Grrl Power #789 – An underage succubus walks into a bar…
Sydney’s not a big drinker. Like myself, she prefers ‘dessert in a glass’ style cocktails and adult milkshakes and only knows of about a dozen off the top of her head. They decided to eschew the VIP lounge tonight and grabbed a regular table, although this place is a nightclub slash full service restaurant. Sydney could have gotten a waitress to bring drinks to the table, but she’s been chatting with Krona for a while and decided to have a wander.
Sydney knows about all kinds of demons and devils… as they appear in the monster manual. As she learned at the Twilight Council meeting, not everything supernatural is properly represented in popular fiction. Still, given that she has a succubus on her team, succubus was going to be her first guess when spotting someone with cute but comically undersized wings that couldn’t possible allow her to fly unless they did so through magic.
Our youthful succubus is actually a patreon cameo from YukiAkuma. I should really stop calling them cameos. That makes it sound like they walk by in the background. She’s actually a featured player for a few pages because I decided to go off on a tangent about… uh, spoilers actually.
Her giant purse with the orbs in it is sitting on the stool next to her, I promise.
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She’s got the nack for grabbing aliens.
Does that mean her vision works even when the ball for it is in her bag and not her hand?
She’s been allowed to see through the veil. I forgot, as well. She doesn’t need the ball to see them anymore.
You are correct! How embarrassing!
As Pixel said a few strips ago, she has been excluded from the veil, so she can see such people normally now, even without the trusight Orb.
Pixel mentioned a few pages back that Sydney is excluded from the Veil.
She was excluded from the Veil. Presumably because they thought Sydney randomly grabbing the comball when talking to people would quickly become suspicious.
No we were told she got excluded from the veil accouple of comics back.
Maybe supers (or at least known approved supers) have been rolled into the veil as part of the sigil rebuild and aren’t affected by veil based disguises anymore? Still, you’d think a Succubus would want a little more secrecy than just relying on the veil though.
And then multiple people pointed out that Pixel had outright stated that Sydney had been excluded from the veil. Bad Dave, poor memory!
But my second point that a Succubus might want to use a greater level of disguise than the veil still stands.
Succubus might want to use a greater level of disguise than the veil
We do know that Dabbler was using her own glamour spell to mask her Succubus nature when Sydney first met her. She wasn’t counting on The Veil to keep her secret. So you likely have a good point here.
Depending on how it works, the veil may not work so well in places like arcon hq, where people are expecting our even looking for weird shit.
Or the veil didn’t exist back then and Dave needs to retcon an excuse :-P
I’m guessing Dabs could break the veil no problem, but… It’s more likely Archon has an AMF (anti-magic field) to protect national interests. It would be unreasonable if they didn’t given that the assets they have are arguably more valuable than the Twilight Council’s own. From what we’ve seen anyway.
It also might be that Dab was just removed from the Veil, or aliens in general usually need some sort of additional disguise. Remember the discussion Sydney had with Dabbler at Club Oontz
Being both an Alien and a Demon meant that Dabbler was included in the Veil’s protection.
Was. She now has a third label – Superhero – that gets her excluded.
Super is a specific thing though. Dabbler is not a ‘super’ any more than Halo is a ‘super.’ Halo is a human… with an object that gives her super powers. Dabbler is an alien/demon/doppleganger who also has objects (usually her inventions of things she’s gotten during her adventures) which give her additional powers.
Dabs isn’t only a succubus or an alien, she is both. I guess that is a case that wasn’t accounted for in the Veil.
All succubi are aliens. All demons are, in fact.
Xuriel is a hybrid of like three races, which is why she looks weird. I believe one of them is changeling?
This girl, meanwhile, is a 100% pure breed succubus. And also, therefore, an alien.
True, all succubi are aliens in the sense of “not from Earth.”
But to be fair, most people mean “extraterrestrial alien” when they say “alien,” as in coming to Earth from someplace else in the same universe along an x,y,z axis (up/down, right/left, forward/backward). They rarely mean “extra-temporal alien,” coming from a fourth axis (past/future) in the same universe, or “extra-dimensional alien,” coming from a different universe (or dimension, or fractional reality, or what have you) along a different set of axes (good/evil, law/chaos, purple/fnord?).
Dabbler, being part alien, part demon, and part doppelganger, would be part extraterrestrial, part extra-dimensional, and part ??? (I don’t know where doppelgangers come from or what they are in the Grrlverse . . . if they’re from the future or past she’d be a living trifecta). I’d imagine she could cause the Veil to throw an exception error without even trying.
“coming to Earth from someplace else in the same universe along an x,y,z axis (up/down, right/left, forward/backward). ”
Or in the direction Ana/Kata
or even along the Zorth Axis……
(only on of these is MAYBE fictional…)
Doppelganger, the D and D version not the myth version. D and D they can shape shift into anyone, myth they are just a copy of one person. Xuriel, other two parts are Alien and the aforementioned succubus, we have no idea what type of Alien. On that note congrats on the part.
