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''[http://goldenage.comicgenesis.com Golden Age of Adventurers]'' is a light-hearted Fantasy webcomic situated on [[Comic Genesis]].
[[Farm Boy|Wannabe adventurer]] Ciria gets her first quest - to fetch four runaways from the local Old Folk's Home. The reward is great and the job seems easy enough - [[Tempting Fate|What could possibly go wrong]]?
Well, as it turns out, the four escaped characters are a gang of [[Cool Old Guy|adventuring veterans]], having quested together for 40 years. They are, however willing to go along peacefully - provided that Ciria lets them finish their current adventure first...
The Cast
* [[Old Master|Ai Yah]] - This [[Bare-Fisted Monk|monk]] can be counted on to provide moral guidance, make literature references and be the [[Straight Man]] to the other, zanier characters.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander|Ben]], Arch-mage, exposition and comic relief.
* [[Farm Boy|Ciria]]. Born in an inconspicuous village, and raised there by very [[Secret Legacy|normal-seeming parents]], Ciria thirsts for adventure, despite the conflicts it causes with her well-developed common sense.
* [[Loveable Rogue|Nimble]], [[Sticky Fingers|pickpocket]], punster and leader of the gang, he was raised in the gang from a [[Artful Dodger|young age]]. Cunning and [[Genre Savvy]], he favors [[Take a Third Option|creative solutions]] to his problems.
* [[The Big Guy|Hook Horsebane]] - [[Deadpan Snarker|sarcastic]] Dwarven war veteran with multiple prosthetics and a mercenary attitude. Enjoys arguing with Ai.
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{{quote|'''Stony:'''"Eh, at least I never have to clean the place".}}
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Ben regularly talks to his staff, and sometimes make weird statements (which may nonetheless turn out to be correct).
* [[Contractual Genre Blindness]]: [http://goldenage.comicgenesis.com/d/20011216.html This strip]
{{quote|'''Will:'''"Before I could kill you, form dictates I'd have to [[Just Between You and Me|tell you my evil plans]] - and I haven't finished them yet."}}
* [[Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?]]: Will the Necromancer invites the gang in for a business proposition over tea - served in skulls, of course.
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* [[For Science!]]: Check [http://goldenage.comicgenesis.com/d/20050823.html Elondaro's reaction to the comment on animists and plagues].
* [[Gender Blender Name]]: Aren't asian people named Ai usually female?
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* [[I Have This Friend]]: Ben is embarrassed, purchasing magic books for Ciria.
{{quote|'''Ben:''' ''Look, these beginner books aren't for ME, all right?''
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* [[Our Orcs Are Different]]: Orcs in Golden Age are green-skinned savages, on the darker side of Neutral, who while chiefly being [[Mooks]] still manage to get some screen time.
* [[Running Gag]]: [[You All Meet in An Inn|The Troll Bridge]] tends to be destroyed [[Once an Episode|fairly regularly]], to the annoyance of its Trollish Barkeep.
** though this is mostly an [[Informed Ability]], since we only have one chapter (and a few flashbacks) to base this on.
* [[Separated at Birth]]: Elondaro and Will. One was raised by Elves, the other by Necromancers. {{spoiler|It turns out that the Necromancers grabbed the wrong baby.}} {{spoiler|In the end we are informed [[Shocking Swerve|the Will and Elondaro were not twins, but triplets]]...}}
* [[Sidequest]]: Averted by Nimble. When Elondaro suggests that the Gang perform a small quest for him to gain his trust, Nimble responds by showing official documentation that they are, in fact, trustworthy.
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** Or [http://goldenage.comicgenesis.com/d/20110123.html sometimes] ''invoked'' by Nimble...
* [[Spit Take]]: [http://goldenage.comicgenesis.com/d/20080817.html Happens off-panel] in an [[I Drank What]] situation.
* [[Spy Speak]]: In [http://goldenage.comicgenesis.com/d/20040408.html this strip], Ben uses a codephrase to get to a secret portal hidden in a library.
** Subverted in that he got the phrase wrong - the librarian later implies that most everyone does, and that she directs anyone speaking cryptically to the room with the portal, just in case they're NOT a random loonie.
* [[Sword and Sorcerer]]: Ben and Hook used to be mercenaries together, before the gang formed, and when Ben was more reliable.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: Usually played straight, but subverted in [http://goldenage.comicgenesis.com/d/20050802.html this strip] when Ciria says "It's good to know that Mom and Dad are safe from the bad guys I get to face". Cue panel of parents with some of said dangers -- having soundly beaten them up. Hey, even irony [[Mugging the Monster|can only do so much]]...
* [[Unfortunate Names]]: Hook Horsebane dislikes his Epithet.
{{quote|'''Hook:''' "I've killed several werewolves, raiders by the dozen, orcs by the hundreds... and ONE time I try to ride this STUPID piece of @#¤%-ing burger-meat... @#¤% bards and their DAMNED [[Alliterative Name|alliterations]]... "}}
** Since we never hear his original last name, one may assume it was even worse...
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* [[You All Meet in An Inn]]: Inns are good places to find quests.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Justified in that only non-humans have weird hair-colors
* [[Younger Than They Look]]: Orcs have short lifespans - the Orc scouts Tikker and Kogg are 14 and 9 years old, respectively.
* [[You Wont Get Away With This]]: How the group [http://goldenage.comicgenesis.com/d/20051218.html reacts] to the Necromancer's plan.
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