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

Well *that* escalated quickly.

Chapter 29 – Page 20

on March 3, 2014
Chapter: Chapter 29
└ Tags: Goblaurence, HAMMERHEAD, Magda, Penk, Rendar
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  1. Nikkel
    Nikkel
    March 3, 2014, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    KIROV REPORTING

    • Ceiling Chair
      Ceiling Chair
      March 3, 2014, 12:28 am | # | Reply

      Ahhh, the smells of destruction!

      I’m so glad someone made a Red Alert reference.

    • Acadian Bacon
      Acadian Bacon
      March 3, 2014, 1:07 am | # | Reply

      RED LEADER STANDING BY.

      • Logos
        Logos
        March 3, 2014, 5:05 am | # | Reply

        Red October standing by.

        • Peridan
          Peridan
          March 3, 2014, 8:23 am | # | Reply

          Red Foreman, standing by.

          • Nonsensicles
            Nonsensicles
            March 3, 2014, 9:41 am | # | Reply

            Red Riding Hood, walking to Grandma’s cottage.

            • Charlie Spencer
              Charlie Spencer
              March 3, 2014, 9:43 am | # | Reply

              Red Green, standing by.

              • Aleister Crow
                Aleister Crow
                March 3, 2014, 9:51 am | # | Reply

                Roll of duct tape, standing by.

                • cliffmonster
                  cliffmonster
                  March 3, 2014, 9:59 am | # | Reply

                  Moose standing by…

                  • Jean-Luc
                    Jean-Luc
                    March 3, 2014, 10:09 am | # | Reply

                    Red Shirt standing by.

                    • RemBrent
                      RemBrent
                      March 3, 2014, 10:34 am | #

                      Red Lobster standing by.

                    • Fehler
                      Fehler
                      March 3, 2014, 11:13 am | #

                      Red Rooster, standing by.

                    • JediaKyrol
                      JediaKyrol
                      March 3, 2014, 11:48 am | #

                      Red Rider BB-gun…shooting you in the eye.

                    • Flushmaster
                      Flushmaster
                      March 3, 2014, 4:15 pm | #

                      That’s a while with no more puns, I guess we’re down to Red Five?

                    • oscarmilde
                      oscarmilde
                      March 3, 2014, 9:56 pm | #

                      Red Rum standing by.

                    • Webmetz
                      Webmetz
                      March 3, 2014, 10:41 pm | #

                      Red Robin Standing By

                    • Mr Ak
                      Mr Ak
                      March 3, 2014, 11:11 pm | #

                      Red Dead Redemption standing by. Do not remove memory card or switch off console.

                    • Tachyon
                      Tachyon
                      March 4, 2014, 12:24 am | #

                      Red Skelton standing by.

                    • Ed Rhodes
                      Ed Rhodes
                      March 6, 2014, 4:45 pm | #

                      Red Buttons standing by.

                    • MidnightDStroyer
                      MidnightDStroyer
                      March 7, 2014, 1:45 am | #

                      Red October, standing by.

                    • SotiCoto
                      SotiCoto
                      April 1, 2016, 10:01 am | #

                      Red Rocket standing by.

                    • hhhhaggis
                      hhhhaggis
                      July 4, 2019, 5:06 am | #

                      Red XIII standing by

                  • Saiyanwolf
                    Saiyanwolf
                    October 16, 2014, 6:52 am | # | Reply

                    Red Monk standing by

                • MidnightDStroyer
                  MidnightDStroyer
                  March 7, 2014, 1:44 am | # | Reply

                  Spit, Bailing Wire & Prayer, standing by alongside Duct Tape.

              • Wolff
                Wolff
                March 6, 2014, 12:44 pm | # | Reply

                Red Green, Colorblind

          • Snowblind
            Snowblind
            March 3, 2014, 6:55 pm | # | Reply

            Red Rover, Red Rover…

          • obradenj
            obradenj
            March 3, 2014, 10:40 pm | # | Reply

            Red Read standing by

            • That Guy
              That Guy
              March 4, 2015, 12:13 am | # | Reply

              Reddit. Standing by.

