Annotations Every Day - Written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip
Guilded Age
The Saga of the Working Class Adventurer – New comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday!
Widdershins
Kate Ashwin
A series of light-hearted Victorian-era adventure stories featuring grumpy bounty hunters, accidental thiefkings, and more, in England's magical capital city Widdershins!
The Weave
Rennie Kingsley
A young woman pursued by bad luck is witness to the murder of the Fairy Queen of Summer. Can she get to the bottom of this mystery?
Cassiopeia Quinn
Gunwild, Psudonym
A cute, pantsless thief is pursued across the stars by a buttoned-up military officer in the spacey, laser-filled future.
The Last Diplomat
Cat Farris
Samma and Tark didn't ask to be stuck together, but now they're partners on the adventure of a lifetime.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
How to be a Werewolf
Shawn Lenore
Malaya Walters was bitten by a werewolf as a child. After being raised by her human family, she faces the chance to learn what being a werewolf is really like as an adult.
Ride or Die
Mars Heyward
Ride or Die is an LGBTQ webcomic about two street racers who team up with a demon-possessed muscle car in the search for a missing woman, while being hunted by a deadly religious cult.
Barbarous
Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota
A crummy wizard and an anxious monster have to get over themselves and bring order to an apartment building full of misfits.
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
Freakshow
Scotty
A festival of broken people, blood flows in the center ring. Come one and come all, to the greatest show in all of Paris.
Little Tiny Things
Clover
What are the little things that move us? The simple joys that warm our bodies and hearts? The micro life of insects that influence our world more than we think? The tiny steps we make everyday to have a happier tomorrow?
Kochab
Sarah Webb
A YA F/F fantasy comic about Sonya, a lost skier trying to survive a snowy wilderness and find her way back to her village; and Kyra - a fire spirit trying to fix the home that she let fall apart around her.
Aquapunk
Lo
In an underwater world of unknown coordinates, inhabited by aliens, ghosts, and robots, a young member of a warrior underclass is framed for a crime and goes on the run. Little does he know he is part of a grand design that only gods and ancestors could choreograph.
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
Dumbing of Age
David M Willis
Joyce has been homeschooled her entire life until now, when she's suddenly a freshman in college! Things don't go well.
Empowered
Adam Warren
A sexy superhero comedy (except when it isn't) about the never-ending struggles of a plucky but very unlucky young superheroine.
Star Impact
Jack McGee
A young, energetic woman fights her way up in the world of super-powered boxing after discovering the mighty gloves of her missing idol!
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
This is Not Fiction
Nicole Mannino
What do you do when the person you're in-love with is an anonymous romance novelist? Get your best friend to hire your worst enemy for help!
Love Not Found
Gina Biggs
Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.
Blindsprings
Kadi Fedoruk
Tamaura, wrested into a world 300 years in the future, must find a way to save the magic fading from her country.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Within
Verena Loisel
A young hitman meanders between a reality that seems to happen without him, and his dreams where he is lost in an endless house. When he makes an accidental friend, his world is shaken up and he realizes there are things he can't remember about himself.
Nigh Heaven & Hell
Scotty
Heather Vodihn is on a simple mission: find her father. However she becomes entangled with two strangers with mysterious powers being stalked by a group with bizarre demands. Heather must learn to trust her new traveling companions, even if she is untrustworthy herself.
The End
August Brown, Cory Brown
Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!
ARISE, YE SKELETON KING
Brian Clevinger, Escher Cattle, Lee Black
A troupe of wandering "adventurers" down to their last silver "acquire" a map only to find the real treasure was the fiend they dug up along the way.
Quick$ilver
Crypto
The flirtatious, directionless, and ever disastrous Luci searches for excitement in a life of crime, and finds himself caught in a web of messy romance and bad blood.
The Golden Boar
Magnolia Porter Siddell
A young woman joins a group of summoners who call forth Guardian Beasts to protect their isolated magical island. Unfortunately, her Guardian Beast is nothing like she'd imagined, and he's about to change her life, and everything she thought she knew about herself...
Sakana
Mad Rupert
Our heroes must navigate a hazardous dating scene, overcome personal anxieties, and wrangle unruly seafood in order to find love, peace of mind, and a paycheck.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
The Forgotten Order
Christy
A young witch for whom every spell is a misfire finds solace and friendship in her new companion - a cursed doll.
Edison Rex
Chris Roberson
The adventures of the world’s greatest villain who, after defeating his superheroic nemesis, decides that he’s the only one left to defend the world.
Gzhel Guardian
Atla Hrafney, nushanchel
The Railway World is a complex, mysterious network of trains, towns and mechanical monsters. Leo is a Guardian of one of these towns, and although their burn-out and depression has taken hold of them, they have one last job to finish.
