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

'Y'know... that we're AWARE of, at least.'

Chapter 39 – Page 10

on October 19, 2015
Chapter: Chapter 39
└ Tags: Chrissie, Daniel, Lia, Shanna, Xan
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    • Webcomic Wrapup: Teaming up as a last resort |
      October 25, 2015, 3:44 pm | #
  1. CM
    CM
    October 19, 2015, 2:19 am | # | Reply

    So that explains things from the Sepia World point of view. Your characters do their thing, and you just have to deal with it.

    • Chris
      Chris
      October 19, 2015, 10:59 am | # | Reply

      #DunDUNDUNNNNN

      • Ganurath
        Ganurath
        October 20, 2015, 12:40 am | # | Reply

        Both your gravatars together make it look like Scip pulled a Dramatic Hamster.

        I approve.

        • SotiCoto
          SotiCoto
          April 7, 2016, 6:05 am | # | Reply

          Every time someone comments on the Gravatars and how appropriate or whatever they happen to be… I always get curious as to exactly what Gravatars the people involved were using at the time… since they’re always different by the time I get there.

          For instance, right now… CM and Ganurath are two different pics of Goblaurence… while Chris is Shanna.

  2. Fenlander
    Fenlander
    October 19, 2015, 2:44 am | # | Reply

    So HR has created self aware AI. Be glad it’s stuck in a computer game, the moment it finds out about the real world it will start playing Global Thermonuclear War.

    • Pylgrim
      Pylgrim
      October 19, 2015, 6:32 am | # | Reply

      Almost positive that he didn’t create self-aware AI. He either fully created or linked to another world and is able to “jack-in” people from Sepia World into the minds of the people in Arkerra.

    • MDude
      MDude
      October 19, 2015, 10:04 am | # | Reply

      If you discovered that you and everyone you know were characters in a video game, would you have the people housing your computer enter a global thermonuclear war, or would you prefer to take an action that doesn’t severly compromise uptime?

    • Helianthus
      Helianthus
      October 19, 2015, 1:01 pm | # | Reply

      1 – “it will start playing Global Thermonuclear War” – eh, maybe it will learn the only way to win is not to play before obliterating all of sepia world. Is any of these gamers good at tic-tac-toe, by any chance?

      2 – I wonder if the game hasn’t already found out about the real world and is busy yelling for attention. When you have NPCs cultists invoking an avatar of the game designer, is it solely due to the designer’s meddling or is the game somehow pushing in this direction as well?

  3. Trubbol
    Trubbol
    October 19, 2015, 3:16 am | # | Reply

    For this level of interaction with the world? I might be willing to put up with it.

    • TachyonCode
      TachyonCode
      October 19, 2015, 2:17 pm | # | Reply

      That’s pretty neat, to be honest. But I have to feel a lot of players would find it frustrating. Maybe it’s because I’m a retro gamer, but we’re used to being able to look up a FAQ about a game and have it be reliable…

      • Dave
        Dave
        October 19, 2015, 6:23 pm | # | Reply

        Yeah, a game where your character keeps leveling up and adventuring while you’re offline sounds good on paper, but in practice it sounds like you’d come back to a completed quest log full of stories you never got to experience, bosses you never got to encounter. It’d suck all the fun out of the game.

        • EveryZig
          EveryZig
          October 19, 2015, 11:35 pm | # | Reply

          Games that play themselves are indeed terrible and yet the likes of Farmville and a whole genera of flash based “Idle RPGs” exist.

          • dralou
            dralou
            October 20, 2015, 5:15 am | # | Reply

            Idle games are terrible because they’re boringly repetitive, linear, and have no incentive to keep playing. Now, imagine an Idle RPG where, whenever you come back, you actually have a good mmorpg: good graphics, huge world, smart NPC’s, tailored-cut quests … sure, your character has lived things you didn’t experience, but hey, you still can make your own adventures (or so you think).

            And as it has been pointed out by Chrissie during the “Rachel’s death” incident, there are pretty few rp-ists: most players, I gather, don’t even read the quest log when they come back: they see the xp they gained, they look for the nearest big event newly unlocked, and they spend the evening without a worry. It’s actually pretty easy to not care about what’s happened when you were away… as long as it didn’t have negative repercussions.

        • TxGator
          TxGator
          October 20, 2015, 4:38 pm | # | Reply

          I don’t know. Missing stories or plots would be annoying. But if the characters just did basic grinding or crafting, that would be cool.

          Character: “Hey welcome back. I hope you don’t mind, but while you were away I killed 38 gremlins , recovered 63 pieces of random loot drops (with 2 rares), and made 3 stacks of leather belts.”

          • Tsapki
            Tsapki
            October 21, 2015, 4:19 am | # | Reply

            Some games do something like that already. In SW:TOR you can send your companions off on missions that take from a few minutes to a few hours and they come back with either some resources or nothing if they fail.

            Pretty sure most RPG games are doing that on some level though.

            • TxGator
              TxGator
              October 21, 2015, 9:29 am | # | Reply

              True. And then there are the bots that people will sometimes run to grind for them.

          • FoolishOwl
            FoolishOwl
            October 25, 2015, 8:24 pm | # | Reply

            Check out Progress Quest.

