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

Don't you just hate knowing the only way to get out of a job is to be fired?

Chapter 18 – Page 11

on August 20, 2012
Chapter: Chapter 18
└ Tags: E-Merl, Faereksch'Nj, Gravedust, Syr'Nj
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  1. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    August 20, 2012, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Think Syr’nj is going to fetch Gravy more ammo.

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      August 20, 2012, 3:13 am | # | Reply

      Look at all the dead Avians, each killed with ONE SHOT. I’m taking Gravy on my next skeet hunt. Them skeets ‘r good eatin’!

  2. Gundi
    Gundi
    August 20, 2012, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Peace of advice Harky: Don’t. Screw. With. The. Medic.

    • Heheh
      Heheh
      August 20, 2012, 1:00 am | # | Reply

      We need a tf2 medic version of syr…. Perfect weapon set

      • tejón
        tejón
        August 20, 2012, 2:28 am | # | Reply

        Huh. Could almost imagine a full GA character set…

        • Nonsensicles
          Nonsensicles
          August 20, 2012, 9:00 am | # | Reply

          Something like:
          Syr’Nj – Medic
          Bandit – Scout
          Scipio – Heavy
          Best – Spy
          Frigg – Pyro
          Byron – Soldier
          Gravedust – Sniper
          E-Merl – Engineer
          And I guess Rachel would default to Demo, simply because there’s no good fit for either of them?

          • Phil
            Flo
            August 20, 2012, 3:23 pm | # | Reply

            I would have Rachel be soldier and Byron be Demo, since both Byron and Demoman are axe-wielding berserkers. Rachel is a soldier in her own right, as well.

            • ahdok
              ahdok
              August 21, 2012, 1:21 pm | # | Reply

              So, this is where you reveal that this was your inspiration for the characters in the first place?

          • Dove
            Dove
            August 20, 2012, 5:42 pm | # | Reply

            I dunno. Syr’Nj could also be Engineer.

            I’d definitely make Bandit the Spy and Best the Scout instead. Also, TF2 crossover = Bandit messing with Syr’Nj’s hat in the very beginning makes perfect sense… Hat Fortress! XD

            Rachel as Demo or Soldier both amuse me greatly but I think Byron does fit Demo better considering the demon-possessed weaponry Demo gets. Though Rachel as Demo, Frigg as Soldier, and Byron as Pyro amuses me greatly as well.

            E-Merl doesn’t work as a Medic, I realize, but I’m not sure who else would. He doesn’t strike me as an Engineer either but he does handle defense so it’s probably the best best. So, uh, yeah. 8)

          • Loki
            Loki
            August 21, 2012, 10:53 am | # | Reply

            I think Scipio would work either as the Pyro (they both talk little), and as the Engineer (almost taking it easy as your weapons do your work for you). Hell, if he weren’t such an obvious frontlines character, he could even be cast as the Sniper.

            I would definitely place Frigg in the role of the Heavy though, because they both seem fond of loudmouthed taunting.

            Also? If anyone is artistically inclined, and wants to make a guest strip for Guilded Age, but doesn’t know what to make it about? Consider yourselves encouraged to make a guest comic that’s a portrait of Guilded Age characters in various TF2 roles.

            • Loki
              Loki
              August 21, 2012, 11:26 am | # | Reply

              Come to think of it, I suppose E-Merl could be the Pyro. The pyro’s muffled voice could be equated with E-Merl having his foot in his mouth.

  3. Kamino Neko
    Kamino Neko
    August 20, 2012, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Gravy would be lose his power? That sounds very serious. >_>

    • Tachyon
      Tachyon
      August 20, 2012, 2:28 am | # | Reply

      And we can’t have that. We need it to power the Gravyboat.

      • ahdok
        ahdok
        August 20, 2012, 1:11 pm | # | Reply

        and the Gravytrain

        • Joe
          Joe
          August 20, 2012, 4:10 pm | # | Reply

          Trains? Boats? Back in my day, we used the Gravyflute, and a duck would come pick you up.

  4. Plan D
    Plan D
    August 20, 2012, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it.

    No one, not even you, will remember if the Peace Keepers were good or bad. Why they fought. Why they died. No. All that matters is that few stood against many. That’s what’s important. Battle pleases you Crom, so grant me this one request: Grant Syr’nj revenge. And if you do not listen, then the heck with you.

    Seriously. If they’re gonna make that her last moment with her father, I *need* to see her burn her enemies to the ground.

    • Obakeinu
      Obakeinu
      August 20, 2012, 10:43 am | # | Reply

      Don’t worry about that…

      I suspect she’s reaching for a very large can wup-ass as she’s leaving.

      (I’m thinking that shaman circle is going to get an uninvited guest…)

  5. Joe
    Joe
    August 20, 2012, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    Wording Check: Be lose?

    Also, DAMN GIRL, THOSE ARE SOME ANGRY EYES.

