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

Well this certainly wraps things up for Byron.

Chapter 41 – Page 24

on April 22, 2016
Chapter: Chapter 41
└ Tags: Byron, Cliff Rockslide, Ember Skycleaver, Gravedust, Snowpeak Icegrip, Stonecutter Moonchild
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  1. Ishmael
    Ishmael
    April 22, 2016, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Guess the Savasi Necromancer class is coming in the next expansion.

    • Kobold
      Kobold
      April 22, 2016, 1:10 am | # | Reply

      Heh, it would be pretty awesome if the lore behind expansion classes in games unfolded through the main storyline like this. As opposed to say, having always been around but we just weren’t aware of them.

      • Wolfgang
        Wolfgang
        April 22, 2016, 6:54 am | # | Reply

        Guild Wars 2 did that. Rytlock got trapped in the Mists during the story, and when he came back in the expansion he brought the new class with him.

        • J
          J
          April 22, 2016, 11:06 am | # | Reply

          Not perfectly of course, since revenants would still start at the beginning, far before Rytlock ever took a dip into the Mists.

          • nightsbridge
            nightsbridge
            April 22, 2016, 11:47 am | # | Reply

            The mists exist outside of time though, right? Between worlds? So Rytlock could be both the first and not the first . . .

            Time is weird.

  2. Alice Macher
    Alice Macher
    April 22, 2016, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Be sure to buy Van Morrison’s accompanying song for this strip, “Out of the Mystic!”

  3. biggmac
    biggmac
    April 22, 2016, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Gravedust … demystified.

    • The Indomitable Eric
      The Indomitable Eric
      April 22, 2016, 1:53 am | # | Reply

      I don’t know, I think he just went ultra-mystic.

      • Nathanyel
        Nathanyel
        April 22, 2016, 6:55 am | # | Reply

        meta-mystic.

    • LockeZ
      LockeZ
      April 22, 2016, 9:40 am | # | Reply

      Hopefully in the future he doesn’t think of this as his greatest mystake.

      • ddyer1970
        ddyer1970
        April 22, 2016, 10:08 am | # | Reply

        I think you mean his gravest mystake.

        • minando
          minando
          April 23, 2016, 3:01 am | # | Reply

          There won’t be a grave for him. Adventurer and all that.
          Ergo it’s not possible for him to make grave mistakes.
          Dragon-belly-mistakes, giant-troll-cudgel-mistakes, use-the-pointy-side-you-idiot-mistakes, yes, but not grave mistakes.

  4. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    April 22, 2016, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    So now E-Merl’s gonna be like, “Hey, what about my love interest!?” And GD’s gonna be like…. *shrug*.

    I have to admit, I fuckin’ hate resurrections because I find they cheapen the narrative and water down any intended feeling of threat or danger and this isn’t even Byron’s first helping of the Lazarus cake (leave some for others man). I do hope this is the last one or that there’s at least some kind of twist or dire consequence for it.

    • Fiaryn
      Fiaryn
      April 22, 2016, 12:24 am | # | Reply

      You seem to be forgetting the regrettable fact that the beast did not kill Rachel. It unmade her, utterly.

      Gravedust can’t really do anything about that.

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        April 22, 2016, 1:39 am | # | Reply

        True though I wouldn’t expect Merl to be so rational about it.

        • Andreas Geisler
          Andreas Geisler
          April 24, 2016, 3:24 pm | # | Reply

          E-Merl is rational to the point of being out of character.
          Dude had to get drunk to even do something stupid.

      • wolfpax
        wolfpax
        April 22, 2016, 5:00 pm | # | Reply

        Gravedust sits down at a terminal and runs an undelete utility…

        But it’s a Mac! Foiled again.

    • random whatever
      random whatever
      April 22, 2016, 1:37 am | # | Reply

      Payet Best next, OK? Seems like Gravy needs a corpse to pray over so yeah no Rachel no Best.

      • JD
        JD
        April 22, 2016, 10:40 am | # | Reply

        I don’t think that was ever a corpse per se, though. Byron’s “body” has been around a WHILE without decomposing at all. It’s like it was in some kind of stasis while was trapped between life and death.

        • Lingo
          Lingo
          April 22, 2016, 3:03 pm | # | Reply

          It’s been a while for us, but how much for them?

          And of course, Byron’s body appears to have been mummified….

        • Jack Vermicelli
          Jack Vermicelli
          April 22, 2016, 5:12 pm | # | Reply

          No more so than any other dead person, though, the way Gravy asplained it. Sure, getting your katra re-meatified is great, but probably has some huge downsides when your meat has been laying dead for a week.

    • Meadowbrook
      Meadowbrook
      April 22, 2016, 1:41 am | # | Reply

      Keep in mind, they’re jacked into a videogame and death isn’t a big deal, what happened to Rachel though, that’s pretty messed up. I’m just wondering how Bandit and the crew are going to react to Scipio still being up and about considering it’s been established that NPCs carry on living even when their operators aren’t around.

