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

*drops podium, moonwalks offstage*

Chapter 24 – Page 26

on July 19, 2013
Chapter: Chapter 24
└ Tags: Admiral Annunziata, Bandit, Byron, Caneghem, Colonnus, E-Merl, Grand Marshall Jarvis, Guildmaster Persson, His Grace Iwatani, His Grace Miyamoto, Lectrus, Rachel, Rendar, Scipio, Syr'Nj
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  1. Ishmael
    Ishmael
    July 19, 2013, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    I can see it now.

    “Buy Harky’s spear! 6m on marketplace!”

    • Scrunchy
      Scrunchy
      July 19, 2013, 8:19 am | # | Reply

      Hats! Hats for sale! Magic hats, pirate hats, hats on hats!

  2. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    July 19, 2013, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    Today they’re asking for civil rights, tomorrow they’ll be asking for additional servers to handle the load.

  3. Valdrax
    Valdrax
    July 19, 2013, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    I find it amusing that Byron’s eyes are closed in the same expression of gritty seriousness in both today and yesterday’s strips. One of those should be added to the Gravatar roster. I nominate Filing is Serious Business Byron.

  4. Tachyon
    Tachyon
    July 19, 2013, 1:23 am | # | Reply

    Man… if someone could make an argument for selling players of MMOs as a labor force, I’d never have to leave the house again.

    • Dan Irving
      Dan Irving
      July 19, 2013, 6:55 am | # | Reply

      Three words: Chinese Gold Farmers.

      • Siva Smith
        Siva Smith
        July 19, 2013, 1:23 pm | # | Reply

        Like.

  5. Messenger
    Messenger
    July 19, 2013, 2:17 am | # | Reply

    I’ve got this nasty feeling that the council isn’t going to grant their request for a guild. :-(

    • Kokuten
      Kokuten
      July 19, 2013, 2:32 am | # | Reply

      Why wouldn’t they? He mentioned money, DELICIOUS MONEY.

    • Narratorway
      Narratorway
      July 19, 2013, 2:37 am | # | Reply

      Of course they’ll go for it! It’s a union! Give it a little time and it’ll fit right in with all the other corruption.

  6. biggmac
    biggmac
    July 19, 2013, 2:22 am | # | Reply

    From “Brave! Brash! Swashbuckling … ADVENTURERS!!” to “a labor force, unionized to enter the marketplace offsetting the risks for wealthy investors.”

    That’s what you get when you trade sexiness for security!

    • Siva Smith
      Siva Smith
      July 19, 2013, 2:38 pm | # | Reply

      OR one could work to redefine sexiness AS security.

      Or intelligence..

      You know, the underadvertised qualities that distinguish TRUE sexiness from the overadvertised version

      • Bartimaeus
        Bartimaeus
        July 20, 2013, 12:07 am | # | Reply

        Or just go for the best of all possible worlds: Sexy security.

        …wait, that came out wrong.

  7. King of Zeroes
    King of Zeroes
    July 19, 2013, 2:34 am | # | Reply

    I prefer to Backwards Worm offstage myself. But to each his own, sweet dance moves.

  8. Manly Bowler
    Manly Bowler
    July 19, 2013, 5:26 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, they’ll dismiss him so hard he’ll leave marks all the way to the dungeon.
    It’s not even about money as much as it’s about not giving to “those people”. And, of course, defying Syr’Nj just out of spite.

    • Tsapki
      Tsapki
      July 19, 2013, 9:44 pm | # | Reply

      Well, recall each member of the Council has their own interests.

      We can guess the two elves and the gnome will back the request, but obviously that won’t be enough.

      We can guess that the Admiral and Miyamoto will want to shoot it down because they have bene shown to be the most angry and intolerant of the bunch.

      But that still leaves Iwatani, Persson, Jarvis, Pardo and Bedard.

      Iwatani is going to for whatever suites his interest, but that man’s mind is so terrifying, I won’t venture a guess on how he will roll.

      We don’t know Persson, Jarvis or Bedard that well, though two of them seem at least willing to consider this since they are not actual nobility and likely did not have their seats so long they consider it an intrisic right of their last name.

      Pardo will likely just go with whoever seems like they will win, because he wants to finish business up and get on with his vacation.

  9. Fenlander
    Fenlander
    July 19, 2013, 6:32 am | # | Reply

    is Bandit buying or selling? Perhaps the question is why isn’t she stealing?

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      July 19, 2013, 9:17 am | # | Reply

      The fact that you don’t know suggests that the answer is stealing. :)

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      July 19, 2013, 10:21 am | # | Reply

      You don’t steal from your own kind, or those willing to do business with you willingly

      • Siva Smith
        Siva Smith
        July 19, 2013, 1:26 pm | # | Reply

        This doesn’t apply to kleptomaniacs.

    • Karishi
      Karishi
      July 19, 2013, 4:12 pm | # | Reply

      She’s buying. And the reason she’s not stealing is because this is the Fantasy World that Byron is presenting for his sales pitch.
      So…he may be laying it on a little thick.

  10. punman
    punman
    July 19, 2013, 9:03 am | # | Reply

    Pathfinder Society, anyone?

  11. ahdok
    ahdok
    July 19, 2013, 9:18 am | # | Reply

    Have you seen that dude with the fex in the market? He has curved swords.

    curved swords

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      July 19, 2013, 10:23 am | # | Reply

      Wait, why is Rachel looking at the sword? O_o

      Is she going to trade down from her ruler-sword? o_O

    • Panthaaron
      Panthaaron
      July 19, 2013, 6:53 pm | # | Reply

      Lemme guess: You used to be an adventurer, until – *gets shot in knee* GAHHH!

