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2019-09-01, 01:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
Just remember, there's a Mirror in Mechanicsburg, and vague mention was made by the Castle at one point that the original Dyne spring was sacred to a "battle goddess". Maybe there are more of these springs around that didn't get turned into rivers by Sparkish meddling...
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2019-09-01, 07:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
While that is a good interpretation of that scene in isolation, there are two other window scenes that go with it.
I grant that the first may not may not be connected with the other two, but if they are then it could simply be our mystery person demonstrating something to someone - Agatha from the context of the following two scenes - how to create and look through rifts in time.
EDIT: The reason that I am linking the scenes is that the Baron also linked them, and was initially interested in Agatha because she saw the first scene we saw. However, coincidence does not imply causation and all that...Last edited by Manga Shoggoth; 2019-09-01 at 07:06 AM.
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"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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2019-09-02, 01:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
OK, this is a bit of a concern. If Albia "burns out" Trelawney holding off the invaders, will that automatically free Lu/Agatha, or are the bounds she's put her in purely physical in nature?
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2019-09-02, 03:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
I hope not, if there was danger of that the queen should be smart enough to just place her in the chair for the experiment and into physical restraints already.
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2019-09-02, 06:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
Yeah but the queen is already having focusing issues due to the strain, so her rushing off to accomplish something in the time she has left and forgetting a small but important detail would make sense. Also, I do hope trawleny survives. I cant imagine she will be in good shape if the queen abruptly leaves and if she is in the middle of holding off bad guys, well..... Heh, its funny, but ive recently read a fanfiction that had a similar issue here. A ludicrously powerful psychic in england is contacted by a friend in need in new york. He literally creates a construct in new york out of his psychic energy and starts fighting. He is fairly overwhelming to the creatures he fights, but its both only a fraction of his power and a huge strain to maintain it over that distance. Its also risky as he could take some horrible damage if the construct gets disrupted in the right way. Im now wondering if the problem is less trawleny and more albia. You know, because her flame is waning and all that.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-09-02, 08:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
Even if the queen forgets, I would be very disappointed if a room full of smart people (including non-Sparky smart people like Violetta) would neglect simply tying Agatha up.
I also really hope that we don't wind up with Albia dead. That would make it too similar to the Paris arc and make the whole thing feel like filler. Less sure about Trelawney though.
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2019-09-02, 08:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
These are the same people that let "agatha" work on the machine meant to extract lucrezia despite knowing lucrezia was pushing hard to take over this whole time. These are the same people who forgot that agathas necklace would short out when they activated the new train brain. Missing these details is a standard thing in girl genius.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-09-02, 10:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-02, 12:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
Yeah it seems worse now but its been a running theme from the start. Even as far back as castle wulfenbach when othar escaped from the baron. He took his eyes off the man he KNOWS is stupidly good at this whole heroic adventure thing and othar capitalized on it. Its not even an idiot ball thing its just slipping up and not being perfect. All the characters make mistakes throughout the story, albia is no different.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-09-02, 12:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
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2019-09-02, 05:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
If Albia dies, then someone messed up the story arc because we did that already. The party makes serious changes everywhere they go, but we almost literally did the "ancient ruler older than the 4 main crew put together dies horribly" bit. That said, there's room for Trelawney to die or someone else, (though I don't want Trelawney to die she's been a fun character so far), just not the several millenia old quart-god.
That's pretty much how I saw it: while the particular time targeted was probably done to mock Agatha (or to clean up time on the other end), the action itself was most likely to show her how to create rifts and peer through time.
While we're looking at old comics: Gil became a Spark when he was 8ish, and that's many years before the average Spark, right?
Agatha technically became a spark when she was 5.Last edited by Squire Doodad; 2019-09-02 at 08:38 PM.
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2019-09-02, 07:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
You wanted the previous comic.
Yeah, she is stronger, it's her comic.The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2019-09-02, 07:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-02, 08:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
Whoops, corrected it. Incidentally, have we seen Zoing lately?
That's a fairly good point, we don't actually know the difference between Heterodyning and a proper breakthrough, though even if it is several years before a proper breakthrough that would put her as about the same age as Gil's breathrough at the latest.An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
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2019-09-03, 12:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
I don't think we've seen Zoing since Gil got back to his lab with Tarvek right before Othar found them both.
