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Annotations Every Day - Written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip

Oh sweet, it's a holodeck!

Chapter 11 – Page 1

on May 25, 2011
Chapter: Chapter 11
└ Tags: Byron, Frigg, Gravedust
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  1. Moe Lane
    Moe Lane
    May 25, 2011, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    “Who touched my dwarf?”

    …No, I’m better than that.

    • alta lemur
      alta lemur
      May 25, 2011, 12:05 am | # | Reply

      I am going to point out that’s a nice up-tabard shot of Byron in the first panel.

      • Repartee
        Repartee
        May 25, 2011, 12:48 am | # | Reply

        Dat axe.

        • Chuck
          Chuck
          May 25, 2011, 6:53 am | # | Reply

          What you did there, I see it.

          I approve.

    • Ishmael
      Ishmael
      May 25, 2011, 1:28 am | # | Reply

      You’re right. It would be small of you to comment.

      • Geigan
        Geigan
        May 25, 2011, 2:20 am | # | Reply

        It would certainly be a little cliche.

        • solna
          solna
          May 25, 2011, 3:34 am | # | Reply

          i’d keep this up but such puns are beneath me.

          • centuriancode
            centuriancode
            May 25, 2011, 5:41 am | # | Reply

            Indeed. You shouldn’t be so small minded!

            • Hertzyscowicz
              Hertzyscowicz
              May 25, 2011, 3:38 pm | # | Reply

              It would appear that everyone is rather stumped for puns.

              • centuriancode
                centuriancode
                May 26, 2011, 3:46 am | # | Reply

                It seems we’re running short on them.

  2. MathMage
    MathMage
    May 25, 2011, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    “Ahn”? Honestly, brings to mind Japanese anime schoolgirls, not Gravedust.

    • Redo19
      Redo19
      May 27, 2011, 10:43 am | # | Reply

      someone’s been reading too much tentacle rape.

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      June 26, 2013, 8:54 am | # | Reply

      … You’ve ruined that panel now.

  3. Bake
    Bake
    May 25, 2011, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    sexual harrasement on frigg!

  4. Nivella
    Nivella
    May 25, 2011, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    I guess the mirror room is intended to be literally and metaphorically reflective. Trying to realize and deal with their own inner turmoil.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      May 25, 2011, 12:47 am | # | Reply

      Referring to the alt text this is more like a plot within a play within a dream within a holodeck. No inception tho.

      • Tachyon
        Tachyon
        May 25, 2011, 3:13 am | # | Reply

        Safeties are apparently off.

        • Taxellor
          Taxellor
          May 25, 2011, 5:10 am | # | Reply

          Safeties are always off

          • Jean-Luc
            Jean-Luc
            May 26, 2011, 8:11 am | # | Reply

            Especially when they’re on.

      • Nathanyel
        Nathanyel
        May 25, 2011, 8:48 am | # | Reply

        I agree, they probably are still in the same room, but they cannot notice each other.

  5. CloSeph
    CloSeph
    May 25, 2011, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    It costs 200 coins to fire this dwarf for 12 seconds

    HEAVY ARMOR GIRL IS CREDIT TO PARTY

    • Lynxx
      Lynxx
      May 25, 2011, 3:51 pm | # | Reply

      LITTLE ELF IS MOVING!

  6. Doma
    Doma
    May 25, 2011, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    Frigg is Heavy Weapons Guy

    Byron’s backstory: FINALLY

  7. Hawk
    Hawk
    May 25, 2011, 12:44 am | # | Reply

    Byron was a cute kid

  8. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    May 25, 2011, 12:46 am | # | Reply

    @Byron

    Yeah, we know.

    But srsly, it’s nice to see that Byron’s clothes grew and leveled up along with him. It’s like when you’re lvl 3 your rope morphs into an actual belt.

    • Loyal
      Loyal
      May 25, 2011, 4:36 pm | # | Reply

      So at what level do his shoulders pop into existence?

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        May 26, 2011, 3:10 pm | # | Reply

        The shoulder pads were looted later on from that robot-avatar thingie, they’re not a part of the original setup.

  9. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    May 25, 2011, 1:08 am | # | Reply

    …Somebody help me
    Somebody help me see
    Now I feel it
    Feel like I’ve been there
    I didn’t need this
    Somebody help me breathe…

  10. Timelost
    Timelost
    May 25, 2011, 1:23 am | # | Reply

    I like the subtle indication of how the group has grown on Frigg, “My Dwarf”, “My Nerdy Elf”, “My Mad Dog Threat To Himself And Others” and “My Bony Blond Bitch”, this is serious progress here.

    • Ishmael
      Ishmael
      May 25, 2011, 1:31 am | # | Reply

      Anyone remember what they got up to when Syr’nj got drunk and vanished with Frigg?

      (Why, no. I am not trying to fill your minds with Elf Princess on Paladin action. Shame on you for suggesting it.)

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        May 25, 2011, 5:44 am | # | Reply

        Didn’t we already run through this after the White Queen Incident?

    • MDude
      MDude
      May 25, 2011, 12:08 pm | # | Reply

      Don’t forget “My Trisected Halfling”.

      • Tachyon
        Tachyon
        May 25, 2011, 3:25 pm | # | Reply

        Wouldn’t that make Bandit a “Three-sixthling”?

        • Michael Haneline
          Michael Haneline
          May 25, 2011, 11:41 pm | # | Reply

          No, because bandit is a gnome, not a halfling.
          GAWD

  11. Ishmael
    Ishmael
    May 25, 2011, 1:27 am | # | Reply

    BACKSTORY! MAYBE!

    Of course, if it is, this also means that the players plugged in actually remember growing up in that world.

