Grrl Power #586 – Tentacle talk
Before starting Grrl Power, I had a nebulous concept of succubi being solitary predators, or having their own little fiefdoms, or being the wizard or seer or whatever for a lord of some sort where they’d have access to a stock of partners, willing or otherwise to keep them well fed with tantric energy.
But the more I develop Dabbler’s backstory and think about Demon society, I think it’s really funny that they might have a formalized education system. Even when those classes could entail things your typical human might find abhorrent. And not just for succubi, but for all demons, like you basically have something identifiable as pretty much regular school up to about high school, then there’s a year or two of what amounts to vocational schooling, mostly depending on race, but not so strictly that a succubus couldn’t go to Pit Lord business management school, a Balor could go to Quaistling messenger school, but that would obviously be super weird. Or a Glabrezu could just become a chef. They don’t have to do demon finishing school necessarily, but it would be like meeting a guy named Kiff Smarmington who didn’t attend an Ivy League college. Just… unsettling.
Presumably, demons went through their own Iron Age and Dark Age and all that stuff, where demonic warlords swept across lands, and some phases where the favored currency was the suffering of other races, and that’s the impression many other races have of them to this day. It’s like American car manufacturers shaking off 30 years of second-rate products while German and Japanese manufacturers just dunked all over them. It takes a long time for people to get past stuff like that.
But now they have a modern society concerned more with commerce than conquering. Actually more than modern, since they are a starfaring race. Sure, their soccer riots are exponentially more violent, and the CEO sitting behind the desk might have a flaming skull for a head, but they have a relatively civilized, if somewhat feudal, culture. Just… try not to pick a fight with anyone if you can avoid it, because that Marilith bartender might just be able to summon 6 flaming swords.
The first draft of this page had Decollete coming down with the Succubus version of Mono as an excuse for missing “tentacle week.” I spent some time trying to think of a funny sounding disease name, then realized that necessarily, Succubi are really and magically disease resistant. It’s not like they can’t ever get sick, but venereal disease is unheard of among them. Curiously succubi are pretty much a risk-free partner, in terms of disease and pregnancy anyway. (Succubi choose if and when to get pregnant.) The whole draining your life energy thing is another matter. They obviously don’t have to drain someone to fatal levels, but you should definitely plan to take the next day off work. Probably hydrate too. Get those electrolytes back up.
Oh and in case you were wondering, Decollete cast a translation spell. She figured not everyone spoke Tentaclese.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. $1 and up, but feel free to contribute as much as you like.
Jeez Maxima, just blast them….
Why? They are friendly (maybe a little too friendly, but not forcibly), communicative, and more importantly, sentient (or is it sapient? can never figure out the difference), why should she blast them?
Sentient → feeling (think sensing)
Sapient → thinking (think homo sapiens)
Thank you, hopefully will remember
So, they are essentially both sentient and sapient.
However ……
It would seem that many mammals are more *sapient* than humans think, especially concidering that “civilized” humans once thought they weren’t even sentient.
Also, as far as i see it, thoughts are often merely feelings that is described through words.
Yes, even logical connections like: “That goes against what i have been taught” and “I had three apples, and i ate one, if i’ll have two remaining now, it is logical”.
anything that’s sapient is also sentient, but not everything that’s sentient is sapient. sapience is a higher form of sentience.
Yeah, knew one covers both, butt couldn’t remember which one
I wouldn’t go so far as to say that anything sapient is sentient,
Take a hypothetical alien race that is incapable of empathy, but capable of logic. aka psychopaths.
You mean, Vulcan’s?
sophont -> Smart as humans, but only exists in sci fi universes.
And fantasy.
AND DOLPHINS no really they have been recorded doing calculus
Um, no. Dolphins do not do calculus. We don’t even speak dolphin, and they don’t do well with chalkboards.
Due to our communication difficulties with cetaceans in general, we do not know how much math any particular pod/group/species understands. They may be great at counting to 37 in their heads and have mastered integer multiplication and division but have no concept of algebra, which would preclude doing much with calculus. Mind you, some elements of calculus do not need algebra, just an open and curious mind.
