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Grrl Power #1208 - Deus uses "Smug." It's super annoying
🕑 Added 2023-11-23 11:00:08 +0000 UTCThank you for the support! You guys are awesome!
Deus has a Legendary class magic item that gives him a cumulative +1% to smugness that rolls over as long as he is a smug dick to someone at least once a day. He has used it for 4,571 consecutive days.
Okay, no, he doesn't really have something like that. But he does have a lot of practice. Probably more than 4,571 days worth, if I'm honest, although possibly non-consecutive. Sometimes you gotta mix it up and swap out the smugness with weapons-grade facetiousness or sardonic... ness. Sardonism? Sardonicness?
Lorlara isn't technically Deus's bodyguard, but most people would be foolish to discount an Alari of her capabilities. I never said it in the comic, but the number of wings an Alari can generate is a sign of their status and power. Sciona made eight I think? Possibly eight plus two little vestigial ones. I don't recall from when she got her body back. I could look it up but it's thanksgiving eve and if you're bored at home with the family you can track it down. I think Lorlara could generate four, shown when she joined Deus and Maxima for dinner that one time. The vast majority of Alari never gain the ability to generate wings, and even though two wings aren't enough to fly on their own (they allow limited gliding and slow falling) someone with two is still treated like hot shit amongst Alari populations.
A "Late middle ages" vampire probably doesn't need to be scared of Lorlara, but he should still at least be cautious, especially depending on what the dagger she always has strapped to her back is made of. Lorlara vs. Scarlett would be a much closer fight. The Scourger Demon in the fox hunter outfit there in the back could do terrible physical damage if it caught either of the vampires unaware, but Ingsol could still take it down with relative ease. Again, Scarlett would be a more even match.
Comments
Kita Kitsunage
Anyone else notice Deus looks a bit like Arnold Swartzenager in panel 2?
Brett Peirce
More like a vestigial accent. It only comes out sometimes.
Erin Palette
I'm terrible with names, and navigating the back archive is difficult for me, so someone please humor me when I say "I thought Ingsol had a dramatic Transylvanian accent?" I'm probably confusing him with someone else but for the life of me I can't recall whom.
Dalen Talas
Considering his recruitment of Lorlara... I bet Deus is being very literal about being "handsome and persuasive". Suggested spin-off: Deus arc as a harem comedy.
Hanna
The portrait in the last episode was also great.
Tie Toter
The art is amazing.
Greg Morrow
Chester A. Arthur presidential portrait. Deep cut. Nice!
Jacob Bissey
They were talking about Vale. Lorlara was brought up because she was visibly present and thus could contribute if things actually came to a fight, but she's not Deus' bodyguard and everyone present knows that. Vale is Deus' bodyguard and she's the one Ingsol considers a threat, the one that isn't visible, and the one Ingsol doesn't know what she is.
Town Crier
Deus should be ware of the good man. (ref.: Terry Pratchett)
Justaguy
More like the 70s. Think "Grease".
Justaguy
He's got gadgets for that. (Though sometimes you need to click the button twice).
Thorbjørn Steen
When a bodyguard was mentioned, I wasn't thinking Lorlara, but rather Vale. Given her effect on Sciona and mysterious nature.
Aclys
Maybe the d20 for your intimidation check is just to see how much dramatic lightning you have working for you at the time?
Enigma42
So is she like an old one or something cause oh boy that would be bad if she cut loose
Torabi
I think we all really do want to know. I also think Ingsol's assessment is better than his judgment.
Bharda Sullivan
Ingsol might be a product of the 14th Century, but he seems to have a natural affinity for the style of the 1980’s. It takes a certain kind of guy to make a popped collar & skinny tie look cool, and he’s got it in spades. I keep half-expecting him to launch into New Wave piano solo, or start belting out either Billy Joel or Huey Lewis cuts. Or, let’s be honest, pretty much anything by The Cure, Depeche Mode, Bauhaus, The Smiths, or Lacuna Coil. Especially Lacuna Coil. ‘Deception’ is just such a banger of a vampire song.
DonnieRamesJio
Are we sure a "dramatic lighting aura" isn't also one of Deus' powers?
