Well it’s certainly not full of a bunch of Yahoos, that’s for sure.
Although, if the Players have other characters there (like, say, Best), you could possibly call it the Alt-a-Vista. Either way, it’ definitely an Excite-ing moment.
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i read it as the “dark tainted energy” built up in him by having the berserker side. bit like an infection or a tumor, it’s just been fed and nourished so it can be extracted later for devilish purposes:)
Mind-Blown… maybe Homon (HR) just saved Cyberia by sending it the berzerkousness so that the berzerkerouness could cleanse the realm of the chaos that is clearly infesting it right now.
I really think H.R. is overplaying his hand here. What’s to stop Tom from killing Homon/H.R. and reverse engineering H.R.’s spell so Tom himself can enter Sepia World, possibly by hijacking H.R.’s own body? It won’t be hard for Tom to dupe somebody who actually believes he’s God.
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Even if you’re a homonculus forged from the very flesh of the universe’s creator, I don’t think it’s ever a good idea to betray a nihilistic cultist who’s hyped up on bloodlust. At least, not while a dagger’s in his hand.
So, Humon just sent Byron’s soul and/or berserker-stuff into Cyberia? Is he still trying to wake the tubed players up? (Sorry, I sometimes have a really hard time following it all)
That part I do remember; I think it’s also where that WAV guy said he was from.
I’m just confused about why Humon sent Byron’s… stuff, into Cyberia.
Eagerly awaiting the next page!
Or, wait a minute… now that I take another look, it kinda seems like he only needed that stuff to help him OPEN that gateway? Rather than sending it into that world…
I really don’t get how people are only just now realizing the connection between Brother Homon and Sepia World, as if it was ever meant to be a secret.
H.R. said he was sending a homunculus into Arkerra. We saw the homunculus — an exact miniature clone of H.R. — being created and sent through a portal. The significance of H.R. successfully putting an agent inside Arkerra was as clear as it possibly could have been. And while this could, at the time, have been written off and forgotten as probably yet another futile attempt by H.R. to gain control of “his” world, the memory should have resurfaced when a guy who looks exactly like H.R. appears in Arkerra, working together with the leader of the cultists!
It happened quite a while ago, we never see a connection between them afterwards, and—I’m not sure how it is for others—but for some reason I just don’t get as engaged in the Sepia World parts of the story. They’re cool, but still feel pretty separate from Arkerra up to this point.
And all that is overshadowed by the fact that Brother Homon is an exact copy of H.R. — the single most important Sepia World character in terms of influence on the plot, at least until Shanna started rocking the boat. Apart from face blindness or skipping the Sepia World scenes entirely, I can’t imagine any way to forget H.R.’s face, or miss the similarity with Brother Homon. Sure, Homon doesn’t have the glasses, but we’re not in Metropolis.
The Homonculus first popped up just over a year ago in realtime, “Brother Homon” a bit less than half that, and in the comic’s five-year span that’s not a huge length of time. People have had no problem remembering things like Payet Best’s ambiguous fate which well predate that. Homon’s always had an incredibly distinct look that separates them from other denizens of Arkerra, from how detailed his features are right down to his very proportions. The very first feature we see of him in Arkerra is HR’s unmistakable moustache.
People need to pay attention and accept that Sepiaworld is, and has always been, as integral to the storyline as Arkerra. HR sending his body double to exploit the cultists will not be the last time HR meddles in Arkerran affairs.
I’ve reached “the last page” again…
And I see a lot has gone down since my last run through the archives. … I’m not talking about the plot.
Should I be worried? That whole matter of someone being retconned out of existence left me kinda… paranoid. Like I could just be erased from existence and never know why…
.
Anyhow… just looking at page after page of comments just leaves a surreal sense of just how alien everyone else is to me.
Almost all the comments were made yesterday. Most were made within the first hour.
Every page is the same since the beginning. The comments primarily made in the hour, then in the day of its posting… and then nothing. Pages of comments all made in the one day and then… nothing.
I’m posting one day after the page was added, and it is unlikely it will even be noticed…
How do you people do that? How can you only read the plot one page at a time… a mere second of plot activity every two days or so? It would be like trying to watch a tree grow… so slowly you can’t even see it move… HOW can people read webcomics that way?
And yet you all do.
This is your “normal” … while to me it is utterly alien. Incomprehensible.
My normal is to read through the archives… whether from the beginning or some fixed point in the past. Enough to get a sort of momentum… a feeling of continuity… I couldn’t do it otherwise. Then I leave it alone for a few months for more time to progress and plot to accumulate… naturally. This is the way I’ve always read webcomics. It is what seemed most natural.
