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Quick, hearth while he's distracted!

Chapter 8 – Page 19

on January 7, 2011
Chapter: Chapter 08
└ Tags: Frigg, Harky, Syr'Nj
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  1. Jaang
    Jaang
    January 7, 2011, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Is that his own spear? How nice of someone to return his lost property.

    • Locke
      Locke
      January 7, 2011, 8:32 am | # | Reply

      I hope it is. I love it when villains are hoist by their own petard. Or, in this case, stabbed by their own pointy thing.

      • Joe
        Joe
        July 25, 2013, 10:06 pm | # | Reply

        Byron must’ve given him a hug with the spear stuck through his chest

  2. Pikey
    Pikey
    January 7, 2011, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Cue background data in three… two… ONE. We have plot point Houston! I repeat, we have plot point!

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      January 7, 2011, 1:02 pm | # | Reply

      KA-PLOT

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        January 7, 2011, 1:58 pm | # | Reply

        KA-SPLORTCH

        • Lynxx
          Lynxx
          January 8, 2011, 3:54 am | # | Reply

          KA-PEA..

          oh…

          • FreddeX
            FreddeX
            May 17, 2011, 12:56 pm | # | Reply

            KA-CHING!!

            …Later when they go looting! ;)

      • Brandon Richard
        Brandon Richard
        January 7, 2011, 10:52 pm | # | Reply

        TELPROT!

  3. CatOfEvilGenius
    CatOfEvilGenius
    January 7, 2011, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    So just how did Byron recover from his serious injury in order to do that? The troll blood theory is sounding mighty interesting. Doubt it was Bandit, she lacks the strength.

    • DCB
      DCB
      January 7, 2011, 9:56 am | # | Reply

      One of the most noted and feared abilities of the Berserker was to fight on despite the infliction of grievous injury. Mostly this was due to all the drugs they were on clenching their muscles to such a degree that it stymied bleeding, but I’m willing to bet Byrons running on Mom’s Good Old Fashion Rage…served piping hot.

      • Critis
        Critis
        January 9, 2011, 5:28 am | # | Reply

        Chances are high for that one. Berskers don’t take that kinda crap. I mean how pissed would you be if someone just nearly one-shotted you.

  4. Meirnon
    Meirnon
    January 7, 2011, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    “Oh yeah, Backstab! Triple Damage!”

    Would have been better with a makeshift ballista.

    • zeperx
      zeperx
      January 7, 2011, 6:15 pm | # | Reply

      Fired from an upside-down chair no less…

      • Kylen
        Kylen
        January 8, 2011, 5:58 am | # | Reply

        There HAS to be a rule about that in the book somewhere….

  5. Loyal
    Loyal
    January 7, 2011, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    The arrow fired in panel two will become critically important within the next two strips.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      January 7, 2011, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

      one up one down.

      • Whipstitch
        Whipstitch
        January 7, 2011, 10:54 pm | # | Reply

        Maybe it’ll hit Byron.

    • Twigs
      Twigs
      January 7, 2011, 7:53 pm | # | Reply

      http://www.onlineforextrading.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/spock-logic.jpg

  6. Fairportfan
    Fairportfan
    January 7, 2011, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    So just how did Byron recover from his serious injury in order to do that?

    Well, if you’re a berserk (even a mostly-fake berserk) seeing someone you care about threatened with death could be an activating factor…

    • Wyrd
      Wyrd
      January 7, 2011, 12:34 pm | # | Reply

      Byron’s flashback suggests that he is the real thing, not the fake berserk barbarians are known for that lasts a few minutes and can tell friend from foe. A true Bearsarker kills until there is nothing left to kill. Friends, foes, women, children-they all die. By legend it takes 40 men working together to take down such a berserker, most of whom will be dead by the end of the fight. This would also explain why he is so calm and controlled most of the time, to keep his anger in check, and how he was able to resist the spell of rage and madness-it was nothing compared to the madness he represses every day.

  7. Doma
    Doma
    January 7, 2011, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    WHAT?! WHO?! ROYALTY? CLOUDS?

    • Doma
      Doma
      January 7, 2011, 12:15 am | # | Reply

      what if it’s f’in BEST?

