{"id":1313,"date":"2007-09-07T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2014-05-12T23:48:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T04:48:37","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-cxlivthe-long-expected-parting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1313","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings CXLIV:<BR\/>The Long-Expected Parting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/comic_lotr144a.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='The players protest. One last time.' title='The players protest. One last time.'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><br \/>\n<table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/comic_lotr144b.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='Gimli returns the favor.' title='Gimli returns the favor.'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><br \/>\n<table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/comic_lotr144c.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='The adventure never ends.' title='The adventure never ends.'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><table width='384'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='left'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/comic_lotr_special_bilbo.jpg' class='insetimage' width='384' alt='Dear old Bilbo.' title='Dear old Bilbo.'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><i>Friends! I will not keep you long.  I am writing this to you for a purpose. Indeed, for three purposes.  First of all, to tell you that I am immensely fond of you all, and that one year is far too short a time to write a webcomic for such excellent and admirable readers. I don&#8217;t know half of you half as well as I would like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, to celebrate the one-year anniversary of this strip. I should say, OUR strip, since the comments and suggestions you&#8217;ve given over the last year have been as entertaining as the strip itself. Together the strips score one hundred and forty-four.  One gross, if I may use the expression.  <\/p>\n<p>This month is also, if I may be allowed to refer to ancient history, the two-year anniversary of the start of this site.  Two years ago this site began in utter obscurity, with me posting a narrative of a D&#038;D campaign to nobody in particular. But today the site is thriving and I can now say, &#8220;Thank you very much&#8221; to the thousands of you who read this.<\/p>\n<p>Thirdly and finally, I wish to make an ANNOUNCEMENT. I regret to announce that, though, as I said, a year is for too short a time to spend on a webcomic, this is the END. It is over now. GOOD BYE.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Er, not quite.  Oh dear.  Bilbo seems to have painted me into a corner. Let&#8217;s start over. <\/p>\n<p>This is indeed the end of DM of the Rings, but not the end as far as writing webcomics go.  On this site, I have another couple of weeks of deleted strips and other bits I&#8217;ve come up with that didn&#8217;t fit into the DMotR continuity. <\/p>\n<p>If you want to read more by me, then check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\">Stolen Pixels<\/a>, a screencap comic I do for The Escapist. It&#8217;s on videogames, not D&#038;D, but it might amuse you if you&#8217;re into that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p><table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><a href='http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels'><img src='http:\/\/static.escapistmagazine.com\/media\/global\/images\/articles\/folder\/360\/header.png' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='http:\/\/static.escapistmagazine.com\/media\/global\/images\/articles\/folder\/360\/header.png' title='http:\/\/static.escapistmagazine.com\/media\/global\/images\/articles\/folder\/360\/header.png'\/><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much for reading.  It&#8217;s been an honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}