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

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Chapter 29 – Page 13

on February 20, 2014
Chapter: Chapter 29
└ Tags: Byron, Fr'Nj, Naror'Nj, Scipio, Syr'Nj
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  1. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    February 20, 2014, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    So…about those gnome riflemen.

    • Denita TwoDragons
      Denita TwoDragons
      February 20, 2014, 12:09 am | # | Reply

      One of my favorite games had a great line concerning the small races: “Never Trust Anything That’s Head-Height With Your Groin.”

      Arming them with sharp pointy things makes me just….guh. The testicles I don’t have still shrank into my body at the thought.

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        February 20, 2014, 12:26 am | # | Reply

        Testicles or no testicles nobody likes bayonets and musket balls impacting their varryn grove. They’re cute though.

      • Bob
        Bob
        February 20, 2014, 1:18 am | # | Reply

        ” I do not doubt his heart, only the reach of his arm.” Eomer, LOTR

        If they are whacked before they can close they aren’t doing much groin stabbing.

        • Andreas
          Andreas
          February 20, 2014, 4:13 am | # | Reply

          I doubt the reach of their arms, not the reach of their blunderbusses, nor of the sharp, pointy things attached to the aforementioned.

        • Beige
          Beige
          February 20, 2014, 7:44 am | # | Reply

          thats why they have ranged weapons ;)

      • Shadowsamurai
        Shadowsamurai
        February 20, 2014, 3:28 pm | # | Reply

        I know I’ve heard that somewhere before… Care to share the name of the game?

      • Borg
        Borg
        April 3, 2017, 11:41 pm | # | Reply

        Is Terry Pratchett a game now?

    • Messenger
      Messenger
      February 20, 2014, 1:06 am | # | Reply

      Better for everyone that they’re ranged attackers than front line meat shields.

    • Mr Ak
      Mr Ak
      February 20, 2014, 6:08 am | # | Reply

      British square, only without all the troubling kneeling down bit. Gnomes, Dwarves, Humans.

    • WriterX
      WriterX
      February 20, 2014, 7:02 am | # | Reply

      I sort of imagine the gnomes using World War 1 style weapons. Maxim guns, square tanks, etc. I just hope that the officer in charge of those gnomes wears a monocle, massive mustache and the poshest British accent one could imagine.

      • Guesticus
        Guesticus
        February 20, 2014, 7:48 am | # | Reply

        Named Melchit of course (probably spelt the name wrong :()

  2. Whatev
    Whatev
    February 20, 2014, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    My problem is that every time the wood elves use that word, I always think of Mass Effect.

    • CorrTerek
      CorrTerek
      February 20, 2014, 12:41 am | # | Reply

      Implications… unpleasant.

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      February 20, 2014, 5:58 am | # | Reply

      That is what I’ve been saying all along…
      BUT technically… those are Varren. Different spelling.
      I’m sure what these wood elves are giving out aren’t alien fish-dogs.

      • Chris
        Chris
        February 20, 2014, 11:19 am | # | Reply

        I bet you are right, they are just normal regular fish.

        The Fish-dogs are sent to the grove of shame.

  3. alicemacher
    alicemacher
    February 20, 2014, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    *reads the alt-text*

    …OMG! Syr’nj is Shanna. It all makes sense now!

    …I’ll see myself out. -__-

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      February 20, 2014, 12:27 am | # | Reply

      Fr’Nj has always looked like Carol to me and if that goon Carol hired is Scipio…well, it sort of fits.

      • Andreas
        Andreas
        February 20, 2014, 4:14 am | # | Reply

        Except for the fact that they all can’t be in two places at once.

        • Jean-Luc
          Jean-Luc
          February 20, 2014, 10:30 am | # | Reply

          These things aren’t necessarily going on in direct parallel.

          • Timelost
            Timelost
            February 21, 2014, 9:37 pm | # | Reply

            Yeah, but the five missing people seems to be what’s spurring on Shanna’s quest, and Daedalus prompted the savage races’ attack on the wood elves before Shanna even found out about the tubes delivered to Hurricane…I think.

            Anyway, we’ve had quite a few touchstones between Arkerra timeline and Sepia timeline, Daedalus in boxers=the night of that battle the troll and currently ghosted human ran off from to the cultist convention.
            Which was before he crushed that guy’s head and had Carol dispose of the body.
            Which in turn was before her confrontation with Shanna at the coffee shop.

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      April 1, 2016, 9:35 am | # | Reply

      Don’t be ridiculous. Shanna is Best’s Alt.

  4. CorrTerek
    CorrTerek
    February 20, 2014, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    Okay, the alt-text made me chuckle.

  5. Messenger
    Messenger
    February 20, 2014, 1:07 am | # | Reply

    Well, they do say people tend to end up with those who one way or another remind them of their parents.