    • Math_Mage
      Math_Mage
      January 7, 2011, 12:41 am | # | Reply

      Syr’nj’s tattoo evidently indicates royal blood. Odd how this person knows that.

      • Zizek
        Zizek
        January 7, 2011, 3:47 am | # | Reply

        Harki obviously has knowledge skills.

    • Animaniac
      Animaniac
      January 7, 2011, 12:42 am | # | Reply

      For those who missed it, ( or perhaps where just being silly ) Syr’Nj’s elaborate tattoo is apparently a woodelf mark of royalty which she has kept conveniently covered until now.

      No wonder she has daddy issues.

  8. Iocane
    Iocane
    January 7, 2011, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    My gold’s on Gravedust. C’mon Gravedust.

    (Yes, I know it’s definitely Byron.)

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      January 7, 2011, 12:56 am | # | Reply

      It could easily not be Byron simply because it’s too obvious. And unless the GA authors used “plot cloak” wouldn’t we have seen Byron coming from behind in panel 5?

      • Telrim
        Telrim
        January 7, 2011, 1:04 am | # | Reply

        Bandit is also a possibility, we never saw her incapacitated.

      • Cchisle
        Cchisle
        January 7, 2011, 2:58 am | # | Reply

        I dunno. With perspective, and the proper angle, it’s feasible that we wouldn’t have seen whoever it is coming

      • dfacto
        dfacto
        January 7, 2011, 11:51 am | # | Reply

        Keep in mind that the spear could also have been thrown.

        • ahdok
          ahdok
          January 7, 2011, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

          upwards?

          • Brandon Richard
            Brandon Richard
            January 7, 2011, 10:56 pm | # | Reply

            It only looks that way because you’re seeing it from the perspective of someone who’s on the ground, and remember that he is seven feet or more in height. Seeing something getting thrown and go straight in would look upwards from that angle.

      • Meirnon
        Meirnon
        January 7, 2011, 11:17 pm | # | Reply

        Hoisted by your own Picard.

    • TxGator
      TxGator
      January 8, 2011, 2:41 am | # | Reply

      My vote is Bandit standing on Gravedust’s shoulders. :-)

    • Locke
      Locke
      January 8, 2011, 1:05 pm | # | Reply

      If it IS Byron, I’d rather have preferred him to take Harki out with one of his Axe-Pauldrons.

  9. bwernard
    bwernard
    January 7, 2011, 12:44 am | # | Reply

    The alt text is made of win

    • centuriancode
      centuriancode
      January 7, 2011, 5:47 am | # | Reply

      Damnit, why isn’t there a shaman there for an astral recall!

    • Zero
      Zero
      January 7, 2011, 8:13 am | # | Reply

      i am afraid I don’t get it

      • DS
        DS
        January 7, 2011, 8:24 am | # | Reply

        In World of Warcraft, your character has a Hearthstone that they can use to teleport to an inn. Hence the term “hearth.” Provided you’re not in combat, it’s a good way to get the hell outta Dodge especially when you don’t want to hack your way out of a cave full of mobs.

        • khyrin
          khyrin
          January 7, 2011, 8:54 am | # | Reply

          Further, the Shaman class has an ability called Astral Recall, which allows them to return to the in they bound a hearthstone to, without needing to actually carry a hearthstone.

          • Hawk
            Hawk
            January 7, 2011, 9:09 am | # | Reply

            One thing, guys: they’re not out of combat YET.
            And there’s no paladin for the good ol’ bubble hearth.

            • zero
              zero
              January 8, 2011, 1:40 am | # | Reply

              ahh I see now, I don’t play WoW, much obliged

  10. FistFingers
    FistFingers
    January 7, 2011, 12:46 am | # | Reply

    OK assuming that was his spear and the spear is still in Byron the next comic should start with the worst piggy back ride ever

    • zero
      zero
      January 7, 2011, 6:47 am | # | Reply

      oh that has GOT to be it. Guys, scrap whatever you came up with and do this!

      With Bandit hanging on the other end of the spear going ‘merp’

    • barsukthom
      barsukthom
      January 7, 2011, 9:14 am | # | Reply

      I’m tempted to make a crack about “Surprise Butt-Seax” but that would be tacky. Like half-dried blood.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      January 7, 2011, 1:05 pm | # | Reply

      It coult totally be one of byron’s axe shoulderblades.

      no wait.

