Chapter 39 – Cover & Page 1
It’s the start of a new chapter, Guildies, and you know what that means!
New DLC! New Avatars! New wacky antics! Same long-winded blowhards at the helm!
Who’dja get?
Also, here is a gift for the memesters out there:
Annotations Every Day - Written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip
E-merl trying to drink away your sorrows never works!
A shit-elf enters a tavern: “tavern-meister, give me ten shots of Old Viper!” The host pours ten glasses in succession, then the shit elf takes the first and the last and spills their contents on the ground.
– Why did you do that?
– The first one tastes like shit, the last one always makes me sick.
Do or do not, there is no try.
For all that I love Star Wars, and Yoda, too, that quote is really terrible advice. There IS try. If there wasn’t try (and fail) and try again, there would never be a do. Nobody DOES anything the first time.
Oh, you sir want the Shwartz.
As I recall, almost all Yoda’s advice was terrible, and Luke’s most important decisions involved rejecting it.
Yoda was clearly talking about muscle memory. There are times when trying is less effective than just doing it.
> Those hooded fellers in the corner look like Cultists. AGGRESS!
Holy mood swing batman! Even Frigg’s looking concerned.
She’s not preoccupied with herself for once. That’s quite a change. And I think I like that change.
Concern and compassion for others sits well on her face.
You took my face!!!
We’ll not be havin’ any face-offs this time, calm ye tits.
Yeah, face-offs always end in one way…Bloody & bare skulls with wide, staring eyes that burn a hole through the souls of others.
…It’s…messy…
She thought one of those shots was for her . . .
I thought the same thing! I dont think that ive ever seen that expresson in her before!
Non-confrontational Frigg is weird.
It makes me suspeeecious.
Oddly enough, it’s Wav that caught my attention on that pannel. His helmet make it looks like he’s crying.
Yeah, I noticed that too. I guess it’s just the way the light’s reflecting on it.
Also, poor E-merl. Major feels for him.
Seems the E-Merlomicon is here to stay…
Poor Emerl. :(
So, anybody else notice the scowling figured looming in the bottom right corner?
Probably just a “concerned citizen” who read the latest news.
They call ’em striders ’round these parts. A couple of them rogue/ranger types. They says they’s dual-classin’, they says free dual wieldin’ perks goes real noice with sneak attackin’. Not that I’d now tendin’ this bar for the past fitty years.
“You’d be wise to stay away from th’likes o’ ‘im, says I. He finks ‘e’s sumpin’ special, ‘e does. But I knows ‘is secret. ‘e’s got naught but a broken sword in ‘is britches, if’n ‘oo know what I mean . . . ” [wink wink nod]
“Wait, what? I have no idea what you mean. What are you talking about? And what is this accent?”
Gaa. Anime eyes. Hate. So much hate.
Thankfully it looks like a temporary illness, probably non-communicable. A little less pandemic than berserkeritis, at least.
But it has now been memed.
Doom!
Girlfriend got disintegrated
Still does his job?
Great Scott, you’re right! Yet another one to add to the great pandemic of our times, the meme-onic plague!
I didn’t know anime owned cartoon puppy eyes.
me two
I have concerns about drunk, enraged, depressed E-merl and that cultist tome.
Friends don’t let friends drink and chant.
Yeah, that was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the chapter cover. This does not bode well…
I have concerns about these avatars matching the comments so well.
Yep, spider in the shot glass, the first thing he’s saying is ‘life is pointless’, followed up by ‘her spirit is nothing’ and hey, there’s a book of faith about that very topic just sitting conveniently on the table right there. Hope I’m wrong, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he takes to a faith that let’s him join her in ‘nothingness’. Reeeally hope that’s not where they’re going with this.
Yeah, my previous comment was cheering for beefcake to the swimsuit special… I got a reaaaaal happy brother Tom for that one (which by now changed to this one of course). At this point I think we’re past any concerns about the avatar algorithm gaining sentience and should worry about its sense of humour….
Thankfully, we know the cult doesn’t do any necromancy. So he will not find any stupid spells in there that end in zombie apocalypse.
You could argue that the Berzerkeritis epidemic was a “zombie” near-apocalypse as it could cause the recently-violently-dead to rise as nigh-unstopable, pain-immune creatures whose only mindless aim was to kill, thereby creating more of their kind.
However, there’s unlikely to be any spell to raise a particular dead person *as themself* – that’d be more Gravy’s thing than the cultist, but E-Merl knows even that’s impossible in this case, with Rachel no longer having either body or spirit to raise.
Frigg’s face. She’s not well. That’s the only explanation.
Why isn’t she flipping off anyone right now?
I am very concerned as well.
E-merl needs to be captured on black velvet.
Poor E-merl… You know it’s bad when Frigg isn’t making fun of you.
That has GOT to be a sign of the coming of the end. Mind you, HR will bring that about anyway, so we don’t have to note those anymore.
