Girl Genius XXIII: Screaming, Ranting and Egregious Violence

[Ellen]

Those aren't constructs. They're clanks. Clanks are robots, constructs are biological.

Or Clockwork Horrors vs Aberrations, if you prefer D&D-esk terms.

True. I was jumping from who it sounded like without thinking about the one thing we should know.

Although maybe it's just that letter of Gil's finally catching up. With a hundred singing rosebushes.

[thorgrim29]

Considering the Foglios aren't really the type to just make up names like that, who is the name of the ship referring to? A brief google search didn't yield anything.

[Shining Wrath]

Considering the Foglios aren't really the type to just make up names like that, who is the name of the ship referring to? A brief google search didn't yield anything.

There's a lot of Biondi's, though. For the right time period, Ernesto or Jean.

[factotum]

Considering the Foglios aren't really the type to just make up names like that, who is the name of the ship referring to? A brief google search didn't yield anything.

I did a similar search and apparently the character played by JoBeth Williams in the 1993 TV movie "Final Appeal" was named Christine Biondi--I've never seen the film, though, so have no idea if that's an intentional name drop or not.

[Rogar Demonblud]

There's a lot of Biondi's, though. For the right time period, Ernesto or Jean.

Jean was born in 1900, so too late.

[thorgrim29]

Is it though? The GG timeline is a bit wonky...

[eee]

There are several Christine Biondis on Facebook, including one that does catering.

Advertising?

[Rogar Demonblud]

Probably a shout out to a friend, like the married couple in the Library.

Is it though? The GG timeline is a bit wonky.

Not wonky enough for it to be the 1940s.

[Ellen]

OK, I didn't realize that was a Wulfenbach captain doing the talking. Ignore previous speculations based on that.

Krosp is in the running again. So are Adam and Lilith (although I'm pretty sure they still feel their first duty is elsewhere). Although, Agatha being Agatha, there could be a whole army of constructs we've forgotten about coming to find her.

The main trick is that they're constructs who either have authority to get rides from Wulfenbach people or who can con Wulfenbach people (or successfully blackmail/threaten/bribe/convince working with them is the lesser of two evils).

[PraetorDragoon]

Aaah! The tease! The suspense! The cliffhanger!

[Traab]

Im thinking its wasp eaters. The release of the monograph on them has convinced the deeply hidden survivors to bring out their weasels and join with the heterodyne.

[geoduck]

I still vote for Krosp and Co. Plotwise, I'll actually be a bit disappointed if it's anyone else. Boarding Castle Wulfenbach with the bears and retrieving Dr. Dim is what Krosp pretty much has to be doing.

[PraetorDragoon]

I think it is Higgs and Vole. Last we know is that they intended to go to Agatha, so that would make sense.

[HandofShadows]

Voting for Krosp and some bears. I think Higgs would be MUCH more circumspect and he should have the authority (more or less) to just have someone give him a small fast ship. Also a Wulfenbach Captain probably would not be referring to Higgs as a "er Passengers". Higgs is well known to be working directly with Gil.

[factotum]

Also, while Higgs may well be a construct (do Jaegers actually class as constructs? Not sure on that) it certainly isn't something that's so widely known that the British would be referring to him casually as such.

[DrewID]

Aaah! The tease! The suspense! The cliffhanger!

The usual.

[Agi Hammerthief]

the clifhangers are not as bad when you only drop in every other month.

[BannedInSchool]

Did someone order a gross of dingbots?

[keybounce]

Dingbots? Gross. I support the other group of clanks.

[SZbNAhL]

Im thinking its wasp eaters. The release of the monograph on them has convinced the deeply hidden survivors to bring out their weasels and join with the heterodyne.

Unless the weasels have become sapient over the last couple of years and are now acting without their handlers, that wouldn't be "a group of constructs" so much as "a group of humans accompanied by some constructs".

[Agi Hammerthief]

has the king arrived?

[eee]

has the king arrived?

The Emperor of All Cats and his entourage (and perhaps, his 'Daddy'), more likely.

[Manga Shoggoth]

Is he going to visit the Queen?

[SZbNAhL]

Is he going to visit the Queen?

I think your link's fallen victim to the board's profanity filters.

[Manga Shoggoth]

I think your link's fallen victim to the board's profanity filters.

Ha! Ha!! Ha!!! In a dreadful fit of revenge I will link two truly dreadful¹ videos of the nursery rhyme (Exhibit A, Exhibit B). THAT WILL SHOW THEM!!!!!

We don't even have a Mr Scruffy icon for me to litter the page with in my displeasure.


¹ - I was going to link a good one, but I gave up hope after seeing these... The second is the most awful of the two.

[Rockphed]

Ha! Ha!! Ha!!! In a dreadful fit of revenge I will link two truly dreadful¹ videos of the nursery rhyme (Exhibit A, Exhibit B). THAT WILL SHOW THEM!!!!!

We don't even have a Mr Scruffy icon for me to litter the page with in my displeasure.


¹ - I was going to link a good one, but I gave up hope after seeing these... The second is the most awful of the two.

My eyes! My eyes! What manner of eldritch abomination did I just witness?

[PraetorDragoon]

Ha! Ha!! Ha!!! In a dreadful fit of revenge I will link two truly dreadful¹ videos of the nursery rhyme (Exhibit A, Exhibit B). THAT WILL SHOW THEM!!!!!

We don't even have a Mr Scruffy icon for me to litter the page with in my displeasure.


¹ - I was going to link a good one, but I gave up hope after seeing these... The second is the most awful of the two.

Dear lord. Why did I click the second one? WHY?

[Fyraltari]

Ha! Ha!! Ha!!! In a dreadful fit of revenge I will link two truly dreadful¹ videos of the nursery rhyme (Exhibit A, Exhibit B). THAT WILL SHOW THEM!!!!!

We don't even have a Mr Scruffy icon for me to litter the page with in my displeasure.


¹ - I was going to link a good one, but I gave up hope after seeing these... The second is the most awful of the two.

So, this is what the Heterodynes have been up to these days. Still as devious and demented original as ever, I see.

[Scarlet Knight]

Is he going to visit the Queen?

"Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been?
I've been to London to visit the Queen."

[Agi Hammerthief]

The Emperor of All Cats and his entourage (and perhaps, his 'Daddy'), more likely.

that‘s the one