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

'... How's life treating you... again?'

Chapter 12 – Page 1

on July 22, 2011
Chapter: Chapter 12
└ Tags: Bandit, Syr'Nj
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  1. Doma
    Doma
    July 22, 2011, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Y’wanna know how I still have sticky fingers?

    • Doma
      Doma
      July 22, 2011, 12:03 am | # | Reply

      Cause I think y’know how I got these scars.

  2. centuriancode
    centuriancode
    July 22, 2011, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    @alt text: “well, I’ve felt sort of torn since the Harki thing. Part of me feels a bit cut up about Byron, but…”

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      July 22, 2011, 1:57 am | # | Reply

      She was a little shorthanded there for a while.

      • Naranth
        Naranth
        July 22, 2011, 2:00 am | # | Reply

        to be fair, he did treat her rather sharply

        • Geigan
          Geigan
          July 22, 2011, 7:07 am | # | Reply

          Well I’m sure they’ll be able to cut through the awkward tension given enough time. But it’ll come down to how the two of them feel about it anyway you slice it.

          • The bawdy rifleman
            The bawdy rifleman
            July 22, 2011, 8:28 am | # | Reply

            Way to make a long story short, after making a short person shorter.

            • Tachyon
              Tachyon
              July 22, 2011, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

              Bandit: A small grain of hope in a tall mug of unstrained mead.

              • centuriancode
                centuriancode
                July 23, 2011, 10:17 pm | # | Reply

                I’m sure they can cut to the chase over the trifurcation.

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      July 22, 2011, 5:32 am | # | Reply

      “Split, even. I had a lot on my shoulders back then.”

    • Robtimus
      Robtimus
      July 22, 2011, 6:46 am | # | Reply

      “The Harki incident left me beside myself.”

      • Caitlin
        Caitlin
        July 22, 2011, 10:00 am | # | Reply

        “No bard feelings, though.”

        • Magistrate of Mediocrity
          Magistrate of Mediocrity
          July 22, 2011, 10:39 am | # | Reply

          “However, I would like to axe Byron why he lashed out at me.”

          • Ishmael
            Ishmael
            July 22, 2011, 7:43 pm | # | Reply

            “It definitely caused a split in the party.

            • SteelRaven
              SteelRaven
              July 22, 2011, 8:26 pm | # | Reply

              Still a chance they can bury the hatchet

              • Geigan
                Geigan
                July 23, 2011, 7:08 pm | # | Reply

                Preferably somewhere other than Bandit this time.

          • Joe
            Joe
            July 24, 2011, 7:14 pm | # | Reply

            “It’s my fault, really. I should have been keeping a sharp eye on the berserker.”

            • FreddeX
              FreddeX
              July 30, 2011, 4:04 pm | # | Reply

              I love this community so much! ^^

  3. Cos
    Cos
    July 22, 2011, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    This exchange, the way Bandit is walking, suggests to me the character of the assistant… What was her name again?

    • Doma
      Doma
      July 22, 2011, 12:19 am | # | Reply

      Carol. Been calling it for along time now.

      • Cos
        Cos
        July 22, 2011, 12:14 pm | # | Reply

        Carol! Yes, that was it. Thanks.

    • Benedikt
      Benedikt
      July 22, 2011, 7:46 am | # | Reply

      That’s a very good observation… now I see it, too.

      • Caitlin
        Caitlin
        July 22, 2011, 9:57 am | # | Reply

        When Bandit turns out to be Skynet, won’t you all be surprised?

  4. Locke
    Locke
    July 22, 2011, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Bandit’s a thief, right? She probably mugs their enemies to fund the operation.

    • Alechsa
      Alechsa
      July 22, 2011, 12:41 am | # | Reply

      Points for the inadvertant pun… being that Bandit is playing with a mug….

      • Fairportfan
        Fairportfan
        July 22, 2011, 2:05 am | # | Reply

        Are you positive it was inadvertent?

  5. Tatsu
    Tatsu
    July 22, 2011, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    She wants to merge guildes! Get free guild perks!

  6. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    July 22, 2011, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    So? SO?! SOOOOOOO?! D:

    • Redo19
      Redo19
      July 22, 2011, 12:52 am | # | Reply

      So.

      • Hawk
        Hawk
        July 22, 2011, 2:02 am | # | Reply

        Sew?

        • Magistrate of Mediocrity
          Magistrate of Mediocrity
          July 22, 2011, 10:40 am | # | Reply

          Sow?

          • JarrysKid
            JarrysKid
            July 22, 2011, 10:54 am | # | Reply

            Tso.

            • Cos
              Cos
              July 22, 2011, 12:15 pm | # | Reply

              Chicken!

