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

'I'll play by your schedule, guys, we all have to make sacrifices here.'

Chapter 16 – Page 5

on April 9, 2012
Chapter: Chapter 16
└ Tags: Byron, Cultists
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  1. Heheh
    Heheh
    April 9, 2012, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Looks like byron was more awesome than suspected pre-ptsd. Or at least that’s my guess for whe this is anyways, since he seems to be going solo.

    • MichaelHaneline
      MichaelHaneline
      April 9, 2012, 12:10 am | # | Reply

      Why do you think he’s going solo? There are like 11 other faceless robed people on this page.

      • Heheh
        Heheh
        April 9, 2012, 12:12 am | # | Reply

        I feel like it’s a lot harder to disguise and infiltrate as a group than as one guy. I’m thinking he has some sort of trap/plan set up as a force multiplier.

        • JarrysKid
          JarrysKid
          April 9, 2012, 12:45 pm | # | Reply

          “Do we have a plan?”

          “Hey, how about this? Instead of just attacking the two dudes with the Sack O’ Rugrats ™, I disguise myself as one of them, infiltrate their temple, wait for a suitably dramatic moment, then remove my disguise, say somethnig appropriately witty, and kill them all?”

          (Pause)

          “Do we have a Plan B?”

          • Aniphx
            Aniphx
            April 9, 2012, 2:15 pm | # | Reply

            Plan B involves science…a lot of science.

          • plaintextman
            plaintextman
            April 9, 2012, 5:19 pm | # | Reply

            Perhaps the point is to kill or capture the cultists, and not to just save the kids?

            • gangler
              gangler
              April 9, 2012, 5:40 pm | # | Reply

              Perhaps Byron’s just a cultist who couldn’t resist the perfect moment for a dramatic reveal.

              • Acadian Bacon
                Acadian Bacon
                April 10, 2012, 1:14 am | # | Reply

                Perhaps pineapples? :3

          • Phil
            Flo
            April 9, 2012, 7:09 pm | # | Reply

            Gold Star.

  2. Ishmael
    Ishmael
    April 9, 2012, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Cue theme song.

    • solna
      solna
      April 9, 2012, 1:41 am | # | Reply

      whackachoppahackachoppawhackachoppahackachoppa BYRON, BYRON, BYRON…

    • Adell
      Adell
      April 9, 2012, 2:39 am | # | Reply

      Smash Cut to opening theme.

      • Ishmael
        Ishmael
        April 9, 2012, 8:19 am | # | Reply

        Or the even awesomer ‘opening theme plays over the fight in lieu of regular intro’ route.

    • Eadwacer
      Eadwacer
      April 9, 2012, 10:16 am | # | Reply

      Benny Hill theme

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        April 9, 2012, 12:32 pm | # | Reply

        Ok, let’s cut to the chase.

      • JarrysKid
        JarrysKid
        April 9, 2012, 12:48 pm | # | Reply

        Yakkity Axe?

  3. Moe Lane
    Moe Lane
    April 9, 2012, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    “Gentle… beings… allow me to explain the error in thinking that has tragically affected you as a group. I am not locked up in here with you. You are locked up in here with me.”

  4. Snowblind
    Snowblind
    April 9, 2012, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    <– Let me axe you one more time… cuz I am off my meds.

  5. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    April 9, 2012, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    “I’ll be taking the children home now… except the pirate kid, you can keep him.”

  6. Iocane
    Iocane
    April 9, 2012, 12:57 am | # | Reply

    The elders look awesome; between the gnoll, the tusky orc, and Toucan Sam.

  7. SaltyKracka
    SaltyKracka
    April 9, 2012, 1:42 am | # | Reply

    Here guys, hold my axes. I got this.

  8. Andreas
    Andreas
    April 9, 2012, 2:41 am | # | Reply

    Field test… I like it!

  9. Doop doop
    Doop doop
    April 9, 2012, 4:07 am | # | Reply

    See, in ACTUAL situations like this, this is where you get shot by the guards and start wishing you’d just stabbed someone before they knew you were there.

    But I expect explosions at the end of this. Possibly jumping out a window in front of it.

    • Ishmael
      Ishmael
      April 9, 2012, 8:22 am | # | Reply

      Well, that’s assuming that they have guns and you aren’t wearing shoulderplates taken from a major boss. Those things offer a fuckton of stat boosts.

