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Grrl Power #1244 - Meyegraine

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This page exists because of all the times I've seen people get possessed in shows, and their eyes change, and I can't help but think, "That has to hurt." I don't think I've ever seen it addressed in any show I can think of. Of course, if you turn into a werewolf, all that bone stretching and tail growing and fangs ripping through your gums might hurt, but a ghost possesses you and your iris disappears? Yeah, no worries mat...

Grrl Power #1243 - Firebreak

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Yeah, I know Sydney still has possessed eyes. That will be addressed on the next page. 

"Fire Jail" I assume involves a moat, and the guards would be firefighters. Maybe there'd be one of those shower heads that lowers the water pressure so much that the water falls slower than the pull of gravity should provide. By which I mean those rainfall showerheads. In my opinion, a shower should have so much pressure that if you ...

Grrl Power #1242 - The dish too hot for fire!

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The room is still lit with red, windy light (windy light?) but I've color corrected (and wind corrected?) it for your viewing convenience. 

Is this torture? Considering this is something Sydney might eat anyway, no? Except Lapha is obviously experiencing it differently. Like if Sydney really liked cilantro and Lapha really hated it, like the smell of it made her nauseous and dizzy, would it be torture for Sydney to eat a...

Grrl Power #1241 - The Mighty Scoville

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I think about 90% of you predicted this. I like to keep you guys guessing, but sometimes it would truly make no sense if the characters don't at least try the obvious path.

The name of the dish is "The Mighty Scoville" in case you were wondering.

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I played another Pathfinder session, and in the interest of science and convincing myself that I don't have evil dice karma, here are my (D2...

Grrl Power #1240 - Puzzle a possessor

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Welp, Sydney's mind has gotten bored with the situation. Really, that's no surprise, seeing as how they stuck her in a light beige room. Would it kill them to maybe print a nice landscape on the canvas? Sure, if someone is having a proper looney-tunes freakout, you probably want to minimize their stimulation. It would be foolish to stick someone having hallucinations in a room where one wall is a 10x10 foot print of van Gogh's ...

Grrl Power #1239 - Sydula rasa

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Well, it looks like Lapha has one card left to play. Imagine having to start over with Sydney. You'd have to show her SO MUCH sci-fi and cartoons in order to try and reboot her memories - assuming that's even a viable solution with whatever brain-wipe method Lapha's race employs.

Imagine being the lobby guard when Maxima shows up with an unconscious Sydney under one arm and gray blue-ish kind-of-purple alien girl under th...

Grrl Power #1238 - Cannibalympics

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Maxima will get around to lambasting and/or threatening Lapha, but as Sydney is secured, she's allowing herself a little preamble. Also she's hoping it throws Lapha off her game a little. It will probably have limited effect, however, if Lapha looks into Sydney's memories and sees how most of her interactions with the team go.

Being sick/poisoned is about the only time a succubus doesn't feel sexy, and it's already been e...

Grrl Power #1237 - Sob story

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This page made me sad. Poor Lapha.

If you're wondering how she went from flame thing hovering in a circular thing to guttersnipe, well, eventually someone went to check on her parents and found her. She was given a children's starter body (Aetholiths don't mentally start as infants, but it depends on how their parents' initialize their starting configuration.) And then she was put in "the system," with which she had mixed...

Grrl Power #1236 - Bespoke accommodations

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Happy leap comic! If today wasn't a leap year, it would make zero difference in when you received this page, so... there's that?

Don't feel too bad, Sydney. Don't know you that you're judged by your enemies' regard for you? Also your sensibly cautious allies. This containment solution would also work pretty well against mages. At least the ones that need to wiggle their fingers to cast spells. The fact that the chair is o...

Once more into the Fray

I've started playing some Pathfinder 1e on the occasional Saturday. It does eat into my drawing time, but I kind of don't leave the house anymore unless it's for a walk or short errand, so my wife was like "Hey, let's go to a place and do a thing." Plus playing D&D/Pathfinder (lets not pretend that Pathfinder isn't just D&D) has given me an excuse to expand my dice collection again. Honestly I wish we were playing the latest version of Pathfinder, because 1st Edition is... I guess the...

