Chapter 29 – Page 23
HAWM, Guildies. We’ve got some sour news for you. Due to an unforseen fire three floors above my apartment, my ceiling has caved in and comic production is going to take a brief hit from it. I’m fine, all my irreplaceables are fine… but yeah. We’re going to need to take a short break while I deal with the fallout and so forth.
Chapter 30 will begin on Monday, Marcg 17th. We’re really sorry for the delay, but we’ll be back in business ASAP. However, Ask An Adventurer will continue un-interrupted!
In the meantime, if anyone’s had a hankering to toss in a Guest Strip or a Guest Art and wants to see it on the main page during the next week, we’d be eternally grateful, and you can let us know at guildedagecomic@gmail.com.
Jesus, that sucks. My sympathies.
Man that sucks, glad you weren’t hurt.
Holy crap! I’m really REALLY glad you’re okay… wow.
Crap is right… those sprinkler systems are NASTY. Hopefully the water didn’t get into the walls, or otherwise the building will need to gut the whole apartment.
If only they’d have put explosives under the ground just inside the gate!
Shiiiiiiiit that’s some damage. Hope you’re able to recover from this situation in good time.
“Thank goodness I put this pot down, or otherwise I’d be fucked.”
Sounds like what my date at last weekend’s ‘get high’ party said when she left early.
I’m not sure I understand. Is this a pun (something about the pot calling the kettle black)? Sarcasm (how silly, putting down a pot never did anything)? A serious statement?
My petty reader confusion aside, wow. I’m sorry.
He said pot, not as the container, but as the “get high” herbal stuff.
There is a “That’s that she said” in somewhere.
Then there is something else, but I may hopefully be wrong. The “be fucked”, in the context of being offered drugs at a party, could have some annoying connotations. As in, having been unable to express an absence of consent.
We have a winner – that is what I meant, although I meant it to come about clearer than I put it. Come to think of it, your explanation may not be that clear either. My new motto: Eschew Obfuscation.
Oh, er…no, I understood biggmac’s pun perfectly well. What I didn’t understand was Phil(?)’s /original/ intent when /Phil/ said it.
Did the pot catch something inside it that otherwise would have burnt a hole through the ground? Or what?
It appears to be a joke about how it is common practice to put a pot under a leak, but a single pot is comically insufficient when the ceiling is mostly absent.
FORESHADOWING ALERT: Fr’Nj will be the first of the team to die. I hereby do so predict.
At the very least she’ll have a sickeningly close call and there will be a lot of emotional trauma to work through.
Her, or Scipio.
I’m still mostly afraid for Scipio.
Scipio gets so badly wounded that Fr’Nj sacrifices her life to restore his. He tells her his life story in their last moments together. Then she makes like a tree . . . and leaves.
Don’t branch out too far with that theory.
Then we get a week of Scipio pining away for his lost love.
Wow, close call, Phil. I’m glad you’re okay.
HOLY FREAKING MACKEREL!! I’m glad everyone’s OK!! Stuff can be replaced. People can’t. No worries, we’ll wait while y’all TCOB. We’re kinda cool like that. ;-)
I am glad that you are okay, and I enjoy the gallows humor! And that reminds me, I need to get the roof checked…
Congratulations on surviving a ceiling collapse, Phil! Hopefully you get more out of it than a crappy t-shirt advertising the fact. But if not, I hope you get at least that much; not everyone can make that claim.
A similar fire adjacent my place gave me quite the scare several months ago – no damage to my unit, but it was unneeded stress and resulted in jamming up foot traffic near my door, from that point on up until just a week ago. So I’m familiar with the fact that, even when they don’t cause collateral damage, fallout from apartment fires makes for a fairly long-term sort of hassle at best.
Hopefully in your case, as in mine, the parties responsible for the fire will find themselves in new lodgings for the duration of the repairs, so as to avoid repeating their offense.
Godspeed getting the repairs done and over with!
I’m glad you didn’t lose anyone or anything important. Can only imagine how frazzled you must be right now.
Best wishes and take care of yourself.
Sort out the important things first (by which I mean the combined fire and water damage).
The PvP servers are finally up!
S’all been said already, so, ditto.
If only I could draw I could get a pic up and be famous for 30 seconds.
Given the speed at which the puns come out after a comic page goes up I’m expecting exceptional visual gags from the readers to be on display in the next week.
Wait, Syringe and Augie have met?
In the Wood Elf forest, when they were trying to stop them from using the Bough.
Also, I hope “One who wrassles gnolls” is a playable class.
chapter 18, page 18.
