Yeah, but that’s why they give the Oracle job to a young kid. The older, more jaded Winter Elves have much more trouble getting visitors past the pissed off stage of the conversation.
Best, you did the following of your own free will (Byron at least had the rage demon excuse)
Strike 1: tossing children from a lethal height on slim hopes of a tree somehow saving them, without any prior warning/discussion with other party members
Strike 2: Suddenly bludgeoning a former comrade with a heavy blunt object to the back of the skull because they politely indicated they don’t want to work with you again. You then pressed the advantage created from the concussion you gave Byron to injure him further and humiliate him (Best fans may mistakenly take Byron’s dizzy resistance as an excuse to label this vicious assault as a mutual fight in retrospect)
Strike 3: Destroying a sacred powerful artifact blatantly tied to extraplanar forces because it doesn’t show you a bright future, triggering an easily foreseeable disaster that nearly killed the entire party and successfully destroyed a priceless temple.
Strike 4: Attacking a previously-injured Byron AGAIN and causing an avalanche from sheer rage because he tried to save you from the cataclysm you caused in Strike 3, but failed.
Now Strike 5: Making. Weo. Cry.
CONCLUSION: You don’t only deserve your fate of dying alone, you deserve to LIVE alone until that wonderful day when the world is finally rid of you.
Except that once again, Best is just better: right now, he’s plainly right about being pawns in a “sadistic god’s twisted game.”
Really, I don’t get Best haters.
He can be clearly heroic too. Without him, the gang wouldn’t be back to life. And most of the quests he was there to *ahem* help with would have gone differently.
The point is that he’s a flawed character with heroic capabilities. We call them anti-heroes, right? Frigg and Byron are flawed too. Best just won’t recognize it, but I’m pretty certain there’s character growth planned somewhere along the road.
I guess that makes two of us since I don’t get Best’s supporters. You really can’t see the MANY telltale signs that Best is just a narcissist pretending to play hero for the obvious perks: fame and glory? Where exactly has Best ever helped someone without expecting some type of ‘payment’ in return?
Truth: He doesn’t give a fuck about helping anyone but himself, he just wants to be SEEN by everyone as a ‘great hero’. You guys are just inventing character and depth where there is none to try and fit Best into a trope you’re familiar with (anti-heroes). He’s NOT an anti-hero, even anti-heroes would not pull a lot of the shit I listed in my initial post. He’s an ill-tempered douchebag attention whore playing hero for the fame he expects (from the prophecy) will come from it, nothing more.
Agreed. It’s like those Korean light novel’s heroes, that do everything for selfish reasons, but by doing all he is turning the world better, and eventually they mellow a bit with their friends, while still sending their enemies to fates worse than death and gloating about it.
Remember, Best only became an arse when he heard a prophecy about him…But it wasn’t about him at all! His name only sounded similar to the name in that prophecy, who showed up only a short time after Best left that town! That original prophecy wasn’t HIS destiny in the first place, but it still went to his head just that quick!
All of his arrogance, egotism & pettiness was for NOTHING that he ever thought it was for!
What “results”? Side-tracking the party? Fracturing the party? Nearly destroying the party? The only thing he did positive for the plot was give Syr a bit of info on Byron’s condition.
I am not a Best supporter by any means. Whatever good he has done I am simply tired of his crap. His character is shallow and it bores me. However, I would list the one good thing he has done as bringing the party back to life. Granted he did it for selfish reasons and was upset to discover who he brought back to life, but that would still be one of his results.
While he has gotten results, it’s not because he was particularly good at what he did. In real life we can chalk it up to hard work, but it seems like he just started with an 18 in every stat (except wisdom).
And I don’t know if Best was the asshole who got results. I think more often then not he was the party’s Leeroy Jenkins. However, he has had net benefits. Most of the party’s worst moments were due to Byron or Syr’Nj than anyone else. His backstory isn’t even that sad compared to anyone else in the party. Maybe if it was he would try and foster community rather than destroy it. Maybe that’s where the story is heading- we even saw some of that character development while he was all cyber.
But even if he does change, to me he will always be ‘that punk who might at anytime be a punk again’. Kind of like Neville Longbottom, Smeagol, or Loki.
