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

Now's not the best time to be trying out all your 'sweet new catchphrases,' dude.

Chapter 18 – Page 7

on August 10, 2012
Chapter: Chapter 18
└ Tags: E-Merl, Faereksch'Nj, Gr'Zl, Syr'Nj
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  1. coldelectrons
    coldelectrons
    August 10, 2012, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    Thus began the battle of Elm’s Deep.

    • Derp
      Derp
      August 10, 2012, 1:11 am | # | Reply

      You, good sirs, are brilliant.

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      August 10, 2012, 8:37 am | # | Reply

      The Savage Races came en masse.
      In sacred groves they dared trespass.
      “Let them come, let them fall.
      Their own dead will be our wall.”

      They came in darkness with their fight,
      Hate burning fiercer than torchlight.
      We clashed to protect ancestral land,
      On our doorstep we made our stand.

      They crashed like waves in their attack.
      And each time we pushed them back.
      Relentless was the hammer’s pound
      As bodies fell, dead, to the ground.

      Through the night the battle raged on,
      Until victorious came the light of dawn!
      Yet someday our sons will weep.
      For they were too young to fight in Elm’s Deep.

      • coldelectrons
        coldelectrons
        August 10, 2012, 7:32 pm | # | Reply

        I’ve practice at one-liners and puns, but verse and prose are a skill that I do not currently have, and it is a skill I respect. Thank you, good sirs, for your commentary here, and I thank the authors, for this wonderfully brilliant graphic novel – that we can heckle and discuss in a manner almost unimaginable pre-internet.

      • Soirbleu
        Soirbleu
        August 12, 2012, 7:52 pm | # | Reply

        Mujaki,
        very impressed by your verse. Nicely done.

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      August 10, 2012, 12:22 pm | # | Reply

      Lord of the inner rings.

  2. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    August 10, 2012, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    “One shot, one kill” as Dick Cheney would say.

    • Andreas
      Andreas
      August 10, 2012, 2:41 pm | # | Reply

      Dick is such a bragging liar… the guy lived!

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        August 10, 2012, 10:08 pm | # | Reply

        Though the jury is still out on whether that’s a good thing.

        • Taxil Necrobane
          Taxil Necrobane
          August 10, 2012, 11:41 pm | # | Reply

          now, now, don’t drag RL politics in here. it’ll just leave a mess i would rather avoid.

          • centuriancode
            centuriancode
            August 11, 2012, 8:29 am | # | Reply

            Aw. Politics is where I really clean up.

          • Andreas
            Andreas
            August 11, 2012, 9:02 am | # | Reply

            Mocking someone who happens to be a politician is not necessarily “politics” you know.

            • Jean-Luc
              Jean-Luc
              August 11, 2012, 2:20 pm | # | Reply

              In the words of Tom Hanks, “Politics is who politics does”.

              • Andreas
                Andreas
                August 11, 2012, 2:43 pm | # | Reply

                Politics is like a box of chocolates… but no matter which one you pick, it’s going to be poo.

                • Andreas
                  Andreas
                  August 11, 2012, 2:43 pm | # | Reply

                  Stop changing my face already!

        • Andreas
          Andreas
          August 11, 2012, 9:01 am | # | Reply

          Well, he’s still unhappy about it, can you imagine that?
          Why can’t the guy be a sport about the Dickmeister shooting him in the face? It’s not like he could expect Dick NOT to be a dick about it! :D
          http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2010/10/man-cheney-shot-in-face-still-unhappy-about-it/18665/

          • centuriancode
            centuriancode
            August 12, 2012, 4:05 am | # | Reply

            Are you suggesting Cheney is a warlock?

            http://lfgcomic.com/page/3

            • Andreas
              Andreas
              August 15, 2012, 3:14 am | # | Reply

              First frame, Cale is peeing on the corpse. Can’t unsee it.

  3. biggmac
    biggmac
    August 10, 2012, 12:50 am | # | Reply

    Syr: “Gravy – have you seen Daddy’s soul??”
    GD: “Why yes – I just saw it.”
    Syr: “How is he?”
    GD: “He’s…..shot.”

