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

'.... maaaaaaayyyyyyyyybe?

Chapter 29 – Page 21

on March 4, 2014
Chapter: Chapter 29
└ Tags: Auraugu, Goblaurence, HAMMERHEAD, Magda, Penk, Rana
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  1. insomniac
    insomniac
    March 4, 2014, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    EXTREMELY ANGRY BIRDS

    • BarGamer
      BarGamer
      March 4, 2014, 12:31 am | # | Reply

      Nah, there needs to be green pigs, and none of the Forest Elves are NEARLY fat enough.

    • Alduud
      Alduud
      March 4, 2014, 2:21 am | # | Reply

      I dunno about Angry, more like Confused Birds. And most deffinetely fried.

    • cliffmonster
      cliffmonster
      March 4, 2014, 9:44 am | # | Reply

      They will be less angry in a minute. I want to see some sky elf battlemages in action!

  2. Ganurath
    Ganurath
    March 4, 2014, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Cue Gilligan Cut in 3… 2…

  3. Milthar
    Milthar
    March 4, 2014, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Cannot imagine Goblaurance being anything but extremely English now.

    • CM
      CM
      March 4, 2014, 1:00 am | # | Reply

      Aussie. Something about Goblaurance seemed so familiar to me; the intelligence with abrasive attitude, the lanky build, the ever-present smokes. And then I realized: he’s very similar to Luce Worth, of the dear departed Hanna is Not a Boy’s Name. I will absolutely hear him with Worth’s gravely, Australian-accented voice henceforth.

      • mrknifey
        mrknifey
        March 4, 2014, 8:53 am | # | Reply

        its the “are you having a giggle, mate?”;)

        • Kamino Neko
          Kamino Neko
          March 4, 2014, 9:39 am | # | Reply

          Which is actually a very BRITISH phrasing.

          • Snowblind
            Snowblind
            March 4, 2014, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

            But he is probably a criminal too… so Aussie.

          • Nonsensicles
            Nonsensicles
            March 4, 2014, 9:16 pm | # | Reply

            Yeah, Aussie would be more like ‘Ya havin’ a laugh, mate?’

            • SotiCoto
              SotiCoto
              January 23, 2015, 8:52 am | # | Reply

              … which is exactly what I’d say, and I’m British.

              The take-home point is that the yanks can’t tell the difference… despite Britain and Australia being basically on opposite sides of the world.

              • Borg
                Borg
                April 10, 2017, 3:15 pm | # | Reply

                And yet we can distinguish American English from Mexican Spanish despite them sometimes being spoken in the same place. By your logic that must make us pretty smart.

  4. Random Whatever
    Random Whatever
    March 4, 2014, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Grinch has finally actually lost his composure. He even took his crook out of his mouth.

    • Chantelune
      Chantelune
      March 4, 2014, 4:04 am | # | Reply

      Well, being the ass of the party, he should expect to be kicked every once in a while.

  5. MichaelHaneline
    MichaelHaneline
    March 4, 2014, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    If he wants to strap bombs to the avians, will they re fuse? This plan sounds like a dud.

    • Ganurath
      Ganurath
      March 4, 2014, 12:45 am | # | Reply

      Hopefully, Goblaurence can come up with something that will blow everyone’s mind.

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      March 4, 2014, 1:20 am | # | Reply

      Flying suicide bombers against a naval ship? That sounds like it has Zero chance of working.

      • Gristle McNerd
        Gristle McNerd
        March 4, 2014, 2:09 am | # | Reply

        You mean you kami-can’t see any way of that possibly working?

      • cliffmonster
        cliffmonster
        March 4, 2014, 9:41 am | # | Reply

        He will be the Hero he to-tally will destroy them!

        • Charlie Spencer
          Charlie Spencer
          March 4, 2014, 11:53 am | # | Reply

          “‘Today, … you will take your kamikaze airplane high into the sky, over the Yankee aircraft carrier, then take the kamikaze plane down, crashing on the deck, killing yourself and all aboard. Before we have the ceremonial sake toast, are there any questions?’

          ‘Honorable general-san: Are you out of your f***ing mind?’ “

    • Ivresse
      Ivresse
      March 4, 2014, 3:28 am | # | Reply

      This is turning out to be a pretty explosive situation…

    • Snowblind
      Snowblind
      March 4, 2014, 1:11 pm | # | Reply

      The plan will go over like a Led Zeppelin.

  6. CorrTerek
    CorrTerek
    March 4, 2014, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    I’m sensing a slight parallel here.

    “Can you not do science to it?”