And yet it is different. What is self-intuitive to me is simply not done by the majority.
I don’t get it. I just don’t get how humans do things. v_v;
… I might drop in briefly tomorrow just in the hopes of catching it while people are in the midst of conversation… or I might not. Either way, I’m done with the January 2015 archive run.
Time to do something else for a few months.
I do the same with (newer) TV series or games. I wait until they are finishes (with games that is until they are fully patched, all Addons and DLC are out and maybe even good mods can be found). I just want to experience them in my own pace. I don’t want to wait for a new season or a patch for a plot-stopping bug. Or start a new game for a DLC/AddOn.
But (for me) webcomics are different. They are little distractions from work. And you are always happy to get one, right? A lot of people seem to have the same ‘problem’, as the vast majority of pageviews for webcomic are from Mo-Fr, even when a comic has weekend updates. In comparison with other formats, updates are regular, so the plot move slowly but surely. You don’t forget half the story between updates. (Who’s that Stannis guy, again?) But you are right, reading a comic from start to finish in a few sessions gives a much better comprehension. I also do that sometimes. But it’s not good for work ;)
I do what I do AT work.
Obviously I’m not supposed to… but given I can get this AND my work done in the time allotted… why not?
In any case, I can’t imagine being able to perceive the progression of the plot in any meaningful manner in page-per-two-day intervals. My memory isn’t exactly stable enough for the task, unfortunately.
Doesn’t help that the updates are in the middle of the night from my perspective… so I couldn’t exactly join in the initial burst of conversation anyway.
Here’s my theory: I think HR was able to tap into Arkerra from SepiaWorld using magic and sticking five people in tubes. He got GodMode in Arkerra, and learned that Arkerra is a true persistant world; an alternate world. But from SepiaWorld, Cyberia was just data and pixels. He needed Brother Tom’s ritual to open a gate to allow HR Prime to get GodMode in Cyberia.
So what’s the next software project from Hurricane? I think, with the increased processing power in a place called Cyberia, he can develop SepiaWorld: The Game, so that HR can close the loop, get GodMode in SepiaWorld. and live happily ever after.
I’m pretty sure the HR in Arkerra is the homunculus HR put in there, and that version of HR doesn’t really have the same kind of powers to manipulate the game that HR does. It can, however, operate from within the game structure.
Yeah, that place is boring.
‘Tis a silly place.
Let’s not go there.
I… Have… To Push… The Pram A Lot!
Bravo, brave sir knights.
I have a riddle: Who’s bald, loves death, and just got played like a fifty cent kazoo?
The guy with the bloody dagger in his hand?
*hurk*
Cyberia, home of the Googlag.
I see what you did there, comrade.
Well it’s certainly not full of a bunch of Yahoos, that’s for sure.
Although, if the Players have other characters there (like, say, Best), you could possibly call it the Alt-a-Vista. Either way, it’ definitely an Excite-ing moment.
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All I could think, with people punslinging like crazy over a path many need to travel is “Duck….Duck….GO”
I don’t get it. Should I go Ask Jeeves?
I think Brother Tom may have pushed Byron’s HotBot-ton…
I don’t know what you guys are talking about. I guess I’ll just Bing it.
They’re talking about an animal, I’m quite sure. Spotted one on my last Safari if I recall.
Y’all sure know how to Dogpile on this.
my suggestion is to go assault the giant cyberspiders, those webcrawlers are rather slow.
It looks like a lovely location, a great place for some father and son phishing.
Beautiful Altavista of Cyberia through the portal there.
With your body of internet knowledge, you just may be a real Prodigy.
This thread has more fails than the .com edition of Monopoly.
Guess the expansion pack, “The Countless Abyss,” isn’t due for another few months.
Nah, that comes later after this most recent patch, Rage of the Machines.
Thought that’s who it was…
Looks like the black berserkerspirit got banished to Cyberia.
Next: Cyberzerkers!
I don’t think that black stuff is his berserkity. I think it’s just his life force and/or soul.
What do I know though? They obviously had a reason for wanting to de-neutralize his berserker condition, so maybe you’re right.
i read it as the “dark tainted energy” built up in him by having the berserker side. bit like an infection or a tumor, it’s just been fed and nourished so it can be extracted later for devilish purposes:)
but that’s just me;)
Mind-Blown… maybe Homon (HR) just saved Cyberia by sending it the berzerkousness so that the berzerkerouness could cleanse the realm of the chaos that is clearly infesting it right now.
