Thanks for the exposition. I figured Miyamoto either died during HR’s attack or escaped. Apparently he lived to fight another day and then die. Hopefully, Bedard was one of the off panel casualties too.
I think Bedard will be around for the heat death of the universe, using the remaining power of the last battery to publish his last headline to a long gone intergalactic-net. Then, he’ll just observe the vast darkness, with unabated curiosity, while his spacesuit slowly radiates the last of its heat away.
A noble end! He’ll be there at the end of the universe. Ready to put up the chairs on the tables and turn out the lights. There to witness the end and document it.
Old regime outcomes report, with new career recommendations as appropriate:
Myamoto: captured and submitted to usual Gnoll interrogation methods. Succumbed to same.
Field Marshall Ardaic: Banned from government service. Recommend a career in private detective service, as he’s already a dick anyway.
Pardo: Give leadership name of “Don”. Recommend becoming announcer for SNL-S (Sat. Nite Live Sacrifice)
Grand Marshall Jarvis: Exiled, now inventing and selling war board games (“Wisk” and “Stratega”)
Bedard: Jailed, 30 years for the new crime of Fake News. Still writes; publishes the weekly prison menu report.
I really hope he’s also got a role in government, even if a far more limited one as part of Byron’s staff. He was a victim of the conspiracy himself. really.
I dug up a qoute that Sums up our Altruist buddies rather nicely
“When any man is more stupidly vain and outrageously egotistic than his fellows, he will hide his hideousness in humanitarianism.” – George Moore
and a Personal Quote “Never lead the Fattest head Sit in the Biggest Chair.” – Angel :P
So Ardaic will end up taking cyanide forced on him by his own side? That’s grim.
Rommel deserved better, but chances are he would have been charged with war crimes (not that I recall reading about any, unless being an effective general was one) and spent the rest of his life in prison anyhow, so maybe it was a mercy. At least his family could have visited him in prison though.
“In punishment for your crimes, you will no longer be allowed to participate in government, and can now live out the rest of your life in peaceful retirement.” The horrors of an early retirement, woe is Ardaic!
Forgive me my O.C.D.;
There is no apostrophe in pluralization, only in contractions and the possessive participle. (The only exception is “it.” The possessive participle is “its.”)
Ex)
1 haiku
2 haikus
“Haiku’s a Japanese rhythm poem, it’s popular worldwide for its deceptive simplicity.”
Lots of people make this mistake, sorry for picking on you in this instance.
Pretty sure the plural of haiku is actually haiku. It’s a foreign word. But I agree with you about apostrophes in plurals. People who do that should always be publicly shamed.
No no, that’s the disgrace part!
In all honesty your comment is much appreciated, grammar rules were always a weak point of mine in English, beaten only by iambic pentameter.
Poor Byron. He’s now in charge of the race that everyone hates. Even though humans may have been given a seat on the council, I’m sure their is still some resentment from all the other races.
The former Sky Elves Clair brought along like humans because they represented their first friendly contact with the outside world.
Gnomes have always been used to humans.
Forest Elves have thawed relations with humans, although some tensions remain, they’ve already started trading since the days of the Gastonian coalition.
The dwarves mostly live in their mountain now and won’t need to have much contact with humans in cities.
Goblins are selfish but pragmatic. They don’t care who they’re doing business with as long as they profit.
To me it seemed like Clair was expressing the hots for Byron herself. She looks more wistful and blushing than snarking at someone else’s relationship.
Can someone help me find Pardo? He’s not on the cast page, and isn’t tagged on this page, and I can’t for the life of me figure out how to search for old tags…
I was about to ask if they should still worry about Goblingo making ambitious and selfish plans like the Altruists did. However given that he finds himself surrounded by actual altruists that are all about as powerful if not more so, as he is I suppose the most. selfish thing for him to due would be play by their rules.
How much would folks be willing to bet that this is more or less how the first meeting of the previous council looked?
Altruists are the least trustworthy when it comes to wielding power over others.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
About the alt text if that is true shouldn’t Bandit be in there with Byron and Syr’Nj?
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Hear, hear!
They tried, but she took the ceremonial regalia and split.
You beat up an evil god who’s trying to unravel the world, you wind up in charge of your race.
You beat up a boy tyrant who’s trying to enslave everyone he can, you wind up…well, we’ll find out.
If there’s a pun here about “winding up people”, consider me wound up.
Not to mention Payet isn’t in there.
I like Dean Reynolds.
Well yeah. He’s a bro.
Thanks for the exposition. I figured Miyamoto either died during HR’s attack or escaped. Apparently he lived to fight another day and then die. Hopefully, Bedard was one of the off panel casualties too.
I think Bedard will be around for the heat death of the universe, using the remaining power of the last battery to publish his last headline to a long gone intergalactic-net. Then, he’ll just observe the vast darkness, with unabated curiosity, while his spacesuit slowly radiates the last of its heat away.
A noble end! He’ll be there at the end of the universe. Ready to put up the chairs on the tables and turn out the lights. There to witness the end and document it.
Oh my, Clair… how delightfully saucy.
There’s a ‘Don’t call me Shirley’ joke there somewhere, but I couldn’t find it.
Old regime outcomes report, with new career recommendations as appropriate:
Myamoto: captured and submitted to usual Gnoll interrogation methods. Succumbed to same.
Field Marshall Ardaic: Banned from government service. Recommend a career in private detective service, as he’s already a dick anyway.