I disagree that he got 18 in every stat. He is a Jack of All Trades instead, and he is willing to run great risks to do what he wants. Luck favors the bold after all. And, he feels like a compulsive solo player – while others would enjoy some time in peace and RP, Payet Best would either be seeking adventure or having massive orgiastic parties, and those tend to last at most a couple days.
Let’s just skip over the countless times he ended up actually saving the party. for his own selfish reasons sure but he did save them none the less. we wouldn’t have much of a story if he wasn’t in it
I think the best (ha!) way to see him is by his archetype: He’s clearly being set up to earn redemption by having a change of heart in the eleventh hour, and sacrificing himself for the greater good. It will end with us getting a double catharsis, from the asshole finally getting his just deserts, and from him being redeemed.
I wouldn’t say he has heroic qualities at all. He is a skilled fighter with good luck and a lust for glory. He succeeds at what he sets his mind to, and what he often aligns with is what we the readers consider to be the “good side,” but his motives have and always will be his personal glory. Heroism is altruism, Best doesn’t have that, and never will. He’s good at what he does, and he generally fights for the “right side,” but he’s not a hero.
Frigg and Byron are flawed, but they do their best (unlike Best, ironically). Best can do good things, but he’s insufferable. He’s a pedantic jerk who respects no one but himself and believes he deserves to be treated like a king just because a prophecy said he had a great destiny ahead of him. So… I get why most people wouldn’t like to be around him.
Also, he gets madder and madder because no one respects him… but his own actions make him lose everyone’s respect. It’s a vicious cycle and he doesn’t realize it because he’s too pedantic to realize he’s doing anything wrong.
It wasn’t even his prophecy either. He wandered into the right place at the right time with enough similarities to have the villagers think he was the Prophesied One, took advantage of it, left, and then the real ‘Hero’ basically walked into a lynch mob.
“Today, we bury the remains of a heroic stranger, unknown to all, and with no name for anyone to speak of again.”
“Um, Syr’Nj, what are you talking about, it’s Paye-”*punch* “DID I STUTTER”
“WE ALL DIE ALONE!” he shouted as he passed
No sense or regrets, no he never looked back.
Though his pride was wounded, his ego was strong
and that was his trouble. AND THIS IS HIS SONG
Maybe his grave site will just be contaminated with acutely hazardous material. Or he could even set up a scheme where someone takes his place to build a legend of an immortal warrior, but for that to work he obviously can’t have people seeing that he’s actually dead. Probably what you said, though.
Maybe he’ll die in Cyberia, where everyone else derezzes when they die, leaving no bodies to bury?
Maybe his tank body had an aneurysm when he had a brain flood and ripped himself out of his WAV character? Carol is already loading his body in her trunk, for burial in the desert. Payet Best is now immortal in Arkerra. >.<
Best has to start from scratch with the immortal warrior legend. He wasted countless lives trying to become the Dread Pirate Roberts. Every time he was captured by one of the Dread Pirate Roberts, Best would piss them off, and Roberts actually would kill him tomorrow. Even the two Roberts that the Princess Bride knew made Best walk the plank.
The last time he had to walk the plank, a Gastonian fishing ship pulled him out of the water.
That doesn’t make Best a hero. He’s done horrible things too, and for the same reason: he thought it would get him what he wanted. A *real* hero has at least some sense of altruism, and does good because it’s the right thing to do. Best is the antithesis of that.
The way I figure it is that Best doesn’t have a lonely grave for that reason. Just because his *grave* will be lonely doesn’t mean that he’ll be alone when he dies; someone will have to bury him after all. Maybe he does that final, heroic sacrifice (for some reason, even if it’s for selfish reasons) & he’s buried as a hero in a remote location – ie: lonely grave.
Maybe he just can’t come to grips with the idea that heroic prophecies rarely end with the hero surviving. It’s not even really HIS OWN prophecy to begin with & it’s going to be a real struggle just to try fulfilling it because of that.
Even so, he’s lived as an insufferable jerk & he might die as an insufferable jerk, although I do hope that he’ll have that revelation that balances him for the better, in between Payet Best & Wav. If anything, that’s the only way he could really be remembered as a hero even after he’s buried.
Someone with Hammerhead’s size, strength & temperament, yet combined with as much philosophical depth as his intellect allows, he could be referred to as the Insufferable Bulk.