    • Villyne
      Villyne
      March 3, 2014, 1:56 am | # | Reply

      I love you

  2. MonkeyMadness
    MonkeyMadness
    March 3, 2014, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    I love the smell of Alchemical Bombardment in the morning . . . smells like victory.

    • Strongholm
      Strongholm
      March 3, 2014, 1:25 am | # | Reply

      “Please. I can always do science to it.”

    • zomg
      zomg
      March 3, 2014, 9:41 am | # | Reply

      Some day … this war’s gonna be over.

      • Mr. Bombastic
        Mr. Bombastic
        March 3, 2014, 5:07 pm | # | Reply

        • Mr. Bombastic
          Mr. Bombastic
          March 3, 2014, 5:08 pm | # | Reply

          Damn it, wanted to have it start at 48 seconds to have the guy go “just not today” *old man* let’s drop some lead on those mother Effers

  3. Loyal
    Loyal
    March 3, 2014, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    If the life and/or tactical career of Goblaurence were to end here, at least it’d be in a way he’d appreciate: Explosively, and with two extra helpings of “fuck you.”

    • Jordan
      Jordan
      March 3, 2014, 4:25 am | # | Reply

      He’s already thinking up ways to counter the airships, I guarantee it. It probably involves rockets. Lots of rockets.

      • JeffEpp
        JeffEpp
        March 3, 2014, 4:37 am | # | Reply

        How convenient that he is about to receive lots of them. Free of charge. The shipping may cost him an arm and a leg, though.

  4. Joe
    Joe
    March 3, 2014, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    They have a third one, but it’s currently disposed trying to wrangle Loki and the Hulk.

  5. alicemacher
    alicemacher
    March 3, 2014, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    When exactly did Arkerra industrialize?

    • Ishmael
      Ishmael
      March 3, 2014, 12:11 am | # | Reply

      They probably got the gnomes to build them.

      • biggmac
        biggmac
        March 3, 2014, 12:17 am | # | Reply

        Lotsa wood in the zeppelins. I’m sure the wood elves are thrilled about that (srcsm).

        • Laforet
          Laforet
          March 3, 2014, 7:48 pm | # | Reply

          Those things are gorgeous *.*

          Not castle Wulfenbach gorgeous, but getting there.

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      March 3, 2014, 12:40 am | # | Reply

      There’s been a LOT of foreshadowing the Arkerra would get airships. The idea was first floated when we saw one in chapter 4 (well, the end of 3), but it was really tacked together when our Sky Elf and Gnome representatives first met on the council, and the latter spoke of the possibilities of merging science and magic. Also, who cares about a blow-hard from the sea navy when you’re building castles in the sky?

      Anyway, it’s been pretty clear to see which way the wind was blowing for a while now.

      • MichaelHaneline
        MichaelHaneline
        March 3, 2014, 12:55 am | # | Reply

        I know all those characters had been dropping hints about this, but I guess I just assumed they were full of hot air.

    • Loyal
      Loyal
      March 3, 2014, 11:08 am | # | Reply

      They’ve been industrialzed for some time. They’ve mostly been hiding their technological strength, in an attempt to keep the fragile peace from breaking. I can’t remember the exact strip it showed up in, but the quote was, “If they fear us too little, they will attack. If they fear us too much, they will attack us with everything they have.“

  6. biggmac
    biggmac
    March 3, 2014, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    OKAY, LANDSHARK GUY REPORTING FROM THE BATTLEFRONT
    HEY, BIG BLIMPS HERE MUST BE ADVERTISING TIRES – NO! NO THEY’RE BAD, BAD!
    OH THE HUMANITY – THE TROLLISHNESS – THE GNOMISM – THE SHARKOSITY – THE FUZZINESS – THE GOBLINITY!! HEY HEY LOOKIT ALL THE FRESH FOOD!

    • The Indomitable Eric
      The Indomitable Eric
      March 3, 2014, 12:45 am | # | Reply

      Landshark War Reporter needs to be a real thing like, yesterday.

    • JeffEpp
      JeffEpp
      March 3, 2014, 4:39 am | # | Reply

      Candygram.

