Grrl Power #1210 – Sucqueuebus
It’s previously been discussed in the comic how succubi need to form bonds with a master, so I won’t reiterate that stuff. I’ll only say that this happens to them at a certain age, let’s say the equivalent of 20 in human years at the very latest. It really depends on their how quickly their innate tantric abilities develop. Pre-pubescent Succubi benefit from “second hand” tantric magic, and there’s a panel on a page with a joke about little girl succubus wanting some cereal, but mama succubus rejects it because it doesn’t have enough Vitamin-T. Only that wasn’t a joke – there really are Vitamin-T supplements for little succubus girls. Their need for tantric energy increases up till puberty when it really starts spiking.
Demon society has sort of formalized this master finding process, and even have magical devices that can keep a succubus free from needing a Master for a little while, if she happens to develop quickly. It’s not the law or anything, on the one hand, demons are kind of like Libertarians, in that they believe anyone should be allowed to do whatever they want so long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else… minus the “as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else” part. It’s more like, “as long as you’re powerful enough to get away with it.” That said, though it goes against their natures, demons recognize the benefits of a somewhat structured society – society being fiefdoms under powerful warlords. But even the warlords are like, “You know a road between our two city states would help with commerce and tourism.” Modern demons are kind of caught between their inherent natures to kill and conquer, and a desire to have a working power grid and stable economy.
What I’m getting at in a really roundabout way, is everyone familiar with demon society knows that each year, there’s a new cohort of fledgling succubi looking for masters, usually sophomores in Succubus Finishing School. Yes, the Council of Succubus Matriarchs has made it clear that abuse of succubi is disproportionately punitive, but then again, having lots of sex with your new succubus slave is not exactly considered abuse. In fact, not having lots of sex with her is more likely to get you into trouble. And don’t forget that she’s a mana battery for her master as well. And also don’t forget their utility as spies. As you can imagine, there is a lot of competition for each new cohort of succubi. Like, a LOT.
And if some powerful Archfiend who has already proven himself to be a competent master jumps the line to stick it to his other slave by enslaving her half-sister because his first succubus has become entirely too unruly and uppity and sometimes stabs him in the leg with a soul eater sword, the people behind him in the queue might not take it that well.
Edit: “Sij X” means “bonded to, or subordinate of” X. This was perfectly clear in my head but I forgot you guys can’t just read my mind, like, let’s step it up people.
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It’s scenes like this that I hate you only post twice a week. For the last 24 hours I’ve been imagining Sydney saying something snotty like ‘lets take this outside so we don’t destroy my inventory’, where axe demon slams his fist into the display case, so Sydney wraps him in the lighthook, simply glares at the rest and says ‘Outside. Now.’ Probably more of a Max statement, but maybe she’s rubbing off on her?
I’m thinking something much more subtle. Because getting the store’s stock out of the firing lines is kinda important.
“Follow me” to get them outside, while turning on her glasses to call Dabs for diplomacy backup.
Or “Ok, I’ll call her” Rings Dabbler’s number. “Hi, Parfait, there’s this really cute guy in a Vermillion jacket down at the comic shop, want to come oogle?” (I think Vermillion was her “I can’t talk openly” word? They really need two of them, one for “I’m kidnapped and can’t access my orbs, bring the rain” and one for “I’m trying to be subtle, but could use an assist”)
I’m 50/50 on if Dabs should be able to diplomacy this encounter, but any way it goes down, getting them off the shop floor is a priority.
She could also probably just send a text to Max saying “bad guys at store, need help” and then tell the demon; alright, Parfait will be here in a minute.
Hmmm we could be missing something like angel boy taking a fall for the girl he loves.
“…as long as you’re powerful enough to get away with it.”
That’s not Libertarianism, that’s Anarchy.
Anarchism is generally assumed to be the form of anti-authorianism that comes from socialism.
And anarchy don’t mean pandemonium ..
For me a French the term libertaire ( the french word used to make the word libertarian ) and anarchist are synonyms.
But the libertarianisme translation of the american libertarianism is a combination of plutocracy and social Dwarinism …
After all for a libertarian social institutions such as welfare and any help for disabled or destitute people were allowing inferior humans to survive and reproduce at levels faster than the more “superior” humans in respectable society, and if corrections were not soon taken, society would be awash with “inferiors”…
I think you meant “anti-authoritarianism”, cuz “anti-authorianism” means hating DaveB for only posting twice a week and owing us two vote incentives. ;-D
Spoken like someone who doesn’t know what Anarchy actually is.