And in the first panel, Penk and Goblaurence are like:
“Ah, restraining your idiot berserker buddy”
“Been there, done that, locked him in a deep cellar”
I feel so sorry for Weo.
1. He’s kind.
2. He’s cheerful.
3. He has a sense of humor.
4. He’s a genuine seer, the real deal. (It’s so hard it is to find someone who professionally is competent at their job!)
I really want to kick Best in the twig and bearings and remind him he’s just a shit elf.
Oh yeah.
And I feel also sorry for him for being a child/teenager seer in the middle of a whole village of adult seers.
“I have never been able to do a prank before”
Being surrounded by people with precognition would indeed limit the interest of the games you can play with them. Not just pranks, but any game of chance, like dice or cards (ask Granny Weatherwax)
But Weo has those longer eyelashes, which is probably what’s confusing you because it’s comic book code for “female.” It’s vaguely possible that Frigg is wrong.
Oh, Harky also calls Weo “he” on the same page (page 7). So they’d both have to be wrong, with Weo not correcting either of them, which seems extremely unlikely.
I have a feeling Weo is actually the worst seer. That’s why he’s the Oracle to deal with the plebs.
The best seers are all getting on with their lives, secure that nothing matters in the eventual server shutdown/heat death of the universe.
Only Weo can have any form of optimism since he doesn’t see as far as they do. This makes him closer in perspective to plebs/adventurers and he has the worst job in town: Oracle. Or “customer service” for Reality/Hurricane Inc.
Best wouldn’t be the fun(?) kind of butt plug. When Tectonicus awakens from his slumber, he’ll be straining to pass Best, like a bear in Spring, straining to pass its hibernation butt plug.
I think it’s possible he actually does feel bad. Will he change? Probably not, but considering he’s finally getting some answers (and has people to keep him from doing anything too rash), he MIGHT learn from this.
I’m not saying it’s likely, but there’s a statistical chance Payet Best become slightly less horrible.
Yeah, actually; a few pages back someone linked the page where it says exactly what he saw. I couldn’t remember either so I was glad for the link. Go have a peek. :D
He’ll have a lonely grave.
But, he will HAVE an actual grave. That means SOMEONE will take the time to give him a proper burial.
He may be an insufferable ass right now, but at some point he will earn the respect of at least one person.
That event we should look forward to.
Honestly, I’m guessing it’s Byron. Out of all the people that Best has encountered, Byron is probably the only one who would regret his death, or at least feel like he should have done something to prevent it.
I think the best part about this scene is the fact that Best’s idiocy is bringing the Peacemakers and the Champions together in a pretty big way. Maybe his great destiny is to be a unifier by way of being a massive douchebag?
Just found and read the comic from beggining to end. (incase, you want to know from where, from ma3 and i was just like “fuck it, lets give this a shot” after having read it for a few years and seeing that image)
Loving it, sorta got freaked when the real world started to get introduced. I was like “nooooo. noo. How are you even gonna? Oh, well i guess that makes it better”
“A great destiny”: great good or great bad?
“A lonely grave” like, say, buried under the rubble of a building that the good guys destroy because Best is the Ultimate Evil.
You will die all alone, hungry, desillusioned, an outcast hated by everyone. I mean, after the famine. And the illness. And the civil war. And…oh, I’m getting ahead of myself.
Sorry.
I didn’t mean to spoil it for you.
*smiles happily*
Best seems to cause very mixed feelings about him, but majorily seeing him ans a self-important, materialistic asshole. While I get that, I also kinda understand why he is like that.
(Bear with me, for my English is not of best quality)
His life, as far as we know, was not especially hard. He did not met hardships like most of our characters. He does not carry some great burden, and he didn’t suffer like Byron and the others. He suffered in a diffrent way.
What he got from life is ‘blandness’. He strikes me as someone who, at some point, really wanted to believe that there are great heroes with their destinies, that will vanquish evil and leave the world better. He seems like he really wanted to belive in the world of heroes, noble people to rescue and monsters to slay.