  6. Strongholm
    Strongholm
    February 20, 2014, 2:23 am | # | Reply

    My “Character Building” sense is tingling.

  7. SotiCoto
    SotiCoto
    February 20, 2014, 6:30 am | # | Reply

    First things first : Locking feelings down ain’t a bad thing. People tend to associate it with dishonesty, but it is quite the opposite in practice. Feelings aren’t selected by choice (though their expression can be readily controlled and their triggers modified), and are thus not an accurate representation of one’s personal appraisement. Furthermore, feelings are ill-suited to decision-making where efficacy and efficiency are concerned.
    In the absence of opportunity to do away with emotion entirely, it serves as the practical choice to lock them tightly down and only exercise them under tight restriction and observation in non-sensitive situations.

    … NOW… that aside…
    Turns out I was only away from this site for half a year since the last archive-trawl. Meta-issues and all that.
    But I’ve reached the end of the archive as of this moment again.

    As I passed the point where I last did so, I noticed several people expressed confusion as to the nature of my marker-comment. Several others again expressed their distaste at my existence in general. Fair enough.
    By way of an explanation, I tend to leave these marker-comments when I finish reading an archive as much for my future self as for anyone else reading. A way of gauging my progress through a webcomic for future reference while also letting “current reader” types that I have been doing so.
    As I mentioned once in the past, the comments I leave throughout the archive are much akin to one walking through a graveyard and talking to the dead… I’m an archive-trawler. The way of daily readers is utterly alien to me and holds no appeal… so inevitably my perception of the passage of time in the communications that take place in these comments sections is quite different to those of a daily. Except for these points where I catch up to the present day at the end of an archive-trawl, all my comments are made long after the conversations they relate to have been forgotten in the past… so if it weren’t for these few marker-comments, it is quite possible I could remark upon entire archives while barely being noticed.
    Again… I prefer it that way.

    So… I hope that serves as an explanation of sorts for those who were confused.
    As for the people who would rather I didn’t exist… I don’t begrudge you that opinion. People don’t like me, and I don’t like them… and that seems fair to me at least. If it gives you a little hope, democracy usually leaves me metaphorically beaten and raw-ringed in a back alley in the end. 9/10 people endorse gang-rape and all that.

    Anyway… I’m done here… again… for now.
    Hi and bye Phil. Hi and bye T. Hi and bye Waltrip-bros.
    Keep up the good work! =)
    Maybe see you in the next year or thereabouts.

    • Dan Irving
      Dan Irving
      February 20, 2014, 8:34 am | # | Reply

      Archive Trawler – sounds like a Pathfinders Prestige Class.

      Welcome aboard. Or Back. Or whichever.

      Sláinte

      • SotiCoto
        SotiCoto
        May 9, 2017, 7:27 am | # | Reply

        Archive Trawler requires class levels in Librarian, as well as certain traits granted by a few levels in Undertaker.

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      February 20, 2014, 2:13 pm | # | Reply

      You?! You and your brief, pithy comments? People … don’t like you??? In the words of Yoda: Mystified, I am.:)

      • SotiCoto
        SotiCoto
        January 23, 2015, 8:20 am | # | Reply

        Oh, quite so.
        They don’t like me.
        I don’t expect them to like me. As I said, I don’t like them either. Which dislike came first… I couldn’t tell you.

        Difference of values, afterall.
        But these are compromising words… and normal people don’t like to compromise.

    • Borg
      Borg
      April 3, 2017, 11:58 pm | # | Reply

      Well, that’s why those who bottle up their feelings do it. They don’t like their feelings, so they convince themselves they can make those emotions go away. And then they inevitably find that the alternative to experiencing your emotions is refusing to admit that you’re acting on them. Emotion is built into your brain much more deeply than rational thought is, and if you pretend otherwise then you are necessarily unable to recognize and correct for the effect emotions have on you. It is, in short, irrational to ignore the limitations on your rationality.

      • SotiCoto
        SotiCoto
        May 9, 2017, 7:35 am | # | Reply

        A lot of misinformation goes around on topics like these, typically for any approach that goes against the social standard for whatever reason. In this case, people have been taught that emotions are an insurmountable force… and generally treat them with a kind of awed reverence.
        But as is often the case when people declare something impossible… that is just an excuse for laziness or ineptitude.
        Emotion can’t be completely excised from the brain without removing the matter on which it operates… but there are a great many ways to rob it of its inherited authority. And the first key to all of this is simply having the intent and determination to do so.

  8. Emma
    Emma
    February 20, 2014, 7:01 am | # | Reply

    Scipio should be angrier. That wasn’t Fr’nj ‘s secret to tell. “We’re family” is just an excuse.