A relatively easy mnemonic is to remember that humans are referred to as ‘homo sapiens’, which translated from latin, means ‘wise man’.
One of the most misleading scientific names in history.
And then their are Gluteus Maximus Sapiens, or Wise Asses.
+1
A clue to remember is that the official name for humanity is Homo SAPIENT.
It’s a smart way to get away. You create monstrous looking, nightmarish tentacles with eyes and vagina-mouths….. who are very friendly, sociable, and amiable. So if you blast them, you’re blasting them just for ‘being in the way.’ It’s the monster/demonic version of a bank robber driving a car, getting away by throwing a bunch of money in the air and a crowd of innocent people wanting free cash getting in the way of the police pursuit.
Sure, the police car could just drive through the crowd, running people over in order to get to the fleeing criminals, but that would be wrong.
One flaw, with the ‘throwing money’ trick, is if there are hardcore villains in the area, who decide not to scrabble after the stuff on the ground, but decide they want the bags of money that are trying to get away. Then you don’t just have the cops after you, but the mafia too!
Here Wyrmcoot has gone from ‘wanted for questioning by the police’ to ‘holder of a highly desirable item’ for two succubi and an apex superheroine in training. Securing the vault may have been the highest priority, but he has pushed himself up the list now.
Pretty sure it still doesn’t mean you’re going to destroy a bunch of ‘things’ which might be completely innocent and non-evil to do so. That whole ‘heroine’ thing does have the implication that you’re going to act in a heroic fashion,after all.
Yea, that is a good point. I got distracted by the analogy, as that is the one which has the drawback I detailed. Both do have the advantage of delaying the immediate pursuit, in their own ways. And, in this case, no additional parties are being drawn into the chase.
I would have been better just pointing out the irony of the ‘deterrent’ as being more of a temptation, to most of the pursuers, than a barrier. One that could lead to jealousy of the device used to create it. Albeit that, as you say, they are heroic and would not allow that to affect their actions.
Well, barring Decolette, who we do not really know much about. But she does represent the organisation who has been stolen from, so she is actually entitled to reclaim it. Regardless of whether her reasons, for doing that, may now be conflicted.
I suppose they could be giggling…
I ave the sneaking suspicion the tentacles might be an innocent bystander and/or kidnap victim. After all, we know Wyrmil/Cooter summoned them, but we don’t know they’re allied with him.
They aren’t allied. The weapon is from the vault and it summoned the tentacles through what was slashed by the sickle.
So depending on how much control the sickle gives the user over the tentacles, or how loyal they are to the sickle owner, not forgetting Cootwyrm (yes, I’m coining that name now) fleeing right away without giving instructions, the tentacles are acting on their own now, not directly allied to Sciona’s group.
the sickle may summon them but they don’t seem to know to which place. Then again they seem to enjoy the change in scenery.
As for reasons why they generally are summoned, the sentence:
“hey look, succibi! guys I think I know why we were summoned!’ makes that clear.
Also the guys don’t look as if they are in a defensive/aggressive mode when they pop up so they probably are used to fun and games when called. And would/will there be differences between the genders of the species? Inquiring minds want to know!
So they might have been enlisted to help out with the succubi training. Or did they just hear about others being summoned for that?
Actually, as tentacles go they seem quite well mannered. I kind of doubt that they are what Wyrter hoped for.
Wyrter is better.
Well the sickle was in the vault, so we know they aren’t harmless.
Being sapient makes them even more dangerous than mindless tentacles, plus the eyes and teeth, and the mention of a “whole planet” of writhing them makes me think of an Eldritch Horror, like they are all really ONE massive entity with distributed intelligence, enough so each tentacle can operate fully as an individual.
>they might have a formalized education system.
Do I see some Harry Potter influence in this? One thing about HP that bugs me is their formal education system ends at age 17.
Is *anyone* reading this who’s not educated past age 17?
What do you mean?
