Chapter 23 – Page 28
After a long wait, after toiling and slaving away at getting this show finally on the road after all this time… Guilded Age is proud to announce that we are Pending Approval of the Kickstarter Staff!
Didn’t we just make a big show out of launching on June 10th? Didn’t I, myself, claim that we were on track to get rolling today?
Yes I did.
I was also, however, in a state of gross misunderstanding of the Kickstarter submissions process, and didn’t understand that we’d have one more round of review to be processed through.
We’re sorry to jerk you all around like this, and trust us, the embarassment pays for it all. That said, we’ll be launching the project as soon as it’s ready, on that we can verily promise.
Today concludes Chapter 23. Chapter 24 begins tomorrow, with another round of DLC and comment avatar shuffling.
We thank you guys for your patience. This Kickstarter process has been difficult, but hopefully you’ll see that all the planning and time-biding and yes, false starts, will be worth it.
Thanks for reading.
Frigg is really so tactless.
Or does she just have it all figured out, and doesn’t waste her time worrying about the huge piles of bullshit we build for ourselves?
Tactless, I agree. But I also agree with what you said, Schneidend. I think the only person we’re screwing most of the time is ourselves by going around in circles instead of just being straightforward about things.
True enough, but sometimes it’s nice to be smacked with the soft edge of the 2×4.
Unless this was Frigg trying to be tricky and get Rach to make a choice, one way or the other, rather than let the two of them stew in self pity for the next three months?
Nah, I’m pretty sure she means it when she says she’s gonna try and fuck “E-Gurl.”
Glad I was wrong about things. This is far better chaos then Rachel not being okay.
I’m thinking she might have caught on to how Rachel attempts to mimic her and decided to attempt showing that he isn’t off-limits by example.
Is Frigg actually that caring and friendly, though? I freely acknowledge the possibility of character development, and the possibility of some kind of Diamond in the Rough progression, but as yet we’ve not seen much Diamond, and we’ve seen a helluva lot of rough.
Frigg risks her life being a meat shield for these people on a near-constant basis. I’d say she definitely cares, in her own way.
She’s loyal to her friends, but I’m not sure I trust her to solve (or notice) problems that can’t be bludgeoned into submission. Though she does have her moments, so who knows?
Who said you can’t bludgeon romantic drama into submission? One of the best solutions there are!
If violence doesn’t solve your problems, you’re not using enough.
She knows that one can verbally bludgeon feelings the same way one physically bludgeons enemies.
Bludgeoning for romance? Wow, I never knew that Frigg was a Klingon too!
There will be pounding. And she’ll probably swear a lot.
Seems like Frigg’s usual approach, really.
Frigg is being much more subtle than I thought she would be. If she hates the trope that Rachel and E-merl are playing out, as much as we all must, then I would expect her to pound their faces together until they were bruised and bloody, and then shout, “NOW F**K!!!”
She’s rough and brutish, but she definitely cares once she’s fought alongside you, trusted you and been trust by you.
Remember when they were in the room of mirrors at the Temple where Best was lost? When Gravedust got cut by Byron’s invisible axe, she immediately goes “Who cut MY dwarf!?”
She cares. In her own way, but she does.
Not so much, given the cirumstances…
… but it still works out the same way.
She’s behaving better than her usual self, even. Usually, she’s dead and with damaged armor crushing her ribs in one frame, and in the next she’s doing her Best impression of a “beast with two backs”.
(Looking back at that scene, I noticed that Byron is scrawling something in the sand that resembles most symbolic depictions of The Countless Ones like the one in Brother Tom’s robe, but oh well, cultists aren’t the current focus)
And E-Morl is getting some the same way.
Rachel would lose her glowy ham-fist-things by showing envy?
I feel Rachel’s near-choke experience has opened her eyes to some things. Like the fact that she doesn’t want to die unfucked.
That has some arousing and terrifying implications at the same time.
(To get what I mean, think about that episode where a guy thought he had killed Quagmire by strangling him, only to find, too late, that he’s used to, uh… breath control play). Okay, now I can’t look at Guybrush Threepwood the same way again.
Or GLaDOS, for that matter.
“I’d take a deep breath…and hold it.”
(Although of course, that scene’s implications were much different.)
Tears of solidarity for the Monkey Island reference. ;w;
Erotic asphyxiation? Are you guys talking about erotic asphyxiation? I bet it’s erotic asphyxiation.
