Grrl Power #1416 – Hoard bunny
Many dragons have treasurephilia. A fetish for gold and trinkets and shiny, magic weapons and sometimes even nicely framed art or delicate glass figurines. Having a big hoard is a nesting instinct, as humanoid currency isn’t really a necessity for them. When you bring a lady dragon back to your place, make sure you sweep out all the goat and adventurer bones, straighten up the tapestries with the gold thread you pilfered from the castle you knocked over, and make sure you’ve got enough coins and gems for a nice rumpy-pumpy caldera. And if you have a few virginal maidens chained to the sacrifice posts for a post-coital snack, even better.
Of course, that’s how your more anti-social dragons do it. A few razorbacks slow cooking over a lazy magma fissure is nice as well.
Anyway, dangling a “gold” woman in front of a dragon like that, especially one that spends a lot of time in a humanoid form and can appreciate the particulars of the female humanoid form, is borderline irresponsible and/or funny, because Cora knows Maxima can vociferously dissuade Gaxgy if he “just has to have a little pinch.” Cora figured there was a 50/50 chance Gaxgy would either do this or stand in the back forcing down a Squee of monstrous proportions.
And yes, I am working on a picture of Maxima supining on a pile of gold. I hope to make it a vote incentive, it just depends on how it turns out.
Maxima knew she was going to un-disguise, and didn’t want to wear that white zentai suit under the hologram for the reveal. As long as she’s on the ship, she can do that. The suit is for off-ship infiltration, but the ship has projectors in corridors and rooms. They’re not enough to do the whole interior holo-deck style, but Cora is planning on that as an upgrade. Partially that’s for fun times when it’s just her and her hunky crew on board, but having the entire interior of the ship able to function as a holodeck would make hostile boarding actions really difficult. If the force-field part of that equation was strong enough to withstand blaster fire and acetylene torches, or whatever raiders might use to cut through security doors, you could keep pirates going in circles for hours before they started to guess something was up. Or just send them in a U back to the hull and shoot them all into space. Really, any boarding party would have to have full environmental suits, because venting the part of a ship that raiders were in would be SOP.
Kobold Sydney vote incentive! Is finally done!
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“What if you pose with clothes on my hoard and I paint you nude using my imagination?”
Boobs, abdomen, arms, pelvic region, bust (other bust)… he’s got a good start Just from her skin showing between her disguise and her guise. In fact if her front and the hoard are shown occluding her lower half (perspective), or if she’s waist deep in treasure, he really has all the info he needs.
Boobs, abdomen, arms, pelvic re
A gold-hoarding Dragon straight out of an RPG. It took a while to see the pun in Gaxgy. Groan.
I bet his first name is Gary and he’s got his own Dungeon….
on His own planet named Oerth.
No, no, it’ll be “Gray Gaxgy” or some other anagram. Maybe “Yrag” or “Yag’r” to fit the tone of the last name…
dont be daft is name is Gaxgy Son of Arn
OH.
My.
Deities and Demighods.
(Thank you, @George Phillies… I *GREW UP* in that Era; and I *missed* it! [first D&D: 1981 in an Air Force Dorm ])
In my defense…there *was* something nagging at the back of my brain…I think that was it!
If you’d been in the boy’s AF dorm in 1981, you’d never have gotten any sleep due to the all-night D&D sessions….
For the purposes of the story, it makes sense that he’s Metallic, but… anything based on Gygax should honestly be at least part Chromatic…
That being said… the whole obsession with gold thing IS more of a thing for Red Dragons than it (ironically) is for Gold ones, so I guess one COULD consider that already covered.
See the original strike in all its glory back in #767.
As a person that enjoys playing a Kobold in RP… (and is waiting for my kobold cameo, Dave :P)
Yes… Gygax.. the answer is always Yes
Ooh, a name for the adorkable orc girl. This shows promise!
