Grrl Power #1360 – Fireballs 0; Dark Elf Wizards -1
In panel 1, I overdid it with the sparkles, so in case you can’t tell, Dabbler is Hammerspacing her telepathic serial share cable.
Speaking of brand new sentences, there are brand new sentences, and then there are brand new sentences. Unfortunately, I feel like Sydney’s last line on this page falls into the former category. In all the harem novels and webcomics and one-off comics on DeviantArt or HentaiFoundry, etc, involving succubi, and there’s a lot of them, I feel like there is a slight chance someone has said that before. Or at least a sentiment similar enough to count. It probably mentions wards or domains instead of firewalls, but still.
Weirdly, when I was drawing my unicorn character’s arguably not-entirely feminist exploits and posting them to a website that you might go to if you had an affinity for furry things, I had already worked out all this crazy anti-magic stuff and superpowers and a bunch of other things that may yet be revealed in the comic. That stuff just never really came up in the previous set of pictures involving him. It was extraneous to the milieu, you might say… if you weren’t quite using the word milieu correctly.
But I would guess that almost anyone who reads any sort of fiction has an encyclopedia of world building in their head involving their own characters. Or… maybe extended-universe fanfic where the Stargate malfunctions and drops Daniel Jackson off in the world of Horizon Zero Dawn alongside Shoto Todoroki of My Hero Acadamia, only they’re both My-Little-Pony-ified and they’re super gay for each other. That’s not even a brand new sentence, either. I’m just about sure someone’s written that, even if it’s in a college-ruled notebook alongside some very questionable art. I don’t mean questionable because of the subject matter, I mean why would they be regular MLPs in a world where every animal over 12 pounds is dead and replaced by robots? They would be Robot Ponies obviously, but no, that’s too hard to draw, so they’re regular ponies? How about a little consistency in your world building, Aubrey?!
Oh, speaking of “Hoss” doing the finger steeple, here’s a… jeeze, 17 year old picture of him. My wife has that tattooed on her shoulder.
Oh look! The vote incentive has another update!
Okay, its getting closer. The dragon slam page gave me a bit of time to work on it, and the clothed version is done… well, there no background, but instead of spending like an hour trying to render a nice looking couch for them to sit on, I put some work into the bonus comic that will accompany this incentive. I’m seriously hoping to have it all finished by the beginning of next month and I can move on to new ones that won’t take 3 months to finish.
The Patreon version is updated as well.
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Holy moly I made it first!!! And found a few old pics on there…boy howdy they bring back memories. Good ones.
This isn’t the first time Sydney has asked a question that revealed something that sooper-geenius Dabbler had completely missed.
Yep. First one to come to mind is:
Sidney: ‘Why didn’t you throw in a brick with a locator spell?’ (not an exact quote)
Dabbler then making dents in the table because of the simplicity.
Context: they didn’t want to use the bloodmagic escape hole to follow Sciona and co because of likely booby traps on the other end.
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it would suggest that most of the tantric energy is generated by the succubus rather than stolen from the victim. Which leads to some interesting questions about why people dying during sex with a succubus is so common.
Wasn’t it because the horny old men forgot the stop command and died of regular exhaustion and dehydration.
Could also indicate that tantric energy isn’t magical per se (part of the thaumion field?). Considering the intense emotion that frequently accompanies orgasms, it might even be an extension of the psion field, which the succubus metaphysiology catalyzes to generate thaumic energy.
It would be kinda absurd for Dabbler not to know something so fundamental to her very existence like that, especially with how indepth we’ve seen her knowledge on the subject goes. It’d be like a leading astrophysicist not knowing Newton’s First Law.
Newton’s First Law: Always buy TWO packages of fig cookies because the wife will eat the first bag before I get any.
Newton’s Second Law: something filled with figs is not a cookie.
And this is why they pay her the big bucks.
They pay her in large deer?
Regarding the fanfiction comment (and it not being original most likely)
Rule 34 /is/ a thing.
And Rule 35 is waiting if that fails
Lol. Is Hoss actually just a My Little Pony? Is he what one would look like if were put through a rated ripped for her pleasure filter? That would easily explain why he’s immune to magic. Where’s his cutie mark?
He’d be a ‘My Not-so-Little Brony’, though….
