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Grrl Power #1342 - I'll show you yours

🕑 Added 2025-03-27 10:00:12 +0000 UTC

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Torabi

They discuss on page 407 whether or not they ever dated. It "depends on which one of [them] you ask."

Matthew Thompson

“I don't recall why I made that choice at the time, but it messes up this page, where Sciona is supposed to be recognizing her handywork and realizing Deus is profiting from all her efforts. “ Don’t worry, the eyes convey that perfectly!

Uncle Buddha

Ironical synergy/karma?? ;-)

eddi_TBH

Early days in RPGs I did a lot of GMing. Polyhedrals were still a rarity so I accumulated extras whenever I could. Even after I retired from games I had huge dice bag full. In fact I've still got it on my closet shelf.

eddi_TBH

He made himself indispensable to Arc while they were getting off the ground. Max has zero respect for him but needs him alive. Until someone invents the brain in a bottle device.

eddi_TBH

The gate was buried under half a mountain when Sciona transported back to Alari. Max even wrote off recovering it despite Sydney being trapped there. She amazed anyone was that patient or greedy. She still wants it back though. and maybe the contents of Deus' arteries to power it.

eddi_TBH

I can hear it over here.

eddi_TBH

Deus has been doing this since he became Arc's major supplier of specialized gear. The fact Max hasn't turned him into a pile of ashes is a credit to her patience and Realpolitik.

eddi_TBH

I haven't seen a smile as phony as Sciona's since Geppeto painted Pinocchio.

John Van Stry

Did Max and Dues have a thing once? If so, I can kind of see the playful taunting. Cause maybe he wants her back.

Eric Loken

I can't decide if Deus is just yanking Maxima's chain, or if he actually thinks his antics are getting her turned on. Because if it's the latter, he is as far from a super genius as your average 12 year old Incel in training posting his theories on women on the internet is from being a super genius. The only women who get hot and bothered by a 'confident' (read arrogant) man are dumb as rocks, just like the men who hear a puffed up jackass declare he's the smartest man in the room and immediately think "gosh, he's so smart, I should listen to what he says". Remember kids: The 'con' in conman is short for 'confidence'. People with true confidence don't brag, don't tell you how great they are, don't try to sell you on how great they are. They don't need to, they let their actions speak for them.

Hugh Eckert

Love the expressions on Sciona...

Raymond Dannelly

Think Deus is a good guy, in that he makes an effort to help the general population and avoids doing things that harm others. Yes, he takes personal advantage of the situations, is shady as heck, and practical enough to take options where some people will be hurt, but fewer people than if he'd done nothing.

Carlton R. Harris

Dave, Cheyenne Mountain called. They'd like their Stargate back...😉

William Elliott

Nice how he doesn't mention the name of said inventor... slight ego stroke to Sciona, perhaps to tamp down her ire at having her "tech" borrowed without her "permission"?

Eleanor Asher

I would not want to run into Sciona once she's away from there. She looks ready to rip something (or someone) apart and frustrated that she can't risk it...

Miyaa

Also need that extra dice if, for example, that first d20 rolled a natural one multiple times and now your no bread, no cheese, reindeer meet and water chestnut “sandwich” is a smoothie, and oh look these dice have the one ring in them.

Tie Toter

Deus is always so confident, even around Max and others who could destroy him with apparent ease. I wonder what his true physical powers might be to justify such assurance? I am starting to think that he is more than a super-brain...

Matthew Lambert

As long as by person you mean a set per character I've played in campaigns...

Mark Magagna

Possibly she's better known in the US, which is why she's out pacifying would-be "unsettling" elements in Africa (or that's where she was last IIRC)

Mark Magagna

Not unique, but you are a rare bird. I'm at the stage where it's unusual for me to buy dice. But then I already have a lot of them (and more to the point a lot of unusual ones).

Town Crier

Donate those cool boxes to a second hand store. I guarantee that they will find a happy home.

Ray

The room beyond the open portal looks an awful lot like the portal control room from Stargate SG-1. Purely coincidental, I'm sure.

Stephen Gilberg

Am I the only tabletop role player who sees no need for more than one set of dice per person?

Dave Barrack

It's coming. Promise. :)

Tim

Sciona is spreading that ”Okay, these people are getting a little too powerful a little too quickly for my liking”-look around quite liberally, isn’t she? XD

Lars Bencze

Sooo... how is the coloring of Heatwave/Jiggawatt going? ;)

Enigma42

I see Deus as a more playful David Xanatos from Gargoyles except Deus likes to show off constantly. What happened to the pink haired bodyguard of his?

James C

Yeah, Deus is playing things at the (Inter)Planetary level, while being based out of Earth. He's going to do things that benefit Earth as a whole, because those will ultimately benefit him. However, at the smaller scale... given the number of international pies he has his fingers in, I wouldn't trust him at the (Inter)National level to necessarily be doing things that benefit the USA, because something that — for example — weakens the USA while strengthening Galytn might benefit him, personally, more than the reverse.

Anton Schleef

Isn't that supposed to be the definition of a high-functioning and socially adjusted sociopath? Or am I remembering it wrong?

Hamish Clarkson

I am entirely worried for the state of the city after Sciona and Deus get alone together.

JasonAW3

Actually, "Deus" is a self centered, egotistical, slightly maniacal, pain in the @$$, who just so happens to live up to all of his own hype. He'll pull some VERY shady deals, manipulate the crap out of those around him, but generally, he's a "good guy", primarily for his own self interest. Jail is annoying and boring.

3of4

Would it be irony for the blood mage to die of an rage induced aneurysm?

SilverScrolls

I put him squarely in the good guy as long as it benefits him category. Otherwise he's a-moral and people are important only because a kingdom with no people to rule is just make believe in your living room on a much larger scale