Chapter 37 Cover & Page 1
New DLC! New Avatars! Spin the wheel of something something who did you get let’s all see and find out fun and good times yes!
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!
Man, rigor mortis has surely set in by now. That grimace will be a challenge for any embalmer to correct in time for the funeral. #deadzerker
Well, on average, after about 36 hours, rigor mortis goes away and the body goes limp again. So, it wouldn’t be too hard?
Well I wouldn’t want to be the guy handling that corpse with an “after 36 hours” smell, but then again that’s just me.
Nah. Rigor mortis only lasts for about a day. Once the chemicals that’re making the muscles contract dissolve, they’ll go back from popsicles to uncooked hot dogs again.
I am not really sure i want to know how you People got so many knowledge about rotting Corpses. Better not to aks.nope.
Google is a scary place, friend.
I took a class on forensic science *c* we had a whole unit on corpses!
Wanna know another fun fact about corpses? They “relieve” themselves upon death!
Ooh, ooh, I knew that one! Thank you, Mario Puzo!
Yes, some muscles contract, others relax. Water way to go.
Between Brother Tom’s use of the sacrificial knife & Bandit’s skill in cutlery, there probably wasn’t much evidence of livor mortis…Byron’s blood would have pooled on the ground, not still inside his body.
“Negative, I am a meat popsicle.”
Permanent anime-dread
I’m kinda afraid to ask how many of the Kickstarter supporting cast are laid out here. XD;
But then, none of their names are in the tags, so I’m sure they’re all fine, right? (yes, I know better, just lemme delude myself a while)
Well, Byron’s name isn’t there…
Dead men get no tags. That is an honor reserved for the living.
Besides, if they tried to get all of them in this scene the entire bottom of the screen would be filled with “toe” tags.
Huh, that’s odd. I’ve always been H.R. before.
Plot twist! You’re still the same person!
Any good salesman could have easily gotten his toe in the door & been a literal shoe-in for selling footwear. He could’ve even substituted Christmas Gift tags & made a killing here.
Rabbit got a tag when his face was half-eaten. Though I suppose that was just so we knew it was him.
…Anyway who is that guy in the last panel?
Oh, all right.
This is where we need a Phil Fail Star :P
(We still love you, though!)
I wouldn’t mind being a random corpse, even if I didn’t contribute enough. Though, since I really ticked off Frigg in the second or third Ask An Adventurer, I would likely be dead by blunt force trauma than several axes to the face.
Byron looks at me whenever someone tells me to smile for a new ID.
…at, not like
It’s late.
I think you should have kept it as is.
your avatar is perfect for your comment. XD
The comment system definitely is sentient.
No other explanation is possible.
I, for one, welcome our new comment-based overlords.
Woah, now, let’s not get too expressive here, you know they’re watching…
…JUDGING…
Apparently, you’ve (or at least your avatar) found the books & did the research to confirm the “sentient comment system” theory.
My comment is perfect for your avatar!
Then suddenly, ZOMBIES!
Yeah, I kind of hope the doors to that room are good and strong.
Just in case.
Rage zombies. The worst kind of zombie.
reports that the zombies were caused by rage-filled monkeys has been dismissed as BS.
I c wut u did der.
Emma, your avatar is the best
Even in death he’s still berzerking!
That’s 90 bodies there….
Yay! Finally my avatar is a main character!
same?
aww, guess not :( actually i think i’ve been this guy before too lol
What about me?
Well, boo hoo.
I don’t think he’s dead? I think she lied to Bandit? Maybe?
He was dead before Bandit got near him. The Cultists sacrificed him to be a zerkvessel.
If what we think we know about the zerking is what we think we know it to be.
#epistemololology
Do I have a zero avatar?
Ah, now it shows, took a while to kick in. Well, I guess he’d describe himself as a zero…
Ironically, Gravedust isn’t a particularly good person to talk to about death.
Which is weird, considering he’s been dead before.
…and wanted but wasn’t allowed to stay dead, which is pretty metal.
Oh the byrony.
Syrnj need to let Byron be Byron
“And that coat is the low low price of 90 lives! (Plus tax.)”
Sounds like a hell of a coat!
the type Cruella DeVille would adore
Two things. One: Did anyone who got infected with a zerker cyber demon survive!?!? Cause that’s a lotta corpses. Two: I smell some necromancy incoming!! Wheeee!!!
I’m not seeing a Bragg-sized corpse.
(Although maybe it wouldn’t fit through the portal)
…that or they couldn’t lift him.
They brought him in 5 separate bags.
IIRC Bragg didn’t get killed – he got darted by the clerics, right?
Intense new avatar is intense.
When Bragg wakes up, he’ll have a new flavor in his mouth, but he can’t quite recall what it was…
…but it tastes like MORE
You fucking monster.
Unless it’s stated otherwise, I’m going to assume he (and anyone else bedarted) lived.
The zerkers killed a lot of people. I imagine they survived if they weren’t too injured at the time, though for some it’d be kinder if they hadn’t….
Smelling the presence of Necromancy isn’t really that difficult, ya’ know…
Typical 2 class system. Even when dead the rich get a bed while the poor have to lay on the ground.
Sounds like the end of a verse of the yet-to-be written “Working-Class Adventurer’s Lament”:
No matter your guild
When your party gets killed
In this typical system, I’ve found
That even when dead
The rich get a bed
While the poor have to lay on the ground…
-Applause-
*stands and applauds*
-Applause-
Your avatar is appropriately smug. Well done
More.