Grrl Power #1235 - Battle of the attocentury!

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In case you were wondering, one attocentury is 3.1556926 nanoseconds, according to google. I didn't do the math this time so it's probably accurate. Not that attocentury is a real term, though how crazy would it have been if it was exactly pi nanoseconds? It's pretty close. Maybe there was a point where that was the case, like how the moon is very slowly de-orbiting the Earth so it's orbital period is nanoscopically changing? M...

Grrl Power #1234 - Back off or the me gets it!

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Woo! Page 1234! Arbitrary numbers! Next stop, 1236 (each number being the sum of the previous numbers... well, except for the 2... I cause the sum of 1 is just 1, so I guess that only works if we're talking about page 1124, which we've already passed, or page 11248, which we'll hit in approximately 90 years.) Also 1250, which is just a thousand and a quarter, so good times all around.

Lapha's plan A was to grab Maxima and...

Grrl Power #1233 - Attack of Alexsiri!

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Well, the immediate emergency has passed, so it's time for a quick exposition. It doesn't help mitigate the situation, but at least Sydney and Harem have a better idea of what they're dealing with.

The "relatively recent emancipation legislation" means this particular category of magend isn't forced to do a particular job. That said, a lot of ætholiths generally prefer occupations like librarian, security system overwatc...

Grrl Power #1232 - Crisis partially nipped

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Lots of speculation on the previous pages, and quite a few of you called this outcome. This was broadly hinted at in the bonus comic for the Sydney Surrogate NSFW post a few months back. While canon, I'm not actually sure where in the timeline those events occur. Probably not too far in the future I guess, but we'll have to see. Also...

Grrl Power #1231 - Dark The Mighty Halo

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I think everyone guessed this page was coming. Also, it being a 4 panel mostly full of Lapha reveling, I expect there won't be too much to really talk about, other than how Sydney is getting another stamp on her "Things that happen to superheroes" Bingo card. This is separate from the "2024-02-12 11:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Grrl Power #1230 - Side hustle

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So I'm experimenting with doing fewer panels without cutting down the content too much, or at least the dialog. It won't work for every page, sometimes the dialog will be better served with back and forth expressions and reactions, but I felt for this page, it's a guy talking to a fire-eyeball, so it works out here. We'll see. So far it saves me a little time, though I immediately filled that time with more involved coloring th...

Grrl Power #1229 - Half-napped

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The lizard guy is Garamm, from the fight with the space mercs that took place in NYC, and it should be obvious by now that the one running Tenri's body is Lapha.

You can't just grab an Ætholith off of their own head and just balance it on the nearest cylindrical object. Well, first off, you can't grab them at all. You need special magical wand-caliper thingies, and if you're caught with those things and no license for th...

Grrl Power #1228 - NO2 you don't!

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There's a fair bit of disagreement as to what would really happen if Sydney pulled her little stunt IRL. For instance, turning all the Oxygen into Nitrogen, well, first off, is she turning O, or O2, or is she breaking up CO2 into C1 and two O1's or one O2? The atmosphere doesn't usually have a lot of free-range O1 floating about. Pure Nitrogen will either bond with other N's to become N2, and the stuff at the edges o...

Grrl Power #1227 - The really yucky breath of life

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This page is a tad busy admittedly, but I couldn't resist a little aside back to the base to show Arianna just... aging a little bit each time Sydney's name suddenly gets a bunch of social media hits. 

When I look back through the comic, I think the biggest issue with it is the density. Since I want every page to tell it's own little segment of the story, there's no big splash pages (except for like page 100 I think,...

Grrl Power #1226 - Whippet good

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Sydney has been wanting to try this since she figured out how to do the nitrogen trick in Galytn. She just didn't think it through all the way. She figured, change Oxygen to Nitrogen, everyone passes out, then change it back. They wake up a little dizzy, maybe have a headache, but it's all good. What she hasn't figured out is if she can change the air already in someone's lungs to and fro. Probably should have tried this in the...

Grrl Power #1225 - Anthropomorphic Bodybuilding Cuttlefish from SPACE!