Or maybe the succubus is using a non-veil associated illusion spell to look younger, or being a succubus is the illusion.
the Veil has worked for literally centuries – but only exsists on earth. That actually means the reverse is true, a succubus would normally have their glamours in use out in the vast expanses of space and differant dimensions, but not being from earth they wouldn’t automatically be covered by it (they could be and probaly are, just means they arent the main target of it specifically.)
Just means that dabbler (or others) using her glamour to mask herself might be more a precaution to meeting a new super rather then anything else – and if this young girl is actually young / from earth, she might not know to glamour herself because there are people who are excluded from the veil
Our youthful Succubus was counting on The Veil to mask her true nature. I think once someone has pierced The Veil it remains pierced for them.
Why put in all that effort to keep a disguise going if there’s no need? Like there’s a big magic spell which hides that you’re not Human already running?
I know I don’t always wear my Pretender Armour which makes me look Human if the only people around already know I’m not. Gotta let the system vent heat occasionally…
A succubus glamour is based on someone’s subconscious image of an ideally attractive woman, as demonstrated when Dabbler/Xuriel re-upped her glamour during Sydney’s interview and did an eeny-meeny process to pick who she was going to use as a source. Using General Faulk and getting a result that looks like an Orion ‘slave girl’ from Star Trek resulted in a tense moment or two, of course.
Notably, the blonde form from earlier was apparently Sydney’s ideal attractive woman, since Dabbler said “already did you” about her after the laudably cautious “better skip you” referring to Maxima). I just noticed on reviewing that comic for the reference that Sydney-glamour Dabbler has blond(er) hair, bangs that hang in front of her eyes (but in a more manageable way), is taller, has a tan and bigger bust — she’s basically Sydney’s image of an idealized, sexy version of herself. Wow . . . only took me seven years to notice that. ((facepalm))
So the glamour can be a disguise (or not that useful as one, given the Orion example above), but like most things about succubi, it’s primary function is tied to sexuality. So, if the pink-haired succubus isn’t “hungry,” she’d probably want to stick with the Veil-based disguise. It’s easier to avoid attention and just have a quiet drink if you don’t look like someone’s sexual fantasy made real, I’d imagine.
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Wait, so, you’re agreeing with me? That she has no need to disguise herself using her own power? Or not? This is hurting my processors, & Daniel the Humans “they are elaborating upon the scenario you proposed” (he said it slowly & spelt it for me so I could type it) is only making it worse…
Mind you, with all that said, if the Veil is just covering the inHuman parts of her, so she still looks like her, then I’ve learnt there are people who would consider that their ideal woman…
Yep, I’m agreeing with you. The Veil is geared toward avoiding undue attention, and a succubus glamour is geared toward attracting “do me” attention.
The Veil would definitely be the better option if you just want to sit at the bar, mind your own business, and have a couple of drinks (which seems to be what she’s angling for).
The glamour would be handy if you wanted to be fawned over and have people offer to buy you drinks, but I imagine even succubi like to have a nice quiet evening every now and again.
Sydney has been excluded from the Veil actually, according to Pixel. They probably just added a line of code saying ‘Not Sydney’
or more likely, they added a section that exempts part of ARC, perhaps with a reference section to an editable list so they can added and remove members of ARC that have been cleared for the info.
Yeah, or that. Same concept :)
If the Veil is well-written, there’s probably an ‘exclude list’ stored somewhere it can be easily updated without having to rework the entire Veil.
The Veil is not well-written, it was hacked (pathetically easily) by Sciona.
Actually no, Sciona didn’t hack it – she bombed one of the main ‘servers’ and tricked them into doing maintenance that took the Black Reliquary’s alert system offline. A bit of social engineering perhaps, but not a technical hack.
The Veil may be a legacy system with a lot of technical debt, but it’s been running reliably for centuries. Perhaps not elegantly written, but certainly robust and dependable, and that’s really what matters.
A lot of hacking attempts are just social engineering tricks :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlip7jZX9m0
Warning – This is EXTREMELY CRINGY.
Nice :) Sadly movie hacking hasn’t gotten any better since the 80s, aside from a few shows like Mr Robot whose target audience is techies.
Don’t forget “My voice is my passport.” :)
Nerd points if you know the name of the movie without googling.
Dang, not only do I not get any, I think I lose some points for never having heard of this one. Although I did recognize a line from the trailer, so… no points at all I guess?
The movie ‘Sneakers’ starring Dan Akroyd, Robert Redford, Ben Kingsley, River Phoenix, Malcolm McDonnell, Sydney Poitier, Mary McDonnell, and David Strathairn.
They had to get into a top secret room, and they hacked their way in. Mainly using social engineering scams, including getting the voice-activated password from a guy – they had to get him to say the words “My voice is my passport.” without him realizing it (passport was the difficult word for the woman to get him to say).
