Chapter 8 – Page 18
Hey there, Guildies. I’d like to thank T for filling in for me on lettering while I was away being all sorts of On A Boat for the winter season holiday-associated interim. We’re back to 100% and ready to continue crushing your hopes for our intrepid band into the new year. That said, we once again had to use the Orphan Donor’s Holiday Fund we raised selling lemon bars outside the Safeway to get the following pages Reimaginated™ thanks to our friends over at Industrial Light & Magic:
Thanks for reading, and keep your eyes glued to the screen for the next very special episode of “Harky and Friends”.
Last panel, shit yeah.
Trolls are also sexist, apparently.
I don’t really think addressing Frig as “girl” is enough to mark him as sexist… It’s kind of standard “haugty villain” fare to refer to ineffectual attackers with the general nouns “boy” and “girl” and the like, isn’t it?
Fair point.
It would also piss her off, making her even more ineffective.
Except, of course, for it being Frigg.
Woo! Finish him off, Syr’nj!
Syr’Nj looks very fletching in that last panel. We are all quivering with excitement to find out what happens next. Hopefully she won’t bow out, but keep a broadhead on her shoulders. When all is said and done, she may move up a nock or two.
Those puns were ‘arrowing.
They were right on target.
lets just hope harky doesn’t give her the shaft.
Don’t you think we’ve strung these jokes out long enough?
I bow humbly to tose puns.
I think we get the point.
I, personally, find all these puns quite fletching.
They’re certainly right on target. These puns have me pinned to my seat cushion.
I think I’m going to fletch.
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I think Syr’nj is a little de-ranged at this point. I’m afraid they’re gonna have to march ‘er out of there in a straitjacket.
That said, I’m eager to see what John will draw next. I can’t wait for the next release. I’m on the tip of my seat with anticipation.
Oh, right.
Elf.
Yeah, definitely going back to her stereotypical roots. And looking good doin’ it.
“roots”
you son of a bitch
I love you Captain :)
Hes thinkin, she’s not a crap elf! Oh shit!
That was my EXACT thought when i saw the last panel.
yeah, I feel kinda ashamed to admit that I forgot she could DO that.
I’m amazed nobody has noted that the arrow going through his armor looks like it wasn’t even slowed down. Seriously, Syr’Nj get major badass points for shooting THROUGH solid metal.
Not to mention she fired off two arrows simultaneously in her initial volley. How “legolas” of her.
The shoulder armor, it does nothing!
In DnD shoulderplates give you no AC. :P
Syr’Nj may have been a field medic … but in the kind of wars she would have trained for, medics wouldn’t have nice red crosses on their helmets and the Geneva Convention to (theoretically) protect them.
A certain amount of bad-assery would probably have been considered a Good Thing.
And then there was her comment about “Favourite nightmares about Basic Training”…
I just remembered a Baen Books blurb from a Holly Lisle novel; though Syr’Nj’s relationship to Bryon is different than that of the characters in the book: They broke the most important rule – Never piss off the mommy!
I never really noticed that Syr’Nj was a lefty before.
She’s an elf; of course she is.
Luckily Frig has a thick skull, what with headbutting a gemstone and all.
I wonder if it’ll turn out she just shattered the gem.
Should that happen, I may have to keel over from the sheer badassery.
Panel number 3 says that you all are a bit behind schedule.
To be fair, they did spend a couple weeks looking for a new artist. If not for that, that preview easily would have happened during 2010.
100 internet bucks says those arrows are laced with something nasty.
Well, they are Gravedust’s arrows. Could be laced with SOMEONE nasty maybe.
“Hi, my name’s Bob, and I’ll be your occult toxin today!”
I was actually thinking the exact same thing. I mean, she had a vial of something to give to byron. She could just as easily slipped another vial of something onto the arrow. She was there when the troll announced how awesomely regenerative he is.
They could simply be laced with Gravedust. I imagine that, non-violent though he may prefer, he’ll have something to “say” to Harky about all this.
Elfs have a +10 to accuracy trait bonus so this totally make sense:) also epic update as always :D
so she’ll use some rapier next?
