Chapter 41 – Page 4
Good morning, Guildies! The time has come!
Since you demanded it, we now have a Patreon! Click here, or the above logo that I would be impressed if you missed somehow!
The Patreon is for us writers to finally see some sort of personal profit out of this here comic. As we’ve discussed many times in the past: we’ve maintained on paying John for every update for this long with no issues, but after that, all our revenue goes straight into running other aspects of the business.
So, if you think that we deserve the proverbial “Phat Lewt,” and also want to give your hard-working artist John a well-deserved raise, you can treat yourself to any of the following reward tiers via our Patreon:
Bringing our total to $1,000 a month means that Guilded Age can update 4 times a week again! That’s right, we’ll go up to four a week again, with either more updates in the main story, or the triumphant retrun Ask An Adventurer (decided by Patreon poll).
$3 Pledgers get EARLY UPDATES with NO ADS directly in their Inbox!
$5 Pledgers get Patron-only wallpapers and avatars, as well as the early updates, access to Guilded Age Plus, and Monthly Google Hangouts with the Guilded Age Fam.
$10 Pledgers get all that crazy stuff as well as eBooks of the chapters as they finish, and access to the eBook backlog of Guilded Age!
Thank you all for reading, thank you all for sticking with us. With your continued generosity, T and I can keep Guilded Age the priority we all want it to be in our lives, and give us a stronger base for moving forward.
Do it, Gravy. Go chaotic.
OK, why does Byron get to be in the Patreon banner, but not Rachel?
Because Rachel lives on in your heart.
Because Byron was a likeable and important character, and Rachel was an irrelevant whiner.
Boo hiss.
*sharpens pitchfork*
*lights torch*
*starts chanting “rabble rabble”*
I don’t get it, what do you guys have against Byron?
He’s dead, Jim.
When do you think people die? When they are shot through the heart by the bullet of a pistol? No. When they are ravaged by an incurable disease? No. When they drink a soup made from a poisonous mushroom!? No! It’s when… they are forgotten.
I haven’t forgotten Rachel. … Were we talking about someone else?
Have some internet points, I haven’t seen a Drum Island arc reference in /ages/.
Spoilers!
Because Rachel was obliterated from their multiverse.
Like…retconjuration? I think E-Merl would disagree.
Even Fr’nj is in the banner. She’s a fr’nj character by definition!
Yep. Dead. He’s dead. He’s graveyard dead. Kicked the bucket. “Bring out yer dead” dead. Expired like a 3 month old gallon of milk. A member of the Not-Grateful Dead. Much, much deader’n a doornail. “He’s dead, Jim”. D.O.A. I, re mem berrrrr … he was flying along, and hit something in the air …
Dead is who dead does. /burnforestburn
It’s worse then that, he’s dead Jim.
It’s
lifedeath, Jim, but not as we know it.He’s deceased. Passed. He is an ex-Byron. He’s gone to meet Dr. Chapman.
He circled the drain and went in.
*Sees patreon symbol* *Reads list of rewards* *Starts hyperventilating*
I find the part where Gravedust has a part of his mind that goes WWFD surprising.
All My Pals are Dead by Gravedust Deserthammer
“All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down (Into their Graves)”
“So yep, that’s pretty much what I’m doing tomorrow.”
The purpose of rules is so you THINK before you break them.
Patreon, finally! I hope you’ll make a lot of money.
I have one very specific request about Patreon: Please never lock a part of the story behind a paywall. It’s happened with a few web comics I used to read, where they’d put a part of a story that you have to pay for some fashion, then they refer to it repeatedly. Some of us really are counting pennies, and it sucks so bad when stuff like that happens.
We’re not comfortable with doing that, either! Anything we’ve done that we haven’t put directly in the main story (such as the bonus preludes in Volumes 1-3) has been supplemental, rather than required reading.
Anything that you’d have to pay an extra dime for is, was, and always will be strictly “Bonus Content.”
At any rate, we have no particular ambitions to do extra content for Patrons right now. We are more interested in putting more pages on the main site. Thanks for bringing this up, I am glad to reassure everyone that we are not shitty dudes like that!
This probably won’t work right but…
https://media.giphy.com/media/vVGzlimI9KAOQ/giphy.gif
“It would, ultimately, betray everything I believe… everything I stand for. So obviously I’ve already decided to do it, and should quit dawdling.”
*raises hand*
For those of us who get Guilded Age Plus from the FRIGGSTARTER, is there an alternate prize? Or just the knowledge that we’re ultra-badass?
If we had an alternative to offer, we would!
Is there some way I can just make a one-time payment? I really don’t want monthly billing, but think you deserve some money for all the entertainment you have provided me.
It seems to be down right now, but
http://guildedage.storenvy.com/
You can pledge and then cancel after the first payment goes through, or you can send direct donations over PayPal to tcampbell1000@gmail.com!
And thank you!
Glad to do it! I wish you great success. :)
Today: “I shouldn’t do the thing.” :/
Wednesday: “Imma do the thing!” :)
Friday: “I’m doing the thing!” 8D
*yawn* “Hey Gravedust, what are you writing?”
Man, dwarf, Gravy, you already KNOW what to do.
Now be a dwarf about it!
(which means hit the universe on the kneecaps untill it spits out what you need to know)
WhaaaAAaaaaTTt?!!!
…
Sorry, but this gravatar was MADE for this.
This is the part where Gravedust abuses the EXP boost from repeatedly casting Meditation that slipped into the latest patch, right?
Yes, Frigg would buttonhole those sprits…and stick something up their butt
onholes.Getting caught up on the last few pages and all I have to say is:
I’m not crying; you’re crying. ;_;
I know it’s his cheekbone all right, but panel 1 looks a bit like Gravy uses false beards.
SHOCKING!