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

'Or y'know, just kill anyone who doesn't look like us. I'm not picky.'

Chapter 18 – Page 4

on August 3, 2012
Chapter: Chapter 18
└ Tags: E-Merl, Faereksch'Nj, Naror'Nj, Syr'Nj
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  1. Joe
    Joe
    August 3, 2012, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    …Welp.

  2. Not now
    Not now
    August 3, 2012, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Dang, there’s going to be some serious drama from that…

    • Joe
      Joe
      August 3, 2012, 12:19 am | # | Reply

      Unresolved Daddy Issues!
      The bottomless well of dramatic material!

      • Lynxx
        Lynxx
        August 3, 2012, 12:54 am | # | Reply

        hmm..

        she does have an endless obsession with fixing bad boys..

        • coldelectrons
          coldelectrons
          August 3, 2012, 8:16 am | # | Reply

          Unlike other women, Syr’Nj can fix bad boys…but there may be a few intermediate stages during testing.

          • biggmac
            biggmac
            August 3, 2012, 10:27 am | # | Reply

            I am of the opinion that B the B is actually NOT fixed… that, given enough bad stimulation (my prediction: the [apparent] death of Syr’Nj), the demon will rise again

            • meh
              meh
              August 3, 2012, 11:26 am | # | Reply

              I agree with biggmac. Remember a few panels back when Bandit and friends got into Syr’Nj’s supplies?

      • Remember
        Remember
        August 3, 2012, 8:46 am | # | Reply

        Daddy Issues? Looks like a career in stripping for her.

  3. Kensou
    Kensou
    August 3, 2012, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Now I’ll never know what he was gonna say next! Stupid regicide.

    • JarrysKid
      JarrysKid
      August 3, 2012, 11:08 am | # | Reply

      He was going to say, “Please, Syr’Nj, I need this like I need a hole in my head!”

      • zero
        zero
        August 3, 2012, 12:20 pm | # | Reply

        +1

      • Phil
        Flo
        August 3, 2012, 2:44 pm | # | Reply

        Gold Star.

      • ClockWork
        ClockWork
        August 4, 2012, 12:51 am | # | Reply

        Thats just in poor taste.

        • SotiCoto
          SotiCoto
          June 27, 2013, 10:26 am | # | Reply

          Nah. Is probably orange flavour.

  4. Timelost
    Timelost
    August 3, 2012, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    …I knew it was coming, but I didn’t expect the bolt-in-the-forehead callback from Syr’s army medic scene.

    Well played.

    • Andreas
      Andreas
      August 5, 2012, 3:53 pm | # | Reply

      Syr’s note to self: “Never speak in sentences over five words, people will die from arrows to the brain, otherwise”.

  5. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    August 3, 2012, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    first panel: “…ouch?”

  6. Razzindi
    Razzindi
    August 3, 2012, 12:44 am | # | Reply

    Allright, let’s see how Syr feels about her ferociously fine feathered friend ferreted fairly away beneath Gastonia when she gets back, eh?

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      August 4, 2012, 7:04 pm | # | Reply

      Probably less charitable than before. These Byrds swooped down from Eight Miles High, attacking then Turn! Turn! Turn!ing and attacking again – the king, the womenfolk, and Hey! even Mr. Tambourine Man.

  7. krogaladin
    krogaladin
    August 3, 2012, 12:49 am | # | Reply

    he should of had more fore-head-thought.

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      August 3, 2012, 1:20 am | # | Reply

      They mistook him for a Brow Elf.
      He must be close to a church; they got him near his temple.

      • krogaladin
        krogaladin
        August 3, 2012, 12:33 pm | # | Reply

        you hit the nail on the head.

  8. Valdrax
    Valdrax
    August 3, 2012, 1:15 am | # | Reply

    Well, that argument ended a lot better than I thought it would.

  9. A random human
    A random human
    August 3, 2012, 1:24 am | # | Reply

    Already four guards down … plus the thre women on the bottom part of the screen … It’s official : It has hit the fan. Big time.