Calling it now, his power is being a magic sponge and it fuels his strength, like Deus and violence. But the magic still exists inside his body, that’s why he could charge up Dabbler.
Not Deus, Vehemence, I’m not drunk you’re drunk
No, you’re both drunk. Now, settle your bill and get out of here.
@DaveB; did you that there used to be a sub-genre of MLP FanFics and FanArt where it was crossed with Warhammer 40,000?
So the MLP/HZD/MHA/Stargate: SG-1 yaoi fiction you reference, isn’t that too far out.
How does she *hammerspace* her ear tentacles?
She had a (probably tech maybe magic) do-dad that let her tentacle two people at the same time instead of just one. Max and Sydney’s heads were turned to the side almost every panel for the last few pages, but they both had something on each temple. *Quick check of previous pages* Okay #1353 third and second to last panels seems to be the clearest shot.
It was a second set of buds that connected Sydney and Maxi, whereas the earbuds connected Dabbles with Sydney and Maxi (it sometimes showed up in some panels and not in others, it was the thinner cable connecting Maxi’s left temple with Sydney’s right, Dabbles connected to Sydney’s left and Maxi’s right)
Wouldn’t most fireballs variants just superheat his gear and scorch him indirectly?
Having originated from magic, I would assume the heat would still be magical in nature. Dabbler notes that a spell that specifically made mundane fire would work, so one that specifically heated up his gear with mundane heat would also work. But I’d imagine most “heat” spells would cut out immediately, not just have the item naturally cool back to the ambient temperature, if they were dispelled or the character entered a No Mana Zone.
Of course, keep in mind what he was wearing to go to Gygaxia – trousers and some arm armor made of something called ultronium, which I’d imagine is itself rather magic-resistant (or at least would have a high specific heat, so you’d need a lot of heat to get it to a temperature that would hurt him). The trousers catching flame might be problematic, but I’d imagine he’s well-adept at ripping them off at a moment’s notice. And all that is ignoring the fact he’s apparently now a super – and increased resilience seems to be a very common power.
Magical fire isn’t usually that good at producing actual heat. Most of the heat produced is usually from whatever is magically combusted producing heat, but that starts out as a net negative, because the initial energy released goes into enabling the flame in the first place. If he was dressed in oil soaked clothing, then absolutely, but if he’s in standard adventuring gear, scorching the clothes won’t be enough to make him even feel noticeably warm.
But, as Varyon said, he’s wearing stuff that’s probably more resistant than standard dungeon gear. That magical fire might actually make him feel a little chilly.
Now, yes, you can design a spell that produces mundane heat, but it’s going to be much more expensive to cast. You’re not just triggering a chemical reaction prematurely, you’re actually vibrating a lot of stuff subtly. Making something hot is much more difficult than making it vibrate at audible frequencies, and making it vibrate at audible frequencies is more difficult than the standard fireball spell, There’s a reason why Whisper is a lower level spell than Booming Voice, despite being arguably more useful.
(To be clear, yes, this is all headcanon crap. But it feels like it might fit.)
why a good elementalist uses summoning sigils or spells that produce natural phenomenon that is only guided by the magic, Never know when you are going to fight someone with magic resistance, anti-magic counter spells, or the always annoying mana absorption/mana vamparism.
Although having the magic variety on hand is good if you have specific kinds like a fire that can burn fire thanks to reality distortion elements in that magic…see the BS of a lava guy burning a fire guy from One Piece kind of insanity for what that does. Or in the case of elemental resistant beings like in Helluva Boss where natural fire has no effect on imps but Greed Ring of Hell fire burns them and quick.
Wouldn’t the Veil work? It worked on supers without them having to be specifically written in, and it’s already pre-programmed for aliens, right?
When they described the veil, they specifically said supers were not covered.
But I thought aliens WERE covered?
I think this is actually the exact reason that the veil was being overtaxed already. I imagine an alien super or an alien that became a super would create contradictions in the spell. At minimum an existence like Hoss specifically was probably somunique the spell wouldn’t full account for him for long.
Since the Veil is magical in nature it most likely doesn’t even recognize that he is even there in the first place. And covering for a moving area that is devoid of magic just isn’t feasible without fairly likely drawing more attention to it.
Not to split hairs, but most men don’t have that many inbound ports. Sure, technically a man only has 1 less, but the degree to which they are inbound differs from that of a woman. I’ve never heard a woman say that she penetrated a man’s mouth with her boob. Maybe it’ll be a new thing!