Sorry, no points given, but I won’t deduct any either, because I know at heart you are a nerd who just had an off day.
First thought for me, was a recent series of ads for a local national bank where one half of the couple is using stupid voices in an attempt to get into their account, and the other one just says “My voice is my identity” in a normal voice
Most people seem to miss the obvious flaw in that technology: if you have a cold, you can’t get into your own account until the cold passes (heck, even mum noticed the problem)
I’d imagine it comes up often enough to have a flag in the code, so they can just mark a person with some minor wisp of magic that trips the “in_on_secret” flag and causes the Veil to not trigger in regards to anyone with that flag.
I’d especially imagine that being the case since it’s a hack that could potentially come back to bite them in the rear if someone figured out an exploit or just broad-banded the tag to, say, the population of Los Angeles. The T.C. has shown some propensity for coding that has, shall we say, potential security flaws in it. It was also mentioned that major renovations of the code would required taking the Veil offline, which isn’t really an option (well, maybe if you timed it for Halloween evening?).
The whole Veil thing reminds me of that comic book ‘Fables: The Wolf Among Us’ (also a really good telltales video game). :) And yeah, a flag in the code works too. That reminds me of MUSH games :)
I think that there are a lot of things in the Grrlverse saying “not Sydney!”
(My, I was so tempted to mention that Sydney was exempted from the veil…)
In this case I’m curious to see what everyone else sees. I mean, that succubus could make herself look older with ease.
Nah don’t wait! I didn’t :)
Hnnnng!!
(But now I wonder whether “exempted” would be wrong anyway since no one else uses it. To me, it seems better fitting… because… the veil makes an exception for Sydney, but she is not outside of it.
Does it show that I’m German? :P)
Exempted works as a description. :)
Unless she is so young that she hasn’t learned to use the Succubus Glamour.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-130-singularly-skilled-double-agent-quint/
Which is so powerful it’s no joke. Except to the True Sight Orb, evidently.
I’m going to wait three days and then post that no, Sydney has been excluded from The Veil. ;-P
Even allowing for the aforementioned exclusion from the Veil, Sydney has now had way more exposure to supernatural beings than the average person. Although she isn’t an expert yet she has likely leveled up in her ability to notice the strange and unusual details that just fly past the average person. Even with the Veil there are probably contextual cues that an informed or experienced viewer can pick up on.
Hmm. Somebody working the silks in the background… Dabbler?
I was just about to ask that very question. It seems like something she’d enjoy.
The silhouette in the background has human ankles, not digitigrade hooves.
In her human guise, so does Dabbler.
Sydney and Jailbait Succubus having a conversation about being a Succubus in a public place where anybody could overhear them. Yeah these two are both contenders for the Security Breach of the Year prize.
They are in a night club. People dress weird and talk about weird stuff in them all the time, so they are not likely to draw much attention.
Two people at a bar talking about the intricacies and nuances of succubi?
Nerd Alert! Gamers! D&D Geeks.
This will cause most norms to get out of reach and earshot of NERDS speaking their secret language or encourage Jocks to go into full Bully/idiot mode.
Lets see what happens next.
This is presuming that anyone can hear them more than a few inches away. Even the guy they’re talking directly next to most likely isn’t parsing all the exact words they are using, and between his mundane mind filling in for whatever he doesn’t hear, and the concealing effects of the veil, it’s highly unlikely that he’s going to do anything other than preen for the two cute short human girls.
would a jailbait succubus be a hellbait succubus? since hell is like eternal jail, and succubi wanna lure us there, but then this particular succubus is underage… i realize, ofc, in the GrrlPower universe succubi aren’t strictly demons
She’s the Succubus developmental equivalent of a teenager. Which probably means what? Fourty eight earth years, maybe seventy five. Earth law goes by age, not by biology. And Sydney spotted her because Sydney is excluded from the vail.
But the kid is jumpy and evasive, and we don’t know what Semper Vigilantis does with alien tourists who are underage at the local fleshpots. I guess we will have to wait until Thursday to find out, as Pixel, Krona, and Elspeth are all there and this is their jurisdiction.
Obvious comeback: “I’m not here for the alcohol. Want explicit details?” Sydney: *nosebleed*
Soooo, haven’t seen this mentioned in the comments yet buuuuuutt… what do young succubi eat before they are “adults”? I mean, does the mom “do it” in the next room from her baby 8 times a day to “feed” her?
*mom hears baby crying* “oh crap, come on honey, gotta feed the baby”
boyfriend or whatever: “wait a minute, gotta carb up, this is killing me, how many YEARS is this going to go on??”
