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

Weren't you listening? SHE JUST TOLD YOU.

Chapter 18 – Page 25

on September 24, 2012
Chapter: Chapter 18
└ Tags: Byron, Kon'kr, Kur'ik, Syr'Nj, Tay'lr
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  1. Mordecai
    Mordecai
    September 24, 2012, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Graiya’s basically a mom whose kids aren’t moving out of the house fast enough.
    Mental Note: Avoid triggering Avatar State Meltdown after college.

    • Joe
      Joe
      September 24, 2012, 12:09 am | # | Reply

      Oh, wow, that’s not actually Mordecai.
      Changed my name for a joke and look where it gets me.

      • Mordecai
        Mordecai
        September 24, 2012, 1:07 am | # | Reply

        Ha! The easiest first post I’ve ever made! :-D

      • ahdok
        ahdok
        September 24, 2012, 2:25 am | # | Reply

        Are we playing around with gravatar accounts?

        • ahdok
          ahdok
          September 24, 2012, 2:26 am | # | Reply

          That’s never a good idea.

          • biggmac
            biggmac
            September 24, 2012, 6:22 pm | # | Reply

            Aye, this is too confusing. I’m not even biggmac!

            • biggmac
              biggmac
              September 24, 2012, 7:29 pm | # | Reply

              TIM, YOU DOPPELGĂ„NGER! CEASE AND DESIST…
              Hey – wounded redhead look could work for me…?
              —-
              Naaah – I’m just a boyee in da hood.

        • Valdrax
          Valdrax
          September 24, 2012, 5:45 pm | # | Reply

          Who needs an account to play around with it?

    • Gram91
      Gram91
      September 24, 2012, 12:24 am | # | Reply

      I think more like a parent who has had a NEET under their roof for too long and finally releasing all the pent up rage.

      • biggmac
        biggmac
        September 24, 2012, 2:49 am | # | Reply

        If I had a lot of hair removal cream under my roof I’d have pent up rage too.

  2. biggmac
    biggmac
    September 24, 2012, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    A great deluge, eh? Oh No…ah! Oh hArken to her words, and gopher some wood (some 2×2’s) and hang on, the next 40 days (and nights) are gonna be Graiya’s big reighn!

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      September 24, 2012, 12:25 am | # | Reply

      *sigh*….REIGN. Or its’ homonym. I wash wee head autoconnect.

      • Darkening
        Darkening
        September 27, 2012, 4:47 am | # | Reply

        homonym… rein? like with a horse? cuz she likes living things? I don’t get it… ^_^

    • Speedy
      Speedy
      December 3, 2018, 8:59 am | # | Reply

      Just say “Noah” to reigns of terror.

      Fascist flood warning?

  3. Jirekianu
    Jirekianu
    September 24, 2012, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    I can’t help but think that “HEY GRAIYA, IF YOU ARE SO WISE, SO POWERFUL, AND SO RESPECTED. WHY ARE YOU GENERALIZING LIKE SOME CORNERS CUTTING MORON.”

    • Tsapki
      Tsapki
      September 24, 2012, 1:21 am | # | Reply

      I can sympathize with the sentiment, Jire, but how many Wood Elves have actually gone out of their forest and tried to make the world a better place? Seems that most were indeed content to sit in the forest and stay isolationists for the rest of their lives.

      The only one I can thing of who did, is currently the avatar. Come to think of it, I sort of get the idea that all of Graiya’s actions are being filtered through Syr’nge’s eyes.

      Otherwise, I’m left wondering why Fr’nge yelled out that Syr’nge needed to let go of the Bough.

      • Jirekianu
        Jirekianu
        September 24, 2012, 1:56 am | # | Reply

        Imagine what would happen if byron grabbed hold of the bough? That suppressed berserker rage from some kind of deity would suddenly have graiya’s bough as a foci or graiya would be tainted by it.

        • maggPi
          maggPi
          September 24, 2012, 8:11 pm | # | Reply

          Nothing would happen coz Byron is a human. The Champion of the Fuzzy Peoples did not turn into Graiya’s avatar. All he got was health benefits. Nope… That crazy possession-thing only works with wood elves. If Byron grabbed hold of the Bough, what would happen is exactly what he expects: The connection would break.

          And a drained, confused, possibly unconcious Syr’Nj.

      • gangler
        gangler
        September 24, 2012, 5:49 am | # | Reply

        And to be fair, any wood elves that have done this are surely outside of the forest right now and beyond her reach. The very fact that she can kill them like this is evidence that they’re still here.

        I mean yeah, Syr’Nj did happen to visit for the weekend at an unfortunate time. Had Graiya gotten her Avatar tomorrow or yesterday though there wouldn’t even be that.