But as his life wnet on, hopes and dreams crashed head-first into wall of reality. He lived with Sky Elves, and as he himself said, after time he realised that behind the convoluted speech of them, there really is nothing. As time went by, he realized that this world is not black-and-white, but rather gray of varying shades. He realized that heroes and adventurers are not noble beings of glory, but simple workers – go there, slay that, get 6 coppers per kobold skin. The world around him stripped him of all hopes and wishes to see this image of high fantasy he had in his head, and slowly turned him into this bitter, selfish man he is now. Behind all this cynism and bitterness though, it seems there still was a small flame of hope, that there is a chance for ‘real’ heroism. This is why he sought out the Basin.
This is why he was infuriated when all he saw was confirmation of his worst assumption – that there is not glory, honour and high fantasy. Just a life ended in a lonely, sad grave. It might be a hidden fear that not only him – but that this is the fate of everyone. That in the end, nothing anyone will do will matter, and the world will continue unchanged.
Why that might be. I don’t have any strong argument to back that up, but perhaps while other players enclosed in the tubes had very clear images of their heroes and stories, Best’s player did not – and the arcane program gave him exactly that. Unspecific blandness.
I felt kinda sad for Best, in the first panel. If Kingdoms of Arkerra really is just a game, that HR is the creator “god” of, then Best was right on with his assessment.
Since most of us seem to believe that Arkerra actually exists, in an alternate dimension, I feel like, “Ooo… Missed it by that much!”
Of course, it could be that Arkerra, Cyberia, and Sepia World are all three Microsoft Game Studois vaporware, languishing on some mostly forgotten development server, where some developer spends his break time playing god, doing crossovers between the games. Sepia World was set to be a massive, accurate reality simulation. But, it got canned, after its lead developer mysteriously vanished. Turns out, Gates played an early alpha version, and decided that a software company hitman in the game was taking reality a little too far. ;)
That was the most polite kick in the balls ever.
Indeed. That is a brilliantly polite kick in the balls. Much approval.
I notice that Gobby over there, next to Penk, seems to be enjoying the show. He looks rather bemused…Even has the hint of a smile.
Well that shut him up.
Which takes some doing indeed. I think Weo may be the most powerful character in all Arkerra, maybe even more so than H.R. :-)
Exactly as she saw it would… She’s goooood.
Awwwww.
Definitely. The little kid in a town where everyone can see everything before it happens would be bound to have problems.
Yeah, but that’s why they give the Oracle job to a young kid. The older, more jaded Winter Elves have much more trouble getting visitors past the pissed off stage of the conversation.
I have always felt for Best, but never more than I do now.
Violent insecure jerks have feelings too…
Best, you did the following of your own free will (Byron at least had the rage demon excuse)
Strike 1: tossing children from a lethal height on slim hopes of a tree somehow saving them, without any prior warning/discussion with other party members
Strike 2: Suddenly bludgeoning a former comrade with a heavy blunt object to the back of the skull because they politely indicated they don’t want to work with you again. You then pressed the advantage created from the concussion you gave Byron to injure him further and humiliate him (Best fans may mistakenly take Byron’s dizzy resistance as an excuse to label this vicious assault as a mutual fight in retrospect)
Strike 3: Destroying a sacred powerful artifact blatantly tied to extraplanar forces because it doesn’t show you a bright future, triggering an easily foreseeable disaster that nearly killed the entire party and successfully destroyed a priceless temple.
Strike 4: Attacking a previously-injured Byron AGAIN and causing an avalanche from sheer rage because he tried to save you from the cataclysm you caused in Strike 3, but failed.
Now Strike 5: Making. Weo. Cry.
CONCLUSION: You don’t only deserve your fate of dying alone, you deserve to LIVE alone until that wonderful day when the world is finally rid of you.
Except that once again, Best is just better: right now, he’s plainly right about being pawns in a “sadistic god’s twisted game.”
Really, I don’t get Best haters.
He can be clearly heroic too. Without him, the gang wouldn’t be back to life. And most of the quests he was there to *ahem* help with would have gone differently.
The point is that he’s a flawed character with heroic capabilities. We call them anti-heroes, right? Frigg and Byron are flawed too. Best just won’t recognize it, but I’m pretty certain there’s character growth planned somewhere along the road.
Best is an enlightened genius before his time. His Meta is strong, but his vision is short.
