Poor Bandit. She’s the Guild’s Rodney Dangerfield – no respect. Scipio hewed down his share of berserkers I’m sure, and he gets conjugal visits while Bandit gets convict quarters.
Difference is Scipio didn’t put down the berserker that was Syrn’j’s mate…
Getting more and more mad at Syrn’j, the way things unfold. I understand she’s not happy with Byron being dead, but he’s not the only victim there and she should know more than anybody else that Bandit had little choice but to put him down. And that she had reasons not to be relaxed with Byron berserkering around.
Bandit wasnt doing anything to a berserker. She was stabbing an unconcious Byron. She defeated/killed him . I’m fairly sure Scipio didnt defile anyone’s body/corpse afterwards.
Forgive me, but didn’t Syrn’j witness Byron kill her entire team, have to put him down and then face down a firing squad of trolls? I am aware it’s not quite the same thing as 28 Byrons Later, but I think she is far from emotional pristine.
I think Bandit’s been having trouble telling right from wrong, ever since Byron cut her down. When he swung his axes down at her, the first things to be felled were her shoulder angel an shoulder demon.
They don’t actually think she’ll stay put?
OK, it’s a long way to steal her way down to the ground, but why even bother with a cage?
Magicked, probably, but that’s not going to help forever.
Rabbit? Really? Wonder how the creator dudes figured that people taste like rabbit, I heard it was pork or something. To be fair though, he was eating a dude’s face, I don’t know how good that could have been, I mean. This is medieval times, I don’t know how well people do hygiene in this setting.
Well, a gnome that tastes like rabbit is maybe something that the Matrix got wrong. Haven’t you wondered why so many different things taste like chicken?
I believe I made a comment regarding this last Chapter. To wit…
Even if he doesn’t remember, that might only add to the horror.
A friend held in your hands, face chewed half off. The slick feel of blood caking your face and the tang of iron on your tongue. Then the horrible realization of what it must mean reducing you to retching as you feel the churning of your stomach from a meal you can not recall eating and the gory gobbets of flesh in your mouth.
And that, my friends, is the very beginning of the nightmare.
Had a thought. Is Braggadocio a player or an NPC? Because if he’s a player that is a helluva commitment to character to confine your character in a prison cell over guilt.
You wouldn’t be able to tell either way, since I get the impression that the actual characters themselves actually have wills of their own and get up to their own doings when their players aren’t controlling them. The player might control a few explict actions or their personality, but they seem to do a lot of things “off the camera” as it were.
Ya it does seem that way. To the player it may just be a 10 minute ‘jail time’. They go off do something else.
Per the game world other things happen based how the character was build and developed.
I’ve done Role Playing where a character is in a hospital or jail setting. Either there is huge story plot going on at this time or at most you have an hour of in game time before the player gets bored and recalls somewhere else.
I’m think what we’re seeing are shadows of characters created in a video game. I see hints of this back when Syrn’j is trying to find out what happened to Bandit when the rest of them died.
H.R. mentioned earlier that anyone who comes in contact with the tubers takes on their characteristics; Anyone who plays with the people in the tubes takes on characteristics above and beyond what the original game mechanics included.
On a meta sense, the Adventurer’s guild is probably that ONE FUCKING GUILD on the RP server that everyone hates because their plots bleed into everyone else’s RP.
Rachel is a perfect example actually.
She charged the corrupter beast and was wiped from existence.
To Lia, her player, this just looks like her character was mysteriously deleted and she has no knowledge of Rachel fighting the corrupter beast.
Basically, during the time they fought the beastie, Rachel was actually an NPC. The player wasn’t even on the computer at the time & has no idea what happened in-game. It’s almost like you logging into your game & finding out that your account was hacked.
My research (which involves sitting here and making it up since, yanno, gnomes) is that there’s -supposed- to be a hint of chocolate (but definitely not like a chocolate cake or something)… and there’s definitely supposed to be sort of a buttermilk aspect which gives it a kind of a tangy depth.
OTOH, by “definition” Rabbit would taste like Rabbit. It seems kind of rude that someone would suggest he didn’t taste like he was ‘supposed’ to taste like!
The worst thing is….t’was duck season.
No, it was rabbit season.
You mothertrucker.
no, it was duck season.
it’ Berzerkelmerseason, bitches. 8)
Rabbit Season!
Rabbit season
duck season. see, here’s a sign confirming my statement. ignore the long ears, that’s a duck.