        Heck, it’s only Syr’Nj’s birth status that even allowed her to return after leaving like that. Seemed pretty clear that normally she’d be treated as a treasonous exile after leaving the forest and intermingling with the people of the world like that.

        • centuriancode
          centuriancode
          September 24, 2012, 7:24 am | # | Reply

          Strictly speaking, she never says she’s going to kill all the wood elves (though I acknoweldge the implication is definitely there). It is also reasonably strongly implied that not everyone is going to die here, though. She implicitly excludes Byron from the list of soon-to-be-executed. Therefore, it is at least reasonably possible that she’s only going to wipe the annoying wood elves.

          • eschmenk
            eschmenk
            September 24, 2012, 9:15 am | # | Reply

            I took it that she was going to violently replace their forest with no regard to them. Those who managed to get out of the way could probably survive for a while, but the wood elf society would be gone.

            • gangler
              gangler
              September 24, 2012, 12:54 pm | # | Reply

              Makes sense. The priority is the creation of that new life she mentioned. She’s already washed her hands of the wood elves. If some of them happen to adapt and survive then hey, now we’ve got some bards to tell the new guys how the previous guys fucked up. That can’t hurt anything.

              • centuriancode
                centuriancode
                September 24, 2012, 9:39 pm | # | Reply

                Really? Lingering resentment and a legacy of fear and destruction can’t hurt anything?

                • gangler
                  gangler
                  September 25, 2012, 6:24 pm | # | Reply

                  Fear and destruction certainly don’t seem to be counter to her agenda at the moment. I have no reason to believe that it will be in any foreseeable future. Getting a pretty strong impression that this current legacy is probably her least favorite legacy.

  4. Psychotic_Serpent
    Psychotic_Serpent
    September 24, 2012, 12:48 am | # | Reply

    Tsk, tsk. Gods. They’re all the same.

    • Psychotic_Serpent
      Psychotic_Serpent
      September 24, 2012, 12:49 am | # | Reply

      I promise that when I become one I will only do this one a century.

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        September 24, 2012, 1:57 am | # | Reply

        Can I get that in engraving?

        • ahdok
          ahdok
          September 24, 2012, 2:27 am | # | Reply

          Hang on! It’s not… laminated yet.

          (Nobody will get this reference)

          • Psychotic_Serpent
            Psychotic_Serpent
            September 24, 2012, 5:08 pm | # | Reply

            Isn’t that the one Seinfeld episode where the baseball player didn’t get a chance to sign the card because Kramer laminated it?

            • ahdok
              ahdok
              September 25, 2012, 4:10 am | # | Reply

              It’s from a Tom Wrigglesworth open letter story. He remarks that he trusted a salesperson because they had tarriffs on a laminated sheet of paper, and that lamination was the modern day equivalent to a stone carving. – In the future we will replace the phrase “set in stone” with “laminated”

              • centuriancode
                centuriancode
                September 25, 2012, 5:33 am | # | Reply

                Yep, all good now.

                • centuriancode
                  centuriancode
                  September 25, 2012, 5:33 am | # | Reply

                  Damn, wrong spot.

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      September 24, 2012, 12:35 pm | # | Reply

      I know! She’s no magma god, but…
      She’ll do quite nicely after all.

      • Ebony
        Ebony
        September 24, 2012, 12:55 pm | # | Reply

        Quite. I suspect that Harky might be a bit pleased with these results. Assuming he can get out of the forests alive, that is.

  5. coldelectrons
    coldelectrons
    September 24, 2012, 12:58 am | # | Reply

    Are we gonna have a panel where Kon’kr and Kur’ik kiss while the world ends around them?

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      September 24, 2012, 1:48 am | # | Reply

      And poor Tay’lr… we just met ye, and now yer dead meat.

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        September 24, 2012, 1:58 am | # | Reply

        It was swift.

      • eschmenk
        eschmenk
        September 24, 2012, 8:52 am | # | Reply

        Actually, she was one of the first wood elves we met. http://guildedage.net/webcomic/chapter-17/chapter-17-page-1/ I originally thought it was a flash-back involving Syr’Nj.

    • eschmenk
      eschmenk
      September 24, 2012, 9:04 am | # | Reply

      That wouldn’t work! Could you imagine Kon’kr being up her without a paddle?

  6. Llama118
    Llama118
    September 24, 2012, 1:03 am | # | Reply

    I guess the wood elves have been living DELUGE-ional lifestyles. I guess not every story has a happy RENDING!

  7. coldelectrons
    coldelectrons
    September 24, 2012, 1:06 am | # | Reply

    Silly Byron. Ranged weapons are the answer here.