I mean to say everything will be fine. Carry on.
Hu… h-huzzah~. >_>
That spider under the shot glass, though? Just… just kill it, man. No spider ever deserves to live… D:
…trapped in a glass prison and fumigated with low-end alcohol.
The itsy-bitsy spider was trapped beneath a glass.
Alcohol fumes soon knocked her on her ***.
Out shot a hand which sent the glass to break,
And the itsy-bitsy spider could finally breathe again.
Awww, poor E. They left him hanging.
HUZZAH!
Huzzah!
Huzzah!
Huzzah!
Huzzah!
Huzzah!
HUZZAH!
huzzah…
I’d rather not Huzzah, if it’s all the same to you
HUZZA NOW OR WE LYNCH YOU!!
(Man, my old avatar pick would have been perfect with this)
BATMAN
Dat face D:
(Clearly Shanna isn’t buying the QQ)
Hey! That’s my face! I’m not done with it!
Nope. No, apparently I am done with it.
Check. Check.
Blerp
Cheers E-Merl.
https://youtu.be/Bx8M5Ozpizo
You know you have issues when even Frigg looks genuinely concerned for you.
At first, I thought the spider in the shot glass was this world’s version of a tequila worm. ;-)
E-merl and the adventures are disturbing the other patrons of this bar because they’re not wearing hoods like everyone else who isn’t a bar wench.
Huzzah!
What? Are we not doing that?
I kind of miss the anticipation and guessing game of the old cover page update, though this instant gratification however is not so bad either.
You know it’s bad when Frigg is looking at someone like that.
bite your tongue. Double cover/page updates are the greatest thing since 5-day a week updates
Nice!
No kidding. That’s one of my favorites.
If E-merl’s face in that last panel does not find its way to being a avatar I will be very disappointed.
I didn’t know they had Arby’s in Gastonia?
I have an odd feeling that WAV would Huzzah! if he understood that you’re supposed to Huzzah! when someone Huzzah!s.
So many sparkles… I’m not sure I like how it looks. I feel like it doesn’t fit in so well with the rest of the highlighting, but I know I’ve seen it used on plenty of other pages, so maybe I’m only noticing it more since there’s so much of it in one place on such a dark-ish background.
Ooookay. This is definitely the point at which E-merl should be cut off and somebody walks him home. And maybe keep the crazy cult book away from him as well. Early-Onset-Nihilism and cultism tend to go hand in hand.
Frigg’s just like “Whoa, dude, rage is one thing, but this nihilistic shit is just too edgy for me.”
When life gives you lemons, shove them into the juicer while laughing manically.
“When life gives you lemons, YOU BURN DOWN LIFE’S HOUSE!”
You know guys, I’ve been thinking, when life gives you lemons don’t make lemonade, make life take the lemons back, GET MAD, I DON’T WANT D__N YOUR LEMONS, WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THESE, DEMAND TO SEE LIFE’S MANAGER, MAKE LIFE RUE THE DAY IT THOUGHT IT COULD GIVE CAVE JHONSON LEMONS. DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? IM THE GUY WHO’S GONNA BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN…..WITH THE LEMONS, IM GONNA GET MY ENGINEERS TO INVENT A COMBUSTIBLE LEMON THAT BURNS YOUR HOUSE DOWN.
I wish I had something clever to say!
Um…look at Frigg’s face again!
Oooh! I’m pretty now.
can we take a moment to talk about the table of Aragorns in the last panel?
I just want to see my new face
I think I’ve seen that face before…
And I thought E-merl didn’t have a meme bone in his body.
Huzzah!
This would have fit if only that exclamation point was a period…
Poor Emerl. I have to wonder about how players of the game interface into the Akerra world. Was their “character” just directed by them when online? Does their creating a character actually create a person? So many questions unanswered in the details of that.
Let’s hope the e stands for evil, I’m ready for some dark magic
You know it’s bad when even Frigg has a look of concern on her face
I have nothing to say, I just want to see my avatar.
I want to hug him. He needs a hug.
Gosh darn rolelplayers in my MMO.
Geeze dude, she just ragequit, send her some nudes, make her a heartfelt plea, tell her you miss her and she’ll come back.
My avatar changed! I used to look like the admiral guy in one of his angry moments! I liked that avatar! It made me feel passionate. And angry.
Anyways, what gives!?
New chapter and all avatars reshuffle.
Seems like someone just opened the door, judging by the light on E-Merl’s back and Sundar’s face. Might explain Frigg’s anomalous expression, too.
Huzzah.
Huzzah!
Huzzavatarcheck
Oh. :-(
Just so you know, when I am looking back through the archives, I can only read the cover page and page 1 gets skipped.
Was just about to post about this. I usually wait for the chapter to be completed before I read it, but here my patience seems to have bitten me on the rear.