    • Locke
      Locke
      January 10, 2011, 3:26 am | # | Reply

      Oh god, you were completely right.
      As such, I stole your line. Sorry, pal. :P

      • FistFingers
        FistFingers
        January 10, 2011, 4:23 am | # | Reply

        It’s cool, just be sure to thank me in the credits.

  11. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    January 7, 2011, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    Oooh, nice tats Syr.

    Funny that there’s a huge crowd around yet nobody thought to warn Harky about the backstabber. Ah well…

    • Mr Ak
      Mr Ak
      January 7, 2011, 5:23 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, but you see that in sport all the time. Someone gets tackled while meandering along with the ball, despite 50,000 screaming fans.

    • Orgikan
      Orgikan
      January 7, 2011, 6:36 am | # | Reply

      Backstabber is an option, but spears can be thrown too…

    • Locke
      Locke
      January 8, 2011, 1:07 pm | # | Reply

      Mr. Picard, I misread your comment and was about to reproach you for being crude.

      Also, ever think that maybe Harki is a massive dick and some of those people wouldn’t mind him gone? I mean, the Owlman Chancellor… Well, you know how chancellor’s are. He’s probably quivering with glee.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      January 9, 2011, 8:06 am | # | Reply

      I’d like to point out that when you’re in a stadium being watched by a huge crowd, there is, in general, someone shouting about pretty much anything you can think of at any given moment.

      In a situation where you’re about to stamp someone to death, the volume in the crowd goes up, largely as most people start cheering. In a situation where someone’s running up behind you to stab you in the back, the volume in the crowd goes up, most likely as people start shouting.

      You can’t really tell the difference.

      And yes, I have been in both situations.

  12. Moe Lane
    Moe Lane
    January 7, 2011, 12:50 am | # | Reply

    About effing time Byron woke up.

    Unless it was Gravedust.
    Unless it was Best, which would be kind of annoying.

    I can’t see it being Bandit; she just doesn’t have the strength to pop a troll’s sternum. From the back.

    • Alechsa
      Alechsa
      January 7, 2011, 12:58 am | # | Reply

      Angle suggests shorter than…. but most of them ARE. Still, Bandit is PISSED, and while gnomes aren’t dwarves, they aren’t scrawny little nothings either. She’s outmaneuvered and outran a bunch of guys twice her size.

      In response to the tat reveal:

      http://www.dramabutton.com/

      • Pikey
        Pikey
        January 7, 2011, 1:20 am | # | Reply

        Now that I think of it, with the way he was just balancing on one foot and preparing to lay the stomp on Syr’nj I expect him to be knocked prone by that hit. Or at least dropped to all fours.

      • Stormcrow
        Stormcrow
        January 7, 2011, 8:16 pm | # | Reply

        I was wearing headphones an pressed that…. thanks.

    • Dusty668
      Dusty668
      January 7, 2011, 5:24 am | # | Reply

      Maybe the arrow in the air was the signal for Best to attack from the crowds.

  13. Noahkai
    Noahkai
    January 7, 2011, 12:54 am | # | Reply

    You know…what if the gem in his gut is helping him? How bout they break that damn thing?

    • CatOfEvilGenius
      CatOfEvilGenius
      January 7, 2011, 1:14 am | # | Reply

      Frigg tried, and if Frigg can’t do it, can’t no one do it, methinks.

      Please, please not Best! PLEASE! How would he even know to show up? And wasn’t he pissed at the lot of them when he left? For not appreciated the gift to the world that is him?

      • Yahtzee
        Yahtzee
        January 7, 2011, 5:31 am | # | Reply

        +1 : Let’s hope it’s not Best. I hate his guts. Like many out there hate him too.

        • Hawk
          Hawk
          January 7, 2011, 9:10 am | # | Reply

          Third vote for Not Best.

          • Jean-Luc
            Jean-Luc
            January 7, 2011, 1:59 pm | # | Reply

            We love you Best!

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        January 7, 2011, 9:56 am | # | Reply

        Go Best! :D

        • Wyrd
          Wyrd
          January 7, 2011, 12:38 pm | # | Reply

          Literally. Go away and never come back. Go, Best, go.