HAHAHAHHAHAHAH
That’s just weird, not sure why that was my first thought from that next to last panel…
Based on our young succubus’ reaction, I’m guessing Succubi aren’t born. The demon lifecycle involves metamorphic stages. They are born as an Imp or sylph (gendered?) and morph into an “adult” when conditions other than age are met. So presumably they have a fairly neutral diet when young, then become Succubi if they have a surplus of tantric energy.
That’s actually the opposite of what was said. She said, “it’s NOT like we level up…” implying that they are born succubi. I think dabbler might have mentioned something about succubi needing that stuff when they get older? If not, I’m sure it works that way. She said she can get energy from food as per usual, but it’s the sex that really powers her up. So babies probably eat like normal.
That is an interpretation I hadn’t considered. I interpreted the “not” as referring to the age component. IE, they don’t hit puberty at a specific age like we do, but at some other trigger point.
Humans don’t hit puberty at a certain age either.
There are genetic, neonatal, and environmental factors that can advance or delay puberty.
Similarly there are factors which can make the process either rapid or glacially slow.
Some conditions are capable of preventing a puberty at a.
A lot of these have to do with things effecting the hypothalamus.
I would be very surprised if they had “age of majority”-type laws relating to sex.
Because they’re an alien species to whom none of the reasoning behind such laws applies.
Most age of majority laws have historically been only tangentially related to sexual maturity.
They have been instead been related to the age at which a person becomes financially independent within the context of their society.
well we know that succubi can do regular food as well, odds are that the ability to fuel their biology off sex energy is something that develops later, and younger succubi probably just live off food like mortals would. with the other gradually developing after they reach a certain level of physical maturity.
As if the adult sucubus would be satisfied with single boyfriend … and yes, while there are other options already mentioned, I think it was already said in comics that sucubi can “eat” emotions not directly aimed at them, so the baby sucubus is getting energy from mama feeding close … and our youthful succubus might also be here to eat emotions of others around without directly having sex.
Succubi don’t need boyfriends at all.
Sex for them does not carry the context of relationships anymore than throwing a burrito in the microwave carries relationship overtones.
There are Baby’s Milk emotions instead of dropping straight into pedophile territory.
Like ambient happiness, joy, amusement, pride, desire for inanimate objects…and other terms hard to describe in English because love has other forms. Like maybe she feeds on friendship, or
okay, let’s just look at the Greeks:
Eros: Sexual Love
Agape: Unconditional Love (kindess towards all human beings sort of feeling)
Philia: deep friendship, platonic, mis-use by English classifyers not with standing. Loyalty and camaraderie sort of deal.
Storge: Love for family and friends.
Succubus children probably subsist on things other than lust, yeah. I like the idea of them feeding on friendship or chaste romance.
Or possibly they just eat food, I dunno.
They eat Kawaii.
Which means Sydney would be a smorgasbord for them
If they consume Kawaii wouldn’t Japan be overrun with juvenile Succubi?
you mean its not?
What did you think Anime, was based on?
Ancient Greek culture is the absolute wrong place to go if one wishes to avoid pedophile territory.
A fair point.
words not ancient culture.
Latin has a few examples too, as do a number of languages. Western culture has gotten weird where we have to use more than one word to describe a specific variant of fondness.
I’m just imagining the greetings you’d get from each of those divinities:
Eros: “Hey, baby.”
Agape: “Greetings, my child.”
Philia: “Welcome, comrade.”
Storge: “‘Sup, bro.”
Play Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers expansion and you’ll get a different take on few of those.
Wow. Even though it was just a couple pages ago, I already forgot that she’s been allowed to see through the veil. I was about to make a comment about the wings and ears being out in publinc, lol.
Welcome to the “I forgot an important plot detail that was revealed 4 pages ago club”. As one of the founding members I can assure you your laminated membership card and t-shirt will be mailed to you within 4-6 weeks. :-) :-)
Oh, and I’m kind of relieved I’m not the only one who forgot that point. Strength in unity brother, strength in unity!
I think the real question is: “Do you know your wings are showing? ” Also, nice pointy ears.
I live in Vegas, and I’ve seen stranger things than a girl with wings and pointy ears, lol.
Also, you forgot, just like I did. She can see through the veil now.
Damn, you’re right. I still think Sydney also forgot though.
Hell, I live just outside Dallas, and we get stranger stuff than wings and pointy ears 5, 6 times a year. I mean we have a ComiCon, A-Kon, Renfests, another anime con…
Also Deep Ellum, every night.
(At least we did a decade back; it may have moved by now.)
Don’t forget AnimeFest (Late summer / early fall)
Off-Topic TOpic of the Week:
How freakin’ cute is Sydney in that first panel?!?
Meme answer:
YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3
Wait! So, does Sydney have the True Seeing orb in hand, or is the succubus openly flaunting wings? If she is openly displaying her wings, she is asking to get caught, because the natural twitches and other bodily motions would quickly give away, to an intelligent observer, that these wings are not artificial.