    • AceOfSpade
      AceOfSpade
      March 4, 2014, 7:31 am | # | Reply

      You can do science to everything. The problem here I think isn’t that Goblaurence can’t find a solution. I believe Goblaurence can engineer a solution for any problem…provided you give him enough time and materials. Right now “bomb strapped on avian” IS the only plan he can put into action with what he has in the time before the bombs drop. He actually suggest the plan which as the best chances of working: pray the god of fire for a miracle taking out these blimp full of explosives… actually you probably wouldn’t need that much of a miracle, somebody knocking over a candle on one of the ship, or some gear breaking making sparkles and BOOM

      • CorrTerek
        CorrTerek
        March 4, 2014, 11:32 am | # | Reply

        I was more referring to the parallel between this scene and the scene at the very beginning of the comic, where Gravedust and Syr are bickering over how she’s apparently expected to just pull something out of thin air to deal with the problem at hand. I think the two scenes are intentionally similar, but that may just be me.

        • Chantelune
          Chantelune
          March 4, 2014, 1:49 pm | # | Reply

          Difference is : Syr actually did science to it. Let’s see if Goblaurence is up to the same challenge.

  7. Valdrax
    Valdrax
    March 4, 2014, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    Did anyone else read the hover-text in the voice of Mister Torgue?

    • Craddok
      Craddok
      March 4, 2014, 2:37 am | # | Reply

      I do now. And it’s beautiful.

    • coldelectrons
      coldelectrons
      March 4, 2014, 2:47 am | # | Reply

      “I’ve got just one question: Explooooosions?”

    • coldelectrons
      coldelectrons
      March 4, 2014, 2:56 am | # | Reply

      I just checked the list of Torgue quotes, and found the perfect one:

      “The blimps are too far away to destroy with gunfire! IT’S LIKE A PUZZLE!”

      • Valdrax
        Valdrax
        March 5, 2014, 1:22 am | # | Reply

        Oh wow, that’s brilliant. I didn’t even think of the Dragon’s Keep quotes.

    • Overkillengine
      Overkillengine
      March 4, 2014, 7:05 pm | # | Reply

      With gratuitous paraphrasing:

      DID YOU KNOW THAT NINETY-SEVEN PERCENT OF THOSE BLIMPS AREN’T EXPLODING RIGHT NOW? THAT’S BULLSH*T, BUY TORGUE!

  8. Ralanr
    Ralanr
    March 4, 2014, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    “So you can’t make machines right out of thine air? What sort of engineer are you!”

    I wish that was funnier, by my wit is gone right now.

    • coldelectrons
      coldelectrons
      March 4, 2014, 2:48 am | # | Reply

      What’s funny is that line has probably happened in RL conversation.

      • Snowblind
        Snowblind
        March 4, 2014, 1:09 pm | # | Reply

        Oh, I can assure you it has… but in my case it was computers were the machines.

    • Jack Vermicelli
      Jack Vermicelli
      March 4, 2014, 3:36 pm | # | Reply

      Whose air?

      • coldelectrons
        coldelectrons
        March 5, 2014, 3:39 am | # | Reply

        Coarse air…to make pirated copies!

      • Speedy
        Speedy
        December 20, 2018, 9:12 am | # | Reply

        “‘Thine air’, Mein Herr? … Mine… air… I’ve got it! Get me all the grenades and signal balloons you can muster!”

  9. Berius
    Berius
    March 4, 2014, 12:48 am | # | Reply

    Hmmm….

  10. Acrox
    Acrox
    March 4, 2014, 1:03 am | # | Reply

    The way his accent is going, he’s going to catapult jarate at those airships very soon.

    Not even a wrench? Even gretchin got wrenches and oily rags to do ad hok fixin’. Or pull a Machete opening that jacket and displaying your workshop.

    (I miss my old goblin engineer from some tabletop; Could replicate any spell if he spent a number of hours equal to the spell level doing science to produce the accursed device. Guaranteed to work at least once without blowing up! Subsequent uses were 1/2, 2/3, 3/4 and so on chance of going south, but goblins get heavy bonuses and saves against self-damage, much like Soldier and Demoman doing explosive jumps)

    • AceOfSpade
      AceOfSpade
      March 4, 2014, 7:35 am | # | Reply

      What game were you playing? This sounds awesome! I wanna tryyyyyy

      • mrknifey
        mrknifey
        March 4, 2014, 8:56 am | # | Reply

        well jarate makes me think TF2, the rest like D&D ;D

        • Acrox
          Acrox
          March 4, 2014, 12:55 pm | # | Reply

          Revising my notes, looks like it was 3D&T (last time I checked, it isn’t a popular/known system outside of Brazil. I might be wrong now), but there was implementations of said class in other systems such as GURPS and D&D, the last one he would be like some sort of artificer IIRC.