    • JarrysKid
      JarrysKid
      August 10, 2012, 2:49 pm | # | Reply

      Syr: “Is he in…Heaven?”
      Gravy: (muttering) “Only if your idea of ‘Heaven’ is a gnoll’s ass.”
      Syr: “Sorry, what?”
      Gravy: “Erm…Yes, he is.”

  4. cjrayn
    cjrayn
    August 10, 2012, 2:33 am | # | Reply

    The catchphrases are fine; He’s obviously got them macro’d in with his attacks.

    • Bruceski
      Bruceski
      August 12, 2012, 3:32 am | # | Reply

      Oh man, I want to throttle every kid who macros a /yell into an attack they spam.

      • tryntu
        tryntu
        August 12, 2012, 4:19 am | # | Reply

        if i’m ever forced to return to WoW, i’m doing that. with EVE local chat spam.

  5. Andrew
    Andrew
    August 10, 2012, 2:51 am | # | Reply

    With the stick on the monsters side, I’d give it 50 – 1 odds the elves end in a penalty shoot out.

  6. Talon88.1
    Talon88.1
    August 10, 2012, 3:08 am | # | Reply

    A living tree girl who routinely sleeps with a berserker whose got an Old One shoved into his body and is currently on drugs is calling herself an unnatural abberation?
    Is is strange that I want Cuthullu to show up and go “No no, THIS is an abomination of reality.”?

    • Gundi
      Gundi
      August 10, 2012, 3:44 am | # | Reply

      Little known fact is that Cthulu is well respected, trained therapist. Azathoth is a good pediatrician, too.

    • Orzahn
      Orzahn
      August 11, 2012, 6:42 am | # | Reply

      He got an old one? Where? :S

  7. █████
    █████
    August 10, 2012, 6:58 am | # | Reply

    Y’know, I didn’t think that the elves’d have their guards right at the very edge of the forest.

    • █████
      █████
      August 10, 2012, 6:59 am | # | Reply

      That is to say, their forward guards.
      Which is why they weren’t at the dinner.

      Far too forward.

      • Obakeinu
        Obakeinu
        August 10, 2012, 7:57 am | # | Reply

        Not to nit-pick, but I suspect that’s a counter-attack.

        • Andreas
          Andreas
          August 10, 2012, 3:43 pm | # | Reply

          If that’s a counter-attack then I’m a introvert!!

  8. Obakeinu
    Obakeinu
    August 10, 2012, 8:03 am | # | Reply

    And Syr’nj… DON”T go *there*.

    That kind of spell-casting rarely turns out well.

    • plaintextman
      plaintextman
      August 10, 2012, 4:27 pm | # | Reply

      It can turn out very ugly.

      • SnaleKing
        SnaleKing
        August 11, 2012, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

        Just thought of fullmetal alchemist.
        Though one of the characters as an animate suit of armor would be amazing.

        • Tsapki
          Tsapki
          August 11, 2012, 3:34 pm | # | Reply

          I thought of Buffy the Vampire Slayer myself, both bringing back Joyce and Buffy.

          Neither one of those were happy results.

  9. Ian
    Ian
    August 10, 2012, 8:54 am | # | Reply

    Lets hope the others get involved soon, cos the elves need all the help they can get…

    • Veggieburrito
      Veggieburrito
      August 10, 2012, 12:14 pm | # | Reply

      At least they are in the fight now.

      • CliffMonster
        CliffMonster
        August 10, 2012, 12:38 pm | # | Reply

        I bet they will Frig-ure out what to do!

  10. JarrysKid
    JarrysKid
    August 10, 2012, 10:40 am | # | Reply

    Come at us! Remember the Alamo! Remember Koom Valley! Fifty-four Forty or Fight! This one’s for little Johnny! They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist…!

