Wait a dad blabbed minute. So howzis werk? He buys the info and spreads it all around the world. Blows the scandal sky high! Or he buys this info, and sits on it cuz he’s in kahoots with Carol, JJ, and HR? Did I ever mention that Shanna is my all time favorite character. Not so fast Shanna. I mean is this Shanna’s big breakthrough or a trap? I imagine we will get back to Arkerrra pretty soon and leave us up in the air about Sepia again for a while. What a shaggy dog story. I love this webcomic.
So if this IS non-virtual E-Merl (and that’s what I think), maybe what he is after is to get in on it too. Maybe he wants IN to the virual world just like our “MIA” Top 5!
Actually, I’m curious if Best’s Player is known to be MIA – he’s not on any screen. maybe they chose not to draw it, or it’s on another tab, but part of me wants to think it’s because the body died and has been dumped and been found…
Um… Well… That head shape doesn’t look like E-Merl to me. He looks more like Harky or Penk personally, although what either of them would want with this information is guesswork. I can imagine. I don’t want to, but I can imagine.
If its done will it will be great. If not then just why add it, a simple fantasy story is cool and entertaining on it’s own. I will reserve judgement to see if a IRL Byron and Syr’nj get together eventually.
Sepia World is not devoid of color. It’s just that sepia was the only color that existed, until the tanks and the tie. ;)
If you want a laugh, go back to where Ferris sees the tanks, and imagine that he’s seeing colors other than sepia for the first time.
H.R.’s real plan is to siphon colors out of the tanks, and sell it all over Sepia World. His colorful tie is just a result of his carelessness, when leaning over the tanks to scoop out samples. He can’t let The Five out of their tanks. That would be like killing the goose that laid the golden egg, because The Five are excreting colors that they see in Arkerra. xD
At the end as a reveal would be awful, because that would just instantly retroactively discredit the entire story.
The way they’re doing it now, they obviously have way, way more in mind than that. They’re just getting through it very slowly, because they accurately predicted that we would rather see the adventurers 90% of the time.
So, H.R. clearly demonstrated magic is real in sepia world (through mastery of purple, probably) and people are still pegging this on “just an MMO”?
For me, looks like he made an MMO to test if it was possible to interface/interact with a pocket universe he found/created, did a moderately successful avatar-matrix-thingy attempt to better interface with it, and now he can just open gates to oblivion/arkerra/Tron/Wang’s but would rather send moustachied homunculi through them to test these first?
Not to mention the obvious cheating for using real intelligence instead of developing supercyberian AI, thus getting even more extra time to play with purple.
Oh dear. I have a cork board just like that on the wall above my monitor. At the moment it is bare but when working on a project it gets filled with squares of paper and odd scraps of information that can’t afford to be lost.
My boss had one with client receipts on it at my last job, meant to be taken down when the jobs were done. He introduced the system the week I started working there.
When I quit the job after three years, the same original receipts were still there.
Those… are some pretty big (in physical size) flash/thumb-drives he has there, must be early edition ones, like the difference between the two types of floppy disks (people know/remember floppies, don’t they?)
I’m suddenly experiencing a sudden feeling of desk-envy.
Who the hell needs four laptops?
What he is doing could be done with one computer and four screens.
…I’m suddenly fine with this guy meeting the other guy and having it go south.
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Reminds me of a certain half-elf… Never pegged him for the conspiracy type.
Strangely, my thought too.
He turns around and it’s non-virtual E-merl!
I like this theory!
This was my first reaction too!
Me three!
The hair, the vest.. yeah. I’d be more surprised if it wasn’t him than if it was.
Indications thus far point to this.
I actually expected Bandit at first.
I’m still expecting Bandit.
Penk…? Assuming two factions of PCs that is.
Any chance this is Wav?
as much chance as any of the others listed above.
what with our 1(?) data point and all.
He does have Penky hair.
It’s the troll guys. Not e-merl
Is that command-line I see on one screen? That’s so pre-Arcanometry.
He’s playing the MUD that was the precursor to Kingdoms of Arkherra.
I miss my old MUD
…Nothing like getting down & dirty in the MUD…
Wait a dad blabbed minute. So howzis werk? He buys the info and spreads it all around the world. Blows the scandal sky high! Or he buys this info, and sits on it cuz he’s in kahoots with Carol, JJ, and HR? Did I ever mention that Shanna is my all time favorite character. Not so fast Shanna. I mean is this Shanna’s big breakthrough or a trap? I imagine we will get back to Arkerrra pretty soon and leave us up in the air about Sepia again for a while. What a shaggy dog story. I love this webcomic.