And of course Albia's going to die. Every place Agatha goes, there is a sudden change in the leadership. The only time it didn't involve someone dead or imprisoned was the Corbetites, who had their Pope (Tweedle's Uncle) terminate their independence and neutrality and turn them into his minions.
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2019-09-03, 05:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
Albia wants to keep Agatha forever in her "garden". I'm not sure she'll die, but something's gotta happen.
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2019-09-03, 01:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
One difference between Heterodyning and a proper breakthrough is that it is specific to the Heterodyne clan. It's hinted in the comic (here) by the name and Carson and Van's reaction, but the novels explicitly state that it is peculiar to the Heterodynes.
Given Barry's reaction it sounds like it is close enough to the breakthrough as to make no odds.Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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2019-09-03, 03:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-03, 05:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
Albia probably "collects" Sparks in the same sense that some people "collect" the pigeons that flock to their yard. Far from harmless in this situation, but I doubt Albia will force Agatha to stay simply because Agatha needs to go elsewhere to stop the time freeze (which I think Albia knows is going to have negative side effects if it stays up for too long?).
An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
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Purple is humorous descriptions made up on the fly
Green is serious talk about hypothetical
Blue is irony and sarcasm
"I think, therefore I am,
I walk, therefore I stand,
I sleep, therefore I dream;
I joke, therefore I meme."
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2019-09-03, 05:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
She didn't show one bit of concern when Agatha mentioned wanting to fix Mechanicsburg during The Interview. In fact, it was after that she stated her intent to make Agatha a permanent addition to her garden. The implication is that she doesn't give a rip for a town half a continent away.
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2019-09-03, 08:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
See my extended signature here! May contain wit, candor, and somewhere from 52 to 8127 walruses.
Purple is humorous descriptions made up on the fly
Green is serious talk about hypothetical
Blue is irony and sarcasm
"I think, therefore I am,
I walk, therefore I stand,
I sleep, therefore I dream;
I joke, therefore I meme."
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2019-09-03, 08:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
If so, she didn't offer anything resembling advice or even a solution. So, again, signs point to she doesn't care.
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2019-09-04, 06:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
She wants agatha to stay. She set up things specifically to try and get her hooked and interested in remaining behind. She wasnt about to just go, "Ok, here is what ive learned, off you go!" So its kinda uncertain. Maybe she does know, maybe she doesnt, maybe she doesnt care. All we know is she DOES care about getting agatha to remain a part of her "garden" and even then we dont know how far she would be willing to go. So far she seems to have just arranged things so agatha would have an excellent lab full of minions and of course a male honey trap in the person of rakethorn in case her hormones might be a handy method of keeping her nearby. We dont yet know if it goes deeper than that.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-09-04, 06:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
Oh dear.
SpoilerI don't trust Martellus. Is he actually trying to help Oggie, or is he (which I feel is more likely) tying to put Oggie in chemical thrall to him so he has his own Jaeger to experiment on?
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2019-09-04, 06:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
SpoilerOggie would rather die than let that happen and Tweedle should know that. That concoction is probably a similar to the Jagerdraught that was given to Gil back in Mechanicsburg. Tweedle HAS to help because the assassins would kill him as well and he also needs Agatha alive and intact.Member of the Giants in the Playground Forum Chapter for the Movement to Reunite Gondwana!
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2019-09-04, 10:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-04, 10:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
Martellus is a Spark. Of course he's certifiable. It's a prerequisite.
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2019-09-04, 11:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
Schmott observation, Oggie!
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2019-09-04, 01:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
Eh, I think in this particular instance he's actually somewhat trustworthy.
Out of sheer self-interest obviously.
I mean, even ignoring those infiltrators Tweedle neither needs nor wants Team Agatha as enemies right now.
Not to mention what Oggie (or any Jäger) would do to him should he try something sneaky."If it lives it can be killed.
If it is dead it can be eaten."
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2019-09-04, 02:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
He also needs Agatha's cooperation, or he dies. There's no way he'll mess with that chance now.
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