        • Locke
          Locke
          January 8, 2011, 1:09 pm | # | Reply

          So you want him to put his Best foot forward?

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      January 7, 2011, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

      oh please! monsters with big red glowing weak points? that is so passe.

      • Brandon Richard
        Brandon Richard
        January 7, 2011, 11:00 pm | # | Reply

        Quick! Strike his weak point for massive damage!

  14. SaltyKracka
    SaltyKracka
    January 7, 2011, 1:11 am | # | Reply

    I suspect entirely new character, or at least none of our heroes. Because none of them actually use swords.

    • CatOfEvilGenius
      CatOfEvilGenius
      January 7, 2011, 1:15 am | # | Reply

      Oh? Interesting… Perhaps Iver has decided a change in leadership is needed? Or some “savage race” person thought it? Is it stereotypically racist of me to think this is how they do succession amongst their leaders? ;)

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        January 7, 2011, 1:26 am | # | Reply

        Yes, you’re a fantasy racist. Rated pg-13.

      • ahdok
        ahdok
        January 7, 2011, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

        have you seen anybody in Guilded Age use a sword? I think it’s a stylistic feature of the series.

        • Locke
          Locke
          January 8, 2011, 1:09 pm | # | Reply

          There was… Uh… Well… Someone. I know SOMEONE used a sword. The air pirates?

          That’s it, a random background air pirate has come to the rescue!

          • Phae
            Phae
            January 9, 2011, 5:20 am | # | Reply

            Syr’nj used a sword while fighting alongside Frigg during one of the arcs.

    • centuriancode
      centuriancode
      January 7, 2011, 5:49 am | # | Reply

      The end comes to too gradual a point to be a normal sword (or so the perspective makes it look). I thought it was a spear.

  15. Alice Macher
    Alice Macher
    January 7, 2011, 1:27 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, okay, stab through the back, woohoo, but…

    …given that none of the other, fairly major wounds he’s received have had any effect, I’m a bit skeptical that this one will. It’s beginning to look like nothing short of someone beheading him in one clean stroke, or dropping a ginormous weight on him from above, can finish him off. I assume Arky will bite it eventually, but at this point the payoff is gonna have to be huge to be at all plausible within the parameters we’ve been shown.

    • Pikey
      Pikey
      January 7, 2011, 1:31 am | # | Reply

      Hack him up badly enough that he’s more or less unable to move, and then light a couple sticks of science and stuff ’em in his mouth.

    • Moe Lane
      Moe Lane
      January 7, 2011, 2:15 am | # | Reply

      Depending on the angle, that’s either going through the spine or a lung. That’s got to do something that the troll can’t just laugh off.

      • ahdok
        ahdok
        January 7, 2011, 1:07 pm | # | Reply

        he doesn’t look best pleased.

    • Zizek
      Zizek
      January 7, 2011, 3:49 am | # | Reply

      If it’s troll regeneration a la D&D nothing short of acid or fire will finish him. Everything else is recoverable.

      • Alice Macher
        Alice Macher
        January 7, 2011, 4:25 am | # | Reply

        All right, then. Which of you (still mobile) heroes was in charge of the acid and fire?

        Whaddya mean, you all thought someone else was?

        • Aboulic
          Aboulic
          January 7, 2011, 2:39 pm | # | Reply

          Syr’Nj would be in charge of something as sciency as acid. Possibly in the empty vial from a couple of pages ago when she was checking Byron’s pulse.

          So, my theory…. Syr’Nj grabs a her short sword and acid from her bag of holding, and maybe a potion for Byron (her potions have normally been readied in hypodermics, suggesting the open vial was not for administration to things with blood vessels) and she doses the sword with acid ready for a desperate attack on Harky. She checks Byron and realises a groggy Byron will recover full consciousness in shortly. She realise their best chance for victory, and Byron’s survival, is to draw Harky off with the bow (a weapon with which she appear proficient but is through lack of skill or firepower unable to deal sufficent damage to a major organ), knowing that Byron will come round, understand the tactical situation, and will possibly be able to strike Harky in a vital area with the acid coated sword, although she herself may have already been killed.
          Syr’Nj would know she would be unlikely to inflict a major wound on Harky with either the sword or arrows herself and therefore would not get much benefit from an acidised weapon.