Elaine wishes it was that easy to get Threepwood going! You know full well she must have to walk around the whole island collecting strange and questionable items, sorting through dialogue options, and solving puzzle challenges before encountering any Mighty Pirate ™ boner. And that’s just foreplay!
I honestly can’t decide if she is ironic, sarcastic, socially inept, or just the worst person alive.
She could have at least asked Rachel if she wanted to help.
… You’re kidding, right?
I feel like this comment thread is full of people assuming Frigg knows more than she does; We don’t have any reason to believe that she knows what really went down. She probably just assumed Rachel has no interest in E-Merl. I mean, Frigg’s not exactly nice, but I think she’s better than *THAT*. If she knows why Rachel passed on him that’s just plain mean.
She knows them well enough to know they love each other. She knows enough about Rachel’s background that she should be able to figure out why Rachel friendzoned E-merl.
But, I’m pretty certain she doesn’t give a crap what stupid notions are keeping them apart. In her mind, they belong together, so she’s gonna force the issue, until they are together, or until they prove to her satisfaction that they’re wrong for each other.
And I was considering noting how polite she was being. This was surprisingly considerate of her, all else being equal.
RED and BLU going to meet the Administrator.
Yep, that’s gonna work.
Your avatar matches this comment quite well.
It’s nice to see that even when a fight breaks out we can still kick and mace up.
Poor Rachel. :-( You should have said “Yes” when you had the chance.
We don’t know what we got until it’s gone.
Quick! She’s turning into an internet meme!
If Rachel doesn’t get it intoo gear, we’ll be able to use her face to replace the “Forever Alone Guy.”
I know it’s Frigg and all, but she really just made me lose a lot of respect for her as a character.
It’s Frigg what do you FRIGGing expect?
Perfect gravatar for your comment.
While I don’t think Frigg is a master of subtlety, I’m pretty sure she was just saying that to provoke Rachel and get them back together.
That or I’m overestimating Frigg.
I thought that it was pretty obvious that Frigg meant to provoke Rachel, and I’m surprised others aren’t seeing it that way.
Also, please note Rachel doing the rage comics “okay” face.
That. It’s just her way of bringing people together.
Does it really have to be an “either-or” kind of thing? Can’t she be doing both?
I think it could be both. The thing with Frigg is… well… do you ever see her declaring any intent that she wouldn’t follow through with if somebody pressed her on it?
Without intending to follow through? Yeah, actually I can see it. But then she would follow through anyway specifically BECAUSE someone pressed her on it, just to prove that she don’t back down from nothin’.
My bet’s on you’re overestimating Frigg. ;-)
Hey, just because it’s super gay doesn’t mean it’s the wrong thing to do.
I don’t know. I get the feeling that Frig is just trying to force Rachel to fight for what she wants.
Her right to party?
Why, exactly, would you lose respect? Rachel created this drama for herself by strictly adhering to the tenets of a faith that has existed for about a year at most. She broke up with E-Merl over it. They’re single, making E-Merl fair game.
Why? For being polite?
BERT THE SMUGGEST
BERT THE SMUGGEST
BERT THE SMUGGEST
BERT THE SMUGGEST
BERT THE SMUGGEST
Whoa, is Frigg actually smart enough to trick Rachel into becoming jealous in a ploy to reunite her and E-Morl? That’s just crazy enough to work.
Don’t think so. I think she plans on getting her some half-breed.
Can’t it be both?
And Burt is carried off by the crowd — I think Braggadocio counts as a crowd.
Kickstarter pending approval?
You’re such a cocktease :)
My body is ready….for the kickstarter.
News announcements of pending news announcements is the best news.
Kicktease. The term for that is kicktease.
Why not cockstarter? Um.. well, maybe not in this context.
Kickblock?
At least Rendar isn’t to big to be jealous
Possibly Sundar?
Frigg YOU ARE SO NOBLE!
Turning two sad frowns upside down!
Fucking someone who isn’t of your own sex is gay. That’s some good Frigglogic here.
Well she doesn’t consider “E-Girl” to be very manly.
She does look quite gay and merry in the panel where she’s saying that.
Also, she’s planning on pounding a dude in the ass with a giant spiked friggstick. So there’s that.
Oh my.
That’s got to be quite a Fortitude check.
Because no-one said it:
DEATH BY SNOO-SNOO
Welp. Frigg’s up to something.