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

WHAT ARE THE ODDS

Chapter 34 – Page 8

on October 23, 2014
Chapter: Chapter 35
└ Tags: Fr'Nj, Frigg, Gravedust, Magda, Penk, Rachel, Sundar, WAV
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Discussion (73) ¬

  1. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    October 23, 2014, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    NEVER TELL ME THE ODDS

    • ThePuck1
      ThePuck1
      October 23, 2014, 8:07 am | # | Reply

      Damn, beat me too it.

  2. CorrTerek
    CorrTerek
    October 23, 2014, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Time for a heroic team-up, methinks.

    • Ahighfunctioningsociopath
      Ahighfunctioningsociopath
      October 23, 2014, 12:10 am | # | Reply

      more like enemy of my enemy, cause they are still going to be at war after this.
      http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnemyMine

      • LockeZ
        LockeZ
        October 23, 2014, 4:01 am | # | Reply

        So your theory is that the adventurers will team up with the eldritch nega-tenta-beast to defeat Penk and Magda? I can see that.

        • Inlaa
          Inlaa
          October 23, 2014, 8:45 am | # | Reply

          Seems legit.

        • wwlaos
          wwlaos
          October 23, 2014, 8:54 am | # | Reply

          No, his theory is that Frigg and Penk will be the only survivors of this battle, but that Penk will die soon afterwards from his wounds. Then Frigg is going to be stuck raising Penk’s son after Penk dies and she’ll have to teach it how to survive on a dangerous, alien world while herself working to overcome her prejudices. And then save the child when it gets kidnapped by… slavers, or something? My memory of that movie is a bit hazy in places.

          • Bloodvork
            Bloodvork
            October 23, 2014, 10:07 am | # | Reply

            Also Mickey Mouse.

          • Bob
            Bob
            October 23, 2014, 10:21 pm | # | Reply

            No, that’s about right. The human slavers were using the aliens as labor.

      • Aleister Crow
        Aleister Crow
        October 23, 2014, 11:44 am | # | Reply

        Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more. No less.

      • Commiekeebler
        Commiekeebler
        October 23, 2014, 1:12 pm | # | Reply

        Curse you! Curse you and tv tropes! My only weakness! Where did this lunch break go?!

      • Benedikt
        Benedikt
        October 23, 2014, 1:49 pm | # | Reply

        Please don’t link TVtropes. I just lost half of today.

        • Odysseus
          Odysseus
          October 23, 2014, 2:45 pm | # | Reply

          Yup, there goes an evening!

        • MidnightDStroyer
          MidnightDStroyer
          February 18, 2017, 9:28 pm | # | Reply

          What? You guys didn’t resist the obvious lure for Ahighfunctioningsociopath’s trap?

          Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
          heh.
          TV Tropes is clearly visible in the link he posted…
          heh.

  3. Ahighfunctioningsociopath
    Ahighfunctioningsociopath
    October 23, 2014, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    Oh look, it now has mouths. Clearly that was what it was lacking to be scary, not the fact that it can disintigrate anything it touches.

    Also, I guess the new design means that this isn’t even his/her/its final form.

    • Tsapki
      Tsapki
      October 23, 2014, 2:02 am | # | Reply

      The heck is the final form going to be? Some slender shirtless pretty boy with derezzed skin and tentacles on his back…

      Forget I said anything.

      • Emanon
        Emanon
        October 23, 2014, 2:33 am | # | Reply

        It’s always the same thing. An effeminate looking teenage boy with emo hair, a sword bigger than he is, maybe tentacles, and a distended pregnant belly for some reason.

      • Bliggz
        Bliggz
        October 23, 2014, 4:58 am | # | Reply

        Cannot unsee

      • Speedy
        Speedy
        January 2, 2019, 9:07 am | # | Reply

        Doc Uck :p

    • LockeZ
      LockeZ
      October 23, 2014, 4:02 am | # | Reply

      Easy monster tip: just add any number of mouths and eyes.

    • Flyingfrog
      Flyingfrog
      October 23, 2014, 4:19 am | # | Reply

      Poor guys, they aren’t very familiar with raid bosses are they? Everyone knows just as you’re getting the hang of the mechanics, the boss then shifts into Phase 2.

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      October 23, 2014, 4:20 am | # | Reply

      Of course it’s not the final form, it has no form to begin with!

    • TBeckett
      TBeckett
      October 23, 2014, 10:13 am | # | Reply

      Perhaps she’s collecting data and re-purposing it to enhance herself? And maybe the data gained from the characters was somehow more enriching and allowed these more advanced transformations. Idk, totally guessing

      • Shamdon
        Shamdon
        October 23, 2014, 11:43 am | # | Reply

        So in that respect this creature is like the primal zerg from starcraft 2?

