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

Just get in the robot, Syr'Nji.

Chapter 25 – Page 19

on August 23, 2013
Chapter: Chapter 25
└ Tags: Admiral Annunziata, Ardaic, Embraisch'Nj, Grand Marshall Jarvis, Guildmaster Persson, His Grace Iwatani, His Grace Miyamoto
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  1. kagato23
    kagato23
    August 23, 2013, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Oh damn, this was a straight up roast after all! Just turned out to be a different animal on the spit.

    • Sempai Noticed Me
      Sempai Noticed Me
      August 23, 2013, 3:10 am | # | Reply

      Damn I like that one! And bollocks to that bastard too!

    • Joe
      Joe
      August 23, 2013, 10:57 am | # | Reply

      Gotta love good barbeque

    • Mrknifey
      Mrknifey
      August 25, 2013, 11:00 am | # | Reply

      i’d like my ownage-steak rare and bloody please:D

  2. Synthesis
    Synthesis
    August 23, 2013, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    I find it hard to dislike Iwatani as much as I know I should.

    And Jarvis remains the life of the party.

    • kagato23
      kagato23
      August 23, 2013, 12:16 am | # | Reply

      I said it before, I’ll say it again: Iwatani likes Syr’nj. Genuinely appreciates somebody who comes into the game like her and proves they can play it.

      He will only stab her in the back at the last possible moment (unless she discovers his real plan prematurely, obviously)

      • Kwaj
        Kwaj
        August 23, 2013, 1:11 am | # | Reply

        Curse his sudden but inevitable betrayal!

      • Messenger
        Messenger
        August 23, 2013, 2:10 am | # | Reply

        Another way to read Iwatani: Remember what Rachel said about convincing others that what’s good is right for all?

        Iwatani is a schemer and a villain, but he’s competent, practical and wise; he can be respected, even admired as a villain. And when it comes to the welfare of Gastonia, where the Savage Races threaten him and his own plans, he will act effectively in its defense.

        Annunziata is simply a racist. He’s petty. We may hate him for being a bigot, but he’s nothing more than that.

        And, in the end, everyone’s just tired of someone in a position of power and influence who doesn’t deserve nor wields it with effect.

        • Bruceski
          Bruceski
          August 23, 2013, 3:38 am | # | Reply

          Yeah, the guy’s not a victim of Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. He doesn’t stab anybody until the time is proper to stab them, and then it’s out of necessity (but not hesitation), not because he likes it.

          • Moe Lane
            Moe Lane
            August 23, 2013, 7:14 am | # | Reply

            He also seems the type who will offer a decent bribe first. Because you never know, it might work: and I can’t think of an adventurer offhand who has ever gone after a villain because twenty years ago said villain viciously and ruthlessly had the adventurer’s parents’ bribed.

            • JediaKyrol
              JediaKyrol
              August 23, 2013, 10:54 am | # | Reply

              “I have dedicated my life to killing that man!”
              “But why?”
              “When I was a young boy, I went out hunting…and when I returned…the entire village had been BRIBED! Every last person! Down to the smallest child! And he was just standing in the middle of it all…laughing!”

              • Seggs
                Seggs
                August 23, 2013, 12:48 pm | # | Reply

                my name is inigo montoya. you bribed my father. prepare to dine.

                we are having MLT, mutton lettuce and tomato, sandwiches. the mutton is niiice and lean, and the tomatoes are ripe. theyre so perky *smacks lips* i love em!

                • MichaelHaneline
                  MichaelHaneline
                  August 24, 2013, 8:28 pm | # | Reply

                  Yeah, one really wonders why the hell he didn’t just pay Inigo’s dad for the damn sword.

          • kagato23
            kagato23
            August 23, 2013, 11:24 am | # | Reply

            Oh I don’t thinmk he wants to stab her. Like I said, i think he likes her. But she’s an adventurer in a group of adventurers that have already thwarted his plans before. Odds are good in the future there will be a situation where it makes sense to start with the stabby.