Syr’Nj: Dear Father, please do not be angry at this, but today i committed a cliche. You know, the one about us woods elves being natural archers? In my defense i can only say that first, the life of the man i love was at stake, and second, those cliches do come from somewhere after all.
“today I committed a cliche.” I am in love with that sentence and will use it as often as I can.
to be perfectly honest, if you live in a wood – and have been trained as a soldier – your going to be skilled in a bow, just for the fact its darned more effective that rushing through the trippy, pokey underbrush with swords (which is never a good idea, woodsperson or no). It’s not so much a cliche as common sense
also, it’s shoulder armour, it’s designed to be totally innefective and do nothing but improve a character visually: see in point, byron
Some people here don’t really know much about longbows. As in, what they were made to kill.
(Here’s a hint. Pretty much everything. Most armor didn’t stand a chance against longbows. No, not even plate)
Seeing where her hand is on the bow, compared to where the top and bottom of the bow are, that’s not a longbow. Longbows tend to be around 6′ tall, in which case Syr’nj would have to be at least 20′.
Also, that’s Dusty’s bow. He’s certainly not tall enough to have been using one in the first place.
So we’re back to her awesome skill and angry determination as to how that one went through metal.
I say that next one should be a headshot. If not in the eye.
Takers on this bet?
Taker on this bet ? I’m on it !
100 Theoretical bucks that next arrow is in Harki’s right eye.
Yeah, it’s Gravy’s bow.
But there were horse-archers (the Huns I think?) who carried shortbows just about as powerful as the English yew longbow. Plus, dwarves being master craftsmen and all, I bet that thing’s laminated for even more power in proportion to its size…
Any bow that can take down a charging warhorse (with a chest shot) is not going have much trouble with a bit of plate mail. Though, I thought Whore-key’s armor was hide or boiled leather *shrug*
I just noticed this, but the arrows have no nocks…
Gravedust may have been a pretty short guy but he wasn’t weak and you can get an awful lot of power in a short pull length using laminated horn.
Alright the angle of Friggs arms has got to be the weirdest angle I’ve seen.
It’s made up for the super badass dynamic Syrnj bit however!
Also who gives a crap if it’s realistic or not it’s a bloody fantasy comic where the writers and artists can do as they damn well please.
She’s Holding her mace up to deflect his blow, while Slamming Her head into his gut….. Hard to convey in art.
Absolutely, it just looks like her arms shrank to half the size.
Er, with her should guards, that position for her arms is anatomically impossible…. elbows just don’t do that.
But it *is* a very difficult pose to convey, all the more so with her armour.
I’m pretty sure it just looks confusing because her humerus is pointed straight towards the audience. And… yeah. It’s sort’ve hard to see at first, much like strange optical illusions, but once you see it, it joins the ranks of things you can’t unsee.
What do you know about how woods elf anatomy works?
Yeah… Harki’s screwed.
Up close and personal, we have Frigg, who’s already ticked off at what happened to Dusty. Come on, she blocked his last attack with her mace WHILE headbutting him in the stomach.
And then we have Syr’nj. Who left her dedication to not harming living things on the ground when she picked up Dusty’s bow and arrows all because of Harki’s little impaling trick.
And then we have Bandit out there somewhere. And you know she’s at her most dangerous when no one knows where she is.
You noticed what Frigg was blocking with, too. It’s probably heavier than her shield, which would make it more effective.
As for the shoulder armor, I thought it looked more like hardened and gilded leather than metal. Even a recurve (a good solid dwarven recurve) should be able to get through that with the bonuses that come with being fired by a Wood Elf (not a woods elf… S’rynj has a real affinity with wood).
I love this story. It has all the stereotypes, and it is true to them, but it plays with them as well.
She may be justifying it by considering Horky a dead thing as soon as he messed up Byron.
How come Gravedust is at Syr´nj feet?And where that bow came from?Has Gravedust and Byron pulled the old switcheroo?
I think Syr moved from beside Byron, to beside Gravedust, and picked up the bow there. :)
Oh. Have I mentioned just how much in love I am with Frigg? She is the hottest woman I have ever seen in armor.