  4. Ahighfunctioningsociopath
    Ahighfunctioningsociopath
    October 23, 2014, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Also, I think that Penk and Magda better lava this to the Mother-Friggers.

  5. DJ
    DJ
    October 23, 2014, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Holy poop

  6. Kamino Neko
    Kamino Neko
    October 23, 2014, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    … ‘Holy poop’?

    • astrocom
      astrocom
      October 23, 2014, 12:29 am | # | Reply

      Yea, I thought that was an oddly tame way for Frigg to start that sentence as well.

      • Tsapki
        Tsapki
        October 23, 2014, 2:03 am | # | Reply

        Frigg always one to buck tradition. Even tradition she sets in place.

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        October 23, 2014, 2:33 am | # | Reply

        I guess we have to assume the monster scared her shitless.

        • LockeZ
          LockeZ
          October 23, 2014, 4:05 am | # | Reply

          ^
          / \
          .---- ----.
          ". ."
          > _ <
          /,-" "-.\
          '" "'

          • LockeZ
            LockeZ
            October 23, 2014, 4:06 am | # | Reply

            Congrats, you win the fucked-up ascii star.

            • smilr
              smilr
              October 23, 2014, 6:01 am | # | Reply

              That things worth like, 10 gold stars!

              • Phil
                Flo
                October 23, 2014, 9:00 am | # | Reply

                Too bad you had to say something about it!

                I was THIIIIIIS CLOOOOOSE to giving Kamino a Gold Star.

                Ah well.

                • Kamino Neko
                  Kamino Neko
                  October 23, 2014, 4:42 pm | # | Reply

                  *falls to knees, shouts to the sky*

                  • Phil
                    Flo
                    October 23, 2014, 4:44 pm | # | Reply

                    Hey, don’t look at God.

                    Blame smilr.

                    • Seggs
                      Seggs
                      October 23, 2014, 10:50 pm | #

                      “and i set fiiire totherain….”

                    • Observer
                      Observer
                      March 16, 2015, 10:44 pm | #

                      I forget what’s the rule again? Can’t mention anything to do with Gold Stars anywhere in the thread? Cause it almost looks like Smilr is talking about LockeZ’s ANCII sculpture to me.

      • tejón
        tejón
        October 23, 2014, 3:56 am | # | Reply

        She probably didn’t want to draw attention away from “fuckers.” Because those fuckers are fucking fuckers.

    • Bob
      Bob
      October 23, 2014, 10:23 pm | # | Reply

      Well, I once laughed at a girl who said “Golly gosh shit!”

    • Speedy
      Speedy
      January 2, 2019, 9:17 am | # | Reply

      She accidentally stuck herself with one of Syr’Nj’s anti-zerking syringes.

  7. Tatsu
    Tatsu
    October 23, 2014, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    Come on guys..sit back..relax…eat some popcorn..do cleanup after..it’s the smart thing to do..though Frig never did smart

    • Schneidend
      Schneidend
      October 23, 2014, 12:55 am | # | Reply

      All illusions/delusions of Gastonian moral high ground would be swept away by using an otherworldly horror as a sort of accidental bio-weapon.

      • Tsapki
        Tsapki
        October 23, 2014, 2:01 am | # | Reply

        Oh come now, these are the same Gastonians that called the Savasi to a peace summit where the Savasi were somehow totally unwilling to talk piece due to some minor comment and where then slaughtered wholesale by an ambush set up as they tried to go back home.

        Otherwordly Horror? Gastonia will say Act of God. Much like how some American settlers believed their God was giving the native peoples horrible diseases and killing them off so the settlers would have land to live on.

      • Mr. Mister
        Mr. Mister
        October 23, 2014, 4:33 am | # | Reply

        Well, I doubgt MegaTron would be okay with that.

    • CorrTerek
      CorrTerek
      October 23, 2014, 9:14 am | # | Reply

      Remember, kids, the best way to keep the title “morally superior” is by murdering all the other contenders.

  8. Pylgrim
    Pylgrim
    October 23, 2014, 1:39 am | # | Reply

    Wait, did we ever see how Frigg recovered from having her foot dipped in lava?

    • The Indomitable Eric
      The Indomitable Eric
      October 23, 2014, 1:47 am | # | Reply

      Magic, yo.

      No, really. It was magic.

      • wwlaos
        wwlaos
        October 23, 2014, 9:01 am | # | Reply

        Totally magic.

        • Phil
          Flo
          October 23, 2014, 4:51 pm | # | Reply

          Confirmed for Magick.