            Which won’t actually work, but it’ll happen. He’ll feel as close to bad as somebody like him feels about such things though. Might spoil his lunch.

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      August 23, 2013, 12:36 am | # | Reply

      Being likable is a survival skill for a politician, and for psychopaths…and Iwatani is both.

      • Nathanyel
        Nathanyel
        August 23, 2013, 3:22 am | # | Reply

        Being a psychopath is a requirement for being a politician in the first place.

        • The_Rippy_One
          The_Rippy_One
          August 25, 2013, 10:03 pm | # | Reply

          No, no, sometimes they’re delusional, instead!

        • UncaMo
          UncaMo
          September 16, 2013, 4:59 pm | # | Reply

          Some of the most successful politicians are straight up sociopaths…

    • Washbourn
      Washbourn
      August 23, 2013, 5:42 am | # | Reply

      I feel the same way about him as I did about David Xanatos. You know he’s a bad guy, you like him anyway.

    • The Indomitable Eric
      The Indomitable Eric
      August 23, 2013, 9:17 pm | # | Reply

      Ya’ll wanna have your minds REALLY blown?

      Who says Iwatani’s actually a villain?

    • Jet
      Jet
      August 28, 2013, 1:53 am | # | Reply

      I damn well love Iwatani. I always do get attached to the magnificent bastard characters. bastard that he may be, he is magnificent. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagnificentBastard

  3. Strongholm
    Strongholm
    August 23, 2013, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    “Something something something Dark Side. Something something something Complete.”

  4. bwernrd
    bwernrd
    August 23, 2013, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    Good guy Ardaic.

  5. Darchias
    Darchias
    August 23, 2013, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Jarvis sure is saving on the animation budget! Clever artist.

  6. biggmac
    biggmac
    August 23, 2013, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    “These aren’t the houses I want to be a part of!”
    As you wish, old boy.

    • Tachyon
      Tachyon
      August 23, 2013, 2:27 am | # | Reply

      Obviously. Being in charge of the navy, what he wants to be a part of is a houseboat.

      • Guesticus
        Guesticus
        August 23, 2013, 10:23 am | # | Reply

        Or a submarine prototype, the kind with a screen-door

        • Charlie Spencer
          Charlie Spencer
          August 23, 2013, 11:59 am | # | Reply

          I thought an old sailor would know enough about lines and ropes to not hang himself.

          • Guesticus
            Guesticus
            August 24, 2013, 4:09 am | # | Reply

            Who says he was actually in the Navy? Maybe he just liked seamen so he bought the position of (Rear?) Admiral so he could have them all under him

  7. Samuel
    Samuel
    August 23, 2013, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    That was… frighteningly deft…

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      August 24, 2013, 4:10 am | # | Reply

      Believe you meant daft

  8. Anonymous
    Anonymous
    August 23, 2013, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    That was satisfying. *smiles*

    Impressive self-destruction in panel 2. “It was just a friendly ribbing, not hostile at all! CRUSH THEM BENEATH OUR HEEEEEEELS!”

  9. Qiam
    Qiam
    August 23, 2013, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    Classic racism. Sounds exactly like my grandparents.

  10. ThreeEyedCrow
    ThreeEyedCrow
    August 23, 2013, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    ha ha the admiral just got sandbagged!

    • Tachyon
      Tachyon
      August 23, 2013, 2:29 am | # | Reply

      Good thing too, ’cause he was about to waterlog himself anyway.

      • Joe
        Joe
        August 23, 2013, 11:00 am | # | Reply

        It’s gotten too deep, he’s in over his head

        • Denita TwoDragons
          Denita TwoDragons
          August 23, 2013, 10:46 pm | # | Reply

          He’s all washed up. Give ’em a wave on your way out, Admiral!

          • Brigand Brigade
            Brigand Brigade
            August 24, 2013, 12:46 am | # | Reply

            I can sea what you mean about washed up; he seems liable to keel over at this rate. He’d probably rather be in hull than in that room right now- they’re not going to spar his feelings. Hawser he to know how rude his comedian would be? But now he’s in deep ship, and untiller he can figure out where he went wrong, he’ll be out of a job. A shame, too: he seemed a rum sort.

