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Annotations Every Day - Written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip

'I'M EXPENDABLE, TOO!'

Chapter 45 – Page 20

on December 14, 2016
Chapter: Chapter 45
└ Tags: Ardaic, Bandit, Bash-Meister Berta, Brock, Silver Centurion, Tobias Gnipgnop, Watcher
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  1. MatthewTheLucky
    MatthewTheLucky
    December 14, 2016, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Go Team Gnome!

    • MatthewTheLucky
      MatthewTheLucky
      December 14, 2016, 12:06 am | # | Reply

      Also, you should know better than that, alt-text. Bandit is the only non-expendable character.

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      December 14, 2016, 12:27 am | # | Reply

      They’re not expendable.
      They’re dependable.

      • biggmac
        biggmac
        December 14, 2016, 1:42 am | # | Reply

        Are you implying they’re incontinent?

        • Ganurath
          Ganurath
          December 14, 2016, 3:12 am | # | Reply

          No, they’re ON a continent.

          • Charlie Spencer
            Charlie Spencer
            December 14, 2016, 7:11 am | # | Reply

            They’re in a Continental?

            • █████
              █████
              December 14, 2016, 7:48 am | # | Reply

              They seem perfectly competent to me.

              • SomeGuy411
                SomeGuy411
                December 14, 2016, 9:12 am | # | Reply

                What’s this about consonants?

                • wolfpax
                  wolfpax
                  December 14, 2016, 9:42 am | # | Reply

                  I dunno, but I’d like to buy a vowel.

                  • Taxil Necrobane
                    Taxil Necrobane
                    December 14, 2016, 11:01 am | # | Reply

                    All of this doesn’t make any sentence!

                    • Lirazel
                      Lirazel
                      December 14, 2016, 11:22 am | #

                      You’re saying there’s sentience here?

                    • zero
                      zero
                      December 14, 2016, 5:16 pm | #

                      They’ll get a life sentence for this assault!

                    • Derp?
                      Derp?
                      December 14, 2016, 7:28 pm | #

                      If this nonsense does not cease immediately I will punish you all and show gnomercy while I do it.

                    • Vishamon
                      Vishamon
                      December 15, 2016, 11:57 am | #

                      show-gnome mercy? I was unaware that Vaudevillian gnomes had a particular brand of forgiveness.

                    • The_Rippy_One
                      The_Rippy_One
                      December 15, 2016, 9:32 pm | #

                      Derp? is just being overly dramatic. They are opposed to gnome-sense and how it keeps building.

                    • MidnightDStroyer
                      MidnightDStroyer
                      February 22, 2017, 11:35 pm | #

                      Building? What building? They’ve gone outside the city already.

                    • Borg
                      Borg
                      June 14, 2017, 5:45 pm | #

                      Wait, who’s sitting? Everyone I can see is standing and fighting.

  2. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    December 14, 2016, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Many gnomes died to get us these Steam Star plans. Now if only this thing had any weaknesses and it wasn’t all in vain. Oh well…

    • SteelRaven
      SteelRaven
      December 14, 2016, 12:32 am | # | Reply

      “It has one weakness, it’s tail pipe. You must take this potato…”
      “You Know they disproved the potato-in-the-tail-pipe in Myth Busters.”
      “… Well, we’re boned.”

      • MatthewTheLucky
        MatthewTheLucky
        December 14, 2016, 1:34 am | # | Reply

        ‘Today, we’re looking at the myth that the gods of Arkerra are immortal.’
        ‘This is a particularly dangerous experiment, so we’ve brought in the most qualified destructive testing expert we could find.’

        ‘Sup bitches, Akerfeldt in the house.’

  3. Dave
    Dave
    December 14, 2016, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Damn, I forgot how cool Tobia’s spells look.

    • Stabbers N' Shankers
      Stabbers N' Shankers
      December 14, 2016, 1:13 pm | # | Reply

      When your spells look that good, you can wear whatever goofy mask you want to.

  4. Cytolus
    Cytolus
    December 14, 2016, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    Ardaic’s pretty far from the manor; looks like he’s stumbled into gnome-man’s-land.

    • The Indomitable Eric
      The Indomitable Eric
      December 14, 2016, 12:34 am | # | Reply

      He’s definitely in a little trouble, there.