          I submit that this would be clever, noble, self-sacrificing and bad-ass. And therefore Syr’Nj.

        • Joe
          Joe
          January 7, 2011, 11:29 pm | # | Reply

          Mighty good thing Phil and T aren’t necessarily following D&D rules, then.

      • Yahtzee
        Yahtzee
        January 7, 2011, 5:37 am | # | Reply

        Anything else is recoverable ?! Are you kidding ?
        Recovering from a little slash to the back of the ankles is something.
        But recovering from a spear or a sword piercing right through your body, severing your spine or taking out your heart or one lung – or all of the three in the process – is clearly something much more serious.
        And even if he recovers, it would take much more time thatn for his ankles, wouldn’t it ?

        • centuriancode
          centuriancode
          January 7, 2011, 5:52 am | # | Reply

          If it’s Troll regen à la DnD, then Biology, Physics, and Chemistry mean nothing. A drop of acid, and regen is gone. Put in a giant blender that’s on full, entirely recoverable.

          • GBeans
            GBeans
            January 7, 2011, 8:25 am | # | Reply

            Is it trolls where a head wound doesn’t count as fatal for hitting a vital areal? I can’t remember the specifics.

            • Hawk
              Hawk
              January 7, 2011, 9:12 am | # | Reply

              Yup. Old style trolls (AD&D) literally could have all their limbs chopped off..and would regenerate them all in a matter of moments.

              Newer trolls (D&D 3.5) heal fast, and though you CAN drop them if you dish out enough damage in a round, they’ll just stand up again, unless you douse them in fire or acid.

      • ahdok
        ahdok
        January 7, 2011, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

        I thought trolls died in DnD at some appropriately large number, it’s just the regen makes going there harder. Fire and Acid just stop the regen.

        • Brandon Richard
          Brandon Richard
          January 7, 2011, 11:04 pm | # | Reply

          They can regenerate from a decapitation in 3.5, so fire or acid tend to be the only things. Disintegration works too. Water trolls regenerate faster in water, and their flesh regains the regen if doused in water, which sucks if you don’t know. :3

          Woo, Troll Talk on GA! And it’s not about internet ones either!

  16. Sineplex
    Sineplex
    January 7, 2011, 1:27 am | # | Reply

    I can think of so many ways panel 2 could have looked terrible. But it is flawless. <3
    Trolls seem scary. I can almost sympathize with the Gastonian foreign policy.

  17. Grey Acumen
    Grey Acumen
    January 7, 2011, 2:27 am | # | Reply

    Has anyone else made the connection that this guy is a Treasure Troll?

    • Pikey
      Pikey
      January 7, 2011, 2:34 am | # | Reply

      …

      Ohhh GOD how I hate you for pointing that out. With the fire of a thousand suns.

      • barsukthom
        barsukthom
        January 7, 2011, 9:16 am | # | Reply

        That’d take care of the Regen problem, alright.

    • Kilroy Quartermaine
      Kilroy Quartermaine
      January 7, 2011, 12:10 pm | # | Reply

      I can’t believe I never made that connection, and I now can’t believe how much I cannot unsee what I have seen. Ugh.

    • VexingVision
      VexingVision
      January 7, 2011, 3:52 pm | # | Reply

      Awesome. Why did I have to google this? WHY??!

    • Joe
      Joe
      January 7, 2011, 11:30 pm | # | Reply

      Wat.

    • Alechsa
      Alechsa
      January 8, 2011, 1:49 am | # | Reply

      Shiny non-official Gold Star.

      And Damn You.

    • Locke
      Locke
      January 8, 2011, 1:11 pm | # | Reply

      I actually had. But I didn’t know they were called “Treasure” Trolls. We always just called ’em Troll Dolls.

      • Grey Acumen
        Grey Acumen
        January 9, 2011, 6:23 pm | # | Reply

        Treasure Trolls are the sub category of troll dolls that specifically have the gemstone in their bellybutton.

  18. bugstomper
    bugstomper
    January 7, 2011, 2:39 am | # | Reply

    Could that be the spirits in the arrows bursting out from the inside? Or some other science thing Syr’nj added to the arrows?

    Would an arrow fired straight up come down again with enough force to penetrate his brain and would that be enough to kill him before he healed?