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      August 10, 2012, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

      Fight, everyone! Young! Box Elders! Poplar kids and nerds! Fight like a Dogwood! Sic ’em, then Sycamore! Hit those Beeches in the Ash ’til the Fir flies off their Walnuts! Wait ’til you Cedar Buckeyes then shoot ’em in the Chest… Nuts! CREPE, Myrtle! I’m hit! Take my Palm, Holly… Laurel, have the Elderberry me… find the Witchhazel and tell that Horitculture my gravesite weekly…… **cr-Oaks**

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        August 11, 2012, 8:31 am | # | Reply

        D’ere c’n only be wun t’ousand!

    • Hawk
      Hawk
      August 10, 2012, 7:38 pm | # | Reply

      REMEMBER TUNNEL 17!!!!

      (waits to see who gets it)

      • cousac
        cousac
        August 10, 2012, 8:57 pm | # | Reply

        you sir win the internet! Digger is a classic!

  11. Ishmael
    Ishmael
    August 10, 2012, 10:54 am | # | Reply

    Syr’nj is broken. Time for Byron to take the reins again.

    • CliffMonster
      CliffMonster
      August 10, 2012, 12:37 pm | # | Reply

      Oh no! Byron is in prison, without his axes! I don’t know if the team is going to hack this one.

      • The Indomitable Eric
        The Indomitable Eric
        August 10, 2012, 4:23 pm | # | Reply

        Just stand Scipio in the way. That’ll buy them a few hours to find the axes, at least.

        • coldelectrons
          coldelectrons
          August 10, 2012, 7:43 pm | # | Reply

          Imagine the Scipio’s ire, that an invading army dare interrupt…whatever he is currently doing.

          • tryntu
            tryntu
            August 12, 2012, 4:24 am | # | Reply

            maybe learning to love nature in a whole new sense?

            • randomdude
              randomdude
              August 12, 2012, 1:27 pm | # | Reply

              I do indeed think that scipio may be a blossoming nature lover. Or at least, causing part of nature to blossom.

  12. Remember
    Remember
    August 10, 2012, 12:20 pm | # | Reply

    I love the mere FOUR pikemen rushing the massive horde of enemies at the bottom.

    • krogaladin
      krogaladin
      August 10, 2012, 4:22 pm | # | Reply

      at first I read that as Pikmin.

      • The Indomitable Eric
        The Indomitable Eric
        August 10, 2012, 4:23 pm | # | Reply

        Pikmin would probably be more effective.

        • biggmac
          biggmac
          August 10, 2012, 7:12 pm | # | Reply

          Pokemon – “Gravepuff, I choose you”
          Pacman – wokkawokkawokkawokkawokka

          • tryntu
            tryntu
            August 12, 2012, 4:26 am | # | Reply

            gravy-jigglypuff hybrid.

            i’m not sure if you’ve won or not, but a small voice inside of my head says i should be horrified and scared.

    • Somebody
      Somebody
      August 10, 2012, 5:16 pm | # | Reply

      I think they’re just standing there to mop up anyone who gets past the volley of arrows, at least until further reinforcements arrive. Or at least, I think that’s their plan. I also think they’re going to die trying.

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        August 10, 2012, 10:12 pm | # | Reply

        The plan has worked before. It’s a really good way to deal with infantry and cavalry. Your problem comes when one of two things happens: you run out of arrows, or the armour arrives.

      • Andreas
        Andreas
        August 11, 2012, 7:11 am | # | Reply

        It’s a clever gamble: If you can see, they’re right in the path of the rhinosaurs, so they’re gambling that rhinosaurs are actually much less dense than water, and that the noselizards will just stop on the tip of the pikes.
        CLEARLY that’s a great plan.

    • Joe
      Joe
      August 10, 2012, 11:28 pm | # | Reply

      Conservation of Ninjutsu says those four pikemen should kill everything on the screen.

      • Whatev
        Whatev
        August 11, 2012, 8:02 am | # | Reply

        Don’t they have to be ninjas for that to apply?

