Chapter 36 – Cover & Page 1
Hey, Guildies! As always, there’s new re-randomized avatars and DLC for you to enjoy! WHO DID YOU GEEEETTTT???
Annotations Every Day - Written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip
Guilded Age
The Saga of the Working Class Adventurer – New comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday!
So glad there is content with the chapter cover! SCORE!
THUG LIFE YO!
me too.
Thug lyfe?
I must join the Stach-stack.
The “Stash Stack” is plenty big enough for at least another 3 or 4 folks!
Ooh, new gravatars. Am I ‘stached, or am I bitterly disappointed?
A beard does not count, sadly.
I don’t always shave my stash but when I do I make it so.
I actually have a ‘stache under the mask, but you can’t see it. I “‘stache” a few cookies there in case I get hungry…
yyyyeeeesssss?
Testing, testing…
I have no idea what I am.
Gnome with a ax!
You are ERROR
You are MissingNo
That avatar,
Let’s see what is behind door number 1!
Gravatest?
Gravy test.
123…
Wood, Water, Fire is the Gastonian equivalent of Rock, Paper, Scissors, isn’t it?
… And it actually makes more sense.
Grass Types beating Water Types never really made sense to begin with, IMO. We just went with it.
I’m sorry. I have a Poké-problem.
That’s Poké.
… That’s what I said?
Sorry. That pun works a bit better spoken out loud, I guess.
Time for a Pokecentrevention, it seems.
(Sadly, that’s the best pun I could come up with.)
You’ll have to pry my Charizard out of my cold, dead hands.
They wouldn’t be cold though, since you’re holding a fire type. Obviously.
Technically, Fire Types can still be Frozen.
Oh god, I feel extremely silly note that I realized that’s true. Doesn’t flame body protect against freeze, or is that something different? My pokemon currently isn’t up to scratch *reaches for 2DS (some people have these, world!)*
Actually, you are thinking of Magma Armor. Flame Body simply has a chance to Burn on contact (and hatches eggs faster outside of battle).
I have a 2DS, myself! I got one from Katsukitty with a capture board installed inside so I can start streaming on the side. Still have the 3DS XL that I was using previously.
It’s basically because plants use water in order to grow. They consume it, as fire consumes plants and water destroys fire.
Ah, but water does not consume fire to grow.
A pattern broken.
The countless limbs will be pleased.
Well, heat from fire makes water “grow” into water vapor, and steam is often much more dangerous than liquid water. So, while fire doesn’t make more water, it does make it bigger and more energetic. :)
Grass beating water is science! People water lawns constantly, and it’s the water that goes away.
I’m already feeling withdrawal symptoms.
Second try.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Beasts
Testing!
… Apparently avatar changes are VERY suspicious…
blerp
Oh goodness.
Lets test the hell out of it.
whoa appropriate Avatar is appropriate
Totally not doing the same thing.
me either
new years was not kind to frigg…
Idem
I personally prefer to keep my avatar private and only known to myself
YOU LOOKED! >:(
Couldn’t resist.
It’s okay. We respect your… prude cultist ways?
Why do you think I wear a robe? No nice, eligible cultist will respect my body if I don’t respect it. Modest is hottest.
I’d never test.
Lies.
Man, I always get the same one.
I approve of this test.
and then this all turned out to be a dream sequence, as it suddenly shifts into nightmare gear and the twins turn on him, bloodied and zombified
OoooooooOoooooOoo
[or would a ghost moan be more like “Woooo”?]
I didn’t plan to be a ghost bear avatar. That just worked out extremely well. Better got hit the lottery before this luck wears off
Just checking my avatar…
Not bad
avatar win;)
So, did Byron actively work to hide his accent later in life? Or does he just speak differently from his brothers?
They were raised among dwarves maybe, long enough ago that no rubbed off on Byron?
*…that no Inexplicable Dwarven Scottish rubbed on on Byron?
I’m FANCY!
And now my Avatar test.
Their accents don’t sit quite right with me for some reason.
Oh, FFS! I am NOT a Fuzzy Person!
Pfff,i would Switch with you anytime. Champion of the Fuzzy People for the win.
Man i’m am so jealous of you and will be jealous of you for this whole chapter. Being Champion of the Fuzzy People is better than a gorillantula :/
This what I been listened to.
Re-randomized avatars?! Huzzah! I love surprises!
Well, you certainly look surprised.
quite shocked in fact.
MADNESS?! THIS IS _____! complete the sentence
Sandwhiches!
