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

Whatever price you two agree upon, PLEASE spend it on some Lysol.

Chapter 33 – Page 10

on August 11, 2014
Chapter: Chapter 33
└ Tags: Shanna, Xan
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  1. Avris
    Avris
    August 11, 2014, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    I’m suddenly experiencing a sudden feeling of desk-envy.

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      January 26, 2015, 6:44 am | # | Reply

      Who the hell needs four laptops?
      What he is doing could be done with one computer and four screens.

  2. Moe Lane
    Moe Lane
    August 11, 2014, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    …I’m suddenly fine with this guy meeting the other guy and having it go south.

    • Seggs
      Seggs
      August 11, 2014, 11:22 am | # | Reply

      IfYouKnowWhatIMean.jpg

  3. Loyal
    Loyal
    August 11, 2014, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Reminds me of a certain half-elf… Never pegged him for the conspiracy type.

    • Far
      Far
      August 11, 2014, 12:43 pm | # | Reply

      Strangely, my thought too.

  4. Messenger
    Messenger
    August 11, 2014, 12:45 am | # | Reply

    He turns around and it’s non-virtual E-merl!

    • Lingo
      Lingo
      August 11, 2014, 12:57 am | # | Reply

      I like this theory!

    • Sahara
      Sahara
      August 11, 2014, 1:04 am | # | Reply

      This was my first reaction too!

      • Lexible
        Lexible
        August 11, 2014, 1:16 am | # | Reply

        Me three!

        • Subtle
          Subtle
          August 11, 2014, 2:25 pm | # | Reply

          The hair, the vest.. yeah. I’d be more surprised if it wasn’t him than if it was.

    • Photo
      Photo
      August 11, 2014, 1:12 am | # | Reply

      Indications thus far point to this.

    • zero
      zero
      August 11, 2014, 5:53 am | # | Reply

      I actually expected Bandit at first.

      • Mordecai
        Mordecai
        August 11, 2014, 7:19 am | # | Reply

        I’m still expecting Bandit.

      • wolfpax
        wolfpax
        August 11, 2014, 7:20 am | # | Reply

        Penk…? Assuming two factions of PCs that is.

        • Psyrin
          Psyrin
          August 11, 2014, 10:22 am | # | Reply

          Any chance this is Wav?

          • Seggs
            Seggs
            August 11, 2014, 11:25 am | # | Reply

            as much chance as any of the others listed above.

            what with our 1(?) data point and all.

        • tejón
          tejón
          August 12, 2014, 2:15 am | # | Reply

          He does have Penky hair.

    • dethdukk
      dethdukk
      August 11, 2014, 8:24 pm | # | Reply

      It’s the troll guys. Not e-merl

  5. TachyonCode
    TachyonCode
    August 11, 2014, 12:59 am | # | Reply

    Is that command-line I see on one screen? That’s so pre-Arcanometry.

    • LockeZ
      LockeZ
      August 11, 2014, 3:26 am | # | Reply

      He’s playing the MUD that was the precursor to Kingdoms of Arkherra.

      • MichaelHaneline
        MichaelHaneline
        August 11, 2014, 4:25 pm | # | Reply

        I miss my old MUD

        • MidnightDStroyer
          MidnightDStroyer
          August 12, 2014, 4:00 am | # | Reply

          …Nothing like getting down & dirty in the MUD…

  6. Random Whatever
    Random Whatever
    August 11, 2014, 1:00 am | # | Reply

    Wait a dad blabbed minute. So howzis werk? He buys the info and spreads it all around the world. Blows the scandal sky high! Or he buys this info, and sits on it cuz he’s in kahoots with Carol, JJ, and HR? Did I ever mention that Shanna is my all time favorite character. Not so fast Shanna. I mean is this Shanna’s big breakthrough or a trap? I imagine we will get back to Arkerrra pretty soon and leave us up in the air about Sepia again for a while. What a shaggy dog story. I love this webcomic.

    • Sahara
      Sahara
      August 11, 2014, 1:06 am | # | Reply

      So if this IS non-virtual E-Merl (and that’s what I think), maybe what he is after is to get in on it too. Maybe he wants IN to the virual world just like our “MIA” Top 5!