  8. Locke
    Locke
    September 24, 2012, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    I’m imagining a dramatic piece playing in the background with a Latin Chorus. Their lyrics, translated, “HE’S A LUMBER JACK AND HE’S OKAY…”

    • centuriancode
      centuriancode
      September 24, 2012, 7:34 am | # | Reply

      I’m not sure you can translate lumberjack into Latin, but the rest of it is probably something like:

      “Byron, ipse est [lumberjack] et ipse est sanus [or possibly a less formal variant]”.

      • dr pepper
        dr pepper
        September 26, 2012, 4:10 am | # | Reply

        Lignifex validusque est.

  9. ahdok
    ahdok
    September 24, 2012, 2:32 am | # | Reply

    Hey Phil! it looks like you used iOS6 maps to locate the text in panel 3 :)

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      September 24, 2012, 2:47 am | # | Reply

      it looks
      fine to
      me?

      • ahdok
        ahdok
        September 24, 2012, 7:00 am | # | Reply

        It doesn’t look like this to you>

        • Phil
          Flo
          September 24, 2012, 10:01 am | # | Reply

          Biggmac’s just being nice.

          Thanks for the spot. Fixed!

          • centuriancode
            centuriancode
            September 24, 2012, 9:41 pm | # | Reply

            Still looks skewed to me.

            • ahdok
              ahdok
              September 25, 2012, 4:16 am | # | Reply

              To the left! no! the other left! Wiggle the aerial a bit, not that aerial! this is supposed to be a pegi-13 comic!

              Okay, looks better now.

              • centuriancode
                centuriancode
                September 25, 2012, 5:33 am | # | Reply

                Yep, looks good now.

  10. KS Claw
    KS Claw
    September 24, 2012, 2:40 am | # | Reply

    is it me, or do the elves look like they’re withering?

    • Nicolas Rei
      Nicolas Rei
      September 24, 2012, 4:12 am | # | Reply

      They’re all dehydrated and tired from the battle and attempted evac. Then they have their goddess tell them hey, you’re not good enough to exist. Yes, rather withering.

  11. Miyaa
    Miyaa
    September 24, 2012, 3:19 am | # | Reply

    Hmm, Humans, Wood Elves, Adapting. Is this where Human-Elven love comes in?

  12. Timelost
    Timelost
    September 24, 2012, 3:52 am | # | Reply

    They have sealed their fate, they must bough to the inevitable.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      September 24, 2012, 7:13 am | # | Reply

      I think it’s safe to call this one the green ending.

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        September 24, 2012, 9:41 pm | # | Reply

        I guess they didn’t like her when she was angry.

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      September 24, 2012, 12:43 pm | # | Reply

      We shall hear the lamination of their alders as the last veneer of their beleaf in their goddess’s grace is stripped away, varnishing before their eyes.

    • GupyF
      GupyF
      September 25, 2012, 2:52 pm | # | Reply

      Keep Callm, eveyrhting will be just Vine. Im betting her Bark is much worse than her bite. Im sure Byron will sprout out and salve us all in no thyme. :)

  13. Logos
    Logos
    September 24, 2012, 4:58 am | # | Reply

    In place of a dark lord you will have a QUEEN, not dark but BEAUTIFUL AND TERRIBLE AS THE DAWN! TREACHEROUS as the SEA! STRONGER THAN THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH! ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR!

    • Clockwork
      Clockwork
      September 24, 2012, 5:42 am | # | Reply

      I just noticed your avatar fits perfectly with your comment.

  14. Clockwork
    Clockwork
    September 24, 2012, 5:41 am | # | Reply

    anyone else thinking of green lantern but with nature?

    • centuriancode
      centuriancode
      September 24, 2012, 9:42 pm | # | Reply

      Several remarks were made to that effect on the previous page previous page.

      • Logos
        Logos
        September 25, 2012, 4:40 am | # | Reply

        Yeah, grandpa, get with the times. Now watch me do skateboards on your lawn!

        RAAAADICAL

  15. A random human
    A random human
    September 24, 2012, 5:43 am | # | Reply

    Where the heck are Frigg, Scipio, E-Merl and Co ? Their help is frigging needed. Litterally.

    • Tim
      Tim
      September 24, 2012, 6:19 pm | # | Reply

      Aye, they are Frigging needed, it’s a damn E-Merlgency.
      Now, just Scipio over this comment and it’s lame puns.

  16. gangler
    gangler
    September 24, 2012, 5:50 am | # | Reply

    Seems like Graiya is telling you quite clearly and explicitly exactly where you went wrong. Not a whole lot of mystery there.

