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[PA Comic] Friday, August 22, 2014 - The Conclave

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  • PedroAsaniPedroAsani Brotherhood of the Squirrel [Prime]Registered User regular
    Seriously, even with the Advantage system as it was pre-East, one of our group still died. Thornwatch is not a cakewalk.

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  • ReiskaReiska Registered User regular
    Gnash und gnom, meine heilige freiheit.

    What a superstar has foreign politics lost in Gabe, he would be a (se)real killer in that job.

  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    Strongly considering a new avatar after that last panel.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    well that escalated quickly

    twice

  • hateseededhateseeded Registered User regular
    What with her suicide after reading his "notes", and the look of abject fear teased but laregly unseen in this strip (profile), me thinks Jamie might actually be afraid of Mike, and his only outlet for the subtle clues he gets is illustrative.

    For the record, I went to Hollywood Upstairs Psychology Academy.

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  • Gamer8585Gamer8585 Registered User regular
    After reading the comic my mind replaced Gabe with The Joker. Gives it a few more levels of crazy.

  • ReiskaReiska Registered User regular
    Gamer8585 wrote: »
    After reading the comic my mind replaced Gabe with The Joker. Gives it a few more levels of crazy.

    Nah, at least he is a man of his word and quite sane. Gabe is a man of his ever changing madness, he really needs that inflatable spider man.

  • GoofTroopGoofTroop Registered User regular
    edited August 2014
    If the news post doesn't refer to the Zoe Quinn debacle that's been going on for the past couple days, I will be authentically surprised.

    Edit: : o

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  • streeverstreever Registered User regular
    I expect that the woman *did* pick up on hesitance/reluctance from the crew.

    Unlike the woman, however, I don't see it as 'fear of Gabe' but 'fear of hurting Gabe'.

    Gabe has created a game over many hours as a matter of laborious work; it's a baby. The others may be right, BUT, they should be nervous about telling Gabe that they don't like aspects of his game. That's etiquette 101.

    I may be 'right' in an objective sense, but I need to consider the feelings of the person most invested; in this case, that's Gabe, the creator. I think that what the woman was really seeing was politeness, patience, and caution on the parts of Jamie/Kiko/etc, and that is exactly what she should be seeing.

  • calamityjamiecalamityjamie Corgi Wrangler Seattle, WARegistered User staff
    I don't know, man. I think we've all come to realize the best way to honor Mike's baby is to fight to the death over it.

  • ReiskaReiska Registered User regular
    edited August 2014
    "streever wrote: »
    Gabe has created a game over many hours as a matter of laborious work; it's a baby.

    If that is so, then this is very simple. Creator is the creator and others are just bystanders, watchers and commenters. No reason to snap'n' bite.

    But it really seems here that they all have their seed in this baby. Thats when one could expect the bitings and knives to fly as so vividly described.

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  • streeverstreever Registered User regular
    Jamie: I was just imagining though that you were all being... cautious, perhaps, in expressing yourselves, out of a sense of politeness towards your delicate and sensitive overlord, although I may have been incorrect ;-)

  • MidnightJesterMidnightJester Jester Extraordinaire Los AngelesRegistered User regular
    That last panel...so perfect.

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  • RaveBombRaveBomb Registered User regular
    Jamie, blink twice if you're being held against your will. :)

    I'm off to pirate more music, steal software, and knock down little old ladies, then later I'm going to cover my self in Yak's blood, and lay in a pentagram, while reading some Marxist literature and praying to a heathen god.

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  • jessterferjessterfer Registered User regular
    I'm excited for Thornwatch I havent gotten to try it out, but looks hard as hell

  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    streever wrote: »
    Jamie: I was just imagining though that you were all being... cautious, perhaps, in expressing yourselves, out of a sense of politeness towards your delicate and sensitive overlord, although I may have been incorrect ;-)
    Nonsense!

    I think Corgi is a pretty cool gal. Seh does prootcol and doesnt afraid of anything.

  • evil santaevil santa To infinity...and beyond!Registered User regular
    Can someone explain the 'Advantage' system mentioned in the comic? I've been trying to keep up with Thornwatch, but I'm not really sure what it actually is...

    Also, any idea whether Thornwatch will be coming to PAX Australia?

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    Oh my god, Jamie awesome'd my post. My life is now complete and there's nothing left for me to achieve.

    *walks off into the ocean*

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