      • cliffmonster
        cliffmonster
        March 3, 2014, 9:56 am | # | Reply

        Landshark!

  7. Aslandus
    Aslandus
    March 3, 2014, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    So THAT’S what was so strange about those clouds…

  8. Berius
    Berius
    March 3, 2014, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Shit’s bout to blow up in their faces

  9. Ivresse
    Ivresse
    March 3, 2014, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    Hmm, I think to the savage races, this qualifies as a ‘Oh shit…’ moment…

  10. Messenger
    Messenger
    March 3, 2014, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    And that’s why Gastonia had to get Rendar the Renderer back: to render completed airship designs.

  11. Ralanr
    Ralanr
    March 3, 2014, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    Goblaurence is either impressed, or world be if he wasn’t in an “Oh crap” moment.

    • Bruceski
      Bruceski
      March 3, 2014, 5:51 am | # | Reply

      It can be both.

  12. Kennerly
    Kennerly
    March 3, 2014, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    Never bring birds to a zeppelin fight!

  13. Bartimaeus
    Bartimaeus
    March 3, 2014, 12:50 am | # | Reply

    This is gonna blow.

  14. My2Cents
    My2Cents
    March 3, 2014, 1:14 am | # | Reply

    They about to come under heavy aerial bombardment and can’t out run the zeppelins. If they break formation and retreat the human troops will slaughter them.

    The best response for the Savage races in this situation is a general attack. That way they will be too close, and hopefully intermixed, with the Gastonion troops for the zeppelins to use their bombs. Plus the Savage race troops are likely to love it and think it was the strategy all along, with Penk now shown he is a real Wahhh! style warlord

    • RougeMagenick
      RougeMagenick
      March 3, 2014, 8:04 am | # | Reply

      That WAHHHH! Needed more caps

      • Guesticus
        Guesticus
        March 3, 2014, 12:21 pm | # | Reply

        And a ‘g’ or 5

      • Milthar
        Milthar
        March 3, 2014, 11:19 pm | # | Reply

        as in WAAAGGGGGGHHH!

  15. Devlerbat
    Devlerbat
    March 3, 2014, 1:17 am | # | Reply

    Are the champions really going to die before we see them in action? Are we really not going to get a fight between the champions and the peacemakers?

    From a writing stand point there is no way that could happen (it would make all the scenes with Penk in them pointless for one) yet I see no way out of this. Judging by the looks on their faces, neither do the champions.

    • SteelRaven
      SteelRaven
      March 3, 2014, 1:20 am | # | Reply

      Adventures on both sides are standing back while the main forces duke it out, sucks to be a grunt.

  16. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    March 3, 2014, 1:18 am | # | Reply

    Called it

    • Karishi
      Karishi
      March 3, 2014, 6:15 pm | # | Reply

      You did! In fact, until I saw you’d said so yourself I was going to remind folks that you had!
      Good job!

  17. Gabe
    Gabe
    March 3, 2014, 1:33 am | # | Reply

    “I mean that REALLY got out of hand!”

    • Seggs
      Seggs
      March 3, 2014, 12:03 pm | # | Reply

      “There was a guy on fire…”

      • kenneth
        kenneth
        March 3, 2014, 9:21 pm | # | Reply

        “I swallowed a bug.”

  18. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    March 3, 2014, 1:38 am | # | Reply

    “Launch all vipers”

    • Jack Vermicelli
      Jack Vermicelli
      March 3, 2014, 4:57 am | # | Reply

      These things should hopefully have a lot more atmo loiter time than a Battlestar.

  19. CorrTerek
    CorrTerek
    March 3, 2014, 1:51 am | # | Reply

    Well, go on, Goblaurence, give us your correct opinion.

    This is definitely an “oh crap” moment for the savage Champions as well as for most of us readers, I suspect. Much harder to cheer for the “good guys” when we know the people who are (or will be) under the bombs.

  20. Moe Lane
    Moe Lane
    March 3, 2014, 2:12 am | # | Reply

    “For what we are about to receive, may Tectonicus make us truly grateful.”