Too bad she’s named for a species of peccary
Right? The tusked girl with glasses is named after a type of extremely near-sighted peccary also known as “skunk pig”? Damn Dave …
Am i the only one thinking the entire crowd has to be exceptionally dense, for not instantly getting that when Cora shows a video of ‘another’ woman nuking a battleship, then its the almost identical woman in a mask she said would crush a tournament?
I have long thought that dragons were similar to bower birds, which build elaborate stages on which to display themselves and courts female bower birds. Except that dragons use shiny minerals. Then along came humans who produced supernormal releasers for dragon courtship, and the male dragon who just has quartz and raw copper and broken geodes is so out of luck!
Per boarding actions: in the Andromeda series that was a valid tactic used against intruders on the ships, as long as it didn’t harm the crew. Gravity could be dialed up all the way to pulping invaders entirely.
It stands to reason that any kind of moving/holodeck style forcefields could easily be interfered with and overcome by any kind of a boarding action, probably a moving distortion field that wouldn’t allow them to form. Fixed force field emplacements would be harder to overcome. Sensory systems to look through holograms would be routine, painting them as unreal distractions in combat, no more, and drawing attention if they are static, trying to conceal something.
In short, unless a sci-fi boarding team is woefully underequipped and trained, the tactic likely won’t work well at all.
Now down on the planet of savage monsters and barbaric natives who have no exposure to such things, it would be quite useful.
Shlock mercenery uses that too. they call it gravying becouse thats all thats left. you can only ever resist it with an oposing anti grav field so ship to ship combat usualy came down to which ship had the biggest power plant.
Set the hologram projector inside whatever hologram is being projected. Then make the hologram 60 feet of inertron completely filling the corridor.
Then there’s gold dragons who hoard knowledge and books.
…reminded of that Tumblr post of a dragon whose entire hoard consisted of one coin and was passed around and treated like a pet.
“Paint me nude like one of your french girls on your hoard”
Okay, I like Javelina. Astute green skin cutie.
Still unclear if he intends Maxima to be on his horde, or if he plans to paint her onto his horde.
Actually a Mosaic floor made of inlaid gold coins in the form of a nude Maxima lounging on a horde would be pretty epic…
“Hoard”. Getting naked on top of a horde is more Dabbler’s thing.
Okay…against my will… Gaxgy is starting to grow on me.
(He’s so *earnest*…I guess it goes with the Draconian Hubris…)
… but I *still* want to see Maxima wipe the floor with him… purely as an intellectual exercise, of course….
if he and math ever meet… nobody would blame maxima for the mangling lol
~~All I wanna do, is see you turn into, a golden woman, a golden woman~~
Suddenly theme of 007 film – Goldfinger starts playing
I almost tried to correct it to fixation, but these are people Dabbler attracts, and Gaxgy would probably try to actively impregnate a gold atom if shrunk down to the atomic level.
So how long till the Gygax Painting will be on the Vote Insentive.
He’s a goddamned dragon, alright. Honestly depending on just how much of a dragon he is, Maxima indulging him (within reason, of course) could be very useful. Sitting for a portrait, even a nude one, is not a particularly strenuous task.
I presume somebody by now has pointed out the similarity between Gaxgy and Gygax. Not complaining, it’s as appropriate s source of a name for a dragon as any other.
Gaxgy really did let eagerness overcome his common sense. If he had started with “I paint, would there be any chance I could talk you into modelling sometime?” Max might have at least considered the idea, with negotiations about how much and which skin she was willing to show, likely after he had done at least one good portrait to prove this wasn’t just a line. Also, if he can get her to pose nude at all, he can probably do enough reference sketches to paint a slightly idealized version with the hoard as background later.
Though this does remind me of one individual, back in the ’50s, who used to roam the boardwalk with a camera loaded with dummy film., pretending to take pictures of the pretty girls and offering to send them copies. If he got one who seemed interested enough to tell him where to send the prints, he would switch to real film so there would be something to send and, hopefully, keep the conversation going. Ars est celare artem, or something like that.