    • Katlamos
      Katlamos
      August 20, 2012, 12:35 am | # | Reply

      I noticed that too.

      Also, I think she’s about to kill them all with that glare she has going on there.

    • Phil
      Flo
      August 20, 2012, 3:24 pm | # | Reply

      Baaaaaaah. Figures I’d typo while I’m at GenCon. This shall be fixed.

      • maggPi
        maggPi
        August 21, 2012, 2:24 pm | # | Reply

        I’m guessing it’s supposed to read “…be TO lose…” as opposed to having a weird little “be” just hanging there.

  6. Fairportfan
    Fairportfan
    August 20, 2012, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    The doctor is on the march.

    “Demons tremble…”

    • FlyingFish
      FlyingFish
      August 20, 2012, 2:16 pm | # | Reply

      To the people of the Graiya Forests, the word “doctor” means “mighty warrior.”

      • Ferrett
        Ferrett
        August 20, 2012, 5:39 pm | # | Reply

        Demons run when a good man goes to war
        Night will fall and drown the sun
        When a good man goes to war

        Friendship dies and true love lies
        Night will fall and the dark will rise
        When a good man goes to war

        Demons run, but count the cost
        The battle’s won, but the child is lost

      • maggPi
        maggPi
        August 21, 2012, 1:29 pm | # | Reply

        @ FlyingFish

        …and “Mighty Warrior” translates in many other languages as “the Oncoming Storm.”

        • maggPi
          maggPi
          August 21, 2012, 2:30 pm | # | Reply

          Hmmm…..

          “Goin’ on up to the Spirit in the Sky
          That’s where I’m gonna go when I die
          When I die an’ they lay me to rest,
          Gonna go to the Place that’s the Best!”

          –Doctor and the Medics (N. Greenbaum)

          Very apropos, I’d say.
          (Yes, you Best-ies, it all ties in. Can you give me a “WHOOP-WHOOP”?)

  7. gangler
    gangler
    August 20, 2012, 12:44 am | # | Reply

    Wow. Pulls herself together just like that. As if I needed another reason to be impressed with Syrnj.

  8. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    August 20, 2012, 12:56 am | # | Reply

    Syr’Nj is going to stick it to them LIKE A BOSS1

  9. ThreeEyedCrow
    ThreeEyedCrow
    August 20, 2012, 1:11 am | # | Reply

    I think Syr’Nj is going to wind up Byron into a demonic frenzy and set him loose amongst the invaders

    • coldelectrons
      coldelectrons
      August 20, 2012, 2:35 am | # | Reply

      If only Syr’Nj could do ÜberCharge on Byron like in TF2.

      Meet the Medic.

    • Logos
      Logos
      August 20, 2012, 3:44 am | # | Reply

      I imagine she’ll want to use her skills as a healer to make their deaths slower and much more painful…

      I can foresee many character-molding moral actions occurring in the next few pages, and it’s going to be less than pretty.

      • Joe
        Joe
        August 20, 2012, 4:12 pm | # | Reply

        Her second spec is Shadow Priest. The army is doomed.

      • Korbl
        Korbl
        August 20, 2012, 5:38 pm | # | Reply

        Actually, I could see a mix of those two. Whip up Byron into a fury, set him loose, and then go administer to the wounded he leaves so that they die agonizing deaths of blood loss or exposure, rather than shock.

  10. Mordecai
    Mordecai
    August 20, 2012, 2:01 am | # | Reply

    Leadership…STABILIZED.

    • coldelectrons
      coldelectrons
      August 20, 2012, 2:15 am | # | Reply

      Somehow, I imagine a readout of status indicators on the Five – [destabilized] blinking in red, and HR cackling…suddenly, Syr’s turns back to green [STABILIZED].

      HR howls in frustration.

      • Logos
        Logos
        August 20, 2012, 3:47 am | # | Reply

        I imagine that, for someone as magically powerful as he is, the resistance of the characters to his attempts to bring them to an untimely demise must be very hexing for him.

    • randomdude
      randomdude
      August 20, 2012, 11:10 am | # | Reply

      I’m not as sure as everyone else seems to be that Syr is actually stabilized here. She seems like she’s lost it in an altogether more frightening way.

      • Bruceski
        Bruceski
        August 20, 2012, 8:23 pm | # | Reply

        Looks like she’s got a little Berserker in her.

        • The Indomitable Eric
          The Indomitable Eric
          August 21, 2012, 8:59 am | # | Reply

          “Where’s your precious hippo crates now?!”

        • maggPi
          maggPi
          August 21, 2012, 1:47 pm | # | Reply

          @ Bruceski

          I think the “little Berserker in her” is what sparked the whole clishmaclaver with her dad in the first place… (and the idea of a “little Berserker” spawning within!)

