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

Some travels take exactly 3200 days to complete.

Chapter 50 – Page 32

on June 6, 2018
Chapter: Chapter 50
└ Tags: Admiral Annunziata, Ardaic, Byron, E-Merl, Faereksch'Nj, Farmer Emory, Farmer Henry, Fr'Nj, Frigg, Gralor, HAMMERHEAD, Rendermaw, Scipio, Syr'Nj
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  1. Amaster
    Amaster
    June 6, 2018, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    3200 days?

    • Dreka
      Dreka
      June 6, 2018, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      It’s been about 3,198 or so as of today.

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      June 6, 2018, 12:48 am | # | Reply

      Just under 8 and 3/4 years. Early September 2009. Which, if I’m doing the calculation right, puts the ending tomorrow, rather than either today or Friday, so either it’s not EXACTLY 3200 days, or I’ve screwed up the calculation…

      • Wannes
        Wannes
        June 6, 2018, 2:51 am | # | Reply

        It started on September 4th 2009, so adding 3200 days to thay comes to June 8th 2018.

        The end is near.

        *sob*

        • Rune
          Rune
          June 6, 2018, 8:57 am | # | Reply

          It’s funny, I’ve been reading this comic since the very beginning, although I didn’t comment for the longest time. I hadn’t realize that I started reading this comic around the same time Champions Online launched. Ten years goes by so quickly.

          • Random
            Random
            June 6, 2018, 9:18 am | # | Reply

            An eyeblink and an eternity. Time is a peculiar thing, long in the unfolding, but swift in the passing. Seeming straight, but bent, perhaps curving back on itself.

        • Dana Son-of-Bear
          Dana Son-of-Bear
          June 6, 2018, 9:21 am | # | Reply

          I’m not crying, you’re crying!

        • Kamino Neko
          Kamino Neko
          June 6, 2018, 3:33 pm | # | Reply

          Ah, so I did do the calculation wrong.

        • Psolo Ghoti
          Psolo Ghoti
          June 6, 2018, 7:02 pm | # | Reply

          *starts panicking* o_O

    • John Waltrip
      John Waltrip
      June 6, 2018, 2:59 pm | # | Reply

      I wasn’t here for all of those days, just most of them. I had done a special “surprise guest page” for Thanksgiving, which turned out to be my own “demo reel” you might say. Phil and T liked it. They were looking for someone to fill Erica’s shoes, and I was looking for something to do, so…
      I started on chapter 8 page 5, November 30, 2010. That page went up on Dec. 6th. It was a Monday. And it looks like I’ll be finishing on a Friday. Appropriate. ;-)

      • Benedikt
        Benedikt
        July 27, 2018, 1:40 pm | # | Reply

        I remember your surprise guest page ( http://guildedage.net/comic/guest-page-john-waltrip ) as if it had been last week. You used Mont St. Michel as a reference. Thanks for the great (almost) eight years!

    • CW
      CW
      June 6, 2018, 10:07 pm | # | Reply

      Guys, LEAP DAYS.

  2. Mutterscrawl
    Mutterscrawl
    June 6, 2018, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Hrmn. Annunziata’s a bit of a Karma houdini here.

    • Devlerbat
      Devlerbat
      June 6, 2018, 12:25 am | # | Reply

      Not if Gralor kills him.

      • Yotz
        Yotz
        June 6, 2018, 2:12 am | # | Reply

        Even if it kills him. Maybe even more so – to die doing the thing you love most, in the sea, at the helm of your own ship, fighting against impossible odds… Even if dear admiral shall perish, he will go in blaze of glory, leaving a legend behind. Not many people even in his world can mark that on their bucket list.

        • Ganurath
          Ganurath
          June 6, 2018, 4:48 am | # | Reply

          He’s going to be killed by the monster he neglected to contribute to the defeat of back when he was in charge of the Navy. Can’t be a proper Karma Houdini if you die to poetic justice.

          • TxGator
            TxGator
            June 6, 2018, 9:34 am | # | Reply

            Plus nobody will know what happened to him. If Gralor destroys the ship, he and the sailors of that ship will be lost to the inky depths with no one the wiser…

            …that is unless of course Rendar’s ship happens to spot the fight and decide to intervene.

            • Beroli
              Beroli
              June 6, 2018, 3:27 pm | # | Reply

              If they intervened, would it be on Annunziata’s side or on Gralor’s?