      So, you know, don’t feel upset when people die, there’s more stuff going on behind the scenes.

      • Draxynnic
        Draxynnic
        April 22, 2016, 6:27 am | # | Reply

        It’s possible that they’ll ALL be continuing as NPCs for all intents and purposes, being off the grid and all, and the players might not realise. Unless they feel they NEED to log in for their investigation, it’d be too much of a risk to have their location revealed by logging into a game.

        Or it could just be that it’s advertised as part of the game’s programming that PCs continue as NPCs when the players are offline. There’s just supposed to be safeguards in place to prevent characters from dying while the player is offline.

    • Lexible
      Lexible
      April 22, 2016, 2:39 am | # | Reply

      Hate ressurections all you want, I still wish we could rez Prince… :/

      • Fenlander
        Fenlander
        April 22, 2016, 3:14 am | # | Reply

        Wipe away that tear little dove and let me kiss it better. No matter how sad this pop life makes us we can’t gett off.

        • Charlie Spencer
          Charlie Spencer
          April 22, 2016, 6:54 am | # | Reply

          Tell me that 1999 times.

    • Bryan
      Bryan
      April 22, 2016, 7:42 am | # | Reply

      Barbara Gordon should still be paralyzed.

      That said, I’m surprised DC kept that storyline going for as long as they did.

    • Allsbells
      Allsbells
      April 22, 2016, 10:59 am | # | Reply

      As far as I know, this is the dire consequence for it! Mystics are no longer around, no longer able to help the dead find peace

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        April 22, 2016, 4:28 pm | # | Reply

        It was implied that the dead never needed the mystics for that in the first place and managed just fine before they proclaimed themselves spiritual gate keepers. Whether the mystics ever helped much and in what way is hard to say but Gravy basically just decided they’re obsolete which ironically validates Iver’s viewpoint to some extent.

        • FoolishOwl
          FoolishOwl
          April 23, 2016, 4:29 pm | # | Reply

          It’s wise to consider that our enemies may have insights that we don’t want to see.

    • Mr Ak
      Mr Ak
      April 22, 2016, 2:46 pm | # | Reply

      I generally agree, but I think it does make a useful contrast to the sepia world deaths, which are both permanent and messy.

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        April 22, 2016, 4:33 pm | # | Reply

        Fair point though Sepia started getting bloody only recently while people in Arkerra have been dying for a long time so I wouldn’t say it’s an established theme. But maybe it will become one.

    • Lingo
      Lingo
      April 22, 2016, 3:04 pm | # | Reply

      It appears that Gravedust may have just given up his ability to bring people back from the dead.

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        April 22, 2016, 4:37 pm | # | Reply

        IIrc, after the first bout of resurrections GD said he’d never be able to do it again, that it’s heresy, etc. So if doing it again and breaking the rules was always going to deprive him of it it’s not really a price, is it? Alternative would’ve been to simply never use it which equates to not having it in the first place.

        Most I can see is GD losing his mystic powers so no more talking to the dead, no ghost arrows, etc. which is something I suppose.

    • Ved
      Ved
      April 23, 2016, 12:40 am | # | Reply

      I very much expect consequences. We still haven’t been told why the Mystics abhor doing resurrections and was expecting to have that question resolved. They keep talking about the will of the cosmos, sacrifice and whatnot, but not what this really means in concrete terms. Either we’ll find out when Gravedust explains it to Byron or at an appropriately dramatic moment. I don’t see Byron just letting it sit unanswered though.

    • Charlotte
      Charlotte
      April 23, 2016, 4:06 am | # | Reply

      I mean, they are in a video game. Respawns are part of the experience.

      Certain events in Sepia world, though… Well.

    • Rolan7
      Rolan7
      April 24, 2016, 7:57 pm | # | Reply

      Oho, are you implying that Byron is Gravedust’s love interest?
      Nice, but I don’t ship it. Syr Byron for ever.

  5. Fiaryn
    Fiaryn
    April 22, 2016, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    I see Earth and Cyberia hurtling by. And three unknowns. How interesting.

    • random whatever
      random whatever
      April 22, 2016, 1:34 am | # | Reply

      Yeah ok. I been trying to make sense of panel 3. I think you figgured it out with one of the worlds being Arkerra.

      • DanH
        DanH
        April 22, 2016, 6:38 am | # | Reply

        My interpretation was that Arkerra was the Flatland-style map in the centre, whereas the spherical planet-style worlds appear to include Cyberia and possibly Earth.

        As for the other three worlds – I wonder how many other MMORPGs Hurricane Software has created, and whether each has its own world in whatever multiverse contains Arkerra and Cyberia?

    • SteelRaven
      SteelRaven
      April 22, 2016, 2:15 am | # | Reply

      Glad I wasn’t the only one who caught that.

  6. PSadlon
    PSadlon
    April 22, 2016, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    You did the right thing Gravedust, now to prove it.

  7. Spencer
    Spencer
    April 22, 2016, 12:46 am | # | Reply

    Seems like Gravedust rerolled his class.