            The problem with nautical puns is that so many nautical words and phrases have already found their way into common speech over the last hundred years.

            • Denita TwoDragons
              Denita TwoDragons
              August 24, 2013, 1:33 pm | # | Reply

              I harbor no small envy for your puns, good sir / madam! Your cape-ability to fish for the most excellent equivoque leaves me estuarying in self-pity. You must have a school of a-dory-ing fans! :-D

    • Seggs
      Seggs
      August 23, 2013, 12:51 pm | # | Reply

      more like teabagged. theyre about to throw him in the harbor!

  11. Smallfoot
    Smallfoot
    August 23, 2013, 1:34 am | # | Reply

    Given his actions in this and the last comic, it seems Ardaic has class-changed to White Knight.

  12. █████
    █████
    August 23, 2013, 2:30 am | # | Reply

    Anyone else becoming increasingly nervous around Grand Marshall Jarvis?
    I’m starting to expect to find him sitting in a single chair up where the podium was one day as the sole head of the House of Houses and all without having said a single word.

    • Chantelune
      Chantelune
      August 23, 2013, 2:54 am | # | Reply

      I’m sure that once he’s back home, he’s all laught and chit-chat.

      • Randonimity
        Randonimity
        August 23, 2013, 3:56 am | # | Reply

        I need to see this happen. Like, yesterday.

    • Ivresse
      Ivresse
      August 23, 2013, 3:23 am | # | Reply

      Remember the scene in Pirates of the Carribean: At World’s End, when Pirate lord Sumbhajee doesn’t say anything and has his representatives speak for him, and then at the end of the council, he says ‘And so, we shall go to war’ in a really high pitched squeaky voice?

      Yeah, that’s Jarvis.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      August 23, 2013, 6:36 am | # | Reply

      The house of Jarvis.

      • Dan Irving
        Dan Irving
        August 23, 2013, 9:17 am | # | Reply

        What will Iwatani do when Jarvis gets too popular in the Landraad?

        • Ishmael
          Ishmael
          August 23, 2013, 10:40 am | # | Reply

          Reveal war crimes.

        • Mordecai
          Mordecai
          August 23, 2013, 11:47 am | # | Reply

          Call in a favor from old brother T, I expect.

    • Seggs
      Seggs
      August 23, 2013, 12:55 pm | # | Reply

      maybe he is dovahkiin and is holding his words as a courtesy.

    • Joe
      Joe
      August 23, 2013, 3:12 pm | # | Reply

      If you never speak, you’ll be wrong

      • gromire
        gromire
        August 25, 2013, 4:04 am | # | Reply

        perhaps, but could you not argue that by never expressing ones self in word and deed other then to allow another to do all he has done is to sit, a puppet upon the strings of the more sinister forces of the council…. like a king who has no real power except trough his lords who of course out of reverence decidedly speak for him.

  13. douhugal
    douhugal
    August 23, 2013, 2:51 am | # | Reply

    I can only imagine how long this plan to usurp the power from him has been laying on the table. The poor guy just had to make one mistake, one sign of weakness and seeing as all the other human representatives seem to have known about it… I think he had it coming for a long long time.

    Its a wonder that he didn’t lose his seat sooner rather than later.

  14. Magus65
    Magus65
    August 23, 2013, 3:14 am | # | Reply

    revoking the Navy’s representation in the houses seems a bit over the top and unappriate… Now removing said admiral form his position as head of the Navy that seems more appropriate.

    • Dan Irving
      Dan Irving
      August 23, 2013, 8:58 am | # | Reply

      It’s most likely not the ‘Navy’ that has the seat but House Annunziata. Annunziata just happens to hold the rank (probably bought – being head of a major House an all) of Admiral. In order to replace ‘him’ and get someone new in the ‘seat’ you’d have to replace him as head of his House.

