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Chapter 49 – Page 47

on February 26, 2018
Chapter: Chapter 49
└ Tags: Best, Byron, Carol, Frigg, Gravedust, HR, Syr'Nj
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  1. Alice Macher
    Alice Macher
    February 26, 2018, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    HR Dedalus has just become HR Icarus.

    • Minando
      Minando
      February 27, 2018, 8:47 am | # | Reply

      RIP Dedalus?

  2. Nate
    Nate
    February 26, 2018, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    HR Deadalus

    • Speedy
      Speedy
      March 21, 2019, 7:21 pm | # | Reply

      Tube HR, God HR, and HR Mini-Mes: “Each are dead! All us!”

  3. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    February 26, 2018, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    “Ahhhh! My HP!”

    • Minando
      Minando
      February 27, 2018, 8:58 am | # | Reply

      Critical hit!
      Ranged classes are so unfair :-)

      • MidnightDStroyer
        MidnightDStroyer
        March 4, 2018, 3:18 am | # | Reply

        Hey, from the point of view of the ranged attacker, it’s entirely fair. When facing a melee-tank, the best counter is to have superior range. On the other hand, for the melee-tank, the best advantage is to close the distance to a ranged attacker. The game balance is what makes it all fair.

  4. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    February 26, 2018, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    Well I’m not cleaning up this mess.

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      March 4, 2018, 3:19 am | # | Reply

      It’s easy to clean this up…Access the primary hard drive, select all, delete. See, just a few keystrokes.

      • SotiCoto
        SotiCoto
        August 6, 2019, 9:34 am | # | Reply

        “You require permission from TrustedInstaller to make changes to this folder.”

  5. DDDragoni
    DDDragoni
    February 26, 2018, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Really digging the final panel.

    It begs the question though- which one “mattered?” Taking out the HR in Akerra or in Sepiaworld? Would one have done anything without the other?

    • JH
      JH
      February 26, 2018, 2:01 am | # | Reply

      Maybe they both mattered. Maybe neither, and it was actually a third unknown universe that determined it.

      • Gabrielli
        Gabrielli
        February 26, 2018, 10:35 pm | # | Reply

        Perhaps someone rolled a natural 1.

    • Wyvern
      Wyvern
      February 26, 2018, 2:34 am | # | Reply

      I vaguely recall a story where the bad guy existed in two different states and the only way to defeat him was to kill him in both states simultaneously. Could be that the same applies here.

      Also, it looks like the Five are using their own souls to guide the arrow. Which raises the question: will that result in them sacrificing their lives, or will it return them to their meat-bodies?

      • Armagrodden
        Armagrodden
        February 26, 2018, 7:16 pm | # | Reply

        World of Warcraft also had a raid boss with this mechanic: it existed in two dimensions and your raid had to kill it simultaneously in both. It was irritating as hell.

      • Andreas Geisler
        Andreas Geisler
        February 27, 2018, 4:53 pm | # | Reply

        For no reason, I am going to mention The Dreamland Chronicles.
        No reason. Certainly no reason connected to your comment.

      • Shenanigans
        Shenanigans
        February 28, 2018, 2:18 pm | # | Reply

        Any chance you’re referring to Worm, the superhero web serial? I forgot the name of the villain, probably spoilers to mention it, but he does fit the ticket.

      • WalkerOfSorrow
        WalkerOfSorrow
        February 28, 2018, 4:56 pm | # | Reply

        Actually, in the infamous Sonic ’06 game, the final villain exists relative to the whole timeline, so he has to be killed in the past, present, and future. Don’t think that’s what you’re referring to, but there it is.

    • umm
      umm
      February 26, 2018, 6:53 am | # | Reply

      HR tied Arkerra and Sepia World together so that certain actions can only occur in parallel in both worlds. In this sense, both worlds are just different perspectives of the same underlying reality.

      The connection is so profound that it baffled even HR: When he tried to draw The Five from Arkerra, that proved to be impossible. He quickly realized the reason and therefore tried to implement a matching action in Arkerra by killing The Five. But I guess his understanding of the structure of Arkerra was too incomplete to do this properly…

    • LockeZ
      LockeZ
      February 26, 2018, 3:54 pm | # | Reply

      You’re misunderstanding. Sepia world is a shadow of Arkherra. The events of Arkherra are duplicated there – imperfectly, in fewer dimensions, without color. If all you’ve ever seen in your life are the shadows, then they look like they’re happening on their own. But there’s a cause to them.