Pardo: Give leadership name of “Don”. Recommend becoming announcer for SNL-S (Sat. Nite Live Sacrifice)
Grand Marshall Jarvis: Exiled, now inventing and selling war board games (“Wisk” and “Stratega”)
Bedard: Jailed, 30 years for the new crime of Fake News. Still writes; publishes the weekly prison menu report.
Pardo got a pardon.
I really hope he’s also got a role in government, even if a far more limited one as part of Byron’s staff. He was a victim of the conspiracy himself. really.
There’s an old saying about the best politicians being the ones who never wanted the job.
Aye, though I think it is not specifically politicians, but rather all those in positions of power.
I think it’s one of the qualifications for abbot in the Benedictine Rule: “Qualification #1: Not wanting to be abbot.”
Or at least those who don’t trust themselves to do a good job.
I dug up a qoute that Sums up our Altruist buddies rather nicely
“When any man is more stupidly vain and outrageously egotistic than his fellows, he will hide his hideousness in humanitarianism.” – George Moore
and a Personal Quote “Never lead the Fattest head Sit in the Biggest Chair.” – Angel :P
Frigg is human and helped save the world too. Maybe they flipped a coin to see who got stuck leading humanity.
More likely, Frigg threatened to beat up anyone who suggested her for the job. With her hammer. Frigg’s not stupid.
Yeah, who gets punished more, Ardaic or Byron?
Would really like to see at least 2-3 epilogue panels with Ardaic though, he was an interesting character, a Rommel, a Nazgrim.
That’s very perceptive.
Reynolds hems and haws about Ardaic’s offenses, talks up how happy he is to be working with Byron.
Net result, humanity gets a representitive that isn’t enough of a bastard to make it stick.
Politics as usual.
So Ardaic will end up taking cyanide forced on him by his own side? That’s grim.
Rommel deserved better, but chances are he would have been charged with war crimes (not that I recall reading about any, unless being an effective general was one) and spent the rest of his life in prison anyhow, so maybe it was a mercy. At least his family could have visited him in prison though.
He’s only being banned from government service. That’s a slap on the wrist. He’s being allowed a normal civilian life.
Better a Nazgrim than a Taylor.
I’m still mad about that.
“In punishment for your crimes, you will no longer be allowed to participate in government, and can now live out the rest of your life in peaceful retirement.” The horrors of an early retirement, woe is Ardaic!
Gnome-one sees the clock
How it’s broken twice a day
Until darkness lifts
(I will continue to disgrace haiku’s until the sun goes out)
Forgive me my O.C.D.;
There is no apostrophe in pluralization, only in contractions and the possessive participle. (The only exception is “it.” The possessive participle is “its.”)
Ex)
1 haiku
2 haikus
“Haiku’s a Japanese rhythm poem, it’s popular worldwide for its deceptive simplicity.”
Lots of people make this mistake, sorry for picking on you in this instance.
Forgive me, maggPi – but if you were extremely O.C.D. you’d spell it C.D.O. (alphabetical order)___;)
Pretty sure the plural of haiku is actually haiku. It’s a foreign word. But I agree with you about apostrophes in plurals. People who do that should always be publicly shamed.
No no, that’s the disgrace part!
In all honesty your comment is much appreciated, grammar rules were always a weak point of mine in English, beaten only by iambic pentameter.
Poor Byron. He’s now in charge of the race that everyone hates. Even though humans may have been given a seat on the council, I’m sure their is still some resentment from all the other races.
I’m sure he’s got a tough road ahead of him.
I guess you could say their hatred is deep /seated/?
Oh dear, you couldn’t cushion the blow, could you?
Surely there’s more puns than what we’ve seen sofa.
Should we table these puns?
I just think Byron ottoman up and stop being so pewerile.
All these puns about seats and not one person furnished a butt joke.
You people and your armchair political analysis.
Nah.
The former Sky Elves Clair brought along like humans because they represented their first friendly contact with the outside world.
Gnomes have always been used to humans.
Forest Elves have thawed relations with humans, although some tensions remain, they’ve already started trading since the days of the Gastonian coalition.
The dwarves mostly live in their mountain now and won’t need to have much contact with humans in cities.
Goblins are selfish but pragmatic. They don’t care who they’re doing business with as long as they profit.
Things could be worse overall.
Just when I thought I couldn’t love Byron more.
Is Clair amused because “managing human affairs” is code for Byron getting nookie?
“Oh yeah I was just back in the bedroom with Byron, ‘managing human affairs’.”
To me it seemed like Clair was expressing the hots for Byron herself. She looks more wistful and blushing than snarking at someone else’s relationship.
I that took it as “lots of people think you are the best human for the job even if you don’t like it and/or agree.”
I really, really love “Herocracy.”
Can someone help me find Pardo? He’s not on the cast page, and isn’t tagged on this page, and I can’t for the life of me figure out how to search for old tags…
Here’s his tag: His Grace Pardo.
I was about to ask if they should still worry about Goblingo making ambitious and selfish plans like the Altruists did. However given that he finds himself surrounded by actual altruists that are all about as powerful if not more so, as he is I suppose the most. selfish thing for him to due would be play by their rules.
*do
How much would folks be willing to bet that this is more or less how the first meeting of the previous council looked?
Altruists are the least trustworthy when it comes to wielding power over others.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
Chapter 20, Page 4 has the old Gastonian representatives, in case anyone else has as much trouble matching their names to their faces.