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Chapter 36 – Page 5

on January 14, 2015
Chapter: Chapter 36
└ Tags: Brother Homon, Brother Tom, Byron
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  1. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    January 14, 2015, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Now that was uncalled for. Compared to the True Payet, Brother Tom’s at least a 6th rate.

    • Hellhound
      Hellhound
      January 14, 2015, 2:17 am | # | Reply

      It really was uncalled for.being compared with that awful idiotic Shit Elf. Poor brother Tom

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        January 14, 2015, 4:44 am | # | Reply

        So true. I mean trying to murder the world is one thing but being a douchey guy who’s popular with the ladies? That’s like a genocide of everyone else’s self-esteem.

  2. Loyal
    Loyal
    January 14, 2015, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    Well, I mean it got you onto that slab, didn’t it?

    • Lingo
      Lingo
      January 14, 2015, 12:51 am | # | Reply

      Well, what exactly got him onto that slab? All we saw was black magic, literally.

      • Fred
        Fred
        January 14, 2015, 3:48 am | # | Reply

        Dynamic Tension, Frankly

  3. Valdrax
    Valdrax
    January 14, 2015, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    Best’s alt confirmed. It’s Brother Tom.

    • Nathanyel
      Nathanyel
      January 14, 2015, 12:43 am | # | Reply

      Beat me to it.

      • mrk
        mrk
        January 14, 2015, 6:50 pm | # | Reply

        +1, awaiting teamup:)

    • DALEK
      DALEK
      January 15, 2015, 8:19 am | # | Reply

      But, what if you are right? This could be an alternate player character for “Payet”, and after Payet died he came back to the real world and began working for H.R./Honom as Brother Tom.

  4. Mordecai
    Mordecai
    January 14, 2015, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    I don’t think we’re going to like what comes next.

    • Jonathan Lang
      Jonathan Lang
      January 14, 2015, 12:50 am | # | Reply

      No, I don’t think we will.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      January 14, 2015, 4:36 am | # | Reply

      I’ve a feeling Byron’s chosen a bad moment to be smug.

      • Seggs
        Seggs
        January 14, 2015, 11:11 am | # | Reply

        “tell me byron, do you like to do it… slantways?”

        Official Phil Kahn Gold Star

      • TaranAlvein
        TaranAlvein
        January 15, 2015, 8:51 am | # | Reply

        He’s not just being smug though. He just said it to himself. Keep them talking. Let them think they’ve won and that you’re simply blind to their victory. Let them waste time explaining why they’ve already won. That’s what Byron is doing.

    • CapnRis
      CapnRis
      January 14, 2015, 8:00 am | # | Reply

      Still looking for that happy ending. I have hope.

      • SongCoyote
        SongCoyote
        January 14, 2015, 10:48 am | # | Reply

        Oh, my poor brain….

        I really, really don’t want Byron to get a ‘happy ending’ from that cultist.

        I want Byron to live, of course, but that might damage his mind too much. Cultists have some very strange ideas about what’s ‘fun’.

        • Rimswythor'nj
          Rimswythor'nj
          January 16, 2015, 9:21 pm | # | Reply

          No…more like a mustache ride…oh that glorious mustache…from Brother Homon.

    • Saiyanwolf
      Saiyanwolf
      January 14, 2015, 8:19 am | # | Reply

      now say it with me: Fatality

  5. Lingo
    Lingo
    January 14, 2015, 12:52 am | # | Reply

    Byron, I think maybe you shouldn’t be revealing so much.

    Also, I didn’t even notice the rhymes until Byron pointed them out.

    • LockeZ
      LockeZ
      January 14, 2015, 2:38 am | # | Reply

      Like he said, he’s keeping them talking.

      • Draxynnic
        Draxynnic
        January 14, 2015, 5:21 am | # | Reply

        Even so, he shouldn’t have told them the nature of the immunity. Better to keep them guessing – both to hide any advantage they might get from the truth (that, for instance, if they hold him long enough the immunity would wear off) and to keep them talking LONGER as they try to find out how he became immune.

        • nemui
          nemui
          January 14, 2015, 5:37 am | # | Reply

          He’s making a hasty assumption that he’s the only one they got to this time around and everyone else is OK. For all we know, we might see Braggadocio carving up Scipio for dinner come Friday. Or, you know, the other way around.

          • Chris
            Chris
            January 14, 2015, 9:26 am | # | Reply

            Exactly.
            Byron may be immune of the symptoms but he is still a carrier and not cured.
            Patient zero.

          • tejón
            tejón
            January 14, 2015, 6:48 pm | # | Reply

            I thought Syr’nj gave that whole group anti-berserker stuff before they left.

            Of course I don’t know whether they all injected it before this encounter…

    • Andreas Geisler
      Andreas Geisler
      January 14, 2015, 5:14 pm | # | Reply

      Remember folks, incantations are rhymecraft in Arkerra.

  6. Chantelune
    Chantelune
    January 14, 2015, 4:21 am | # | Reply

    “Why U no mad, Byron ?!”
    -Brother Tom, the one that loose its cool in the end.