BSEBALL SEASON
Rabbit doesn’t taste as good with duck seasoning on it.
Since he seems to have lost his appetite, make that order “to go.” Wrap up the rabbit in duck tape & send him on his way.
So I take it Bandit being in a cage means this isn’t just Beserker containment, but Sky Elf prison.
Syr’nj hit Bandit with a antidote three times the antidote while the gnome was digging into Byron thinking she ‘had’ to be going berserk.
You sure she wasn’t just using them because they’re tranquilizers? She certainly didn’t seem to think that Bandit was berserking at the time.
The first three shots were in Byron’s leg, I believe. The fourth shot was in Bandit’s neck.
At the time maybe, but she now knows otherwiese.
Poor Bandit. She’s the Guild’s Rodney Dangerfield – no respect. Scipio hewed down his share of berserkers I’m sure, and he gets conjugal visits while Bandit gets convict quarters.
Difference is Scipio didn’t put down the berserker that was Syrn’j’s mate…
Getting more and more mad at Syrn’j, the way things unfold. I understand she’s not happy with Byron being dead, but he’s not the only victim there and she should know more than anybody else that Bandit had little choice but to put him down. And that she had reasons not to be relaxed with Byron berserkering around.
Bandit wasnt doing anything to a berserker. She was stabbing an unconcious Byron. She defeated/killed him . I’m fairly sure Scipio didnt defile anyone’s body/corpse afterwards.
Plus telling Syrn’j that she was glad she killed Byron probably didn’t help Bandit’s cause any.
it’s still not appropriate to base judgments on emotion. Syr’nj didn’t experience the emotional toll that Bandit and the rest did.
Forgive me, but didn’t Syrn’j witness Byron kill her entire team, have to put him down and then face down a firing squad of trolls? I am aware it’s not quite the same thing as 28 Byrons Later, but I think she is far from emotional pristine.
It wasn’t appropriate from Bandit to just flatly say “good” when Syr’Nj announced Byron to be dead.
I think Bandit’s been having trouble telling right from wrong, ever since Byron cut her down. When he swung his axes down at her, the first things to be felled were her shoulder angel an shoulder demon.
*AND shoulder demon.
Syr’Nj didn’t experience the same toll? She died too, and then she had to deal with the loss of her husband, still.
Given the ‘zerker habit of getting up after a slight case of death and going right back to berzerkering, I think I’m kinda with Bandit on this one.
It probably helps that he didn’t follow that up with corpse mutilation and a bunch of screaming about how they all had it coming.
They don’t actually think she’ll stay put?
OK, it’s a long way to steal her way down to the ground, but why even bother with a cage?
Magicked, probably, but that’s not going to help forever.
While that is certainly possible, a blanket quarantine for an event such as this certainly seems likely as well.
That’s what I was thinking as well.
Blanket quarantine! So draconian.
How will they keep warm at night?
Damn that reminds me of the cannibalism soliloquy from Snowpiercer. Really heavy stuff.
Spoilers, for anyone who hasn’t seen Snowpiercer. That said, go watch it. NOW.
1. Apologies for no spoiler tag, but I tried to keep it vague-ish.
2. Fuck yes, watch it!
Panel 4.5: “It was terrible. So bland. I can’t believe I didn’t think to add any sriracha sauce or anything.”
Or maybe some fava beans and a nice chianti.
I guess it would be weirder if he tasted like robot.
No, it’s WAV who tastes like robot.
WAV tastes BEST, I thought that was settled.
how would one type the sound that follows that quote?
Or hassenpfeffer sauce.
Psh, no one is a true connoisseur until they’ve sampled the flesh of their friends with a fine wine. Or blood. Blood works.
Klingon Blood Wine?
The random avatars are unusually fitting today.
…except for me……
I mean
blhalrijeailjigfhroaegjoisajljldkf
Rabbit? Really? Wonder how the creator dudes figured that people taste like rabbit, I heard it was pork or something. To be fair though, he was eating a dude’s face, I don’t know how good that could have been, I mean. This is medieval times, I don’t know how well people do hygiene in this setting.
No, no, humans taste like pork. Rabbit was a gnome, hence he tasted like…
*Gnome Gnome Gnome*
Tasty!
Rabbit was Rabbit, who else would he taste like?
Well, a gnome that tastes like rabbit is maybe something that the Matrix got wrong. Haven’t you wondered why so many different things taste like chicken?
Oh jeez… He actually does remember? That might just the most awful thing I could imagine from this.
