Chapter 40 Cover & Page 1
It’s that time again, the 40th time we start a new chapter here and just… just shit.
How are we still doing this?
Anyway enjoy all the avatars and wallpaper I’m still not out of vacation mode.
Annotations Every Day - Written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip
I think you put it best.
“Just… just shit.”
If this is a troll…
Good work.
I’d say he looks more like a wood elf, if not for the ears. I’ve never heard of an elf having that much ear hair.
I think (hope) that this was indicating an “ohshit” reaction to the events of the comic, rather than being a trollish/negative comment…
I think HR is the troll here.
Took me a while to understand why you were saying that.
I believe you may have misinterpreted the intention of the comment.
Yeah, my reaction entirely.
Well then. I guess it’d be a little too much to hope that WAV has some kind of virus dispelling ability?
WAV might be the Best, but even he can’t do that
Well, he could strip… see if Frigg’s angry sex “safety valve” still works.
Time for fright to no-sell this shit.
Her inner insanity wolf doesn’t like company.
Frigg*
Damn ye, iPhone.
Yet oddly appropriate.
Where is your grabatar from?
Berserkerism-inducing again. For someone so supposedly adept at both game design and magic, H.R. is kind of a one-trick pony, isn’t he? Seems to me he should diversify his strategy a bit; one of these days this is going to backfire, if not on him personally (leaving Carol with a dead or permanently vegetative H.R.-body in the tube), then on his plans to be the One True God of Arkerra.
I mean, it’s a common trope in fiction that when a strategy doesn’t work on the first try, you abandon it and try something else. But in real life, it usually makes way more sense to try the same thing again, and work on fixing the problems you encountered before. Nice to see a story where this is actually the case for once.
Anyway, he’s an RPG designer. Sometimes it’s enough to simply increase the enemy’s stats.
When in doubt, just palette swap and call it a day.
Does that make Frigg the Dire Byron?
Agreed. I’ve lost track of the number of times I said “Jeesh! That was just dumb luck the hero survived that. Just do it again and they’re toast.”
Huh. So my new avatar is a real life human being? This is going feel a bit awkward.
We will henceforth assume that everything you say are the words of Joel Watson. Use this power wisely.
It’s proven to be remarkably effective as a strategy, doing tons of damage when deployed even in spite of countermeasures specifically designed to counter it. If you notice someone keeps failing to block your low kick, why would you mix it up by going high?
He’s clearly the God of Berserk-inducement.
And like Loyal said (and to extend the metaphor a little)- if someone keeps failing to block your low kick, then blocks it once, why go high before seeing if that was a fluke?
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
H.R.: “I’m just going to leave my allies in the lurch, constantly! I can do that, you know. I’m God!”
It *does* seem to be the M.O. of the god of the biggest real world religion rather often…
Next panel: one of the disillusioned cultists stabs HR, killing him. Without it’s god/master, Arkerra disintegrates. The five wake up in their own bodies; limp from months of inactivity, they all spend the next year in painful physical therapy. Carol turns herself in. JJ dies suddenly from E. Coli after unwisely eating at a burrito joint. Shanna and Xan are in deep hiding, and it will be years before they realize it’s all been over for a long time. Three more chapters devoted to the screwed-up, less-than-epic ordinary lives the 5 are forced to resume; one commits suicide, two become alcoholics, the remaining two marry and live so-so ever after.
It’s an MMO, the only thing its playerbase could ever end up marrying is one’s own hand.
Not true, I personally know a couple that hooked up after meeting through a video game.
Me too, also we played with my girlfriend who is now my wife, so I know at least 2 couples that have played MMO and end up getting married…
Actually the more I think and start counting, I know hellova lot of couples who play MMO and some of them married (and divorced, and whatnot.. you know.. being ordinary people and all).
Sooo, yea.. Can I down vote your irregular trollish bad attempt of a joke somewhere?
aand the down voting part was meant for Meadowbrook.. nice avatar for the rant though. :)
Final Fantasy 11, Everquest, and several other very well known MMORPGs have definitely had in-game marriage between players. It’s sort of disappeared in more recent ones, though, with the focus shifted strongly away from roleplaying and towards raiding.
In an MMO that I used to play in the 90s, the class I played actually had to get married in-game as part of their high level progression quests. The healers followed the “path of love,” after all.
ESO has marriage (with bonuses, even) so it’s definitely not gone.