      • random whatever
        random whatever
        February 27, 2018, 1:26 am | # | Reply

        Yikes. I never thot of that. Explains everything.

        • LockeZ
          LockeZ
          February 27, 2018, 4:18 am | # | Reply

          HR actually explained it as his theory in the comic at one point. It was a while ago. There’s no proof it’s true, but I would certainly consider him the authority on the subject.

          • Toecutter
            Toecutter
            February 27, 2018, 12:33 pm | # | Reply

            If that is true and if HR created Arkerra then doesn’t that mean our bold adventurers have just brought about their own destruction (and the world’s) by destroying its creator and supposed life source?

            • FoolishOwl
              FoolishOwl
              February 27, 2018, 12:49 pm | # | Reply

              First, by this theory, HR did *not* create Arkerra, because Sepia World is just a shadow of Arkerra.

              Second, what’s baffled HR from the beginning is that Arkerra has an existence independent of him. He’s been trying to conquer a thing he does not control. So in any case — whether Sepia World is a shadow of Arkerra, or if Arkerra is a shadow of Sepia World that somehow became independent, or if they were always two independent worlds — Arkerra’s existence is not contingent upon HR’s.

          • Andreas Geisler
            Andreas Geisler
            February 27, 2018, 4:57 pm | # | Reply

            One problem with that, there are numerous Arkerra events that have no sepia effects, and vice-versa.
            The hypothesis with the lowest komolgorov complexity is that these are two independent worlds.
            The synchronicity of events is best explained by the common denominator : HR Dedalus’s piss-poor leadership skills and his self-destructive self-loathing.

            He made this happen.

      • FoolishOwl
        FoolishOwl
        February 27, 2018, 12:50 pm | # | Reply

        That would be consistent with the obvious color cue: sepia.

  6. biggmac
    biggmac
    February 26, 2018, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    Oh! I’m dead. But just as well: did you see how my skin was contracting super quick psoriasis the last few pages? At least I won’t have to deal with that.

    • The_Rippy_One
      The_Rippy_One
      February 26, 2018, 4:08 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, I just noticed it too. Nice detail!

      • Lirazel
        Lirazel
        February 26, 2018, 11:12 pm | # | Reply

        Nothing a little Noxema can’t clear up!

  7. LookieLouE1707
    LookieLouE1707
    February 26, 2018, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    I wonder how Carol’s going to enjoy her impending potassium chloride injection …

    • Brasca1
      Brasca1
      February 26, 2018, 12:49 am | # | Reply

      Seeing as how this is the only murder they could convict her of in a state that rarely executes people anyway.. not likely.

      • FoolishOwl
        FoolishOwl
        February 27, 2018, 12:55 pm | # | Reply

        Under the circumstances, accepting life in prison is a reasonable sacrifice.

    • Anvildude
      Anvildude
      February 26, 2018, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

      I’m fairly sure this would fall under “Self Defense”, here.

      • maggPi
        maggPi
        February 26, 2018, 4:50 pm | # | Reply

        Or defense of another (who were unable, such as a minor, disabled/unconscious etc.)

      • tlhonmey
        tlhonmey
        February 26, 2018, 7:31 pm | # | Reply

        What? The naked unconscious guy in the tube was an imminent threat to all life on Earth? Yeah, sure lady. Step right this way please, there’s a special padded room all prepared for you.

        Really, it’ll be best for everyone involved if HR decides he’s been working too hard and takes a trip on his private yaht, which runs into bad weather and sinks.

        • MM
          MM
          February 26, 2018, 7:45 pm | # | Reply

          Even if the FIB doesn’t exist in this universe, there’s probably some government agency that can pull a “nothing to see here, folks.”

          • redscarf
            redscarf
            February 27, 2018, 1:35 pm | # | Reply

            Can and wants to are two different things. Unfortunately, such agencies often need a reason to care about the person who just saved the world; Carol isn’t exactly innocent, and “Secretary of a reclusive CEO goes crazy and kills her boss” makes a great cover-up story. Hoping those smartphone videos come in handy!

            • TxGator
              TxGator
              February 27, 2018, 5:21 pm | # | Reply

              On the one hand she does have the benefit of witnesses and probably high priced lawyers. But on the other, yeah, “crazed exec kills her CEO” is a convenient cover story.