    • My2Cents
      My2Cents
      August 11, 2014, 1:21 am | # | Reply

      He’s a player, so he will use the information to blackmail HR into giving him ‘god mode’ privileges. Especially if he is the real world E-Merl.

      • Random_idiot
        Random_idiot
        August 11, 2014, 3:52 am | # | Reply

        If that’s how this pans out, it’d be ironic considering HR’s own quest for ‘godhood’.

      • Messenger
        Messenger
        August 11, 2014, 4:23 am | # | Reply

        Assuming virtual E-Merl and non-virtual E-Merl are quite different in personality. Otherwise, I doubt it.

        • Trubbol
          Trubbol
          August 11, 2014, 9:42 am | # | Reply

          Reverse G.I.F.T.?

  7. Fairportfan
    Fairportfan
    August 11, 2014, 1:12 am | # | Reply

    Okay, i see Byron, Syr’nj, Gravedust and Frigg on the laptops.

    Again, i am made suspicious of Bandit.

    • Seggs
      Seggs
      August 11, 2014, 11:27 am | # | Reply

      bandit is not one of the 5. the one not pictured is best.

      • Andreas
        Andreas
        August 11, 2014, 5:04 pm | # | Reply

        Can’t be one of the five. They’re all still in their tubes at HR’s Bat(shitcrazy)-cave.

        • The_Rippy_One
          The_Rippy_One
          August 12, 2014, 7:01 pm | # | Reply

          Actually, I’m curious if Best’s Player is known to be MIA – he’s not on any screen. maybe they chose not to draw it, or it’s on another tab, but part of me wants to think it’s because the body died and has been dumped and been found…

  8. Lilli
    Lilli
    August 11, 2014, 1:19 am | # | Reply

    Um… Well… That head shape doesn’t look like E-Merl to me. He looks more like Harky or Penk personally, although what either of them would want with this information is guesswork. I can imagine. I don’t want to, but I can imagine.

  9. Emanon
    Emanon
    August 11, 2014, 1:35 am | # | Reply

    Meh, not gonna lie, the whole “really an MMO” angle leaves me cold and the series works better without it imo.

    Or it would have been better left at the end as a huge reveal…

    • BeaT
      BeaT
      August 11, 2014, 1:37 am | # | Reply

      If its done will it will be great. If not then just why add it, a simple fantasy story is cool and entertaining on it’s own. I will reserve judgement to see if a IRL Byron and Syr’nj get together eventually.

    • Kobold
      Kobold
      August 11, 2014, 1:52 am | # | Reply

      I’m liking the HR plotline quite a bit myself.

      • biggmac
        biggmac
        August 11, 2014, 7:55 am | # | Reply

        Well, I like the cultist plot line!

        • cliffmonster
          cliffmonster
          August 11, 2014, 9:35 am | # | Reply

          You would.

          • Lexible
            Lexible
            August 11, 2014, 10:18 am | # | Reply

            I myself am partial to the wood elves’ narrative.

            • Saskyou
              Saskyou
              August 11, 2014, 8:12 pm | # | Reply

              The only interesting part for me was the “green mesh” bit, honestly.

              • tejón
                tejón
                August 12, 2014, 2:17 am | # | Reply

                I just don’t get why these scenes have to be sepia. Black and white not good enough?

                • Speedy
                  Speedy
                  December 27, 2018, 4:40 pm | # | Reply

                  Sepia World is not devoid of color. It’s just that sepia was the only color that existed, until the tanks and the tie. ;)

                  If you want a laugh, go back to where Ferris sees the tanks, and imagine that he’s seeing colors other than sepia for the first time.

                  H.R.’s real plan is to siphon colors out of the tanks, and sell it all over Sepia World. His colorful tie is just a result of his carelessness, when leaning over the tanks to scoop out samples. He can’t let The Five out of their tanks. That would be like killing the goose that laid the golden egg, because The Five are excreting colors that they see in Arkerra. xD

    • LockeZ
      LockeZ
      August 11, 2014, 3:29 am | # | Reply

      At the end as a reveal would be awful, because that would just instantly retroactively discredit the entire story.