      • Capnris
        Capnris
        December 14, 2016, 12:52 am | # | Reply

        I’m sure he’ll get the upper hand in this fight shortly.

        • biggmac
          biggmac
          December 14, 2016, 1:37 am | # | Reply

          Really? ‘Cause he looks stumped now.

          • MatthewTheLucky
            MatthewTheLucky
            December 14, 2016, 1:44 am | # | Reply

            He just needs to get in gear, and show some brass.

            • Some guy
              Some guy
              December 14, 2016, 9:18 am | # | Reply

              I don’t know, it seems like a pretty tall order to expect from him.

              • TxGator
                TxGator
                December 14, 2016, 10:30 am | # | Reply

                Yeah, I think he’s going to come up short.

                • Taxil Necrobane
                  Taxil Necrobane
                  December 14, 2016, 11:03 am | # | Reply

                  Welp! He isn’t standing tall in the saddle now.

                  • Vishamon
                    Vishamon
                    December 15, 2016, 11:59 am | # | Reply

                    They surely knocked him off his high horse.

        • Speedy
          Speedy
          March 16, 2019, 9:47 am | # | Reply

          The upper hand is his problem. He’s above delivering low blows.

    • Da Amron
      Da Amron
      December 14, 2016, 3:47 pm | # | Reply

      everyone knows that in MMO’s defeats are only setbacks…..

  5. Ishmael
    Ishmael
    December 14, 2016, 1:02 am | # | Reply

    Silver Centurion’s missing a tag there.

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      December 14, 2016, 1:39 am | # | Reply

      He cut it off – it was chafing him.

      • Mordecai
        Mordecai
        December 14, 2016, 8:55 am | # | Reply

        He’ll have to arrest himself, now.

    • Phil
      Flo
      December 14, 2016, 1:42 am | # | Reply

      Technically so is Ardaic’s tag, I guess! Fixed.

  6. EveryZig
    EveryZig
    December 14, 2016, 1:21 am | # | Reply

    Bandit, don’t you go and forget the inverse ninja law.

    • zathael
      zathael
      December 14, 2016, 2:36 pm | # | Reply

      The law of conservation of gnomejutsu?

  7. Messenger
    Messenger
    December 14, 2016, 2:24 am | # | Reply

    Don’t die, Gnome Adventuring Team! :-( Don’t die!

  8. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    December 14, 2016, 2:29 am | # | Reply

    THE EXPENDA-GNOMES!

  9. Nathanyel
    Nathanyel
    December 14, 2016, 3:24 am | # | Reply

    “Aww, everyone gets to be expendable but me…”

  10. Messenger
    Messenger
    December 14, 2016, 6:08 am | # | Reply

    Thinking about it, I have a feeling this will result in the death of the Gnome adventuring team and the triumph (for now) of Taro. It seems like the stakes getting raised higher by such would be appropriate at this point in the story.

    • Speedy
      Speedy
      March 16, 2019, 10:02 am | # | Reply

      It’s better for Taro if at least some of the “assassins” escape justice. It’ll be easier to justify a war against the Gnomes, if his family’s “murderers” get away.

  11. Da Amron
    Da Amron
    December 14, 2016, 6:10 am | # | Reply

    and then we see Ardaic, double cross Taro, dying in the line of duty to Gastonia. he’s reminding me a lot of Nazgrel at this point, loyal to his country even at the cost of his honor, he knows that his leader is a dick and going to be the downfall of the nation/faction he loves, but he’s too afraid to stand up to them, and (like Nazgrel in the Siege of Orggrimarr) its going to get him killed….
    at least till the next expansion and he gets ressurected as an ultra-powerful Death Knight or something similar….

    • Da Amron
      Da Amron
      December 14, 2016, 6:11 am | # | Reply

      aw…fuck me….HR as my avatar? and Sepia-world HR at that….(please tell me its not foreshadowing).

  12. The Gorram Batguy
    The Gorram Batguy
    December 14, 2016, 6:15 am | # | Reply

    What will be the fate of these intrepid gnomish adventurers? The suspense is killing me. Gnome-more!