T’was his greatest crime, remembering.
yeah. Is kinda why I can’t find anything about this whole situation funny, not even a little bit.
I believe I made a comment regarding this last Chapter. To wit…
Even if he doesn’t remember, that might only add to the horror.
A friend held in your hands, face chewed half off. The slick feel of blood caking your face and the tang of iron on your tongue. Then the horrible realization of what it must mean reducing you to retching as you feel the churning of your stomach from a meal you can not recall eating and the gory gobbets of flesh in your mouth.
And that, my friends, is the very beginning of the nightmare.
Had a thought. Is Braggadocio a player or an NPC? Because if he’s a player that is a helluva commitment to character to confine your character in a prison cell over guilt.
“This sucks, I’m outta here.”
/cast Hearthstone
*gets teleported to middle of cage*
“Goddammit!”
That be highly amusing to see that happen to one of my friends. Might get old after a couple days though.
You wouldn’t be able to tell either way, since I get the impression that the actual characters themselves actually have wills of their own and get up to their own doings when their players aren’t controlling them. The player might control a few explict actions or their personality, but they seem to do a lot of things “off the camera” as it were.
Ya it does seem that way. To the player it may just be a 10 minute ‘jail time’. They go off do something else.
Per the game world other things happen based how the character was build and developed.
I’ve done Role Playing where a character is in a hospital or jail setting. Either there is huge story plot going on at this time or at most you have an hour of in game time before the player gets bored and recalls somewhere else.
I’m think what we’re seeing are shadows of characters created in a video game. I see hints of this back when Syrn’j is trying to find out what happened to Bandit when the rest of them died.
H.R. mentioned earlier that anyone who comes in contact with the tubers takes on their characteristics; Anyone who plays with the people in the tubes takes on characteristics above and beyond what the original game mechanics included.
On a meta sense, the Adventurer’s guild is probably that ONE FUCKING GUILD on the RP server that everyone hates because their plots bleed into everyone else’s RP.
Braggo’s user could be offline for this (not sure how game-time passage compares with sepia world), or Braggo could be NPC
Rachel is a perfect example actually.
She charged the corrupter beast and was wiped from existence.
To Lia, her player, this just looks like her character was mysteriously deleted and she has no knowledge of Rachel fighting the corrupter beast.
Basically, during the time they fought the beastie, Rachel was actually an NPC. The player wasn’t even on the computer at the time & has no idea what happened in-game. It’s almost like you logging into your game & finding out that your account was hacked.
Kill the wabbiiiit! Kill the wabbiiiiit!
Awise, storms! North wind blow! South wind blow! Typhoons! Hurricanes! Earthquakes! Smog!
Stwike wightning! Stwike da wabbit!
loving this!
Huh. I thought they were in some kind of limbo-ish afterlife.
That is EXACTLY what I thought. Maybe more like on their way to character Heaven, and I was wondering why cages, though.
Hah, they put her in the cage like a beserker!
That’ll just make her more resolute.
CARRY ON MY WAYWARD SON!!!
They’ll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary teeth to rest
Don’t you eat no more
Strike that, They’ll be feasts when you are done.
Well, now to cry in a dark corner for the next hour…
I’ve actually looked into this subject for my own writing, and I can tell you one thing: Rabbit is not what it’s supposed to taste like.
What exactly are gnomes supposed to taste like, then?
My research (which involves sitting here and making it up since, yanno, gnomes) is that there’s -supposed- to be a hint of chocolate (but definitely not like a chocolate cake or something)… and there’s definitely supposed to be sort of a buttermilk aspect which gives it a kind of a tangy depth.
OTOH, by “definition” Rabbit would taste like Rabbit. It seems kind of rude that someone would suggest he didn’t taste like he was ‘supposed’ to taste like!
Oh ha ha… You can actually make a good guess based on diet… And I’m not going to say.
*Gnome Gnome Gnome*
“I ate a guy and I liked it
the taste of his rabbit-y face.”
I am currently experiencing a feeling akin to being tickled under my feet and stabbed in the heart simultaneously. Panel 4 is the culprit.
When you grow older you will get a better idea about what those funny feelings are for.
Recognizing a heart attack?
Ugh, poor Bragg. Might have been better for him if he’d just died there.
Welcome to every war ever.
You know? The profile of Bragga in panel one strikes me as very similar looking to the sepia world thug-whose-name-I-forgot that stalks Shanna. Hrm…
JJ Berten ? they both got fantastic hair too . ..