Girl Genius

Who cares about the sketch?

I want to see a full-frontal view of the figurine on the cake. Which has Agatha and Wooster looking a little shell-shocked.

Wonder if the figurine is based on Gil's statues.

As for the artist sketch, maybe it's that time for tea one.

It looks as if it has a rather modest top and a skimpier bottom piece than either the Sturmhalten-signal or the statues. I think it is a new design.

Hard to say how much of what we can see is actually part of the figurine and how much is the raised background that forms the stage around her. Pity we'll never find out now that another hapless crop of villains has appeared and will have to be crushed without mercy. The only question will be who does the crushing. Somone's going to end up as 'raw material', methinks.

"Come with us and no one will die!" Clearly it's a street-theatre troupe.

:D

But what a law enforcement problem... Dangerous Spark or performance artist?

Bah, puppet them all.

Puppeting a street-theatre troupe is rewarding them!

Well, then. Dilemma solved.

Now for some pie.

Okay, right page this time.

Sigh. Looks like even Europa isn't free of the crazy conspiracy dorks.

edited 27th Jul '15 6:18:22 PM by Candi

And as we surmised, The Master's agents will deal with the interruption.

Even Europa? Not only do they have more crazy people, things are weird enough that the stupidest part of his conspiracy theory is that the Master is in league with the mole men—not that they exist, that he's in league with them. Agatha mentions in the first novel that finding forgotten underground kingdoms is quite common, and recently a random Beetleburg shopkeep found one while he was digging out a new basement.

Hoffmann? Hoffmann... Seems familiar. Hoffmann's Hoppers? A mech involved in the siege of Mechanicsburg?

Must do research...

I was referring to the nutcases that believe in stuff that is demonstrably not and never has been true, not the stuff that has some level of actual support. Like calling Agatha Heterodyne a Wulfenbach agent... why the heck would a Heterodyne be an agent for anyone?!

Daremo — Buck Godot was a Hoffmanite. That was my first thought. >shrug<

eta: Actually, my first thought was "What, is this the brown Gil? Or was Gil the white Hoffman...?" And then I thought about Captain Hammer. Then I thought about the Hoffmanites.

edited 27th Jul '15 8:06:04 PM by mona.soyun

Might also be a nod to the classical author E.T.A. Hoffmann.

edited 27th Jul '15 8:18:37 PM by Geoduck

What idiot attacks a Heterdyne when they've got a Jäger with them, anyway? Let alone a bunch of others whose body language equates to "can handle"?

Answer: conspiracy nutjob with a single issue wonk. -_-

edited 27th Jul '15 8:29:01 PM by Euodiachloris

You could be on to something... Check out the character list. A young girl, a singer, a muse, and a mechanical doll...?

And Agatha is brandishing Chewie. Hmm.

So, from Hoffmann's entry, the conspiracy theorist clanks seem to be nothing unusual in Paris, if the whole act isn't a tourist attraction anyway.

If the latter, I would demand hazard pay if I were to try this on a group containing a Jäger, even if Agatha may have a reputation for being agreeable.

Chewie's a lot more socially acceptable in his pint-sized variation.

I wonder if he's capable of pulling some stunts with machines if not monitored... I hope not, but Sparks don't always think everything through, and it's hard to allow for all possibilities under normal circumstances.

And it is ten kinds of stupid to attack a Heterodyne that has a Jaeger and a lady with two swords with her, just at first glance. Nevermind what Wooster and Vi have in Hammerspace.

And Agatha may have a reputation for being agreeable but that's 'agreeable for a Heterodyne'. After all, this is the girl who built a death ray in her sleep that punched a hole in a mountain clear out on the horizon!

Agatha has clearly too much on her plate right now, and minor Sparks going on conspiracies are something that Tarvek mentioned:

Meeting every half baked Spark in Paris while he was in town, thanks to Gil.

Gil's fault Tarvek met the silly Sparks... and the current loon called Agatha a Wulfenbach agent...

For some reason, I find this juxtaposition of the ideas very funny.

edited 28th Jul '15 4:38:26 PM by Candi

It's interesting to speculate that this encounter is somehow fallout from when Gil and Tarvek were in town.

No, no, you're thinking of the guys who believe Wulfenbach to be conspiring with the secret remnants of the Black Mist Raiders in a plot to conquer England and destroy Andronicus Valois and Moxana, Muse of Mysery (who are of course the real power behind Her Undying Majest). This guy is just weird.