      The way they’re doing it now, they obviously have way, way more in mind than that. They’re just getting through it very slowly, because they accurately predicted that we would rather see the adventurers 90% of the time.

      • Acrox
        Acrox
        August 11, 2014, 6:13 am | # | Reply

        So, H.R. clearly demonstrated magic is real in sepia world (through mastery of purple, probably) and people are still pegging this on “just an MMO”?

        For me, looks like he made an MMO to test if it was possible to interface/interact with a pocket universe he found/created, did a moderately successful avatar-matrix-thingy attempt to better interface with it, and now he can just open gates to oblivion/arkerra/Tron/Wang’s but would rather send moustachied homunculi through them to test these first?

        Not to mention the obvious cheating for using real intelligence instead of developing supercyberian AI, thus getting even more extra time to play with purple.

    • Seggs
      Seggs
      August 11, 2014, 11:29 am | # | Reply

      plot twist: sepia world is the MMO.

      • tejón
        tejón
        August 12, 2014, 2:19 am | # | Reply

        The Thirteenth Floor was always a better story than The Matrix.

        • MidnightDStroyer
          MidnightDStroyer
          August 12, 2014, 4:05 am | # | Reply

          I liked House in the Woods…Enough plot-twisting to put the human DNA to shame.

  10. BeaT
    BeaT
    August 11, 2014, 1:35 am | # | Reply

    While E-Merl seems likely, I think Sundar the Sunderer could be it. He is certainly last one to have found a glitch.

    • kenneth
      kenneth
      August 11, 2014, 3:29 pm | # | Reply

      That was my thought.

  11. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    August 11, 2014, 1:52 am | # | Reply

    Wav

  12. Fenlander
    Fenlander
    August 11, 2014, 2:42 am | # | Reply

    Oh dear. I have a cork board just like that on the wall above my monitor. At the moment it is bare but when working on a project it gets filled with squares of paper and odd scraps of information that can’t afford to be lost.

    • LockeZ
      LockeZ
      August 11, 2014, 5:06 am | # | Reply

      My boss had one with client receipts on it at my last job, meant to be taken down when the jobs were done. He introduced the system the week I started working there.

      When I quit the job after three years, the same original receipts were still there.

  13. █████
    █████
    August 11, 2014, 6:20 am | # | Reply

    Sheez Xan, use your tabs!

  14. Michael Schultz
    Michael Schultz
    August 11, 2014, 7:39 am | # | Reply

    Is no one else thinking Best, here?

    • Thrawcheld
      Thrawcheld
      August 11, 2014, 9:32 am | # | Reply

      I did at first, but then I realised he’s still stuck in HR’s basement with the other four.

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      August 11, 2014, 4:49 pm | # | Reply

      This ‘everyone is Jesus in PurgatoryBest’ thing is really getting out of hand….

  15. Pumpkin Cake
    Pumpkin Cake
    August 11, 2014, 7:47 am | # | Reply

    Oh! MISTER Xan. This whole time I thought he was a girl! Well, okay!

  16. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    August 11, 2014, 8:15 am | # | Reply

    As far as recluse hacker lairs go this one’s pretty tidy and Xan doesn’t seem like that much of a paranoid nutjob.

  17. Guesticus
    Guesticus
    August 11, 2014, 9:40 am | # | Reply

    Those… are some pretty big (in physical size) flash/thumb-drives he has there, must be early edition ones, like the difference between the two types of floppy disks (people know/remember floppies, don’t they?)

    • Einstein
      Einstein
      August 11, 2014, 12:45 pm | # | Reply

      Three. Three sizes of floppy.

      8, 5 1/4, 3 1/2.

      • Guesticus
        Guesticus
        August 12, 2014, 7:44 am | # | Reply

        Don’t remember the 8’s :(

        Still have the 5 1/4’s and 3 1/2’s though

    • LockeZ
      LockeZ
      August 11, 2014, 2:15 pm | # | Reply

      They aren’t flash drives, they’re opened pocky containers.

      • Guesticus
        Guesticus
        August 12, 2014, 7:46 am | # | Reply

        And those would be… what?

  18. Jon
    Jon
    August 12, 2014, 11:31 am | # | Reply

    He sounds like Thack to me. Another Fans! character, like Shannon.

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