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      August 3, 2012, 1:39 am | # | Reply

      It’s official: in efficacy-
      Wood elf guards vs. anyone else = Imperial stormtroopers vs. Jedi knights = New Jersey Generals vs. Harlem Globetrotters

      • Tsapki
        Tsapki
        August 3, 2012, 1:43 am | # | Reply

        Might be a bit harsh. One of those guards has an Avian skewered in the final panel. Do recall that losing your leadership is terrible for morale.

        • Jean-Luc
          Jean-Luc
          August 3, 2012, 2:33 am | # | Reply

          It’s mostly the element of surprise but the wood elves’ security measures do seem to be quite poor in general.

          • Manly Bowler
            Manly Bowler
            August 3, 2012, 2:59 am | # | Reply

            I guess all that “We are so good and wonderful that we look down on everyone and don’t need to pick a side”-attitude is coming to bite them in their wooden asses.

          • Logos
            Logos
            August 3, 2012, 3:17 am | # | Reply

            For wood elves, they seem to very easy to ambush in their own forest.

            • HLY
              HLY
              August 3, 2012, 6:18 am | # | Reply

              indeed, especially since they managed to catch the party the moment they stepped in?

              to busy putting byron through a kangaroo court to bother witih any more security, it seems.

              • Andreas
                Andreas
                August 5, 2012, 3:55 pm | # | Reply

                The wood elves are really good a spotting people who are not trying to sneak in.
                Their ability to catch people who don’t want to be caught appears to be next to zero.

          • Obakeinu
            Obakeinu
            August 3, 2012, 9:22 am | # | Reply

            Don’t forget the nature of the enemy… most defensive thinking is in ‘2D’.

            Their opponent thinks in 3D.

            Only well-trained fighters get into the habit of looking ‘up’.

            • plaintextman
              plaintextman
              August 3, 2012, 11:46 am | # | Reply

              ^ This. Truly thinking in 3D is something only people such as experienced soldiers and hardass Quake(-like) players can do. Also, I suspect HR’s influence is skewing dice rolls all over the place.

            • Syncline
              Syncline
              August 3, 2012, 7:40 pm | # | Reply

              I find it very hard to imagine such a surprise attack working.

              They live on TOP of trees, surrounded by birds, flying squirrels and Gahd knows what else. The normal day-to-day cost of any one of them forgetting where the ground is in relation to their position at any given moment is death or massive injury. Flight or falling are surely the only options.
              If the elves aren’t thinking in 3d terms constantly, that would be a writer/plot issue. It would be hard to imagine them having such a breech of logic in their normal daily life.

              • randomdude
                randomdude
                August 4, 2012, 11:16 am | # | Reply

                I don’t know. I might think such a position would lead to me looking down constantly, since there’s often not anything above me. Maybe cheetah commando took out all the treetop guards on his way to graiya’s bough, though.

            • Andreas
              Andreas
              August 5, 2012, 4:03 pm | # | Reply

              That’s only the “experienced” fighters who’ve never come across a Jagular… never look up, ever. They’ll get you if you do.

    • Rogahar
      Rogahar
      August 4, 2012, 1:52 pm | # | Reply

      Thankfully they’re not ALL useless. That one guy’s got a birdman on his spear quite neatly.

  10. bobthe6th
    bobthe6th
    August 3, 2012, 1:24 am | # | Reply

    I taste Key-lime pie.

    • Hatman
      Hatman
      August 3, 2012, 2:48 am | # | Reply

      You, sir, caused an actual lol.

      • coldelectrons
        coldelectrons
        August 3, 2012, 8:00 am | # | Reply

        Somebody go find Gravedust to Un-Croak the King.

  11. Haley
    Haley
    August 3, 2012, 1:26 am | # | Reply

    I just…sat her and made a high-pitched gasping sound for a full minute. holy crap, this can only end badly.

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      August 3, 2012, 2:00 am | # | Reply

      Surely not any worse than than it has begun.
      BTW Haley, I thought you shoulda won last years American Idol instead of Scotty.