  10. pacientK
    pacientK
    April 9, 2012, 4:35 am | # | Reply

    BowChoppaChopChop.

  11. Yinello
    Yinello
    April 9, 2012, 4:43 am | # | Reply

    Breaking the 4th wall? It’s as if Dogman wants Byron to be there. *speculate speculate*

  12. Locke
    Locke
    April 9, 2012, 5:28 am | # | Reply

    “…NO? PLEASE COME BACK LATER?”

    Byron sighs, puts the hood back up, and leaves the children to their fates. The beast priest shrugs and prepares to continue the sacrifice.

    • Yinello
      Yinello
      April 10, 2012, 9:47 am | # | Reply

      “I’m afraid this is a bad time, how about next week?”
      “Sorry, my agenda is booked. I can only kill you now.”
      “Well, it was worth a shot!”
      *Byron and Dogman laugh*

  13. Mujaki
    Mujaki
    April 9, 2012, 5:56 am | # | Reply

    Hooded Landsharks. They can’t actually see anything going on in the temple, but judging by the grins, I’d say they like what they hear.

  14. flevine
    flevine
    April 9, 2012, 7:05 am | # | Reply

    Yay! Byron’s back!

    • Andreas
      Andreas
      April 9, 2012, 5:24 pm | # | Reply

      …and he’s mad!

      …

      But not too mad :D

      • karishi
        karishi
        April 10, 2012, 12:45 am | # | Reply

        We’re all mad here.

        • Hardcover
          Hardcover
          April 10, 2012, 12:37 pm | # | Reply

          You don’t have to be mad to read this webcomic, but it helps.

          • Andreas
            Andreas
            April 11, 2012, 6:37 pm | # | Reply

            You don’t have to read this webcomic to be mad – but it helps :D

  15. HLY
    HLY
    April 9, 2012, 7:16 am | # | Reply

    “Here I am, trying to make a nice meal and we needed goats cheese. I send you doofuses to hlp and you bring back humans. Humans! young humans don’t produce milk. Thats it barry, you ruined our meal and now your going to have to pay for take out. I hope your happy!”

  16. Miyaa
    Miyaa
    April 9, 2012, 8:09 am | # | Reply

    So sentient animals sacrificing non-sentient animals? It really is a dog eat dog world.

    • Tsapki
      Tsapki
      April 9, 2012, 7:28 pm | # | Reply

      Humans are sentient animals as well. Anima is simply the Latin word for movement or life if I recall correctly.

  17. Hawk
    Hawk
    April 9, 2012, 8:35 am | # | Reply

    Guess those two cultists weren’t the goat-to guys.

    • The Indomitable Eric
      The Indomitable Eric
      April 9, 2012, 11:45 am | # | Reply

      No kidding.

      • JarrysKid
        JarrysKid
        April 9, 2012, 12:53 pm | # | Reply

        They did manage to get his goat.

        • The Indomitable Eric
          The Indomitable Eric
          April 9, 2012, 2:43 pm | # | Reply

          Well, that’s what he gets for not taking the time to ram his point home.

          • Seth
            Seth
            April 9, 2012, 9:29 pm | # | Reply

            I see what ewe did there.

            • Budy Streak
              Budy Streak
              April 9, 2012, 10:22 pm | # | Reply

              On the hoof, no less

              • Bliggz
                Bliggz
                April 9, 2012, 10:29 pm | # | Reply

                maybe its time to beat it

                • Bliggz
                  Bliggz
                  April 10, 2012, 1:10 am | # | Reply

                  Bleet! I meant Bleet! Arg!

                  • Sybarite
                    Sybarite
                    April 10, 2012, 2:59 am | # | Reply

                    Bah, ewe ruined it!

                    • Rognik
                      Rognik
                      April 10, 2012, 4:41 am | #

                      Doesn’t that just get your goat? I hate it when nannies (ninnies) goof such a simple task.

                    • Jean-Luc
                      Jean-Luc
                      April 10, 2012, 10:01 am | #

                      This is all making me horny.

  18. Krogaladin
    Krogaladin
    April 9, 2012, 8:38 am | # | Reply

    “I’ll be back, I just have this lampshade to hang”

    • TsunamiJane
      TsunamiJane
      April 10, 2012, 8:46 am | # | Reply

      *applause*

  19. Connie
    Connie
    April 9, 2012, 11:40 am | # | Reply

    This reminds me of an online game where military actions were written out, the GM would roll your command + whatever, and then they’d post results. One young general said that he wanted more horses to get a mounted charge. He botched his roll and the order went out as ‘More whores’. Good times… There were still charged mounting going on though.