      • Tsapki
        Tsapki
        July 19, 2013, 9:46 pm | # | Reply

        Congratulations on the marriage!

  12. Fren
    Fren
    July 19, 2013, 9:24 am | # | Reply

    Bandit … little wagon … heeee.

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      July 19, 2013, 10:25 am | # | Reply

      Don’t tell Bandit that it is a ‘little’ wagon (and certainly don’t let her hear you laughing about it)

  13. Mordecai
    Mordecai
    July 19, 2013, 9:52 am | # | Reply

    Canaghem and Persson,
    They think we’re nothing.
    Are we nothing?

    NO!

    Ardaic and Jarvis,
    They think they’ve bought us
    HAVE THEY BOUGHT US?

    NO….t yet!

    -Even though we ain’t got heads of houses
    We’re a new guild just by sayin’ sooooooooo,
    AND THE WORLD WILL KNOW!

    What’s it gonna take to stop the dragons?
    Are we ready?

    YEAH!

    What’s it gonna take to stop the savages?
    Can we do it?

    YEAH!

    We’ll do what we gotta do
    Until we break the will of His Grace Miyamoto

    AND THE WORLD WILL KNOW
    AND GASTONIA TOO
    Freelancers have
    An axe to grind with you!

    • Taijutsu
      Taijutsu
      July 19, 2013, 5:42 pm | # | Reply

      xD

  14. ahdok
    ahdok
    July 19, 2013, 11:38 am | # | Reply

    Drop podium, moonwalk off stage.

    Second only to:

    Drop pants, moonwalk off stage

    • centuriancode
      centuriancode
      July 20, 2013, 2:49 am | # | Reply

      Could be a little difficult when tangled ’round the ankles.

      • Vex
        Vex
        July 20, 2013, 11:55 am | # | Reply

        Well, he probably tried to walk normally.

  15. Hiryu02
    Hiryu02
    July 19, 2013, 11:52 am | # | Reply

    This series reminds me more and more of the Maoyu manga series, which also uses a medieval/fantasy setting to gradually introduce themes of politics and economics. That series focuses more on deconstructing archetypes as opposed to the meta aspects of this series. For example, all characters have titles, not names. The Hero is Hero, Demon King is Demon King. Head Maid, Female Knight, Shrewd Merchant, etc. Keep up the great work, though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoyu

  16. Randonimity
    Randonimity
    July 20, 2013, 6:02 am | # | Reply

    Be it an action-heavy plot, heavy intricate politics, “real world” intrigue, or heart-warming moments the writing of the comic is always so incredible.

    • Phil
      Flo
      July 20, 2013, 12:01 pm | # | Reply

      Thanks for saying so, Randonimity.

    • PlaintextMan
      PlaintextMan
      July 20, 2013, 12:06 pm | # | Reply

      True that. I just don’t like how rapidly the pacing has been shifting recently. Specifically where I feel like I’m missing important parts of the story because they weren’t told. Ah but I guess whether or not I should be taking issue with it will only become obvious in retrospect. In the meantime: really enjoying the writing.

      • Freako
        Freako
        July 20, 2013, 8:52 pm | # | Reply

        Remember that we’re getting 5 pages a week. I’m fairly sure we’re getting to see a lot more than we would have if we were still doing M/W/F updates. The rapid-fire updates do make it seem like the pace is accelerating, though.

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      February 19, 2014, 4:25 am | # | Reply

      … Sycophant.

  17. coldelectrons
    coldelectrons
    July 21, 2013, 2:10 am | # | Reply

    Second panel: I imagine the chest dealer (named Gabe) shouting: “FREE CHESTS! KEYS JUST 5 RALDS!”

  18. Lu86
    Lu86
    July 22, 2013, 3:14 am | # | Reply

    I keep thinking this proposal will be killed by fillibuster, resurrected as a rider in an unrelated imperial security act, which is then filibustered until it has been maimed, castrated and disfigured until it is finally approved, then sent to the lower bureaucrats who will misinterpret the provisions either out of stupidity, incompetence, negligence or self-interest.

    And later when it inevitably causes more problems than it solves (or not, doesn’t matter), it will be criticized by the people who made it fail for the problems they introduced to it in the first place, repealed and basically they have to start over from scratch in five years after spending lots of money, hours or aguing and crated a whole wasted infrastructure around it.

    Why do you hate Gastonia? Tide goes in, tide comes out, never a miscommunication, you can’t explain that!

  19. noisyparker
    noisyparker
    July 22, 2013, 11:59 am | # | Reply

    so… “What do you think, sirs?”

  20. Shyryly
    Shyryly
    July 22, 2013, 11:54 pm | # | Reply

    Here here! Now where do I sign up for this Adventurer’s Guild?

    ..and while I’m at it…let’s push the Friggstarter into $20k territory.

  21. BanditoWalrus
    BanditoWalrus
    January 26, 2014, 2:19 pm | # | Reply

    Man… I think this plan economically speaking is just stupid.

    The problem has been established to be that the government is rationing healing potions and conscripting healers, making adventurers more dangerous. I don’t see how giving the adventurers money will solve this problem.

    It will, of course, create an incentive of more profits for adventuring, leading people to become adventurers despite the added dangers, but it doesn’t solve the problem of the Gastonian Council limiting the supply of healers and healing potions. In effect, this legislation only serves to encourage adventurers to risk their lives questing without healing supplies.

    More people will DIE adventuring because of this.

    They need to address the rationing problem, not simply expect more money to magically fix their problems somehow… it doesn’t matter if I have more money to pay for medical attention if there is NO medical attention to BUY in the first place!!

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