Comments on: Annotated 34-20 http://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-34-20/ The Saga of the Working Class Adventurer - New comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday! Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:04:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.29 By: Zalocin http://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-34-20/comment-page-1/#comment-1548515 Sun, 04 Jul 2021 11:31:09 +0000 http://guildedage.net/?post_type=comic&p=15161#comment-1548515 Upon re-reading, it does look like Byron is walking right into the trap, spurred on by his need to personally stop the cultists, so I guess he is somewhat to blame for what happens later.
But at the same time, there really is a good point the he is the one person who is permanently on meds that counteract the madness. It could equally well be that he was the person wisest to send (given the imperfect information he has).

]]> By: T http://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-34-20/comment-page-1/#comment-1539029 Sun, 16 May 2021 23:45:09 +0000 http://guildedage.net/?post_type=comic&p=15161#comment-1539029 Well, as I said above, I’d like to save some of that for Chapter 36, but here are some lightning-round answers:

It was not necessary for any one character to be a Cultist, but I think Flo definitely wanted one named character to be one, and Lectrus had gotten the least exposure so far. For obvious reasons, it didn’t feel right to make it one of the backers’ creations, but we could have gone with Colonnus or Rabbit.

As a seeker of knowledge above all else, Lectrus was willing to sacrifice morality and risk his life to learn the things that only Cultists know. His only role was to aid in the setup that led Byron further into the lion’s jaws, and the Cultists already in the village saw to him shortly after that work was completed.

]]> By: Almond Magnum http://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-34-20/comment-page-1/#comment-1538934 Sun, 16 May 2021 14:10:40 +0000 http://guildedage.net/?post_type=comic&p=15161#comment-1538934 Honestly, I never really got the role of Lectrus. Was there a need for him to be a cultist? How and why did he die? What was he trying to do?

]]> By: T http://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-34-20/comment-page-1/#comment-1538831 Sun, 16 May 2021 01:46:53 +0000 http://guildedage.net/?post_type=comic&p=15161#comment-1538831 I was fairly hands-off for most of Lectrus’ arc, but I did propose that we should show what happened to him, and that conversation meant that Flo and I worked that part out. The short-short version is “Cultist double-cross,” but I’ll get into his fate more when E-Merl and Scipio discuss him.

]]> By: Vlad http://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-34-20/comment-page-1/#comment-1538821 Sun, 16 May 2021 00:33:00 +0000 http://guildedage.net/?post_type=comic&p=15161#comment-1538821 Hey, T! In your head, did you imagine a specific death for Lectrus, even if it wasn’t shown “on-screen”? Or do you not always work stuff like that out if it isn’t necessary for the story?

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