Phil the slave driver…always wants more. Waltrips must hate that.
nah… not so much.
I just had this mental picture of you guys slaving away covered in ink, and Phil walks in holding the prints of the zerking cultist battle. He utters just the word “More,” then lets the pages flutter to the floor as he walks out.
I keep angling for one-a them thar stars I keep seein’ around, but this… yessir, I’m on it.
Not only does Byron get a bed, but he also gets to lay in it the other way round from everyone else.
We call it “AFK- stupor”.
Finally an avatar I can identify with.
Full body cast.. that’s one way to restrain someone.
So… any reason behind Byrons mummy costume? xD I mean everyone else is at best covered with a sheet.
I dunno, I guess she’s embalming them…
or it’s to keep him all together, cause Bandit had an axe to grind.
I’m guessing Syr’nj is going to be begging… no, demanding that Gravedust do it again. Bring Byron back from the dead. And Gravedust will have to choose between his ideals and his friend.
Who did I get, indeed!
Hm.
Is it just me, or WAV getting progressively thinner? And not in that “just got into cycling and protein” way either….
That whole “batteries running low” may have some side effects we didn’t know about.
He’s on the Friggen Diet. Its the one where every time you try to eat Frigg knocks your food into the dirt and vomits on your face. The pounds just melt away!
Yes, the “vomit in the face” step is very important to the process. It’s what makes you WANT to continue going hungry.
/spin
That looks far to upbeat for me on a Monday morning…
*drips more THC into Nimby’s coffee*
Sorry, Grave… I don’t think she wants to talk.
I suspect that she’s going to have a lot to say. Probably going to demand Gravy bring Byron back from the dead.
Grave better hope she doesn’t remember that the last time he got “permission” to bring everyone back from the dead he also started out dead. Perhaps she will scientifically try to reproduce the exact conditions of the original experiment…
SWEET!!! A chapter cover with content beyond the amazing art… BONUS!!!!
Let’s see, I’m guessing dour and somber for my gravitar . . .
perhaps “sour and bombered”?
HAH! I’m also judging your excesses.
Sooo… is he all bandaged up so no one would recognize that she’s brought his corpse in? Or because he’s actually still alive? Or both? Or neither? (I think I covered my bases.)
You forgot to cover the sexual fetish base.
There’s always the sexual fetish base.
Well now that you mention it…
Wrap That Rascal!
That’s what I was wondering. There are several other people on beds, as well. Wouldn’t make sense to house the rotting dead with the gravely wounded.
Perhaps the people infected with the zerk virus who sustained mortal wounds aren’t quite dead and aren’t quite living, either.
*Drumroll*
well, this is new…
Who am i?
<– Oh crap.
Who am I, again?
well, you’re certainly not me.
This could get awkward if there’s an eMerl about.
Awkward? I think you meant Awesome. E-Merl with double the Rachelness? Come on. It’s the acme of ultimates.
I’m side-eye Rachel!
There’s like four people who are that Rachel
I laugh at everyone’s desperation to see who their new avatar is and all the transparent posts that exist only to see what character they get now
(And I hope mine’s Scipio!!!)
You got the Light variant.
There’s an enormous dollop of irony right there.
Eh, whatever avatar I get I just focus on being the Best commenter I can be.
Oh that’s a funny right there….. I wonder who I got.
Rachel whom we’ve been seeing quite a bit of this set of avatars. Maybe she’s trying to tell us something?
Shes still alive, just on the other side! can you dig it?
how can I get a gravatar from Guilded Age random generator instead of my normal Gravatar? Does anyone know?
Just don’t have anything uploaded as your Gravatar and you’ll be assigned one based on the Guilded Age settings.
I wonder if this works…
trying a new email address to get an avatar
Wheel of Avatars, turn turn turn. Tell us the hero we must earn…
And they STILL don’t know about Rachel…there is more sadness to come
Avatar is better than nun
Lookin’ Good Buddy.
This is wear I’d probably play “House of The Rising Sun” for either laughs or melancholy but oh well.
mirror mirror on the wall, who is the most dead in this hall?
If Byron carked it, what of the tube player?
Simple, he unconsciously moved to his back up character profile. Either that or, and here me out on this, the new dlc mentioned? It’s a dlc for the game, that functions as a legacy system, where your favorite character acts as a ghostly mentor to a new character that you’ve made.
I personally wouldn’t want to play a game as a ghost that could only talk, but I could see so many trolls abusing this system.
“GARY! GARY! GARY! STOP IGNORING YOUR WIFE GARY!”
There was a delay before true death, tube ejection, or reincharaterization last time that was long enough for Best to do his special “quest” from Grave and then for Grave to coax them all individually back. If the two battle stories were happening simultaneous then there is still plenty of time.
BOW BEFORE MY LEMONY GAZE, MORTALS!
…Oh yeah, chapter 36 happened. -_-
I’m sure he’s at… uh… peace.
Love me dead, baby.
The cost will be Grave.
8▯
The thing I notice is while he is bandaged head to toe his body wasn’t covered as the rest of them were, did somebody pull a fast one with a few of her darts? >.>
Not all of the ones on the left are covered either plus she probably was still planning to either do science or Grave to him so he’s still on a table and uncovered cause he is still “work in process” to her.
Cool, two pages this time! It strikes me as odd how some of them are not lying in the same direction as most of the others in that hall. Not that the dead care about things like that…
I’m mostly just curious about his eyes, here. Why does he still have ‘zerk eyes?
I think he had the eyes from dying in such a state.