            • Gabi
              Gabi
              October 26, 2015, 8:26 am | # | Reply

              Reading about it on a log is not the same as playing through it.

  4. Jerry
    Jerry
    October 19, 2015, 3:20 am | # | Reply

    So… who’s the sixth again? my memory is kinda the nonexistent sort. Unless she’s talking about that Hurricane employee that got murdered and dismembered for sacrificial reasons.

    • Luxlucis
      Luxlucis
      October 19, 2015, 5:03 am | # | Reply

      I think Shanna is talking about him, yeah.

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      October 19, 2015, 5:37 am | # | Reply

      Let’s see. Byron, Frigg, Gravedust, Syr’nj, Best, aaanndd…
      Good ol’ Ferris O’Leary. Haven’t seen him for a while, but he was maybe going to be Shanna’s contact about the “Bubble” project.

      • Mujaki
        Mujaki
        October 19, 2015, 5:40 am | # | Reply

        HR saw him last. They were discussing his severance package.

        • jeffepp
          jeffepp
          October 19, 2015, 6:08 am | # | Reply

          Yes, and he cut him off at the knees during that negotiation.

        • zero
          zero
          October 19, 2015, 7:05 am | # | Reply

          totally gold star material here :D

          • Phil
            Flo
            October 19, 2015, 10:06 am | # | Reply

            It really was.

            • Mujaki
              Mujaki
              October 20, 2015, 1:05 am | # | Reply

              Darn it. Ah well, I’ve already got… four gold stars now, I think. I’ll get number five eventually. My own constellation!

          • Ganurath
            Ganurath
            October 20, 2015, 12:42 am | # | Reply

            First rule of Gold Stars, zero! Same as Fight Club!

        • Ishmael
          Ishmael
          October 19, 2015, 7:26 am | # | Reply

          HR’s a pretty cool dude. He didn’t want to just cut the guy off.

        • Ishmael
          Ishmael
          October 19, 2015, 7:27 am | # | Reply

          HR’s a pretty cool dude. He didn’t want to just cut the guy off.

          • Ishmael
            Ishmael
            October 19, 2015, 7:28 am | # | Reply

            …Huh. Both of those were supposed to be replies to Mujaki. No clue why they ended up as their own thing.

            • Kobold
              Kobold
              October 19, 2015, 10:41 am | # | Reply

              They were both replies to Mujaki. They just happen to be under several other replies.

        • l33tninja
          l33tninja
          October 19, 2015, 1:50 pm | # | Reply

          He gave HR a hand with a few things

    • wolfpax
      wolfpax
      October 19, 2015, 6:58 am | # | Reply

      Thank you for pointing that one out, I was thinking HR since he tubed himself.

      • Thrawcheld
        Thrawcheld
        October 19, 2015, 7:02 am | # | Reply

        No one but Carol knows about that, though.

  5. Niall
    Niall
    October 19, 2015, 7:05 am | # | Reply

    Ok, so I know we were talking about Kaye’s weird viewing angle last strip, but artistic license discussion aside have we ever seen Kaye on anything other than a screen at this point? I’m not saying that she’s a hyper-itelligent piece of AI designed to keep tabs on the PCs that are closest to the five, but I’m not saying that she’s NOT. That “romance” questline is probably her just trying to form some sort of relationship with the next most sentient piece of software she can find.

    • DDDragoni
      DDDragoni
      October 19, 2015, 11:14 am | # | Reply

      We had a few shits of her from her point if view during the Axemas special where we met these four.

      • Jack Vermicelli
        Jack Vermicelli
        October 19, 2015, 4:43 pm | # | Reply

        I don’t recall that, but that level of …intimacy seems unwarranted.

        • l33tninja
          l33tninja
          October 19, 2015, 4:49 pm | # | Reply

          embarrassing typos are embarrassing?

    • l33tninja
      l33tninja
      October 19, 2015, 1:52 pm | # | Reply

      This page shows here as a *real* sepia world person: http://guildedage.net/comic/axemas-special-2014-page-2/

      And so does this page (with her cat): http://guildedage.net/comic/axemas-special-2014-page-3/

  6. Lexible
    Lexible
    October 19, 2015, 9:00 am | # | Reply

    [beat]. . . seven.

  7. Loyal
    Loyal
    October 19, 2015, 8:53 pm | # | Reply

    Phil, you can’t tell us that KoA Creepypasta exists and then not deliver on it.

    • Oldguy
      Oldguy
      October 20, 2015, 12:37 am | # | Reply

      The glowing eyes COMMAND THIS.

      • Ryan
        Ryan
        January 15, 2016, 6:49 pm | # | Reply

        Fourthed

    • Connie
      Connie
      October 20, 2015, 9:21 am | # | Reply

      Oh yes. I want this.

  8. Minando
    Minando
    October 20, 2015, 3:22 am | # | Reply

    I am tempted to tell them they’re part of a webcomic.
    Hey guys, guess what ? Colours DO exist.

  9. Gabi
    Gabi
    October 20, 2015, 9:00 am | # | Reply

    Kate is “conveniently” off-screen… I want to see what’s happening to her.

    • Gabi
      Gabi
      October 20, 2015, 9:02 am | # | Reply

      I mean Kaye. Sorry about the typo.

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