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

Dominating the fabric of reality must be hungry work.

Chapter 15 – Page 24

on March 26, 2012
Chapter: Chapter 15
└ Tags: Carol, HR, The Five
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  1. Heheh
    Heheh
    March 26, 2012, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Like getting take out for the big game.

    Getting your nerd on huh h.r.?

  2. George
    George
    March 26, 2012, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    He’s going in… wow. But who’s the other tube for?

    • Heheh
      Heheh
      March 26, 2012, 12:08 am | # | Reply

      Lassie

    • eschmenk
      eschmenk
      March 26, 2012, 12:12 am | # | Reply

      Carol? If so, it might be interesting when she finds out.

      • zero
        zero
        March 26, 2012, 5:40 am | # | Reply

        anyone else suddenly making a link to Caroline and Portal 2?

  3. SaltyKracka
    SaltyKracka
    March 26, 2012, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Welp. Evil time.

    • Moe Lane
      Moe Lane
      March 26, 2012, 12:16 am | # | Reply

      Doo doo doo doo
      Doo doo
      Doo doo

      Can’t kludge this.

  4. Doma
    Doma
    March 26, 2012, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    Been pushing my theory that D is Ardaic, and Carol is Bandit.
    Oh sweet “I-told-you-so” internet victory lap, I can sense your presence.

    You are kind of smelly, by the way, you should shower.

    • Heheh
      Heheh
      March 26, 2012, 12:21 am | # | Reply

      Better yet, H.R. is Iwatani, carol is Iver.

    • Loki
      Loki
      March 26, 2012, 5:28 am | # | Reply

      But they haven’t installed the tubes yet.
      Now, assuming they’re the ones who go in, they might take over these characters….unless these characters are some of the player characters?

      • Nekropancser
        Nekropancser
        March 26, 2012, 2:59 pm | # | Reply

        They can play player chars if they want… supposedly already doing that.

        • centuriancode
          centuriancode
          March 27, 2012, 3:20 am | # | Reply

          Remember he was talking about the Four interacting with non-immersives, so there must be a way to interact with the game without getting in a bacta tank.

  5. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    March 26, 2012, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Extra spicy tofu, the diet of mad scientist everywhere.

    • Noah
      Noah
      March 26, 2012, 10:20 am | # | Reply

      It’s my favorite.

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      February 13, 2017, 3:21 pm | # | Reply

      As if it weren’t bad enough that HR hasn’t bathed for the past 4 weeks, now he’s going to be adding an extra layer of…spice…to the atmosphere in there…

  6. Adell
    Adell
    March 26, 2012, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    Augh, this guy.

  7. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    March 26, 2012, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to server transfers.

    • MichaelHaneline
      MichaelHaneline
      March 26, 2012, 1:12 am | # | Reply

      THE SPICE MUST FLOW!

      • MichaelHaneline
        MichaelHaneline
        March 26, 2012, 1:13 am | # | Reply

        Damn, I should have changed my username to “Baron Harkonnen” for that.

      • Speedy
        Speedy
        December 1, 2018, 12:26 am | # | Reply

        “He who controls the spice, controls the universe!”

    • solna
      solna
      March 26, 2012, 1:28 am | # | Reply

      I must not pun.
      puns are the mind-killer.
      a pun is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
      I will face my pun.
      I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
      And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
      Where the pun has gone there will be nothing.
      Only I will remain.

      • Krogaladin
        Krogaladin
        March 26, 2012, 6:38 am | # | Reply

        my pun is a killing word.

        • evileeyore
          evileeyore
          March 26, 2012, 7:21 am | # | Reply

          HA-KU-NA MA-TA-TA!

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        March 27, 2012, 3:22 am | # | Reply

        Do not fear the pun. Let it out. Share. Permit everypun to enjoy it.

    • Dan Irving
      Dan Irving
      March 26, 2012, 8:08 am | # | Reply

      It is by tofu alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of nahm bplah that thoughts acquire speed, the breath acquires stink, the stink becomes a warning. It is by tofu alone I set my mind in motion.

    • JarrysKid
      JarrysKid
      March 26, 2012, 12:52 pm | # | Reply

      The humor of this thread is beginning to paul. Are we dune yet?