    • ThePuck1
      ThePuck1
      August 4, 2012, 4:34 pm | # | Reply

      Not as bad perhaps. Looks like E-Merl is rushing to protect Syr and her mother with his Whirly Ball Shield thingy.

  12. Doma
    Doma
    August 3, 2012, 1:33 am | # | Reply

    he and his stupid beard won’t be missed.

    • oamuthemonk
      oamuthemonk
      August 3, 2012, 10:21 am | # | Reply

      Agreed. The whole lumberjack farce trial was a tedious diversion, and that Wood Elf king was abusing his idiot ball priviliges.

      • biggmac
        biggmac
        August 3, 2012, 10:33 am | # | Reply

        Double agreed – if Byron’s controversial arrest hadn’t happened, then the discussion the first night would’ve been about the imminent threat of Harki & co.; they could have been preparing for an attack

        • JarrysKid
          JarrysKid
          August 3, 2012, 11:12 am | # | Reply

          But that’s just what H. R. wanted! Anything that foils Mr. Sepia ‘Stache must be good. Mustn’t it?

        • Jean-Luc
          Jean-Luc
          August 3, 2012, 7:34 pm | # | Reply

          He was a jerk but he didn’t deserve to die. You can tell by the faces of his wife and daughter. Consumers of art and fiction are ever so ready to pass death sentences based purely on feelings of annoyance. If death were meted out with the same fervour in the real world, rives would run red…even more so.

          What’s more, if GD manages to foil Auruagu’s escape, dad might even end up being resurrected via the bough, reborn in both body and world view so to speak. Though that’s a pretty big “if”.

          • Hawk
            Hawk
            August 4, 2012, 7:11 pm | # | Reply

            Considering everything we’ve seen up to now – I don’t think I’ll hold my breath for a resurrection.

            Exceedingly good start to a chapter, guys. Thanks for makin’ me spend my weekend worrying for Syr!! :P

          • Andreas
            Andreas
            August 5, 2012, 3:17 pm | # | Reply

            Jean-Luc, for a sec I thought you wrote “You can tell by the feces of his wife and daughter”… and I thought, wow, he’s a great augur… normally you need the whole of the entrails to tell the measure of a man!

            (feeling random)

  13. Tsapki
    Tsapki
    August 3, 2012, 1:41 am | # | Reply

    Quite the way to keep the chapter rolling. Distracted is not quite the word to describe them, but two of the group are incapacitated and the rest scattered quite about. I also doubt the Avians and Auraugu are the only forces here as well.

    • Seggs
      Seggs
      August 5, 2012, 10:55 pm | # | Reply

      i expect to see the trolls and their little drummer boy within the week.

  14. biggmac
    biggmac
    August 3, 2012, 1:50 am | # | Reply

    Great action still shot of E-Merl jumping towards the royals while starting up his Circlet of Winters Gale. Should make the cover of ADVENTURERS ILLUSTRATED.

    • JarrysKid
      JarrysKid
      August 3, 2012, 11:12 am | # | Reply

      Swimsuit issue?

  15. Taxil Necrobane
    Taxil Necrobane
    August 3, 2012, 2:04 am | # | Reply

    I for one will see this as a absolute reason to get the remaining wood elves on the alliance side, and maybe any OTHER elf races too. i don’t think they can kill ALL of the wood elves now.

    on another note, the heroes still have that birdie they caught on the dock raid. Syr’nj, went this is all over, will march down to her cell with her sis and just beat her to death slowly to vent some of her rage. i’m sure of it.

    • coldelectrons
      coldelectrons
      August 3, 2012, 8:41 am | # | Reply

      Given how the Wood Elves seem to have tissue paper for defenses, there may not be many left by morning.

      Also, as far as the avian prisoner back home, that cook-out party is probably already over. With no leftovers.

      • Taxil Necrobane
        Taxil Necrobane
        August 4, 2012, 8:58 pm | # | Reply

        i can think up a few new recipes to cook up avian lately.