          Btw, I’d always read “Bruceski” as “Brewski.” Could it possibly be “Bruchesky?” Or “Brusosky?” “Brusowsky?” I am SO SORRY I have been MISPRONOUNCING your name IN MY BRAAAAIIIINN!!!!

          *ahem*

  11. ThatDumbRetard
    ThatDumbRetard
    August 20, 2012, 2:03 am | # | Reply

    Being an engineer, along with being a medic, she is probably going to bomb the living hell out of them.

  12. ThatDumbRetard
    ThatDumbRetard
    August 20, 2012, 2:03 am | # | Reply

    Being an engineer, along with being a medic, she is probably going to bomb the living hell out of them.

    • ThatDumbRetard
      ThatDumbRetard
      August 20, 2012, 2:04 am | # | Reply

      Note to self: Let the damn page load before assuming you didn’t hit “Post Comment” the first time.

      • biggmac
        biggmac
        August 20, 2012, 2:25 am | # | Reply

        Don’t worry about it – happens to the best of us – doesn’t mean that you’re stu… Hmm. Just read your name. Nevermind:D

  13. Sir Exal
    Sir Exal
    August 20, 2012, 2:15 am | # | Reply

    “Oh, right, back from the dead. Funny story. I’ll tell you sometime.”

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      August 20, 2012, 2:37 am | # | Reply

      (whew – that was about to be awkward; saved by the bel- er, the apocalyptic invasion)

  14. coldelectrons
    coldelectrons
    August 20, 2012, 2:25 am | # | Reply

    Guy inna robe, holding aloft a glowing stick, check.
    Young woman clinging to him, check.
    Now we just need the caption on Panel 3: “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…”

    • Logos
      Logos
      August 20, 2012, 3:49 am | # | Reply

      If only Best were still alive, then we would have our “arrogant, charming maverick” quota filled up as well.

      • alurker
        alurker
        August 20, 2012, 4:40 am | # | Reply

        Well, E-Merl does have the right vest for it…

        • JarrysKid
          JarrysKid
          August 20, 2012, 10:31 am | # | Reply

          Scippy’s gonna have to grow some more hair, though.

          • Robtimus
            Robtimus
            August 20, 2012, 12:59 pm | # | Reply

            You sure about that? I guess only Fr’nj can be certain…

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      August 21, 2012, 12:25 pm | # | Reply

      Help me Gravy-Wan, you’re my only hope.

  15. biggmac
    biggmac
    August 20, 2012, 2:33 am | # | Reply

    So far this chapter, I’ve seen Gravy and now Syr more passionate and focused than ever before. Hugely enjoyed GD kickin’ butt, can’t wait to see Syr do so. Can I just say how awesome this comic is, in story and art? The best free thing on the web. It’s like ordering steaks for me and my wife: rare, and well done.

    • Phil
      Flo
      August 20, 2012, 3:27 pm | # | Reply

      You are ENTIRELY too kind. We’ll do our best to make sure the end of the chapter does not disappoint.

      • ahdok
        ahdok
        August 21, 2012, 1:21 pm | # | Reply

        You’re going to finish the chapter with Rachel and Frigg making out?

  16. A random human
    A random human
    August 20, 2012, 2:58 am | # | Reply

    Syr’Nj is going Rambo IV on the invaders … behold the combat medic turned berserker medic

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      August 20, 2012, 3:24 am | # | Reply

      Thou SHALT harm!

      • Logos
        Logos
        August 20, 2012, 3:50 am | # | Reply

        It was more of a Hippocratic Suggestion anyways…

        • Seggs
          Seggs
          August 20, 2012, 5:09 pm | # | Reply

          everytime i hear/read the word “hoppocratic” i think of this comic and giggle: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/01/10/

          • redo19
            redo19
            August 20, 2012, 7:37 pm | # | Reply

            And according to your avatar, Rachel giggles too.

        • ahdok
          ahdok
          August 21, 2012, 1:26 pm | # | Reply

          She took the Hypocritic Oath

  17. Walt
    Walt
    August 20, 2012, 4:08 am | # | Reply

    It sounds like once this war is over, Gravedust is going to have to train some new mystics. Can’t you just imagine how proud he’ll feel at the graduation ceremony when the new recruits walk to the traditional mystic school graduation song, Psychopomp and Circumstance.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      August 20, 2012, 1:14 pm | # | Reply

      they’d graduate with psychopomp and ceremony

    • Joe
      Joe
      August 21, 2012, 10:42 am | # | Reply

      I’d smell a crossover with Gunnerkrigg Court, if it wasn’t for a fundamental difference between the universes.

