AAaA Syr’Nj 2
At this point, some of our long-term plans were in flux. Flo was hoping to get to the winter elves, but we weren’t entirely sure how or if we’d find them. One plan was for the ex-Peacemakers to go on a much longer journey after the Altruists’ assassination attempts, sailing the seven seas without sky elf assistance and encountering sea monsters and novel races, until they finally ended up on Winter Elf Island.
On the other hand, we considered the possibility of skipping them altogether, leaving our heroes largely ignorant of the nature of the multiverse (triverse?) and their place in it. It’s not like they needed a lot of coaching to look at a giant angry cloud-head shrieking “I AM ALL” and think, “Hmmm, yeah, that could be a problem.” But it was arguably more satisfying to address cosmological matters at leisure before the grand finale.
At any rate, this Q&A was kind of a placeholder. If we ended up showing the winter elves, as we did, it would turn up the dramatic urgency of the story as a whole. But if we found we didn’t have a good place to focus on them much, then this explanation would excuse us for that. (We’d probably still show them briefly observing the action and one going “Just as the prophecy foretold” and another saying “Yeah, DUH, Frank.” But you know what I mean: they wouldn’t have a key role.)
The dude without the knickers still cracks me up.
I love the fact that most of them already have that “completely OVER it” expression that they’ll have when they show up for real.
Is that a slightly younger Weo wearing the racoon tail cap?
This is (I think) the second time you’ve mentioned Flo in the annotations — who is she?
Flo is the co-writer of Guilded Age. She used to go by another name that’s still on the signature of each image (and probably will remain there unless we can figure out a lossless way to batch-edit 1612 image files). But she went through some changes in 2020, and current and future annotations will reflect those.
I’d be mad too if they had me go out to the snow AGAIN and they didn’t even let me put my dang pants on!