Did you had any Knowledge of French langage ?
In french the term “libertaire” ( the french word used to make the word libertarian ) and anarchist are synonyms…
If you contest this that could you give me some exemples ? in french sentences
And Anarchist movement had socialist roots :
1st international had anarchist members it’s a fact … after classical anarchist want instant stateless society without the proletariat dictature step…
Nestor Ivanovitch Makhno the most famous ukrainian anarchist had socialist ideas…
Classical anarchism is deeply rooted in socialism …
“the various anarchist schools of thought are not seen as distinct entities but rather as tendencies that intermingle and are connected through a set of uniform principles such as individual and local autonomy, mutual aid, network organisation, communal democracy, justified authority and decentralisation.”
Peter Kropotkin, Mikhaïl Bakounine, Nestor Makhno ,and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon share this common belief …
“Libertarianisme” or “libertarisme” – the french words – are an US idea of no state and social Darwinism …
It’s survival to the fittest at all cost . And if a society is already ill the fittest is a virus.
Now could you point my misconceptions after this explanations ?
Bharda’s reply was to Bill, not to you, Homep–check how the indents are laid out.
I’m sorry in this case , for the agressive tone
Pardonné et oublié, mon ami. Quelle que soit sa valeur, je suis moi-même enclin au véritable anarchisme. Bien que je ne sois pas moi-même anarchiste, une grande partie de mon idéologie repose sur les principes de l’anarachisme. En particulier, « aucune hiérarchie n’est intrinsèquement auto-justificatrice ».
Pas mauvais – en Français ça veut dire que c’est bon car nous râleurs patentés avons des difficulté a prononcer ce mot – registre soutenu alors que le registre courant aurais suffit… c’est un peu ampoulé -full of emphasis-
Mais correct point de vue syntaxe et grammaire ..
Un bon 17/20 en Français, en France on note plus sévèrement qu’aux USA.
Alors, 85 % à mon examen ? Je le prendrai de bonne grâce et avec gratitude.
Merci professeur!
If you take libertarian ideals to an extreme, what you get is essentially anarchy, since the libertarian ideal is about freedom and autonomy from the rule of the government, if you take that to it’s extreme conclusion you get no government at all, which is, as far as I am aware, the definition of anarchy.
The primary difference, as far as I can tell, is in framing, libertarianism is largely about property and having the freedom to protect said property using whatever means and measures you consider sufficient that are within your personal capability, for some reason this idea is often tied to capitalism where you expand your property by doing work for someone else to get paid and then you buy more property, or improve your propery, or better protect your property so you can grow your wealth. The part that a lot of people miss is that libertarianism is *not* about economics, it’s about government oversight, but these libertarian capitalists seem to think that without government oversight society will naturally default to a capitalist economy and not simply taking whatever you can get by whatever means are available to you. Anarchy is often framed more negatively, and has the assumption of danger baked into it, even amongst a lot of the people who seem to be in favor of it, but those people do also seem to make the assumption that pockets of society will still form and largely cooperate, which is technically true, but those gangs eventually form into governments since they need rules to function beyond a certain scale, and you need to exceed that scale for any genuine security.
As for why I don’t expect capitalism to work without a government, money doesn’t exist without a regulatory body to say “this stuff is the placeholder for value”, even gold doesn’t actually have intrinsic value, since that would suggest some sort of use, but the only use for gold (at least back when it was used for currency, now it’s useful for circuit stuff in computers) is decoration/art and currency, which is part of *why* it was used for currency, it was scarce, not useful for much else, and pretty enough that wealthy people want to have stuff made out of it. The people at the top of the social structure wanted gold for decorations, that meant it had “value” as far as the people below the top were concerned, and so it began being traded for things that did have actual, intrinsic value, and thus essentially became a placeholder FOR that value, paper money became a placeholder for gold, later silver, and later was reverted back to just a placeholder for units of value itself. Any society with any form of currency is essentially operating on the barter system, which starts requiring some kind of placeholder for value once your society scales above a certain threshold of complexity. So, in essence, in order to have capitalism on any real scale you need society to agree on a particular placeholder for value, and for that you essentially require SOME kind of governmental structure.