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Quite a few people mentioned in the comments on the prior page that OG Doctor Who had a budget of about £17 per episode, and the sweaters that I identified as UNIT specific costuming was probably just a standard British Army "jumper." I put jumper in quotes, because while I know that's what the Brits call sweaters, to this particular American, the term "jumper" makes me think of the onsie you put on a toddler. Since wearing th...

Grrl Power #1224 - Sickubus

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If you know someone who is very competent and self-sufficient, seeing them curled up under a blanket acting enfeebled has to be a bit disconcerting the first time. Sure, we all know guys who get a 4-inch slash on their forearm and just shrug and throw some duct tape over it, but the first time they get a sniffle they act like someone has stolen all their bones. Still, "dude with casually disturbing pain threshold" isn't quite i...

Grrl Power #1223 - Their Demon High School Mascot was the Fightin' Fighters

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The short-haired not-Sydney in panels 1 and 2 is a girl who mans the Archon merch counter on their high traffic days. Which, most of them are now, but like, Wednesday through Saturday specifically. She hasn't been named in the comic yet.

Parfait told Sydney that the biggest difference between most human societies and demons is suburbs, and from a civil engineering perspective, she's not wrong. Well, also a lot fewer above...

Grrl Power #1222 - Afterglow escapologist

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Succubi don't get any tantric energy from self inflicted pleasure, but they still get the self inflicted pleasure, so... they still do occasionally partake.

The radial mile of ground obsidification and associated fires she started in Galytn weren't technically forest fires. There was a lot of grassland and ground scrub and those solo tree clusters that pop up in savannah biomes, but not really anything that quali...

Grrl Power #1221 - Nought all, AKA Succubus Soccer

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When one of Parfait's spells backfires, it really backfires.

Imagine plunging the depths of a dungeon, fighting monsters after monster, each one worse than the last (which in my opinion is a poor way to protect your treasure. I mean, put the hardest monsters on the top floor so the heroes can't level up as they progress. Like, duh.) Anyway, you slog your way through to the final treasure chest and carefully open it to rev...

Grrl Power #1220 - I'll tickle your sole!

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If you look back at the previous page, Parfait cast her lavender spell which got turned back on her, but you can also see the red spell coming out of the back of her sigil and dropping out of the panel. Casting two spells simultaneously is literally twice as complicated as casting a single spell, at least for amateurs. Once you're a little more proficient, you can use common elements of each casting for both spells; homing elem...

(NSFW) Sire-versary

Crimson and Scarlett have a present for Ingsol!

It’s them, they’re the present. They’ve decided that “Sire-versaries” are a thing and Ingsol has to be convinced this is a good idea each time. Everyone thinks his pair of names-that-are-synonyms-with-red sirelings who are both women and who were both turned in that age range that ensure peak hotness means he’s a dirty old man, but he actually isn’t. It just worked out that way. And don’t forget that while it looks like the...

Grrl Power #1219 - Round One, Succ-Off!

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An all-succubus fighting game would, and let's be honest here, probably be pretty bad. Certain genres of video games don't really lend themselves to prurient content very easily. At least, in a lot of cases, the execution is sorely lacking.

I think the first "dirty" video game I ever played was a text adventure on, uh... an Apple II I think? Leather Goddesses of Phobos. Literally the only thing I remember about it was tha...

Grrl Power #1218 - On your marks, get set, SUCC!

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I think Sydney needs her afternoon dose of brain work good drugs. I wonder if adderall would give a +1 to Intuition or Wisdom checks. I mean... probably, right? Memory checks, too. Even initiative. Well, really, it would temporarily negate the negative effects of the "ADHD Affliction."

If border disputes could be solved with a sort of sexual Olympics instead of war, well... there'd probably be a lot more border disputes, ...

Grrl Power #1217 - It's exactly what it sounds like

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Merry Xmas if you partake, and happy whatever else if you don't.

I think the idea of a tantric stock exchange is pretty funny, like somehow a bunch of demons have stock in how many boners there are on a given day, or how many 1st - 4th base makeout sessions are realized, and stuff like that. I'm not sure what the inherent value of that kind of thing would be, unless, like Lulu's family, there are a lot of devices out ther...