Girl Genius

Oh, also, the name seems to be settling on Margolotta. Has Wooster been the only in-world source of Margarella?

I think Vi called her Margerella too? But if the Foglios are settling on one they might go back and correct it.

Hmm. Well, we got a "Marga—" here.

Nobody corrects Agatha on her name here, but then, the lady herself didn't correct Wooster either.

Vi was the first to call her Margolotta, actually, to much ensuing bafflement among the readership.

edited 9th Jul '14 5:04:37 PM by Schefflera

...Actual science and continuity be damned, I wouldn't be surprised if Wolkenstorfer turned out to be a Sparky goldfish in a battlesuit.

I say we just call her Marge until further notice. (If this turns out to be an actual plot point, I shall be very annoyed. Intrigued, but annoyed.)

edited 9th Jul '14 5:38:29 PM by Pyrite

Sometimes I call her Lady S.

*gasps* What if Zoing was right?

Prescient of him.

Hmm. Treachery at the ant-farms. The Cinderella-story mentioned ant-milk. Did Marge sabotage the ant-milk-supply of Tweedle's troops, thereby threatening them with a severe calcium-deficit?

Now I just wonder whether they go to the depot. Even if the two counts are just a throwaway-gag. The one open line to the depot sounded significant.

edited 9th Jul '14 7:59:57 PM by blauregen

Mustn't forget spider cheese either.

Oh yes. Dairy products in the GG-verse are definitely fascinating.

I would be very surprised if this Count Wolkerstorfer is able to stand up to both the train monks and Agatha. Something else might still come along that forces a retreat to the Depot.

As for truly hard-core cheese-making, the video game Dwarf Fortress has a species called purring maggots that supply the milk.

edited 9th Jul '14 8:45:53 PM by Geoduck

Margolotta/Margerella

Maybe it's a first/middle name thing?

Brain made weird connection while listening to Youtube list.

Agatha desires cake.

GLADOS has and discusses cake.

(And the Reuben's Tube demo gives Sparks ideas.)

Having read about the Portal games, for some reason the juxtaposition makes Agatha's desire just a little creepy.

I'd pretty much assumed Agatha's desire for cake (and the fact she didn't get it) after making her way through a giant AI deathtrap with a sadistic sense of humour was a Portal reference.

My eldest loves that game, almost all the food sounds... unappetizing?

edited 9th Jul '14 9:08:39 PM by Lightningnettle

I think that's sorta the point; Dwarfs in Dwarf Fortress are these strange, violently hair-triggered manic-depressives that can cheerfully subsist entirely on booze and mushrooms. (As for creating a successful fort with these as your denizens.. the common comment is that DF doesn't have a learning curve, it has a learning Matterhorn.)

I believe it, little ascii screens!

My lack of acquired information. I only recognized the cake as a potential Portal reference after I read up on the game. I didn't even realize the song from the youtube vid was part of the game until I came across a reference to it while going through old Cracked articles.

I still think a Spark would figure out how to turn a Reuben's tube into something scary.

edited 10th Jul '14 4:48:29 AM by Candi

I'm afraid my acquired knowledge doesn't include what a Reuben's tube is ^^; I only got it because I'd read up on Portal earlier, for something else, I haven't played it.

edited 10th Jul '14 5:58:14 AM by khil

Also Count Whaysit mentions returning to the King in triumph. What King? There is no Storm King currently. Either he's been down in those caverns a looong time or...I don't know what.

He'll probably mean Tweedle. Or, some other candidate who is already using the title, even if it's not been carved in stone, yet. <shrugs>

Tweedle can be very convincing in matters of his stormkinglyness.

Seems that our Attention Deficit Syndrome has got a good work so far... so he can follow up thousands of ants... kinda like facebook.

Euo: ...Sweetie, you so scatterbrained, it's a surprise your skull has a use beyond hanging a face from...

Sure it does. Ear spacer.

—-

Candi: Krosp's last line on the page shows he's on the ball, even if his suggestion might not work.

Hardly the first time for that.

Cats are pragmatic.

If Krosp tells him he was swearing fealty to the Heterodyne (or the King of Cats), do you think he'd remember otherwise before it was too late?