  15. Loki
    Loki
    August 23, 2013, 3:19 am | # | Reply

    I didn’t get the impression until now that the Admiral was really the close-minded voice of the HoH. Without him, the HoH seems a lot more civil.

    • Dan Irving
      Dan Irving
      August 23, 2013, 8:58 am | # | Reply

      Or more Machiavellian.

      • Terrascue
        Terrascue
        August 24, 2013, 1:21 am | # | Reply

        Civility in the political arena is a hallmark of Machiavellian strategy.

        • Overkillengine
          Overkillengine
          August 24, 2013, 9:10 pm | # | Reply

          Indeed. Being uncivil bespeaks a lack of self control, and thus weakness.

  16. Psolo Ghoti
    Psolo Ghoti
    August 23, 2013, 3:20 am | # | Reply

    Aaaah, Evangelion reference. I thought “Syr’Nji” was misspelled at first.

    I was going to say Jarvis lacks the opaque glasses, but his face is unreadable enough without them.

    • Trevron
      Trevron
      August 27, 2013, 9:07 pm | # | Reply

      Best alt-text ever ever.

  17. Hmm ...
    Hmm ...
    August 23, 2013, 3:35 am | # | Reply

    A Navy in a land-locked war … hmm … it depends, it could be used to land troops somewhere else and take the enemy by the rear or flank. It could be used to go up rivers. But well … it is somehow limited in use. Pretty much like infantry in naval warfare or submarine warfare.

    • Fenlander
      Fenlander
      August 23, 2013, 4:13 am | # | Reply

      Don’t be so quick to rule out using infantry in a submarine war, fodder is always useful – take the Kaiten manned torpedo for example.

    • Messenger
      Messenger
      August 23, 2013, 4:50 am | # | Reply

      I’m thinking that Annunziata should have figured out a way for the navy to actually contribute to a landlocked war. Naval sailors are still soldiers, after all. And it’s possible that (though currently unknown if) the navy can ferry troops and resources around.

      More to the point, where was he when the Savage Races unleashed their krakken? What has he been doing with all the resources provided him?

      He’s racist to the point of not doing anything to even save his country or even himself. That’s beyond despicable.

      • Joe
        Joe
        August 23, 2013, 3:14 pm | # | Reply

        At that point, I think it’s more incompetence than bigotry….

    • WriterX
      WriterX
      August 23, 2013, 6:05 am | # | Reply

      Take into account that this is not a modern navy. We never had the chance to see what are those ships equipped with. For all we know their standard vessel has nothing else but arrows, catapults and ballistas. We do not know whether the good ol’ admiral actually tried to speak with the Gnomes about building more advanced ship types. For all we know the Admiral might had been building outdated sloops. Either way, maybe the Navy will finally be put to good use.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      August 23, 2013, 6:42 am | # | Reply

      To be fair it’s not the admiral’s fault the war happens to be landlocked and krakens travel underwater all the way up until needing to surface and there was like 0 warning before that attack. Not to mention that krakens, contrary to popular belief, don’t just attack cities for no reason in some godzilla-like manner. They may be big but they’re just sea creatures primarily concerned with feeding and mating none of which requires venturing into “shallow waters”. What I’m saying is there was no reason, until that incident, to take precautions against a kraken attack.

      • WriterX
        WriterX
        August 23, 2013, 7:08 am | # | Reply

        I can agree, but only to a certain degree. We do not know whether that was the first Kraken attack. If it was then it is hard to prepare for one, if you never faced one before. But if it was clear that the Savage Races used Krakens before some form of defense might had been put up. Not even an underwater defense, since that would be hard to create (although I imagine a giant net might had slowed it down, or alarmed the port) but building towers at the harbor and harbor’s entrance might had offered some resistance. Then again, I am not sure if in this case the head of the Navy would be also in charge of land defenses against enemy seaborne attacks?

      • Ivresse
        Ivresse
        August 23, 2013, 7:08 am | # | Reply

        Maybe, but then you have to consider that the Navy wasn’t there at all, so even if the docks were attacked through non-kraken methods, not being there to prevent such attacks is still rather slack, especially at a time of war.