In the absence of some kind of tangible placeholder for value, it defaults to power, what you can take, what you can keep, and then we just eventually revert to the city states that humanity started with and keeps going back to every few hundred years, as someone take charge largely via charisma and power and organizes a societal structure with themselves at the top, and then they eventually try to expand and we get empires/kingdoms/dictatorships, those eventually collapse due to revolution and we get republics/democracies, then those eventually collapse too and we either go back to city states or we go back to some kind of dictatorship/empire/kingdom. Having currency seems to stabilize the republic/democracy phase for rather longer, but if you tear down such a societal structure without something to replace it with you just get anarchy that develops into tribes and eventually settles into city-states and it all begins again.
IMO, all political and economic ideals fall apart when you take them to extremes. Capitalism has developed pretty close to it’s extreme and is slowly morphing into feudalism somehow. Communism when taken to it’s extreme fails with a population beyond a couple hundred or so because it requires fascism to function on that scale, and fascism completely undermines the ideals of equality that communism is built upon. I don’t actually know how the extreme version of socialism differs from communism but I assume it does otherwise I question why they have different names, but as far as I can tell socialism is a less extreme version of communism. The best system finds a balanced blend of various ideals that pull away from each other’s extremes enough to satisfy the most people, I feel that some form of democratic republic is ideal for governance, and I feel a largely capitalist economy that’s built on a foundation of socialist safety nets that prevent it from running away from itself and ensures the security of the populace would be fairly ideal as far as an economic system goes, but sadly I can’t see a way for the US to properly get there, even if someone with such a system in mind lead a successful revolution, the infrastructure just isn’t there and would be too much to build without capitalism or extreme fascism. We can get pretty close without razing and rebuilding the infrastructure from the ground up, but not as close as I’d like. At this point it would also probably require a bloody revolution which is not something I can support, or a couple hundred years of the left slowly gaining ground which means we (those of us here, today, having this conversation) would never get to see even the start of it.
Anarchy fundamentally means no structure or authority. It’s inherently unstable, because as you say, either someone fills the power vacuum, or groups form a structure for the sake of efficiency, stability, safety, and security. Libertarianism assumes some sort of minimalistic structure to limit the growth of formal government and preserve the power of individuals. The fundamental flaw, which seems to be the primary appeal for many of its advocates, is that it has no mechanism to limit the power of individuals beyond a restriction on violence, thus leading to a grossly hierarchical society of vast disparity in wealth, culminating eventually in a dictatorship.
The fundamental philosophical distinction between communism and socialism is that under communism, everything serves the state, whereas under socialism, everything serves the society. In practice, communism often develops into state capitalism. Most systems have the capacity to develop into something oppressive. It takes something very carefully balanced to prevent the unchecked growth of power in any particular place.
> If you take libertarian ideals to an extreme, what you get is essentially anarchy
It devolves to feudalism pretty quickly.
I can sort of sum this up:
In Libertarianism as the rest of the world knows it, the right to NOT be a slave is inalienable.
In Libertarianism as known to Americans, the right of the rich to own slaves is justified by the right of the poor to sell themselves into slavery. Okay, you can call it “wage” slavery but let’s not quibble about details.
I would simplify that further:
The American form of Libertarianism revolves around having no responsibility and facing no consequences.
Normal people say, for example, “yes, society is better when everyone is educated, therefore I am willing to contribute a portion of my income to a common pot which will be used to educate everyone.” From there, they go on to elect a group of people who will collect and manage that pot and implement its purpose; this group is called “the government.”
Libertarians say, for example, “I should not have any responsibility to anyone else and therefore should not have to contribute anything to their education. If they want their kids to know how to read, they can pay for it. If they can’t afford it, oh well.”
(Note: I use the word ‘normal’ in the statistical sense. And yes, the above is an actual position that a libertarian of my acquaintance has taken with straight-faced sincerity. The lack of empathy and lack of awareness of consequence staggered me, but I couldn’t get him to recognize either of those things.)
Demons are probably VERY used to people attempting to intimidate them, but I’d still be a little concerned if I rolled up on a small woman with three or four of my pals, her friend asked if she wanted her to call the authorities, and she replied that she didn’t need help. Like the little old man smiling at you in Discworld.
