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

There's really no better friendship than a dog and his stick, I guess.

Chapter 18 – Page 1

on July 27, 2012
Chapter: Chapter 18
└ Tags: Auraugu, Bandit, Gravedust
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  1. Mujaki
    Mujaki
    July 27, 2012, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    “I did not expect her to involve herself in preventing a theft.”

    Well, shyeah. How could Bandit possibly steal it from the elves, if someone else steals it first? Then she’d have to steal it from those other thieves, and that just doesn’t have the same ring to it, you know?

  2. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    July 27, 2012, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    The gnoll would’ve been dead like 2 or 3 times by now if it weren’t for the bough. As likeable as Auraugu is he does seem to suffer from typical bad guy incompetence. He didn’t do all that well at that dock encounter either.

    Don’t know where he gets his confidence.

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      July 27, 2012, 12:17 am | # | Reply

      Every morning, he has a bowl of Meaties.
      It’s the Breakfast of Champions (of the Fuzzy Peoples)!

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      July 27, 2012, 12:24 am | # | Reply

      Overconfidence is a classic bad guy trait – if you’re dealing with James Bond villains or any Marvel comic baddy from the 1960’s

      • The Indomitable Eric
        The Indomitable Eric
        July 27, 2012, 1:34 am | # | Reply

        Well, he killed an entire company of armored guards, whom I assume can only be the elitest of the elites they have guarding the bough.

        I can’t say his confidence is altogether misplaced.

        • A random human
          A random human
          July 27, 2012, 4:00 am | # | Reply

          Killed ? You mean the guards Bandit passes by, two or three pages before ? They can’t be dead : I mean, they would have been pilled up, or strewn across the place in a particular fashion, not just leand against some pillars. They were slumbering on duty, which is unthinkable.

          Unless Aurgu … Mr Fleabag speaks about other soldiers.

          • Andreas
            Andreas
            July 27, 2012, 4:40 am | # | Reply

            What? You think he had to fight them? He’s a Wrestler (i.e. a Monk of the Horde), he just neck-slammed them right out of commission… and he didn’t even use the ropes.

            • maggPi
              maggPi
              July 27, 2012, 3:38 pm | # | Reply

              Well, he definitely didn’t train with the Vivacious Vicki Glori! I mean …uh, she won that belt fair and square!

              (Queen Rena Rules!)

              • Andreas
                Andreas
                July 28, 2012, 2:28 am | # | Reply

                Vi
                va
                La
                To
                ña

                + 1 billion for you.

          • Jean-Luc
            Jean-Luc
            July 27, 2012, 7:23 am | # | Reply

            Yeah, looks to me like they’re sleeping too. Besides, the only thing weaker than bad guy mooks are good guy mooks for which they compensate with overpowered protagonists.

            • Phil
              Flo
              July 27, 2012, 8:26 am | # | Reply

              Boy are you guys optimistic.

              • Jean-Luc
                Jean-Luc
                July 27, 2012, 11:26 pm | # | Reply

                They better not be having nightmares.

          • biggmac
            biggmac
            July 27, 2012, 8:56 am | # | Reply

            Guys, they’re wood elves. Auraugu probably just sprayed the whole chamber with herbicide – like Round Up. Rather quick, deadly, silent, and efficient.

            • coldelectrons
              coldelectrons
              July 27, 2012, 5:11 pm | # | Reply

              Agent Orange works for the Horde?!

              • Andreas
                Andreas
                July 28, 2012, 2:16 am | # | Reply

                That’s Double agent Nanor’Nj to you!

          • The Indomitable Eric
            The Indomitable Eric
            July 27, 2012, 11:19 am | # | Reply

            I doubt Bandit would have mentioned checking to see if anyone’s alive if they were just napping. They probably would have intervened by now if they weren’t dead.

            • Jean-Luc
              Jean-Luc
              July 28, 2012, 1:28 pm | # | Reply

              We don’t mean sleep as in taking a nap. But drugged, unconscious or put to sleep via magical means.

              • Phil
                Flo
                July 29, 2012, 9:46 am | # | Reply

                Boy are you optimistic.

    • Timelost
      Timelost
      July 27, 2012, 12:46 am | # | Reply

      I’ll tell you where the confidence comes from, it’s the mask.

