Annotated 5-4
Title’s not bad. Less game-focused but still game-related.
Phil and I debated a lot about whether we should get some image of Harky, distorted or otherwise, to go with his name. Erica served as referee on this one, as she did for a lot of our debates at that point. As you can see, we decided not to go there.
I very much like that Byron and Gravedust don’t simply give up when confronted with the unknown, but draw what conclusions they can from the shape and size of the curtain in front of them.
The final edit on Gravedust’s last line was Phil’s, and did it ever pay off for us.
Anyone else reminded of Obi Wan seeing through the ruse that the Jawas were massacred by Sand People?
One thing has always confused me about this scene. Butchering and destroying an entire town sounds like the cultist. Heck, even trying to be deceptive and framing the wood elves seems like a cult activity.
But, the ghosts seem to be imply Harky’s army was responsible. And we do see trolls capturing the orcs in the next chapter.
Was this the cult or was this the World’s Rebellion?
It was the WR; the ghosts wouldn’t lie. I agree that the cultists would’ve been more plausible, especially the way we ended up developing them. But Harky never seemed to regard the cultists as that much of an urgent threat, and he was far more interested at this point in turning the humans and their potential allies against each other.
Huh, I always thought this was a “ruse within a ruse”, a sort of psychic trap to “prime” Byron’s madness…
On the last page, it looks like Gravedust is reflecting a glow from something glowing blue very close to him, presumably a spirit. In this page, it looks like he’s holding something glowing blue, and his eyes are also blued. Are his hands and eyes glowing just a thing that happens when he does his mystic stuff? That doesn’t strike me as something that consistently happened, or that I remember at all.