The system in Harry Potter covers UK secondary school (Books 1-5) and “6th form” (Books 6&7) It does not cover magical University (Not “college”, that would be an alternative to 6th form), nor magical primary school (learning to use magic starts at secondary school, but reading/writing/maths/history can all start earlier. It might also cover basic gardening for herbology, ingredient prep for potions, advanced sneering for purebloods, etc)
The other educational levels aren’t shown, but we have no indication that they don’t exist. The only “career councilling” we see is Harry’s, and he is looking to join the Auror corps. Match that against requirements for the Police or the Army, and you see he didn’t really need any further education for his goals.
The University wouldn’t be that big. There is one school for the whole of the UK. A whole university would need a larger catchment area to have reasonable sized classes.
Although Hogwarts could be the best place for any advanced study. Why else would they have a restricted section in the library if not for use by those who can handle the publications it accommodates.
But most of the further education would be broken down by career, so that those progressing towards an Auror would get on the job training to progress up the ranks. Those progressing into herbology might have a secret section of some large garden centre.
Kew Garden?
Define ‘educated’
Indeed, too often I saw the US instruction system get in the way of people getting an education.
That sounds like a reference …. ^_^
It is a reference:
“Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.”
~Mark Twain
In the US, education beyond 12th grade (high school) requires many thousands of dollars (sorry, don’t know the metric conversion for that). So there may be many readers who aren’t educated past that. I was unable to pay for college myself, and had to do it thru the Air Force. So, traditional college past 17 – no. But plenty of education anyway, I just had to pay with a mild form of indentured servitude and the possibility of getting shot or exploded. Other readers may not have had even that much opportunity.
My experience is similar; graduated High School at 17 and in the military two months later. College/university was way too expensive, so that wasn’t happening. When I retired 20 years later I could have used the tuition I’d earned in the service to go to school and get a degree but I was too busy working. First as a quality engineer and now as a systems engineer for an aerospace company.
Maxima would be a different case. To become an Air Force officer she had to have at least a bachelor’s degree and in order to make it to Lieutenant Colonel she basically had to have picked up a master’s degree along the way. In practical terms, because the USAF is so degree obsessed, to reach her rank, she likely has a Ph.D. I mention as a side note that being a LtCol means she has been in the USAF between 16 and 22 years, so she is most likely between 38 and 44 years old.
unless she’s a mustang. then everything takes longer.
I got a couple bachelor (2 year) degrees (dual major) and it cost me around 45,000 dollars of debt.
Bachelor degrees are 4-year. Two year would be an associate’s degree.
You can now tell the quality of my education.
“…requires many thousands of dollars (sorry, don’t know the metric conversion for that).”
Several kilo-dollars. I’m pretty sure that’s the metric conversion for it, right? Likewise, you could covert it to several kibi-dollars, but I think that unit is more appropriate for bitcoin.
In Belgium we had until 1977 only an obligation to go to school until 14 years. After that you could go into apprenticeship (not formal education), start working or get higher education. So there are loads of +58year olds who only went to school until 14.
Also, they don’t study reading, writing, or math.
so wait, he escapes just because the tentacles were distracting enough? I feel like Maxima would just fly through them, with them being splatted across the walls.
Max has played D&D. She mentioned Ioun stones way back when she first saw Sydney’s orbs, she knows about Evard’s Black Tentacles…
Also… considering Max has had her powers since she was a teenager, and probably suffers from the ‘Woman of
SteelGold, Man of Kleenex.” issue, she may actually need to get her freak on so to speak…The reversed-gender of “woman of Kleenex” is usually “man of toothpaste”
Awesome reference. :)
And causes GBH to an unwillingly displaced sapient innocent bystander?
That’s like sugggesting she should have taken out the “bank robbers” by punching them through Sydney’s chest. At this point, “protect civillians” would be her primary concern, which probably means harmlessly de-summoning the hentacles.
Hentacles…innocent…heh heh…not even in a parallel universe. Oh- you mean “non-violent”. gotcha. tight.
She probably didn’t want to murder what appear to be sapient, if weird, beings.
An unwillingness to murder is an important qualification in a police officer, I find, so I’m relatively okay with this.
The tentacles are tall and dense enough to keep anyone from getting through easily. As they appear to be intelligent, Max will be reluctant to just shove her way through as that would injure them. So other options need to be found. Hmm, of those present, who is most persuasive? Where did that vampire get to?