Meanwhile in reality, people who enjoy the same hobbies, such as biking, hiking, gaming, gambling or even football/soccer end up in relationships. Even if the people involved happen to be nerds. Strange concept.
MMOs of any kind bring people together. And sometimes something clicks – like my boss, who met her husband because he got a head shot on her in Halo 2.
… She wasn’t happy with him at the time, sure, but bygones, etc.
I was thinking more Sword Art Online or Caverns of Socrates, but your version works too.
Dude, spoilers.
Mmmmmm. Yeah I coud see this happening, BUT I think we will find out that JJ HR Shanna ALL the sepia peepul. This is a big video game with a whole nuther world of gamers controlling all the sepia colored gamers and all the developers at Hurricane who in turn are playing Arkera the video game within the video game.
and then they wake up. it was all a dream . . .
Oh, you guys.
Oh good, now everyone has an equal amount of fear. HR really knows how to inspire an audience.
This avatar seems ominous.
Wasn’t a continent here yesterday, where’d it go? Berserker Frigg.
Sure, the players exist in a continent. Or at least E-Merl, WAV and Sundar are incontinent right now.
C’mon Woobie E-Merl gravatar!
Sad Penk will suffice.
I hurt in my heart…. First Rachel, then Byron… Now Frigg.
She’s not dead yet. (Byron was killed before he was infected.)
And Byron had an army of cyber-demons shoved into him. I think Frigg only has one. So she has better odds of pulling through or being saved… but probably not before she slaughters half of Gastonia. ;-)
Byron is not really dead. Just saying that now. Remember that. He is not dead.
Byron is definitely dead.
Whether or not it’s permanent, well, that remains to be seen.
Byron isn’t dead, he’s just waiting on his respawn timer.
In a stunning twist of events, bird #1 identifies and kills the stone-thrower by smell.
If anyone can fight the berserker from within it’s probably the faith-based characters, and perhaps especially Frigg due to her strong faith in herself. But can she harness this newfound power? Would she even want to?
Also: definitely commenting to see the avatar
Someone should report HR to human resources…he’s going to need more of them soon.
“Maaaan, why are we working with this guy? He’s a asshole.”
Because he’s an asshole who’ll kill us all with magic and then stuff berserker demons in our corpses if we don’t?
Quick Stab It With Your Steely Knives!
You just can’t kill the beast.
Somehow I don’t think knives are going to do much to him.
His eyes aren’t purple any more.
What does that mean?
They are, they’re just tiny and it’s a trick of the image-processing.
Zoomed in, can confirm.
ENLARGE!
ENHANCE!
Pan left. Give me a hard copy, right there.
Friggin’ Frigg, I wonder who’s gonna suffer a serious case of “mace-to-the-face” first?
E-Merl: “Don’t worry, I’ve got my MAGIC BOOZE!”
Sundar: “What’s the difference between that and normal booze?”
E-Merl: “Nothing! *Glug-glug-glug*”
OK, I do not remember FROGMAN, but he is sufficiently magnificent!
It’s a Wood Elf-melting critter the cultists used: http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-32-page-2/
Thanks man! I couldn’t remember.
My current avatar will probably be appropriate for this chapter.
Mmm… the half-ogre…
I’m in agreement with many here, RageWolf won’t be pleased with the new head-mate. Talk about internal strife…
Regardless what happens, the day is on its way downhill for at least 70% of the people present there.
Nooo! His gloriously high resolution mustache! They really need to get the textures updated for next gen. The frame rates are good on my XPS 14U, but it can handle way more polygons.
Quick.. Sex it out of her? It’s your only hope!
e-merl: “quick! everyone close!” *activates eye of the hurricane*
>frigg winds up
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Y’know I am not sure how much longer the cultists will follow H.R. if he keeps this up. I mean, sure, Brother Tom was cavalier with the lives of cultists, that’s not the issue here. The issue is that Brother Tom was also cavalier with his own life, while H.R. is hiding from his own monster. I kinda figured the Cult of Countless Limps looks down on cowardice since death is supposed to be a gift.
HAX!
Seriously, it’s like he designed the berserkers or something.
“My Magicks won’t let Berserkers see or hear me…”
*Next Strip
He’s the first Frigg tries to smack.
Ooooh! I’m Glowy Green Guy!
Oh brother where art thou…
“…and it’s a good thing, too. Because all I have on under this cloak is some tightie-whities…”
ewwwwwwwww
One does not simply ‘mind the Frigg.’
I sense a little bit of friggtion here.