              Not too mention her witnesses aren’t exactly her allies.

  8. Matthew Davis
    Matthew Davis
    February 26, 2018, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    I’m not sure there will be one. Xan’s video is still there, and even if that wouldn’t fly — which it probably wont — there’s enough evidence of shadiness that they might be able to suggest a “we tried to wake him up and he just snapped. There wasn’t anything we could do, officer’s, honest” sort of defense.

  9. Kennerly
    Kennerly
    February 26, 2018, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    Its not over yet, guys. Payet’s not dead.

    • Wannes
      Wannes
      February 26, 2018, 2:32 am | # | Reply

      Well, the way I interpreted the vision: he’s a hero in Arkarra and is buried in a longely grave in SepiaWorld.

    • Odo
      Odo
      February 26, 2018, 3:07 am | # | Reply

      As far as we know, none of the Arkterra edolons are dead. Each of them added to Gravy’s arrow, but the strands are not depleting them.

      There won’t be any prosecution because HR’s body will vanish into purple dust, and the basis of a murder charge is habeus corpus. I there is no body… there is nobody.

      • The_Rippy_One
        The_Rippy_One
        February 26, 2018, 4:21 am | # | Reply

        Kennerly is referring to the prophecy that Best’s grave will be a lonely and unknown one. He’s pointing out we have one last major plot hook to resolve.

        • LockeZ
          LockeZ
          February 26, 2018, 3:57 pm | # | Reply

          That already happened, though. He was sucked into the vortex, and a lonely headstone was left in remembrance of him.

          But he came back.

          • Psolo Ghoti
            Psolo Ghoti
            February 26, 2018, 4:44 pm | # | Reply

            No, there was no headstone (at least not one that has ever been shown or mentioned), and when they visited the winter elves, the lonely grave was still in Best’s future.

      • Shogeton
        Shogeton
        February 26, 2018, 11:03 am | # | Reply

        Habeas Corpus actually has nothing to do with the corpse of a murder victim. It literally means ‘You have the/your body’ and refers to the right for someone to not be kept imprisoned indefinitely without a court deciding whether it’s legal for him to remain in prison.

        I’m pretty sure a lot of people were convicted of murder even with the body never found.

        • Kamino Neko
          Kamino Neko
          February 26, 2018, 6:02 pm | # | Reply

          The evidentiary principle, which Odo was probably referring to, is ‘corpus delicti’…which also doesn’t mean that you need the corpse (it applies to all crimes, not just murder, so a corpse might not even be relevant) – it simply means you need evidence that a crime happened before you can charge someone with that crime. The ‘corpus’, here refers body of evidence, not the victim’s body. While, in the case of a murder, the corpse is one of the stronger pieces of evidence, the corpus delicti could be built around other things that point to murder, though it might take a lot to reasonably eliminate other potential circumstances (lesser crimes, such as battery or kidnapping; accidental death; the ‘victim’ deliberately disappearing; etc).

    • Jason
      Jason
      February 27, 2018, 2:05 am | # | Reply

      QUICK! KILL HIM!
      …Oh wait, you didn’t mean it like that?

  10. MatthewTheLucky
    MatthewTheLucky
    February 26, 2018, 12:55 am | # | Reply

    ALWAYS double tap.

    • tlhonmey
      tlhonmey
      February 26, 2018, 7:34 pm | # | Reply

      At least if the caliber of your weapon doesn’t start with a 4 or larger anyway.

      • Seggs
        Seggs
        February 26, 2018, 8:20 pm | # | Reply

        start with a 4? if youre using 4.000 caliber ammo, im willing to assume “tapping in the general vicinity” is more than adequate.

        • ThePuck1
          ThePuck1
          February 26, 2018, 9:18 pm | # | Reply

          I think it was meant .4, as in .45

  11. Bruceski
    Bruceski
    February 26, 2018, 1:17 am | # | Reply

    By your powers combined, I am Captain Bullet!

    • goblin bard
      goblin bard
      February 27, 2018, 11:16 pm | # | Reply

      well bullets do seem to beat most things on the planet..
      so…. yeah, i’m willing to regard that as an upgrade.

  12. TGS
    TGS
    February 26, 2018, 1:25 am | # | Reply

    From within and without, both entities needed to die – now I imagine there is an echo, a vengeful spirit or something else like that which prevents the re-purposing of the game universe.