I’ve known a woman who would have if it would fit. The boob smothering fetish is a thing so I would bet that there is some fetish porn out there somewhere.
Depends on the size of the boob (and it would mostly just be the nipple anyway)
Sydney’s ability to fry Dabbler’s brain is one of the top three reasons she’s Maxima’s favorite.
So in a away he’s kinda of like Toji/Maki Zenin? Possibly moreso the Latter than the former, as he’s completley inert to Magic, But he’s ungodly strong, but it still seems to have at least something to be able to charge up Dabbler to that degree.
Sydney is smarter than she seems to be. Granted that is not hard to do.
He’s like Mat Cauthon from the Wheel of Time after he gets his foxhead medallion. You can use magic to throw things at him, but he can just walk through a ball of magical fire. Unless the magical fire ignites a real fire, which would burn him. Also his anti-magic field extends to what he’s wearing; otherwise a spellcaster would just affect him by moving/burning/disappearing his clothes or armor.
As for being on the D.L., my original thought is that he would have been hidden by the veil. But since magic doesn’t work on him I guess not?
But does the Veil cloak aliens in illusions, or does it affect normal people’s perception of aliens? The latter would still work, I’d think. That is how it worked in Mage: The Ascension, IIRC.
I have the most awful feeling she’s going to meet him and he’ll basically be her exact duplicate in many ways and answer every one of her questions with ‘Yes’ and ‘Because’ and never elaborate.
Did Sydney (and Dabbler) forget about the veil? It was even mentioned as a reason for aliens to visit without needing additional disguises.
I’d also assume tantric energy is something that is generated by feelings and acts of lust, not siphoned directly from the target? Though super powers, and presumably other magical beings, do enhance the potency of it if Dabbler gets that much more of a boost from it.
Doesn’t the veil work on pre-set definitions to cover groups.
A random alien would not always be covered for the same reason Supers were not covered.
There were catch-all clauses build in that at least partially covered and hid supers. And aliens were explicitly mentioned as being covered as part of ‘supernaturals’. See page 461. (The case of the supers is discussed starting on page 458.)
The Veil was written in magic. They discussed rewriting it in a later magic language and decided it made more sense to maintain it as it was.
I’d imagine the Veil would work in theory but he’s immune to magic, so it probably doesn’t work on him.
it would still work on the people seeing him, right?
I also thought tantric energies were separate from mana, as were vehemic energies, and maybe they are, but Dabbler here specifically mentions the Thaumion field. Back when Deus was explaining the Superion field, he noted it was one of (at least) three – the Thaumion field, the Psion field, and the new Superion field. Deus also notes there that there are multiple subsets of the Thaumion field. So it sounds like mana-based magic, tantric energy, and vehemic energy (plus probably some more) are all part of the Thaumion field, as they don’t fit in either of the other two.
Well… maybe. It’s possible one or both of those are actually associated with the Superion field, and without knowledge of the existence of that, thaumatologists lumped them in with magic. That would certainly explain why Dabbler (and Parfait) gets more of a boost from banging supers than banging other humans (or even, it’s been implied, banging magic entities). Maybe tantric and/or vehemic energies are part of the Superion field that can be accessed without having the appropriate decryption key (superhuman DNA). I suppose it might depend on just when that field was created relative to when succubi and the malumi came into being, but Deus’ suggestion that it’s only a few thousand years old implies those two predate it by quite a bit. Maybe the creators hijacked tantric/vehemic energies from the Thaumion field in some way in creating the Superion field, and the thaumatologists somehow missed this shift? Or those two were already part of an existing field separate from Thaumion and the “creators” actually just tweaked that field to make the Superion field? Hard to say… and I’m probably horribly off-base here.
Hmmm… Whatever Dues I mean, Hoss has going on there’s more to it than just super genius. It feels to me a bit like energy conversion? Maybe just magic energy conversion? Whatever the case, if he couldn’t be drained it seems to me that he was but that he was changing something else into tantric energy. Hmmm, that might just be the case for regular people too now that I think about it. “Normal” people just don’t have something to supplement that and thus end up catatonic. Would also explain why he’s mostly magically inert if he’s constantly changing harmful magic or energy into something that isn’t.
