Chapter 49 – Page 52
ONE CHAPTER REMAINS
And in the meantime, we’re gonna take a short break, because this chapter, as you can imagine, just took it RIGHT the fuck out of us! We’ll have some bonus fun going on in the coming updates… more details to come on Monday!
Thanks for reading, as always. Hopefully we’ll leave you all crying like big ol’ babies by the end of this, our finalest Chapter.
Let it go
Or elsa you’ll do what?
If you cling to tightly… you’re gonna lose control!
Hold on loosely…
Your baby needs someone to believe in and a whole lotta space to breath in!
The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
I saw what you did there.
Not yet! There’s still one more chapter to go!
“I find your Lack of faith disturbing.”
The cold never bothered me anyway
Too soon?
Eversummer, that place where it´s neverwinter.
Where the most interesting parts are the days.
You must not be in Neverwinter Nights then, are you?
But Winter Is Coming…
But never arrives…
A certain dragon riding tyrant may beg to differ.
So is the next chapter 5 people walking round an empty city wondering where everyone went?
The people in the ‘game’ live independently of the ‘players’ in the real world so they exist regardless if the game is actually running. I was hoping they would explain the game=mirror universe a bit more but I guess he creative team wants to wrap things up.
The Langoliers will get them!
This comment goes out to those who haven’t ever quested in Neverwinter.
So they are just excepting HR somehow learned how to alter reality with a MMO?
I’m having trouble excepting it, did I miss the page that explained where HR got a working copy of the Necronomicon are we suppose to hand wave it like a smoke monster?
You mean like all the books, charms, fetishes, and other objects we see in Chapter 19? Or the chapter where we get insight into his backstory via Plato’s allegory of the cave?
The fact he found _something_ was fairly well established both in story and art. I’m sorry you’re not accepting it, but I’m not seeing where we need it explicitly spelled out for us. He found something and the finding drove him mad, with the madness taking the form of delusions of omnipotence.
Or hell, for that matter the book is introduced along with HR in chapter 9.
http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-9-page-7/
I feel that there’s a distinction between being “introduced” and being “present”. The book is definitely present, but I don’t feel like it’s been introduced.
HR went from introspective philosophy student to Actual Wizard, and apparently he’d found reference material. Which is currently unaccounted for, as best I know. They may decide to leave those questions unanswered, but they do matter.
Idunno, I’d say the ‘magic wizardness’ is pretty dang aparant in the scene, with the view focusing on 5 tubes and an altar – with a book very centrally prominent ;)
Implication is not explanation. It continues to be a thing even after HR’s loss, yet we still know nothing about it aside from what it can do.
He became interested in magic.
He studied magic.
He performed magic.
He was destroyed by magic.
There. Every bit of the necessary information.
How did he study magic in a world where magic is believed not to exist? Are there others who can do this in the real world? Will someone else hack reality?
All I’m asking for is one throw away line from Xan or Shannon asking “What the Hell was that! What happen to gravity!” and Carol can just say “HR found this book and s**t got weird.”
Right now it just seems they are blindly excepting HR some how hack reality without making assumptions that they had this conversion off camera.
Same typo twice, sorry. I hate auto correct.
What difference would it actually make? Sounds like a midichlorians kind of explanation to me. A misguided effort at world building that would have no real impact on the story being presented.
HR peered behind the curtain with Actual Magic. How or where he did so does not tell us anything significant because Guilded Age is not real, we can’t do anything with that information, and it’s easily handwaved away what happened to those sources because the lab was pretty well obliterated by the finale.
I don’t particularly see what we have to gain by dwelling on it in other words. More likely to just screw with the pacing.
Accepting. “Excepting” is nearly the opposite.
Typo, my mistake
It’s a little known fact that the whole eversummer shtick came about cause the devs wanted to save time and money by not having to create any cold environments and related creatures so now you’re stuck with plains goblins, jungle goblins, savanna goblins…talk about lazy.
Yeah! Give some love for us Ice Trolls and Bugbears!