Which one? The wampire or the Viking-pire?
Decollette goes to the far left, Dabbler to the far right, both then say “Oh, Boyyyyyssss….”
And Maxima flies straight through the suddenly empty middle. Easy draw play.
Tentaclese. Like John Cleese, but with language instead of Silly Walks.
Then there is the Greek story of Genericles, the completely ordinary hero with no outstanding characteristics.
The answer to Sydney’s last question is… by volume. Kappa
…Volume…
Volume of Sound, Fluids, or both?
Or tentacles.
Volume of Hentacle?
Yes.
I would think it would be graded “on the curve.”
I had the same thought. Also, getting an F is actually a good thing.
Succubus grades go in reverse order. Lowest grade is an A, then you have B, C, D, DD, E…
:-P
I think it’s more like “graded on the curve(s).” DeCollette did say that it was usually a “group project,” with a whole classroom full of students. Probably also included the sports teams’ unit of referees to help the instructor with observing the class (for grading purposes)…It would take a lot of eyes watching from a lot of different angles to give fair grades, wouldn’t it?
Kappa? What would a water spirit have to do with this? Or did you mean Baka?
Kappa is a Twitch.tv thing. There, it’s automatically converted into an emote which indicates “just kidding” and/or mild friendly trolling.
Trolling by definition isn’t friendly. Gadflying can be, however. sad thing is most people don’t know the other terms and just all everything “trolling.”
I guess when the tentacles started talking in English Max and Sydney froze in confusion. Otherwise they would have blasted those things, or done something similar.
Almost reminds me of the classic game “Day of the Tentacle”.
There’s probably one in the back who is sooooooooo depressed.
Yeah Sydney! Don’t diss the Tentacles. They obviously don’t get out much.
Well, they were living in somebodies basement.
Heck, with their curiosity and rapid-fire, semi-random speech, they actually remind me a little of Sydney.
Anybody wanna sign this petition top stop a Deadpool reboot, just in-case Disney buys Fox. And no, it’s not suggesting that Deadpool doesn’t make it into the MCU. Just read what it says
I hope they do.
If by that you mean Disney buying Fox, then would you mind signing the petition, or at least checking it out.
Cause the current Deadpool films capture the character perfectly. :)
Except, he royally fucked up Domino, correction, Afronimo, and while Neena is not white, she most certainly is not black with a fucking afro!!!
The movie isn’t even out yet! Give her a chance
Has nothing to do with the actresses abilities, it has everything to do with the character she is supposed to portray: she has only, ever, been portrayed as have white skin (whether natural or makeup), with a black ‘dot’ over her left eye (size varies) and black glossy hair, typically straight, but sometimes ‘messy’, in “Deadpool 2” they have basically reversed her to the point she is more ‘Nega Domino’ (or a negative photographic image) with black skin, white ‘dot’ and a brown afro (or maybe dreadlocks?)
All regular domino bricks i have seen are black with white dots.
The regular X-Force-Domino is technically the “nega-Domino”, and even though i normally agree with making a character hugely different being wrong … like “deadpool” in the Wolverine movie … having Domino look like a … well, domino, is interesting.
Also, to point things out:
Negasonic Teenage Warhead looked NOTHING like the one in the comics, nor did she have any of that character’s powers …. but unlike the false “deadpool” that were a mockery of the comic version, she was BETTER than the comic original, …
But yeah.
NSTW from the comics was only there to have a ludicrous edgy name and then die in the attack she herself foresaw …. so the movie had free reign of her character.
Domino has a history.
But to practically make her more looking like the brick …. it might not be as “off” as you think?
But yet, i was very long very peeved at Marvel’s version of “Thor” …. The MYTHICAL GOD IS A REDHEAD, FOR CHRIST’S SAKE!!!!
I have one advice:
See “Afro-Domino” as a completely different character.
That might help at least a bit.
If Thor getting a blonde dye job had you peeved, I can only imagine how Heimdall made you feel. He still turned out pretty awesome.