              • Tryntu
                Tryntu
                July 22, 2011, 3:32 pm | # | Reply

                why does the good general hate beef and pork, anyway. jeez.

  7. Redo19
    Redo19
    July 22, 2011, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    They’re women. Of course they’re into sewing.

  8. Zeik
    Zeik
    July 22, 2011, 12:56 am | # | Reply

    funny you should mention “a needle pulling thread”…

  9. silenttinsoldier
    silenttinsoldier
    July 22, 2011, 1:00 am | # | Reply

    Great lighting in this :w

  10. Slipdance
    Slipdance
    July 22, 2011, 1:04 am | # | Reply

    A note to preceed ‘la’

  11. Pathak
    Pathak
    July 22, 2011, 1:19 am | # | Reply

    If a Payet Best falls in the forest, will a Bandit materialise behind the next tree?

    • Karishi
      Karishi
      July 22, 2011, 8:48 am | # | Reply

      They’re playing an MMO. Bandits materialize; that’s how it works.

      • SteelRaven
        SteelRaven
        July 24, 2011, 7:37 pm | # | Reply

        Your forgetting we fist saw Bandit picking pockets during one of Best’s little shows at a tavern. So they can be in the same room at once, it’s not like one is a spare ;)

  12. Fairportfan
    Fairportfan
    July 22, 2011, 2:24 am | # | Reply

    Okay – Bandit’s gotta be either a ringer, an AI-controlled NPC, or a second character played by whoever plays Best.

    Except that, as people have linked to, Bandit and Best have been seen in the same strips, so tat‘s probably out.

    Looking here, there are five figures floating in bottles – two female, three male.

    And, beginning here, we see interviews with five shadowy figures – again, two female, three male, who appear to match to Byron, Frigg, Gravedust, Sy’rnj and Best.

    Bandit appears to be the odd one out of the party – the one who doesn’t seem to be solidly-linked to a “real world” controller immersed in the game.

    • soloran
      soloran
      July 22, 2011, 4:22 am | # | Reply

      yes, but Bandits main colour of purple matched the tie that Dedalus wears, which is how most of the other characters were also matched to the tubes. Most thought that she was a “plant” played by Dedalus.

      • Valdrax
        Valdrax
        July 22, 2011, 5:34 am | # | Reply

        She’s not wearing purple now.

        • Caitlin
          Caitlin
          July 22, 2011, 10:02 am | # | Reply

          Also, the cultists wore a lot of purple.

        • Fairportfan
          Fairportfan
          July 22, 2011, 1:07 pm | # | Reply

          She was when she showed up.

        • Ishmael
          Ishmael
          July 22, 2011, 7:45 pm | # | Reply

          Syr’nj isn’t wearing green right now.

          I think we’ll see everyone in different sets of clothes that don’t match their known color scheme. You can only wear the same clothes for so many weeks in a row before they start to stink a bit.

          • Valdrax
            Valdrax
            July 24, 2011, 8:07 am | # | Reply

            Syr’nj IS green.

  13. Timelost
    Timelost
    July 22, 2011, 4:52 am | # | Reply

    Considering the looming specter of their relatively recent unpleasant deaths it’s quite natural for their social interactions to be a bit stiff.

    But once they talk out these grave matters I’m confident they’ll be able to bury all this tension and resurrect their easy camaraderie.

    • Timelost
      Timelost
      July 22, 2011, 4:55 am | # | Reply

      Their Esprit De Corpse if you will.

      • The bawdy rifleman
        The bawdy rifleman
        July 22, 2011, 8:32 am | # | Reply

        You shouldn’t have made such a dead giveaway for what is still to come in the story.

        Now, the scenario writer(s) is (are) in a dead-end.

      • Ian Morrison
        Ian Morrison
        July 22, 2011, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

        And thus was an internets won.

  14. Doop doop
    Doop doop
    July 22, 2011, 5:22 am | # | Reply

    Still trying to figure out how she isn’t dead.

    • jedigarrett
      jedigarrett
      July 22, 2011, 6:28 am | # | Reply

      They’re trapped inside of an MMO right? How long have You ever stayed dead in one of those?

      • MoodyDK
        MoodyDK
        July 22, 2011, 1:29 pm | # | Reply

        Well, when I managed to get my corpse wedged between Teldrassil and Bloodmyst Isle I was dead for a good long time.

        Oh. Wait. Yeah. Carry on.

    • Fren
      Fren
      July 22, 2011, 7:37 am | # | Reply

      Self-rez came in two patches ago.

    • Naare
      Naare
      July 22, 2011, 8:10 am | # | Reply

      She took longer to walk to her corpse.