  13. Cubanpep
    Cubanpep
    February 26, 2018, 1:48 am | # | Reply

    What if God was one of us?

    • Blatherskite
      Blatherskite
      February 26, 2018, 2:28 am | # | Reply

      What if God smoked cannabis?

      • The_Rippy_One
        The_Rippy_One
        February 26, 2018, 4:22 am | # | Reply

        What if God wasn’t a fan of us?

        • Lord Hideous
          Lord Hideous
          February 26, 2018, 9:28 am | # | Reply

          What if God’s a platypus?

          • Seth
            Seth
            February 26, 2018, 1:31 pm | # | Reply

            What if God drives a mini-bus?

            • Kool
              Kool
              February 26, 2018, 3:03 pm | # | Reply

              What if God takes Antabus?

            • maggPi
              maggPi
              February 26, 2018, 5:00 pm | # | Reply

              What if God oozed purple pus?

              I’d’ve seriously liked that song a helluva lot more if it weren’t so 90’s whiny corporate Indy. Still drives me batshit to this day.
              Please! Someone talented cover that song!! Make it punk or something!!

              • Breuger
                Breuger
                February 27, 2018, 2:15 pm | # | Reply

                Ask and ye shall receive, apparently. Recording quality is pretty bad on both though, unfortunately.
                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLEXthe_pcQ more pop-punk
                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjfDP2iBq4k more rock

    • 5-tons-of-flax
      5-tons-of-flax
      February 26, 2018, 10:16 am | # | Reply

      What if God used Papyrus?

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      February 26, 2018, 11:24 am | # | Reply

      – then we’d kill Him/Her/It. See: HR, and JC. Speaking of, Daedalus got off pretty easy with a simultaneous bullet/arrow preceded by his “children’s” frustrating rebellion; I’d take that over flogging & crucifixion any day.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      February 26, 2018, 2:48 pm | # | Reply

      What if the truth was within you all along?

  14. Rules Lawyer
    Rules Lawyer
    February 26, 2018, 2:38 am | # | Reply

    I am that guy who knows that internal strikers don’t work like that,
    and have to fight it back to enjoy this pivotal moment of storytelling.

    Don’t worry. I’ll make it through. Somehow.

    • Frigg_Fanboi
      Frigg_Fanboi
      February 26, 2018, 7:38 am | # | Reply

      Maybe it’s supposed to be an FNP-40 instead of a Glock… Yes…. Yes this will allow me to sleep tonight.

      • Arthur Frayn
        Arthur Frayn
        February 26, 2018, 6:47 pm | # | Reply

        Nope. From the shape of the trigger guard, it looks like a Springfield Xd 40, Walther Pp 40, or Desert Eagle 40.

    • tejon
      tejon
      February 26, 2018, 9:54 pm | # | Reply

      Not being a gun enthusiast, this passed me by.

      Until you mentioned it.

      Thanks.

      • Rules Lawyer
        Rules Lawyer
        February 28, 2018, 12:25 am | # | Reply

        Like my avatar, I aim to please.

        At least I’m no longer alone with my struggle.

    • goblin bard
      goblin bard
      February 27, 2018, 11:21 pm | # | Reply

      holy crap. didn’t even notice that in the picture. huh. well thats going ta bug me.

  15. Little smile
    Little smile
    February 26, 2018, 3:15 am | # | Reply

    o/ Shot through the heart
    And you’re to blame
    You give love a bad name o/

  16. Bartimaeus
    Bartimaeus
    February 26, 2018, 4:44 am | # | Reply

    Worst. Day. Ever.

    • asmanel
      asmanel
      February 26, 2018, 1:44 pm | # | Reply

      When a day is said to be the worst ever, a worse day tends to happen later, usually shortly after (in the first months after this day)

  17. zero
    zero
    February 26, 2018, 6:21 am | # | Reply

    well done.

  18. Psolo Ghoti
    Psolo Ghoti
    February 26, 2018, 4:49 pm | # | Reply

    Defied by all six of his “children”. De-deified, even.

  19. maggPi
    maggPi
    February 26, 2018, 5:13 pm | # | Reply

    PLORP!
    Carol looks at the others in bewilderment.
    Carol; “Did it..?”
    Shanna; “..go ‘plorp’…”
    Carol; “…instead of ‘bang’?”
    All three; “…ew.”

  20. DeftTitan
    DeftTitan
    February 26, 2018, 7:27 pm | # | Reply

    Is the background superimposed with a real photo of pubic hair? Or is that supposed d to be HR’s signature mustache?

