Chapter 45 – Page 24
And that’s the end of Chapter 45, Guildies! Only five more to go until the end…
BUT FIRST, THE LAST AXEMAS EVER???!??!??!?
Tune in Monday to fiiiiiind out!
Until then, we here at Team Guilded Age wish you and yours a merry Axemas, one and all <3
Cue the Stealth checks made with cardboard box disguises.
Pretend to be plumbing/sewer repair people.
As said so long ago in http://comic.nodwick.com/?comic=2001-10-24 :
“The Thieves Guild would be unstoppable if they invested in blue coveralls with the name ‘Al’ embroidered on them.”
Now Shanna, witness the power of this fully armed and operational game development company.
Now I can only hear that in Picard’s voice – more impressive than Palpatine’s!
Itsa trap.
Read that in Jar Jar Binks voice. Essa trap, Annie!
I tried to imagine it in Picard’s voice, ended up with Sean Connery.
I’m okay with this.
To be fair, they do have a very similar affect, if you ignore Sean’s pronunciation of consonants.
Given the source material, I fully expect four wings with a total of 24 bosses and waaaay too much monologuing.
A Siege encounter, a Council fight and at least two pairs of Twin bosses.
‘Battle the twin Twin dwarf bosses! Double the trouble at half the price!’
Q: Look at all those stacks! Aren’t most modern companies paperless?
A: Usually, in the bathrooms at least
Man, that’s an insane amount of physical security for a software company.
I mean, concrete panel walls? Flood lights? Razor-wire? How could people on the outside not find that suspicious?
Silly Consumer! In soviet sepia, game company secrecy IS game!
YOU discover tube comrades tricked into floating in water by Capitalist Purple Wizard and Sad Secretary!
YOU try to report bourgeois corporate infidelity and secret Purple rituals to great proletariat!
YOU evade Sad Secretary’s Mustache Mountain Manfriend as he lectures and shoots at you!
YOU infiltrate capitalist hurricane stronghold of videogame magical loafing!
Can YOU bring Purple Wizard and Sad Secretary to great justice by fair and impartial military trial!?
BUY NOW AND FIND ANSWER! ONLY 20000000 RUBLES (+tax)!!
That. Is. Awesome.
Only tagging Carol? So those six security guards are nameless goons to you, eh?
Also, tag me, I can see my house from up here!
Tag, you’re it!
Strictly speaking, there are SEVEN security guards in that shot. :P
Don’t they know it’s Christmas?
:-)
Right, keep lying to yourself, you shouldn’t even own a gun that you’re not prepared to use. I have to say I’m really curious where this character is headed, bearing in mind that for the other sepia folk it’s still going to be “just” a story of a crazy CEO doing some kind of VR experiment and she’s possibly the only person (other than HR, who possibly no longer counts as a sepia person) who is aware that more is happening.
Heck, that’s all that’s going on as far as Carol knows as well. Has she even been present the few times HR’s used magic?
She was there when he made his homonculus, I think. That’s what convinced her to go along with him, instead of just turning him over to the authorities
Carol is one character who is fully capable of firing a gun with her head buried in the sand.
Definitely needs more goose-stepping hyenas.
So. How’s the rampant guilt, paranoia, and slow slide into madness going there Carol? All good? We okie dokie then! Good talk! I’ll see myself out.
Oh don’t be silly.
Carol will be glad to have two of her armed security guards escort you safely out. To your car. Which will mysteriously go missing in tomorrow’s news.
Merry Christmas, Carol. It’s not too late to sing out to the jolly fed men to avoid getting nicked.
As a person who works in the software industry… it’s ridiculously easy to get into the building.
All you need is janitor outfit and a mop or a ladder. People will hold the door open for you.
You also need nerves of steel and a talent for improvising. That’s what guards are really for: to make you nervous enough to give yourself away.
Working for an MMO game development company she should know that the traditional unbeatable security arrangement is to have the guards stand around in groups of three out of line of sight from the other groups with no way to call for help. It’s traditional!
The Scarlet Monastery Defense Plan.
I love the skyline!
Since when did Hurricane have a 100 story tower? Well I guess all villains have doom towers with imposing views.
That’s actually just a screen wall with a livestream of downtown Chicago. Saves a bundle!
Yup. Also, all superheroes have secret *nameofhero*-caves and *nameofhero*-mobiles.
I would prefer to be the villain, though. The job comes with a free cat.
It’s only a three-story building. You can see the roof line, and that’s probably not just a low-rise entrance to a tower, because we see Carol’s implied silhouette there, above the last E in HURRICANE.
So how can the office have such a view? The one explanation that occurs to me is, the building has to be on high ground.
My Christmas present for myself — the printed Guilded Age books — arrived a few days ago. Pleasure doin’ business with ya! ^_^
And with that, I wish you all a Merry Axemas and/or a Good Yule!
Carol, a word to the expresslane-to-Hell here. Don’t own a gun if you’re not willing to use it. If they call your bluff you don’t have many options, and none of them good.
After Wednesdays page, I started thinking about how this will all end up if it were real world. After the cops catch on to where JJ’s money came from now that have physical things like credit cards to track down it will be possible to follow some money. JJ’s operation needed more than sacks of paper money left in the park or whatever, since he would have to break off from whom ever he was tailing to go get them.
So the police are coming and Carol is buying a gun. I think we can all agree that HR if not Criminally Insane is just Insane. Carol though, I don’t think she can follow the insane route. Too much of what she does, and has done is premeditated. The gun purchase is just another step in that process.
Interesting questions that occurred to me while I pondering this.
How did Carol locate a Fixer like JJ in the first place?
There is plainly a one was love interest of some kind going on between Carol and HR, why cant Carol just tell HR that she really just wants to have his baby?
“why cant Carol just tell HR that she really just wants to have his baby?”
Well, the last time HR reproduced, it involved dismembering a guy, so there’s some understandable nervousness about broaching the subject.