TLA Anno 3
FB: “As is customary, I’d like to start with a prayer. Dear adventurers who came before, thanks for coming out all this way, going insane and eventually dying, leaving all this stuff for us to loot. It’s selfless gestures like yours that are the reason for the season. Merry Axemas!”
It’s hard to imagine any winter elves getting “into war” when they would already know the outcome of any battle they fought, including and especially the ones that ended in their own deaths.
It’s nice to see that Byron regrets not being able to share Axemas with these “new friends,” despite the challenges of shopping for them and the awkwardness of breaking bread with people who’ve tried to kill you. Someone else might shrug and say “Well, maybe that’s for the best,” but that ain’t Byron. And that generosity to his former enemies is gonna be important in a couple more pages.
That’s a disturbing image, T. Is that person alright?
(Research tells me they’re not alright. Nevertheless, the picture is emblematic. This is what it looks like if you die on Mt. Everest; your body stays there and becomes a landmark for subsequent expeditions. Gruesome, yes.)
Combined with the FB-text it’s outright ghoulish. Are you alright, T?
Oh, I’m fine…that FB-text was written years ago. I just think there’s a nice black humor in the source of these Axemas gifts. It’s something that RPG-based comics do a lot but that ours didn’t really get into that often.
Look at these chumps that think that that Vorpal Fire Sword +1 just haaaappened to be inside that direwolf.
Newbies, amirite?
Glad to hear you’re alright, T! :)
I actually hadn’t realized that “didn’t go so well” could refer to winter/mountain weather, rather than adventurers offending the winter elves or attacking them and getting shanked.
Those two things are not too different from each other though, because Winter elves being prescient, they could decide to help those poor guys. Of course, if they did, their location would not stay a secret for very long, so it’s kind of an act of self defense.
On a slight tangent: I am not a fan of posting photos of actual dead humans unless there’s a good reason.