    • AnchorJG
      AnchorJG
      January 7, 2011, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

      Thanks to Mythbusters, and a little known fellow named Isaac Newton, there are two answers. If the arrow happened to go exactly vertical then it would tumble back to the ground at terminal velocity. This is the weaker impact.

      However, it’s damn near impossible to make anything do that. Meaning the arrows will follow a parabolic arc and land with about the same force as it was shot with, but likely well out of the arena.

      • ahdok
        ahdok
        January 7, 2011, 1:12 pm | # | Reply

        actually, this isn’t entirely correct. the arrow would be turned by wind unless the air is completely still, and by air resistance unless perfectly uniform.

        Assuming there’s no air and it went exactly straight up, it’d hit the point it was launched, nock first, at launch velocity.

        What’ll actually happen is that it’ll come down somewhere nearby, point first, at about launch velocity, yes. Lose a bit to air resistance both ways. Assuming full draw, though, it’s still enough to kill a normal human.

        • Miklanin
          Miklanin
          January 10, 2011, 6:25 pm | # | Reply

          I disagree. The Coriolis Effect would not allow for the arrow to land at the point where it was launched…assuming, of course, that the GA world rotates as most planets do…

  19. Severo da Silva Queiroz Jr.
    Severo da Silva Queiroz Jr.
    January 7, 2011, 3:18 am | # | Reply

    BANDIT TO THE RESCUE!

  20. VexingVision
    VexingVision
    January 7, 2011, 3:42 am | # | Reply

    Is it a spear?
    Is it a sword?
    It’s… a troll-sticker!

    That reminds me, I need to reinstall Betrayal at Krondor. Also, regarding the alt-text, I assume that’s some silly WoW-ability?

    • centuriancode
      centuriancode
      January 7, 2011, 5:53 am | # | Reply

      You, you actually have a functioning copy of Betrayal at Krondor? I will need to kill you and take you game, you do realise this, don’t you? It’s the best game since Zorc.

      • VexingVision
        VexingVision
        January 7, 2011, 10:43 am | # | Reply

        You might want to google for it! There’s a pretty famous (at least since last year) legit online store that carries it. :) (Really trying not to advertise here.)

        Yeah, it works.

        Now, back to the story: Who wields the Troll-Sticker? My bet’s on Byron.

    • ThatGuy
      ThatGuy
      January 7, 2011, 10:46 pm | # | Reply

      yes, Hearth represents your Hearthstone that everycharacter has. 10 Second cast, takes you home. I was actually in a dungeon where you only fight a Big ass Dragon(onyxia) The group failed horribly. I used my “Fade into background” ability while she was going around one shotting people and managed to teleport out.

      Good times.

  21. HLY
    HLY
    January 7, 2011, 3:46 am | # | Reply

    gotta love all of Harki’s facial expresions. Man, who knew a troll face could show everything so well

    also, finally…

    • Zizek
      Zizek
      January 7, 2011, 3:57 am | # | Reply

      Who knew indeed.

  22. fing fang foo
    fing fang foo
    January 7, 2011, 4:09 am | # | Reply

    “AMBUSH!” LOL

  23. Atnas
    Atnas
    January 7, 2011, 5:03 am | # | Reply

    It isn’t until know I’ve noticed the gem enbedded in his belly. I am sure it has something to do with his regeneration too! Maybe.

  24. Bobartles
    Bobartles
    January 7, 2011, 6:03 am | # | Reply

    Please, please not Best.

    • Zizek
      Zizek
      January 7, 2011, 7:44 am | # | Reply

      Come on, we all love to hate Best. I doubt it’s him, but his return is overdue.

    • Locke
      Locke
      January 7, 2011, 8:28 am | # | Reply

      Well, maybe Best would hope that, if he helped them, they’d have to “Payet” forward.

      • Phil
        Flo
        January 7, 2011, 8:29 am | # | Reply

        Gold Star.

  25. Locke
    Locke
    January 7, 2011, 8:27 am | # | Reply

    You all think it’s Gravedust, Best, or Byron. You’re all so silly. It’s totally going to be Colonel Pornstache.