What perfect timing! I’m going on vacation for a week now so I won’t even notice the missing updates or have anything to catch up on here!
In serious, take care of yourself and home… it might take a little longer than you expect but we’ll be patient. Glad everyone’s all right.
“What if they’ve got an *us*?”
You invite them in for tea, obviously. You’re PEACEmakers, aren’t you?
USING THAT LOGIC.
If they really are alternate peacekeepers, they’ll need alternate Payet Best with a goatee.
plot twist: best has a 5-rig set-up and each of the savage champs is a best alt
Ooh nice idea! That would bring that whole “one team, one body” thing to have new meaning!
Whoa. That is some amazing damage. Take your time. I’m glad stuff wasn’t too terribly hurt.
Man, that’s gotta suck. So, all that water leaked down through three floors? I know putting out a fire takes a shitload of water, but this is a scary illustration of how big a shitload actually is.
I’m glad you’re okay, and incidentally, I’m glad my ceiling is made of hard-ass concrete.
You deliberately timed this “caving in ceiling” just to leave us on a cliffhanger, didn’t you? DIDN’T YOU???!
In all seriousness, that sucks, glad you/most of your things are okay, do what needs doing, and keep us posted.
Oh snap. THIS… is why I have renter’s insurance. That aside, glad to hear nothing irreplaceable was lost (I suspect everyone dreads that sort of event.); just do want needs to be done, and get yourself ‘whole’ again.
Take care, and next time… have a bigger pot handy. ;)
^ Thank goodness for renter’s insurance. When our apartment burned down due to a fire on the 5th floor above ours, all that water that comes down is NASTY stuff! Our couches and everything smelled like smoke until we had a disaster recovery place clean it in their ozone room. Anything light-colored or white never got clean and had to be tossed.
What is HAWM?
“Hail And Well Met.”
“Ham And Watercress Morsels”
“Hoarfrost And Winter Moss”
“Howl And Wake Mom”
It’s like WHAM! But it hit you in the head so you can’t see straight any more, and the letters are all jumbled.
Don’t dwell on this too much; no one needs to doubt the roof over their heads. Hopefully you’re done with freak accidents for the rest of your life though!
Wow, that sucks. For you and for us.
I read all the 29 chapters in just a couple of weeks, I guess.
Best of luck with your apartment. :)
man you’re making me worry about frynj.
Nah, that’s just fan-hate (may or may not be real actual hate)
As if the regularly-scheduled fires weren’t enough!
I also am glad you are safe and sound. Thank God for the lucky pot!
You have to throw the pot away, it might have melted copper, metal shards, asbestos, etc in it now.
Terrible what happened to the apartment, but at least nothing important and apparently nobody was hurt.
Doubtful it’d have melted copper in it, the fire was 3 floors up. Looks like that caused a pipe to burst, flooding one floor up/his roof.
Oh sweet Jesus! Did any one got hurt in that fire above you? Do you have to move out and find a new place to stay? I work with houses and such for a living and ANY fire is a serious matter. I had to repair two of them on my watch so far. and from that pic you posted there is in my option is that apartment is going to face at least 5 grand in repairs and clean up ALONE. the apartments above you, not even going to guess. i do hope you have renters insurance policy on your property.
That’s awful Phil and it’s scary to think how much worse it could’ve been. Take as much times as you need. Thank the gods that hero pot was there.
Really nothing to say that hasn’t been said already, except Wow!
And to emphasize the already oft-spoken sentiment that you weren’t hurt or lost anything that can’t be replaced.
Thank Tectonicus you’re allright! Don’t thank him for the fire though.
Wow glad you’re all right. Hopefully the people upstairs were too.
To answer the question of “What if they got an us?” obviously they would all realize they’re not so different after all and peace would reign throughout the land, causing the game to become boring, shelved to design the sequel, and freeing the Five to go home to their families, with an apology custom e-pet designed by H.R. himself.
Also Sharkzerker and Bandit totally make out first.
i am freaking damn glad that you are okay
if you need help and financing or anything let me know
Going back to the saucy goblins plan regarding strapping bombs to the avians: the Germans already thought of that 500 years ago!!!
Wow. I didn’t know you were in the siege zone too. Follow Fr’Nj outta the danger zone.
My favorite part of the absolute devastation that is where you live is how okay the ceiling fan happens to be. Hopefully you can get the rest of the place to be that okay soon.
We can’t stop here! This is fuzzy peoples territory!! =]
Seriously though, that really sux man.
Wishing you the best of luck and a speedy resolution!