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Closeup on Portent.
INTUITIVE PORTENT
Fools!
INTUITIVE PORTENT
You have no idea what it is you've done.
Closeup on Reclaimer.
RECLAIMER
How about you enlighten us, then? We've gone to some amount of trouble to break through those damn walls of yours.
INTUITIVE PORTENT
I put those defenses in place for a reason. Clever trick that, pairing your construct with our communications system.
RECLAIMER
Spill it, digit-boy. Tell us how we all screwed up.
The Reclaimer standing before Portent.
INTUITIVE PORTENT
Ferial is using you as a pawn, Reclaimer. He cannot get near enough to the Cavalcade himself to use as he wishes...
INTUITIVE PORTENT
...so he has deceived you into doing his dirty work for him.
Portent exploding with green energy and electricity.
INTUITIVE PORTENT
And now you have saddled me with this construct and removed from me the only method by which I might prevent Ferial from achieving his goal.
Electricity sparking off Portent.
INTUITIVE PORTENT
So, I say again -- FOOLS! You, Reclaimer, I had hoped that when you left that it had been for good.
INTUITIVE PORTENT
And my brethren should have known better than to bring us all together.
Portent continuing to glow with energy discharge.
INTUITIVE PORTENT
Do what you will, Reclaimer, and quickly. I cannot stop you.
Looking at Portent over the Reclaimer's left shoulder.
INTUITIVE PORTENT
But I warn you -- you bring the universe to its doom.
INTUITIVE PORTENT
Fools!
INTUITIVE PORTENT
You have no idea what it is you've done.
Closeup on Reclaimer.
RECLAIMER
How about you enlighten us, then? We've gone to some amount of trouble to break through those damn walls of yours.
INTUITIVE PORTENT
I put those defenses in place for a reason. Clever trick that, pairing your construct with our communications system.
RECLAIMER
Spill it, digit-boy. Tell us how we all screwed up.
The Reclaimer standing before Portent.
INTUITIVE PORTENT
Ferial is using you as a pawn, Reclaimer. He cannot get near enough to the Cavalcade himself to use as he wishes...
INTUITIVE PORTENT
...so he has deceived you into doing his dirty work for him.
Portent exploding with green energy and electricity.
INTUITIVE PORTENT
And now you have saddled me with this construct and removed from me the only method by which I might prevent Ferial from achieving his goal.
Electricity sparking off Portent.
INTUITIVE PORTENT
So, I say again -- FOOLS! You, Reclaimer, I had hoped that when you left that it had been for good.
INTUITIVE PORTENT
And my brethren should have known better than to bring us all together.
Portent continuing to glow with energy discharge.
INTUITIVE PORTENT
Do what you will, Reclaimer, and quickly. I cannot stop you.
Looking at Portent over the Reclaimer's left shoulder.
INTUITIVE PORTENT
But I warn you -- you bring the universe to its doom.
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Interesting. I can't wait to see how this plays out.
Things are going to light up like a firecracker!
Maybe.
Yeah, you and everybody else.
Hey I was about to say that!
Even Reclaimer has to learn something new every day…
Well…
I would have thought that he already knew he was a pawn.
And how did Portent know if he was in slipspace for a few thousand years.
Few million.
That is a very valid point. Maybe something was revealed when Ferial approached him?
I forgot about that. Maybe…
Can't wait to see how this affects RC's journey.
There will be much weeping and gnashing of teeth.
And hopefully less annoying calvacada.
That take less than 6 months to capture….
Preferably less than 4.
I like that weird blue/green effect surrounding Portent's yellow sphere.
how did you do that?
Fuel rod cannon fired directly into a custom powerup. Creates some pretty cool effects.
"You wont like me when I'm angry."
I seriously hope that somebody picked up on that.
The Ferial whippershnapper's been using my lawn as his little game board all along, you little whippershnapper!
You should see what Ferial's dog has been doing to the lawn…
No Ferial IS the dog. Hes rabid too.
It's now a chessboard, using dung as cell borders.
Nothing compared to what I'm about to do.
Ugh clean up on Lawn 3! Sorry about that…
no comment
no comment required
Finally Reclaimer finds it out after us knowing for a hundred or so comics.
Actually, none of this news to the Reclaimer—but Portent doesn't know that.
Actually, none of this is news to the Reclaimer—but Portent doesn't know that.
Ahhhh so RC is going to let Portent blow of some steam that has been gathering for several EONS, and then tell him that he already knew :p Is there going to be much NEW information?
I forgot why RC is even doing this.
And that SnowXing, is why you fail
I thought we already established that!
not that i remember
So you just figured this out right now?
I don't think so.
this from the guy who doesn't recognize a quote from star wars….
when did I fail to recognize a star wars quote.
6 posts up take out your name
Oh, yeah. I remember that now…
Finally. Three weeks ago I started reading the reclaimer comics, and have been hooked ever since. Now I'm fully caught up in the story. Both literally and metaphoricaly.
Most excellent.
Have you ever had a no name hotdog. Those pwn n00bs. So much better than oscar myer.