She was excluded from the veil and succubi are a mythical species. Everyone else is seeing a human. And probably everyone else is seeing an adult. They covered this subject with bunny girl a few pages back hun.
or she is petite and just looks very young.
I’ve carded what I thought was a 14 year old who turned out to be 22.
Are we about to learn that ARCHON are testing some tech to give her access to all seven orbs?
When she levels up enough the seventh orb gives her a beast mode where 4 more arms pop out.
Nah, but that would be kind of cool. More likely she ends up teamed with Varia when they figure out that she can use the orbs, too, if they’re touching.
Is Sydney about to become Spinnerette’s long-lost cousin?
Not cool Sydney, that’s totally stepping on Dabbler’s Gimmick.
Dabbler totally stole Spinnerette’s gimmick.
Shiva has yet to weigh in…
I think that’s what some of the center choices do.
HEY DAVE! How about a permalink to the DA orb grid?
I bet this girl got inspired by that “Dabbler in highshool” skit he did a while ago. Dave said in the commentary he wanted to do more of this stuff.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-311-succubi-rarely-diet-insert-joke-about-juice-cleanse/
Wait a minute . . . just checked the other class members. Was Dabbler in the same class in high school with Decollete and Thothogoth (the “there will be a mighty burning to herald my coming” guy)?
I believe that the classmate is only the same race as Thothogoth.
Perhaps Thothogoth’s descendant.
Thothogoth is probably the owner of the throne from which Dabbler got the material for her sword.
By “500,000 Scovilles Chili Vodka” – you DO mean the “Halo on the Rocks” Don’t you? If the barkeep hasn’t renamed it already they totally should. “You’ve heard of the Kamakrazy Hero H A L O – Now try the Scoville Challenge! Halo on the Rocks!””
It’ll be a hit, until the news article about the food being so hot it literally began to spontaneously combust the drapes and carpets.
actually 500,000 scovilles isn’t that that hot. Depending on tolerance. I mean I can munch on jalapenos (about 8,000) as snacks. 100,000 would basically be shoving a few crushed Habanero in the bottom of a shaker or vodka. I imagine if it existed in real then people would use it as a challenge in like, mexican or thai restaurants.
Sydney could skull these and not even notice.
yes I realise I made a dozen typos and wrote a bunch of wrong numbers above. It’s 10 at night where I am and I’ve had a long day.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r5PDe60nHbo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r5PDe60nHbo
Two bartenders taste test the Naga Chili Vodka.
Also, according to TV Tropes, the all girl Hunter team that is the focus of the livht novel / anime I Said To Make Me Average In The Next Life will eventually use magically weaponized capsaicin in some of their attacks. (Anime currently on Crunchyroll.com)
Why would you put ice in that drink? I mean, sure, if they ask for it on the rocks, but don’t *name* it that. Call it Halo Ambrosia or something else that doesn’t conflict with directions for including or excluding ice.
Ref for those not familiar with the lingo: on the rocks means with ice. neat means without ice. Straight up means pour the glass with ice in it, then strain it into a different glass to remove the ice. That said, unless you have a reputation as a big tipper, asking for something ‘straight up’ at most places where the bartender knows what you’re talking about, you’ll probably get it neat. (I’d thought for many years that straight up meant no ice, until a bartender surprised me by doing something different. He was kind enough to explain my mistake to me and told me the term I should’ve used.)
I propose “gimme a Halo, tags popped.”
I knew about the ice thing but I was using on the Rocks as a pun. As in drinking this straight (on the rocks or otherwise) could kill you. Halo on the rocks implies you just plumeted to your death.
I suppose in that theme – the Broken Halo, as a mixed drink could be a shot of Chili Vodka, a shot of Tequila and a shot of chardoney- shaken with lemon peal and dropped into a tumbler. It represents Halo’s enemies once she’s killed them with her atomic breath.
Sure it’s ice……Hydrogen ice!
well, slush actually….
I was at a bar in Montana, years ago, where a guy came in and asked for a “Siberian Winter” – a drink I’d never heard of, so I watched.
The ‘keep got a heavy mug out of the freezer, put a chunk of dry ice in it, and poured him what looked like three shots of vodka.
It’s a simple recipe. Never seen it anywhere else though. The dry ice, I figure, actually freezes the H20-type moisture out, so if anything, it would be a bit harder than “neat.”
Ah. Forgot one other thing. The keep pulled both the mug, *and* the vodka, out of the freezer.
The dry ice was in a different freezer.
How old do you think SUCCUBI are when we’re born?
Me: “Uhhh, zero? Isn’t that how old everyone is when they’re born?”
9 Months, depending on when you consider life to begin.
Wouldn’t the proper question be “how physically developed do you think SUCCUBI are when we’re born?”
Possibly. We know just about nothing about the life-cycle of succubi. But I agree it’s a weird friggin’ question.