    • minando
      minando
      December 16, 2016, 3:58 am | # | Reply

      No need for that. After all, he’s a paladin, and that means he’s nearly impervious to damage, but also unable to do (much) damage.
      …
      Uh oh. I forgot about the pala patch.

  13. chantelune
    chantelune
    December 14, 2016, 8:46 am | # | Reply

    The apron was obviously the most expandable of them all. Good job, apron. We will remember your sacrifice !

  14. fishamaphone
    fishamaphone
    December 14, 2016, 12:17 pm | # | Reply

    Anyone else getting flashabacks to Dial M for Monkey and Justice Friends from the left part of that last panel?

  15. Alan Steenhouwer
    Alan Steenhouwer
    December 14, 2016, 2:21 pm | # | Reply

    By the way Adriac is not the Silver Centurion that we know and hate for killing Brunhilde and enslaving the orcs. We saw both of them in the same panel in chapter 29. Maybe crusaders for Gastonia are trained to manifest that specific suit of armor.

    • WhiskeyTango
      WhiskeyTango
      December 14, 2016, 4:05 pm | # | Reply

      Two things about this. One, the fact that Ardaic was seen in the same panel as another Centurion doesn’t mean the latter was the one who killed Brunhilde – it’s entirely plausible that Ardaic did that and the other Centurion was uninvolved. Two, the panel in question leaves things a bit up in the air – the background color’s different and no other characters besides Ardaic and Centurion are in the shot. It’s possible that panel took place in his head.

      • Fiaryn
        Fiaryn
        December 15, 2016, 8:11 am | # | Reply

        It most likely was not in his head. During that battle Ardaic was inside the fort, and got his arm snapped by Auragu protecting Syr’nj. We were shown the Silver Centurion fighting on the frontlines outside the fort.

        That doesn’t contradict your first point, mind.

    • LatverianCyrus
      LatverianCyrus
      December 15, 2016, 4:43 pm | # | Reply

      Actually… I’d say it’s more likely that Ardaic *is* the Silver Centurion we see kill Brunhilde. The Centurion fighting Brunhilde used conjured glowy weapons like Ardaic is now, while the one who led the battle against the world’s rebellion only used a simple sword.

  16. Schneidend
    Schneidend
    December 14, 2016, 4:06 pm | # | Reply

    Survives a meteor hammer to the face…Dat’s some pretty good armor.

    • minando
      minando
      December 16, 2016, 4:01 am | # | Reply

      Overkill Paladin. It’s a prestige class.

    • Speedy
      Speedy
      March 16, 2019, 10:14 am | # | Reply

      It’s hard to believe that Ardaic didn’t lose face when the old ball and chain caught him riding hard on some bright, young filly.

  17. tlhonmey
    tlhonmey
    December 14, 2016, 4:19 pm | # | Reply

    Bandit’s being foolish. They don’t have to take down the pursuit, just delay it long enough for the plans to escape. As soon as she’s out of sight, the rest can scatter. Her sticking around means the fight must continue and actually increases the odds of one of her friends getting seriously injured. Plus, it’s keeping both copies of the plans where Ardaic can potentially recover both of them. True, one’s not got good picture quality, but it’s better than nothing.

    • Stabbers N' Shankers
      Stabbers N' Shankers
      December 15, 2016, 9:27 am | # | Reply

      That’s our little impulse decision rogue.

    • Schneidend
      Schneidend
      December 15, 2016, 1:26 pm | # | Reply

      The others wouldn’t be able to outrun a mounted warrior, and Bandit would need a pretty significant lead to be out of danger. Either way, the other gnomes need to fight for a not-insignificant amount of time or risk somebody being run down by a charging energy-horse.

    • minando
      minando
      December 16, 2016, 4:02 am | # | Reply

      No mmorpg-player worth her salt can resist a good bossfight.

  18. Baldur
    Baldur
    December 14, 2016, 6:52 pm | # | Reply

    Waaaaaaait now- that Wizard’s mask… do I sense a Banjo-Kazooie reference?

  19. minando
    minando
    December 15, 2016, 10:33 am | # | Reply

    Ardaic continues to play mindless puppet. I don’t think he will reconsider.
    I think he will die like this.

  20. Chris
    Chris
    December 16, 2016, 9:20 am | # | Reply

    TO THE FACE!!!!!!!

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