I guess that makes two of us since I don’t get Best’s supporters. You really can’t see the MANY telltale signs that Best is just a narcissist pretending to play hero for the obvious perks: fame and glory? Where exactly has Best ever helped someone without expecting some type of ‘payment’ in return?
Truth: He doesn’t give a fuck about helping anyone but himself, he just wants to be SEEN by everyone as a ‘great hero’. You guys are just inventing character and depth where there is none to try and fit Best into a trope you’re familiar with (anti-heroes). He’s NOT an anti-hero, even anti-heroes would not pull a lot of the shit I listed in my initial post. He’s an ill-tempered douchebag attention whore playing hero for the fame he expects (from the prophecy) will come from it, nothing more.
I see the signs. I just think the not everyone needs to be a goody two shoes. Someone has to be the asshole to get results
Argh. I hate this idea. Being a blatant arsehole is not a good strategy for anything. (Being a clever manipulative arsehole, on the other hand…)
Agreed. It’s like those Korean light novel’s heroes, that do everything for selfish reasons, but by doing all he is turning the world better, and eventually they mellow a bit with their friends, while still sending their enemies to fates worse than death and gloating about it.
Remember, Best only became an arse when he heard a prophecy about him…But it wasn’t about him at all! His name only sounded similar to the name in that prophecy, who showed up only a short time after Best left that town! That original prophecy wasn’t HIS destiny in the first place, but it still went to his head just that quick!
All of his arrogance, egotism & pettiness was for NOTHING that he ever thought it was for!
And best has gotten results
What “results”? Side-tracking the party? Fracturing the party? Nearly destroying the party? The only thing he did positive for the plot was give Syr a bit of info on Byron’s condition.
I am not a Best supporter by any means. Whatever good he has done I am simply tired of his crap. His character is shallow and it bores me. However, I would list the one good thing he has done as bringing the party back to life. Granted he did it for selfish reasons and was upset to discover who he brought back to life, but that would still be one of his results.
His Best result…
While he has gotten results, it’s not because he was particularly good at what he did. In real life we can chalk it up to hard work, but it seems like he just started with an 18 in every stat (except wisdom).
And I don’t know if Best was the asshole who got results. I think more often then not he was the party’s Leeroy Jenkins. However, he has had net benefits. Most of the party’s worst moments were due to Byron or Syr’Nj than anyone else. His backstory isn’t even that sad compared to anyone else in the party. Maybe if it was he would try and foster community rather than destroy it. Maybe that’s where the story is heading- we even saw some of that character development while he was all cyber.
But even if he does change, to me he will always be ‘that punk who might at anytime be a punk again’. Kind of like Neville Longbottom, Smeagol, or Loki.
eeh. IMO I didn’t like WAV. he was a very 2D character and atleast I personally didn’t see alot of personality in him
I disagree that he got 18 in every stat. He is a Jack of All Trades instead, and he is willing to run great risks to do what he wants. Luck favors the bold after all. And, he feels like a compulsive solo player – while others would enjoy some time in peace and RP, Payet Best would either be seeking adventure or having massive orgiastic parties, and those tend to last at most a couple days.
Let’s just skip over the countless times he ended up actually saving the party. for his own selfish reasons sure but he did save them none the less. we wouldn’t have much of a story if he wasn’t in it
I think the best (ha!) way to see him is by his archetype: He’s clearly being set up to earn redemption by having a change of heart in the eleventh hour, and sacrificing himself for the greater good. It will end with us getting a double catharsis, from the asshole finally getting his just deserts, and from him being redeemed.
But still: Fuck him form making Weo cry.
P.S. How did Weo not see this coming?
He did see it coming, as he said, but hope springs eternal.
I wouldn’t say he has heroic qualities at all. He is a skilled fighter with good luck and a lust for glory. He succeeds at what he sets his mind to, and what he often aligns with is what we the readers consider to be the “good side,” but his motives have and always will be his personal glory. Heroism is altruism, Best doesn’t have that, and never will. He’s good at what he does, and he generally fights for the “right side,” but he’s not a hero.
A commentary on the ragequitting roleplaying gamer? Delicious.
Frigg and Byron are flawed, but they do their best (unlike Best, ironically). Best can do good things, but he’s insufferable. He’s a pedantic jerk who respects no one but himself and believes he deserves to be treated like a king just because a prophecy said he had a great destiny ahead of him. So… I get why most people wouldn’t like to be around him.
