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Grrl Power #1179 - Fantababble (Patreon)

Published:
2023-08-14 10:00:08
Edited:
2023-08-14 17:18:42
Imported:
2026-06

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Magic in and of itself doesn't have an ethical preference in the Grrl-verse, but it is a force of nature which is also a tool, in that sapients and even some sentients can manipulate it. This also includes vast, incomprehensible entities of ambiguous... evolence. (You know, ben/mal.) Usually, the vaster the entity, the less direct effect it has on The Weave, or at least, the less focused its effects are, while at the same time tending to be far more widespread. This is especially true for the more incomprehensible entities, almost by definition. After all, if you can detect their direct meddling, it's far easier to figure out their end game, and they are necessarily more comprehensible.

Deus's other point is basically "There's no such thing as that one thing because if that thing is like another thing then we call it another thing." Except that it kind of means that there is such a thing as that thing we call another thing, so maybe instead of a thing, we build another thing?" So... Kat had a good idea maybe?

I'm still working on the vote incentive. Spend all Sunday on it. I honestly don't know why they take me so long. I think shifting between simplified comic art and the more painterly stuff is part of it? I'll keep at it and try to have it ready by the Thursday comic, and I'll start on the next one right after. I think I know what I want to draw for that one, just have to figure out who to put in it.

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Rens

This kind of makes sense, given how generally the user's intent is a very strong factor in how magic works.

Fogel

A yes, the magical Night Core. I'm not sure I'd consider it truly benevolent, rather a neutral entity

Fogel

Deus has a good point. It's like asking why a sword is always a weapon. Because that's what it was designed to do. If the smith instead made a hoe, it wouldn't be a sword

Matt Parkent

Uhhh... I think Deus mispronounced gRavity...

Aclys

Another way to think of it is... Magic seems tied to life, living things tend to influence and be influenced by magic after all given long enough a period of exposure. So if you gather Enough magic in a relatively small, isolated location, which you'll need to do to create a dungeon... Well odds are forms of life that are drawn to or easily generated by such a high concentration of magical energies. As for why the monsters are violent and aggressive... I mean, unless you're a fey elf or some such nature tends to be pretty violent. Plenty of creatures are territorial even when they dont have their version of a goldmine in the form of a high-mana enriched living environ to protect from those that would take it. Also, kind of obviously, any dungeon core that generated sprawling fields full of resources full of peaceful creatures that wont harm anyone.... is going to find itself strip-mined and claimed by whomever finds it first. It's just not a good survival trait for a dungeon or its inhabitants.

Randall Brynsvold

Are the dungeon cores the ones that are high-output and self-sustaining as a result of some kind of traumatic "mana curdling" that also tends to determine the type of thing they produce?

Town Crier

Set it up in the middle of a marijuana field, and you'll get some awesome weed, and a very mellow magic crowd producing positive mana, dude. Whoa. Who's got bucks? We need to go raid the Snack Shop for some munchies.

That Harper Gal

I'm pretty sure "volence" is the root word, and it's getting "bene-" or "male-" attached to it. Like "volition", it's about somebody's will to do stuff.

Greg Morrow

The word you're looking for is "ambivalence".

Andrew Denton

Reminds me of the saying: "Treason never prospers, and this is the reason: for if it doth prosper, none dare call it treason". So, yeah. People only call it a 'dungeon' core if it creates a dungeon core's effects. I think his logic's sound.

Brittany Huckey

Is that a percy Jackson camp half blood reference? Where they produce strawberries

Stephen Gilberg

There should be two Evolence brothers, Ben and Mal.

Marc Vun Kannon

so when do we see a nymph dance party, with a variety of guest stars?

ASPDroid

"dungeon core", like virtually all "thing" words, is a search query. The standard interpretation is "the core of a magical dungeon", and so if you were looking at the core of a magical dungeon and the core of a magical forest and were asked "how many dungeon cores do you see" the answer would be one. But if you use the different-but-still-valid interpretation of "a magical core of the category that could create a magical dungeon" then you would see two of those.

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

"A rose by any other name"... Yeah, would we be so hot for roses if they were called "Shitblossoms" because they grow so well in dung?

Blood Raven

Ah so Deus came to the same conclusion that I did. We just call it something else or dont' even notice it.

sjmcc13

Odds on the Dryads making it to a Patreron exclusive image set???

eddi_TBH

Deus hits the mark here. Magic is neutral but intent can make all the difference. A dragon's hoard or a dryad Mother Tree are total opposites.

Martin Drkoš

I wonder if the monsters think of themselves as such.

Darla Donahue

I kind of see the simplified art and undue stress to complete vote incentives as symptoms of you being under too much pressure. You get ill and try to keep all your commitments anyways but you need time / energy to recover. If you just push harder when you don't have the effort available, I worry you'll burn out. Get better and don't stress yourself too much, your audience (speaking for myself at least) will still be here.

Woodrobin

As much as pains me to agree with Deus, it does make sense that benevolent mana coalescences wouldn't really attract very much attention to themselves. Maybe a verdant forest in a desert -- but that could just be a particularly old and well-irrigated oasis unless you're really skilled at detecting mana levels. A particularly well-producing old family farm? Just great-grandpappies secret compostin' techniques, ah reckon'. And everybody knows oil wells tap into pockets of long-compressed organic matter from millions of years ago, and not seepage from ancient, dark, necromantic mana coalescenses, right. Right?