Girl Genius

Quaddecuple should be 14 times with latin numbers, but the time scale suggests 40 generations.

edited 22nd Aug '14 11:47:37 PM by blauregen

Yeah, the student pretty well has to mean multiplication (and Vanamonde referred to fifty generations, actually) but the point stands either way, really.

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Smart Ht'rok'din, very smart. But... if Agatha wanted things to go smoothly, how did she know they needed to happen at all? Just how much is she going to wind up messing with time windows, anyway?

Maybe she found evidence that her illustrious ancestor took a quick jaunt to her time of rule?

Uh... Heh.

Adds a new dimension of meaning to "Behold my instrument of conquest and woe"...

^ *snrk*

"Woe", indeed.

Heterodyne legend that DK/the seneschal knows about and tells Agatha?

I found it a bit disappointing. There wasn't even an explosion.

It's mere filler, after all. The Foglio's come back now?

And, if I'm not incorrect, announce who won the Hugo this year. That is what they went to the UK for, isn't it?

Blauregen wins the Moxanas :)

I'm not sure Agatha needs to have used the time windows to find this one. All she needs is for the Ht'rok'din to have recorded his adventure. "I have visited centuries in the future, and my descendant reigns. Her minions were loyal if easily confused, and I'm told most of them were in training anyway."

Agreed.

I like this ending- it makes sense, it wraps things up nicely, and it's wwaaaayyyyy more sensible than most time-travel story lines.

(Time Travel usually annoys me because it is often used as an unnecessary story complication or a Deux Ex Machina.)

edited 25th Aug '14 10:56:35 AM by ElfKid2.0

I was reading a story where the protagonists were sent farrrr into the future -and the only reason for it seemed to be to explain why the parasitic aliens hadn't attacked humanity in the 20th century. Just, what?

The Ht'rok'din was apparently much smarter than your usual barbarian stereotype, smart enough to realize that unless he founded his bloodline at the right time and place, his trip couldn't happen since there would be no descendant to sponsor the school, etc, etc. No wonder he became so powerful in his time. (relatively speaking)

See? Causality: why you tell visiting time travellers how they're related to the time-place they've travelled to.

Notie that they never actually -NAME- the Lady Heterodyne. There's lots that could happen.

The evil-but-tenured Professor makes mention of Agatha Heterodyne novels corrupting the youth with notions of heroism.

Well who thought we would see some sense from a Spark... now where is the closest bunker in case what I mentioned did spark something wrong....

A family able to survive through so many generations of super-sparks has to have something going for it in the common sense department. I'm not saying they never got carried away, and obviously Agatha and her dad and uncle focussed their energies in a new, more heroic direction, but the precedent for success was certainly there.

Eh, they don't necessarily need common sense. They just need to make sure they breed before the sausage fountain eats them.

And deliver the baby to Higgs for safe-keeping.

Does that mean Von Pinn put Higgs out of a job?

It's good practice to have redundant systems in place for childcare.

Redundancy is good, but Von Pinn was the guardian of the Wulfenbachs, not baby Heterodynes.

edited 26th Aug '14 10:44:46 PM by Lightningnettle

First she was a mechanical advisor for Andronicus.