Also, he gets madder and madder because no one respects him… but his own actions make him lose everyone’s respect. It’s a vicious cycle and he doesn’t realize it because he’s too pedantic to realize he’s doing anything wrong.
You keep using that word (“pedantic”). I do not think it means what you think it means.
It wasn’t even his prophecy either. He wandered into the right place at the right time with enough similarities to have the villagers think he was the Prophesied One, took advantage of it, left, and then the real ‘Hero’ basically walked into a lynch mob.
too be fair. Best has been shit on more then most characters. I think he earned the right to be somewhat of a prick.
He has been shit on in response to his own attitude. As Byron said, everything that bad that has happened to Best is a result of his own actions.
Yeah, when your attitude stinks like an outhouse, you’re just inviting precipitations of fecal matter.
Well I was more right than I thought on the last page. I already felt bad for Weo, now I feel like I witnessed someone kicking a puppy.
Dammit Best.
Maybe the reason he has a lonely grave is that he’s the kind of hero that no one likes and don’t grieve after when they’re gone.
^ This.
Sometimes, that’s the only justice in the world.
“Today, we bury the remains of a heroic stranger, unknown to all, and with no name for anyone to speak of again.”
“Um, Syr’Nj, what are you talking about, it’s Paye-”*punch*
“DID I STUTTER”
“WE ALL DIE ALONE!” he shouted as he passed
No sense or regrets, no he never looked back.
Though his pride was wounded, his ego was strong
and that was his trouble. AND THIS IS HIS SONG
Maybe his grave site will just be contaminated with acutely hazardous material. Or he could even set up a scheme where someone takes his place to build a legend of an immortal warrior, but for that to work he obviously can’t have people seeing that he’s actually dead. Probably what you said, though.
Maybe he’ll die in Cyberia, where everyone else derezzes when they die, leaving no bodies to bury?
Maybe his tank body had an aneurysm when he had a brain flood and ripped himself out of his WAV character? Carol is already loading his body in her trunk, for burial in the desert. Payet Best is now immortal in Arkerra. >.<
Best has to start from scratch with the immortal warrior legend. He wasted countless lives trying to become the Dread Pirate Roberts. Every time he was captured by one of the Dread Pirate Roberts, Best would piss them off, and Roberts actually would kill him tomorrow. Even the two Roberts that the Princess Bride knew made Best walk the plank.
The last time he had to walk the plank, a Gastonian fishing ship pulled him out of the water.
too be fair he is a hero tho. He’s done a crap ton of good for people for selfish reaosons sure but he’s still done it
That doesn’t make Best a hero. He’s done horrible things too, and for the same reason: he thought it would get him what he wanted. A *real* hero has at least some sense of altruism, and does good because it’s the right thing to do. Best is the antithesis of that.
To misquote Ephesians 2:8-9:
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should
boastBest.”Best doesn’t have much in the way of faith or redeeming values.
And, he’s completely lacking grace, by any of its meanings.
The way I figure it is that Best doesn’t have a lonely grave for that reason. Just because his *grave* will be lonely doesn’t mean that he’ll be alone when he dies; someone will have to bury him after all. Maybe he does that final, heroic sacrifice (for some reason, even if it’s for selfish reasons) & he’s buried as a hero in a remote location – ie: lonely grave.
Maybe he just can’t come to grips with the idea that heroic prophecies rarely end with the hero surviving. It’s not even really HIS OWN prophecy to begin with & it’s going to be a real struggle just to try fulfilling it because of that.
Even so, he’s lived as an insufferable jerk & he might die as an insufferable jerk, although I do hope that he’ll have that revelation that balances him for the better, in between Payet Best & Wav. If anything, that’s the only way he could really be remembered as a hero even after he’s buried.
Payet only pawn in game of life.
True although it would be more apropos if HAMMERHEAD said it.
Someone with Hammerhead’s size, strength & temperament, yet combined with as much philosophical depth as his intellect allows, he could be referred to as the Insufferable Bulk.
Magda and Gravedust’s expressions in the last panel: “yup, that’s what happens.”
And in the first panel, Penk and Goblaurence are like:
“Ah, restraining your idiot berserker buddy”
“Been there, done that, locked him in a deep cellar”
I feel so sorry for Weo.