It is not far from Kamenberia, where the Kamen Bear roams.
Come on, counts as special cut scene. Hero gains new ability. Controlled Rage.
Whoa, whoa, guys. You better be careful. Panels are getting wobbly, over here. Ya’ll better strap yourselves in or something!
…my gravatar is certainly interesting.
… this is going to end well
It always does.
Aaaahhhh… The magic is PURPLE. Methinks closed-eye-guy beckons from the Sepia World.
Well, it was a homunculus made by H.R. Puffnstuff.
I totally missed that! Do you have a link to it?
It’s at the end of chapter 27.
Woof. miniHR sure just killed Tommy’s buzz.
Well, hello neighbors.
And so, the Betrayer has become… the Betrayed.
I should carefully consider my next step
[beat]
*grabs Tequila bottle*
I really think H.R. is overplaying his hand here. What’s to stop Tom from killing Homon/H.R. and reverse engineering H.R.’s spell so Tom himself can enter Sepia World, possibly by hijacking H.R.’s own body? It won’t be hard for Tom to dupe somebody who actually believes he’s God.
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Does that mean we can get our firstborns back? Not that I’d want it… Who knows where that thing’s been now!
This isn’t your kids’ “Cyberspace.”
Even if you’re a homonculus forged from the very flesh of the universe’s creator, I don’t think it’s ever a good idea to betray a nihilistic cultist who’s hyped up on bloodlust. At least, not while a dagger’s in his hand.
Yeah, I foresee “consequences” real soon now.
Somehow I doubt “longevity” is among Brother Homon’s aims. He is a tool to serve HR’s purposes in Sepiaworld, not a being of his own motivations.
Two froms in the final speech bubble? That doesn’t read right.
No no, he’s saying he comes from the land of From.
So . . . . . did Hurricane get bought out by From Software in this universe?
Hellberia? I dunno, I feel they should take another stab at it.
If that’s Hell-beer-ia, then I guess Sigh-beer-ia would actually be an improvement.
So, Humon just sent Byron’s soul and/or berserker-stuff into Cyberia? Is he still trying to wake the tubed players up? (Sorry, I sometimes have a really hard time following it all)
Is Cyberia made by a competitor’s company? Maybe he’s trying to destroy it?
No, “Escape From Cyberia” is the next game released by Hurricane Software, following their smash hit “Kingdoms of Arkerra.”
http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-9-page-6/
That part I do remember; I think it’s also where that WAV guy said he was from.
I’m just confused about why Humon sent Byron’s… stuff, into Cyberia.
Eagerly awaiting the next page!
Or, wait a minute… now that I take another look, it kinda seems like he only needed that stuff to help him OPEN that gateway? Rather than sending it into that world…
I have a feeling shit will truly go down when “Brother Homon” finally opens his eyes.
Called it.
“Where you come from? What in the name of the Countless’ endlessly groping fingers do you mean ‘where you come from?!”
Next t-shirt idea: “Human Sacrifice: it’s the gift that just keeps on giving!”
That’ll just encourage AETP to run ads saying “I’d rather go naked than wear skin.”
Well don’t go there yet, they haven’t finished the texture work!
Brother Tom is now making that face we made when you guys said, “Oh man, you should see your face.”
You know, I’m just now noticing that Homon there has Sepia World Hair. No one else in Arkerra has hair that detailed.
He bought the optional Hi-Res Character Pack. Only $9.95 + tax!
Tom looks like the kid that was just got told his birthday party was cancelled.
*GASP*
I really don’t get how people are only just now realizing the connection between Brother Homon and Sepia World, as if it was ever meant to be a secret.
H.R. said he was sending a homunculus into Arkerra. We saw the homunculus — an exact miniature clone of H.R. — being created and sent through a portal. The significance of H.R. successfully putting an agent inside Arkerra was as clear as it possibly could have been. And while this could, at the time, have been written off and forgotten as probably yet another futile attempt by H.R. to gain control of “his” world, the memory should have resurfaced when a guy who looks exactly like H.R. appears in Arkerra, working together with the leader of the cultists!
It happened quite a while ago, we never see a connection between them afterwards, and—I’m not sure how it is for others—but for some reason I just don’t get as engaged in the Sepia World parts of the story. They’re cool, but still feel pretty separate from Arkerra up to this point.
And all that is overshadowed by the fact that Brother Homon is an exact copy of H.R. — the single most important Sepia World character in terms of influence on the plot, at least until Shanna started rocking the boat. Apart from face blindness or skipping the Sepia World scenes entirely, I can’t imagine any way to forget H.R.’s face, or miss the similarity with Brother Homon. Sure, Homon doesn’t have the glasses, but we’re not in Metropolis.
