Chapter 33 – Page 24
That’s it for Chapter 33, Guildies! With a new(?) sinister face coming to wreak havoc on our heroes, a beast on the loose and JJ hot on Shanna’s heels, the next three chapters are going to, hopefully, blow you guys away.
To that end, we’re taking a short break before we start in on all that action. Monday is labor day, and as such, the anniversary of Guilded Age’s conception. So expect a brand new Adventurers Illustrated and a Q & A day for all us here on Team GA!
Following that, we’ve got… a weird little experiment I guess? I don’t know! In function, we’re doing our own guest comics for that week, with an interesting medium that I got to play with. And if you guys like the results, we COULD be coerced into making them a regular Sunday feature.
Who knows what the future holds??
Oh. Right. All those things we just told you. OK then.
See you Monday, gang. Enjoy your weekend!
It’s H.R.! FINALLY!
What are you talking about?
It’s just some nobody.
so no one else is allowed to have that kind of mustache. that’s judgmental…
Really? With that unmistakable mustache we are really going for a “Brother Homon” tag?
I mean, sure, Brothor Homon is just the avatar, but still….
‘Homon’ is what the ‘H’ stands for. Headcanon until Jossed.
It’s interesting that the mustache is transdimensional. No one else we know of has an avatar so unmistakably similar to their earthly visage.
I wouldn’t be surprised if HR’s dark sorcery has let him travel bodily into the game, in all his moustached glory.
One or two chapters ago his first name was confirmed “Hal”.
Culus doesn’t start with an R. Denied.
It’s Brother Homun Culus actually
Haha, that’s got a ring to it.
Ah right, good catch
Eugh, get out of here with your ‘real life’ gravatar.
Real life…great graphics, crappy game play. I mean, it’s the ultimate grind-fest.
You’re doing it wrong. ;)
But you have to play it safe! It’s always on hardcore mode!
What makes it Hardcore Mode is that there are no re-spawn points & you don’t get any extra lives in case you eff it up…
Nope.
Brother Homon Rosorsos.
“I am No One?” Is H.R. planning an “Odysseus vs. Polyphemus” manoeuver?
Brother Tom will sacrifice him last.
Shush!
Homon’s a pretty gay name….is what Frigg would say.
In any case, of course H.R.’s darkness overshadows Brother Tom’s, the guy makes mmos.
Ahem. . . PLAY DOMJOT HOMON!
I AM WHO AM KIND OF DRUNK. NO NEED TO TOP OFF MY GOBLET, TOM.
Ol’ Tom here is trying to wine & dine his new friend.
Everyone who called it being HR can collect their prizes at the door.
No kidding. Yeah collect your prize. HR Dedaleous in full color no less. You think his tie has turned Sepia? Lets hear the clapping of one hand for old Ferris. Couldnta pulled it off without him. Shit just got real!
Better check your stubs, that’s not HR Huffnpuff, that’s whatsisface’s arm, the arm that was turned into a Homunculus
Way I figure, Stumpy is an extension of HR.
That’s a long pour.
Alternate interpretations:
1. Brother Tom speaks as fast as the people who list side effects in medicine commercials.
2. He actually started pouring toward the end of his dialog in panel 2, and stopped not long into panel 3.
I’m going with number 1.
Not really. He just filled two cups and paused as long as necessary between them.
I agree, more proof is that if you look at brother Tom in the panels he changed position. In the first pouring panel he is standing up to fill Homon’s cup, in the second he sat down and is pouring into his own cup.
Ahhh. I took that more as a dramatic camera change, but I think you’re right.
It looks like ALL of the plot threads of this comic are set to be resolved, all at once. The next (last?) few chapters should be AWESOME.
Obviously, “Homon” = homonculus. BTW, has anyone guessed “Beast = Best” yet? HAHAHAHA
Oh, BTW, there’s a couple of words missing in the second speech bubble there.
Well, don’t leave me hanging, man. Which words? Altruists? Friggception? Best?
… of? <_<
Well, it’s HALFWAY fixed now….!
These past few weeks have been blowing me away already! This comic is a masterpiece of writing, art, pacing, the whole nine yards.
I’m sorry, Jim, but your avatar prevents me from taking this seriously.
Brother Homonculus is totally nude under the robe. I mean, last time we saw him swimming through the air… you know what? never mind. Sorry I brought that image up.
Looking forward to the next three chapters.
He got a hold of robe. Bet he scored a sepia colored tie.
“Brother Homonculus is totally nude under the robe.”
Aren’t they all? B)
—Sam the Eagle
“the arrival of […] rest the adventurers”
Actually, “Lie in wait for the arrival of the rest of the adventurers” seems kind of redundant, maybe just lose “the arrival” completely?
#corrections.
Feexed.
Not quite.
Life is Hell.
Life is Pain.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.
No, even though someone trying to sell you something will agree that life is pain…What they’re selling you is something to RELIEVE the pain.
But what is the question.
My god, it’s Arya! Our heroes are doomed.
From memory:
“Who are you?
“No one of consequence.”
“Please, I must know.”
“Get used to disappointment.”