          Other good use for goblins was the Goblin Ballooner (a class on itself or prestige class of the engineer, depending on the realm). Transportation was difficult and wizards would ask for exorbitant fees to teleport/cast flight/allow you into one of their airships. Enter this goblin, who could MacGyver an airworthy contraption in minutes and got ludicrous bonuses for when it eventually blew up (like, automaxed dice+20 against freefall and dodging debris or something hilarious like that). About your non-goblinoid self? Too cheap to include the making of brand-new parachutes? Hope your caster can concentrate on casting featherfall MID-AIR DURING AN EXPLOSION.

  11. The Indomitable Eric
    The Indomitable Eric
    March 4, 2014, 1:23 am | # | Reply

    I’ll hook u in the gabber I swear on me mum.

    • TBeckett
      TBeckett
      March 5, 2014, 12:10 am | # | Reply

      U WOT M8

  12. Nathanyel
    Nathanyel
    March 4, 2014, 2:14 am | # | Reply

    Kamikaze Avians? Who would think of that?

    • Zippideedoodah
      Zippideedoodah
      March 4, 2014, 8:25 pm | # | Reply

      anyone who’s neither an avian nor very concerned by body count…

  13. Messenger
    Messenger
    March 4, 2014, 2:38 am | # | Reply

    Time to step up, Goblaurence.

    This is also the second time he’s put out this idea. He may as well try it.

    And for the Avians doing it, it ain’t necessarily suicide. But definitely, desperate times call for desperate measures.

    • FoolishOwl
      FoolishOwl
      March 4, 2014, 3:46 am | # | Reply

      Trouble is, we saw yesterday that the airships have archers and spellcasters prepared in case the avians try something desperate.

      • Messenger
        Messenger
        March 5, 2014, 5:57 am | # | Reply

        They’re going to have to try something anyway. Getting bombed won’t just blunt but obliterate Penk’s forces.

    • Nyzer
      Nyzer
      March 4, 2014, 5:49 am | # | Reply

      Except this really isn’t his field of expertise. Coming up with something to take down warships? Sure. Coming up with something to take down warships, in less than a minute, with no immediately available resources, while on a battlefield?

      He might be able to think of some kind of plan, but being asked to just “engineer” something to stop a flying juggernaut like that is a bit silly. I look at that scene and I think it’s Penk’s failing, not Goblaurence’s. Like a manager telling his IT staff “just fix it already, what are we even paying you for?”

      • Messenger
        Messenger
        March 5, 2014, 5:54 am | # | Reply

        Those are good points. But in Penk’s defense, it’s not like he (or Harky and even Gondolessa) could have foreseen this secret weapon.

  14. minion
    minion
    March 4, 2014, 2:44 am | # | Reply

    BANZAAAIIII!!!!

    • Zippideedoodah
      Zippideedoodah
      March 4, 2014, 8:23 pm | # | Reply

      It’s time to ZERO in on the problem !

  15. Runic
    Runic
    March 4, 2014, 2:49 am | # | Reply

    Use the swirling death machines, adjust the angle so they swing upwards, hope it has enough for force to deliver a payload ala giant, fuckoff shot-put.

  16. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    March 4, 2014, 2:50 am | # | Reply

    The space above the balloons is a huge blind spot. Avians can just fly above the airships and put whatever they want on top without even causing a single dramatic or tense moment except maybe the few seconds before the goblin C4 goes off.

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

      Was thinkin’ the same thing.

    • My2Cents
      My2Cents
      March 4, 2014, 5:04 am | # | Reply

      The tops of the zeppellins is the place you would expect the Avians to attack, their instincts would be to stoop on their prey. Odds at least half the archers are up there, probably more as the magicians would be wanted below to support the bombardment.

      • Zippideedoodah
        Zippideedoodah
        March 4, 2014, 8:22 pm | # | Reply

        Or maybe the engineers who thought up the airships only reinforced the underbelly, only expecting flaming arrows and the like…
        Remember the Hindenburg. A huge balloon full of fraking HYDROGEN, and noone thought it might ever come close to a flame or spark…

  17. Schneidend
    Schneidend
    March 4, 2014, 3:31 am | # | Reply

    “Well, that is a good idea…but no, not good for morale.”

