Grrl Power #1181 – Measure twice summon once
Arc-LIGHT’s dress code is pretty relaxed, as you can tell. Granted this is after hours, and in the office, not the field, but Maxima doesn’t even let Dabbler walk around with exposed side-panty most of the time. It doesn’t hurt that Zeph is off in DC with Max doing dungeon budget stuff. Maybe Gwen has plans later this evening.
Gwen’s office is more spartan than expected because this was my first time using the fisheye perspective ruler, which is a new tool with the latest version of CSP, and man did I mess it up a few times. I actually couldn’t figure out how to do a top down view, so I wound up combining a 2 point fisheye ruler with a 1 point vanishing perspective ruler and eventually it more or less worked out. Also, besides not being the kind of artist that particularly likes drawing a room full of cluttered knick-knacks, I thought it’d be sort of amusing to play against type and have Gwen be a bit of a neatnick. She definitely seems like she’d be the type to have a cluttered alchemy shop with dreamcatchers and wind chimes hanging from the rafters and piles of maps and 40 different half started knitting projects and vials of stuff all over the place.
The Tamer: King of Dinosaurs book 9 kickstarter is almost over. The campaign has long since funded, but you might be interested to know that it’s reached a bunch of milestones that now includes short stories covering the arrivals of five of the ladies, and their adventures surviving after getting dumped in Dinoland. It’s an add-on to the book kickstarter, but if you get it then you get all the short stories that have unlocked.
The July vote incentive is finally up! There was a disagreement about digitigrade and plantigrade leg configurations. What better way to resolve it than a race?
And in the Patreon variant, what better way to resolve it than a nude race? You know, to eliminate uh… wind drag I guess?
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She is. You can see the band.
Yeah, you can, looks like a thong too, I hope she doesn’t do a “trip and fall,” Ariana would have a fit.
That’s the waist of those fishnets, not her underpants. She’s 100% commando.
Sorry I have to disagree.
When I zoom in on Gwen, I see the fishnet stockings connected to the larger fishnet on her body, which is probably connected to the top of the dress.
So, most likely, it’s more like a bodysuit. Both front and back flaps are connected on the side with a loosely tied string knotted with a shoe knot.
The purple strip is imo not connected to the fishnet but it is worn UNDER it, making it part of her underwear (thong).
One cannot see if the stockings are connected on the inside leg but even if not, contrary to the use of garters, the fishnet cannot be unclipped.
Which can lead to problems when toilet time is needed, unless some magic is used.
Oh, is this Dabbler’s sister phone number?
> Which can lead to problems when toilet time is needed, unless some magic is used.
It’s *mesh*. /s
And it takes all of 5 seconds to get out of it, or at least get it down far enough that you can sit down.
Getting out of your top in such a way that it does not touch the ground (or anything really in case of a public restroom … :( ) is much more annoying. And one of the many reasons why there are always long queues for the ladies …
Women’s clothes used to be designed so that women could not dress or undress themselves (at least not at the higher classes) and to an extent women’s clothes are still much much more cumbersome than men’s. Thight fit and fragile fabric are a bad combination if you are in a hurry. And zips and buttons are not always placed with ease of use in mind.
Technically, since Gwen’s behavior isn’t nearly as… problematic, as Dabbler’s, I’d say Maxima would be relatively uninterested in enforcing a strict dress code. It’s one of those cases where the phrase “choose your battles” applies.
How many times do I have to tell you, NO SUMMONING in the BASEMENT of the HOUSE!
Who said it’s in the basement? Who said this was a house? You can do things with circles like that besides summoning (maybe. So I’ve heard.)
Drawing top down rooms is a skill. I’m rather good at it but then I am an electrician and photographer and I draw alot of perspective pov drawings.
Not a reach at all. Hands down the most appropriate response inquiry.
Oh dear. this is that ‘Familiar’ spell isn’t it? What new horror will be joining the cast now?
Trying to decide what animal would be most appropriate as Sydney’s familiar. Thinking something odd like a platypus.
I’m thinking it might be a nice pretext for a crossover visit from Hctibelttil of LookingForGroup.
You know, having a nice little vacay from the Terrible Master, only to find in a crushing blow to their ego, that they’ve been summoned by a complete novice! And in an even more crushing blow to the remains of their ego, the novice with no noticeable magical ability can still threaten their very existence with incomprehensible overwhelming force. And if they get past that somehow, it would be only to find the novice is a close friend of a top-tier succubus adventurer who has probably humiliated, entertained, or taken advantage of (or all three) Hctibelttil multiple times in the past.
Hell, I’d buy the movie.
Oh, is this Dabbler’s sister phone number?
it will be a cat. only a cat can tolerate Sydney’s antics. in a surprising twist- the cat really is plotting to take over the world, it keeps whispering in Sydney’s ear many things, puns, plans, more puns, punny plans, and other things. slowly turning her into something even more scary.. 1/2 way competent.
Hummingbird, wren, butterfly, gerbil, pretty much any terrier
pink fairy armadillo, of course
am I supposed to recognize the phrase “Trip and fall” ?
I’m not familiar with it either, but it’s probably “…and show off your panties.” Maybe there’s some sort of romcom association, where the woman ‘trips and falls’ so that the big strong man can catch her and they can have a meet-cute?