          • Sumgai
            Sumgai
            October 23, 2014, 11:28 pm | # | Reply

            Was it on page magick? I’ve forgotten whether I saw that happen or not.

            • Speedy
              Speedy
              January 2, 2019, 10:43 am | # | Reply

              It wasn’t shown. Frigg and Syr’Nj were stuck in the Sky Elf city, for a while, getting healed.

  9. Peter Sadlon
    Peter Sadlon
    October 23, 2014, 1:43 am | # | Reply

    I really think in other circumstances Byron & Penks teams might be might have a chance at peaceful coexistance. Sadly between the Cultists and the leaders of Gastonia & the Savage Races not so much.

  10. Ivresse
    Ivresse
    October 23, 2014, 4:13 am | # | Reply

    The interesting thing is that Gravedust is here and is going to see Magda for the first time this series. That’s going to be interesting…

    • Rules Lawyer
      Rules Lawyer
      October 23, 2014, 4:21 am | # | Reply

      Notice me, enemy-sempai!

      • wwlaos
        wwlaos
        October 23, 2014, 9:01 am | # | Reply

        *snerk*

    • Acrox
      Acrox
      October 23, 2014, 7:16 am | # | Reply

      Too bad Gravy probably won’t be of any use.

      At least as long as his spiritual arrows are aware that touching that thing means oblivion.

      • ThePuck1
        ThePuck1
        October 23, 2014, 8:08 am | # | Reply

        Looks like your avatar knows it too…

      • Bob
        Bob
        October 23, 2014, 10:25 pm | # | Reply

        Sacrifices must be made for the greater good…

  11. Psolo Ghoti
    Psolo Ghoti
    October 23, 2014, 9:01 am | # | Reply

    And now: the power of (the-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-)friendship!

  12. Saiyanwolf
    Saiyanwolf
    October 23, 2014, 9:35 am | # | Reply

    Must resist the urge to make MLP joke here and also EPIC TEAM UP!

  13. chase
    chase
    October 23, 2014, 9:51 am | # | Reply

    Better getcher butts in there to help or it might look an awful lot to Penk like you might have been controlling the beast from a nice vantage point.
    Also, yay! Finally a team up!

    • TxGator
      TxGator
      October 23, 2014, 2:46 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah, but even if they do move swiftly to put down the beast, it’ll probably be followed by Penk saying things such as “How do we know this isn’t some ploy? You probably summoned this beast just so you could look like heroes to us and sow doubt in our ranks!”

  14. TBeckett
    TBeckett
    October 23, 2014, 10:16 am | # | Reply

    Purple and green? holy shit, the monster is a gamergate supporter

    • FoolishOwl
      FoolishOwl
      October 23, 2014, 11:25 am | # | Reply

      He supports female worker ants? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate

      • TBeckett
        TBeckett
        October 23, 2014, 8:04 pm | # | Reply

        Indeed these are my favorite gamergates

    • Phil
      Flo
      October 23, 2014, 4:45 pm | # | Reply

      Are… are purple and green their “colors”?

      • banjo2E
        banjo2E
        October 23, 2014, 7:51 pm | # | Reply

        Purple and green are the colors of 4chan’s /v/ board. (It’s possibly more accurate to say “were” depending on whether the mass migration to 8chan happened or not.)

        They’re the Gamergate colors because, as we all know, there is absolutely no distinction between 4chan and any of the other people involved in Gamergate.

        • banjo2E
          banjo2E
          October 23, 2014, 7:58 pm | # | Reply

          Herein lies irrefutable proof that 4chan and Gamergate are merely two faces of the same patriarchal woman-hating entity.

          No I am most certainly not being sarcastic in any way how dare you suggest such a thing

      • TBeckett
        TBeckett
        October 23, 2014, 8:04 pm | # | Reply

        If you are ever confronted with one of the GG drones (and I hope you don’t have to do that, Phil) they have a logo now that they’re putting in their profile pics. It’s a black controller with a Purple and a Green ‘G’ where each of the thumbsticks might go. I don’t know how widespread it is, but I’ve seen it a handful of times now.

  15. Alan Steenhouwer
    Alan Steenhouwer
    October 23, 2014, 3:52 pm | # | Reply

    One cannot describe the future awesome.

  16. Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All
    Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All
    September 26, 2016, 1:23 pm | # | Reply

    The odds are approximately three thousand seven hundred and twenty to one!

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      February 18, 2017, 9:38 pm | # | Reply

      Please refer to Jean Luc’s post at the very top of the comments.
      Please, thank you, hello, goodbye.

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