    • Brandon Richard
      Brandon Richard
      January 7, 2011, 11:07 pm | # | Reply

      If so, I REALLY hope that they all turn to him, the comic closes up, and with a smirk he says “Money shot.”

      • Locke
        Locke
        January 8, 2011, 1:13 pm | # | Reply

        I’m giving you my Gold Star, man. In fact, Phil, take note, Colonel Pornstache has to say that at some point. I’ll weep in joy.

  26. Hawk
    Hawk
    January 7, 2011, 9:15 am | # | Reply

    At this point…I don’t care WHO it is, really.

    I just want to see Harki in much pain and dismemberment and defeat.

    And then the heroes can be the leaders of the Savage Races, by right of trial by combat!

  27. Deets
    Deets
    January 7, 2011, 9:29 am | # | Reply

    YEEEEAH! Who’s getting chumped this time bitches?!?!

  28. G@T0R
    G@T0R
    January 7, 2011, 9:47 am | # | Reply

    Silly warrior, you can’t use execute until harki is below 20% health. At least, I’m hoping its Byron, this may just be epic enough to make up for all that fail. Isn’t it time for some bad hero pun…. like, “Diplomacy may have failed, but I think he got the point”

  29. Rick
    Rick
    January 7, 2011, 10:56 am | # | Reply

    oh c’mon. You *know* Syr’nj HAD to have done some alchemical nastiness to those arrows she fired off. Something to stifle the regen perhaps, so Harki can think he’s able to absorb damage rather than dodge it…until it’s too late?

    If our revealed-elven royalty didn’t take the opportunity to mix some wicked philtres I’m gonna be sorely disappointed..for Science!

  30. Mutterscrawl
    Mutterscrawl
    January 7, 2011, 3:56 pm | # | Reply

    Is that gem in Hark’s body important in any way? or just decorative? you see part of it in the first panel.

    • Brent Felzien
      Brent Felzien
      January 7, 2011, 4:48 pm | # | Reply

      It grants him the power to violently expel a spear from his chest at dramatic moments in battle.

      • Brandon Richard
        Brandon Richard
        January 7, 2011, 11:08 pm | # | Reply

        He has yet to master not harming himself in the process. Logan might be able to teach him that.

        “Practice makes perfect, bub.”

      • Locke
        Locke
        January 8, 2011, 12:59 pm | # | Reply

        I was just thinking that, actually. “What if that’s just some sort of awesome magic skill of his, and he’s just sprouting a chest-blade to kill Syr with?” I mean, improbable to the point of being impossible, but that would be oh-so BADASS.

        • Nekropancser
          Nekropancser
          January 11, 2011, 3:33 pm | # | Reply

          You watched too much Dragonball…

  31. Ivan
    Ivan
    January 7, 2011, 4:09 pm | # | Reply

    He shrugged those arrows off like they were nothing more than darts! Is he just that tough that tough, or do all orcs treat arrows as mere annoyances?

    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnnoyingArrows

  32. King of Zeroes
    King of Zeroes
    January 7, 2011, 5:26 pm | # | Reply

    OH COME ON, BYRON. Stop being such a terrible Berserker. A REAL man would have just screamed bloody murder, tackled him to the ground when he turned around, and ripped his skull from his shoulders. With spine still attached. And then used the recently forged “Skull flail” to slaughter the fodder enemies.

    ROGUES Backstab. Are you a ROGUE Byron?

    • SteelRaven
      SteelRaven
      January 7, 2011, 11:14 pm | # | Reply

      Rogues do it from behind

    • kevin
      kevin
      January 8, 2011, 11:33 am | # | Reply

      perhaps he can’t yell, because he has a spear through a lung. also I hope this was a berserker body slam.

  33. Somebody
    Somebody
    January 7, 2011, 6:22 pm | # | Reply

    Hopefully he’ll take this lesson to heart.

  34. Lord Milkman
    Lord Milkman
    January 7, 2011, 7:46 pm | # | Reply

    Honestly, I think it’s Byron. Not solely because of any “berserk” ability (though he may possess such a state), but rather because of what we know about him; namely that he was the supposedly only survivor of the War That Felled Battleshire. The ONLY survivor.