        Not being prepared for a Kraken attack is one thing. Not being prepared for any kind of sea-based attack on potential high risk targets is just slack.

        • Korbl
          Korbl
          August 23, 2013, 7:12 pm | # | Reply

          This is my perspective. Especially when your nation is in a landlocked war, you have plenty of time and men to maintain port security in case the enemy does something sneaky. I can understand not having men on duty, but there should have been an on call force of sailors that could have responded to a threat.

      • Dan Irving
        Dan Irving
        August 23, 2013, 9:13 am | # | Reply

        Oh Captain, My Captain! (Sorry just wanted to say that.)

        While a ‘Kraken Attack’ couldn’t have been predictied, Writer is right in that a general level of port security should have been established. That savage race team got in somehow. Since going overland, through a large town to get to it’s port seems a little far fetched, they most likely smuggle themselves in via ship. Being the capital, one would assume the Navy’s HQ would be located /at that particular dock/. One could also assume a detachment of marines assigned to defend said HQ. The dock incident showed no security whatsoever IIRC. I think this is what Iwatani is getting at.

        TL;DR: Yeah, accusing the Admiral of not preventing the attack is a bit disingenuous. That being said, port security is well within the Admiral’s wheelhouse. ( … boathouse?)

        • Dan Irving
          Dan Irving
          August 23, 2013, 9:14 am | # | Reply

          *predicted

  18. ahdok
    ahdok
    August 23, 2013, 4:34 am | # | Reply

    Persson’s statement is so beautiful.

  19. WriterX
    WriterX
    August 23, 2013, 6:06 am | # | Reply

    … I actually forgot completely. Does the Admiral have a name?

    • Notebooked
      Notebooked
      August 23, 2013, 6:21 am | # | Reply

      Annunziata, apparently. That’s what it says in the tags!

    • MoodyDK
      MoodyDK
      August 23, 2013, 9:22 am | # | Reply

      Mud.

  20. Kyn
    Kyn
    August 23, 2013, 6:13 am | # | Reply

    I know Ardaic basically just intervened after it was clear Embraisch’Nj was just being irritatingly insulting to everyone, but it does warm my heart to see him pulling the elf off of Syr’nj. We all know Ardaic’s lawful stance killed Mama Bear and there’s gonna be some ho-down over that later; but at the same time I maybe just a little like him. Obviously this scene has some narrative merit, showing off the council and setting the stage for a plot that includes them. We know Iwatani is a bad apple; but he’s lawful enough to hate the Admiral without demonstrating the council has ’embraced’ Syr’nj. We also see more of the Guildmaster and like him more; and Jarvis gets introduced as something of a wildcard.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      August 23, 2013, 7:16 am | # | Reply

      Ardaic just has the hots for Syr’nj. This has been clear for about ten chapters now.

    • BIGg
      BIGg
      August 23, 2013, 5:08 pm | # | Reply

      i still think jarvis is the silver centurion even with lawful i doubt ardaic would be complicit in genocide

  21. Notebooked
    Notebooked
    August 23, 2013, 6:32 am | # | Reply

    The previous strip also seems to make it clear that Embraisch’Nj and Syr’Nj are related, since he says “the ‘Nj family” and then “We” shortly after one another. That seems to separate the statement from “we wood elves”, and if the ‘Nj family was another entity he’d say “they”. They can’t be very closely related, though.

    I’m excited about this–the storyline as well as the comic in general. I read Penny and Aggie, Fans and Quiltbag after they all finished, but I haven’t been along for the ride before.

    • Dan Irving
      Dan Irving
      August 23, 2013, 9:03 am | # | Reply

      You know that one distant relative at large family gatherings that no one really likes but deals since ‘family’. Yeah, Embraisch’Nj is his/her/it’s kid.