        • Guest
          Guest
          August 11, 2012, 10:24 am | # | Reply

          The one on the far left is named Ni’nj, actually

        • Joe
          Joe
          August 11, 2012, 11:15 am | # | Reply

          Nope! TVTropes has plenty of non-ninja examples.

  13. biggmac
    biggmac
    August 11, 2012, 2:20 am | # | Reply

    “He needs you, Syr’Nj – okay, not literally, because of the death thing” – hehe – BAM, E-Mer(i)l… exhibit A in ‘what grief counselors ought NOT to say’

    Also, Syr’s grief has morphed into self loathing, and the world around her is dying. Sorry, but right now she must be jolted out of it. A callous, insensitive comment about what a clod her dad was should do it. Oh, Friggy-poo….

    • Andreas
      Andreas
      August 11, 2012, 2:40 pm | # | Reply

      I think her Mom needs to kick her ass. It’s a fair exchange, after all.

      Frigg is needed for smiting Tectonicus.
      The king is dead, but if they get the bough back, he might not stay that way.
      And having come back, he might have a more open mind about things.

      After all, these guys have only failed one mission yet.
      (Ok, the search for the font didn’t pan out so good, either).

      • SnaleKing
        SnaleKing
        August 12, 2012, 4:07 pm | # | Reply

        He certainly has an “open mind” one way or the other.

  14. Crit
    Crit
    August 11, 2012, 2:51 am | # | Reply

    Awww Syr’nj, you’re not an aberration! You’re an arboration at worst!

  15. Tsapki
    Tsapki
    August 11, 2012, 3:44 pm | # | Reply

    Why do I get the feeling that after this is all done, the pompous elves are going to compose a somewhat repetitive song about how the savage hordes came to tear down their homeland?

  16. centuriancode
    centuriancode
    August 12, 2012, 4:06 am | # | Reply

    Hang on, who inherits?

    • Andreas
      Andreas
      August 12, 2012, 4:49 am | # | Reply

      Good point. The king is dead, long live king Syr… or Fr… or Faereksch (if the kids are underage).

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      August 12, 2012, 9:38 am | # | Reply

      The older sister I imagine.

  17. Yinello
    Yinello
    August 12, 2012, 8:19 am | # | Reply

    Looks like it’s up to Gravy to save the day/night!

  18. biggmac
    biggmac
    August 12, 2012, 4:28 pm | # | Reply

    OK. I know we get a new update in <9 hrs. & I eschew posting novels. But I have a 10 step theory for victory in this sitch. Could work.

    1. Scip frees Byron
    2. GD bird hunts – sonic boom arrow stuns most avians outta the sky and the team mops 'em up
    3. Mom or Frigg snaps/slaps Syr back into the current reality
    4. Syr potion-heals Bandit while Byron assesses sitch, & barks out strategy:
    5. "GD – soul search the positions of the bough/Auraugu & Harky –
    6. "Bandit – quick & stealthy, steal the stick back; GD cover her escape –
    7. "E-Merl – escort/circlet Frigg & Rachel to the axetanks; Ka-SMITE them –
    8. "E-Merl – then to front lines, illuse-confuse as Scip melees there –
    9. "Syr and Fr get to elevated hidden sniper roosts and mop up –
    10. "I'll sneak around their flank, behind the battle, near Harky; I'll take the antidote to my "preventzerk" meds, then "potion of anger". DO NOT APPROACH THAT AREA. If you hear "HAAAUUUGGHHH" coming towards the camp, Syr, wait till you see me and unload all your sedatives into me."
    11. If Tectonicus appears…. I'm open to suggestions…

    Steps 1-3 can happen simultaneously. Rest could occur over as little as 8 min. Thoughts? Disagree? What would your plan be?

    • umm
      umm
      August 12, 2012, 5:04 pm | # | Reply

      Nice. But that would take many pages, and I believe the fight will be over much sooner, one way or the other. Why didn’t you use the bough?

      • biggmac
        biggmac
        August 12, 2012, 6:15 pm | # | Reply

        The bough – D’OH!!! What a miss.
        Your gravatar giving me GD’s “evil eye” enhances my shame.

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