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

Gone... Gnowhere to be seen.

Chapter 45 – Page 21

on December 16, 2016
Chapter: Chapter 45
└ Tags: Ardaic, Bandit, Bash-Meister Berta, Brock, Silver Centurion, Tobias Gnipgnop, Watcher
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  1. Messenger
    Messenger
    December 16, 2016, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    My fear of a wipe and perma-death for the Gnome Adventuring Team has been allayed. PHEW!

  2. Sentora
    Sentora
    December 16, 2016, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Hope those pages weren’t important.

    • Inwoods
      Inwoods
      December 16, 2016, 12:19 am | # | Reply

      “These pages seem to be missing a description of a ‘thermal exhaust port.’ Ehh, who gives a shit. Pack it up boys, fortress is impregnable after all.”

    • Dana Son-of-Bear
      Dana Son-of-Bear
      December 16, 2016, 8:35 am | # | Reply

      Watcher already has a recording of them, so hopefully that should do.

    • Paul
      Paul
      December 16, 2016, 9:07 am | # | Reply

      And back to jobber status he goes.

      I would’ve assumed she had something else for that job. Such as cloth, knives or lockpicks.

    • LockeZ
      LockeZ
      December 17, 2016, 3:31 am | # | Reply

      I’m thinking they’re pages she wanted Ardaic to see. She knows he’s a good person. There’s probably something incriminating on them. Now he has the opportunity to read them without Taro knowing.

    • Roguewanderer
      Roguewanderer
      December 17, 2016, 8:05 pm | # | Reply

      Its 1 page ripped into 2 pieces if you look closely

  3. Grindzy
    Grindzy
    December 16, 2016, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Unless, of course, one of them was frothing at the mouth. Then she’d drop them like a rock.

    • Arvo Katsuya
      Arvo Katsuya
      December 16, 2016, 12:25 am | # | Reply

      She came in like a WRECKING BALL!!!
      For a gnome that’s like a BASKETBALL!!!

      • Psolo Ghoti
        Psolo Ghoti
        December 17, 2016, 5:19 pm | # | Reply

        All she wanted was to MAKE HIM FALL!!!
        All he ever got was
        COLORFUL CLOUDS!!!

    • Devlerbat
      Devlerbat
      December 17, 2016, 2:50 am | # | Reply

      Hey, come now. She clearly said no GNOME in her squad, so Byron doesn’t count.

    • Zalocin
      Zalocin
      December 17, 2016, 6:31 pm | # | Reply

      To be fair, she never left Byron behind.
      She made sure to stay with him… in order to frantically stab him to death.

      • Zer-Author
        Zer-Author
        December 19, 2016, 3:26 am | # | Reply

        Hey, she did warn Byron, if he ever tried to pull that berserker shit again she’d see him dead for it. The exact wording escapes me but the message was very explicit.

  4. Mr. Potato Patato Von Spudsworth III
    Mr. Potato Patato Von Spudsworth III
    December 16, 2016, 1:19 am | # | Reply

    Hmmm… I feel that Ardiac oversold this thing. One cannot overkill without first managing to kill.

    • brasca1
      brasca1
      December 16, 2016, 2:09 am | # | Reply

      He might be new to the whole Silver Centurion thing.

      • Ganurath
        Ganurath
        December 16, 2016, 11:04 am | # | Reply

        My money says that the Field Marshal has more field experience.

  5. Fo Ren G
    Fo Ren G
    December 16, 2016, 1:19 am | # | Reply

    Uh, I think if it was only torn in half, one could still restore Death Star plans with that.

    • Grug
      Grug
      December 16, 2016, 3:20 am | # | Reply

      Torn in half, yes, but also left behind as Bandit fled.

      • Loyal
        Loyal
        December 16, 2016, 7:00 am | # | Reply

        Mostly seems she took only one page from it to blind Ardaic with. The rest are safely in their hands still.

        • Sumgai
          Sumgai
          December 16, 2016, 10:52 pm | # | Reply

          Only one page of the absolutely critical war plans that we don’t keep any copies of because of !

          • Shogi
            Shogi
            December 16, 2016, 11:59 pm | # | Reply

            Didn’t they also magically scan them just now? The physical plans were only taken because they were found out anyway.

  6. biggmac
    biggmac
    December 16, 2016, 1:34 am | # | Reply

    No gnome left behind!
    (if you whip a gnome’s butt, you can only do it to their RIGHT behind)

  7. CC
    CC
    December 16, 2016, 1:55 am | # | Reply

    There’s still the possibility that Ardaic could totally tell Taro “Hey, they destroyed the plans, couldn’t retrieve them. Nope.”

    • LockeZ
      LockeZ
      December 17, 2016, 3:32 am | # | Reply

      That’s what she’s counting on. There’s something on that page she wanted him to see.

  8. Taxil Necrobane
    Taxil Necrobane
    December 16, 2016, 2:03 am | # | Reply

    Well, with the gnome gang well on their way out of reach. I predict the gnome district to either rebel at taro’s imminent attempt at enslaving the gnomes, or they decide it’s not worth sticking around any more and they all pack up and leave.

    • Anvildude
      Anvildude
      December 16, 2016, 2:11 pm | # | Reply

      It does seem as though the “World’s Rebellion” is going to keep getting more “World” in it- it might have been a bit of foreshadowing that the Savasi (this realm’s ‘dwarves’) were part of the ‘evil’ races this time.

  9. MatthewTheLucky
    MatthewTheLucky
    December 16, 2016, 4:01 am | # | Reply

    Gnowhere to be found? I guess they vanished in short order.

    • Toecutter
      Toecutter
      December 16, 2016, 7:55 am | # | Reply

      Ardiac appears stumped.

