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Grrl Power #967 - After action cluck
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There's an extended fight scene going on while Dabbler is prompting Sydney for details. I thought about putting in a bunch of PUNCH, BIFF, ZORG, ETC sfx at the bottom of each panel but decided it looked cluttered.
Dabbler is a better enchanter than she is an alchemist, so she figured out how to enchant liquid. She's certainly not the first person in the history of magic to do that, but she figured a lot of it out on her own, then went and did some research, stole a few ideas and kind of half-independently invented something others have already made. A lot of her inventing, magic or technological, is like that. Part of her inventions are scrabbled together or inspired by other's work, and part of it done "the long way around," often using mathematics that others would find unnecessarily boggling.
Dabbler doesn't have anything against witches or alchemists specifically, but every profession has its experts as well as incompetents and charlatans. In her travels, she's been tricked into buying a healing potion that was just Hawaiian Punch, or a healing potion that actually amplified the damage received (so the vendor could scavenge from fallen adventurers and stock his shelves with "barely used" gear. Don't worry, Dabbler murdered the living fuck out of that guy.) So mostly she just trusts her own concoctions now.
Tamer: Enhancer 2 – Progress Update:
Second to last chapter is finished - in the sense that I've started working on the final chapter. There's still some editing to do before it will be beta reader ready. I'll save those edits for once I finish the book. I need that one character to have a little more time to simmer as I figure out their personality. The last chapter though... there's an excellent point for a chapter break about 1,000 words in, but I like making my chapters about 5,000 words long. I don't know why. It's a totally arbitrary figure. I think book 1 had a 3,200 word chapter and maybe one of the action ones got up to 11K. If I don't pay attention to what I'm doing, they'll get up to around 17K, and that's too much. There are novellas shorter than that. So I often have to go back and do a lot of renumbering when I break up big chapters that got away from me. Scrivener doesn't seem to have a smart chapter numbering function that I can figure out.
Comments
Uncle Buddha
... possibly too angular, or "jutting" out??
Eric Loken
Dabbler's profile in frames 2, 4, and 5 looks very... odd.
Eric Loken
The proper Airplane response would be for her to look at it and the person for a moment, then start playing on it.
Andrew Park
I know you did it for work load reasons but I actually really like the aesthetic that resulted. The comic looks great like this. Almost nostalgic
TexasTies
I know you don't like doing it but I'm loving the new (old?) lines. It makes everything so sharp and clean. I'm always a sucker for good line work.
Some Ed
Possibly Math being next. Though, maybe not. He has a known vulnerability to female. I mean, sure, he's been working on that. But we don't know how successful he's been. Also, I think he has an uphill battle there. It's also possibly worth mentioning that using members of Archon for this could potentially give additional information on the capabilities of the team. Though, that could possibly be reduced by leaving it an open question regarding whether the people they're having her fight are on the team or what.
Person
5 bucks on Math being next... with the goal of causing mental whiplash going from super power to super skill (then maybe some combo of the two?)
Dave Barrack
I want to check out Scrivener 3 but I really should wait till I finish this book.
Person
Something to do with Sketchy Dan's buttshole I think. I'm sure he thought it "felt natural".
Arnim Sommer
Is it size? Or stretchyness? And the question how often a new one is needed wasn't answered…
Kevin Wright
Well, now we know who and what the potion, er, modifies, I guess.
Stephen Gilberg
I wonder if Dabbler has another idea of the meaning of "blowback."
Stephen Gilberg
*brings Maxima a Nintendo Switch*
Adam Bell
And I recently got Scrivner 3 and I found at least one blank chapter for no reason I could figure! My best advice is to break up the chapters into smaller documents, I think that will make it number them the way you want? But. That is a guess!
Joseph Bonnar
The more violence there is, the better for the big V-man. My guess is he doesn't WANT to hurt her, he wants to get her really, really angry and whaling on him while he inhales all that lovely violence.
Magraal
Depends how broad-minded or 'detached' you can be. Some people would obviously be into the weirder stuff just for the kink of it, while others would be curious about the biological implications and/or mechanics. Though naturally that likely wouldn't extend to any kind of hands-on demonstration.
Marc Vun Kannon
So he pulls his punch and knocks her down with compressed air, like Superman did to Spiderman. What are the rules for this little excursion? I can't believe Vehemence is pulling his punches for no reason.
Wyrmhand
Chocolate dipped surstöming.
Michael Obert
Girl talk with a succubus . . . not so much fun.
