a Dryad in that tree outside, knocking her unconscious. That may be why we don’t see one inside the Council Chamber.
Oh, that was the problem. She needed to enter at platform nine and ‘tree’ quarters. Rookie mistake.
Oh that treemendous pun made me laugh.
Maybe she was waiting for Mel Smith to show her the entrance to the Pit of Despair.
Off her superhero kit. Even the most glamorous of superheroines can get a booboo.
Sydney has those too! They are just more moderately proportioned.
After all, when an inherent super heroine, with super-strength, makes a mistake, a whole mosque can collapse!
Dave, you caught me off guard. The last few pages have been ‘were’ related. When I first saw the horns and her, um, physical assets, I was thinking ‘hold on, is Sydney talking to a were-cow’? And then I read the text.
P.S. Sydney needs to casually get a peek at her with the truesight orb to see if this is what she really looks like.
‘hold on, is Sydney talking to a were-cow’
Thanks for the laugh – it is sort of an honest mistake given the previous pages. But no, Dave has to have Sydney be goofy to _all_ the major groups. Heck, the comic could spend the rest of the IRL year on her being adorkable to various groups here.
Something worth pointing out: Since entering the complex, Sydney has been keeping her hands completely off any of the orbs. Now contrast that to her normal behaviour, where she uses them at every opportunity possible.
For instance grasping the Fly Ball to allow her to make eye-contact, via hovering. That being something she would feel the urge to do here, a lot, given how everyone here towers over her. Note the last couple of panels as an example. Yet she has not done so at all.
Sydney thinks things through deeply (even if her attention flutters around too). I think she is practicing restraint (even though it must be killing her, and may not last), due to considering her first contact protocols. Halo’s capabilities have been publicly demonstrated. So she must assume everyone present knows about her orb’s capabilities.
The Fly Ball they might be OK with. However the orbs with “classified” capabilities will be viewed with even more suspicion than the others. But if the humans are willing to demonstrate a tank-melting weapon, how much more terrible might the secret capabilities be?
You do not go fondling your weapons, if you want to avoid a diplomatic incident, or worse!
“You do not go fondling your weapons, if you want to avoid a diplomatic incident”
Good point, and good attention to detail on the orb-handling. It might be by design as you suggest, it may be accidental, or it may be the artist letting people focus on the new characters instead of Sydney’s antics.
(and then my brain goes off on a tangent) You know, a succubus handling her (own) orbs could cause a diplomatic incident, but not the kind you refer to.
Hmm would love to see how that conversation went…”So I hear you’re a heifer?” . We of course could go with Were-Goat, Were-Sheep (just watch Black Sheep, they aren’t so cuddly), Were-Ox, Were-Bison and so on.
Decollete then replies, “What was that? Hefner? No we are just good friends.”
I’m confused. There was more than one panel to this page?
I’d guess so? I think I may have spotted something with my peripheral vision, but it’s been stubbornly staying on those outskirts.
I thought her outskirts (as well as any inner skirts) would be a little lower.
So, the finishing school is “companion training” only easier?
Yeah, Companion Training can really wear down one’s endurance. It involves lots & lots of running. The Doctor just loves that running.
Hmm. I like Decolette.
Hmm, thought Deco meant that she wasn’t a natural born Succubae, but Dabbles was
Naa, just being catty. Saying that Dabbler’s sex appeal is purely down to her racial heritage, rather than having any from her own accomplishments.
One subtlety to consider is that succubus heritage wins through. The offspring of succubi are always succubi.* Given the whole species breeds that way, it is unlikely that they would consider it an issue.
But I get how it might give that impression, at first.
* Although we can assume that there is some influence from the other genetic heritage. For instance two of the other succubi-appearing demons we have seen (Decollete herself, and the school-girl discussed above) look fairly human-like. Yet the others in the school scene look very varied. Which, although natural variability is possible, I feel is likely from breeding with different alien species.
Or, they could simply be other types of demon
True. Panel three, above, does support that too. However succubi are prolific, so I am in with a good chance, statistically.
Okay well, that Comment Section Sabbatical didn’t last long, blame it on DaveB producing another fantastic page :P
Shame on him! The very nerve!
I’m glad you changed your mind . . . or that DaveB changed it . . . or whatever . . .
Yay!
*runs around with tail wagging crazily*
Who could stay away for long with such a joyous greeting? :D
Wait, it’s not because you couldn’t figure out how to open the Yorpie Snax Dispenser, is it? o_O
*holds paws bashfully behind back, concealing the lack of thumbs*
I would have gotten there eventually. The comments would’t be the same without you though.
It was set up specially for those lacking in opposable thumbs
Here, see? Just place both fore-paws on those pads and place your nose against this sensor, now all you need do is breathe out and it will detect that it is you (combination of your paw-pads and DNA) and it will release a measured amount into the bowl below
Other doggies can try, but it won’t work for them :D
I have a friend who bought a similar device for their dog. From what she described, pushing a button with the nose, would choose one of several responses. So that the owner could keep track of activity, it gave a verbal response, in addition to supplying the need, in question.
“I need water” – automatically filling the bowl
“I need food” – supplying food, up to the daily limit
“I need to be let out” – unlocking the dog flap.