Yes it’s like a WWI German Sturmtrupper against Albert Fernand Séverin Roche* or a WWII SS against Audie Murphy…
*A small guy the most decorated french soldier of WWI , 9 times wounded and who had taken 1 180 prisonniers – it’s not a typo –
While the show had some continuity and thematic issues, there was a scene in “Andromeda” that I liked in this theme. The character Trance Gemini who looked like a purple demon at the time *later looked like a golden woman with inconsistent hair/horns), was standing up to this big muscular alien and said to him,
“I am half your size and I am still standing up to you, that means either I’m crazy or I’m a lot more dangerous than I look”.
I’m the Doctor. Look me up under ’cause of death’…
Heh, just saw that clip on youtube shorts (spent over two hours looking at 10second shorts :P )
Ah, yes.
“Rule Number One.”
Rule Number One in what list of rules? Because my mind first went to “Pillage, then burn.” from the 70 Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries, which in turn is from the webcomic Schlock Mercenary, but that rule isn’t applicable in this context so I assume you’re referring to something else.
The History Monk Lu-Tze of Discworld: “Do not act incautiously when confronting little bald wrinkly smiling men!”
Bingo.
That’s Maxim Number One, not Rule One. Rule One is “don’t be a d!ck”.
After what happened at the Archon base,maybe they have another…um..orgy,should it be similar to the ones from Asterix in Switzerland(right down to the cheese fondue?!?)
Go here:
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Asterix/Issue-16?id=113746
Are you belgian from Wallonia , French ?
Panel 4.
I think Demon #3 is considering buying something.
“I Visited Earth And All I Got Was This T-Shirt”
(Pays with a coin. Gets five quarters, eight dimes, five pennies and a nickel in change.)
I find it interesting and amusing with that wording that her store is a comic shop that sprouted from the corpse of a church. Like there are comic shop seeds or spores floating around that look for freshly dead churches to grow in.
To be fair, it does not have to be a church. Any dead building will do.
And the building does not have to be (quite) dead for the seed of the comic shop to take root.
I now realize that this isn’t Archon terrain, but Twilight council terrain.
They police their own.
The demons are their own.
Also threatening people with no access to what you want in foreign territory isn’t the most effective way to achieve these things.
No Access to what they want? That seems unlikely. They traced the source caster of the summoning spell to find the summoned Succubi. These guys aren’t (just) offworld thugs, they are private investigators following a trail. They can’t scan the orbs (not there to scans) but the GLASSES are going to register as offworld tech. This means they likely have the right person –as well as having a post about the comic shop itself.
The demons kind of feel like they are between the *local supernaturals* and “alien Xevoarchy rep”. In that the demons have been using portals connected to Earth for thousands of years as a species and many living on Earth as a result, while also technically not being local sapient species, originating from a netherverse or “The Netherworld is a planet somewhere in space” bit of Disgaea style weirdness.
So its kind of like the Twilight Council has two alien reps, one that represents a tourism company/space police and has to deal with traffic of various species wanting to visit the pre FTL planet, and the other a single species that has had a linked wormhole system to this planet for so long they are basically grandfathered in as locals as well.
Which given what Parfait was saying about succubus finishing schools on other planets, the demons may be doing with numerous other planets as well. A species that focused on mana based portal travel across the universe rather than spaceships so tends to come across as supernatural to most they first meet.
The Semper Vigilantis would still have an issue with them (think I remembered their name right)
Her insurance underwriters have felt a disturbance in the Force…
The name is almost Thot-Goth.
*Sydney proceeds to give the intruder a tongue-lashing that reminds him of when his mother scolded him as a child* {using epithets and curses his mother never had the chops to use}, leaving him writhing and crying
So of course, Since DaveB decided to mention the return tokens, of course someone is going to lose theirs and presumably our heroes will find it.
The technical term for the demon “huge battle axe” is a Bardiche
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Bardiche.jpg/800px-Bardiche.jpg
omg, now I gotta see if I can make one into a musical instrument! (kidding, but it’d be funny)
A bardiche is a specific type of “huge battle axe”, and this demon’s axe is not a bardiche. With the hammer head and the spike on the head, it looks more like a poleaxe (with a bardiche-style axe head.)
It’s a demonic polearm, so maybe the real name of the weapon is “hellberd.”
I just had a thought, maybe Sydney’s truesight orb can teleport anyone that she’s holding onto? That would be funny as hell, she’s uses lighthook on him, teleports them both out, she dumps him on his tail, and pops back into the store. Then she asked the other 2 to leave nicely. With that chillingly evil grin of hers… “I’ve been dieing to try that” she whisper to Olivia.
Clues will help the heroes find what they need.