I’m rooting for Frigg, here, ’cause Syr’nj isn’t doing much in the way of offensive. Frigg’s, like, RIGHT THERE. That troll guy took down two guys before the the rest could even react, so… Frigg has it kind of hard-off right now, doesn’t she? Furthermore (love that word >ww<
What two are we talking about? He’s taken out Byron, but that’s it. Harki didn’t do anything to Gravedust except for drop him into the pit.
But it was Harki’s men who killed(?) Gravdust.
Woah. From way back from the sneak peak page from god-knows-when, too.
Trippy.
Holy fucking shit. I want that last panel framed and hung on my wall.
1: Did Syr’nj just blind that entire stadium with a single flashbang? They’re still there you know.
2: Gotta admire how a beserker’s most impressive trait is the ability to control his rage. Even when hit with a madness spell. I smell a backstory explanation.
3: Also, incoming girl power. The ladies will finish the job that the long-haired men could not.
Everyone knows Syr’nj’s next shot won’t kill the troll. Even with the elf racial bonus he would heal all of the damage Frigg dealt, and keep healing. But back on topic, she will remove his left eye, Harki will change his name to Gruumish and rule all Orcs!
Yeeaaah. Except he would have to contend with with Obould-who-is-Gruumsh if he did that and well.. Harky is a tought cookie, but Obould ? He is a Titan in the flesh of an orc and has a full plate mail with plot armor level protection.
Obould may be Grummsh, but at the moment, Syr’nj claims the Many Arrows title…
I’ve been waiting for Frigg to directly in Harki’s stomach ever since this fight began…
…
Oh, that’s a mess. What, me talk good? No. Bad talk do. I swear, I typed that better than you see here. See, it was SUPPOSED to be “attack that bright red gem in Harki’s stomach ever since this fight began” There were inbedded links to the tvtropes articles for “Attack it’s Weak Point” and “For Massive Damage”
Somehow, I failed even basic HTML. Can we has a preview function? Please?
…are you quoting that MC Frontalot song, or was that song quoting something I’ve never encountered?
Or is it a huge coincidence?
The source is a Sony press conference that spawned a series of memes- basically, a game was being promoted as being based on battles that occur in Japanese History, when a “Giant Enemy Crab” appeared on the screen, upon which you had to “attack the weakpoint for massive damage”. Other LOLworthy moments occurred as well.
Ohh 3d… trippy
Harky+Arrow= Harrowing Experience.
Ow. You’re making me reap.
See, when I naturally assume that all elves will shoot you when you’re not looking, I’m not a racist. I’m a realist.
Oh stop playing DPS, healer!
Gold Star.
Robin Syrn.
I know everyone is all excited about Syr’nj. But Frigg just headbutted a gemstone!
One wonders, why Byron said “Good” upon finding out that trolls regenerate quickly, (http://guildedage.net/webcomic/chapter-8/chapter-8-page-15/) only to be taken out so immediately. It serves very little story value, unless it was an attempt at humor. Instead, I think, something else is up.
Byron heals just as quickly as trolls.
Here’s an idea. That Troll is going to heal the puncture wounds from those arrows. But with Frigg distracting him, he can’t pull the arrows out in time. He is going to heal with the arrows STILL IN HIM. Do you know what that spells? It spells W-E-A-K P-O-I-N-T.
She’s an elf… of COURSE she’s perfect at archery…
Just like Token can play the bass, do a perfect fade jump shot, and rap…. because he is black.
This lesson brought to you by the logic of Eric Cartman.
Regenerate THIS!
She archered him…with Science!
I wonder what potion tipped those arrows. Do acids work against troll regen? Or is it something flammable?
Better not be poison or there might be an alignment check
<=-huge nerd
I know acid used to work against D&D trolls, not sure if does anymore.
…I’ll have to see if a little detective work can solvent this little puzzle.
And I know that was a bad pun, there’s no reason for any caustic remarks.
No one here would be so base as that.
… Am I the only one to have noticed that there’s actual scarring around the gem in the troll’s navel?
Personally, I’d say that makes it look like a potential weak point yes, but… might also be some power-booster/mind-control thing?
And Frigg goes for the jewel, unfortunately it was the big red one and not the family jewels
Love the last frame :-)
You can take the Elves away from the Bows, but not the Bows out of the Elves :-)