  21. ThePuck1
    ThePuck1
    February 26, 2018, 9:19 pm | # | Reply

    Nice shooting, Tex

  22. chasey
    chasey
    February 26, 2018, 9:52 pm | # | Reply

    Really love seeing the bullet and the arrow on the panel at once in that last one.
    Just random speculation dump:
    But what about the Cyberia people who knew WAV? And Best’s lonely grave? Original hypothesis I keep saying is that Best dies on the way out, and the lonely grave is a marker in the gamefor him, and a maybe a real one in the real world, too, but a body is in neither grave.
    Maybe they aren’t all out yet and somehow the Cyberia peeps have something to do with helping them out. Or maybe because Best is in some way tied to Cyberia that’s why there’ll be some weird technical mumbo jumbo about why he won’t be able to leave the game with the rest of them, thus the lonely grave? Stuck in limbo forever.

  23. Lirazel
    Lirazel
    February 26, 2018, 11:20 pm | # | Reply

    Why has Frigg gone all white-ish and lost her glowy hammershit?

    • Pylgrim
      Pylgrim
      February 27, 2018, 2:15 pm | # | Reply

      She still has the glowy hammershit in the first panel but you can see it lifting away revealing white underneath, which I assume is her “true colour”. The orange glowy hammershit was always a thing that was external to her that she could channel (and she was not the only one who could).

    • TxGator
      TxGator
      February 27, 2018, 5:35 pm | # | Reply

      Her test tube color (and sepia world color), was silver. But I suspect that glowing silver is a bit hard to pull off, so the John opted for white instead. Plus it fits her as a paladin.

  24. random whatever
    random whatever
    February 27, 2018, 1:36 am | # | Reply

    Isn’t Carol like really drunk still?

  25. Fenalnder
    Fenalnder
    February 27, 2018, 2:14 am | # | Reply

    It’s like the summoning of Captain Planet.

    • Fenlander
      Fenlander
      February 27, 2018, 2:15 am | # | Reply

      turns out I can’t spell my own name after getting a new computer :-(

  26. Minando
    Minando
    February 27, 2018, 8:12 am | # | Reply

    Gotcha!
    …oops, sorry. Blue paintballs were sold out.

  27. Pete
    Pete
    February 27, 2018, 8:46 am | # | Reply

    Sheesh, someone is glowing a bit, and pushes you away with magic and you go right to killing them? For shame, maybe they are just awakening to their magic powers or something, do you want to get shot when you have involuntary magical emanations?

  28. Pylgrim
    Pylgrim
    February 27, 2018, 2:21 pm | # | Reply

    Things that I’ve noticed only after lots of careful observation:

    – Gravy actually closes his eyes, which are emanating a white vapour, right before letting the arrow fly.
    – Frigg’s “true colour” seems to actually be white.
    – In the last panel you can actually see the arrow and the bullet flying in opposite directions. Interestingly, the arrow can be seen in a panel fragment of Sepia World and the bullet in a fragment of Arkerra. This may be significant taking into account that the “souls” of the Five are riding the arrow.

  29. Eric
    Eric
    February 27, 2018, 6:16 pm | # | Reply

    Don’t you hate the boss fights when after you grind down 90+% of the bosses’ 1.25 billion hit points, the last 5 or 10% turn into a scripted scene? At least no one hit ESC and skipped the entire cutscene.

  30. wraith_ferron
    wraith_ferron
    February 28, 2018, 11:58 am | # | Reply

    Last time we saw the Five was ch.49 pg.19, but that was only in the background. A better view of them was in ch.49 pg.5. The issue with the last times we saw them was that they were shown in the exact condition they were when they first entered. At the very least, Grave should have been losing weight, and the others should have been losing muscle mass. This means it was either Carol’s delusion that they were alive, an illusion placed on the dead bodies, or that they were in some sort of magical suspended animation.
    I’m inclined towards the second theory. They were shown in ch.49 pg.11 to still be online and able to fight while the serves are down. This means they no longer needed a connection to the servers to live, and that they were on a permanently existing alternate world. They no longer had need of their regular bodies, and those were just likely shells. The bodies were likely being used as an anchor point to link HR to the other world, with the data collected being based on the signal. That is why the charts looked so wrong. They were showing fluctuations in energy and signal, just not brain activity.

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