Today's comic

[Tom the Fanboy]

Yeah, they're definitely LARPing Shadowrun, but I wonder if the others are at game and Mark is running late. They're not really LARPing but Mark is already "in game" and they're coming up with reasons he's not there yet.

Hmm... We'll find out Monday!

[One post wonder]

That seems a bit too logical to me... I am still not sure what is going on, but it is clear that the line between RL and gaming is meant to be blurred here. That combined with Sarah imagining that shadowy dragon, and the hunter explaining to Mark the impact that geeks can have, I am getting the feeling that the RL and gaming worlds are supposed to start becoming Indistinguishable from one another.

[Dustman]

I would say that they're LARPing as a means of drawing the Hunters from the game world into the real world (so, they really are setting a trap), but somehow that seems too pat.

LARPing to hunt boogeymen seems too pat. Yes, Alina, you've suspended my disbelief that much.

[Narf the Mouse]

Here's a question: How do we know the comic 'real world' is based on earth as we know it?

[834n]

There could indeed be some sort of "multiple worlds" thing going on here. Other than the Hunter the real world seemed believable thus far, and even the things like shadows with glowing eyes and teeth, the orb mark got in the vampire game, and the dragon Sarah was imagining could have just been character imagination seen by the reader.
But this one seems odd. Maybe the Hunter's not a complete nutjob and the imagination of geeks really does break down reality? Unless the group just decided to larp Shadow Run, that is. Could be reading waaaaay too deep into this

[Narf the Mouse]

Yep, the hunter could be a nutjob, all the strange stuff could simply be imagination. All the clues could be red herrings...

...I wonder what herring tastes like?

[Tom the Fanboy]

OMG!
MARK IS JUST APLAYER CHARACTER!!!1
They're playing a mortals game inthe new WoD!!

[Narf the Mouse]

And his vampire character is the real him?

That would be one involved larp...

[Narf the Mouse]

...I was looking through the last few comics, making sure I was caught up...Had a thought. Did the head-elf guy actually say 'sigh'? Because it would fit his character.

[Grtdrgn]

Woot! NJ Huff rules! Nice guest comic.

[Gridsleep]

I asked Sanity Loss for an official Red Ryder carbine action two-hundred shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time, but all he would give me in this place is a bag of marshmallows. They're just like the walls.

[Narf the Mouse]

...Wait...Is one of those bombs sparking?

[Tom the Fanboy]

This reminds me of the netrunner from our last game. It took three sessions for us to meet him in person, he just sat in his little hypoallergenic lair and communicated through an LCD screen we carried around. We'd just get him close to a console and he'd use the screen's wireless to hack into it.

[Sir Ritalin]

Wehd op, yeu!

[Tom the Fanboy]

I had to go back and read everything Dustin said in an english accent after that comic.
I did once in cockney and once in "proper english", both were pretty funny but I kept mentally adding "quite" or "wot" at certain points.

[Xaq]

Dustin doesn't ALWAYS have a British accent... just when he's trying to sound pompous.

[Illusionist]

Which British accent? We kind of have several. And most of them are far from pompous. Angry Glaswegian, anyone?

[Narf the Mouse]

Or whatever one Andy Capp uses...

[Sir Ritalin]

I'd love to know whether Abbie's expression in the Wednesday comic was modeled after Happycat.

[Tom the Fanboy]

*facepalm*
I have had this conversation.
I have also been the guy who can't game as much because of his girlfriend (fiance now).