              • TxGator
                TxGator
                June 6, 2018, 5:26 pm | # | Reply

                In my mind’s eye I picture Best playing some beast charming tunes to calm Gralor down. And then once, Gralor leaves, the airship crew flips the admiral the bird and flies away.

              • Speedy
                Speedy
                March 22, 2019, 7:35 pm | # | Reply

                Braggadocio would definitely attack Gralor. When they were talking to Byron about leaving, Braggadocio’s mental image had him fighting just such a beast. And it would certainly help restore his appetite.

            • Yotz
              Yotz
              June 7, 2018, 5:43 am | # | Reply

              Presuming this is not a patrol armada; nobody knows where they went – basically, if he commandeered the ship; Rendar’s crew is composed of blind, deaf degenerats; nobody beside Rendar and co is watching him right now – which, given discrepancy between his previous career and policy stand, and his current placement behind the helm of the ship, however disciplinary of a task it may be, is more than likely; and, if Gralgor sinks the admiral before proposed intervention, Best shows himself as complete unrepentant arsehole.

              Too much presumptions for my taste.

          • Yotz
            Yotz
            June 7, 2018, 5:29 am | # | Reply

            Then he would become a character of a cautionary tale – a saga of sorts. Like, say, Beowulf, or Gilgamesh. And ‘The Fall of Annunziata’ would be recited by hundreds of generations.

      • Beroli
        Beroli
        June 7, 2018, 5:31 pm | # | Reply

        I just realized that Webmetz called this: http://guildedage.net/comic/ask-an-adventurer-life-at-sea-is-preferable/ .

        (Do a find on the comment section for “kraken”.)

    • Brasca1
      Brasca1
      June 6, 2018, 1:11 am | # | Reply

      Even if it does at least he outlasted the rest of his peers.

    • Ved
      Ved
      June 6, 2018, 3:13 am | # | Reply

      It somehow warms the cockles of my heart that he’s out there living a life of adventure, like he always said he wanted to.

  3. MM
    MM
    June 6, 2018, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    That first panel is one heck of a character callback.

    • Tim
      Tim
      June 6, 2018, 2:22 pm | # | Reply

      Hmm, I could’ve sworn those two also showed up around Fightopia, but the tags don’t show them there.

      • Tim
        Tim
        June 6, 2018, 2:27 pm | # | Reply

        Aha, I’m right! They’re just tagged Emory and Henry there. http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-23-page-1/

        • Blake
          Blake
          June 7, 2018, 5:47 pm | # | Reply

          They were going through a phase at the time, metaphorically speaking

  4. Blake
    Blake
    June 6, 2018, 1:05 am | # | Reply

    Look, up in the sky!
    Kobolds!
    Home~
    Music?
    Life
    Seaaaaaaa
    No, wait, it’s almost…

  5. BM03
    BM03
    June 6, 2018, 1:08 am | # | Reply

    Oh, the sharks. Right. They existed…

    • Tsapki
      Tsapki
      June 6, 2018, 2:13 am | # | Reply

      Ye gods, they discovered music. THEY’RE LEARNING! RUN!

      • ArvoKatsuya
        ArvoKatsuya
        June 6, 2018, 8:08 pm | # | Reply

        The Jaws theme isn’t going to invent itself, you know.

  6. Jason
    Jason
    June 6, 2018, 1:15 am | # | Reply

    Gralor!!!

    Oh and HAMMERHEAD! I asked for him the other day. And what’s he doing? Eating. Of course he is. It would be newsworthy if he WEREN’T eating.

    • Toecutter
      Toecutter
      June 6, 2018, 7:34 am | # | Reply

      Om Nom Nom

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      June 6, 2018, 3:38 pm | # | Reply

      I’m curious as to WHAT he’s eating.

      • eldestdawn
        eldestdawn
        June 6, 2018, 8:30 pm | # | Reply

        I’m curious to WHO he’s eating…

        • Lirazel
          Lirazel
          June 6, 2018, 11:25 pm | # | Reply

          My question preCISEly!

    • Jason
      Jason
      June 6, 2018, 10:40 pm | # | Reply

      Now if someone were eating him, THAT would be newsworthy.

  7. Brasca1
    Brasca1
    June 6, 2018, 1:18 am | # | Reply

    I can’t expect all loose ends to be resolved, but I hope we see what happened to Rana.