If it’s been done with Marvel’s blessing, then they basically have free reign. It’s at least worth giving it a chance.
Why is this HERE? No one else listening to you people?
Heck, if appearance is your deal you should have hated the first Deadpool, what with only Deadpool and Colossus looking right, Nega Sonic Teenage Warhead, Angel Dust, and Ajax were all totally different in appearance and abilities for the most part; the origin was changed, ect…
Movies are like the what ifs, animated series, and alt-verse comics; they are their own thing. There will be changes, and I don’t see Domino’s aesthetic change as any kind of deal breaker.
Anymore so than any costume change, legacy name pass, or such is an issue. Heck I’m glad she’s not an all white form…have you SEEN what that looks like in live action? White body paint is terrible at covering up ANYTHING, It just looks like the actor/actress is wearing white powder or paint; if they CGI it on then it has lighting issues, it works in comics not on the big screen; the compromise isn’t bad; just give the movie a chance. After all people whined about Wolverine being taller than Cyclops as if that was a deal breaker when the first X-men movie came out like it was the end of the franchise right there and now people can’t imagine a different actor portraying him.
Should that have been, “The MYTHICAL GOD IS A REDHEAD, FOR ODIN’S SAKE!!!!”
Kinda bad form to cross religions. 8^p
Well, apart from a few (very few) diehard nerd’s, most people would have never heard of the ‘real’ Negasonic (or the others) so they were more free to ‘juice’ her up a bit
Domino on the other finger is way more established of a character
When Marvel started writing stories about Thor, they probably based his look on the stereotypical modern Scandinavian blonde (maybe they didn’t think any of their American readers would believe a ginger god, mythical or not)
Domino’s less of a fleshed out character than Spiral.
hell, Shatterstar has more story than her.
Don’t know about how much of her backstory she has had, but she has appeared in more stories
Meh.
I find the new colour scheme disappointing, But after ‘Black Jesus’ Heimdall and black Wilson Fisk, not to mention tall Wolverine, I’m amused someone is that angry about it.
Wait, do people still consider the Daredevil movie as legit?
And “The Ancient One” from Dr. Strange wasn’t an Irish woman in her 40’s, either. And Peter Parker didn’t date a snarky black chick. Hollywood SJWs gotta SJW.
About the whole ” succubi are pretty much a risk-free partner, in terms of disease”, i would be a little less than certain, as being highly resistant to venereal diseases could result in them being asymptomatic carriers of those, what can be EVEN more dangerous in a crapload of ways.
They have spells and stuff that ensure they are clean, not just the fact they are not susceptible to diseases or other illnesses
And, even if they DO want you to die, they want you to die from their embrace, not from diseases. ^_^
The tentacles now need their own cast entry in the “Who’s Who” section.
Only when they give their name
Evard obviously.
So uh, have ARC and friends actually done anything right lately? Just saying.
Have they done anything wrong?
cough Krona cough
That has already been explained a number of times: not even Kronachrome herself believes they did anything wrong
Haven’t we seen those tentacles before?
I was binge rereading and saw them somewhere.
The only other page that I remember with tentacles in them was during her interview. And those were a bit different from these.
Maybe they are a different species, if they cum from an entire planet of Tentaclese, maybe there is more than one ‘type’
Something they were watching online (Dabbler, Heatwave, Harem, Maxima, Arianna) were probably this type, as seen in Dave’s pic comment:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/490
And of course you had to spell “come” that way ^_^
Of course :D
LV….Yes…that’s the page I meant.
“Er, excuse, me, human things, is this where we report for the whole ‘HARVEST’ thing?”
“Hey, shut up about that! That’s not for weeks, yet!”
“But I’m hungry NOW!”
“SHUT! UP! Not in front of the esser-lay eings-bay!”
“Oh… right…”
Sydney: Wait, what are you guys talking about?
“Oh, nothing! Look at the time we gotta go nice meeting you all Dabbler call us!”
*tentacles disappear back into crack*
It’s the tentacles of forced intrusion you have to worry about.