      I never knew what a difference a luchador mask could make in my life, and then I strapped one on, suddenly there’s a spring in my step, a song in my heart, and the sacred honor of a wrestler burning in my very soul.

      It did what no doctors, pills, Hollywood diets, or fancy candles could.

      It made me a man.

    • Loki
      Loki
      July 27, 2012, 4:49 am | # | Reply

      Auragu is not a man, assuming Auragu tells the truth. Then, what is Auragu?

      Reference: http://guildedage.net/webcomic/chapter-13/chapter-13-page-16/

      • coldelectrons
        coldelectrons
        July 27, 2012, 5:06 am | # | Reply

        An exhibitionist with six tits?

      • biggmac
        biggmac
        July 27, 2012, 8:59 am | # | Reply

        He is DEVO!

        • Heheh
          Heheh
          July 27, 2012, 11:08 am | # | Reply

          <3

      • Andreas
        Andreas
        July 28, 2012, 2:33 am | # | Reply

        That was an all-female assault squad… used to be known a Harky’s Angels

    • plaintextman
      plaintextman
      July 27, 2012, 6:13 pm | # | Reply

      He is teh wrestlur man — erm — fuzzy person. And he is teh champion, hyes! So overconfidence is part of his job description. That said, his confidence is definitely not entirely misplaced.

    • Whipstitch
      Whipstitch
      July 29, 2012, 1:15 pm | # | Reply

      I like how apparently not being nigh immune to an arrow ambush is now incompetence. Harky set the bar high, I guess.

    • CaptEndo
      CaptEndo
      November 16, 2013, 9:32 pm | # | Reply

      Rather like certain insurgent organizations here in our world: We met them in battle, and they didn’t kill ALL of us! We Won!
      A sad cop out for never winning a single battle, of course.

  3. biggmac
    biggmac
    July 27, 2012, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Shaverust Dessertspammer to the rescue! Well, until Improve Root Attack, at least. And speaking of spam, healthy spam…
    I’ll have the quick Frigg rescue well tenderized with a spiked mace, served with Frigg sauce and a side Frigg of Frigg
    FRIGG, Frigg, Frigg, Frigg, FRIGG, Frigg, Frigg, Frigg
    Angry Frigg, wonderful Frigggg! Nasty Frigg, wonderful Frigg

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      July 27, 2012, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      July 27, 2012, 12:37 am | # | Reply

      And BTW, thankyouthankyou for the continuation of the action! I really expected a total break in the action a la the start of chapter 8, or a flash back, or flash forward, or flash fire (see cover), flash mob, or a flasher…ewww

      • maggPi
        maggPi
        July 27, 2012, 3:43 pm | # | Reply

        Ha! Ha! Your avatar looks really spooked by the flasher!

  4. Valdrax
    Valdrax
    July 27, 2012, 1:11 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, time for some mystic neck-romancy.

    • Sun-stone
      Sun-stone
      July 27, 2012, 1:37 am | # | Reply

      Scipio and Fri’Ng may be getting a little neck-romance-y at this very moment.

      • coldelectrons
        coldelectrons
        July 27, 2012, 5:01 am | # | Reply

        Gravedust packs 12-gauge arrows with some mean knockback. Too bad he doesn’t have explosive arrowheads. If he had that, and there was a pool of lava nearby, we could have a Guildy-style reinactment of the final T1000 scene in Terminator 2.

        • coldelectrons
          coldelectrons
          July 27, 2012, 5:01 am | # | Reply

          Wha-? How’d my comment get up here?

        • Jean-Luc
          Jean-Luc
          July 27, 2012, 7:27 am | # | Reply

          When I first saw the arrow I thought it was a javelin. The dwarf is packing some seriously large calibre ranged-assery.

      • Phil
        Flo
        July 27, 2012, 8:25 am | # | Reply

        Gold Star.

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      March 31, 2016, 5:38 am | # | Reply

      Aurugu’s stick, you mean?

  5. ThatDumbRetard
    ThatDumbRetard
    July 27, 2012, 1:57 am | # | Reply

    A Rogue and Hunter unable to beat a single resto druid? BLASPHEMY!