  7. Jürgen Hubert
    Jürgen Hubert
    January 14, 2015, 4:50 am | # | Reply

    …I expect they will make everyone else into berserkers.

    And Byron gets to watch.

    • hierophantasm
      hierophantasm
      January 14, 2015, 12:02 pm | # | Reply

      fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

    • Jerden
      Jerden
      January 14, 2015, 1:45 pm | # | Reply

      And, presumably, get killed by his own friends. Hilarious. For the cultists, I mean.

      • wolfpax
        wolfpax
        January 15, 2015, 7:22 am | # | Reply

        Karmic for Byron, all things considered.

  8. Jim
    Jim
    January 14, 2015, 7:51 am | # | Reply

    Byron ‘s usually smarter than this, giving away info like he did. I hope he has a plan.

    • Devlerbat
      Devlerbat
      January 14, 2015, 9:37 am | # | Reply

      He is. When he isn’t letting his past haunt him.

  9. DeePseudonym
    DeePseudonym
    January 14, 2015, 8:55 am | # | Reply

    well.
    There’s no way THIS could possibly end badly. I mean, tied to a slab, giving away important details, crazy overpowered monks and interdimensional travelers looming over you, what could possibly go wrong with this situation?

    • Minando
      Minando
      January 14, 2015, 10:50 am | # | Reply

      Right. Ultima 6 veteran, am I right ?

  10. Minando
    Minando
    January 14, 2015, 10:30 am | # | Reply

    Never, NEVER mess with a GM.

  11. Blake
    Blake
    January 14, 2015, 11:24 am | # | Reply

    Speaking of, since H.R. is apparently aware killing Payet did nothing to “free” him, has he just decided that he’ll simply use the hero-less moments between respawn to destroy everything?

    • TK
      TK
      January 14, 2015, 1:58 pm | # | Reply

      Unless I missed a detail from later in the story, Best wasn’t killed. H.R. mentioned that Best’s “Tube Body” still had brain activity, he just wasn’t in the game anymore. Waaaaay back.

      • biggmac
        biggmac
        January 15, 2015, 1:02 am | # | Reply

        Of course there was brain activity.
        Most men think with their … “Tube Bodies”

      • Blake
        Blake
        January 15, 2015, 10:26 am | # | Reply

        Well i mean killing as in his in game avatar dying. I could’ve sworn they said he “appears to be in yet another dimension” or something of the sort. But fair enough we never did find the body.

  12. TBeckett
    TBeckett
    January 14, 2015, 11:43 am | # | Reply

    DO NOT INSULT MY RHYMES
    I PRACTICE POETRY ALL THE TIME

    • tejón
      tejón
      January 14, 2015, 6:54 pm | # | Reply

      A regular McGonagall over here!

  13. Cubanpep
    Cubanpep
    January 14, 2015, 11:59 am | # | Reply

    I want him to pop that pencil-neck’s head like a zit.

  14. FoolishOwl
    FoolishOwl
    January 14, 2015, 12:34 pm | # | Reply

    Now even Byron’s accusing people of being Best’s alts.

    Official Phil Kahn Gold Star

    • alicemacher
      alicemacher
      January 14, 2015, 3:27 pm | # | Reply

      Does this mean readers have had a metafictional impact on Arkerra?

      Actually, I shouldn’t have said that. HR may have sent an avatar among us as well. @__@

      • SotiCoto
        SotiCoto
        April 6, 2016, 10:59 am | # | Reply

        Some of us are just people in tubes thinking we’re posting on the comments for Guilded Age.

  15. Matt [in Middletown]
    Matt [in Middletown]
    January 14, 2015, 2:02 pm | # | Reply

    Epic Rap Battle between Brotehr Tom and Payet Best would be awesome.

  16. CARTOS
    CARTOS
    January 14, 2015, 6:37 pm | # | Reply

    “So come up to the lab. And see what’s on the slab.
    I see you shiver with antici… pation.
    But maybe the rain isn’t really to blame.
    So I’ll remove the cause, but not the symptom.”

    *Throws off cultist robes, revealing fishnets and bustier*

    • Washbourn
      Washbourn
      January 14, 2015, 9:15 pm | # | Reply

      Why is there no like button?!

    • Rimswythor'nj
      Rimswythor'nj
      January 16, 2015, 9:19 pm | # | Reply

      Was it Fred’s “Dynamic Tension” post that sparked this quote? I know that I’m now using Tim Curry’s voice for Brother Tom.

  17. Mark
    Mark
    January 15, 2015, 10:09 am | # | Reply

    Wait – was he Lectrus the truth-seeer?

    • Psolo Ghoti
      Psolo Ghoti
      January 15, 2015, 4:56 pm | # | Reply

      No. Byron is referring to this encounter, way before Brother Tom’s significance was made clear.

  18. Yaskaleh
    Yaskaleh
    January 15, 2015, 6:52 pm | # | Reply

    I miss Payet Best.

    • Rimswythor'nj
      Rimswythor'nj
      January 16, 2015, 9:15 pm | # | Reply

      Y’know…I’m re-reading the whole thing right now, and I miss him, too. He was way cooler than I remembered. :D

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