Also, the first panel looks a little weird. Ariannas hair looks darker (maybe it is supposed to be wet?) and Sydney looks like she is wearing heavy makeup around her eyes.
The shade of Ari’s hair could be down to DaveB using different colours (or look, more fellation!), and Sydney has always had the dark ‘rim’ to her eyes, you can see it in panels five and six and in her Who’s Who mugshot
In fact, looking at the other humans in the rotating banner, they all do, so it’s probably just more of DaveB‘s artstyle
Link for the curious…
Yeah, it is a little darker. I was trying a thing where blonde hair is drawn from a darker base, then lightened as you add layers, so it looks partially sun bleached the way most blonde hair does, unless the person is like bleached or like proper Nordic super blonde. I didn’t quite nail it but I’ll get it better next time.
Also is the reference to a world covered in tentacles talking about an SCP. Seem to remember that there was at least one.
No, no…it’s a common modern mythological thing that predates it. I mean, it goes back to at LEAST Lovecraft. And numerous, NUMEROUS Hentai works. SCP was borrowing from the same source.
Dave, I have to admit, that was totally unexpected. Funny, but unexpected.
I agree!
Couple questions:
Is there just one eye and mouth per tentacle? They mostly seem to have one of each per tentacle, but there is one tentacle that appears to have two sets
Didn’t Dabbles say she never went to Finishing School? Or was it that she simply didn’t finish Finishing School?
For the tentacle, look at the previous page, all of them have more than one eye/mouth. Also, it seems like the tentacles are part of a single organism but still have their own personality and thoughts…
I was going to ask that myself. When Decollette was first introduced, Dabbler denigrates her as the kind of succubus that went to Finishing School to spend her time learning perfect manners, diplomacy, proper behavior (whatever the hell THAT means to succubii) maybe how to tell apart different kinds of wine… etc…
Which very strongly implies that Dabbler did NOT attend the same school.
…Although there was also that on panel featuring a “Demon High School” in which a more awkward-looking Dabbler was attending. Dave stated outright that that he wanted that to be canon.
Mind you, that may well have just been “high school” and not a post-graduate “Finishing School” college-equivalent specifically for succubae, the latter of which Dabbler did not attend.
This also might answer the contradiction in this page, if the “tentacle group project” happened in high school and not Finishing School (Though that itself implies there are succubae-specific classes in the high school).
Dave dude, I think you’re going through a Chuck Austen phase. And why did Sydney needed a 45-minute life-threatening hot shower?
You mean other than because of the memory of the scab-soup she took a bath in? We are about to find out
Oh yeah, forgot about that. But then again the fused wormy guy/redneck and Cthulhu’s pubes kind of gloss over that quickly.
Also she took a dunk in the near freezing moonpool.
in short, Sydney hasn’t exactly had a good day.
Iidk… until the end it was pretty damn spiffy of a day… Secret Mystical Forbidden Vault would pretty high I would think…
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If there isn’t a reference to a certain point-and-click video game series from Lucasarts, I’m going to be disappointed.
I think making the tentacles friendly and chatty is already a reference by itself.
In retrospect, demon schooling makes way too much sense. When looking back at all the high fantasy and the fact that pretty much every demon anywhere is pretty much versed in ancient arcane and newer magics, it’s kind of hard to try and explain where and how they learned all that with out coming to some sort of schooling. Now I’m tying to visualize what a modern hell would look like and how it would function…
i picture it like Menzoberranzan but with more lava and a tech based religion. Everyone keeps to their own little casts and puts on a show of power/pride whenever in public.
Well, we do know it’s at least partially right in that sense. The arcane school regularly consorted with demons and other such things. I guess that would be like internships for them right?
Sydney’s expression in the last panel makes me laugh. She just knows that there going to be even more regrets before the day is over.
Well how do *you* think it would be graded?
So if succubi go to succubi school I assume that tentacles go to tentacle school. Said schools should be in the same neighbourhood for practical reasons.
Or at least easy access (get it? they did, twice :P ) via a portal
Those mixers must be a blast! By the way, is the name Ro Jaws a nod to the character from the 2000AD strips? If so, nice reference.