      • Mr Hats
        Mr Hats
        August 23, 2013, 9:11 am | # | Reply

        I wonder if he’s related to that REALLY stoned elf from way back in the first chapter

    • Ishmael
      Ishmael
      August 23, 2013, 10:42 am | # | Reply

      Syr’Nj refers to him as ‘cousin’ in an earlier strip.

      • Korbl
        Korbl
        August 23, 2013, 7:18 pm | # | Reply

        ‘Nj is probably a clan, so it’s likely very far reaching. It’s vaguely possible that it’s also a “strain” of wood elves, with the idea that there are various types of wood elves that resemble different varieties of trees, but I don’t think there’s any actual support for such an idea.

      • Notebooked
        Notebooked
        August 24, 2013, 5:26 pm | # | Reply

        Oh guh, I didn’t notice. In that case I just pointed out the obvious.

  22. Joe
    Joe
    August 23, 2013, 9:10 am | # | Reply

    Guildmaster, please become a more prominent character. Please?

  23. Aazen
    Aazen
    August 23, 2013, 9:24 am | # | Reply

    Somewhere, there are some dead roman senators doing a slow clap…

  24. Tsenzei
    Tsenzei
    August 23, 2013, 9:52 am | # | Reply

    Huh, Jarvis (apparently) just made a play to effectively take over the Navy by putting the Admiral under him. “Petty bickering and personal insults” don’t appear to be the only outcome of these sorts of meetings after all.

  25. DCB
    DCB
    August 23, 2013, 10:31 am | # | Reply

    Though satisfying, Iwatani did just speak for the military and consolidate military power behind the one he was speaking for.

    • Devlerbat
      Devlerbat
      August 23, 2013, 3:55 pm | # | Reply

      I thought it was Ardaic saying that, mostly because he has been stated as the one that speaks for Jarvis.

  26. Smartkittykhan
    Smartkittykhan
    August 23, 2013, 12:40 pm | # | Reply

    Well, looks like our Heads of Houses are nowhere near a politically inept as they were made out to be.

    • Smartkittykhan
      Smartkittykhan
      August 23, 2013, 12:40 pm | # | Reply

      *as politically inept

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      August 23, 2013, 8:52 pm | # | Reply

      I don’t think the Heads have ever been shown to be inept as a whole.

      Annunziata, yes, but aside from Miyamoto’s initial undiplomatic reaction to Syr (which he quickly dialed back) and Pardo’s slightly too obvious glad-handing, there’s been no indication that Heads are anything but adept at their internal politics.

      • Smartkittykhan
        Smartkittykhan
        August 26, 2013, 5:59 am | # | Reply

        Oh, I didn’t mean to say that I believed they were horrible politicians. It’s just that pretty much everyone else seems to refer to them as such.

        Though I guess that’s kind of logical. I mean, when stuff goes wrong people tend to blame the leadership pretty fast.

  27. zomg
    zomg
    August 23, 2013, 12:56 pm | # | Reply

    “somethin’ somethin ‘girls are delicate’ blah blah ‘I hate non-humans” … is my new motto

  28. Ralanr
    Ralanr
    August 23, 2013, 2:03 pm | # | Reply

    I’d clap for the council if I didn’t think that a lot of them planned this to get on her good side and get ride of someone they knew wouldn’t be able to keep much control in certain situations…

    • Joe
      Joe
      August 23, 2013, 3:21 pm | # | Reply

      Do you really think any political organization would be able to cooperate long enough to stage something like that?

    • Samuel
      Samuel
      August 23, 2013, 4:52 pm | # | Reply

      I’m pretty sure the situation was just convenient, with a little bit of pre-planning, Jarvis now controls all branches of the military except for the newly formed Adventurers Guild.

  29. TBeckett
    TBeckett
    August 23, 2013, 5:12 pm | # | Reply

    Caneghem’s presence at the beginning of this plot seems somewhat odd to me. I hope we see more from him by the end of the chapter, but I’m also wondering . . . is it possible that he’s used enchantment on the Admiral? Maybe just ‘nudged’ him closer to a foolish plan? Or even to his outburst there? I can’t imagine his role has been passive this entire time, and it seems like the right timing for us to see him being up to something.