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        March 26, 2012, 9:52 pm | # | Reply

        We are now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Is5_sD72M

        That’s me on the right. I really wanted to kill Sting Feyd but Paul was all “RAWRRRR!!1” so I let him do it.

        • Jean-Luc
          Jean-Luc
          March 26, 2012, 9:53 pm | # | Reply

          *Sting

  8. FoolishOwl
    FoolishOwl
    March 26, 2012, 1:40 am | # | Reply

    Extra spicy? He’s fscking serious this time!

    • Tchaleko
      Tchaleko
      March 26, 2012, 2:35 am | # | Reply

      And I thought I was the only one noticing the “Shit’s going down” tone on that

      • zero
        zero
        March 26, 2012, 5:42 am | # | Reply

        Carol’s probably thinking that too.

        “Extra spicy, sir? You remember the…troubles you had last time, with it?”

        • Nekropancser
          Nekropancser
          March 26, 2012, 3:00 pm | # | Reply

          The toilet too… it built an inexplainable hatred towards vegan food…

    • Softy
      Softy
      March 26, 2012, 2:42 am | # | Reply

      This is the most appropriate use of fsck as a euphemism I have ever seen.

  9. KeiranHalcyon
    KeiranHalcyon
    March 26, 2012, 3:00 am | # | Reply

    I realized that I’ve inadvertently started reading H.R.’s voice as Cave Johnson, and Carol’s as Caroline. Is that a bad sign?

    • DeviousAlpha
      DeviousAlpha
      March 26, 2012, 3:33 am | # | Reply

      This enhances the comic tenfold. I do it too.

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      March 26, 2012, 5:00 am | # | Reply

      I’ll admit the ending credits of Portal 2 did start playing in my mind.

      Mostly as a way of getting out of my head the unused, incomplete dialog from putting Caroline in against her will.

    • zero
      zero
      March 26, 2012, 5:42 am | # | Reply

      I was saying the same thing, just a moment ago!

  10. King of Zeroes
    King of Zeroes
    March 26, 2012, 3:20 am | # | Reply

    I’m sorry sir, but ordering your TOFU extra spicy doesn’t make you any less of a little girl.

    • gangler
      gangler
      March 26, 2012, 5:49 am | # | Reply

      Hey now. The man’s getting on in years. Probably has to watch his cholesterol and his sodium and his fiber and all sorts of awfulness. I don’t envy that at all.

    • Phil
      Flo
      March 26, 2012, 3:43 pm | # | Reply

      I have to interject to smack down the idea that eating Tofu is a wussy act.

      Good sir, I am no herbivore. I am no carnivore.

      I am an omnivore.

      The truest form of power and majesty in eating is to eat all foods indiscriminately. Fear for the bean curd shows a cowardice in the face of a disturbed comfort zone. Slaughter the seitan as one would the cow. Burn the Boca Burger in the hottest pits of fire you can summon. Follow it with rabbit and a glass of carrot juice to wash it down.

      In short, the truest (and if we must cling to constructs), manliest way to consume is to eat ALL the foods. We are at the top of the food chain. Grab a fork and defend your position from all who would dethrone you, flora and fauna alike.

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        March 27, 2012, 3:24 am | # | Reply

        Better still, become a humanitarian.

      • King of Zeroes
        King of Zeroes
        March 27, 2012, 11:27 am | # | Reply

        I find that fear for the curd is an evolved response to having a tongue with working taste buds.

        But if the beans ever rise up to dispute their position at the very bottom of the chain, rest assured I will remember this conversation. And as I destroy that rebellious plant with fork and knife, I will silently admit that you were right after all.

      • SotiCoto
        SotiCoto
        January 20, 2015, 11:07 am | # | Reply

        That title is less than accurate unless you eat everything.

  11. Arcanon
    Arcanon
    March 26, 2012, 4:40 am | # | Reply

    so i think they all have to die at the same time without chance of resurrection to get them out of the game, i think.

  12. bwernard
    bwernard
    March 26, 2012, 6:17 am | # | Reply

    Best’s tube is still there, wooo! Wait, wouldnt that either mean that his theory of death-makes-them-come-back is flawed, or the has already seen/predicted Best’s ressurrection? Any idea?

    On a sideline: hope that spicy food wont cause them to, uh… make bubbles on the tube.

