Girl Genius

I think we had one article of sparky fashion at the end of the second novel. Agatha is given a pair of shoes you can walk in all day without feeling fatigue, but if you stand still, your feet might start to dance on their own accord.

Better than what seven-mile-boots would do. I imagine setting one foot several miles in front of the other could be somewhat stressful.

@Khil: With people using Albia's Tarot, either going mad or combusting spontaneously, I just assumed that the illustrations are of a kind that causes combustion by embarrassment. After all, it is one of the jobs of art to raise emotions in the recipient, and you know how hot and flustered embarrassment can make one.

edited 13th Jul '14 9:38:58 PM by blauregen

Specifically, IIRC, Agatha was (in the novel) evaluated by a TPU professor of music when she was fourteen or fifteen and deemed technically proficient but lacking the passion and fire necessary to a great player. Which was, most likely, not because she wasn't a Spark but because, to keep her from being one, the locket kept shutting down strong emotion.

Page! Well, I'm confused about the happenings in the last two panels. Okay, I think I have it.

The magnet rips the machine off the tracks, without somehow taking the rail it was extruding or getting the Brother, and in the last panel it's sticking to the claw hand.

Oh, the magnet was clear enough; I wasn't sure what got stuck to it. The change in perspective baffled me for a bit.

edited 14th Jul '14 12:01:02 AM by Lightningnettle

Why? He's been going on about that bally magnet enough... <eye-roll>

And, a nice electromagnet(-type-thing) it is, too.

I think Brother Matthias was behind it, not on it, although I was trying to figure out at first if he'd just been thrown off the bridge.

Where the rail went, I'm not sure.

So who else went "Awww..." over the second panel?

I don't think the device is extruding the rail, not really. It seems to be slotted over the existing rail.

Ah, yes, crystallizing iron onto an existing matrix, wasn't it? So the machine is growing the rail onto what's left of the current rail... or at least, it was.

Eep. I... I don't want him to win, obviously, but I'm going to be sad if Count Wolkerstorfer activates the "rail gun" and gets iron crystallized all over his suit and crashes into the abyss.

I think the device added to the rail, and because it was weaponized, it is indeed a kin of 'rail-gun'

He seems to have fun with his magnet so far.

edited 14th Jul '14 12:10:20 AM by blauregen

• nod nod* I think you guys are right. Evil person that I am, I rather like this fellow's last line. I could see any of our heroes saying it. And it's a low bar, but he hasn't killed anyone that hasn't attacked him that we've seen.

Yeah, the good doctor's surprisingly endearing for a random encounter. When he's not doing the Sparky rant thing, he seems a decent chap.

I'm liking him, as well. He's hopelessly muddled, but that's fair enough.

I class him in the same vein as the Sparky DK repair crew: dangerous, but he's likely to be reasonable once shown he's outclassed.

The rail gun - didn't see that one coming. The no-sound sound effect. "Rail!"

...Wait, didn't Agatha say that rail growth could be controlled by using stronger, guided magnetic fields?

Prediction: Count Wolkenstorfer becomes so much scrap metal, Agatha loots his magnet to repair / improve Brother Matthias's device, the Wyrm goes at Ludicrous Speed, the Corbetites are impressed, and future generations will say, "Hey, at least the Heterodynes made the trains run on time."

edited 14th Jul '14 4:21:20 AM by Pyrite

The order employs sparks but also this is leading to the Jager specialty: a nice fight but what kind of hat is within the clank?

I'm hoping this guy survives... and I don't think the authors would make us like him if they were planning on his death at the hands of our Heroes.

I'm not sure how this scene will go down though. Maybe a distraction in the form of a rain of marzipan?

Offchance: He turns out to be a Heterodyne-fanboy, and as soon as he finds out who Agatha is, he goes: "OMG, you are her. Can I have your autograph? Sqeeeeeeeeeeee!"

I really can see that coming.

edited 14th Jul '14 6:50:37 AM by blauregen

Oddly . . . so can I!

That could distract him for another three pages!

"RAIL", hehehe. I love those un-sound effects.

I can see him getting very distracted once he realizes who Agatha is. Don't know where it will go from there, but there will be much excitement.

He will offer to help repair the tracks... if Agatha agree to autograph his newest invention.

Good (and comic) guess.

If he works for Tweedle, he probably has to try to kill her.

I'm not so sure. After all, she's the Heterodyne girl, the one the Storm King is supposed to marry. Killing her would probably get him in so much trouble . . .

Besides getting the autograph from the one who did beat Klaus is quite a find... and given Gil's publicity stunt no fake Heterodynes can be around... he goes full on Klaus when they show up.

I don't think "publicity stunt" is what Agatha calls it.

Tweedle needs the Heterodyne Princess to fulfill the story of the Storm King -but I wouldn't put it past him to turn her into a mindless slave if he does get his hands on her again. Brrr.