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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
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Originally Posted by
ChowGuy
Which brings up the interesting question: If all available power sources have been diverted to the Castle, what did Tarvek use to "recharge Gil's lightning stick?"
I'm sure there are plenty of small power sources that would be no use for the castle but which could be used to recharge the stick.
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
Uh-oh. This can't be good.
Get the generators on line, fast.
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
Nah, im thinking its a demand for surrender, which in reality is just yet another delaying tactic on the part of the baron. "You have 8 hours to surrender or the ram comes back!"
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
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Originally Posted by
Traab
Nah, im thinking its a demand for surrender, which in reality is just yet another delaying tactic on the part of the baron. "You have 8 hours to surrender or the ram comes back!"
That would certainly be an effective way to subvert The Other's orders if he could pull it off, but if she's anywhere near close enough to give new orders it would be too blatant a tip-off, and we don't know the wording of her orders and how much wiggle room that gives him. If he can do it, though, it could go a long way towards convincing his top underlings that something's wrong with his behavior.
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
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Originally Posted by
douglas
That would certainly be an effective way to subvert The Other's orders if he could pull it off, but if she's anywhere near close enough to give new orders it would be too blatant a tip-off, and we don't know the wording of her orders and how much wiggle room that gives him. If he can do it, though, it could go a long way towards convincing his top underlings that something's wrong with his behavior.
Just the fact that he isnt dropping his full weight on agatha should be setting off huge warning flares for his people, if not lucrezia herself. They KNOW that the heterodyne needs to be stomped flat right the hell now if he wants any hope of keeping the empire from flying apart. The fact that he has been "testing" her with slowly increasing force should be confusing the hell out of them.
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
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Traab
JThe fact that he has been "testing" her with slowly increasing force should be confusing the hell out of them.
Nonsense. "His people" (the ones that count anyway) have been told exactly what he wants, and "stomping the Heterodyne flat" isn't it. She is an invaluable speciman, and must be studied. Smashing Mechanicsburg can only stiffen their resolve, and eventually get her killed and made into a martyr. He wants and needs to convince her to surrender herself to protect them (as she did at Sturmhalten), and them to let her do it.
The Baron holds the Empire not by terror, but by consensus. As Gil points out to Tarvek, he's hard, but fair, and the alternatives are worse. He needs to preserve that impression. Or at least, that's what he wants them to think. It may even be true.
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
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Originally Posted by
ChowGuy
Nonsense. "His people" (the ones that count anyway) have been told
exactly what he wants, and "stomping the Heterodyne flat" isn't it.
She is an invaluable speciman, and must be studied. Smashing Mechanicsburg can only stiffen their resolve, and eventually get her killed and made into a martyr. He wants and
needs to convince her to surrender herself to protect them (as she did at Sturmhalten), and
them to let her do it.
The Baron holds the Empire not by terror, but by consensus. As Gil points out to Tarvek, he's hard, but fair, and the alternatives are worse. He needs to preserve that impression. Or at least, that's what he wants them to think. It may even be true.
On the other hand, I offer the sage words of a cat Every moment he spends NOT obliterating the heterodyne or gaining total victory, the rest of europa smells weakness.
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
And there was much Rejoicing! Muwahahahahahahahahahahaha! I have 10 din* on Franz getting into a totally awesome bag vs sword brawl.
And I thought I had wondered why they didn't just send Franz out to take out the ram.
*The din is, obviously, the base coin of Mechanicsburg.
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
There is always a bigger dragon.
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
Which is bigger in this case, though? Look at the scale compared to the chap on the donkey next to him--Franz is easily twice this guy's size, so this shouldn't even be a contest.
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
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Originally Posted by
factotum
Which is bigger in this case, though? Look at the scale compared to the chap on the donkey next to him--Franz is easily twice this guy's size, so this shouldn't even be a contest.
That's what I'm talking about.
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
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petersohn
There is always a bigger dragon.
Of course. The answer to any problem. Summon Bigger Fish Dragon!.
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
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Originally Posted by
factotum
Which is bigger in this case, though? Look at the scale compared to the chap on the donkey next to him--Franz is easily twice this guy's size, so this shouldn't even be a contest.
Keep in mind that this dragon is a clank with all sorts of neat toys on him. Size may not be the deciding factor here. Franz is pretty much a draconic bludgeon. Nothing fancy, just, "I SAID REJOICE!" /smash.
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
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Traab
Keep in mind that this dragon is a clank with all sorts of neat toys on him. Size may not be the deciding factor here. Franz is pretty much a draconic bludgeon. Nothing fancy, just, "I SAID REJOICE!" /smash.
It's not clear to me if he's a clank or just wearing a lot of armor. Franz, on the other hand, appears to have dials implanted along his flanks and the sides of his head. I can't guess what that means.
And Agatha is still toying with the idea of saving Mechanicsburg by giving herself up...
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
Is that Dragon! Don Quixote?
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
Dragon Fight! Dragon Fight!
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
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Originally Posted by
eee
It's not clear to me if he's a clank or just wearing a lot of armor. Franz, on the other hand, appears to have dials implanted along his flanks and the sides of his head. I can't guess what that means.
And Agatha is still toying with the idea of saving Mechanicsburg by giving herself up...
...I'm just imagining him doing like the guy from 2000 AD and turning up a dial, and then SMASH.
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
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eee
And Agatha is still toying with the idea of saving Mechanicsburg by giving herself up...
And of course the Baron will want to interview her personally! :smallbiggrin:
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
It's nice to see the "S is for sucks" dragon get some work after The Brothers Chaps stopped updating. He's certainly got the fundamentals of burninating all the peasants in their thatched roofed filthy cottages hovels down.
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
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Neon Knight
It's nice to see the "S is for sucks" dragon get some work after The Brothers Chaps stopped updating. He's certainly got the fundamentals of burninating all the peasants in their thatched roofed filthy cottages hovels down.
What has been seen cannot be unseen!
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
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Originally Posted by
Lix Lorn
...I'm just imagining him doing like the guy from 2000 AD and turning up a dial, and then SMASH.
Think Franz is going up to 4 on this one? :smallbiggrin:
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
Gah! Franz just shrunk twice+ his original size!
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
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Originally Posted by
Scowling Dragon
Gah! Franz just shrunk twice+ his original size!
Or that is a really big dude on a really big donkey. I'm gonna go with that.
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
Well, Franz also looks suspiciously small in comparison with the gate of Mechanicsburg in the background...lizards shrink in the wash, who knew? :smallyuk:
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
Maybe they forgot how big he was supposed to be :smalltongue:
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
Waitwaitwaitwaitwait! Last time he had the size of a tower!
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
Yeah, well either the perspective is different, or the gate was a lot bigger before. A lot fancier, too, but that might have been a different gate.
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
Lets be frank here.foglios art style is great for expressions, and funny little background stuff.
Dimensions are not their friend.
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Re: Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
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Scowling Dragon
Lets be frank here.foglios art style is great for expressions, and funny little background stuff.
Dimensions are not their friend.
Sure they are, they just treat them like Babylon 5 Star Furies. Things move grow at the speed size of plot expressions and funny little background stuff.