Given that it is heavily hinted that Deus is going to be the end boss of this campaign and there are at least three level bosses yet to be encountered it will be a couple of centuries before we find out…
> Oh, speaking of “Hoss” doing the finger steeple, here’s a… jeeze, 17 year old picture of him. My wife has that tattooed on her shoulder.
…your wife tattooed herself with your semi-horny MLP-fanfiction unicorn superhero character?
Obviously she was “the one” for Dave.
thats a real keeper right there
When Max high fives Sydney…you know she’s impressed
As you can’t telekinese him directly, he is vulnerable only to telekinetic wedgies.
It’s pretty much like the old “Green Lantern can’t affect anything that’s yellow”.
So if it’s a Green Lantern in a roleplaying game, he carries a can of spray paint to fix that problem. Or tosses mud on the bad guy before grabbing him with the ring. Or wraps up the bad guy in a rug or his cape.
Or maybe just wraps his cape around his giant green fist before punching the bad guy.
the good old loop holes.
can’t life Thor’s hammer, but you can lift what its sitting on, like the ground under it.
or Magnetism can’t lift that guy, but he’s wearing a suit of armor so now you can toss him around.
I think this is why like a defense field, its good to define the range of anti-magic, magic resistance, and psionic defenses, its like invisibility and phasing, its like is it just the body, extends a little bit from the body, can you stretch it over something you are holding (even if this take practice), etc…
Given that Maxima is in charge, asking “sex” related questions is usually not work related; and, having Dabbler say ANYTHING about sex is usually off-topic, but… Points to Sydney for making one such question “important”.
I wish to see these posts of Hoss on this subtly referenced site in Dave’s comment, but…I admit I haven’t spent as much time there as one would expect from a furry…and I’m having some difficulty with the search. ;-;
Trying again…
I wish to see DaveB’s postings on the subtly-referenced site (more out of curiosity what all is there) but I have very little experience on the site for those with an affinity for the furry, so I’m not actually sure even how to search for things and searching ‘Hoss’ produced…hm…a crowded field of results.
Search “Dynotaku”.
The comma after “affinity for furry things” is a link to his profile on the relevant site.
Aha, Maxima will drop her officer’s facade if it means roasting Dabbler.
I think the good people of Gygaxia will be fine, so long as they are using 3/3.5e rules. Conjuration spells either summon things from another plane, or, in the case of Creation sub-school spells, creates the effect as an actual physical object, not powered by magic, and so bypassing any Spell Resistance (but not immunity to the damage type), and there are more than a handful that will cause damaging effects. Such as the cantrip (0-level Spell) Acid Splash, for instance.
So is “Hoss” more high magic resistance or “Anti-Magic”
for the former I think personally I tend to write it off as a character having an over-active metaphysical defense field, the thing that tends to protect someone from their own powers or magic, Marvel and others have used the metaphysical defense field to write off someone not being hurt by their own fire powers but not those from someone else, or like Cyclops can’t be hurt by his own optic blasts but the exact same multi-dimensional kinetic energy blast could still hurt him from another soruce (so long as it lacks his life signature).
So an over active one is like a super power its self, making someone seem immune to magic or interdimensional energies and such, but if its a resistance you get “oh it really only protects up to level 7 spells, stronger spells can break through or are too much for the resistance to handle”
while Anti-Magic I reasoned out is a sort of counter magic, like the sound wave devices at an airport cancelling out the sounds of the planes, which is more accurate as a direct move, but an anti-magic field would be like an interdimensional aura acting as a counter “frequency” to magic its self. In fact I actually wrote something on that as a lecture. Namely to explain how she and other high level spell casters can counter anti-magic (the basic version of it used by low level or mundane individuals, because just holding up an anti-magic amulet shouldn’t be an end game for your wizards, mages, and other spell casters who can throw castles into space and slay apocalyptic hell beasts)
https://www.deviantart.com/rhuen1/art/Rhulan-s-lecture-on-countering-Anti-magic-1026155243
It isn’t that often that Dabbler gets confused by a logical question and from Sydney of all beings.
Being magic immune to the point of not passing portals….
is a stunningly useful trait to fake or selectively have if you want to never be suspected of being Deus. And doubleplus useful if you’re Deus and want to avoid “detect not fully human” type spells if you can pull off selective magic immunity.