I think Succubi start out as glorified Elves, basicaly humanoid, maybe a tail, low level magic develops by the age of four, they age as normal comparatively to humans up until a certain age. Usually around puberty or adolescence. After that if they don’t start using their succubus powers they continue to age so that by the time they’re 30 they look 60. I base this on mythology though so Dave could totally turn that around on my ass.
Um… exactly WHAT mythology or folklore are you basing it on?
X-Men mythology, specifically: Nightcrawler :P
Nightcrawler, is a mutant human, no demon need apply!
there once was a retcon, but it got retconned away right away.
One of those line of dialogue retcons that gets retconned away a few issues later with (oh what I meant was) type solutions.
His daddy was supposedly a demon, which, considering how Christian Kurt became, is kinda… odd?
Being half-demonic (for theological versions of demonic) does shortcut the question of ‘does the Divine exist?’. After that, it’s a case of picking a side, which comes down more to personality and upbringing than to parentage per se. Consider how many children of strictly religious parents rebel off the rails; Kurt is an example of that from the other side.
Yay. The succubus family grows.
(In a very extended meaning of the word family.)
If her purse isn’t on the stool next to her, it’s scooting across the floor, following her around.
The effect which has been shown is that the orbs don’t move, they pull Sydney up short when she reaches the end of her invisible ‘tether.’ This is why (well, one reason why) they are on The List.
Only when their movement is restricted.
Otherwise they follow her
It’s strictly according to the rule of funny. The only constant is that the orbs can never be more than a fixed distance away from her.
I suspect the orbs will try to follow her, but never apply damaging force in doing so unless she consciously commands them to. And she gets pulled to a halt if she tries to walk away from them, and they’re restrained.
But who knows how much force they could apply to reach her if she commanded them to follow regardless of any obstacles. At least troll bone breaking force, we know that much.
Too bad they can’t get further from her, it would make for some funny Thor’s hammer scenes.
Only when they are restrained.
When they are not, they follow her
I’m waiting for her to summon her purse like Thor’s hammer.
“To me, my pretties!”
Remember that scene in the bank? When Mr Tubey followed Sydney across the floor? Even Maxi noticed
Syds excluded from the Veil. this was brought up a couple of strips ago. I suspect they may do it for everyone with a need to know and will not freak out for a given level of freaking out level clearance from Archon.
Damn, you’re right. I still think Sidney forgot also though.
Another damn. Comment got placed elsewhere due to placement error.
You mean, displacement error?
Or possibly dat-placement error?
Or, to milk this as far as possible, d’udder-placement error.
It’s dead. The joke is dead. It died of overuse. You killed it.
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(Okay I have to do this now… The meme is begging for it.)
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Similar to Epstein, who definitely did not kill himself.
I have a coworker trying to spread “the conspiracy theory that Epstein did kill himself.”
I think that Epstein has been the crappiest assassin in recent decades. It seems that nobody across the globe believes that he killed himself.
Maybe they will believe that the two prison guards are going to kill themselves?
What does an international elite society of government officials and billionaires have to do to make this underage prostitution scandal go away?
Kill themselves?
Unlike what Epstein did.
i hope thats Dabblers littel sister and knows lot of embarrasing young dabbler stories.
Or Dabbler’s older sister who likes to cater to a different crowd.
Can the persons covered by The Veil see through it?
If they can`t, how do they see anyone such as themselves?
If they can, that means anyone who sees though it is using it.
So to today’s guest, Sydney is a human disguised as a human.
Faulty logic there.
What you are claiming is basically this:
Fact: The Veil hides mythical beings from detection.
Fact: Mythical beings can see through the veil.
Conclusion: Anybody who can see through The Veil is a mythical being.
Your conclusion however does not logically follow from the facts. A non-mythical being that can see through The Veil does not violate either of the facts given, therefore the facts do not prove your conclusion.
Pixel already stated that Sydney has been excluded from the Veil, unlike other humans (and most other Supers). They probably figured ‘she already can see through it, might as well write it into the code rather than have her have to use the comm orb each time.’ Probably a very simple variable since it’s JUST Sydney and not a group of supers or humans in particular.
halo03?
Sydney’s entry in the Who’s Who sidebars lists all of her Orbs and the abilities they grant her, but only if you’re on a page that takes place after those abilities are revealed in story. The halo03 tag is for pages that use the third version of Sydney’s Who’s Who entry.
…Oh! Ha! I see what you mean! That tag is correctly used at the bottom of the Author’s Notes, but DaveB also messed up by putting it at the top! Hello one-page search result!
Heh welp that little succubus was caught. :P
I’ve had that vodka and cannot recommend it. The initial heat is strong but good – Like ghost pepper should be – but then the rest of it kicks in, burns like an extract, hurts like hell and cramps the stomach when it gets there. Then you wind up peeing warm for a couple days, which is a bit disconcerting, and that’s all just from a single sip. God knows I couldn’t do the shot.