Yeah I like the attitude and look of that nasty little robot. Also “Ro Jaws” sounds a bit like my own name.
Succubus Finishing School? There’s an obvious joke in there.
It’s been referenced before: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1698
Ok I’m bored now. Thanks for the distraction I’m out.
Boy that bit about girl showers is so true. I’ll never forget the shock and surprise of taking a shower with a girl (my future wife) for the first time. It was freaking SCALDING HOT! I couldnt believe it. Weird thing is, I came out all red skinned and she looked just fine afterwards. What is it with the ladies, do they have some sort of subdermal cooling system those of us with the xy chromosomes lack?
I gotta say, I really like the hentacles, Id enjoy seeing them pop up from time to time. Given her fetish I cant help but wonder if Sydney is brave enough to give it a whirl or is the line between fantasy and reality a bridge too far. It was also an amusing twist that this didnt become some monstrous brawl but instead has become on of my all time favorite comedy moments for the series, heh chatty tentacles. WHo’ve thought?
I (XY) can deal with “freaking SCALDING HOT” water however my partner (XY) can’t. I even told him that I have taken a hot spring bath where the water was at 110 to 120 in January after 10 pm.
[Bracey]_Re_”…do they have some sort of subdermal cooling system…?”:
Yes, they do. Human females have an extra layer of subcutaneous fat cells that males lack. On the ‘plus’-side, this additional insulation most likely helped our pregnant ancestors to shelter their fetus as it grew within. It’s also available as an emergency-reserve of energy to nourish the fetus, if food is in short supply. Picture the nudes in Renaissance-paintings (or even the “Willendorf Venus”, as an exaggerated example). They were considered desirable because this body-type was most likely to produce healthy offspring. On the ‘minus’-side, this extra layer makes it much more difficult for overweight females to lose weight & to keep it off, compared to males.
That would explain why they are always cold ;)
I’m surprised. I like my showers blisteringly hot, but my girlfriend can’t stand that temperature, and always turns it down to merely warm.
I would love to watch a marilith bartender do fancy drink juggling. Probably some of the most impressive drinkrobatics you could ever witness.
See anything by Krakow Comics. (Spinerette especially)
“Fancy drink juggling” is officially called “Flair bartending”, by the way. There’s actually “working flair” and “exhibition flair”. Exhibition flair is usually what you see in those flair contests (but there are contests for working flair as well).
The main difference is that working flair is defined as “flair that does not noticeably slow service”, usually involving bottles filled to various levels (as in a real work situation) that are quickly manipulated and then poured. It also uses a flat throw (no flipping) because then you don’t run the risk of spilling the alcohol.
Bottles used in exhibition flare almost always involves bottles that are often pre-set with less than 2 ounces (60ml) specifically for flipping (enough to pour exactly one mixed drink). Exhibition flair often involves longer sequences and routines, multiple objects, and performances choreographed to music.
I think this video sums up the difference pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb8wNvVAaUM
Oh, by the way, if you want to see some awesome exhibition flair, search for any video of Danilo Oribe, who won the “Legends XII” competition.
*jealously watches clip*
Wow, humans are amazing!
“Quaistling” gets zero Google hits. Little help?
I’m assuming a DnD race or equivalent. It might have been misspelled.
https://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Quasit
guessing its a typo, qua-is-t / qua-si-t, easy mistake to make. google should have been able to figure that out, shame on them imo.
I think Dave just meant ‘quasitling’ to mean ‘young quasit’, as in ‘school-age quasit’.
“Balor could go to Quaistling messenger school”
Suffix
-ling
A suffix forming diminutives with the meanings of:
1 a small, immature, or miniature version of what is denoted by the main stem.
2 a follower or resident of what is denoted by the original root or stem.
I think he was meaning that demons could do something totally against their perceived nature, Balor is a Big Bad Boss type, having him go to a Quasitling Messenger School would be silly because Quasit are very small and weak servant types.
the -ling part meaning a messenger school for Quasit
Not… quite, the -ling part meant, as you said, young Quasit, and a Quasitlng messenger school simply a school for young Quasit to learn how to be a messenger (#1 lesson: how not to be shot after delivering the message :P)
Butt, Classic Steve‘s problem was the misspelling of “Quasitling”
I got two hits for it!
