Chapter 39 – Page 17
Sorry for the late update, everyone. Internet cut out last night before the upload and didn’t come back til this morning. Here you go!
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That bottle of XXX is quite the nerf to E-Merl.
well whaddayaknow, booze debuffs your Intelligence.
No.. no no… no.
It debuffs your Wisdom. He can probably still cast the same level of spells as before… with new effects!
Watch a video called: Potion Overdose
I’d put it here, but I don’t know how! It shows the affects of too much liquid on wizards perfeclty!
Yeah, Wav already got a first-hand, eye-witness demonstration of Frigg on a potion overdose…
Although I wonder how a bottle opening that small can create two spills in different directions.
Circular motion would be my guess.
Skillz. He is an adventurer after all.
It wouldn’t even TOUCH Frigg
“I don’t always drink Très Equis…”
This is rather like turning max-level characters loose in a beginner area.
This is why level synch can be a good thing.
At least it’s not a gold synch? Errr… sink?
Man. I really hate seeing e-merl like this. He’s really fallen apart. At least alt-best has his head on straight.
#greenlivesdontreallymatterallthatmuchsrslyfuckthoseguys
What do you have against Wood Elves?
I think he means the kobolds.
Ever since we first saw Byron, they’ve been canon fodder.
I’m hoping Iwatani isn’t just trying to conveniently them all in one spot for something malicious.
BTW, no need to apologize for being late. In fact you guys tend to be more reliable with your posting schedule then many of the other webcomics I read. So kudos!
Oh, I’m most certain he is.
Edit: “conveniently them all in one spot” = “have them convene in one spot”
I blame a deplorable lack of coffee for this typo. ;-)
He “accidentally” all the adventurers.
And next, he will “periodically” them from behind?
Oh Iwatani’s not going to shaft the Adventurers now! They just got over the devastating loss of their leader, their main healer, one of their two main tanks, and a bunch of their friends as well as public confidence!
Everyone knows THAT story twist means that now they are owed some easy wins that won’t be used as political manipulation, right?
… guys? Right?
Well, Iwatani’s friends with the cultists. So if the adventurers are friends with Irawati, that means they are also friends with the cultists.
FRENS!
I’m not sure “friends” how I’d describe his relationship with the cultist. More like “temporary allies” at best.
That, and the head cultist he bargained with is dead…
The inverse of the 29th Maxim of the “The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries” would seem to apply:
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more. No less
Read thus: The friend of my friend is my friend’s friend. No more. No less.
Hillbilly corollary (I’m a native hillbillian):
The mother of my child is the ex-wife of my grandpa, therefore I am my uncle.
Great uncle. Stupid hillbillies…
I’m sure he appreciates your compliment to his uncling skills very much.
As WAV would probably say, the friendship relation is not transitive.
Whew, I was starting to get a bit worried that something had gone seriously wrong when the update didn’t show.
At least Team Frigg has one deep thinker on their side.
Be suspicious of the free lunch. ALWAYS be suspicious of the free lunch.
Yes, because it’s likely a sandwich made of processed red meat by-products and preservatives
Don’t forget the sawdust! High in fiber.
As Heinlein established in “The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress,” tan-staffle. TANSTAAFL.
damn they gots treeetmint senters in Arkera. sumbuddy needs an interventshun.
Drunkenness is not an ailment of medieval living; it is just a symptom.
Its not a bug, its a feature.
Moar frensh? Noo, gimme back mah boosch!
E-Merl needs the services of a frensics specialist.
Well you see WAV, His Grace Iwatani makes a Killing in his line of work.
On a less pun filled note, have we ever established how bodies/funerals are handled in this world? I know when the main characters died they were buried straight up, but at that time it was thought they could still spread the berserking. Would it have fallen to the more spritual types like Gravedust, and if so what is everyone doing now that there are so few like him?
My Headcanon is that sky elves are dropped, and shit elves are left to fester.
Landshark corpses are probably not mourned very long.
Given their eagle imagery, I can see the Sky Elves going like some of the mountain folks and leaving their dead out for the eagles to feast on.
We know that burials are, at least, common enough for no one to think it strange. And Wood Elves bury their dead with a tree, probably to feed the tree as it grows. Makes you wonder how they feel about those trees getting cut down for tables.
In a landshark wake, there is no separate queue for the buffet.
E-Merl knows how to avoid hangover: don’t stop drinking.
On another note, this Instagrammy guy seems really really frenly.
I have to say i’m losing interest in this comic. sad.
The parts i really liked are mostly gone, and the parts i mostly didn’t like are taking over.
Oh, I’d stick around.
Oh, i said “losing interest”.
It ain’t 100% dead yet.
There have been so many “player gets trapped in the video game” epics from Tron (TBH, both movies sucked ) to Spy Kids. Guided age is just head and and shoulders tha best. This saga just stays fresh. I don’t know where in Hell it is going next. I find the sepia interludes to be my fave parts. The way the Arkerra parts build towards a nail biting climax and the narrative swings back to reality for 4 or 5 pages where precious little story advancement occurs, is well. I just find the whole shtick endearing. So fist tee kated.
Sundar is awesome. :D
Yeah, that thing!
Its all fun and games until kobolds become a player class.
No, no. Then it’s still fun and games. Remember Deekin?
It’s always awkward when the cannon fodder race becomes playable.
“So… all that nonsense about slaughtering your race for early-game grinding…? Can we put that behind us?”
In another world, a webcam is turned on…
In Arkerra, an enormous sepia-toned mustache appears on the horizon…
Faction grinds suck.
Now that his player is no more, I wonder what will happen to Skipio. Maybe he will become a NPC…players are overrated anyway.
Kobolds are smart enough to have pants and spears, yet not even the most peace-loving characters seem to care that they are treated like literal pests. Byron actively participated in it, in fact. And we have never seen Syr’nj nor Gravedust comment on this.
Maybe they tried asking nicely once each, it failed, now they’ve concluded kobold parents are trying to use the Zergling strategy of world takeover, so they kill them with a feeling of annoyance at said parents?
Maybe kobolds don’t have souls. Then Gravy wouldn’t be interested in them.
Oh, I get blitshed with a li’l help from my frens.
Bury ’em in sidequests so they forget all about the Cultists and the Savage Races main quest lines?
Like that one villain that had a casino built two towns before their main fortress.
Welp, looks like it’s almost time to kill off more characters!
I’m imagining e-merl sounding like jar jar binks on this page. Which kinda lines up with me readin about the jar jar=most powerful with in Star Wars theory. COINCIDENSE???????? Very very likely. I still think e-merl will either turn to the dark side, or at least do something really awful via being manipulated by iwatani