This is interesting. It basically reveals to the Reclaimer, something that we have known all along.
And the Reclaimer replies to Portent, "Tell me something I don't already know."
Shows how much I know. Now you've jogged my memory, it makes a bit more sense (or maybe less sense). By the way, I love the editing in this one.
I half expected reclaimer to reply "No shit Sherlock."
That would be so much better than Jim's line :p But he's trying to keep it PG rated
PG rated? If anybody here is younger than 15 speak up now!
On second thought…
I'm actually probably going to get more people to speak up than I wanted.
If you are younger than 15, lie about your age!
that is defeating the point of your original question,.....
The point of the first question was to have 90% of the people here state that they were older than 15.
Then I realized that a lot of the people here were not mature enough to handle the occasional curse, and that creating such a census might not yield the results I had wanted. So instead of hacking into everybody's account and posting an age over 23, I decided it would be better just to ask everybody under 15 to lie.
Get it now?
yes and how would you hack?
I could make an email address called "Bungie.net@hotmail.com" and tell everybody that they won recon if they can give me their intense debate password.
Off-screen canon doesn't count!
Off-screen canon?? o.0
Your right. I suppose a cannon couldn't count.
It's inanimate and as a result doesn't understand the concept of numeric value.
I can count though if you really wanted me too.
One, Two, Three…
So he's been told, but will he believe it? This is coming from the same guy that was attack him and thought to be a little crazy…
Crazy is such a subjective term…
Are you implying that the crazy are in fact sane?
Are you implying that the crazy are in fact sane?
Jim, you are in Denial.
You are crazy.
Probably, but not necessarily. There's several kinds of crazy, you know.
There's slightly crazy, like Portent. There's medium crazy like Jim's writing, and then there's our crazy for reading this comic. :p
And then comes my crazy. Now if you'll excuse me I need to quote random science fiction phrases that may or may not have anything to do with what we are talking about.
Ahem
"LUDICROUS SPEED!!!"
Spaceballlssss!!!!!!!
so you basically said you were at the highest point of being crazy snow?
Even higher. Like, left 4 dead super pills high.
oh my
oh and tank behind you
it's okay, the Tank's loaded on crazy pills too.
Don't shoot teammates!
(i'm at my cabin and i don't feel like logging in)
Well, he's been trapped in a data stream for ages… I wouldn't expect him to be a happy bunny.
Nope, not at all.
You're right. We should expect to be a Happy Rabbit!
Good thinking HSAR!
You're right. We should expect him to be a Happy Rabbit!
Good thinking HSAR!
Uh oh. This is bad… Really bad.
"I got a bad felling about this" Come on anyone should be able to get that quote :p
Really, now—do you realize just how many flicks that line has appeared in? :p
Name your favorite.
Either Ghostbusters or Starwars. Big tie.
Eh I was thinking starwars, but Jim's right, it's been in so many major movies and TV shows it's just not the same any more…
So what happens to RC and Portent now we all wonder?
not to mention in Halo 1
"I've got a bad feeling about this"
Sargent Johnson:you always have a bad feeling
"sarge!"
Johnson: good lord marine what the heck is that
Marine is holding an infection form
"i Don't know Sarge but it's so cuuuute can i keep it?huh? can I?"
not to mention in Halo 1
"I've got a bad feeling about this"
Sargent Johnson:you always have a bad feeling
"sarge!"
Johnson: good lord marine what the heck is that?!
Marine is holding an infection form
"i Don't know Sarge but it's so cuuuute can i keep it?huh? can I?"
TSAH
TSAH
It took me a moment. I haven't watched that in so long.
i was waiting for someone to realize what it was from
i was waiting for someone to realize what it was from and a moment? it's been 2 days
i was waiting for someone to realize what it was from.
I didn't until I read it the third time.
At the time I was thinking of tf2 so I have no idea how the connection was made but…
they canceled TSAH3 D:
they made a third one?
They were but the project was cancelled you can watch a part of the third one though it's on the level The Covenant
Brilliant effects in the last four frames. Well worth the wait!
Portent's throwing a little bit of a tantrum!
I think somebody needs a lollipop.
Here's your wittle wowlipop. Can wittle baby Portent stop cwying now??
If you give an AI a lollipop…
Thats a little vague. Let's try again.
If you give a mouse a cookie…
There we go.
Woah. Ferial is well on his way to winning this fight…hopefully Reclaimer will find a way to stop him.
Of course. Recalimer will….
FINISH THE FIGHT.
Okay, in that one sentence you managed to totally destroy any positive notions or feelings I had of you.
Good luck redeeming yourself.
and with that sentence i lose all hope of Snow having a shred of kindness
and with that sentence I lost all hope of you ever understanding my lame jokes.
Unless you were joking in which case I was the one fooled.
But you can't fool the SnowXing. I created you.
and with that sentence i say you are wrong on both accounts i fooled you and no you did not.
prove it,
that's right you can't!
Shut up imagination figment.
"I'm invincible!"
you're a loony
"It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine."
Don't worry, I'm sure the mice will hire somebody to build a new Earth.
why bother when we already know the awnser is 42.