Shenanigans
neurological dysfunction?
Gastonia!
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law.
God damn, I miss that show.
Everyone does.
Except maybe Stephen Colbert, who’s probably too busy for it.
the deli counter! Are you going to order a sandwich or just stand here and rave awhile?
an avatar check.
I’m confused. Apparently we have flashbacks for “people” who don’t exist and events from cannot have happened.
Bayen and Brayen were real. They are now dead and Byron carries their axes as spiritual totems…that he sometimes speaks to.
Oooh, what if they’re people from SepiaByron’s real life, and he kinda mentally transplanted his memories of them into Arkerra?
HR himself thinks there’s more to this world then what was programmed. Who’s to say they weren’t real? But even if we stick with that (i’m not) you can argue that Byron made for himself a consistent “Tragic childhood” storyline, part of which is being seen now.
Bayen and Brayen were Byrons brothers who died before the story we have been reading started. Byron named his axes after them as a memorial. This is why when he then met them in the woods he knew it was a cultist trap as he knew his brothers were dead.
Although that was a bit hypocritical as he himself had come back from the grave.
Having faced the images of his brothers I guess this is going to be his memory of how they died as he reflects on recent events.
and that should have been a reply to Emanon but I managed to mess it up.
We all mess things up from time to time.
I believe Emanon was referring to the fact that, from the point of view of Sepia World, Bayen and Brayen are part of a fictional backstory created by the person “playing” Byron. In the context of Sepia World’s Kingdoms of Arkerra, Bayen and Brayen are fan-created, non-canon content. Sort of like when some guy who just picked up leather working starts advertising that he’s the greatest in the world at it and has crafted legendary armours from mystical beast hides in the past… when in reality he’s just some level 21 hunter trying to drum up business on the auction house.
The difference here is that, from the perspective of Arkerra… which through technomancy hullabaloo is somehow actually a real place… Bayen and Brayen actually did exist in Byron’s past. Byron actually had a fully fleshed out, realized past – he’s not just a player character, he’s a real boy.
Sepia World can’t justify the existence of Byron as a real person who existed before the player “created” the character, but Arkerra is a living world that existed outside the influence of Sepia World and has merely been “tapped into” by H.R.’s voodoo. That black magic meddling is having profound effects on Arkerra, though, and it’s causing trouble for both worlds.
Oh yeah…good point.
But … what if, rather than the inserted characters maintaining their own personalities, they were inserted into real citizens of the actual Arkerra and assumed their lives? Sort of a “quantum leap” style piggy-backing. It’s supposed to be a real place, tampered with by H.R. himself via said voodoo.
That, or it’s a MMO that he somehow raised to life in an alternate dimension or such. I suppose that all will be revealed in the fullness of time?
I really want to know how the rest of the server handles resurrections. If it is common, Gravedust shouldn’t be so solem about it… and one would think Syr’nj would just find another healer to bring him back when Gravy wouldn’t.
I also am testing.
I am disappoint.
At least the avatar fits your disappointment, that’s something.
Love the cover.
of that book you’re reading?
I am some unholy combination of Scipio and E-merl (and someone else maybe?). I don’t remember this storyline.
E-pio? Sci-merl?
It’s from Frigg’s dream that Gravy eventually popped into. Scip, E-Merl, and Best. All the guys she’s had sexual tension with or attempted to bang.
Oh right. Thanks!
Totally read that as “Frigg’s dream that Gravy eventually pooped into…”
Well, Frigg certainly thought his making an appearance was sort of taking a huge dump on the proceedings.
That’s an awesome avatar. Lol.
What tha snark?!?
Over there, near that grumkin.
…but behind the jibber.
test
oooo, SASSY!
A new year and new avatars.
Ahhh, Sibling squabbling. It’s a universal trait.
THIS IS WHO I AM! YOU’RE NOT GONNA CHANGE THAT!
(Until next chapter.)
I like. Gotta brush up me Cockney, eh?
Maybe some tea & crumpets while watching a cricket match could put you in the mood for practice…
Dare I brave the waters and see what horrors have been wrought upon me?
YOU HAVE BEEN REPORTED!
wossissen?
Since ghosts don’t sleep, it goes well with your name.
;)
…drum roll…
new Gravatar go!
I am tardy to the party and thus have been given this disreputable mug as a Gravatar . . .
( *_*)
(*_* )
(x_x)
Oh, how exciting!
WHO AM I?
I’m beginning to suspect that the brothers died because the trees put a hit on them. Apparently they liked to celebrate Axemas every day.