  18. Darkrider
    Darkrider
    August 20, 2012, 5:08 am | # | Reply

    Looks like the medic has murder in her eyes and GD is about to help her father get revenge in the form of being ammo…

  19. Masterof7s
    Masterof7s
    August 20, 2012, 5:14 am | # | Reply

    There’s a game face, a war face, and a shit-just-got real face.

    Syr’nj just put on all three.

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      August 20, 2012, 9:43 am | # | Reply

      After the humbling strike against her family, Syr’Nj needs to save face.

      • randomdude
        randomdude
        August 20, 2012, 11:14 am | # | Reply

        Since her father got an arrow to the face, Syr has been a bit weepy. In this panel, she did an about face. Now it’s time to go face her foes. (any other way to use face is this situation?)

        • maggPi
          maggPi
          August 21, 2012, 1:58 pm | # | Reply

          I’d say it’s an honest face. Especially as she’s decided to face reality. But that is her saving grace.

  20. SnaleKing
    SnaleKing
    August 20, 2012, 9:52 am | # | Reply

    “I the last mystic, would be lose my power and my duty”
    not to nitpick, but I don’t think that’s proper grammer.

    • Darkrider
      Darkrider
      August 20, 2012, 11:55 am | # | Reply

      Are you really gonna nit pic the grammer of someone who could kill you…then turn around and use your soul as ammunition?

      • biggmac
        biggmac
        August 21, 2012, 1:54 am | # | Reply

        Heck, if you guys really wanna nitpick -it’s spelled “grammar”

        • maggPi
          maggPi
          August 21, 2012, 1:52 pm | # | Reply

          beat me to it

  21. Veggieburrito
    Veggieburrito
    August 20, 2012, 11:55 am | # | Reply

    This just got Syrious’Nj

  22. CliffMonster
    CliffMonster
    August 20, 2012, 12:02 pm | # | Reply

    The composition of the third panel is bodacious, with a swirl of blue!

    • Joe
      Joe
      August 21, 2012, 10:44 am | # | Reply

      Like a wild berry poptart?

      …Do they still make those? I want one now.

      • Seggs
        Seggs
        August 21, 2012, 12:42 pm | # | Reply

        http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=wild+berry+pop+tarts

  23. Starlight
    Starlight
    August 20, 2012, 2:01 pm | # | Reply

    Syr’Nj is about to show Harky why they say: *Hell has no fury like a woman scorned!*

  24. Overkillengine
    Overkillengine
    August 20, 2012, 3:17 pm | # | Reply

    “Plus have you *seen* the damage bonus I get when I load his soul into an arrow? Say, your mom isn’t feeling a bit peckish is she? Just curious.”

    • The Indomitable Eric
      The Indomitable Eric
      August 21, 2012, 9:29 am | # | Reply

      All’s fair in love and raiding.

  25. LadyDragon
    LadyDragon
    August 20, 2012, 3:54 pm | # | Reply

    The middle of the third panel is like all those fantasy and romance novel covers – only somewhat diminished by Gravedust’s height.

  26. Angry-Buddha-88
    Angry-Buddha-88
    August 20, 2012, 4:15 pm | # | Reply

    Panel four: HONK, GOT YER NOSE!

    • Seggs
      Seggs
      August 20, 2012, 5:13 pm | # | Reply

      ROFL!

  27. Andrew
    Andrew
    August 20, 2012, 5:45 pm | # | Reply

    To quote Shaky Fries, “Oh, Hell…”

  28. redo19
    redo19
    August 20, 2012, 7:40 pm | # | Reply

    Soon we will learn that you don’t have to be a berserker to rage.

  29. JSStryker
    JSStryker
    August 20, 2012, 8:16 pm | # | Reply

    From that look on Syr’Nj’s face, I’m gonna guess Lady Mercy won’t be home tonight for the Savage races.

  30. David DeLaney
    David DeLaney
    August 21, 2012, 7:33 am | # | Reply

    “I used to be the leader of the Wood Elves, but then I took an arrow to the face.” … no wait, wrong MMORPG…

    –Dave

  31. maggPi
    maggPi
    August 21, 2012, 2:43 pm | # | Reply

    So….

    This is what I experienced the past two weeks;
    -Worked like Hell in my clients’ gardens during a heat-wave
    -Studied like crazy for a difficult, boring exam
    -Went out of town for a weekend to visit a friend
    -Sat writing said exam for four hours in a room so cold I think they were trying to freeze Hell over with the a/c
    -Worked like Hell in my clients’ gardens to make rent on time
    -Came back to Guilded Age and all Hell had broken loose while I was gone
    -WTF!!!

    So… This clearly tells me I am not to neglect GA for such a long period of time ever again. I have learned my lesson well.

  32. Twigs
    Twigs
    August 23, 2012, 11:38 pm | # | Reply

    Yeah, good idea to THROW A SYRINGE AT SOMEONE

    Good medical practice, that

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