But we don't know what the question is. Isn't that the point?
"Keep going Arthur you're doing great."
"w" "h" "a" "t" "d" "o" "y" "o" "u" "g" "e" "t" "w" "h" "e" "n" "y" "o" "u"...
"m" "u" "l" "t" "i" "p" "l" "y" "s" "i" "x" "b" "y" "n" "i" "n" "e"
6 * 9 is 54. Dude. I think you need to go back to elementary school, or stop relying on your calculator.
Slide rules for the win.
yes but that's what was in the book
and no comeback to be found
Garbage in garbage out
What goes down one end come up the other.
"Mostly Harmless"
I always wanted to know how intense debate handles the indentation on the left when it reaches the right.
I remember it being six by seven.
I remember it being six by seven.
I should look again.
i find it interesting that not many people realize that reclaimer has known most of this all along
he stated it in one of his dramatic monolouges (which were cool btw) a few (dozen) episodes ago.
absolutely awesome AI tantrum FX jim!
sorry for the double post but i beleive i have spotted a grammar error in panel 3… i may be wrong, but shouldnt it read ¨¨He cannot get near the cavalcade himself to use US as he wishes …¨¨?
Well worth the week long wait. I'm just happy that I didn't miss any other episodes while I was on Vacation.
Finally! This Story Arc can end and we can continue!
I totally saw this coming, for the record. ;D
That you did adam. That you did.
Spaceballs I belive
And on a different note I love the comic and have been Reading since about comic 90ish all I can say is WOW!!! I can’t wait to see how all of this continues – ends etc.
You believed right. I havnt watched it for a few years now but I just found it in my basement. I'm gonna pop it in this afternoon.
Only one person would dare give me the strawberry. Lone star.
camera runs into him
When was then?
Ooh, you just missed it.
"Pizza the Hutt!"
At least they're not completely in the dark about Ferial's machinations…
Also, since when did Reclaimer become weekly instead of thrice-a-week? I'm falling into withdrawal symptoms here!
Machinations…
that sounds a lot like Melancholy.
Cold turkey is the only way to go dude.
I have to say that I'm pretty interested…
But then again, Awesome things are usually interesting.
Another great comic, and I really have to learn how u take these screens.
See! No temporal analogies!
Kaya, Time is an illusion.
Lunch time doubly so.
time is not an illusion
time waits for no man
.....
Unless that man is Chuck Norris
Ford seems to think differently.
Besides, with an infinite probability drive, even the impossible can be done. Chuck Norris can be killed.
Chuck Norris can shoot down a plane by pointing his finger at it and yelling "Bang!"
How probable is that exactly.
2*infinity^871964
I guess with the improbability drive I could do that too.
The anticipation is killing us Jim.
Well, I'm afraid you'll just have to keep waiting for a few days. I've been really sick this week, and I'm still not feeling up to my usual self. Hopefully, by Monday I'll have things back on schedule and be feeling close to 100% again.
WOOO!!! Your not dead yet!!!
Notice the use of the word yet…
Snow is going Psycho! we need a tranquilizer gun, ammo for it, a bunch of tactical nukes, the grifball,all the RvB DVD's, and a Squirrel tied to a megaphone stat!
The squirrels just wont SHUT UP!!!
If you ever played phychonauts then that joke would have actually made sense.
HA! I knew you had been watching me last night! Luckily I patented the conjunction of those six items!
curses i've been found out
curses i've been found out!
Curses! No more squirrels!
za?
that's right you don't
and neither do I!
Gar…Me Need Reclaimer.
Gar…Me Need Half-Life 2: Episode 3.
It's been three damn years!!!!!
it comes out in 2010
In the mean time…...go to these links….. I'm sure they will be to your….Liking(lol)
http://www.hlcomic.com/index.php?date=2005-05-01
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh8VfFH78jY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsjd7fVJQy0&fe…;
I already read the first one through like five times, and the second one was really retarded, even for me.
I didn't even try to watch the third one.
third one not by same person
Is it stupid?
yes
How much longer must you torment us!!!?? headdesk!
about a week?
It's been longer.
And it's actually me tormenting you, not Jim.
Snow you are a cruel cruel troglodyte. You just need to come out from under your bridge and find a companion to make happy.
I like the bridge idea, my favorite RHCP song is under the bridge.
And I have many hobo companions with me under this bridge.
We are building an army so when we do come out from under it we can conqure Jims home town and take control of Reclaimer.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA
Lol
Rofl
Roflmao
Roflmaoqwertyuiop
OMGWTFBBQ
and so on and so forth.
BBQ?
Let's find out.
Just a little more.
Chug
Chug
Just a little longer.
Almost there.
Allllmooossstt Thheeerreee…
I give up.
No not really.
It's gettin glichy
The reply screen is broken.
I'm awsome.
Replying is starting to take forever.
Does this never end?
Apparently not.
It seems to be exponential, I get close but nevermakeit.
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Wooooooooooo
He's received warmer welcomes from Ferial, but naturally Portent
doeshave reason for his vocal…um…concern.For his tantrum.