I was just thinking about this in relation to the Axemas Special. Whether Arkerra is simulated or not (and setting aside that it’s a special case), the individuals and their relationships are real. And that’s what Dedalus is attacking right now. This is an attack on their dignity as human beings, and a deliberate atrocity.
Of course they know what they’re doing Byron, they created it. In any case I’ve a feeling this is going to seep into the “real” world which is some dark shit.
Every time I’ve ever heard someone scream, “NO! YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING!” as they were defeated, it was a villain, who was defeated by the heroes in the process of trying to perform some magic ritual to control an eldritch abomination or become a vessel for godlike power. And the heroes, by their actions, inadvertantly caused the end of the world. In such cases, the alarmed screaming always seemed quite justified.
But when summoning eldritch abominations to cause the end of the world exactly what they’re TRYING to do… and you still yell that… how bad is the thing that’s about to happen?
No, I think it’s simpler, and crueler. Byron will become a berserker again, out of control, and the cultists will send him in the direction of the Peacekeepers.
Hey, online games are ripe with examples on how Hammerspace is used. You see a PC on-screen wearing less than a super-model in a bikini, then they whip out a bazooka from literally nowhere…
Actually he is keeping them closed in the other strip too… Is it because he is conjuring himself upon this world through ritual where he is keeping his eyes closed in the real world. So the projection has his eyes closed also?
As he was made from an arm, and arms don’t have eyes, he didn’t get any eyes. And since he already knows everything he needs to know, he doesn’t really need eyes either.
Am I the only one who hears HR (and Homon’s) voice as the Fuhrer King Bradley from Fullmetal Alchemist? Sort of sincere and grandfatherly, yet just very slightly underscored with implied threats?
Did I…. catch up? I actually caught up in this comic from Chapter 4 to now in a little less than a week. …. now I have to wait for updates like the common rabble. (I kid, I kid.)
Thank you so much Misters Campbell and Kahn (and lovely artwork by Mr. Waltrip as well!) for the excellent, trope-hanging mess that is GA. I look forward to stopping in regularly now to see how this mess with the cultists continues to develop!
Awww snap, Brother Tom’s in free form.
I’m…I’m actually scared to read this coming Monday’s comic.
Well done, sirs.
Hopefully Syr’Nj can whip up a counter, counter concotion. But yeah, things are looking like they are taking a dark turn.
Didn’t he get a super-boost batch of antidote with him? Wonder where they are.
Indeed.
I was just thinking about this in relation to the Axemas Special. Whether Arkerra is simulated or not (and setting aside that it’s a special case), the individuals and their relationships are real. And that’s what Dedalus is attacking right now. This is an attack on their dignity as human beings, and a deliberate atrocity.
No .. NO! YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING!
YOU MISSED MY JUGULAR BY TWO MILLIMETERS! WHERE THE *$%# DID YOU LEARN ANATOMY??
That’s what you get for going to a state cultist instead of private.
Brother Tom kinda sounds like he’s gone meta and is talking about the game itself and not the universe within it.
Opens up weird possibilities.
Of course they know what they’re doing Byron, they created it. In any case I’ve a feeling this is going to seep into the “real” world which is some dark shit.
The internet is already leaking…These guys just want it to leak faster.
Byron’s going to needle little help to emerge victorious from this situation…
I syringe what you did there.
Really? Because it shot right over my head.
Just roll with it and get hypo’d.
This injects a bit of suspense into the situation.
Such vial fiends.
Prick is getting serious.
Dose two cultists are really saavy.
They are trying to make ‘Embolus-tic
But I wonder what, really, that big stone Lupus?
…it will kill us quickly, without pain. Much more generosity than it will show the rest of Arkerra.
Every time I’ve ever heard someone scream, “NO! YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING!” as they were defeated, it was a villain, who was defeated by the heroes in the process of trying to perform some magic ritual to control an eldritch abomination or become a vessel for godlike power. And the heroes, by their actions, inadvertantly caused the end of the world. In such cases, the alarmed screaming always seemed quite justified.
But when summoning eldritch abominations to cause the end of the world exactly what they’re TRYING to do… and you still yell that… how bad is the thing that’s about to happen?
So they are going to wake him up, killing his character.
Nah, the character Byron will wake up in the body of player Byron, and wreak shit in Sepia World.
No, I think it’s simpler, and crueler. Byron will become a berserker again, out of control, and the cultists will send him in the direction of the Peacekeepers.
My bet: he’ll become the arc boss as Avatar of the Countless, and end up having a godpower-fuelled battle with Penk et al later on.
I hope not, the story has been a little more complex up until now. Gotta have faith they’ll avoid the Marvel-style plot developments.
He will be the arc boss…
and then camped and farmed for his class gear drops.
Oh man! ANOTHER Barbarian Axe Helmet of the Berserker. Oh well, I guess it is good for mats.
I wonder how much stuff can those cultists fit up their sleeves.
Infinite amounts. In fact Brother Tom probably has a spare cultist up his sleeves just in case. ;-)
Wouldn’t be surprised.
After all, where else would a Master Cultist keep his armies? Up his sleevies, of course.
Hey, online games are ripe with examples on how Hammerspace is used. You see a PC on-screen wearing less than a super-model in a bikini, then they whip out a bazooka from literally nowhere…
And then Byron changed classes from Berserker to Death Knight
Wonder why “Brother Homon” is keeping his eyes closed?
The cartoonist captured the scene as HR was blinking.
Makes sense.
Actually he is keeping them closed in the other strip too… Is it because he is conjuring himself upon this world through ritual where he is keeping his eyes closed in the real world. So the projection has his eyes closed also?
No, the homonculus is separate from H.R.
I think he’s just squinting because he doesn’t have his glasses.
I have a feeling that I kinda don’t want to see what his eyes look like…
As he was made from an arm, and arms don’t have eyes, he didn’t get any eyes. And since he already knows everything he needs to know, he doesn’t really need eyes either.
UH!
OH!
*hides in corner*
“Rage…taking over.”
“Ja, ja, ja, we’ve heard all of this before.”
“No, no, no. Rage…REALLY taking over.”
Luckily for them, they’re putting the rage into Byron. But that luck would run out if they tried it with Bruce banner…
Am I the only one who hears HR (and Homon’s) voice as the Fuhrer King Bradley from Fullmetal Alchemist? Sort of sincere and grandfatherly, yet just very slightly underscored with implied threats?
Can….Not….Unhear
I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE
It’s a stargate! Now to kill the aliens!!!
Did I…. catch up? I actually caught up in this comic from Chapter 4 to now in a little less than a week. …. now I have to wait for updates like the common rabble. (I kid, I kid.)
Thank you so much Misters Campbell and Kahn (and lovely artwork by Mr. Waltrip as well!) for the excellent, trope-hanging mess that is GA. I look forward to stopping in regularly now to see how this mess with the cultists continues to develop!
Oh cool! I got Byron!
Ow! Right in the cheek!
A little hand sanitizer should clear up that hand-stank, H.R.
…or you could just turn on the pan-dimensional exhaust fan as a courtesy to others.