Selectively, as in “make an exception to get laid with succibi” button-push easy selectivity.
Also, he’s a succubi charging device tier male like Deus is, not just a regular joe. Sydney’s seriously on to something there!!
My theory is that he’s too magic charged for portals to work without triggering some security feature or ruining his cover…
in any case, selective magic immunity might be his super power. Not as useful on earth as it would be on Gygaxia…
As for why Dabbler can charge off him anyhow? I guess he’s still leaking mighty amounts of magic out of his body enough to push out competing magic, but also not emitting emptyness.
I guess guys like him are as rare to succibi as unicorns, LOL
Lol, “not entirely feminist” describing big D is a stretch that would make even most lawyers blush. I do recall he was very serious about women’s physical health and fitness though…
He also doesn’t seem to have moral objections against money going to feminist charities(his advertisement pitch to Maxima for a modelling career.)
I was actually talking about the Hoss character, which Dave described in the description as having “not entirely feminist exploits” in his earlier works in the non-Grrlverse. The character’s original name was Dynotaku, hence me calling him Big D, since I forgot people had been calling Deus that.
Sydney FTW!
Trust her Neuro-divergent brain to dig deeper than the prurient surface (not that I wasn’t *enjoying* said prurient surface!)
Thank you for reminding us all how important Sydney is to the Team!
I’m pretty sure Sydney’s last sentence is new. Google finds only a half-dozen hits for “Maybe his dick has a”, with the following things that his dick might have:
* a birthmark that looks like Ronald Reagan trying to eat soup
* a high trade-in value
* a mullet
* a mouth too and he is just kissing
* a darker skin tone like most Asians
* a twin
I am strangely reluctant to try to find out what the backstory is for any of those.
Google isn’t as smart as Google wants people to believe it is
Granted, but the small selection that it did find, strongly suggests that Sydney is the first person to say that.
But that’s not unusual. A little math suggests that _most_ sentences are novel. In fact, this very sentence has probably never before been typed on a Dvorak keyboard in late May.
Language is _very_ fertile.
Dood… you need to get out more, that’s borderline creepy… go Touch Grass!
My “feel” for magical empaths sucking down emotional energy (Vehemic, Tantric, etc.) is the being draws on the “donor’s” emotional energy and converts it into magic. I dont see that the donor being antimagic would affect what happens to the energy leaving his body as its converted into magic inside the new host. His superion energy fueling his sex energy is a definite new twist…
Its Asta from Black Clover. And the cop from Dominic Deegan.
ALLRIGHT I GOT IT!!
This guy was created by a horny succibi to give 100% of his energy as tantric energy, and have HEAPS of it. The succubi pre-battle charger, or something!!
As such, he’s 1000000% totally a DICK and twice that a stallion, complete with the phallic symbol on his head, and the scheming and the sex addiction. These guys are as rare as unicorns to be so pure of a scheming dick.
Now tell me with a straight face he isn’t related to Deus in some significant way??? Saying he went to Gygaxia (where magic can’t track him and tech is forbidden) makes him “unfindable” which is perfect if he’s going to surgery himself into Deus complete with a Go’a’ould X-shaped scar on his face for body hopping his brain as needed.
What a magnificent bastard if that’s the case. (complete with a “meddling with the realm of God’s creation” level of bastard; I’m pretty sure the parents he was genetically engineered from aren’t married)
If Dave didn’t write him that way, he’s going to be tempted to change his mind, this is far too beautiful a reveal.
….but then, what do I know. Maybe Deus is just a super with a X shaped scar. Oh the anticlimax!!!
anticlimax: a succubus’ greatest foe!
It just occurred to me… if he visited our world could way back then could he be the OG unicorn?? lol
I mean he is practically a horse with a horn on his head & he strikes me as going for the pure ones chaste ones just to be their 1st and/or see that O.
Omg, I gound the old KRAKOOM picture, good times.
Until Sydney got the answer that he was null magic, wouldn’t she just have assumed the veil would cover him?
“One of them is port 6969”
Above 1024 no needs to be the superuser how convenient.
I guess Sydney is having a good day because those questions were on point. I thought she had gone full shutdown mode after imagining the implications. Fortunately the minmaxer mindset won out and out of the box insights were had.
So “Hoss” taps directly into the Superion?
he’s gonna tap that field