If you’re peeing cold, you may wanna see a doctor.
Or hire some henchmen and plot against Gotham City.
Some of my home cooking has that “peeing hot” effect, but like burning lips, you get past it if you keep up the exposure.
The local meadery makes a Carolina reaper / peach mead that’s really good, but it’s nowhere near that level of heat, barely warms you up a bit. It’s great stuff if your throat is a bit scratchy.
I’ve never had it from solid food, or even soups. Only strong chilli alcohol.
Peach and reaper definitely pair well and I can imagine that they’d be good in mead. It’s a pretty pleasant pepper when used in small doses so that definitely sounds like a winner.
I tend to mix a lot of curry paste with my hot peppers, when I cook. Maybe that’s why.
Carolina Reaper without the seeds has a pleasant taste just raw.
I think I may have found my new favorite side character!
Uneven off-pink bangs, bat wings, and red, slitted eyes?
Dave, your ponies are showing again mate, and I love it.
The *extra-small, big eyed* girl club gets another member. Someone call Leon.
Hey, if Dave wants to make her a permanent character, I’m not gonna complain. ;)
Eh, the trope is kind of wearing on me.
BTW, isn’t there a name for that trope? I’m trying to pin it down but it escapes me at moment.
Hey, my wife’s an example of that trope. But I know what you mean, this comic seems to have a statistically improbable number of characters who are exactly Sydney’s height and build, and only differ in hair style and eye color.
Halo should consider forming a Sentai team with them.
Ancient Greek culture is the absolute wrong place to go if one wishes to avoid pedophile territory. Both my wife and my mother are just under five feet tall. They aren’t that rare.
Yes, but there is no one between that height and the regulation Amazon height. NO ne is, for example, four inches taller than Sydney.
Ahem.
Peggy.
In that society, it doesn’t exist, as it is a law thing.
It absolutely does exist, as it is a vocabulary thing.
Pedophilia is a word which refers to sex with someone who has not yet started puberty.
Yeah, it only became a ‘problem’ fairly recently (as in, within the last couple hundred years)
Pedophilia aside, it’s wierd that humans went from a society where people were married off, having kids and running businesses at the ripe of age of 13 to one where science is making the claim that the human brain doesn’t fully mature until 24, the law is trying to prevent any kind of accountability to people based on age and maturity and adult children are living with their parents well into their 40s.
What was the term that one lawyer coined a few years back? Oh yeah, affluenza.
It’s like the bar for responsibility is being lowered every year.
The Greeks did eventually realize its a problem.
They hadn’t worried about it earlier in their history anymore than they were bothered by other varieties of rape, but it’s always been a problem for population replacement because the children often don’t survive it. If there’s much of it population declines.
Somewhere out in the DaveB readership there’s a disco-throwback with too much gold chain around his neck thinking “Hey babe, does your mama know you’re out tonight?”
Anybody could be that guy.
Night is young and the music’s high
With a bit of rock music, everything is fine
You’re in the mood for a dance
And when you get the chance
You are the dancing queen
Young and sweet, only a hundred and seventeen…
Wonder what/who else she’s going to ‘see’ in there? Seems like a popular spot.
I like her.
I’m not much fun at bars, I prefer malty dark beers without a lot of hops to bitter it up, and cinnamon schnapps. And I drink often enough that I can keep track of my consumption with the calendar rather than a the clock function of my phone.
There was a time when a friend and I wrote stories. As a challenge, I would feed her a starting sentence, and she would write a story of no more than 500 words with it. I sent her a picture of a ceiling fan with a pair of frilly panties on a blade, and this line:
“Oh, God,” she prayed, conveniently already on her knees, “if you help me find my panties and escape…” she looked under the bed, then lifted the sheet from the complete stranger, “…I promise I will never mix tequila and schnapps again!”
(The writer’s nym was Souvie.)
OMG she’s SOOO KYOOT! I just wanna pinch her little cheeks, wrap her up in floofy blankets and threaten any demon,angel,or God that even looks at her crosswise!
So, someone tries to make off with Sydney’s purse, and…
“An underage succubus walks into a bar…”
So, what IS underage for a succubus? Dabbler is 187 but that doesn’t say anything about the length of their adolescence. If it’s longer than our’s she could still have a legal ID but if it’s shorter…
And I got to wonder – does her glamour age her up or is she going for the jailbait look to reel in the lowlifes?
2 things
1: Sydney is jumping to a conclusion people jump to about her. You can be like 20 and look 14, I’ve carded women like that when I worked at a theater.
2: Sexual Lust isn’t the only emotion in its family, people need to consider OTHER possible emotions a young succubus could feed on like friendship, platonic love for family and pets, enjoyment, fun, loyalty, ect….
i’m expecting the Succubi cutie here to make the same observation regarding Sydney next page.. who also looks rather younger than she is (especially in the current disguise)
also if this new lady sticks around, looks like we may have a new member of the ‘A’ team.