    • Fenlander
      Fenlander
      March 3, 2014, 5:25 am | # | Reply

      Penk will run around under the bombs bouncing them back up to the airships with his drum.

      • Seggs
        Seggs
        March 3, 2014, 12:10 pm | # | Reply

        spoiler alert:

        • Seggs
          Seggs
          March 3, 2014, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

          ack! when did youtube links start embedding?!

          well that kinda ruined the joke…

    • Snowblind
      Snowblind
      March 3, 2014, 1:37 pm | # | Reply

      Don’t worry, I have really high fire resistance.

      Really, really high…

  21. Karishi
    Karishi
    March 3, 2014, 2:41 am | # | Reply

    Rendar continues to be Gastonian MVP. Everyone else is all personal stats and he’s like “TECH TREE, MOTHERFUCKERS.”

    • Rolan7
      Rolan7
      March 3, 2014, 1:31 pm | # | Reply

      I love his expression. It’s so passively terrifying.
      The only thing more dangerous than mad science is calm science.

      • Karishi
        Karishi
        March 3, 2014, 6:20 pm | # | Reply

        What I love is that he and Goblaurence share The Unkempt Chin Hair of Science.

        • Rolan7
          Rolan7
          March 3, 2014, 7:49 pm | # | Reply

          The goggles, too. Not that they do anything…

  22. Halvhir
    Halvhir
    March 3, 2014, 3:31 am | # | Reply

    Welp, that was some nice misdirection. Set us up perfectly to expect a clash between the Champions and the Peacemakers during/after pitched battle, except whoops now that’s some heavy airborne artillery isn’t it.

  23. Monochrome
    Monochrome
    March 3, 2014, 3:32 am | # | Reply

    Watching this fight is like watching the final game of a sports season, where both teams are your favorites. You don’t know who to root for, leaving you in a gray marsh of indecision. And I can honestly say it’s refreshing to get this from a fantasy setting, the one in which writers most often default to one side being all good and the other being unrepentantly evil.

  24. talewinds
    talewinds
    March 3, 2014, 3:34 am | # | Reply

    Tectonicus is a god of fire; his avatar may have some abilities that will surprise the airships.

    • Seggs
      Seggs
      March 3, 2014, 12:13 pm | # | Reply

      plot twist:
      Tectonicus is actually all, “omg, yay! catering!”

  25. Hellhound
    Hellhound
    March 3, 2014, 4:06 am | # | Reply

    Oh Pleeeeease.One good Tectonicus Smite(fireballs) and all the Airships will go Hindenburg.

    At least i hope that this is what will happen….
    …or at least that Araugau will survive….and the landsharks…oh and i guess the other champions should survive too.

    • Aleister Crow
      Aleister Crow
      March 3, 2014, 9:50 am | # | Reply

      Not necessarily; it all depends on what lifting gas they’re using. Hydrogen will go boom, as it did in the Hindenburg, but if they’re using helium, it won’t be an issue.

      Of course, they could always be using some sort of magical gas, in which case who knows what it’ll do if exposed to flame.

      • Snowblind
        Snowblind
        March 3, 2014, 4:18 pm | # | Reply

        Burst into magical flames.

        Magic, by it’s nature, tends to be…. unstable.

      • Running Dreams
        Running Dreams
        March 3, 2014, 5:20 pm | # | Reply

        I’m betting hydrogen- it’s much easier to make and sustain production, and no matter how tight you whip your balloon up, it will leak- [SCIENCE WARNING] especialy considering any serious (kinetic) weapon discharge means dropping weight, which means dumping lifting gas to preserve equilibrium. It works the same way on subs- shoot torpedo, add water or the sub rises. Here, it’s drop bomb and dump gas or airship rises.

        Of course, that leads in to fire retardants and backup systems… much logistics.

      • Speedy
        Speedy
        December 20, 2018, 8:23 am | # | Reply

        “Magical gas” … Do you have any idea how long it takes to collect that many fairy farts???