Stranger catches or renders assistance to the woman who trips which results in romance and them falling for each other. A cliche sequence used often.
Not used to that phrase though.
I wander if this is related to trying to recharge the orbs. Pulling a summon raw power kind of spell, or empowerment spell .
If ARC-Light has a lax dress code,then the only they need to be more “G.I.” is when Max orders ALL divisions to put on their “Sunday best” just impress some “pencil pushers” from Washington D.C. or some higher ups from the Pentagon…!
Okay I am very confused right now.
Isn’t Dabbler Unguligrade?
My guess, Boyfriend Teleport attempt.
If it would work, it’d be hard as hell to power. Plus, that looks like chalk, way to get stranded if thats the portal to the ship and someone just as much as steps on it.
Sydney can’t use the causeway so willy-nilly due to attention and power requirements, so whats she to do to get her Frix on?
What no one has mentioned in the comments is that he ‘munch munch’ in panel one is coming from the book. It is one of those sentient tomes that need to be fed. (You don’t want to know what)
She already compromised the outer ring.
dont those things have to be completely with in the outer border?
If she’s trying to summon Parfait, she’s not really interested in containing the summon, so that’s probably not an issue. In fact, it would be rather impolite.
The break in the outer circle is an extension of the big diamond-y symbol, so it might be alright. It looks like it could be a directional targeting element.
Uh, oh.
Oh sweetie, just no. In the first place don’t work in chalk. You aren’t some furtive sixteenth century peasant and you don’t need to trust in a mystic medium that’s all too fragile and all too temporary. Chalk can get smudged, brushed away, washed away, stepped on, literally anything. Get your symbols nailed down in something that’s durable before you even consider charging it.
Speaking of chalk getting washed away, have you considered what happens if those candles set off a fire alarm? In the first place most of the beings you might summon have sensitive ears and you don’t want to drive them into a rage when you’re trying to negotiate. In the second place, this is a ward that doesn’t work unless the candles stay lit, and this building has automatic fire extinguishers. In the third place, whatever you’re summoning might be hot enough to set off the fire alarms or the fire extinguishers all by itself, even if your candles don’t. Arriving in a strange place, only to have your ears assaulted and suddenly get soaked with cold water, with no warning, even as an attempted binding gets washed away from around your feet and your summoner’s ward depowers? That’s just rude. Aside from everything else, nobody likes getting soaked with cold water.
Now …. Ugh. To the details. Nice try I guess, but you never studied this. Your ward is inverted, your binding isn’t anchored, this charge is … um, optimistically, I’m saying bad translation? Or bad grammar? um … to put it politely you don’t really want your hovercraft filled with eels, do you?
Well, do you? Because if that’s your thing we can just message Trent on Facebook and arrange a visit, but if it’s not….
+1 for the hovercraft reference.
Syndey’s just branching out to be more flexible. More of a personal skill pursuit to see if she can do it, than anything else. Up next: rewiring her parents’ basement. Seriously, those fuse boxes have got to be at least 40 years old.
Something tells me that’s Sydney’s room. And an addition of Tom will spark a rare cursing demonstration of the Sydney kind.
Should, uh.. should we be worried that Syndey is wearing a Quake t-shirt while trying to make a magic circle?
That is her own Halo brand t-shirt. I can see the similarities to the quake logo though.
Should, uh.. should we be worried that Syndey is wearing a Quake tshirt while trying to make a magic circle?
That’s Sydney’s Halo-brand shirt (she’s been wearing it ever since… forever? it was pointed out to her when she first visited the Temple of The All-Mighty Halo after her space trip)
It looks familiar, I’ve seen similar circles in chuunibyou demo koi ga shitai but the characters look more like the dimensional barrier and teleport circles from fate night
ATTEMPT CASTING: getting all frixy a deux with boyfriend.
RESULTS: Summoning fisky Deus? DISCOVERING THE ORB OF MAGIC?? Noodle incident revealed???
Regarding the invotive: can see why Dabbles isn’t trying for the lead, can’t get that view from the front ;)
Oh boy what is she up to now? >_<
Do those markings remind anyone of the sides of Fracture Station?
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Regarding the vote incentive. Is Digit a super? And if so what’s her power?
As others have posted previously, she’s a gadgeteer, Verne type in the Wearing The Cape classification system. Think Batman but less physical, more mental, and less rich.
I’d say more like Forge or Gear than Batman. A super who specializes in inventing stuff.
I think Batman’s only power is being super rich and owning an incredible black ops R&D division.
I don’t think we’ve seen evidence of her gear actually violating the laws of the grrlverse physics, so it’s probably not verne-tech(which only works because the superpower makes it work). I think she’s like Deus, only less powerful and more mechanically inclined.
Digit’s the crazy inventor, right? The one in the digitigrade exo-suit in the vote incentive? I think she’s believed to be a super-inventor.
Super inventor doesn’t sound like a super power. Is she just super intelligent like Deus?
She makes things that shouldn’t be made or work, but somehow they do (even she’s not sure why, or how)
Heh, it takes a hot cross bunnbunn to get us moving up the rankings again :)
Uh oh. Halo’s really gone Fullmetal this time.
I’m contemplating a deep dive into the “dark nets” if you catch my drift. hurhurhur
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