Grrl Power #1411 - Chef dragon-boy... R-D&D (Patreon)

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Sometimes the page titles just come to me, and sometimes it takes me an hour to come up with something even the slightest bit relevant and is probably confusing. Guess how long this one took me. :/

Maxima could have disguised herself as a frumpy frump in a modest house coat, but she didn't. Not assigning blame, just saying that getting hit on by a space-dragon-chef is not a completely un-predictable outcome.    

The other reason Dabbler didn't summon her vault of swords is simply there were too many to make it practical. The other page just showed the foyer. There are like 5oo melee weapons in that vault. Sure, she could have narrowed the selection to potential candidates, quite a few of them are, you know, starter weapons. If the real world had levels, they'd be the kind of stuff you'd get before level 10. Dabbler keeps them cause they're still cool or unique or maybe have some very specific uses. There'd still be like 60 swords Max might want to give a test swing. 

The background stuff in the first panel - the colored direction text says "Orgynasium," Because, yes, this is Dabbler's base, first and foremost. "Mass Fab 1-4," "Petty Gold," (like petty cash. They have a lot of gold laying around at this point, and if someone's going to visit a planet that still uses precious metal for coins, they can stop by and grab a few bags.) Below that in yellow it says "Showers (Co-Ed)" There are non-coed showers for prudes on another floor. The next list says "Armory 6," "Printers 13-24," Arboretum 6," and "Quarters 600-642." 

They're on the 6th level, if you couldn't tell. The symbol on the door is a Gold Molecule. That's the Petty Gold vault. I say vault. It's actually a closet with a lock. It's usually not locked. There's like 80 million in Earth bucks laying around in there. It's alternatively sorted by material type and coin size in neat stacks, (they have some pre-minted coins for various destinations) and the other sorting option, big pile in the middle of the floor. Some people, possibly someone who might have a draconic bloodline, or maybe someone who just is a straight up dragon lurking around in a humanoid form, or maybe is a young dragon who hasn't achieved his full feral form yet, and has a nigh-uncontrollable urge to roll around on a pile of gold and silver and platinum. 

In case you were wondering, yes, Gaxgy's head is modeled after the best Dragon Blooded head shape in Baldur's Gate 3. I did that because I started freehanding a dragon head, then realized that the thing I drew wasn't a shape that would... rotate correctly. It looked fine from the one angle, but it was probably a tiny bit non-euclidian. So I decided to switch to a model I could rotate for reference. 

Let me tell you a little about my general design process. When I need a new design for the comic, like Maxima's Stygan mask or whatever, I draw it for the first time on the page on which first appears, and... that's my design process. I don't really have a lot of time to sit and doodle. But for that reason, sometimes I discover that my initial design doesn't quite work from every angle. So the design can sometimes drift over time as I draw them from different angles.