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

We meet again at last.

Chapter 36 – Page 4

on January 12, 2015
Chapter: Chapter 36
└ Tags: Brayen, Brother Homon, Brother Tom, Byron
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  1. Bliggz
    Bliggz
    January 12, 2015, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    if I shut my eyes, maybe this will all go away

  2. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    January 12, 2015, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Well, at least the nightmare’s over…

    • SteelRaven
      SteelRaven
      January 12, 2015, 1:16 am | # | Reply

      No, I’m afraid the nightmare may have just began.

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        January 12, 2015, 1:43 am | # | Reply

        Yeah, that was kinda the joke.

        • Papa RamRam
          Papa RamRam
          January 13, 2015, 2:16 pm | # | Reply

          Out of the frying pan and into the fire it would seem.

    • Saiyanwolf
      Saiyanwolf
      January 12, 2015, 10:10 pm | # | Reply

      Byron: Damnit Murphy’s Law!!!!

      • SotiCoto
        SotiCoto
        April 6, 2016, 10:52 am | # | Reply

        Who is this Murphy transatlanteans keep referring to?

  3. Nyzer
    Nyzer
    January 12, 2015, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    So clearly the battle went very well for the Guildies.

    • Zblackgoat
      Zblackgoat
      January 12, 2015, 12:15 am | # | Reply

      just wait for the respawns

    • Joke Ruiner Reloaded
      Joke Ruiner Reloaded
      February 21, 2016, 8:02 pm | # | Reply

      We have the same gravatar right now, i think.

  4. biggmac
    biggmac
    January 12, 2015, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    Don’t be afraid. I promise you won’t be hurt. Have you ever heard the term “homunculus”?
    How about “anal probe”?

  5. alicemacher
    alicemacher
    January 12, 2015, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Oh…fuzznuggets.

    Possibilities, off the top of my head:

    1. HR–sorry, Brother Homon–and Brother Tom will simply attempt to kill Byron in the usual sort of stabby/choppy way.

    2. Homon will remind Byron of his Sepia World identity and thus kill the “character” that way.

    3. Homon will do that and then, back in Sepia World as HR, kill Tube!Byron, just for good measure. Repeat with the other Four.

    4. Something far less obvious than I’m able to think of at this point.

    • Acadian Bacon
      Acadian Bacon
      January 12, 2015, 12:32 am | # | Reply

      I just noticed… Homon…culus. o:

      • Benedikt
        Benedikt
        January 13, 2015, 1:18 pm | # | Reply

        Now I feel dumb. Thanks.

    • SteelRaven
      SteelRaven
      January 12, 2015, 1:24 am | # | Reply

      Summon another beast to erase “Byron”

    • LockeZ
      LockeZ
      January 12, 2015, 2:47 am | # | Reply

      Magic soul-sucking rituals aren’t really that much less obvious.

    • TxGator
      TxGator
      January 12, 2015, 9:08 am | # | Reply

      I doubt #1 will happen. If he just wanted to stab him, he could of done that while Byron was unconscious. Unless that is, the bad guys were tutored by Dr. Evil.

      • Saiyanwolf
        Saiyanwolf
        January 12, 2015, 10:14 pm | # | Reply

        Byron: “What do you what?” Homon:” We want . . . *Homon puts his pinky to his mouth and have a dramatic close up* you to die.

    • starkruzr
      starkruzr
      January 12, 2015, 10:12 am | # | Reply

      wait
      wait
      When
      How
      Have we seen HR as “Brother Homon” before? Because. That looks an awful lot like just HR.

      • T
        T
        January 12, 2015, 10:55 am | # | Reply

        The tags under the comic are an excellent way to answer this question!

        • DeathDave
          DeathDave
          January 14, 2015, 4:10 pm | # | Reply

          I was just about to say the same. Bless the tags, thanks for them :)

    • Twitcher
      Twitcher
      January 12, 2015, 12:38 pm | # | Reply

      Possibilities – H.R., after killing Byron – Well, now that that’s done, he’ll be resurrected in another world, where I…
      Tom- Wait just a moment, there, Homon, did you just say ‘resurrected’?
      H.R. – Why, yes, I can bring people back from the dead! Hail your new lord and —
      Tom: I’m not fond of blasphemers. *stab*

  6. Cubanpep
    Cubanpep
    January 12, 2015, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    Okay… nothing good happened if you wake up tied to a freaking stone alter!