    • ThatDumbRetard
      ThatDumbRetard
      July 27, 2012, 1:58 am | # | Reply

      Oh yah, and the many hordes of warriors he slaughtered outside.

      • Tsapki
        Tsapki
        July 27, 2012, 2:30 am | # | Reply

        I’d say he’s closer to the new Monk class that is coming out, but with incredible Druid buffs. Plus, he’s fighting them one after the other rather than all at once and we know what a difference that makes.

        • Veggieburrito
          Veggieburrito
          July 31, 2012, 3:57 pm | # | Reply

          Worgen Druid, sorry.

      • A random human
        A random human
        July 27, 2012, 4:03 am | # | Reply

        Slaughtered ? They’re all leaned against pillars, they’re sleeping it off.

        • Andreas
          Andreas
          July 28, 2012, 2:35 am | # | Reply

          If by sleeping it off, you mean sleeping the big sleep, you’re right.

          Ever seen a ninja do a flying head-grab-neck-twist? They look like that afterwards.

    • Nonsensicles
      Nonsensicles
      July 27, 2012, 4:59 am | # | Reply

      Gravy’s more like a resto shaman with a bow.

  6. hellhound
    hellhound
    July 27, 2012, 2:28 am | # | Reply

    Puh. for a moment there i thought that our beloved Auraugu was a goner.
    also i guess now tombdirt is in trouble too.who will come now? Frigg or E-merl? i think E-merl would be more useful here.his shield power could prevent him from being rooted.

    • hellhound
      hellhound
      July 27, 2012, 2:30 am | # | Reply

      also,new avatar pic…..not cool…funny yes ,but not cool.

  7. A random human
    A random human
    July 27, 2012, 4:06 am | # | Reply

    What is needed is two characters showing up at the same time : the first one drawing all of Fleabag’s attention, and the other sneaking on him, snatching the bough and getting the hell outta dodge, Carl Lewis style.

  8. Andreas
    Andreas
    July 27, 2012, 4:36 am | # | Reply

    Did I call that, or what?

    The half-pint doesn’t fuck around.
    Too bad Graiyas body parts are much more promiscuous!

  9. Yinello
    Yinello
    July 27, 2012, 4:45 am | # | Reply

    Gravy whoo!

  10. Andreas
    Andreas
    July 27, 2012, 4:50 am | # | Reply

    *SOMEONE* was in such a hurry to make up for being latened by karaoke, that he *retroactively* rerolled all past avatars as well…
    Or so it seems.

    • Loki
      Loki
      July 27, 2012, 4:58 am | # | Reply

      I thought that always happened?

      • Phil
        Flo
        July 27, 2012, 8:24 am | # | Reply

        Yep.

        • Andreas
          Andreas
          July 28, 2012, 2:18 am | # | Reply

          Oh, you’ve trained them well!
          *denialisariverinegypt*

          • Valdrax
            Valdrax
            July 29, 2012, 2:32 am | # | Reply

            Nope. That’s inherent to the Gravatar service. That’s why comments about how appropriate someone’s avatar is make no sense without a description when you go back an read older strips.

            Same thing happens on Shortpacked! & Dumbing of Age since the author there also provides random avatars for those who don’t register.

  11. Messenger
    Messenger
    July 27, 2012, 5:17 am | # | Reply

    This is turning into a boss encounter…

    • The Indomitable Eric
      The Indomitable Eric
      July 29, 2012, 10:29 pm | # | Reply

      Hyes.

  12. TexasUberAlles
    TexasUberAlles
    July 27, 2012, 7:02 am | # | Reply

    Thirty comments and an Alt Text, and no one has made a “His bark is worse than his bite” crack yet.

    What is happening to this comments section? I don’t even know you people anymore.

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      July 27, 2012, 8:47 am | # | Reply

      Well, maybe when he actually bites something we’ll be able to properly compare. And I wouldn’t want to bark up the wrong tree, but as long as he’s got that bough’s barkskin bonus, Auraugu isn’t going to be biting the dust. Although Gravedust may have bitten off more than he can chew…

      • JarrysKid
        JarrysKid
        July 27, 2012, 11:06 am | # | Reply

        Look out, Gravy! Leg hump in 5…4…3…

        • coldelectrons
          coldelectrons
          July 27, 2012, 4:32 pm | # | Reply

          Auraugu does seem to be a little (t)horny…

          • plaintextman
            plaintextman
            July 27, 2012, 6:16 pm | # | Reply

            *mental image* Porn Star awarded to you, sirs.