    • Beige
      Beige
      February 20, 2014, 7:46 am | # | Reply

      scorp dosen’t do anger. he’s too scorpio for those silly emotions

      • TBeckett
        TBeckett
        February 20, 2014, 9:45 pm | # | Reply

        I think we saw some extreme emotional expression here for Scipio. I almost jumped out of my chair when I saw his face in panel five.

    • Gin
      Gin
      February 20, 2014, 9:34 am | # | Reply

      Um… *raises hand* That’s something I would tell an older sibling who has/had similar relationship hurdles. That’s the kind of thing I have told my very closest friend when I wasn’t sure how to handle it.

      Not having an older sibling, I can tell you as an older sister that my little sister talks to me about relationships a lot and that often includes things that her partner(s) may prefer never see the light of day. However, she trusts me not to broadcast those secrets to the world and trusts me to not say anything to her partner(s) unless, like in this case, I feel the issue is something that could really harm her.

      I only had to do that once because I recognized the symptoms of a particular type of a**hole and she didn’t, and the moment I confronted said partner about it he flipped his lid and showed my sister exactly what kind of person he was.

      So yes, among family there may be some limits to sharing, but siblings, especially sisters who are emotionally close, will share things in nearly the same utter confidence as lovers.

    • CorrTerek
      CorrTerek
      February 20, 2014, 9:36 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, that was kinda not cool. I’m sure Fr’nj spoke of it positively but as you said, not her secret.

    • JadeStarrz
      JadeStarrz
      February 20, 2014, 9:42 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, I can kind of see both sides to this one. If it were me personally I’d be kinda miffed… But Scipio doesn’t do anger.

      On the other hand I completely understand the desire to protect a family member so Syr’Nj playing the card about extending the olive branch while also putting out a warning makes sense. I’ve done the same thing with my nieces and their boyfriends.

    • Ian
      Ian
      February 20, 2014, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

      I disagree. What we saw Scipio tell her, he didn’t tell her to hold in confidence, nor did he reveal an exceptional amount of detail. The rest of the story we haven’t heard yet, though he may have told her more. Scipio’s a very smart person, though. He could likely have guessed that two sisters in a strange land involved with men of the same species might discuss them.

      Note also that he doesn’t jumpt to conclusions about how much she knows, or get angry. He makes no mention of it being something she shouldn’t have told, just observes that Frn’j did tell her. His opening his eyes to look at her just looks like focusing in on the fact that she used that title. Taking note, as it were.

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      February 20, 2014, 2:22 pm | # | Reply

      S’okay if you tell your family in code. That way you really aren’t directly telling them.
      “My hubby has an issue; he thinks it’s a small nuisance, but it’s a matter of great impotence to me.”
      “Mary seems sweet, but she has a heart of gold; I really digger.
      “My Italiano boyfriend is fond of fog; he wantsa to be a fog. He says he plans to be a “big-a-mist”.

  9. Buckofdays
    Buckofdays
    February 20, 2014, 7:41 am | # | Reply

    Girls will talk, I hear. No use in getting mad about your secrets getting spread, because you lack the context they were spread in (how different would you feel if she was speaking of you glowingly? Now don’t you feel like a dick? *Points to the door* )

    • wwlaos
      wwlaos
      February 20, 2014, 10:33 am | # | Reply

      No. No I don’t. Something said in confidence should be kept in confidence, the tone of the telling has no bearing on the breaking of that. There are good reasons to break said confidence, to be sure, but those reasons are extreme and rare.

      • biggmac
        biggmac
        February 20, 2014, 2:09 pm | # | Reply

        So … she deserves a vote of “no confidence”?

  10. theFae
    theFae
    February 20, 2014, 9:47 am | # | Reply

    what’s that giant dust cloud in the last panel bg?

    • Chris
      Chris
      February 20, 2014, 11:21 am | # | Reply

      That would be a storyboard “turning point”.

  11. Loyal
    Loyal
    February 20, 2014, 9:56 am | # | Reply

    Byron didn’t “learn better.” He was put into a rigorous, experimental chemical therapy program, to cure a condition he would never have been able to resolve through natural means. A condition for which the only “treatment” prior to that was, indeed, to lock down his feelings, because the alternative was people dying horribly. A condition which most people would have at best written him off for.

    Comparing all that to a guy who’s more for actions than words really isn’t a remotely fair comparison, Syr’nj.

  12. Tom
    Tom
    February 20, 2014, 1:20 pm | # | Reply

    Is someone willing to post a link to whatever Scipio told her? Becuase I can’t remember.

    • Nightsbridge
      Nightsbridge
      February 20, 2014, 4:27 pm | # | Reply

      Remember when he said he used to be a gladiator?

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        February 20, 2014, 5:20 pm | # | Reply

        Scipio is Russell Crowe?

        • Jeanne628
          Jeanne628
          February 21, 2014, 9:36 am | # | Reply

          Yes… It all makes sense now.

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