Im more bummed out that this comic is ending :((
Like I was kind of hoping there was going to be more side arcs :(((
Aw. Was kinda hoping that Arkerra continued on. Like some other company bought the assets, did a “server rollback”, and it just kept on. So many interesting digital lives and stories lost. :(
Arkerra may still live on. Well, the original certainly does, and the copy… It’s a whole world, even if it was created by unconventional means. The game was just an interface to access it. Just because the game is gone, it doesn’t mean Arkerra’s gone too.
So many real lives no longer slaved to outside forces, because the game is no longer being enforced upon them.
This suddenly turned into a horror ending: “WoW” shuts down, and players only have “Neverwinter”/”Everquest” as consolation? *shivers*
Not to burst your bubble.
but there are many people, me included,that would prefer EQ and EQ2 over WOW anyway.
NW on the otherhand did really go old fast.
I and my friends played WoW, and then one of our group convinced us to try EQ2.
Bless him for convincing us to switch because the several years we all played EQ2 together are some of my fondest memories.
WoW wasn’t bad but it… just wasn’t as fun.
I stopped playing EQ after the first time I learned that my first level character could get his butt kicked by a garter snake ten feet from the town gaurds! The guards probably would of helped, but they were busy being camped by high level players. Basically, the verisimilitude just wasn’t there for me.
Of course this was probably over a decade ago. So things probably have changed since then. And I opinion is probably a bit biased since I don’t usually play MMOs anyways.
There’s also Runescape. At least, I think Runescape’s still around. I lost interest not long after they introduced the Wilderness stuff to contain the PvP, but I’ve seen ads…
D&D should never have gone the MMO route with neverwinter. i understand why the decision was made, but it wasnt one of their better ones. i play D&D and i play WoW, i play them for different reasons. Same reasons i play WEG Star Wars and SW:TOR. one is for storytelling and socializing, the other is for just running around a world blowing shite up….
Heh. I think the same thing applies to 4ed D&D. Had too much of a MMO flavor for my taste.
Video Game-ish I can understand as a criticism for 4e, the combat played out a lot like FF Tactics or Tactics Ogre, I never understood the constant MMO comparisons though.
Except maybe that those were the games people were playing at the time, like why 3e was criticized as being the “Diablo Edition” when it came out.
Stop reminding me that there’s only one chapter left.
Who will I hero worship then?
(response to alt-text)
Yeah, well, Eversummer 2’s AI made it unplayable. No matter what I told me companions to do, there was like a 50% chance they’d ignore it, either to do something else they wanted to do, or (in Mannequin mode) to stand there and drool on their shoes.
so i was going to joke that “eversummer has like, 17 expansions”
googled out of curiosity… its up to 24 expansion packs.
A webcomic with an actual end?
*MIND BLOWN*
This comment sent me on an archive binge of Dominic Deegan for some reason.
I hope you’re happy.
I would never wish that on anyone.
Why, Chrissie, that sounds like the perfect cue to cut to Bandit, who’s happily…
Chapter break?
Oh well. I’ll look forward to crying like a big ol’ baby. But not before Bandit happily something something!
I’m going to assume Shanna left out her and Xan’s involvement in what went down at Hurricane otherwise they’d be constantly watching their backs for fanatical gamers who blame them for the loss of Kingdoms of Akerra.
She’s Bandit?
…Seriously?
Her very first appearance, 3.5 years ago, introduced her as Bandit’s player. The only reason those four are even in the comic is that they played as the secondary protagonists in Arkerra. And apart from Chrissie outright saying she’s Bandit’s player, they’ve all made clear who their characters were, especially after Lia lost Rachel.
Again: seriously?
I keep forgetting about the Neverwinter Nights MMO. I played “Neverwinter Nights 1” for years, including a “persistent world” that I participated in for a few years, so that’s what I think of.
The morepig’s just Neverwinter, no Nights. Though the reference to “Eversummer 2” in the alt-text makes me think she’s referring to a Neverwinter Nights parallel rather than a morepig one.
Neverwinter Nights 1 is getting an enhanced edition soon, and the original is still being played by some to this day.
https://www.beamdog.com/nwn_faq
I’m not crying! You’re crying.
;______;
Good, Xan uses an unix like system, now.