    • Michelle
      Michelle
      March 3, 2014, 3:48 pm | # | Reply

      Given that those airships are headed directly for their lines, and full of bombs – setting them on fire and making them crash into the army of The World’s Champions could be the worst imaginable consequence.

  26. HURRDURP
    HURRDURP
    March 3, 2014, 5:03 am | # | Reply

    Hoooooooly shit. I did not see that coming.

    • Karishi
      Karishi
      March 3, 2014, 6:17 pm | # | Reply

      -Goblaurence

  27. Sharkie
    Sharkie
    March 3, 2014, 8:52 am | # | Reply

    I call next update goblin guy grins because he had a plan for that and he finishes by saying something sneaky…
    Or he pees his pants and runs for it…

  28. Aleister Crow
    Aleister Crow
    March 3, 2014, 9:47 am | # | Reply

    It’s just not complete without this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V92OBNsQgxU

    • Snowblind
      Snowblind
      March 3, 2014, 1:36 pm | # | Reply

      Or this:

      http://youtu.be/a88Z7YOh_us

      • Snowblind
        Snowblind
        March 3, 2014, 1:38 pm | # | Reply

        Or maybe this:

        http://youtu.be/uvoUvDKh9SA

  29. Mordecai
    Mordecai
    March 3, 2014, 10:33 am | # | Reply

    Wondering if we’ll finally see what Penk’s war drum can do.

  30. Anvildude
    Anvildude
    March 3, 2014, 10:47 am | # | Reply

    It’s proof!

    Gastonia is the Fire Nation!

    • Carl-E
      Carl-E
      March 3, 2014, 11:14 am | # | Reply

      With, apparently, at least one airbender…

    • wwlaos
      wwlaos
      March 3, 2014, 11:58 am | # | Reply

      Really? Gastonia? Not the guys who worship the fire god that gives them fire powers? You know, the ones who were jumping in volcanoes and showing off their actual firebending not that long ago? Not them?

      Oh. Oh, okay.

      • Aleister Crow
        Aleister Crow
        March 3, 2014, 4:21 pm | # | Reply

        Of course not. That would be too obvious.

  31. Fehler
    Fehler
    March 3, 2014, 11:19 am | # | Reply

    And a Huzzah! for the Gastonian Navy, who finally has a part to play in this conflict.

  32. dredogastus f
    dredogastus f
    March 3, 2014, 11:55 am | # | Reply

    “HUNHH. Magickally veilled airships that…”

    NOT FAIR!! Just..not..fair!!

    • Snowblind
      Snowblind
      March 3, 2014, 1:35 pm | # | Reply

      Why didn’t somebody tell me he had one of those… things? Bob, gun.

  33. Guesticus
    Guesticus
    March 3, 2014, 12:25 pm | # | Reply

    “… cheating! Why didn’t I think of that!!!”

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      March 3, 2014, 12:27 pm | # | Reply

      Or, maybe, instead of ‘cheating’ he meant to say ‘genius’

  34. Iarei
    Iarei
    March 3, 2014, 1:45 pm | # | Reply

    . . . Why would you unveil your warships? Just rain death and to hell with the enemy if they can’t figure it out.

    If no one rides a bomb down while waving a cowboy helmet and yelling ‘yeehaw!’ I’m going to be severely disappointed.

    • Karishi
      Karishi
      March 3, 2014, 6:19 pm | # | Reply

      Their illusion-casters may need the mana for something else.

      • Speedy
        Speedy
        December 20, 2018, 8:37 am | # | Reply

        It’ll be Slim Pickens, trying to find a caster to recreate the scene from Dr. Strangelove.

  35. Runic
    Runic
    March 3, 2014, 7:58 pm | # | Reply

    my thoughts of what is going through goblaurence’s mind

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      March 4, 2014, 5:40 am | # | Reply

      Wait, if there is all the time left, why can’t he go loot an optometrists?

  36. Mordecai
    Mordecai
    March 3, 2014, 11:55 pm | # | Reply

    I’m guessing this is Goblaurence’s equivalent of the day the cigar fell out of Scipio’s mouth when Gralor made his appearance. He’s just on his back foot for a moment.

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