  13. zero
    zero
    July 27, 2012, 7:25 am | # | Reply

    everything is going right back to what H.R. wanted

    http://guildedage.net/webcomic/chapter-15/chapter-15-page-23/

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      July 27, 2012, 7:29 am | # | Reply

      Chinese food?

      • Mujaki
        Mujaki
        July 27, 2012, 8:39 am | # | Reply

        No, no. Check the next page after, he ordered tofu pad Thai. “Extra spicy.”
        And comparing the actual events to what H.R. planned? I’d say he probably didn’t have much in the way of Scoville units for supper that night, either.

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      July 27, 2012, 8:48 am | # | Reply

      Hey, just noticed – on that page (chap 15 pg 23) the one shown “pilfering” the bough looks (1) like a gnoll AND (2) FEMALE! I mean, isn’t that breast swelling there? So that wasn’t meant to be Auraugu, which means HR Pufnstuf’s plan ain’t EXACTLY being followed….?

      • Joe
        Joe
        July 27, 2012, 10:40 am | # | Reply

        Phil mentioned when Auraugu showed up at the bough that it was originally going to be a new gnoll character, but they changed it because, hey, there wasn’t any reason that an already-popular gnoll shouldn’t return. I imagine it’s just a remnant of that.

        • JarrysKid
          JarrysKid
          July 27, 2012, 11:09 am | # | Reply

          Or Auraugu (Champion of the Fuzzy Peoples) is a cross dresser.

          • maggPi
            maggPi
            July 27, 2012, 3:51 pm | # | Reply

            Hermaphrodite?

            • Tsapki
              Tsapki
              July 28, 2012, 12:25 am | # | Reply

              Technically if he is just a cross dresser, transvestite might be the more fitting term.

              • Valdrax
                Valdrax
                July 29, 2012, 2:39 am | # | Reply

                Depends on how much gnolls are like spotted hyenas…

                • dr pepper
                  dr pepper
                  July 29, 2012, 7:44 pm | # | Reply

                  hyenas are ambiguous further south.

  14. James Rye
    James Rye
    July 27, 2012, 10:17 am | # | Reply

    Ah dang, i had hoped for one of the main cast to die. Oh well, save that surprise for later then.

    • CliffMonster
      CliffMonster
      July 27, 2012, 10:38 am | # | Reply

      Heresy! Thats Bandit you are talking about. Also, there are plenty of pages left to fulfill your pro-faux-see. Knock on wood….

  15. Carl-E
    Carl-E
    July 27, 2012, 10:39 am | # | Reply

    Hey, Jim. Nice to see you getting out and about…

    • Carl-E
      Carl-E
      July 27, 2012, 10:40 am | # | Reply

      Damn, that was supposed to be a reply to James Rye.

      C’est la vie!

  16. krogaladin
    krogaladin
    July 27, 2012, 11:03 am | # | Reply

    even though he got the shaft, the gnoll still is willing to branch out.

    • maggPi
      maggPi
      July 27, 2012, 4:02 pm | # | Reply

      “…He’s one sexy mother– (Shut your mouth!)…”

      Well… At least *someone* might think so.

      • biggmac
        biggmac
        July 28, 2012, 2:39 am | # | Reply

        Why maggPi, I do believe you’re blushing.

        “Who’s the masked private gnoll who’s a sex machine – hey, what’re those sticks?
        “SHAFTS!”…”You’re dammm right.
        “You say this dog’s breath is a baaad mutha-
        SHUT YO’ MOUTH!…
        ….I will if HE will…

  17. Remember
    Remember
    July 27, 2012, 11:43 am | # | Reply

    Bad dog, give, GIVE!

  18. Obakeinu
    Obakeinu
    July 27, 2012, 12:32 pm | # | Reply

    Damn… enemies with rapid regen really suck.

    Oh hell… If they use the old ‘throw flaming oil on the troll’ trick to take him out…

    Hmm… that would explain why the forest is on fire.