Trouble is the dog using it, was terrified by the voices. So refused to ever go near the pads!
Currently that house is under water :(
All people, two legged or four, got out safely though, and are staying with relatives, on high ground.
Electronic voices can be terrifying to anyone
Wait, please tell me the house isn’t under water because the poor doggie needed to go out!! :eek:
The doggy was very thirsty…
Although, in actuality, the house is in one of the flood zones in Louisiana.
1) Would a surplus of succubi be anything like a plethora of pinatas?
2) I wonder if one of their tutors in cooking was Granny Weatherwax?
Granny Weatherwax? No. Nanny Ogg.
You mean the “Joye of cooking” (or something like that)?
Or perhaps it was Nigella Lawson?
And I cannot believe that I was the first person, in 61,430 views, to give her either a thumbs up, or a thumbs down!
Ahh, never mind, ‘comments disabled’. So it would conceal the totals.
Si El Guapo! You have a surplus!
Since Succubi require sexual energy for sustenance, do they actually enjoy sex the way humans do (eg:orgasms) or is it more like the satisfaction of enjoying a gourmet dinner? Also, given that their sexual encounter endurance levels are far superior to humans, do they ever tire or ‘top off their tank’ and want to take a break? I’d wager that Dab and Del could spend several days ‘charging each other’s batteries’ without breaking a sweat.
It depends: do you enjoy every meal you eat?
Remember this scene? :D
If you enjoy your meals that much, perhaps it’s best to dine at home.
First I thought I was looking at a butt.
Did they go to the same school as Inara from “Firefly”?
Biologists have explained an evolutionary theory, for why that happens.
But it comes from the same group of people who study why baboons have red and blue arses. So you can expect their theories to be a bit… eccentric.
You may be the first person to write a succubus this far outside the stereotype O_O
You haven’t played Planescape Torment, have you? Shame on you. Go play it.
Yuki is referring to Fall-From-Grace, who is a… get this… chaste Succubus. It’s been a long time since I played Planescape Torment, but as I recall, you meet her outside the Brothel For Slaking Intellectual Lusts (it IS a brothel, but they don’t serve the patrons physically.) She also happens to be Lawful Neutral, and the only character you can add to your party that has healing spells.
I’ll bet there’s a mod for that.
Actually, you meet her inside the brothel…She’s the Madam, so to speak. No mod required, she’s just a part of the regular gameplay. Being chaste however, doesn’t restrict her from kissing…She can still steal souls that way (Sort of like Klingon Kisses that use lips, not fists).
Yeah. The good news is that inXile (who has many employees that were originally part of Black Isle Studios and worked on Planescape Torment) has re-acquired the rights to Planescape. Also good news, is that they are working on a spiritual successor to Planescape Torment.
Bad news is that they’re placing it in the Monte Cook Numenera setting. But since Hasbro Interactive has the rights to use the D&D rules, I guess inXile don’t have much choice but to use an alternate system.
Blame it on Mort…He was the Head of Vecna, after all.
That last panel reminds me of when Sydney spotted the spark between Deus and Maxima and quietly suggested they should get a room. Did she see something similar between Dabbler and Decollete I wonder, or is she just saying that because they’re both succubi?
They’re arguing in a way that could definitely be interpreted as a display of sexual tension. Not that that’s likely to be anything unusual in succubus interactions.
when an 2 incubai and 2 sucubai walking into a room, I assure you the result is an absolute hoot, for all involved, especially the plumbers, the contractors, the construction crew, and the electricians.
Sorry, the way my brain is working I’m thinking the surplus of kittens is totally related to your lore entry.
Due to the rules of the internet, I wasn’t altogether surprised when I googled “Grrl Power Wiki” and found one. I was all set to make one myself, but someone beat me to it. I guess I should start moving all the lore entries to there, just in case someone wants to use this universe as a homebrew RPG setting or whatnot.
My imagination runs wild cause of that last panel.
It seems to me that Decollete has some class and would be the non-cheerleader popular girl that was a bit snobbish but still had everyone begging to let her go with them. The “I’m beautiful and i know it” girl who’s soul is a black and manipulative reversal of her outward appearance.
Dabbler would be the party girl type. almost like the punk rockers, ” I’m here to have fun and don’t care what you are doing as long as there is good music and some hot guys!”
But that is just my opinion.
Did you forget the classroom scene with a young Dabbles? She was more of the nerdy-swot type (they tend to be more fun, once you get them ‘out of their shell’)
A supernatural orgy? So a succubi dominance fight is a #@%$-off… to make the loser #@%$-off and leave?
Sort of like a cock-fight,* but with more variety than just pecking and clawing at each other.
* Speaking of which, I watched Zone of Enders recently. Enjoyable enough that I forced myself to keep watching. Despite the fact that periodically they would have giant robots fighting, with what looked like enormous erections!
OK they were the crafts’ cockpits, but I think the animator took the term a bit too literally. And it would be the most exposed, deadly, position to put a pilot in. Subject to attack by every kick, punch or other attack. Let alone getting ripped off, if turning around in a confined space!
Cock-fights are popular among the incubus (who I will assume exist in this universe for now). No birds are involved.
And no roosters were harmed in making the film…