Both on this page.
could also be “Quisling” which… generally isn’t something you want to be.
I can see Maxima’s thought process going from “How do we get through” to “How do we get through without MURDERING PEOPLE!”
Dave’s sense of humor never fails to tickle my funny bone.
However you’ll understand if I avoid those tentacles – I don’t want them to tickle anything else.
Just curious – Was the Iron Age that supernatural species went through, technically a Cold Iron Age?
They might have bypassed it completely, if they are not fussed about wrinkles. They could have gone straight from the Washing Age to the Drying Age.
I like these tentacle guys; they have personality. Can they be a recurring character?
Only if they catch Coo… nevermind, no one will admit to catching him :POnly if they manage to retrieve that Tenta-Sickle, unless they have another way to summon them
It just occurred to me, Dabbler can help make Sydney’s dreams come true (with careful instruction and much limber stretching first).
If that instruction includes teaching Sydney how to summon hentai tentacles, I suspect that she would regret that, in the long run.
After looking at panel one I have two random clothing suggestions for Archon.
1) The robes: You guys really need to get these monogrammed with your logo. You can afford it.
2) Potential head-wear for Sydney: Syd, never try to join a Mariachi band. If you tried to wear the hat, it would just float off your head.
P.S. Dave
In the last dozen pages Decollete has gone from wearing purple sleeves with black gloves, to neither, to just the purple sleeves, to all purple gloves.
At least she has her glasses back :P
And they were always gloves, not a purple sleeve, and it was black bracers, not gloves
She’s a succubus, maybe she isn’t wearing anything but an illusion and she keeps forgetting the details (like the glasses)
Further archival inspection of the, um, archives, shows she must have started with half length black (latex?) gloves over full length purple gloves. Can succubi get germophobia? (The glasses appear to be summoned on command when she wants to look scholarly). https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2618
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2679
looks like she took them off to eat popcorn, then only put the sleeves back on as wyrmcoot (that sounds kinda dirty if you say it right) here
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2699
my guess is she took along some black gloves just incase the vault thats not been used for 30 years was dirty.
“as wyrmcoot escaped”
anyone know how hard it is to get an edit button on these type of forums?
Very hard. Not to get the plug in mind, such do exist. But adding it holds with it a small chance that the comments history might be lost. Dave is an artist and writer, not a programmer so, even with precautions, that would remain a risk. One that Dave, very wisely, chooses not to take.
Plus it encourages writing discipline in regular commentators. Albeit that we all fail, despite that, from time to time.
Man what is with Dabbler’s eyes in panel 4? Either the perspective is wonky or one of her eyes grew and also migrated upwards. Along with the stripe around that eye. Actually, never mind, I forgot that I shouldn’t try to make sense of the art in this comic anymore; it stopped making sense a while ago… T_T
Both eyes are going wide in shock slash surprise that Deco has never experienced these guys (and girls?) before
Rule of funny. Dave often draws chibi characters, who’s only purpose is to show extreme emotions, despite the unrealistic nature of such depictions. This is just a lesser version, to show surprise in a comedic fashion, but without going so overboard as to go full-on loony tunes.
Love those tentacles! They have personality, and their excitement is kind of adorable!
If you don’t take photos it never happened.
So wait, just 1 page ago she admitted to having “dreams” about this, but now she is weirded/grossed out when the succubi talk about it?
Be brave, Sydney; no one forgets their first tentacle.
Private pleasure is one thing. In front of, and competing against, a class of physically perfect, sexually adept, students and an examiner’s board, now that is quite a different prospect!
As to it not being what Wyrter expected… they must have known that Maxima could plow through most things. So the obstacle most likely to stop her would actually be a wall of harmless bystanders. So it’s possible that’s exactly what he was hoping would happen.
*slow clap* Well done DaveB. Just…. well done. I did not predict this. No one could predict this. I stand and applaud. Bravo. *slow clap again*
:)
That is wrong on so many levels…. funny, but so wrong. :)