    • coldelectrons
      coldelectrons
      July 27, 2012, 4:24 pm | # | Reply

      Wouldn’t it be “Throw oil on the flaming gnoll” in this case?

      Hyes.

  19. Locke
    Locke
    July 27, 2012, 1:43 pm | # | Reply

    HGGGXK is now my favorite word to contain an “X”.

  20. biggmac
    biggmac
    July 27, 2012, 1:59 pm | # | Reply

    Looks like the ^^ eyes aren’t a set feature of the mask after all.

  21. maggPi
    maggPi
    July 27, 2012, 4:09 pm | # | Reply

    I think Gravedust is in need of a lumberjack, now.

    Yes. Now. NOW is the time for a lumberjack, you crazy elves. Where is he? Locked up in a woodstove, ready to be baked, you say?

    Oh.

    80

  22. coldelectrons
    coldelectrons
    July 27, 2012, 4:42 pm | # | Reply

    [nitpick] Since Auraugu seems to be a louder boss than Liquid Ocelot, how on earth did he take out a platoon without waking up the whole forest?

    HYES, Brother!!

  23. coldelectrons
    coldelectrons
    July 27, 2012, 5:02 pm | # | Reply

    Panel 3 – I’m no expert, but I did practice archery as a kid. Gravy’s hold of the arrow under the bow seems wrong to me. Of course, I’m semi-left-handed-ambidextrous-ish…

    And since discontinuity errors are a game to people such as myself: Panel 4, Gravy’s bow is angled the opposite way from Panel 3, and the arrow now seems to be over his grip instead of under.

    • Olfrick
      Olfrick
      July 27, 2012, 6:20 pm | # | Reply

      I’ve generally given up on making comments like this, but from the standpoint of western archery, the muppet gallery is correct. Gravy’s arrow should be resting on the back of his hand at the base of his index finger and not the base of his thumb (which on a right handed archer would tend to send the arrow way off to the right….way, way off). This is such a common error in fantasy art, and movie promotional stills, that trying to point it out is usually like talking to the wall.

      Here’s the free “but I did my research honest” get-out-of-jail-free-card, obviously Gravy is using the Asiatic Release and drawing the string back with his thumb (I don’t recall this being clearly illustrated).

    • plaintextman
      plaintextman
      July 27, 2012, 6:23 pm | # | Reply

      I’m not a bow archer, but at least the pose-continuity seems consistent to me. Also, I give them a small +1 for making his bow a short (almost) recurve bow; it matches Graveh’s stature and relative strength.

  24. Dotcom
    Dotcom
    July 27, 2012, 10:25 pm | # | Reply

    Down dog!

  25. Talon88.1
    Talon88.1
    July 28, 2012, 3:52 am | # | Reply

    Im going to go for the low hanging branch and just say that the gnoll is getting the shaft this page.

  26. Dr. Thrax
    Dr. Thrax
    July 28, 2012, 3:57 am | # | Reply

    C’mon! Shoot the arm that’s holding the bough! It’s only your feet, for now.

    • Andreas
      Andreas
      July 28, 2012, 7:41 am | # | Reply

      Shoot him in the brains, through each eye.
      Then in his ass, through each ‘nad.
      It’s the classic method of putting down those rapidly regenerating that have no elemental weakness.

      • biggmac
        biggmac
        July 28, 2012, 9:24 pm | # | Reply

        Rah rah ree, shoot ‘im in the knee!
        Rah rah resticle, shoot ‘im in…. the other knee

    • redo19
      redo19
      July 29, 2012, 8:53 am | # | Reply

      YOU try shooting a flailing arm. What if it hit the bough and the universe imploded? Then the gang could go adventuring across sepia world!

  27. ThatDumbRetard
    ThatDumbRetard
    July 29, 2012, 11:54 pm | # | Reply

    I’m waiting for one of Grav’s ghost pals to come flying out to like… uhh… scare him SO BAD that he drops the bough and dies of a heart attack?

  28. Yashie
    Yashie
    January 22, 2013, 5:58 am | # | Reply

    I notice Gravy’s arrows only have two fletching feather things! :O I can’t believe I didn’t notice that before.

  29. HashbrownMashup
    HashbrownMashup
    August 29, 2013, 11:36 pm | # | Reply

    Anyone else reminded of the branch from it’s walky?

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