    • solna
      solna
      May 25, 2011, 3:36 am | # | Reply

      that or this is one of those phased quest dealies where they more or less walk you through a sequence of scripted events with the ‘zomg kill some things’ to keep the player interested.

    • Doop doop
      Doop doop
      May 25, 2011, 4:54 am | # | Reply

      Maybe they actually DID grow up in the world.

      The whole “1 day outside is 100 days inside” kind of deal. A game that involves growing from childhood doesn’t seem that hot though.

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        May 25, 2011, 5:43 am | # | Reply

        Fable, anyone?

    • Nathanyel
      Nathanyel
      May 25, 2011, 8:49 am | # | Reply

      Maybe those “dreams” etc. are a trick to enforce those backstories as “memories” on their minds.

  12. TSED
    TSED
    May 25, 2011, 2:49 am | # | Reply

    I notice a lack of Syr and Best with Frigg and Gravedust…

  13. dr pepper
    dr pepper
    May 25, 2011, 3:23 am | # | Reply

    Hmm. If Byron has regressed to before he became a berserker, perhaps he can rebuild his personality to omit it.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      May 25, 2011, 8:29 am | # | Reply

      You mean….”re-spec”?

    • Thom
      Thom
      May 25, 2011, 9:27 am | # | Reply

      His true love has to go back in time to see his deal with the demon beast so she’ll know how to save him in the future!

  14. QAlchemist
    QAlchemist
    May 25, 2011, 3:42 am | # | Reply

    I am guessing that they’re all still in the same room. It’s just that they can’t all perceive each other. So the thrown axe still cut Gravedust – because he was still there.

    • Taxellor
      Taxellor
      May 25, 2011, 5:12 am | # | Reply

      It was all done with Mirrors

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        May 25, 2011, 5:42 am | # | Reply

        Not to mention smoke.

        • Manticor
          Manticor
          May 25, 2011, 7:22 am | # | Reply

          Now you’re thinking with Mirrors.

  15. Severo Queiroz Jr.
    Severo Queiroz Jr.
    May 25, 2011, 9:00 am | # | Reply

    Little Byron, how adorable!

  16. Thom
    Thom
    May 25, 2011, 9:25 am | # | Reply

    Check this: 4 out of the 5 Byron avatars are deer in headlights/eyes wide in horror. It is his “thing”

  17. Connie
    Connie
    May 25, 2011, 10:49 am | # | Reply

    Oh god! I keep seeing Stitch lost in the woods calling for help. *sniffle*

    • Schlock
      Schlock
      May 25, 2011, 10:34 pm | # | Reply

      Family means no one gets left behind, or forgotten.

      • Michael Haneline
        Michael Haneline
        May 25, 2011, 11:45 pm | # | Reply

        Really, my dad always taught me that family means get the f— out when he has the ladies over or get the belt.

        • Michael Haneline
          Michael Haneline
          May 25, 2011, 11:45 pm | # | Reply

          Now I’m sad.

  18. BriGuy
    BriGuy
    May 25, 2011, 1:30 pm | # | Reply

    It’s okay, boy-Byron. Go ask that helpful Smoke Monster for directions!

    *insert echoing sounds of a receipt printer*

  19. Locke
    Locke
    May 25, 2011, 4:12 pm | # | Reply

    Byron the Boy Wonder!

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      May 26, 2011, 8:12 am | # | Reply

      He’s an ax-man.

  20. banjo2E
    banjo2E
    May 25, 2011, 5:15 pm | # | Reply

    A rather insidious trap, I must say. Forcing those who enter to reflect on their darkest moments is quite effective against those with broken minds and tarnished pasts.

    • Darkening
      Darkening
      May 25, 2011, 5:59 pm | # | Reply

      You mean just about every PC backstory that’s ever existed? Because that’s pretty common.

      • Tsapki
        Tsapki
        May 25, 2011, 8:41 pm | # | Reply

        -shrug- Well it is said there is no great achievement without great struggle. Presumably, someone who had a dandy and wonderful life with no pitfalls would have no drive to go out adventuring.

        • centuriancode
          centuriancode
          May 26, 2011, 3:49 am | # | Reply

          Is it odd, then, that most of the PCs in my campaigns all seem to be psychopaths (that, or religious nuts, but mostly pyschopaths)? If I allowed them to reflect on their tarnished paths they’d never stop!

  21. ThePuck1
    ThePuck1
    May 25, 2011, 6:31 pm | # | Reply

    Gravedust intellect is so sharp he just cut himself!

    • centuriancode
      centuriancode
      May 26, 2011, 3:49 am | # | Reply

      Knife one!

  22. Mic-Gold
    Mic-Gold
    May 25, 2011, 10:35 pm | # | Reply

    I was at a party once where everyone got their own dwarf, . . . but I will not elaborate!

  23. Schlock
    Schlock
    May 25, 2011, 10:35 pm | # | Reply

    Frigg referring to Gravedust as her dwarf is kind of a “d’awwww” moment

  24. flevine
    flevine
    May 26, 2011, 8:56 pm | # | Reply

    Hey, sorry to bug you here, but I’m not sure how else since the Forum link is broken…any reason I got a vague weird e-mail with profanity that appeared to come from T via the Tea Room? I don’t want to actually reply to the message. Perhaps something has been hacked?

    • Thor
      Thor
      May 26, 2011, 10:08 pm | # | Reply

      Yep. My guess is everyone registered on the forums got that email. I emailed Phil Kahn about it. The hacking, not the email. I suppose I could have mentioned that, but I assumed that everyone registered got it.

      They seemed to have suborned T’s account, which is why I emailed Phil.

      Long story short: No one else needs to notify Phil, as I am sure I’m not the only one who sent him word.

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