The Homonculus first popped up just over a year ago in realtime, “Brother Homon” a bit less than half that, and in the comic’s five-year span that’s not a huge length of time. People have had no problem remembering things like Payet Best’s ambiguous fate which well predate that. Homon’s always had an incredibly distinct look that separates them from other denizens of Arkerra, from how detailed his features are right down to his very proportions. The very first feature we see of him in Arkerra is HR’s unmistakable moustache.
People need to pay attention and accept that Sepiaworld is, and has always been, as integral to the storyline as Arkerra. HR sending his body double to exploit the cultists will not be the last time HR meddles in Arkerran affairs.
Forced server transfers suck, but forced game transfers have gotta suck harder.
“But not like from where I come from “?
So this is where the bugs come from.
I’ve reached “the last page” again…
And I see a lot has gone down since my last run through the archives. … I’m not talking about the plot.
Should I be worried? That whole matter of someone being retconned out of existence left me kinda… paranoid. Like I could just be erased from existence and never know why…
.
Anyhow… just looking at page after page of comments just leaves a surreal sense of just how alien everyone else is to me.
Almost all the comments were made yesterday. Most were made within the first hour.
Every page is the same since the beginning. The comments primarily made in the hour, then in the day of its posting… and then nothing. Pages of comments all made in the one day and then… nothing.
I’m posting one day after the page was added, and it is unlikely it will even be noticed…
How do you people do that? How can you only read the plot one page at a time… a mere second of plot activity every two days or so? It would be like trying to watch a tree grow… so slowly you can’t even see it move… HOW can people read webcomics that way?
And yet you all do.
This is your “normal” … while to me it is utterly alien. Incomprehensible.
My normal is to read through the archives… whether from the beginning or some fixed point in the past. Enough to get a sort of momentum… a feeling of continuity… I couldn’t do it otherwise. Then I leave it alone for a few months for more time to progress and plot to accumulate… naturally. This is the way I’ve always read webcomics. It is what seemed most natural.
And yet it is different. What is self-intuitive to me is simply not done by the majority.
I don’t get it. I just don’t get how humans do things. v_v;
… I might drop in briefly tomorrow just in the hopes of catching it while people are in the midst of conversation… or I might not. Either way, I’m done with the January 2015 archive run.
Time to do something else for a few months.
I do the same with (newer) TV series or games. I wait until they are finishes (with games that is until they are fully patched, all Addons and DLC are out and maybe even good mods can be found). I just want to experience them in my own pace. I don’t want to wait for a new season or a patch for a plot-stopping bug. Or start a new game for a DLC/AddOn.
But (for me) webcomics are different. They are little distractions from work. And you are always happy to get one, right? A lot of people seem to have the same ‘problem’, as the vast majority of pageviews for webcomic are from Mo-Fr, even when a comic has weekend updates. In comparison with other formats, updates are regular, so the plot move slowly but surely. You don’t forget half the story between updates. (Who’s that Stannis guy, again?) But you are right, reading a comic from start to finish in a few sessions gives a much better comprehension. I also do that sometimes. But it’s not good for work ;)
I do what I do AT work.
Obviously I’m not supposed to… but given I can get this AND my work done in the time allotted… why not?
In any case, I can’t imagine being able to perceive the progression of the plot in any meaningful manner in page-per-two-day intervals. My memory isn’t exactly stable enough for the task, unfortunately.
Doesn’t help that the updates are in the middle of the night from my perspective… so I couldn’t exactly join in the initial burst of conversation anyway.
It’s basically the same thing you do but in much shorter intervals.
<3
(You are *not* helping my crush on you any.)
Here’s my theory: I think HR was able to tap into Arkerra from SepiaWorld using magic and sticking five people in tubes. He got GodMode in Arkerra, and learned that Arkerra is a true persistant world; an alternate world. But from SepiaWorld, Cyberia was just data and pixels. He needed Brother Tom’s ritual to open a gate to allow HR Prime to get GodMode in Cyberia.
So what’s the next software project from Hurricane? I think, with the increased processing power in a place called Cyberia, he can develop SepiaWorld: The Game, so that HR can close the loop, get GodMode in SepiaWorld. and live happily ever after.
I’m pretty sure the HR in Arkerra is the homunculus HR put in there, and that version of HR doesn’t really have the same kind of powers to manipulate the game that HR does. It can, however, operate from within the game structure.
Who’d ever want to go to Siberia anyway…
Who wouldn’t?