  16. The Indomitable Eric
    The Indomitable Eric
    August 3, 2012, 2:56 am | # | Reply

    Wood Elf Sentries – “Spot? Why would I put ranks in spot?”

    • Phil
      Flo
      August 3, 2012, 2:50 pm | # | Reply

      I get a +2 racial bonus. Surely that suffices.

    • Veggieburrito
      Veggieburrito
      August 3, 2012, 4:27 pm | # | Reply

      Yea, I always thought Elves were supposed to be really tough to sneak up on. Maybe, all the guards were on break.

      • Tsapki
        Tsapki
        August 4, 2012, 12:43 am | # | Reply

        I think Auraugu broke a whole bushel of them

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      August 4, 2012, 2:20 pm | # | Reply

      Apparently, there’s a +5 Stealth bonus for “higher ground.”

  17. Manly Bowler
    Manly Bowler
    August 3, 2012, 3:07 am | # | Reply

    Dollars for cookies that he arranged it all just so he doesn’t have to admit that he’s wrong. ;-)

    • Syncline
      Syncline
      August 3, 2012, 7:43 pm | # | Reply

      perfect icon.

  18. Logos
    Logos
    August 3, 2012, 3:16 am | # | Reply

    Aw what the fuck, man!

    I can’t even think of a witty pun to match the situation, that came so suddenly!

    • The Indomitable Eric
      The Indomitable Eric
      August 3, 2012, 3:24 am | # | Reply

      It’s not like him to have his sharp wit punctured by an abrupt point.

    • Logos
      Logos
      August 3, 2012, 3:28 am | # | Reply

      Wait, it’s coming back…Well, if that doesn’t bolt down the elves’ opinion on Avians, I don’t know what will.

      Eh, give it a while.

      • biggmac
        biggmac
        August 3, 2012, 3:37 am | # | Reply

        Daddy elf’s concentration seems to be divided at present.

        • coldelectrons
          coldelectrons
          August 3, 2012, 8:06 am | # | Reply

          ‘aror’Nj has just been shown there’s a hole in his argument.

          • Whipstitch
            Whipstitch
            August 3, 2012, 11:58 am | # | Reply

            Thick-headedness is no match for piercing insight.

            • The Indomitable Eric
              The Indomitable Eric
              August 3, 2012, 3:47 pm | # | Reply

              Right now, H.R. is noticing a serious spike in Naror’Nj’s cerebral activity.

  19. Mujaki
    Mujaki
    August 3, 2012, 3:56 am | # | Reply

    “… anyone who looks important.”
    E-Merl: “Thank goodness I’ve never actually LOOKED important!”

    • Sun-stone
      Sun-stone
      August 3, 2012, 12:27 pm | # | Reply

      Your icon of everyone in the windsphere is perfect.

      (Added description for posterity.)

  20. LadyDragon
    LadyDragon
    August 3, 2012, 4:08 am | # | Reply

    These guys are like the landsharks’ unfunny cousins

  21. Erick
    Erick
    August 3, 2012, 7:21 am | # | Reply

    Brutal…

  22. Severo Queiroz Jr.
    Severo Queiroz Jr.
    August 3, 2012, 7:48 am | # | Reply

    I…really didn’t see that coming.

    • Obakeinu
      Obakeinu
      August 3, 2012, 9:32 am | # | Reply

      In retrospect, it now makes sense… a successful escape (with the loot) needs a proper distraction.

      Exterminating the leadership is gravy for the ‘taters.

  23. Slayn82
    Slayn82
    August 3, 2012, 7:55 am | # | Reply

    Wow, some angry birds here.

    Well, Syr’Nj, you should not have implied he was acting like a pig.

  24. coldelectrons
    coldelectrons
    August 3, 2012, 8:08 am | # | Reply

    The Elves have been Hitchcocked!

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      August 3, 2012, 10:41 am | # | Reply

      The Birds went Psycho so fast it gave me Vertigo! I’m escaping thru the Rear Window!

