This story has no happy ending

[spqrblues]

Like the title says, no happy ending.

So, skip this one if you like.

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[ao-hatefulrobot.livejournal.com]

:(

[retrobabble.livejournal.com]

It may contain no happy ending, but it's still a good one.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh My God.....
...
Since she didnt tell you his name, I hold out a little hope that it was someone else.

But then it wouldnt make sense for you to have drawn this. Am always holding out a little hope for things I shouldnt. Sigh. Beautiful story, very sad.

--Marco

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

I'd been thinking about this topic a while, and I wasn't going to go through with this storyline, but now I have, and haven't decided yet whether I think that's a good thing or not. Anyway, is done. Maybe I will do one final panel for tomorrow. I don't like maudlin.

Life online is so surreal. To find out something like that, so long after the fact, in a cutesy little game where halfling healers eat cookies in the town square and the other players were blithely matter-of-fact about it--that wavering line between talking human-to-human and character-to-character kept shifting back and forth, when the visual are brightly coloured little avatars posed beside a burbling brook. I think my brain is still trying to assimilate the information.

:-(

[hieran.livejournal.com]

::sigh::

Even though I already knew the unhappy ending -- I was there when it happened -- heck, that super-cute cat-girl among the newbie group is me! -- I still was struck, and deeply moved, by the way you depicted it and put it all together.

I'm so sorry. I wish there's something I could have done then or now to help. ::many hugs::

I'm also incredibly impressed by the way you depicted ClanLord. It's amazing how much you brought it to life with a few simple drawings. Every spot was instantly recognizable to me. And I loved the details, like Algernon with his cookie in the puddle in town center, and the cat in the background. I loved all three newbies gathered around hacking at a single rat, while Klio and Ebony each dispatch a much larger critter. :-)

You are so talented ... you deserve some happy endings.

Re: :-(

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Thanks, super-cute cat-girl. You're always helpful (in and out of character).

I have to admit, all while I was drawing ClanLord scenes I was thinking things like, Okay, this would be /pose leanleft, /pose attack se, /pose salute, and I worried that there isn't actually a /pose leanright to-see-around-furry-tail or /pose is-that-cute-little-bug-going-to-bite-us?

I suppose now I can say I've done a gaming comic, albeit not the usual sort.

[kyleen66.livejournal.com]

Oh crap. I remember that now.

Ugh. Poor honey. Hug and kissies from Mama Ky.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Wow. I don't know what happened, but--I'm sorry.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. I'm sorry.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Thank you. With a little unwitting encouragement from a webcomic artist, I decided to go ahead and write/draw about this, but I think I had it at the back of my mind from the start. One more entry on the topic and I'll go back to simpler things, such as life on the NYC subway under tarrrist alerts and the perilous world of children's book publishing.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

I imagine it's a very hard thing to illustrate, but I think you did a phenomenal and very honest job.

[seian.livejournal.com]

Oh no. :( Did you ever find out how? Very sorry...

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Everything was a bit hushed and read-between-the-lines, and at that point I didn't feel capable/comfortable tracking down people I didn't know, to ask questions that would have been slightly easier to ask if I'd asked sooner (I imagined the response: "If you were someone who deserved to know, you would have been around a long time ago, not weeks and weeks and weeks later"). I guess that's guilt/cowardice/whatever speaking. It still feels entirely unresolved.

[serenya-loreden.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I don't know who, or even which game, inspired the strip. But more then one in-game friend has been lost due to death. This made me think of one in particular, several years ago, who was killed the day he was to be wed in-game, and the memorial service we held for him both then and a year later. At least we had the closure of knowing for sure what had happened.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry. *hugs* to you, in return.

The wonderful thing about having a rich online life is we meet so many people from so many different places, people we would never have had for friends. And it's also the terrible thing about life online, isn't it?

[amedia.livejournal.com]

::hugs::