Princess Bride? Dread Pirate Roberts and Buttercup just above the Fire Swamp after having dealt with the Sicilian?
Dread Pirate Roberts and Inigo Montoya during their Duel.
“Why do you wear a mask? Were you burned by acid or something?”
“Oh no. It’s just they’re terribly comfortable. I think everyone will be wearing them in the future.”
I love Fezzik. :)
Inconceivable!
There’s probably a lot of deep insight I could say here, but the first phrase that comes to mind is:
“Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh SHIT!”
“I am no one.”
After Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, we may have a reference to Homer’s Odyssey.
If so, to the writers of Guilded Age: Well done. :-)
“I am the end and the beginning. I am the hand of madness.”
No, you are the hand of Ferris.
Bueller…. Bueller….. Bueller
I am no one. I am everyone. I am now. I am forever, and I have always been. I am the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. I am here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, yes, even between the land and the ship; luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. I am the eggman, they are the eggmen. I am the walrus. I am Sparticus. I am everything you want. I am everything you need. I am everything inside of you that you wish you could be. I am the mind-killer. I am the little-death that brings total obliteration. I… Am… Batman!
*Slow clap*
Bonus points for the Litany.
I’d expect him to be more prideful than to answer like that. That moustache is too mighty to be “no one”.
No one to Brother Tom
Dun dun dunnnnnnnnnn!!
Somehow, that comment is much funnier when paired with your avatar. :D
They’re quite the combo
Brings Deus Ex Machina to a new level, right?
I guess it’s God IN the Machine this time, though.
That mustache… it’s King Bradley!
Well he is a homunculus so…
If this was a TV show, there would be ominous music right about …. Oh, there it is.
Who knows?
THE SHADOW KNOWS
The Shadow?!
The Shadow.
Who knows what evil lurks in the beards and moustaches of men?
The Five O’Clock Shadow knows…
H.R. sabotaging his own work ?
Strange…but then, that man is not right in the head.
And about to get drunk with power.
Or (knowing cultists) possibly poisoned.
I’ll freely admit I’m having a lot of trouble understanding H.R.’s motivations at this point. The philosophy stuff from prior went right over my head beyond getting a vague reference to other worlds out of it. I’m slightly dismayed because villains with understandable motivations are vastly superior to villains that are just batshit crazy. Even crazy people have some personal frame of reference that could be logical if you understood it.
I caught the Homonculus reference right away but why does he need to bother when he has the technology to put himself in the game? I suppose he is busy and needed the clone but it doesn’t explain why. He has created another world already, the players make it more real somehow, why screw with them so hard at this point? They seem to be somewhat outside his control (which is also weird since he has control over their physical bodies) going by prior dialogue about him trying to control the game but to what end? Peacemakers achieving actual peace makes the game boring and he can’t sell subscriptions anymore? I thought he was into Godhood at this point and above such petty concerns.
If he is into Godhood, again what is the point, creating yet a third world through some sacrifice of the players? We’ve seen evidence that his more major magic needs sacrifice to work with the homonculus. If this is the case…again he has their bodies in a tank. I’m having a hard time computing this plot trajectory.
You’re assuming he has *specific* motivations. I don’t believe that’s the case. He certainly doesn’t act like he has any. It’s pretty clear to me he simply wants to experiment and learn about the nature of magic and worlds.
He found a way to enter Arkherra himself, so he wanted to try it out and see what happened. Now he is testing to see how deeply he’s able to influence it, and what other worlds he can connect to it. The adventurers are his lab rats, and the cultists are his pawns – the people in Arkherra most easily influenced to carry out his absurd, potentially world-destroying ideas.
But he doesn’t want to destroy the world. Not specifically. He just wants to find out what will happen if he tries. It’s simple curiosity.
This makes sense. It’s all magical Sims and we all know what happens to The Sims.
I felt set up for something more specific and portentous due to the philosophizing though…hmm.
Er, Brother Tom, unless something else has happened in the interim, the only member your beast peeled away is Sundar. As members go, I didn’t think he was that powerful.
I think they’re in the process of sending out somewhere around 1/2 the adventurers after the beast? I’m not sure how they’ll pinpoint the location, but I wouldn’t be surprised if one of the high elves had a ‘sending’ type spell to get in touch with Sundar.
*sky elves
I’m pretty sure you’re right, since after rereading I noticed that Byron says “Monster hunters to the front” or something to that effect. But I didn’t see it mentioned anywhere else. Maybe I’m just blind.
All that time waiting for a naked mini HR only to get a cloaked mini HR.
Wait, if that’s a mini William H. Macy, does that mean everyone in that world are mini’s as well? o_O
It’s Ned Flanders! I knew it!
oh shit it’s Stalin
Ok that’s classic. :-)
Hheheh … “I am
no oneMary Sue.”Not thinking Homon is as much an homage to the word ‘homonculus’ as it is a reference to Homon, the third Boddhisatva vow from Buddhism. “The dharma gates are manifold. I vow to enter them all.”
It’s official now. That CEO guy is just the new arch nemesis.
One of the Faceless Men of Braavos, clearly.