Man, I wish she’d stay around, but I don’t think patreon cameos get to do that. :(
I think one or two have in the Wearing the Cape series.
I also seem to recall that some fan created characters stayed around for several books in Andre Norton’s writings when I was a kid.
Oddly, I find a succubus that feeds on friendship to be a little creepier than one that feeds on sex.
“Wow, you got me that funko pop figure that’s really hard to find and we’re going to see the newest Sandra Bullock fliK! You’re such an amazing friend!” *platonic hugs*
“No problem!” *ahhhhhhhhhh..*
“Hey, why are you always sighing?”
“Oh, er, just so happy to have such a good friend.”
“Oh, yeah, you’re my best friend of all!”
*aahhhhhhhhh….*
The real treasure is the friendship we forged along the way, the delicious, mouth watering friendship mmmmm.
That Naga vodka will do a number on you if you drink enough of it (Keep in mind that enough might be anywhere from half a shot to a bottle depending on what you’re used to.)
Can recommend Chili Klaus’ Vindstyrke 12 shot. Not as spicy, but very tasty.
If it’s genuinely half a million, I don’t think anyone’s drinking the bottle. Most chilli infusions aren’t nearly concentrated enough to reach half the pepper’s heat and the ones that are are deadly!
Very true. Personally I’m a sucker for anything that has chili added to it. Will try things like that at least once (except enemas, nasal sprays or eyedrops) just for the hell of it. Tried a chili infused sambucca this weekend that was surprisingly nice, seeing as I don’t really like sambucca all that much, and a passionfruit and habanero liquer that a friend brought home from holiday. It was awesome. Wonderful mix of sweetness and heat.
Can also recommend Sterk Saus, Blueberry and ghostchili sauce. It’s killer on smores and icecream.
I wonder if she’s ANY relation to either Dabbler or Decollete!?
I was hoping for an orphan on the run origin, dodging some group of persuers and trying to throw them off her trail by fleeing to what she thought was some unknown backwater…until a Fel invasion force arrived and was immediately annihilated which suddenly made ship landing places much less accessible to try to leave without being seen.
Maybe Decolette will be stuck as her mentor, keeping her around.
Wait, is that Spike between Sydney and her new best friend? o_O
More likely just some random blond-haired guy than a Buffy cameo.
Or, and this is something that will get you to sit up straight: it’s that religious guy from the Rogues’ Gallery page (the guy who looked like Spike anyway), the page we first saw Kevin on (and where SmugD has an unhealthy fixation on Maxi, to the point he will paw {no offense Yorpie} a TV screen image of her)
Oooooh, okay that is a possibility :)
The cleansing is at hand!
Not the ‘good’ kind he was anticipating if he drinks the Scoville Special :P
The cleansing is at hand!
“After this, he’ll be lucky if he has any BONES left…”
Also, trying to squeeze her wings through those tiny holes in her top has gotta be painful
There’s probably hidden zippers or or buttons holding much larger openings closed. Like you get on some shirts.
There is nothing to indicate other than holes only big enough to fit the part of the wing that connects to the back
Normally, they would have two slits all the way down so the top simply slips down, with maybe a buckle or something at the bottom to stop the central piece from flapping (something easy to close and open by simply reaching around behind)
DaveB, I have never seen a more adorable drawing of Sydney than that first panel. Completely in love.
I know she’s not real, but if saw her in this (or any bar)bar, I’d take a run, regardless of how wrong that would be for me to do (HUGE age discrepancy).
Well done, sir.
Alternate explanations for Panels 2 & 3:
a) Sydney gets a nasal inspection from a dark fairy
b) A personification of Sydney’s ADHD pulls her attention to the purple people eater
c) We just missed a Fey deathmatch, and the winner is screaming at the dispassionate crowd. “ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!”
Succubus life cycle:
Mara: no need to feed till puberty, powers come in, can start of less intense emotions like platonic love, enjoyment, fun, happiness, greed (material love), and such emotions.
That said, in response to comments. Pretty sure she is just petite like Sydney and youthful looking. I’ve carded people before that were in their twenties who looked like teenagers. One was jarring because I thought the lady was this gruff looking guy’s daughter when she was actually his wife, and nearly 30 years old.
She’s the succubus equivalent of a teenager.
Rhuen… Maybe she’ll look 30ish in her 50s.
I get the feeling aliens don’t actually use phones, they’re just coached to hold them while using their ocular implants and bionic feelers. Ten interbucks on the silk dancer in the background being a spider alien.
I also prefer “desert in a glass” drinks. My wife calls them “fru-fru” drinks but she can drink 2 Long Islands and still pass a sobriety test.
The fru-fru term dates back at least as far as the first world war.
Ooo, just realised a maybe typo: did you mean to say ‘dessert in a glass’? a ‘desert in a glass’ sounds like you would be eating sand :P