  17. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    September 24, 2012, 6:12 am | # | Reply

    Seriously Byron, your lover’s been a total nutjob for only like 2 minutes and you’re already prepared to axe the relationship. Your own mouth foaming herpy derpiness was tolerated for much longer than that.

    • Loyal
      Loyal
      September 24, 2012, 6:44 am | # | Reply

      Isn’t he holding the axe backwards? I figured he was trying to just club her unconscious.

      • gangler
        gangler
        September 24, 2012, 7:08 am | # | Reply

        Oh. I was wondering how he was gonna chop her free of those vines and/or chop up the bough with his axe like that. That makes sense.

  18. flevine
    flevine
    September 24, 2012, 7:09 am | # | Reply

    So…is this Carol playing god, as H.R. suggested some time back? Or is H.R. staring at the screen saying, “Uh..well…I thought I’d summon the evil god on them, but I can work with this…”?

    • plaintextman
      plaintextman
      September 24, 2012, 7:55 am | # | Reply

      I think this is HR almost on the verge of tears because things just went way out of his control once more.

      • eschmenk
        eschmenk
        September 24, 2012, 9:12 am | # | Reply

        Or on the floor with an empty bottle of Scotch.

        • flevine
          flevine
          September 24, 2012, 12:56 pm | # | Reply

          I think Doritos were his poison…

          • eschmenk
            eschmenk
            September 24, 2012, 5:16 pm | # | Reply

            I think it’s gone beyond his normal poison. And who is doing this? Isn’t this the woman in the tank? Is it just that she is really getting into her roleplaying? Does this mean she now a god at about the level of H.R.? That would be interesting! Or is Carol trying to take control of the character or something like that?

  19. cliffmonster
    cliffmonster
    September 24, 2012, 10:48 am | # | Reply

    And you wonder why none of the Wood Elf leaders used the Bough. “Its great as a tool to power our isolation” they would say, “but just don’t ever pick it up!”

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      September 24, 2012, 12:57 pm | # | Reply

      I doubt you get to be a wood elf leader if you don’t buy into the traditions of the wood elves…

  20. ahdok
    ahdok
    September 24, 2012, 12:55 pm | # | Reply

    When life gives you Graiya, make Graiyanaise.

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      September 24, 2012, 1:14 pm | # | Reply

      Graiyanaise – a holy condiment made only by the high priests Mustr’d and Cats’p.

  21. flevine
    flevine
    September 24, 2012, 1:01 pm | # | Reply

    Wow…Graiya’s like the manager who chews you out at an annual performance review for something you did 6 months ago that no one ever told you was a problem.

    • Psychotic_Serpent
      Psychotic_Serpent
      September 24, 2012, 5:17 pm | # | Reply

      Flevine, you better be careful, because you used the last bit of copy machine paper 2 months ago, which made Kevin (the one with the bad knee) have to go ALL the way across the street to get more!

      • flevine
        flevine
        September 24, 2012, 5:25 pm | # | Reply

        Kevin’s got a bad knee? Wait…who’s Kevin?

        • SteelRaven
          SteelRaven
          September 24, 2012, 7:33 pm | # | Reply

          He’s the one that used to be a adventurer, until that arrow…

          • flevine
            flevine
            September 24, 2012, 8:22 pm | # | Reply

            Oh…Well, then management should have made reasonable accommodations.

            • centuriancode
              centuriancode
              September 24, 2012, 9:44 pm | # | Reply

              Because management is always so reasonable.

  22. Ishmael
    Ishmael
    September 24, 2012, 6:09 pm | # | Reply

    So Graiya’s gonna do the Horde’s job for them, huh? Whoops.

    Still, I think I know the best way for this situation can be solved. The problem is that Byron’s using the wrong kind of axe.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      September 25, 2012, 4:18 am | # | Reply

      You think that he should have an electric guitar?

      • Ishmael
        Ishmael
        September 25, 2012, 8:49 am | # | Reply

        That’d probably do it.

  23. Hawk
    Hawk
    September 24, 2012, 9:28 pm | # | Reply

    Wow, I’m gone for awhile and things get all SERIOUS. :P

    This was a good page to come back to. And hi all you crazy people in the comments :) I missed you.

  24. JamesRustle
    JamesRustle
    September 25, 2012, 11:13 am | # | Reply

    Ain’t no love, in the heart of the forest…

  25. Passerby
    Passerby
    December 10, 2012, 7:28 pm | # | Reply

    Byron is possessed by a half-forgotten abomination worshipped by Cultists. Frigg is a conduit for a rising god replacing her old sisterhood. Gravedust appears to channel the entirety of his people’s murdered spiritual sect as well as the entire spiritual world that essentially served as their deity. And now Syr’nj summons the god of her own people. Anyone else see a running pattern?

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