    • Oldguy
      Oldguy
      January 12, 2015, 12:53 am | # | Reply

      Oh I dunno, depends on who I wake up WITH on the stone altar.

      • Olentzero
        Olentzero
        January 12, 2015, 3:30 am | # | Reply

        Aslan?

        • Mercutio
          Mercutio
          January 12, 2015, 12:27 pm | # | Reply

          Mab?

          • Oldguy
            Oldguy
            January 13, 2015, 1:27 am | # | Reply

            Only if I have an urge to fight Britons.

        • Mercutio
          Mercutio
          January 12, 2015, 12:28 pm | # | Reply

          Opps replied to the wrong comment, that was to Oldguy.

          • tejón
            tejón
            January 12, 2015, 6:37 pm | # | Reply

            Yes, but tell me more about Asian Mab.

        • Oldguy
          Oldguy
          January 13, 2015, 1:28 am | # | Reply

          That wasn’t my first thought, but props for the C.S. Lewis reference!

    • Bruceski
      Bruceski
      January 12, 2015, 1:27 am | # | Reply

      Suddenly your old friends Iolo, Dupre and Shamino appear. Iolo and Dupre hold off the cultists while Shamino cuts your bonds, and grabs a stone tablet the head cultist was holding as the four of you dive back through the moongate.

      • Rules Lawyer
        Rules Lawyer
        January 12, 2015, 1:58 am | # | Reply

        Best counterpoint is best.

        • Bruceski
          Bruceski
          January 12, 2015, 2:04 am | # | Reply

          I’m just surprised I remembered their names. It’s been God-I’m-old years since I played that game.

          • Armagrodden
            Armagrodden
            January 12, 2015, 2:44 am | # | Reply

            Then Byron flips them off as they dive through, loses two or three eighths for taunting, and has to grind good deeds for another hour.

          • Rules Lawyer
            Rules Lawyer
            January 12, 2015, 7:36 am | # | Reply

            That hot air balloon quest got pretty involved. I’ll remember THAT until I’m 90.

      • Zane
        Zane
        January 12, 2015, 3:32 am | # | Reply

        I actually looked that intro up on youtube for nostalgia after reading that comment. Good times. I think I have that game in the original box somewhere still.

  7. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    January 12, 2015, 1:18 am | # | Reply

    This is not how I imagine meeting my maker

  8. Alex Neeley
    Alex Neeley
    January 12, 2015, 2:12 am | # | Reply

    Hello, H.R.
    And now the plot should hopefully take a major leap forward.

  9. LockeZ
    LockeZ
    January 12, 2015, 2:45 am | # | Reply

    Homon’s eyes are weirdly small. Or, rather, they’re not weirdly large like everyone else’s. He looks more like a real person, it makes him uncanny.

    He should’ve made a lore-friendly avatar instead of installing all those mods.

    • Fenlander
      Fenlander
      January 12, 2015, 5:32 am | # | Reply

      There’s only so much processing power the game can allocate per face. Homon just changed the code so that all the eye graphics were redirected to his ‘tash.

      • wolfpax
        wolfpax
        January 12, 2015, 8:15 am | # | Reply

        His mustache is using up his total allocation of polygons.

    • flevine
      flevine
      January 12, 2015, 12:52 pm | # | Reply

      I think it’s the lack of glasses. And yeah, he is creepily “realistic.” I didn’t notice that at first.

    • John Waltrip
      John Waltrip
      January 12, 2015, 1:47 pm | # | Reply

      An astute observation, LockeZ. It is true that Homon looks different from the other characters in Arkerra. You may recall that Homon entered Arkerra from Sepia World through a portal created by H.R. Thus, Homon’s presence in the game is by an entirely different manner than the other characters. In other words, Homon is not a creation of, nor being generated by, the “game programming” and yet is still interacting with it. spooky, huh?

    • Constable
      Constable
      January 12, 2015, 5:01 pm | # | Reply

      I was also going to comment on this. I really like the distinction.

  10. LockeZ
    LockeZ
    January 12, 2015, 6:43 am | # | Reply

    Next, on Guilded Age: We cut to another scene, and don’t see Byron again for four months.

  11. Frigg_Fanboi
    Frigg_Fanboi
    January 12, 2015, 7:26 am | # | Reply

    Oh damn… I got nothing else… just… oh damn…

  12. Bonnie
    Bonnie
    January 12, 2015, 8:30 am | # | Reply

    Byron is totally freaked out by Brother Homon’s strange hairstyle.