      • Karishi
        Karishi
        July 22, 2011, 8:51 am | # | Reply

        Only because her legs were detached from each other.
        Now there’s a gruesome image: left and right side hopping all out-of-kilter, while they hold the bleeding middle…
        I think I just creeped myself out.

  15. alwayslurking
    alwayslurking
    July 22, 2011, 6:06 am | # | Reply

    Is the mug tip an Inception-style reality test? Just checking how things work in the game world?

    • Karishi
      Karishi
      July 22, 2011, 8:52 am | # | Reply

      Someone might have left a coin under there.

  16. Robtimus
    Robtimus
    July 22, 2011, 7:06 am | # | Reply

    LOVE the fork and knife crest above the entrance to the dinner hall in panel 3.

    • BriGuy
      BriGuy
      July 22, 2011, 2:53 pm | # | Reply

      Nice catch.

  17. Fren
    Fren
    July 22, 2011, 7:38 am | # | Reply

    That boar must’ve been bigger than the moose! Get me a rasher off that guy.

    • SteelRaven
      SteelRaven
      July 22, 2011, 8:32 pm | # | Reply

      Dire Moose?

  18. Khavren
    Khavren
    July 22, 2011, 8:52 am | # | Reply

    First the so’ing, then the scissoring

    BAM – Fan service and we take this strip in an awkward direction for all concerned

    • The Indomitable Eric
      The Indomitable Eric
      July 23, 2011, 3:00 am | # | Reply

      Bandit’s face in the last panel does leave very little room to imagine anything else. Either that, or it leaves way too much room.

      You be the judge.

  19. Karishi
    Karishi
    July 22, 2011, 9:01 am | # | Reply

    Possibilities for where this scene is headed:
    Bandit is trying to figure out how to politely ask Syr to buy a hat so she can steal it.

    Syr’nj has recognized that the real Bandit – the one they just re-met in the bar – has been replaced by a non-purple-wearing doppelganger and they’re both about to pull weapons.

    Sound of Music soundtrack.

    Bandit is about to show Syr’nj to the lab featured on the title page, where she intends to have her make all the guild’s meals.

    Nazis attack!

  20. Stephen
    Stephen
    July 22, 2011, 9:45 am | # | Reply

    gnome jodhpurs?? I’m not sure how i feel about that.

  21. mcowles
    mcowles
    July 22, 2011, 12:36 pm | # | Reply

    I like how her first request was “Give me a tour of the place” instead of “Whoa, before we go anywhere, how are you still alive?”

    • BriGuy
      BriGuy
      July 22, 2011, 2:55 pm | # | Reply

      Have you ever asked the question “Oh by the way, you were dead. What the hell?” Probably a little more awkward to broach that topic than one would think.

      • Robtimus
        Robtimus
        July 22, 2011, 3:25 pm | # | Reply

        Indeed. There are some things you just don’t bring up in polite conversation. Though I can’t fathom how she escaped the pub area without Frigg blurting out the question.

        • wootcat
          wootcat
          July 22, 2011, 7:39 pm | # | Reply

          Did Syr feel a need to be polite with Bandit?

  22. Ishmael
    Ishmael
    July 22, 2011, 7:48 pm | # | Reply

    This does explain why the nun had such a fangasm over Frigg, though. If Bandit’s been recruiting for the Guild, she probably exaggerated their deeds a bit.

    • SteelRaven
      SteelRaven
      July 22, 2011, 8:34 pm | # | Reply

      .. Frigg still pretty awesome

    • Khazzpah
      Khazzpah
      July 22, 2011, 10:15 pm | # | Reply

      To be fair… Frigg DID get the Holy Smite. And THAT was awesome. Exaggerated? Maybe not. Maaaaybeee noooot…. -scrutinizing glare-

      • Nekropancser
        Nekropancser
        July 23, 2011, 10:46 am | # | Reply

        Bandit never saw the Holy Bash… no one did.

        • centuriancode
          centuriancode
          July 23, 2011, 10:23 pm | # | Reply

          Stealth. Bandit saw everything.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      July 24, 2011, 5:56 am | # | Reply

      Bandit has been a massive frigg fangirl all along.

  23. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    July 23, 2011, 5:46 pm | # | Reply

    Arkerra, where most herding herbivores are larger than bears.

    • centuriancode
      centuriancode
      July 24, 2011, 1:18 am | # | Reply

      You mean the mega-fauna isn’t real? LIES!

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      July 24, 2011, 8:09 am | # | Reply

      Well, there’s got to be *something* for lv. 5 noobs to fight near their hometown.

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