  8. TachyonCode
    TachyonCode
    April 22, 2016, 12:52 am | # | Reply

    Well. Had I gold stars to give, they’d go half-groaningly, and with as much of a sage nod and knowing smile as possible – to the alt text!

    Sadly. I have only slow claps to give, but the accompanying chat macros abide.

  9. random whatever
    random whatever
    April 22, 2016, 1:45 am | # | Reply

    I wuz thinkin. Maybe Gravey can go backwards into sepia. like Dedalus goes forth from sepia. and bring back Ferris and people that Just Joe kills. This kind of thinking of course is why Campbell and Khan write this shit and I don’t.

  10. Lingo
    Lingo
    April 22, 2016, 2:01 am | # | Reply

    Could Gravy maybe now go bring Prince back?

    • Mr. Potato Patato Von Spudsworth III
      Mr. Potato Patato Von Spudsworth III
      April 22, 2016, 2:16 am | # | Reply

      (Psst! Too down man! Too soon!)

      • Mr. Potato Patato Von Spudsworth III
        Mr. Potato Patato Von Spudsworth III
        April 22, 2016, 10:46 pm | # | Reply

        *soon

  11. Jakalor
    Jakalor
    April 22, 2016, 3:16 am | # | Reply

    I can’t help but think “MUMMY” when I see Byron trying to move in the wrappings.

  12. Aula
    Aula
    April 22, 2016, 4:15 am | # | Reply

    They look utterly horrified in the last panel. “NO! This is WRONG! We were NOT supposed to end up back HERE!”

    • Nathanyel
      Nathanyel
      April 22, 2016, 6:57 am | # | Reply

      Maybe they ended up in the wrong bodies. What a Freaky Friday.

  13. Mr. Mister
    Mr. Mister
    April 22, 2016, 6:33 am | # | Reply

    You know, Sonecutter Moonchild’s name takes a very different vibe if you permutate it to Moonstone Childcutter.

  14. CorrTerek
    CorrTerek
    April 22, 2016, 7:55 am | # | Reply

    Sure hope they do something about Byron’s gaping wounds asap.

    • Bryan
      Bryan
      April 22, 2016, 7:56 am | # | Reply

      I’m more worried about that little bit of Berserker still left near his (spiritual) heart.

  15. TheWreck
    TheWreck
    April 22, 2016, 8:34 am | # | Reply

    Byron, explaining: “I got better!”

  16. Resulli
    Resulli
    April 22, 2016, 10:27 am | # | Reply

    Reasons like this are why Gravedust is number two on my favorite characters list. Only beaten by Byron.

    • Resulli
      Resulli
      April 22, 2016, 10:28 am | # | Reply

      *moments like this

      I’m in typo hell. :(

  17. minando
    minando
    April 22, 2016, 10:50 am | # | Reply

    Death (annoyed): “‘DEFY DEATH’, HAR HAR HAR. I SHOULD GET ME A SWING DOOR. STAY HERE OR GET OUT, MAKE UP YOUR MIND ALREADY, YOU’RE LETTING THE COLD IN!”

  18. MDude
    MDude
    April 22, 2016, 2:26 pm | # | Reply

    Wait, he really did shoot the arrow just to bind himself to it and ride it back to Earth?
    I really should have bothered to joke that he would do that earlier.

  19. Lingo
    Lingo
    April 22, 2016, 3:07 pm | # | Reply

    OK, I have to admit that I saw this coming….but I still think that Rachel didn’t need to be excluded from the Patreon banner. :P

  20. Captain Nemo
    Captain Nemo
    April 22, 2016, 5:38 pm | # | Reply

    Gravedust is like “my people need me, I must go.”

    • Captain Nemo
      Captain Nemo
      April 22, 2016, 5:38 pm | # | Reply

      Hyes

  21. Psolo Ghoti
    Psolo Ghoti
    April 22, 2016, 6:01 pm | # | Reply

    https://youtu.be/8J-i0Q6fT-E?t=7m13s

  22. John Haslach
    John Haslach
    April 22, 2016, 6:40 pm | # | Reply

    A straight shot all the way home.

  23. DShim
    DShim
    April 22, 2016, 8:28 pm | # | Reply

    oh geez previous page I thought Gravedust was going to sacrifice himself.
    so glad he didn’t do that.

  24. Coridimus
    Coridimus
    April 24, 2016, 4:13 am | # | Reply

    Huh. Not much to say here other than…

    FUCK YES! GO, GRAVY!!!

  25. TxGator
    TxGator
    April 24, 2016, 8:32 pm | # | Reply

    Love the Adventure’s Way. Defy death wherever possible, as long as possible.

  26. Simo
    Simo
    May 4, 2016, 9:54 am | # | Reply

    Asking for forgiveness? Forgiveness for what?
    For doing what needs to be done to save the world?

    Bugger that, Gravy.

    Tell ‘me straight, and if they don’t like it, explain it.
    If they still don’t like it, flip ’em off.

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