      • wwlaos
        wwlaos
        August 3, 2012, 11:14 am | # | Reply

        …I want to hug you right now. :|

      • JarrysKid
        JarrysKid
        August 3, 2012, 11:19 am | # | Reply

        Head North By Northwest when you do.

      • randomdude
        randomdude
        August 4, 2012, 11:20 am | # | Reply

        Remember to use the Rope when you jump out the Rear Window!

  25. Remember
    Remember
    August 3, 2012, 8:52 am | # | Reply

    Head-on. Apply directly to the forehead.

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      August 3, 2012, 10:47 am | # | Reply

      For the last headache you’ll ever have, GUARANTEED

    • Syncline
      Syncline
      August 3, 2012, 7:45 pm | # | Reply

      So it’s the equivalent of TylenolCN maximum-strength pain reliever?

      • Whatev
        Whatev
        August 4, 2012, 1:45 am | # | Reply

        He was only trying to help! Trepanation is totally a legitimate treatment for headache!

  26. Somebody
    Somebody
    August 3, 2012, 8:58 am | # | Reply

    Headshot! Killing Spree!

    • Thracecius
      Thracecius
      August 3, 2012, 11:03 am | # | Reply

      Unstoppable!

      • plaintextman
        plaintextman
        August 3, 2012, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

        RRRampage!

        • coldelectrons
          coldelectrons
          August 3, 2012, 2:41 pm | # | Reply

          W-w-wicked Sick!

          • Seggs
            Seggs
            August 3, 2012, 6:04 pm | # | Reply

            m-m-m-MONSTER kill!

  27. wwlaos
    wwlaos
    August 3, 2012, 11:14 am | # | Reply

    Well that was like a bolt out of the blue.

    I realize the accuracy of the expression, but still, his face in the first panel looks so befuddled. “Oh, look. There’s an arrow in my head. How’d that get there?”

  28. JarrysKid
    JarrysKid
    August 3, 2012, 11:20 am | # | Reply

    ‘Tis but a scratch!

    • Hawk
      Hawk
      August 4, 2012, 7:14 pm | # | Reply

      Flesh Wound!

      • Tsapki
        Tsapki
        August 4, 2012, 9:46 pm | # | Reply

        I’ve had worse.

  29. zero
    zero
    August 3, 2012, 12:21 pm | # | Reply

    I knew her father’d bolt eventually…

  30. zomg
    zomg
    August 3, 2012, 12:31 pm | # | Reply

    … boring conversation anyway LUKE! WE’RE GONNA HAVE COMPANY!

  31. Sun-stone
    Sun-stone
    August 3, 2012, 12:31 pm | # | Reply

    …And he was just starting to understand what a bigot he had been.

    Assuming Syr survives, I wonder if she’ll take over leadership, or co-lead with her mom. Then the elves could join the conflict (if the people followed her).

  32. Rokku
    Rokku
    August 3, 2012, 12:47 pm | # | Reply

    …am I the only one who laughed and cheered?

    • Adell
      Adell
      August 4, 2012, 3:53 pm | # | Reply

      I should have read the comments, Cause I thought *I* was the only one who laughed and cheered.

  33. The Occupant
    The Occupant
    August 3, 2012, 2:41 pm | # | Reply

    I’m surprised his blood isn’t green or clear like sap, given theor
    Heck, I’m surprised he’s dead, headshots, especially with an arrow aren’t always instant kills. Far from it in fact. People have had nails, javalins, and massive iron rod (a tamping iron to be precise) over an inch across run through their brain and survived.

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      August 3, 2012, 4:36 pm | # | Reply

      With the thick-skulled and tiny-brained, it’s not a guaranteed kill shot:)

    • zomg
      zomg
      August 3, 2012, 7:32 pm | # | Reply

      Yes, it could just make him Phineas Enraged.

    • Dove
      Dove
      August 3, 2012, 9:43 pm | # | Reply

      I think it depends on where it goes in at and the individual, perhaps. Also, he’s a wood elf. We don’t know how they may differ brain-wise. It’s even possible he could still be alive and simply in shock but if H.R. is behind it, it might not matter much. :1

    • Andreas
      Andreas
      August 4, 2012, 2:09 am | # | Reply

      It could easily be that he’s been knocked unconscious from the blow… and will remain in a coma for a few hours before dying.
      Not likely to really matter, is it?