    This seems to suggest that he has supernatural fighting abilities. Or does it? Given what we’ve seen, no he doesn’t. He’s gotten his clock cleaned many, many times. Perhaps Byron isn’t a brilliant fighter, but a supernatural SURVIVOR. Maybe Harki isn’t the only one with magically fast healing going on. And maybe when Byron gets up after such a wound, he’s really, really mad. Mayhap some Troll blood of his own, perchance?

  35. Twigs
    Twigs
    January 7, 2011, 7:48 pm | # | Reply

    Awesome tat, Syr =D

    Tribal tattoos: not just for Robbie Williams anymore. Thank god.

  36. lilymu12
    lilymu12
    January 7, 2011, 10:23 pm | # | Reply

    BWAHAHAHA! he says, while arrows are stuck in his shoulders.

    That would hurt. A lot.

    • Brandon Richard
      Brandon Richard
      January 7, 2011, 11:10 pm | # | Reply

      In soviet Russia, spears chuck you!

      • fing fang foo
        fing fang foo
        January 8, 2011, 7:20 pm | # | Reply

        In Soviet Russia arrow shoots you

  37. Whipstitch
    Whipstitch
    January 7, 2011, 10:39 pm | # | Reply

    Since I’m basically allergic to speculation, I’ve decided that I’m going to wait ’till I see the prong and the serrations before falling in with the “Byron’s got Harki’s spear crowd.” With that said, that certainly does seem like the most likely/satisfying scenario.

  38. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    January 7, 2011, 11:25 pm | # | Reply

    My money was on Badit at first sense she was the only one not down for the count bun then someone pointed out that spear was still in Byrons back (Syr’nj didn’t have the strengh to pull it out, I doubt Badit does)
    If this is Byron and he did in fact get up and pull that spear out of his back to impale the Troll… this comic will make me very happy!

    • Tolrick
      Tolrick
      January 9, 2011, 5:31 am | # | Reply

      We actually have no idea if Bandit’s stronger than Syr’nj. Nor anyone else for that matter.
      Assuming she isn’t just because she’s smaller makes no sense in a fantasy setting.

      On topic though, I will be a very happy person if that’s Byron on the other end of the spear.

  39. Redo19
    Redo19
    January 7, 2011, 11:31 pm | # | Reply

    Daaaaaaaamn, nice gang tats, ‘nyj. If yer lucky, maybe dem claws’ll leave a scar and you’ll get even more rep.

  40. Animaniac
    Animaniac
    January 8, 2011, 3:02 am | # | Reply

    Just noticed, if he still has those sholderpads next comic, its only because the arrows are holding them on..

  41. Kylen
    Kylen
    January 8, 2011, 6:01 am | # | Reply

    dunno if anyone said this, but I think that jewel is his weak spot

  42. Blogonomicon
    Blogonomicon
    January 8, 2011, 12:39 pm | # | Reply

    Technically, the word “berserker” doesn’t come from the word meaning “really, really, angry”. In fact, quite the opposite. A Bearsarkar, meaning someone wearing a bear sark (i.e., the pelt of a bear), eventually became (due to linguistic evolution) the word berserker, which lent itself to the phrase “going berserk”. Ergo, we can safely assume that the world of GA has metal bears from which the material that makes up Byron’s armor is taken.

    • SteelRaven
      SteelRaven
      January 8, 2011, 5:52 pm | # | Reply

      Byron has been going by Berserker befor he got the armor, plus Frigg aleady referd to Berserker as “RWARWARWAR, ARGHLEBARGHLE Anger management issues Berserker”
      Guess we just never seen Byron pissed off.
      http://guildedage.net/webcomic/chapter-2/chapter-2-page-23/

  43. BT
    BT
    January 8, 2011, 1:33 pm | # | Reply

    *gasp* The Secret Princess?! The oldest fantasy cliche in the book and I totally didn’t see it coming

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      January 9, 2011, 8:08 am | # | Reply

      or if there was a secret princess, I was totally expecting it to be Frigg.

  44. Figz
    Figz
    January 8, 2011, 2:58 pm | # | Reply

    Did anyone else notice the gem om the trolls stomach? Gem Trolls! LOL oh nostalgia!

  45. flevine
    flevine
    January 9, 2011, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

    Just got back from a short trip to Mexico…must get up early for work tomorrow…will still be hanging around my computer at midnight-ish to see what happens. ;-)

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