Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response

[geoduck]

It's probably "Klaus is the Other" or "Klaus is controlled by/a puppet of the Other". I suspect time-travel is involved, because message eventually that turned out to be true, except that probably the one who delivered that message didn't know exactly WHEN Klaus became controlled by the Other, just that he did.

Spoiler: Print Novel Spoilers

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The print novel explicitly confirm this- when Klaus talks to Bang before going into Sturmhalten, he says that Barry's surviving recovered notes accuse him of being an Other puppet, but don't say what led Barry to believe this.

[Agi Hammerthief]

„told you“

[Kantaki]

All this joking around makes me feel like something will go horribly wrong.

[geoduck]

All this joking around makes me feel like something will go horribly wrong.

I'm amazed the Foglios have allowed Agatha, Gil and Tarvek to stay in the same room together this long.

[Rogar Demonblud]

Agatha's smirk in that last panel...

[Kantaki]

Agatha's smirk in that last panel...

I mean, she got her Gil back and she's got something to tease him with.

Besides, watching your pets play is amusing.

Let her enjoy it while it lasts.
5... 4... 3... 2... 1...

[Fyraltari]

The longer I look at panel 4, the more I feel like Agatha is going to eat Tarvek.


Help.

[Rogar Demonblud]

Well, she is The Heterodyne.

Besides, apparently cannibalism is a serious possibility for the wedding reception.

[Kantaki]

Well, she is The Heterodyne.

Besides, apparently cannibalism is a serious possibility for the wedding reception.

Well, it does ensure the partner won't run off, doesn't it?

Also, love goes through the stomach.

[Teln]

I'd like to request some help from the archive divers--exactly when did Agatha develop the way to remove Mother Dearest from her head? I've found her finishing up/gushing over the way to remove Klaus' overlay, but not much else.

[HandofShadows]

I'd like to request some help from the archive divers--exactly when did Agatha develop the way to remove Mother Dearest from her head? I've found her finishing up/gushing over the way to remove Klaus' overlay, but not much else.

She didn't. Tarvek and Gil did it. And a few improvements from Albia. The Klaus overlay called their being able to remove the Other nearly assured.

[xroads]

I'd like to request some help from the archive divers--exactly when did Agatha develop the way to remove Mother Dearest from her head? I've found her finishing up/gushing over the way to remove Klaus' overlay, but not much else.

Tarvek conjured up a machine here...

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comi...9#.XUMBg-hKiUn

[Ellen]

Well, that answers that question.

I'm sure Wooster will point out that proper British soldiers would never behave that way, no matter which side they're on.

Also, I can't help wondering what will happen if Bang shows up in the middle of this. Technically, those guys will be in her way.

[memnarch]

Well, that answers that question.

I'm sure Wooster will point out that proper British soldiers would never behave that way, no matter which side they're on.

Also, I can't help wondering what will happen if Bang shows up in the middle of this. Technically, those guys will be in her way.

He is on her list after all.

[Rogar Demonblud]

That's assuming Wooster lets them live past the next update. He's about due for re-upping his badass credentials.

[Deliverance]

Wooster looks rather wooden and slightly flatter usual. I wonder if Violetta has been up to her tricks and it is a smoke knight Wooster decoy, or if it is just a question of the viewing angle making him look so to my suspicious mind.

[Kantaki]

These guys seem a bit trigger-happy.
I hope that ends well for them.

[Stabbey]

This is a dome full of sparks which had several murders and then suddenly went completely silent. It's hardly surprising that they're sending in elite troops to clean house. However, it doesn't look like they're interested in knowing what's going on.

So why not blow the dome? Is it only because of Agatha and her allies being here, as well as the self-declared Storm King?

So, who is on team "Buy Time"? Wooster, Dimo. Oggie, Maxim, Probably Trelawny Thorpe, Violetta, Higgs.

Team Protect Agatha probably includes Zeetha, Sparafucile (to protect her charges), This Bear.

[Radar]

That's assuming Wooster lets them live past the next update. He's about due for re-upping his badass credentials.

And he just showed his 00 license, so yeah whooping things and moping floor with them should ensue.

[HandofShadows]

This isn't an official action. Albia KNOWS Gil and her Trelawney Thorpe are down there and those troops wouldn't have shot at Wooster as he was assigned to "sort it out". Something else is going on here.

[Traab]

Is this where we learn that the Other has also infiltrated England? Its been a running theme after all. First baron wulfenbach discovers nonshamblers infesting every corner of his empire, then they pop up in paris, which was supposed to be a bastion where the master knows all. Now we are in england where its "literally unthinkable" to move against the queen. Yeah, unsinkable ships arent. It would also make sense because clearly lucrezia has been running a far deeper game than anyone was aware of. Even now they are only just starting to peel back the layers. She fought originally using her most worthless revenants as troops, the shamblers, while the whole time secretly seeding all of europa with her infiltration revenants that only just now started to get spotted, Now we are learning that even in the areas considered safe and off limits as I dont think the other attacked paris, she was planning ahead, so why would england be any different? The reveal that she is/was/will be a time traveler just adds even more insanity to the mix as there is no telling how far back the plans go, or where in the time line she is coming from originally meaning she may have already seen her plans fail, gone back in time and improved them, and maybe thats why she has been stuck for so long as she alluded to at the train yard when screaming about cake.

[factotum]

This is a dome full of sparks which had several murders and then suddenly went completely silent. It's hardly surprising that they're sending in elite troops to clean house. However, it doesn't look like they're interested in knowing what's going on.

Anyone official would know Wooster is in there and wouldn't immediately open fire on him when he announces himself. Whoever these guys are, they're definitely *not* Albia's.

[tyckspoon]

Anyone official would know Wooster is in there and wouldn't immediately open fire on him when he announces himself. Whoever these guys are, they're definitely *not* Albia's.

Oh dear. And they're in faceless outfits, so we don't even need to feel bad about it when they get beat up. Apparently it's been too many pages since Zeetha got to kill some people.

[Fyraltari]

Just waiting for he guy with the crowbar, he should be here any minute, now...

[Rogar Demonblud]

How long has it been since the jaegers really cut loose?

[Kantaki]

How long has it been since the jaegers really cut loose?

Unless those clowns have a lot of backup there won't be much cutting loose.
Also, they're underwater.
Cutting loose bad.
Cutting loose Jägerlike very bad.
Someone could loose their hat.

[JavaScribe]

Is this where we learn that the Other has also infiltrated England? Its been a running theme after all. First baron wulfenbach discovers nonshamblers infesting every corner of his empire, then they pop up in paris, which was supposed to be a bastion where the master knows all. Now we are in england where its "literally unthinkable" to move against the queen.

For all of Queen Albia's psychic powers and reputation, we don't even know why it's "unthinkable" in the first place. We haven't seen any indication of omnipresence like with the Master.

I would think she would be able to detect revenants that are in her direct presence though.

[DeTess]

This could also be the distraction from the museum people, as that got foreshadowed, but afaik hadn't materialized yet.

[Squire Doodad]

And the answer is "What is an attack from British Troops?" for 500!

[Grif]

Wooster just reaffirmed his credentials, as premier British spy.