Symel GIF Cartoon Fourteen: The Quakemaster

This slide originally made the animation to large to upload but is essential to the plot, so here it is stand alone:
There is something you should know about Symel's flock. They are a Quakeocracy, there leader is chosen via a Quake III Arena tournament, in GNU/Linux of course. Every year the same penguin wins. They call him the Quakemaster. He is the best Quake III player ever, however he is very wise and a skilled leader. Here we shall see one of his many practice rounds...

Here is the cartoon:
If you are using a graphical browser then there is a problem on my site, if you are using a text based browser then this is normal. Here is a text version of the cartoon (speech in capitals): You see the Quakemaster dressed in a Visor-like outfit in a throne made up of the Quake III box art. He begins a practice match and starts fraging the other bots. Soon after he has easily defeated them all. XAERO'S A WEAKLING! he decrees before checking and noting that he has a perfect score.

Comments: this one is a cornerstone of the Symel canon, the Quakeocracy system of government is one of my more creative ideas.
Note: Xaero is the final boss of Quake III Arena.
Thanks to id Software for all the great games and source code!

Copyright (c) 2006 Graham Wilson. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this cartoon under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.
Either Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

Note: the Quakemaster's sprite contains textures from Quake III Arena and the animation contains screenshots of that game. These are copyrighted 1999 by id Software and are not under the GFDL, I use it under the terms of fair use and I am intending to make a GFDL replacement later (or maybe use OpenArena screenshots and note that those are under the GPL).

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