1. He’s kind.
2. He’s cheerful.
3. He has a sense of humor.
4. He’s a genuine seer, the real deal. (It’s so hard it is to find someone who professionally is competent at their job!)
I really want to kick Best in the twig and bearings and remind him he’s just a shit elf.
Oh yeah.
And I feel also sorry for him for being a child/teenager seer in the middle of a whole village of adult seers.
“I have never been able to do a prank before”
Being surrounded by people with precognition would indeed limit the interest of the games you can play with them. Not just pranks, but any game of chance, like dice or cards (ask Granny Weatherwax)
Has Weo’s gender ever been mentioned? Up to now, I’ve always seen her as a she…
I see Weo as undefined, and I would actually prefer that we never find out.
“Shrouded in odd clothing… is this a man…? …a woman…? …or should we ask…?”
Just wake them up before you GoGo.
Frigg calls Weo “li’l guy” a few pages back.
But Weo has those longer eyelashes, which is probably what’s confusing you because it’s comic book code for “female.” It’s vaguely possible that Frigg is wrong.
Oh, Harky also calls Weo “he” on the same page (page 7). So they’d both have to be wrong, with Weo not correcting either of them, which seems extremely unlikely.
Also, uh, he has a beard! Duh!
I have a feeling Weo is actually the worst seer. That’s why he’s the Oracle to deal with the plebs.
The best seers are all getting on with their lives, secure that nothing matters in the eventual server shutdown/heat death of the universe.
Only Weo can have any form of optimism since he doesn’t see as far as they do. This makes him closer in perspective to plebs/adventurers and he has the worst job in town: Oracle. Or “customer service” for Reality/Hurricane Inc.
Damn, I wasn’t expecting to be feeling sad after reading the comic.
(Also, I love how Syr’nj was going to knock Best out again. She’s SO done with his shit.)
Look at it this way Best. Someone (probably Byron) obviously cared enough to dig you a nice grave and to maintain it.
Baaaawww… that’s the saddest comic I’ve seen for a long time. I don’t even have the heart to come up with a pun.
Thanks, Payet. Now my Monday starts with a child in tears, all because they hoped they could make you slightly less horrible.
I hope your next corpse become Tectonicus’s favorite butt plug.
Now that’s a mental image I didn’t need.
Still giggling, though.
(I’m horrible. ^_^)
Well, Weo did say that Best’s grave would be a *lonely* grave…And, as a Shit Elf, it would be a highly appropriate one.
O.o
Best wouldn’t be the fun(?) kind of butt plug. When Tectonicus awakens from his slumber, he’ll be straining to pass Best, like a bear in Spring, straining to pass its hibernation butt plug.
Can we flash forward to the lonely grave part before we go on with the main story?
The smart money had Best’s desecrated corpse being dumped headfirst into a frequently-visited latrine, so a lonely grave may be a step up for him.
“Can someone get me an ice pick? I cried again…”
“WE’RE ALL JUST PAWNS IN SOME SADISTIC GOD’S TWISTED GAMES!”
Gob:Sounds like he’s got ya pegged, dunnit, boss?
Penk: When I want your opinion I’ll Roshambo you for it
Does Best actually feel bad? I hope he does. That’d be new.
I think it’s possible he actually does feel bad. Will he change? Probably not, but considering he’s finally getting some answers (and has people to keep him from doing anything too rash), he MIGHT learn from this.
I’m not saying it’s likely, but there’s a statistical chance Payet Best become slightly less horrible.
So. I take it his lonely grave is what Best saw in the basin.
Yeah, actually; a few pages back someone linked the page where it says exactly what he saw. I couldn’t remember either so I was glad for the link. Go have a peek. :D
I love how Syr’Nj is about to dose him.
Honestly I think she only waited this long because she had to thaw a dose under her coat.
Yay! Best is gonna buy another farm!
Well, that de-escalated quickly.
Can we get him to the lonely grave part already?
He’ll have a lonely grave.
But, he will HAVE an actual grave. That means SOMEONE will take the time to give him a proper burial.
He may be an insufferable ass right now, but at some point he will earn the respect of at least one person.
That event we should look forward to.