  34. redo19
    redo19
    August 3, 2012, 2:58 pm | # | Reply

    Oh, the woes of living in a forest. Never knowing what lurks just beyond the leaves and branches.

    Like the owl to the ferret.

  35. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    August 3, 2012, 7:39 pm | # | Reply

    I love the avians’ rambling, reminds me of the land sharks.

    • zero
      zero
      August 3, 2012, 9:27 pm | # | Reply

      I hear those seagulls from Finding Nemo.

      Mine? Mine? Mine? Mine?

  36. Abeo
    Abeo
    August 4, 2012, 1:56 am | # | Reply

    I laughed.

    Couldn’t help it, it was just so sudden.

  37. Andreas
    Andreas
    August 4, 2012, 2:08 am | # | Reply

    I like the caw-speak of these avians… well, I don’t like it like it, but it fits them.

    But how will they manage the elves, with their brows and arrows?

  38. Andreas
    Andreas
    August 4, 2012, 2:12 am | # | Reply

    I guess E-merl is throwing himself at Syr and her mom, but it sorta kinda looks like Syr is shouting her Hollywood “Noooooooo!” with such a gale force that E-merl is being blow *away* from them.

    • coldelectrons
      coldelectrons
      August 4, 2012, 7:57 am | # | Reply

      Now that I think about it, I’ve only ever seen a form of sonic attack in Kung-Fu Hustle.

  39. Gagnrad
    Gagnrad
    August 4, 2012, 9:19 am | # | Reply

    Am I the only one who is kind of “happy” about this? I was worried we’d have a scenario in which the human ambassadors somehow would take the blame for the theft, but now it’s going to be clear to the Wood Elves whose side they are on!

    • Tsapki
      Tsapki
      August 4, 2012, 9:39 pm | # | Reply

      If they survive. Recall there seem to be two incoming problems:

      1) Supposedly losing the bough means that the society of the Wood Elves will wither and die.

      2) Assuming that number 1 is just a metaphor, Tectonicus!

      • Gagnrad
        Gagnrad
        August 5, 2012, 7:43 am | # | Reply

        While lots of ’em may die and they may lose their forests, I don’t think they as a race will die. Really, I was just dreading the “THERE’S A THEFT AND THE UNTIMELY ARRIVAL + IMPRISONMENT OF A HUMAN LEADS TO THE CONCLUSION THEY STOLE IT TO GROW THEIR OWN WOODS FOR MANIFACTURE”.

        *Cough*.

        So, glad that didn’t happen!

  40. coldelectrons
    coldelectrons
    August 4, 2012, 12:57 pm | # | Reply

    “Dive, my Hawkmen! DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!“

  41. Adell
    Adell
    August 4, 2012, 3:52 pm | # | Reply

    Am I the only one who actually LOL’d at the derpy face the king made when he died?

  42. Andreas
    Andreas
    August 4, 2012, 4:40 pm | # | Reply

    So… “destabilize the leadership”… could that mean “severely traumatize the brains of the outfit by re-enacting her real life trauma”?!?
    Mayhap? Kinda sorta?

  43. eric_shadow
    eric_shadow
    August 5, 2012, 6:56 am | # | Reply

    wellshit i didnt see that coming

    • eric_shadow
      eric_shadow
      August 5, 2012, 7:07 am | # | Reply

      though he di dget the point of the situation

    • David DeLaney
      David DeLaney
      August 21, 2012, 7:52 am | # | Reply

      Neither did he, apparently.

      –Dave, ba dumm TISH

  44. King of Zeroes
    King of Zeroes
    August 5, 2012, 9:05 am | # | Reply

    So in the game world of Guilded Age, wars are fought by bird shaped Call of Duty players? BOOM HEADSHOT! Objectives? KILLS MORE IMPORTANT.

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