    • Zippideedoodah
      Zippideedoodah
      March 4, 2014, 8:19 pm | # | Reply

      Sissy !
      (I’m talking to your extremely appropriate gravatar)

  18. Paddy
    Paddy
    March 4, 2014, 5:17 am | # | Reply

    Beat the drum and hit the airships with some kind of divine sonic attack? The explosives on board might not take kindly to being vibrated…

  19. Guesticus
    Guesticus
    March 4, 2014, 5:48 am | # | Reply

    Lotsa word errors in this one (not typoes, just extra words that shouldn’t be there)

    • Commiekeebler
      Commiekeebler
      March 4, 2014, 8:04 am | # | Reply

      Someone needs to catch up on their sleep!

      • Phil
        Flo
        March 4, 2014, 8:56 am | # | Reply

        That person is me.

        • Chris
          Chris
          March 4, 2014, 9:15 am | # | Reply

          I like to believe to that in rage sometimes often words are extra used in conjunction with emotion.

          • wwlaos
            wwlaos
            March 4, 2014, 10:56 am | # | Reply

            Bravo.

  20. Guesticus
    Guesticus
    March 4, 2014, 5:52 am | # | Reply

    Surprised none of the shit-elf fans picked up on the last word in the last bubble of the last panel

    • mrknifey
      mrknifey
      March 4, 2014, 8:59 am | # | Reply

      Nah, not a clue, its too obvious;D

    • Zippideedoodah
      Zippideedoodah
      March 4, 2014, 10:40 am | # | Reply

      I love you for this comment !

  21. Dr Pepper
    Dr Pepper
    March 4, 2014, 7:04 am | # | Reply

    Flaming ballista bolt through the bomb bay door?

    This is what you get when you divide the gnomes between two sides– sort of like the way the americans and the soviets divided up the nazi scientists– it’s all about who can pump out the best application of tech.

    Unfortunately for the World’s Rebellion, (gnome + goblin) < (gnome + sky elf).

    • Bloodvork
      Bloodvork
      March 4, 2014, 11:13 am | # | Reply

      As far as I know, there aren’t any gnomes on the World’s Rebellion. They have the Savasi (Dwarves), but they’re not the same thing.

  22. Smallfoot
    Smallfoot
    March 4, 2014, 7:48 am | # | Reply

    The idea of explosive-laden troops immediately made me think:

    “DO NOT RUN! WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS!”
    “WE COME IN PEACE”

  23. Aslandus
    Aslandus
    March 4, 2014, 10:07 am | # | Reply

    “Guys? You know I was joking about the exploding Avians, right? Guys?”

  24. Zippideedoodah
    Zippideedoodah
    March 4, 2014, 10:41 am | # | Reply

    Goblaurence is officially my favorite character.

  25. talewinds
    talewinds
    March 4, 2014, 10:42 am | # | Reply

    Tried to post a comment this morning, no other posts yet
    First I got “You need text to post”, when I reposted I found two up, now they are both gone.
    ????

  26. Loki
    Loki
    March 4, 2014, 11:19 am | # | Reply

    The last word in today’s comic is “Best”, in bold no less. I’m surprised there hasn’t been rampant speculation that this heralds someone’s return.

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      March 5, 2014, 6:34 am | # | Reply

      Look up a few posts, already pointed it out to the shit-elf brigade :P

  27. Tyris
    Tyris
    March 4, 2014, 1:23 pm | # | Reply

    Anyone else having flashbacks to his sketch of the rocket-powered chariot?

    Ramped off something, Wazdakka style, he could launch himself into an airship cockpit… or just puncture the balloon with the pointy bit.

  28. Zippideedoodah
    Zippideedoodah
    March 4, 2014, 8:18 pm | # | Reply

    Just love the way Magda runs off into the skirmish in the second ground on panel 2. Seconds ago she was all awed by the airships. Now she must be thinking along the lines of “Oops, almost forgot : it’s clobbering time!”

  29. Acadian Bacon
    Acadian Bacon
    March 4, 2014, 10:21 pm | # | Reply

    I think there might be a typo in the ‘Yes, and that you means you’ part where there’s a ‘you’ too many. o.o

  30. Crazy
    Crazy
    March 5, 2015, 8:29 pm | # | Reply

    I keep thinking of Goblaurence as having an Aussie accent, it keeps cracking me up. I hope that is his intended accent anyway, but it is probably more American isn’t it?

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      April 1, 2016, 10:06 am | # | Reply

      This was discussed higher up the page.

  31. SotiCoto
    SotiCoto
    April 1, 2016, 10:05 am | # | Reply

    So maybe what they need to do is command the army to spread out to minimise AoE bombing casualties and make a rush toward the wall. Once they’re close enough, the airships won’t be able to bomb without inflicting excessive friendly fire.

    Or alternatively just stay anywhere other than underneath them or in their path. They probably don’t corner well and there only appear to be two of them, so it shouldn’t be too difficult.

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