    • gangler
      gangler
      March 26, 2012, 6:23 am | # | Reply

      Iirc last time we visited the topic Dedelous was pretty sure Best had just moved on to yet another reality. One that he’d probably accidentally created by killing the guy and doesn’t seem to be able to find or access. Which begs the question of why this plan’s supposed to work.

  13. Dotcom
    Dotcom
    March 26, 2012, 6:40 am | # | Reply

    She is so Bandit!

  14. Dan Irving
    Dan Irving
    March 26, 2012, 8:14 am | # | Reply

    I noticed that there are only 4 server panels opened up. Would there be three if Best was still part of the group? Do the four blades comprise the metaframe that houses the ‘server’ the group is logged into (assuming Daedalus is using multiple ‘servers’ to accommodate their user base)? Does the Pad Thai guy know that he is delivering food to possibly the most awesome MMO ever?

    Questions, questions ….

  15. Dan Irving
    Dan Irving
    March 26, 2012, 8:15 am | # | Reply

    *would there be five — damn I need to proof what I write first ….

  16. Hawk
    Hawk
    March 26, 2012, 8:27 am | # | Reply

    Every DM has uttered that phrase at some point: “if they survive through THIS one…”

    Sorry, HR, extra spicy isn’t going to help you at all.

    If they come out of those tubes, he better have a really good way to talk them down. I mean, come on – they’ve been immersed in this, much more fully than HR intended, but he’s going to have to kill them to get them out…

    Assuming they even survive being removed from the game, of course.

    But, what kind of conversation…?

  17. Syncline
    Syncline
    March 26, 2012, 8:30 am | # | Reply

    I just looked for the “Dun Dun DUNNNN” sound effect on the last panel.
    So sad that it wasn’t there.
    Will have to settle for Jean-luc’s awesome comment chain.

    • Harrowed
      Harrowed
      March 26, 2012, 11:14 am | # | Reply

      Haha, I was thinking, “Where’s Jean-luc?”

  18. Nekropancser
    Nekropancser
    March 26, 2012, 3:04 pm | # | Reply

    I heard his glasses shine… and a toned down string-4 playing in the background.

  19. Jose
    Jose
    March 26, 2012, 5:55 pm | # | Reply

    So…EVIL

  20. Lynxx_XVI
    Lynxx_XVI
    March 26, 2012, 6:11 pm | # | Reply

    AUGH OPEN YOUR MOUTH.

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      March 26, 2012, 8:46 pm | # | Reply

      Not going to happen. He lives with his mouth closed. One day he’ll die with his mouth closed. But right now he’s going to eat his tofu pad thai with his mouth closed. And I am so glad it’s going to be off panel when it happens.

  21. maggPi
    maggPi
    March 27, 2012, 12:03 pm | # | Reply

    please. pleaseplease. ohgodpleasepleasepleasedon’thaveh.r.getinanimmersiontubeaftereatingspicytofu.itissogrossto think ..of.. …and… waitaminit.

    Seriously; H. R. knows how this whole thing works. The spicy tofu is only for set up. Whoever winds up in the tube is gonna hafta go through at least a “no foods past 6pm and only water until the doctor says so” not to mention an I.V. for nutrients for the duration of the immersion. Does anyone really think H.R. is gonna give up control and go in himself? Nahhh… he will send in someone he can control from where he is. He’s got agents.

    Special Agents..

    Naahhhhh……

  22. Hatman
    Hatman
    March 27, 2012, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

    Am I the only one who thought Spaceballs on this one?

    “I’m going in there!”
    “He’s going in there…I wouldn’t.”

  23. Guest
    Guest
    March 27, 2012, 7:37 pm | # | Reply

    Hey, so unrelated to today’s strip, but I can’t find the link to the forums (and I’m too lazy to sign up, anyways):
    Has it occurred to anybody that maybe Scipio is a gold farming bot? That’s why he’s so silent.

  24. Snake_n_eggs
    Snake_n_eggs
    June 7, 2013, 11:20 pm | # | Reply

    Good gods no, not extra spicy!!!

  25. Necrosis
    Necrosis
    January 25, 2014, 11:38 pm | # | Reply

    Extra spicy?! Things are getting serious.

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