      • Varorson
        Varorson
        December 16, 2016, 10:16 pm | # | Reply

        He came up a bit short on retrieving those papers.

    • Just_IDD
      Just_IDD
      December 16, 2016, 9:40 am | # | Reply

      Bandit had a blindingly obvious plan for dealing with the Silver Centurion, I wonder what Ardric will find when he puts 1 & 1 together?

  10. Dagda
    Dagda
    December 16, 2016, 6:31 am | # | Reply

    Oh come on. Is there any reason she had to use the battle plans to do that, and not some other piece of fabric or paper? Or GRASS?

    • Dagda
      Dagda
      December 16, 2016, 6:33 am | # | Reply

      Well, on closer inspection it’s only one page from the plans. That’s ar least a little less ridiculous.

      • Wannes
        Wannes
        December 16, 2016, 8:46 am | # | Reply

        They do have a recording of the plans, so the information isn’t lost. The remaining pages that Bandit still has will help to confirm the veracity of the recording.

    • TxGator
      TxGator
      December 16, 2016, 9:03 am | # | Reply

      The battle plans were already in hand. Yanking out an appropriate amount of grass or finding and tearing out a section of cloth would of taken few moments. Time was of the essence.

    • MDude
      MDude
      December 16, 2016, 11:38 am | # | Reply

      She could have used her own gloves. She even seems to have another set of thinner gloves underneath!

      • MDude
        MDude
        December 16, 2016, 11:41 am | # | Reply

        Oh, and: She also could have used her knives to just stab his eyes out, but I’m guessing she doesn’t want Ardaic to get hurt either.

      • Armagrodden
        Armagrodden
        December 16, 2016, 5:04 pm | # | Reply

        I think the smaller pair of gloves you’re seeing is actually the continuation of her sleeves past her elbow pads.

    • LockeZ
      LockeZ
      December 17, 2016, 3:34 am | # | Reply

      Page 1 of the battle plans described the plan to grind sky elf orphans into sausages. She wanted Ardaic to see it.

  11. Talewinds
    Talewinds
    December 16, 2016, 7:00 am | # | Reply

    Gone to parts ungnome.

  12. Kooky
    Kooky
    December 16, 2016, 7:47 am | # | Reply

    Gone gnome

    • DanH
      DanH
      December 17, 2016, 9:51 am | # | Reply

      (Cartman voice) Screw you guys, I’m goin’ gnome!

      • Seggs
        Seggs
        December 17, 2016, 4:48 pm | # | Reply

        https://goo.gl/images/ntDN3D

  13. TxGator
    TxGator
    December 16, 2016, 9:09 am | # | Reply

    I got to agree with Bandit’s call here. An all gnome team of adventurers probably isn’t easy to replace. They already have a copy of the battle plans. And Reynolds seems like he’s already prediposed to not trusting Gastonia (though other gnomish authorities might need more convincing).

    • TxGator
      TxGator
      December 16, 2016, 9:10 am | # | Reply

      Plus, as pointed out above, it looks like she only used one sheet.

  14. Chris
    Chris
    December 16, 2016, 9:23 am | # | Reply

    That’s one hell of a critical roll. Blinded… by plans.

    • Lirazel
      Lirazel
      December 16, 2016, 11:13 pm | # | Reply

      Happens all the time IRL, only more slowly.

  15. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    December 16, 2016, 4:59 pm | # | Reply

    I can’t even imagine the amount of paperwork Ardaic is going to have to do for this one.

  16. Mark
    Mark
    December 16, 2016, 5:14 pm | # | Reply

    Odd how both ‘Ardaic’ and ‘Silver Centurion’ are mentioned in the comments.

    • Mark
      Mark
      December 16, 2016, 5:19 pm | # | Reply

      Tags, obviously, not comments.

      • Jack Vermicelli
        Jack Vermicelli
        December 17, 2016, 1:18 am | # | Reply

        Well comments also now, self-fulfillingly.

  17. Kamino Neko
    Kamino Neko
    December 16, 2016, 5:28 pm | # | Reply

    That’s what you get for being a stooge, Ardaic. Nyuk-nyuk.

  18. TheDeadlyShoe
    TheDeadlyShoe
    December 16, 2016, 7:12 pm | # | Reply

    What an ignomious fall!

  19. EveryZig
    EveryZig
    December 16, 2016, 9:20 pm | # | Reply

    So that ended differently from how I thought it would.

  20. The Gorram Batguy
    The Gorram Batguy
    December 17, 2016, 8:10 pm | # | Reply

    “No gnome in my squad gets left behind!”
    So, the diminutive human is still expendable then?

    • Speedy
      Speedy
      March 16, 2019, 11:53 am | # | Reply

      Bandit wants only the best for her gnomes. The left rump roast must be considered and inferior cut of meat. Maybe that’s where the cattle are injected with hormones and antibiotics, or something.

      What she’s actually saying is that she’s rewarding her team with dinner tonight, and they’re getting prime ribeye steaks, or maybe an unrivalled right rump roast.

      Ardaic, meanwhile, wll be using chilled slabs of left rump roast as cold compresses for the rub-eyes that Bandit gave him.

  21. MidnightDStroyer
    MidnightDStroyer
    February 22, 2017, 11:46 pm | # | Reply

    *sings*
    Gnome, gnome on the range
    Where the Bandit & odd cogs will play.
    Where seldom is seen
    A child-king’s pipe dream
    Disappears from a teleport’s cloud away.

  22. Speedy
    Speedy
    March 16, 2019, 10:54 am | # | Reply

    Don’t you just hate fall allergy season, when you get bits of loose leaves lodged in your ‘lids? I mean, what good are all the beautiful colors, when your eyes are too crudded up to see them?

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