So if this IS non-virtual E-Merl (and that’s what I think), maybe what he is after is to get in on it too. Maybe he wants IN to the virual world just like our “MIA” Top 5!
He’s a player, so he will use the information to blackmail HR into giving him ‘god mode’ privileges. Especially if he is the real world E-Merl.
If that’s how this pans out, it’d be ironic considering HR’s own quest for ‘godhood’.
Assuming virtual E-Merl and non-virtual E-Merl are quite different in personality. Otherwise, I doubt it.
Reverse G.I.F.T.?
Okay, i see Byron, Syr’nj, Gravedust and Frigg on the laptops.
Again, i am made suspicious of Bandit.
bandit is not one of the 5. the one not pictured is best.
Can’t be one of the five. They’re all still in their tubes at HR’s Bat(shitcrazy)-cave.
Actually, I’m curious if Best’s Player is known to be MIA – he’s not on any screen. maybe they chose not to draw it, or it’s on another tab, but part of me wants to think it’s because the body died and has been dumped and been found…
Um… Well… That head shape doesn’t look like E-Merl to me. He looks more like Harky or Penk personally, although what either of them would want with this information is guesswork. I can imagine. I don’t want to, but I can imagine.
Meh, not gonna lie, the whole “really an MMO” angle leaves me cold and the series works better without it imo.
Or it would have been better left at the end as a huge reveal…
If its done will it will be great. If not then just why add it, a simple fantasy story is cool and entertaining on it’s own. I will reserve judgement to see if a IRL Byron and Syr’nj get together eventually.
I’m liking the HR plotline quite a bit myself.
Well, I like the cultist plot line!
You would.
I myself am partial to the wood elves’ narrative.
The only interesting part for me was the “green mesh” bit, honestly.
I just don’t get why these scenes have to be sepia. Black and white not good enough?
Sepia World is not devoid of color. It’s just that sepia was the only color that existed, until the tanks and the tie. ;)
If you want a laugh, go back to where Ferris sees the tanks, and imagine that he’s seeing colors other than sepia for the first time.
H.R.’s real plan is to siphon colors out of the tanks, and sell it all over Sepia World. His colorful tie is just a result of his carelessness, when leaning over the tanks to scoop out samples. He can’t let The Five out of their tanks. That would be like killing the goose that laid the golden egg, because The Five are excreting colors that they see in Arkerra. xD
At the end as a reveal would be awful, because that would just instantly retroactively discredit the entire story.
The way they’re doing it now, they obviously have way, way more in mind than that. They’re just getting through it very slowly, because they accurately predicted that we would rather see the adventurers 90% of the time.
So, H.R. clearly demonstrated magic is real in sepia world (through mastery of purple, probably) and people are still pegging this on “just an MMO”?
For me, looks like he made an MMO to test if it was possible to interface/interact with a pocket universe he found/created, did a moderately successful avatar-matrix-thingy attempt to better interface with it, and now he can just open gates to oblivion/arkerra/Tron/Wang’s but would rather send moustachied homunculi through them to test these first?
Not to mention the obvious cheating for using real intelligence instead of developing supercyberian AI, thus getting even more extra time to play with purple.
plot twist: sepia world is the MMO.
The Thirteenth Floor was always a better story than The Matrix.
I liked House in the Woods…Enough plot-twisting to put the human DNA to shame.
While E-Merl seems likely, I think Sundar the Sunderer could be it. He is certainly last one to have found a glitch.
That was my thought.
Wav
Oh dear. I have a cork board just like that on the wall above my monitor. At the moment it is bare but when working on a project it gets filled with squares of paper and odd scraps of information that can’t afford to be lost.
My boss had one with client receipts on it at my last job, meant to be taken down when the jobs were done. He introduced the system the week I started working there.
When I quit the job after three years, the same original receipts were still there.
Sheez Xan, use your tabs!
Is no one else thinking Best, here?
I did at first, but then I realised he’s still stuck in HR’s basement with the other four.
This ‘everyone is
Jesus in PurgatoryBest’ thing is really getting out of hand….Oh! MISTER Xan. This whole time I thought he was a girl! Well, okay!
As far as recluse hacker lairs go this one’s pretty tidy and Xan doesn’t seem like that much of a paranoid nutjob.
Those… are some pretty big (in physical size) flash/thumb-drives he has there, must be early edition ones, like the difference between the two types of floppy disks (people know/remember floppies, don’t they?)
Three. Three sizes of floppy.
8, 5 1/4, 3 1/2.
Don’t remember the 8’s :(
Still have the 5 1/4’s and 3 1/2’s though
They aren’t flash drives, they’re opened pocky containers.
And those would be… what?
He sounds like Thack to me. Another Fans! character, like Shannon.