Scape
Lauren
Sula has always preferred to forge her own path, but before she knows it, she is pulled into the middle of a civil war between man and monster!
Stand Still, Stay Silent
Minna Sundberg
A few generations after the end of the world, a small, poorly financed research crew is sent out to rediscover whatever is left of the forbidden old world in the south.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
Beeserker
TJ Cordes
This comic is about a robot powered by bees, but it's also about the kind of people who think filling a robot with bees is a good idea, and why they're wrong.
Alice and the Nightmare
Misha Krivanek
Alice finally attends University to learn to collect the dreams of humans, meet new friends, and deal with a pesky reflection along the way.
Astral Aves
Moon Cabal
A fantasy coming-of-age following the adventures of Astra The Black and friends, as they navigate the mysterious world around them. It's politics, adventure, and the supernatural; oh, and crazy hair.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
Guilded Age
T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina
Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!
Augustine
Winter Jay Kiakas, Windy
August and her ragtag group are just like everyone else, simply surviving in the treacherous Crater... When they stumble into what may be an artifact of the ancient past, their lives are thrown into a much bigger loop as they trifle with bounty hunters, monsters and gods.
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
Lies Within
Lacey
Lysander's aimless and carefree life is turned upside down when he accidentally discovers that the cute boy next door, Simon, is a literal monster
Sleepless Domain
Mary Cagle (Cube Watermelon)
In a world where magical girls and their battles are commonplace, loss has become all too common as well.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
Missing Monday
Elle Skinner
Two girls fall in love through a magic door connecting their worlds. When Monday suddenly goes missing, it's up to Foyle to find her. How she's going to navigate an entirely unfamiliar world is another matter.
Monsterkind
Taylor C
Wallace Foster, a young, bright-eyed human social worker, has his entire world view rocked when he's suddenly relocated into a city primarily inhabited by monsters.
Not Drunk Enough
Tess Stone
Logan Ibarra is possibly the unluckiest repairman in the world. A late night job should not have landed him in the middle of a mad scientist's squabble, but he soon finds himself surrounded by monsters and further madness with little tools to get out.
Darkling Bright
Chris Hazelton
Kieran Bright is a college student home for the summer and roped into an online reunion with his old neighborhood friends in the most recent update of their favorite childhood MMORPG.
At least, he was, and that was the idea...
Join Kieran and his friends as they are pulled into another reality that may or may not be real and are forced to confront their own identities, the nature of simulated universes and reality itself.
Guilded Age is co-written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn, and illustrated by John Waltrip. Site design by Samantha Kyle. Fonts by Blambot.com.
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There’s a quick way to solve this. Just google “Fr’nj questline romance” and see if anyone else gets the same results when dealing with her. If they all mention her ‘meaty’ role, then there y’go.
Unless the quests are all unique to each player but the overall questline plot is still interwoven between players and npcs.
So the same results would come up… because each player herd about what happened to character X because… it is a global event that everyone experienced… at least the people that were THERE and ON.
NPC or PC is still indeterminate from the ‘meaty’ role.
Though they must have some pretty hardcore dynamical npc-interactions to make normal people question npcs vs pcs. Yay turing compliant npcs?
That seems to be the case. Hurricane probably has a big advertising campaign about some advanced automated scripting system that allows everyone to have their own questline within the larger plot or something.
It sounds like something they would say, and it’s coherent with the way the players have been talking about their respective quest lines.
“C’mon man, no one’s going to talk about YOUR NPC. Everyone knows that Hurricane randomizes the names of NPCs for everyone to maintain the illusion of uniqueness. Duh.”
“Actually, I think I remember your bot from the Beacon’s Hill raid. It did a good job, unlike mine which was just a mess of pathing errors. I swear I had to put in like four moderation tickets before Hurricane finally fixed it by “killing” him offscreen and giving me a new one.”
No one seem to notice, or care that players have no control over their characters.
Apparently, you forget it’s considered a “Beta” Game. Googling it won’t help. Besides, that crusty old man who made it made damn sure to cover his tracks.
No, when the Tubers joined, that method was in beta.
Kingdoms of Arkerra is fully fledged with multiple expansions. They mention that it’s the world’s biggest MMO at one point. You don’t get that with a beta.
I don’t know… Microsoft manages to do it in the OS market on a regular basis…
There is just a BIT of a difference between those two things.
Warframe, 4-player Online Co-op with persistent world RPG elements, is still technically in Beta despite soft launches on home gaming consoles alongside their actively supported PC client, and an aggressive Freemium item/cosmetics shop. We live in an age of incremental software development and minimal viable products, or in short form… “the perpetual beta”.
Beta or not, it’s still pretty fun. Space ninjas. In Space!