    • TxGator
      TxGator
      June 6, 2018, 9:28 am | # | Reply

      I want to see what was the glow Bandit was seeing in her last panel.

      • T
        T
        June 7, 2018, 9:34 am | # | Reply

        The sun.

        • TxGator
          TxGator
          June 7, 2018, 4:29 pm | # | Reply

          Fair enough. I had the impression it was something else. But that was just wishful thinking on my part. I tend to associate the yellow glow with Rachel. ;-)

  8. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    June 6, 2018, 4:27 am | # | Reply

    Silly land sharks, you can’t devour music.

    • hhhhaggis
      hhhhaggis
      July 25, 2019, 6:50 am | # | Reply

      Someone obviously hasn’t been watching the Family-Ness.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaCzbqdFS24

  9. █████
    █████
    June 6, 2018, 6:56 am | # | Reply

    I think the land sharks are developing a bit of their own culture, I don’t recall them having any interest in music before.

    I can almost imagine HAMMERHEAD’s become lost among his own people.

  10. HarmonicaJay
    HarmonicaJay
    June 6, 2018, 7:40 am | # | Reply

    …But I don’t want it to end.

    • John Waltrip
      John Waltrip
      June 6, 2018, 3:06 pm | # | Reply

      All good things must come to an end.

      …so better things have a chance to begin.

      • The_Rippy_One
        The_Rippy_One
        June 6, 2018, 5:30 pm | # | Reply

        Alright, you all heard it here folks, Better Things were promised!

        XD

      • ArvoKatsuya
        ArvoKatsuya
        June 6, 2018, 8:14 pm | # | Reply

        Yeah, we still haven’t seen a spin-off featuring Goblaurance and Auraugu Goes to White Castle.

  11. Fenlander
    Fenlander
    June 6, 2018, 7:48 am | # | Reply

    Yar, squiddy. I got nothing against ya but I heard there was diamonds in yer belly.

  12. Jim
    Jim
    June 6, 2018, 8:20 am | # | Reply

    It’s been a great ride, folks.

    • John Waltrip
      John Waltrip
      June 6, 2018, 3:07 pm | # | Reply

      yes…

      yes it has.

  13. Gabi
    Gabi
    June 6, 2018, 9:32 am | # | Reply

    So the next page will be the last? I’m going to miss this comic, but I must say I have enjoyed every bit of the ride. :D

  14. maggPi
    maggPi
    June 6, 2018, 11:00 am | # | Reply

    “Stop eating my ship!!”
    “Wha-? ‘Eating?’ ‘Ship?’ We’re making out here! Mind your own business, this is private!! (C’mon, Baby… Let’s ditch these barnacles.)”

  15. chasey
    chasey
    June 6, 2018, 7:22 pm | # | Reply

    The next is the last? Really??? D: I was enjoying all the follow-ups! I still, for SOME REASON, wanna know about Rana, and Weo, and godammit, Best’s grave is still confusing me!

  16. Psolo Ghoti
    Psolo Ghoti
    June 6, 2018, 7:45 pm | # | Reply

    Everybody wants to be a shark
    because a shark’s the only shark
    who’ll eat any carc-
    ass
    Everybody’s grabbing on to the same sirloin
    while kicking each other in the groin

    A shark with a horn
    makes you wish you weren’t born
    everytime he plays
    And with a bone in his throat
    from the leg of a goat
    he’ll make anybody deaf for days

    I heard some feral wolves who tried to howl
    Still, a shark’s the only shark
    who knows how to growl
    Who wants to hunt with a bite that’s tamer than the bark
    when everybody wants to be a shark?

  17. Lirazel
    Lirazel
    June 6, 2018, 11:30 pm | # | Reply

    This has been a truly excellent adventure — true to the gamer culture, true to hardboiled noir mysteries, and true to the strangely gentle ethics at the heart of some of the most violent games.

    I’m going to miss the odd symmetry of Gravedust and Frigg most, I think.

    • Grondiouse
      Grondiouse
      June 8, 2018, 7:53 am | # | Reply

      Well done, authors and artists. I fully agree with Lirazel. You did an amazing job, with full stories, character development, unique art and character design. 10/10, would read again! :)

  18. Devlerbat
    Devlerbat
    June 7, 2018, 12:48 am | # | Reply

    So the comic ends with Gungier and Avidro?

  19. Rambunctious
    Rambunctious
    June 7, 2018, 7:12 pm | # | Reply

    what an adventure it has been ♥

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