  13. Minando
    Minando
    January 12, 2015, 9:00 am | # | Reply

    What.

  14. Minando
    Minando
    January 12, 2015, 9:11 am | # | Reply

    ….”there´s a legal issue about your character´s name. Did you know there actually is a cheese called `Byron`…no, that sounds stupid, I admit it. What I wanted to say ist, you are going to die.”

  15. kitastrophe
    kitastrophe
    January 12, 2015, 10:31 am | # | Reply

    ‘Byron, you’ve been a little lax about your TPS cover sheets . . .’

  16. flevine
    flevine
    January 12, 2015, 12:50 pm | # | Reply

    I wonder if we’ll find out who raised Baby Byron (is that official now?) since he is said to be the only survivor of Battleshire. What exactly do you do if you find yourself about what, 13?, alone, and wandering around talking to a couple of bloody axes? It kind of dampens your prospects for getting taken in…except by Cultists, perhaps.

  17. Blake
    Blake
    January 12, 2015, 1:12 pm | # | Reply

    And then cut away back to our other Guildies for another seven updates or so with this cliffhanger never getting resolved until then.

    • Phil
      Flo
      January 12, 2015, 4:59 pm | # | Reply

      This is also in response to LockeZ:

      Sometimes we write “for” the website updates. Sometimes we write “for” the books/archive. It depends on what we require getting out of the scene.

      • Blake
        Blake
        January 12, 2015, 6:07 pm | # | Reply

        Oh would you look at that I missed Locke saying it first, whoops. But in all honesty I know you guys wouldn’t jerk us around like that for no reason. You haven’t let me down yet, and I don’t expect ya to.

      • TBeckett
        TBeckett
        January 12, 2015, 6:38 pm | # | Reply

        I’ve always been curious about how you webcomics folks organize for a medium that is originally online and released and segments but then gets packaged and sold as one work. A great example will be the way that 2014 and 2015 will be completely different experiences for the Guilded Age reader: last year I saw the story advancing five days a week and the universe expand a little on the sixth. To me that made it feel like we were taking our time to explore the Arkerra, almost like you would in a video game where you’re in between main quest events.

        I’m only guessing of course, but 2015 already seems like it may be a little more cinematic: here we are with a confrontation between the Big Bad and one of the Heroes in a chapter that promises to answer some of our biggest questions, like this is the main action in a universe that is mostly implied. And knowing that I only see these events three times a week adds some suspense, like in foreign cinema where the shots are generally longer. Obviously obviously extrapolating based on like four days of comics, but the slower update schedule may re-focus our attention.

        But all of that will probably be lost in print! That’s what’s exciting to me, because it’s a completely unintentional but unavoidable effect of the conversion. We are, right now, participating in a communal art experience that no one else will ever have in exactly the same way. And that’s awesome.

        (Art geek rant over, you should still buy the books as they come out).

        • Phil
          Flo
          January 12, 2015, 10:42 pm | # | Reply

          This is basically why I love Webcomics, yeah :D

      • LockeZ
        LockeZ
        January 13, 2015, 8:38 am | # | Reply

        I mean, I was just being snarky. I don’t mind if you actually do that, I just predicted it because I knew it would rile up the other readers to realize how likely a development it was.

        I get it. Pacing a story well makes the best parts even more satisfying. Despite any personal gripes I might have from time to time about certain aspects of Starbucks World, I trust you guys to do it right more than I trust almost any other authors of any medium of fiction, because you’ve earned that level of trust.

  18. Mordecai
    Mordecai
    January 12, 2015, 5:53 pm | # | Reply

    At last we meet for the first time for the last time.

    • Sumgai
      Sumgai
      January 13, 2015, 10:00 pm | # | Reply

      *repeats sentence under breath and then nods*

  19. CARTOS
    CARTOS
    January 12, 2015, 8:23 pm | # | Reply

    *cue giant red lase… eldritch beam, moving slowly up the altar toward Byron’s unmentionables*

    “Do you expect me to talk, Cultfinger?”

    “No, Mr. Byrond, I expect you to die!”

    • Bloodvork
      Bloodvork
      January 13, 2015, 9:17 am | # | Reply

      Biiing

  20. Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All
    Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All
    September 26, 2016, 3:14 pm | # | Reply

    I think it was either this chapter or the next one that I originally left off on. I’ll find out soon enough that’s for sure.

  21. Ben Graham
    Ben Graham
    January 31, 2018, 10:54 am | # | Reply

    We’re the last two chapter titles really Xcom references?

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