    • Piellar
      Piellar
      August 23, 2013, 7:12 pm | # | Reply

      Ooooooh, that’s so deliciously clever!
      And what if Caneghem didn’t affect the mind of Annunziata, but that of Embraisch’Nj as to make him way too bold and outrageous with his jokes? Caneghem would know that this would reflect very poorly on Annunziata?

  30. King of Zeroes
    King of Zeroes
    August 23, 2013, 7:11 pm | # | Reply

    Now’s the part where you break out into a rousing Naval song and dance routine, Admiral. It’s all the Navy is good for anyways.

  31. Timelost
    Timelost
    August 23, 2013, 10:15 pm | # | Reply

    I admire his ability to motion without moving a muscle.

  32. Runic
    Runic
    August 24, 2013, 1:11 am | # | Reply

    Clever. He consolidates power with ease, gets rid of bigot who would let personal intolerance blind him from seeing the true value of allies (even if only as pawns), strengthens the trust of those allies in a war that relies on keeping the races working together even though the war seems for mainly for Gastonia’s survival, keeps the number of votes in the council the same as they had been before the Guild of Adventurers added another, and even managed to win sympathy from the reading audience.
    Masterfully played.

  33. ahdok
    ahdok
    August 24, 2013, 11:35 am | # | Reply

    It’s all fun and games until somebody loses a title.

    • Denita TwoDragons
      Denita TwoDragons
      August 24, 2013, 3:13 pm | # | Reply

      At this rate his head…and possibly also the one on his shoulders, too…will soon follow his title.

  34. Omega
    Omega
    August 24, 2013, 2:01 pm | # | Reply

    Is Jarvis telepathic or does he keep on passing note around off-panel?

    • Randonimity
      Randonimity
      August 25, 2013, 9:12 am | # | Reply

      Either of those should be canon. I cannot be convinced otherwise.

      • Joe
        Joe
        August 25, 2013, 9:25 am | # | Reply

        of course, once it’s revealed, he’ll probably have to communicate all the time, so may as well enjoy the silence while it lasts

  35. Denita TwoDragons
    Denita TwoDragons
    August 24, 2013, 3:14 pm | # | Reply

    Annunziata better hush up quick, or he’s going to get to know the sea a LOT better.

  36. Overkillengine
    Overkillengine
    August 24, 2013, 9:14 pm | # | Reply

    He proved himself inefficient, unnecessary, and an offensive boor. Three strikes and you are out of the HoH!

  37. Snowblind
    Snowblind
    August 24, 2013, 11:07 pm | # | Reply

    Hickory Dickory Dock.
    The beech was on my block.
    The clock struck eleven.
    I dropped my lemon.
    Hickory. Dickory. Dock.

  38. Sean
    Sean
    August 25, 2013, 1:34 am | # | Reply

    Erm, Statesmanship KAPOW!

    I’m sure that he may have a batterang somewhere under that executive corse… erm, coat, however. Cheers.

  39. UncaMo
    UncaMo
    August 25, 2013, 4:45 am | # | Reply

    The verb is “to move” or ” to make a motion”, but I just have the the idea of the Austrian Navy every time the Admiral speaks.

  40. Dash Jovis
    Dash Jovis
    August 25, 2013, 1:38 pm | # | Reply

    Not sure how I feel about this. Politicking this good out of left field makes me nervous however. I hope Syr’nj has the wisdom to dig for more information before the Houses grant more power to Grand Marshall Jarvis.

  41. Locke
    Locke
    August 25, 2013, 11:10 pm | # | Reply

    Jarv, let Emb continue his jokes… But all of them have to be about the Admiral. And if they aren’t witty or cutting enough, both get evicted.

  42. Jack Vermicelli
    Jack Vermicelli
    September 23, 2013, 1:25 pm | # | Reply

    What’s the robot the alt-text is referring to?

  43. SotiCoto
    SotiCoto
    February 19, 2014, 7:45 am | # | Reply

    Naval boy is on his way outie.

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