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

Standing down is what we usually do in between sitreps.

Chapter 6 – Page 3

on July 12, 2010
Chapter: Chapter 06
└ Tags: Bandit, Byron, Frigg, Gravedust, Syr'Nj
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  1. bargamer
    bargamer
    July 12, 2010, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Ah, the Troll slave. I ran a DND 3.5 character which was a Troll Barbarian, who joined the party when the Paladin freed him from slavery. Granted, he didn’t ACT like he was grateful, and some of his habits were disgusting, but he could soak up damage like nothing else! Oh, and he never needed healing.

  2. Moe Lane
    Moe Lane
    July 12, 2010, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    Careful, Frigg: your Paladin is showing.

  3. Carl-E
    Carl-E
    July 12, 2010, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    Byron recognizes something… but what?

    • Pikey
      Pikey
      July 12, 2010, 1:07 am | # | Reply

      Byron doesn’t so much *recognize* anything as he figures that getting involved here will probably interfere with their (more important) mission. I think he’d like to take a hand here, but that he also doesn’t think it would be the best thing to do.

      Of course, I don’t expect Byron to be able to keep them from getting mixed in with this. Where’s Syr’nj?

  4. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    July 12, 2010, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    I thought the Trolls were the slavers (they would be the bigger ones, right?)
    Ether way I’m with Frigg on this one, time for flank.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      July 12, 2010, 7:32 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, I’m pretty sure those are troll slavers driving orc slaves.

  5. sebtoure
    sebtoure
    July 12, 2010, 12:55 am | # | Reply

    Love that third panel! Frigg looks a bit more feminine than usual despite being her usual self.

    • Riotllama
      Riotllama
      July 12, 2010, 4:41 pm | # | Reply

      Why are some of you obsessed with Frigg’s supposed “femmininity” or lack thereof from drawing to drawing. She has lady-bits. She wears full plate. She has a face. moving on. Y’all do this to Syr’nj too.

  6. Mogelram
    Mogelram
    July 12, 2010, 1:46 am | # | Reply

    I think he’s preparing for some of his berserking action… :Þ

  7. SaltyKracka
    SaltyKracka
    July 12, 2010, 2:40 am | # | Reply

    Byron understands the importance of checking the CR.

  8. Col. Orange
    Col. Orange
    July 12, 2010, 5:15 am | # | Reply

    Perhaps slavery is legal in the troll nation?
    (Or perhaps the enslaving of trolls is legal?)

  9. TraderInTown
    TraderInTown
    July 12, 2010, 8:34 am | # | Reply

    Say whaaaaaat?

  10. Niall
    Niall
    July 12, 2010, 10:53 am | # | Reply

    The cat-o-ninetails, not as dangerous as its counterpart: the tail-o-ninecats.

    • Phil
      Flo
      July 12, 2010, 10:54 am | # | Reply

      Gold Star.

    • Hypothetical
      Hypothetical
      July 12, 2010, 11:43 am | # | Reply

      Let’s see, nine cats by the tail would be a weapon with 36 fangs and 180 claws. Yeah, that could be a problem.

      And a note…I think that’s Trolls enslaved by Ogres, not Trolls enslaving Orcs.

      • The Indomitable Eric
        The Indomitable Eric
        July 12, 2010, 12:08 pm | # | Reply

        Why, that could kill…hold on… 103 low level wizards!

        • ahdok
          ahdok
          July 13, 2010, 8:43 pm | # | Reply

          http://oldcomic.socksandpuppets.com/view.php?date=2008-01-16

  11. Wyrd
    Wyrd
    July 12, 2010, 2:07 pm | # | Reply

    The great thing about whipping your troll slave is that they heal almost instantly so you can keep whipping them for as long as you like.

    The whip marks on the slaves suggests that either they are not trolls, or that trolls do not regenerate in this setting, at least not as fast as in D&D.

    • Jon
      Jon
      July 12, 2010, 4:12 pm | # | Reply

      Either that, or the whips are doing acid or fire damage.

  12. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    July 12, 2010, 4:41 pm | # | Reply

    Love the 4th troll/orc from the front. He has that facial expression that suggests he “knows something”.

  13. Runforyourlives
    Runforyourlives
    July 12, 2010, 5:29 pm | # | Reply

    Frigg’s looks remind me of Alana the Lionness. Great comic overall

  14. Nate
    Nate
    July 12, 2010, 6:34 pm | # | Reply

    Man Byron you’d better have a good reason to not be killing slavers now, something like ‘let’s follow them back to their camp and then we can kill all the slavers at once instead of having to hunt them down individually’.

  15. 1d4caltrop
    1d4caltrop
    July 12, 2010, 7:37 pm | # | Reply

    Ah, that last panel. Proof that there’s more about Byron that’s oxymoronic than just his appellation.

  16. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    July 12, 2010, 8:14 pm | # | Reply

    Will the real Slim Shady please stand down, please stand down…

  17. TexasNinjaBuzzard
    TexasNinjaBuzzard
    July 13, 2010, 3:02 am | # | Reply

    Hey, we’re finally movin’ toward seeing that one bigass smirking troll with the armor and the jewel casually swatting Frigg’s mace down! Maybe we’ll get the shadowy-figure-guy soon, too.

  18. CynicalBastard
    CynicalBastard
    July 13, 2010, 5:14 am | # | Reply

    Yeah i’m honestly not sure if that face of Byron’s in the last panel is “stand down, it’s not our business”, “stand down, those guys killed everyone in my village when I was a kid, let them be slaves” or “stand down, I am going to kill them all myself”.

  19. Hawk
    Hawk
    July 13, 2010, 10:09 am | # | Reply

    Byron knows that Syr is out there, about to apply Science most scientifically…?

    But that expression in the panel before last implies that his heart is breaking. He’s not really one to back down from a fight per se, so I must think he has a reason for declining (or delaying) the fight. Perhaps it’s not a good reason, but there must be SOME reason.

    Also: I love Frigg’s expression in that panel as well. And, lastly: Looks like Bugbears enslaving Orcs to me…but I’m willing to go with trolls enslaving orcs. Neither group appears big enough to be ogres. I never thought of trolls as being particularly hairy though.

    • The Indomitable Eric
      The Indomitable Eric
      July 13, 2010, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

      Of course they’re hairy. Why d’ya think fire works so well?

      • ahdok
        ahdok
        July 13, 2010, 8:44 pm | # | Reply

        Fire always works.

  20. SwitchbladeKult
    SwitchbladeKult
    July 13, 2010, 1:07 pm | # | Reply

    The sight of those slavers seems to be taking a “troll” on Byron’s resolve. XD

  21. Intruder
    Intruder
    July 13, 2010, 2:54 pm | # | Reply

    It’ll be interesting to see if Byron’s leadership extends past planning the skirmish, since I don’t exactly see Frigg backing down unless Byron has a surprisingly good reason.

  22. ahdok
    ahdok
    July 13, 2010, 8:44 pm | # | Reply

    Stand down guys. If we follow the trolls, we might find the trollops.

  23. boeserhassan@googlemail.com
    boeserhassan@googlemail.com
    July 29, 2010, 9:43 am | # | Reply

    omfg they destroyed dnd!

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