Honestly, I’m guessing it’s Byron. Out of all the people that Best has encountered, Byron is probably the only one who would regret his death, or at least feel like he should have done something to prevent it.
I heard nothing about him being dead going into it. Just sayin’.
Jeez….
And now we know why it SUCKS to know the future.
Yeah, you’d think knowing the future would let you pick winning lottery numbers or sumthin’, but no, it’s all just “Sun explodes, everyone dies.”
I could see the Winter Elves all wearing aluminum foil hats, trying not to read the universe’s mind. Only, the Oracle wouldn’t be allowed to.
I think the best part about this scene is the fact that Best’s idiocy is bringing the Peacemakers and the Champions together in a pretty big way. Maybe his great destiny is to be a unifier by way of being a massive douchebag?
We’re all puppets, Laurie. I’m just a puppet who can see the strings.
The only words Best heard in all of that were: “Bala bala bala, whine whine whine, Great Density ahead of you!“
Just found and read the comic from beggining to end. (incase, you want to know from where, from ma3 and i was just like “fuck it, lets give this a shot” after having read it for a few years and seeing that image)
Loving it, sorta got freaked when the real world started to get introduced. I was like “nooooo. noo. How are you even gonna? Oh, well i guess that makes it better”
Ha! We’ve heard people whine about “sepia world” on and off for years. Glad to see somebody concisely summarize that experience.
Welcome aboard!
“A great destiny”: great good or great bad?
“A lonely grave” like, say, buried under the rubble of a building that the good guys destroy because Best is the Ultimate Evil.
You will die all alone, hungry, desillusioned, an outcast hated by everyone. I mean, after the famine. And the illness. And the civil war. And…oh, I’m getting ahead of myself.
Sorry.
I didn’t mean to spoil it for you.
*smiles happily*
Best seems to cause very mixed feelings about him, but majorily seeing him ans a self-important, materialistic asshole. While I get that, I also kinda understand why he is like that.
(Bear with me, for my English is not of best quality)
His life, as far as we know, was not especially hard. He did not met hardships like most of our characters. He does not carry some great burden, and he didn’t suffer like Byron and the others. He suffered in a diffrent way.
What he got from life is ‘blandness’. He strikes me as someone who, at some point, really wanted to believe that there are great heroes with their destinies, that will vanquish evil and leave the world better. He seems like he really wanted to belive in the world of heroes, noble people to rescue and monsters to slay.
But as his life wnet on, hopes and dreams crashed head-first into wall of reality. He lived with Sky Elves, and as he himself said, after time he realised that behind the convoluted speech of them, there really is nothing. As time went by, he realized that this world is not black-and-white, but rather gray of varying shades. He realized that heroes and adventurers are not noble beings of glory, but simple workers – go there, slay that, get 6 coppers per kobold skin. The world around him stripped him of all hopes and wishes to see this image of high fantasy he had in his head, and slowly turned him into this bitter, selfish man he is now. Behind all this cynism and bitterness though, it seems there still was a small flame of hope, that there is a chance for ‘real’ heroism. This is why he sought out the Basin.
This is why he was infuriated when all he saw was confirmation of his worst assumption – that there is not glory, honour and high fantasy. Just a life ended in a lonely, sad grave. It might be a hidden fear that not only him – but that this is the fate of everyone. That in the end, nothing anyone will do will matter, and the world will continue unchanged.
Why that might be. I don’t have any strong argument to back that up, but perhaps while other players enclosed in the tubes had very clear images of their heroes and stories, Best’s player did not – and the arcane program gave him exactly that. Unspecific blandness.
I felt kinda sad for Best, in the first panel. If Kingdoms of Arkerra really is just a game, that HR is the creator “god” of, then Best was right on with his assessment.
Since most of us seem to believe that Arkerra actually exists, in an alternate dimension, I feel like, “Ooo… Missed it by that much!”
Of course, it could be that Arkerra, Cyberia, and Sepia World are all three Microsoft Game Studois vaporware, languishing on some mostly forgotten development server, where some developer spends his break time playing god, doing crossovers between the games. Sepia World was set to be a massive, accurate reality simulation. But, it got canned, after its lead developer mysteriously vanished. Turns out, Gates played an early alpha version, and decided that a software company hitman in the game was taking reality a little too far. ;)