Although, kinda grindy. My friends and I
despairinglyjokingly call it “Warfarm.”Yeah, but Warframe is amazing. And you have to hand it to Digital Extremes, they listen to the community and are pretty damn active
Why is Kaye looking at Chrissie? That’s not how webcams wor- oh.
Oh dear.
Oh… oh very dear. Yep, ok.
It’s all just another layer!
Before you know it we’ll discover there’s a black and white storyline which is the ‘ultimate’ reality.
Your censored username really fits into that theory.
*Gasp* No….
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
Or take both, then shit gets real.
Heheheh… Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/566/
You know, on that note… coincidence? Or super-secret hidden truth?
I was going to say panel five makes no sense… but now it does. Horrible, horrible sense.
This is the big reveal for Xan (where he unmasks as being the player behind Fr’nj).
:D
Not
:D
Just because your girlfriend has bloated hp and multiple abilities/scripts doesn’t mean she’s not a bot.
It could just be that time of the arc.
She’s an Auto-Bot
You know, of all the weird nerd fantasies I ever had, having an Auto-bot as a girlfriend was never one of them.
Until now.
Interesting. Maybe we’ll get some real answers soon. I’m still not sure if these “players” actually have any influence on the “characters” they play, or if the “game” merely tricks them into believing they do.
It’s the latter. The only question at this point is how much.
Eh, I don’t really think we have enough info to say this, especially since this whole thing is, in part, a magical construct.
Could be the game somehow synchronizes character with player, so the character “coincidentally” makes all the decisions that the roleplaying player would make. It would start at character creation. The magic matches an already existing character in Arkerra(who would previously appear to be an NPC) with the input given when the player creates a character. Over time the character and player would gradually come to have identical worldviews, or quickly rationalize any discrepancies in the name of roleplaying(“It’s what my character would do, not what I would do.”).
By this token Fr’Nj is a PC whose player maybe just hasn’t created an account yet.
Or the player made an account, then stopped playing and just left Fr’Nj to her own devices. The secret lives of orphaned MMORPG characters…. Why does that feel like a pitch for an Dreamworks animated movie?
Um, because it is a good pitch?…No seriously make that pitch Dorje, I don’t care if your script experience is ~0 just find a writer. Thems PROFITABLE brainstorms yer havin!
Maybe because Pixar already made a movie with a similar concept. It was called Wreck It Ralph. *Animation studio burn!*
Except Pixar didn’t do Wreck It Ralph. Only Disney did it. So I fail. :/
Hmm, I guess Shanna and Xan don’t know yet that Bandit “killed” Byron….
Oooohh… That brings to mind an interesting question. What happens when Chrissie realizes she may have killed the player who plays Byron?
Since Daniel was online for the conversation with Iwatani, he was probably online a few minutes earlier, hanging out with Sundar, Frigg, and WAV, so it’s likely he’s heard that WAV looks exactly like long-lost guildie Payet Best, said to have been killed in-game.
Not sure if the sepia-world people have brought up Best yet, but if they ever do WAV’s existence is evidence that killing a character in the game doesn’t kill the real-life person, so Chrissie doesn’t have to worry about being responsible for anything worse than a character reroll with a cringe-worthy hairstyle.
So could Fr’nj be? The only person who pops to mind is Carol.
Or she’s actually a “bot” and the “bots” aren’t really “bots” at all.
But that would require the game to be powered by SOME SORT OF MAGIC!
(Insert unnecessary drama dun-dun-duuun)
I love how Kaye is looking up and to her right to Chrissie as if that will help her see someone standing behind the laptop.
Uhm… I don’t theeenk so. She’s looking off screen. With, like, last words on her mind, except she doesn’t know they are last words yet.
yeah, she might be looking down the barrel of a loaded handlebar mustache
The alt-text for this one is terrific.
Absolutely. I so had to laugh. ;)
“reading” this for 6 years?
Pffft.
The one who wrote the alt-text is selling himself short, methinks…
;)
Well, we already know that the game does more things than HR expected and even goes against his programming sometimes, so obviously there’s more to it than a mere computer game. Even if she is an NPC, that doesn’t make her a bot (that is, she doesn’t necessarily she follow the code someone wrote).
I mean “she doesn’t necessarily follow the code someone wrote.” Sorry about the extra “she”.
“None of this makes any sense . . . unless . . . logging into the game actually takes you through a trans-dimensional portal into another world created by arcane magical spells cast by the CEO of Hurricane Software who is now currently embedded in his own construct!”
“Now you’re thinking with Portals.”
“Look I’m sorry, but to be honest that idea is so insanely dumb it could only come to fruition in a webcomic or subpar anime desperate for a hook.”