  20. Strongholm
    Strongholm
    April 9, 2012, 11:53 am | # | Reply

    Good to see Byron back in action.
    I am also enjoying that the cultist ritual book has teeth.

  21. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    April 9, 2012, 12:34 pm | # | Reply

    I wish it was Best’s face under that hood. :( This would be a perfect situation for him to show off his heroics. Oh Payet, where art thou?

    • SaltyKracka
      SaltyKracka
      April 9, 2012, 12:55 pm | # | Reply

      Dead.

      • Ishmael
        Ishmael
        April 9, 2012, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

        No body.

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        April 9, 2012, 1:45 pm | # | Reply

        Fallen into vortex =/= dead. He’ll be back in a flash of awesome, you’ll see.

        • Whatev
          Whatev
          April 9, 2012, 5:19 pm | # | Reply

          Best is, by definition, superior to all others.

          • Andreas
            Andreas
            April 9, 2012, 5:25 pm | # | Reply

            For he is the bestest of them all!

          • Phil
            Flo
            April 9, 2012, 7:11 pm | # | Reply

            Man I love random avatars.

  22. zorgon
    zorgon
    April 9, 2012, 2:39 pm | # | Reply

    I take it y’all were listening when we said the Gastonians are starting to look worse than the savage races … ?

    • Budy Streak
      Budy Streak
      April 9, 2012, 3:22 pm | # | Reply

      C’mon. They just want a little piece of your heart.

      • The Indomitable Eric
        The Indomitable Eric
        April 9, 2012, 3:45 pm | # | Reply

        Seriously. Cut them some slack. You’ll have to sacrifice those preconceptions if you want to get anywhere.

        • Whatev
          Whatev
          April 9, 2012, 5:21 pm | # | Reply

          No, this is a case where it’s important to be in the rite.

          • Andreas
            Andreas
            April 9, 2012, 5:27 pm | # | Reply

            And that Byron, he’s a rite kidder!

    • Phil
      Flo
      April 9, 2012, 7:08 pm | # | Reply

      We were listening, but this was still written a couple weeks in advance.

      • The Indomitable Eric
        The Indomitable Eric
        April 9, 2012, 11:34 pm | # | Reply

        In all fairness, crazy cults kind of surpass international borders, anyway.

        • Andreas
          Andreas
          April 10, 2012, 1:51 am | # | Reply

          Of course, the made-to-specs priest-king was a nice touch.

  23. ahdok
    ahdok
    April 9, 2012, 5:03 pm | # | Reply

    Can’t we just let Byrons be Byrons?

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      April 9, 2012, 7:20 pm | # | Reply

      Not while there’s an axe to grind.

      • Mr Ak
        Mr Ak
        April 10, 2012, 12:30 am | # | Reply

        Oh, I’m sure they’ll bury the hatchet.

  24. Overkillengine
    Overkillengine
    April 9, 2012, 7:04 pm | # | Reply

    Won’t you back that axe up?

  25. karishi
    karishi
    April 10, 2012, 12:50 am | # | Reply

    Please, Please add left shark cultist to the list of random gravatars.

    • Benedikt
      Benedikt
      April 14, 2012, 7:48 pm | # | Reply

      +1

  26. hellhound
    hellhound
    April 10, 2012, 2:47 am | # | Reply

    oh poor Grarl. the poor gnolls never have it easy.
    And all he wanted were some goats for a little sacrifies. he would even lower himself and sacrifice some children but alas…..
    Bad luck my friend.i guess.

    • Whatev
      Whatev
      April 11, 2012, 2:48 am | # | Reply

      Really, I think that his minions did what they reasonably expected his orders to be, and Grarl’s at fault for not making himself clearer.

  27. redo19
    redo19
    April 10, 2012, 4:06 pm | # | Reply

    I feel like the child in the bag in the third panel is looking at ME.

  28. BT
    BT
    April 10, 2012, 11:13 pm | # | Reply

    Would he have something witty to say if they asked him to come back later?

  29. Gabrielli
    Gabrielli
    August 22, 2013, 2:05 pm | # | Reply

    Ok, I admit. This page made me laugh. Not out loud, mind you, but still.

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