Annotated 19-1
HEY, HOW ABOUT SOME MORE SEPIA WORLD? EVERYONE LOVES SEPIA WORLD! And they ESPECIALLY love it when it’s a Sepia scene that doesn’t even have HR in it!
Ah, but we needed perspective on what effect HR’s obsessive schemes were having on his game and company. Spoiler alert: both are still dominant but starting to stumble.
Phil wanted to leave “my half” of the script alone, but once it became clear we needed this scene, he had to step in, so I got page 13 in exchange. He was by far the more knowledgeable about World of Warcraft and David Wurzel’s dialogue. I would’ve been nervous about self-inserting any Guilded Age creatives beyond a brief cameo, but the next page will introduce another reporter we’ll be following instead, one who wouldn’t be caught dead in a gathering like this.
Like most of Guilded Age, this page was written before the current presidential administration as of late 2019, but I do get some weird echoes of the future in it. (It’s been more than half a year since the White House gave an on-camera announcement to the DC press corps, and this will be the last time we see HR or Carol putting on a show of being accountable to the public.)
I like Sepia world! Also that’s a bold claim by that one guy, he doesn’t know how they deploy content. Maybe they do release it in stages, or maybe the update that was meant for test servers accidentally got labelled as live. Maybe it never worked like that before because this was the first time they were testing out a new method of release, and it went wrong (the lie I would have gone with). Or maybe the game is magically connected to an alternate dimension and the line between what the developers produce and what is created by the forces of the cosmos is so thin it’s nearly impossible to know where the actions of one influences the other. Didja think about that one guy? Huh? Don’t feel too smart now with your pen and your pointing, do ya?
I agree. I loved the Sepia world scenes. And I don’t think that reporter knew what he was talking about.
God I can’t wait for the next page
I also like Sepia World! It reminds me of how fortunate I am to not have to work in the real-world analog any more.
Do not ask me about the time we found out that the “demo” our “genius” had been showing to investors and potential customers alike flat-out didn’t work except on his own highly modded laptop… less than a month before release, when it was already incorporated in all the publicity materials. Believe me, the Kingdoms of Arkerra situation is preferable.
New Scotland?