Girl Genius

I'd say Drusus is genre-savvy but not super genre-savvy. Enough to be amusing, at least.

While I hope this thread is resolved quickly, I'm curious to see how this goes.

If it turns out the Master was totally aware of the wanna-be master and was just waiting for the right moment to clobber him, I'm gonna laugh.

And if he does, it will be a serious shoutout to Havelock Veterinari demonstrating that The Master probably knows their shoe size and what they ate for breakfast. Laugh? Uproariously!

The would be usurper is also genre savvy, at least to a degree. His first reaction was after all "Get rid of her!" This is also the woman who managed to fight the Wulfenbach Empire to a Pyrrhic victory.

Now to see if he's genre savvy enough to know that messing with the most powerful man's desired main squeeze never, ever turns out well -even when she's a fainting flower. Agatha's more of an elegant wrench, useful for fixing or breaking things.

Yeah, unless he intends to ship her immediately to Gil for brownie points it simply sounds like a good way to get all that monomania focused on him.

A simple message to Gil, though, would tell Gil where Agatha is. Perhaps that the point of this? Though it seems like there'd be easier ways.

Of course, Mad Scientists are always kidnapping beautiful girls, and the multiple kidnappings let the Foglios play with all the tropes around it.

Hmm, I wonder what Martellus, Seffie and Grandmother would think of this. I don't think they would be very happy with this turn of events, even in the unlikely case where they are allied to that upstart. So they would be added to the list of Scary Powerful People Who Be Angry.

And considering all this happened in a public place with everybody well aware of who Agatha is, in a city obsessed with her ... news is going to travel fast.

They should probably just lock her up in a storeroom with all the mad science equipment, what could go wrong? She's tied up anyway, it's not as if she had a small clank with hands hidden somewhere.

I fully expect the master to be Vetinary-like and fully aware of this plot, the question is whether he will come stomping in with Agatha's entourage, or if they will make it there separately, or if one of the many wildcards running around - Martelus, Gil, Othar - will be there first.

No, no, no. Vetinari wouldn't show up in person. He'd send a Dark Clerk or two . . . or maybe the Watch. If The Master is like that the response will be more like the Corbettite's. Thonk! "So sorry for the inconvenience, m'lady. Here let me cut you free."

Page is up.

edited 7th Aug '15 4:53:59 PM by mona.soyun

...This is interesting. And it at least explains why Agatha hasn't escaped yet. Once again, the villains prove to be only a little bit genre-savvy.

I do have to wonder about the kitchen-appliance industry in Europa though. And the old trope about Dad tinkering with the toaster in the garage.

yeah i think this is just a set up for the Master of Paris to make his grand entrance.

Are you kidding? He's basically giving Agatha all she needs to know to subvert the plot and take the clanks over. Another case of villains without two brain cells among them.

Velvet dungeon, really? Well, I hope it has some tools that are useful to Agatha. I think Agatha is going to confound this usurper by messing with this machinery, since she's been told it's essential. This will put the Master of Paris in her debt and give her a better position to get the information she needs. Particularly if she does it in some way that is impressive to other Sparks.

Agatha. is checking out. the available gadgetry.

And she was denied cake.

(hides)

Good idea. *skootches in next to Candi, pulls heavy object in front of opening, throws bolts on ceiling hatch, cowers in corner*

And while they appear to have confiscated the weasel, I bet they lock her in the Velvet Dungeon alone with the Beast. They might even be stupid enough to untie her arms.

edited 7th Aug '15 11:05:58 PM by Geoduck

Dude, you misunderstand that "really" of hers. It was short for "you have got to be kidding me" about your whole plan... and your telling her everything she needed to know about it.

Congrats: you're an idiot. And, about to lose control of each of your clanky bodies, on top of everything else.

I am not positive whether Drusus is faking his enthusiasm for the-would-be-Master's plan and "music-hall villainy" to him or faking his disgust and eyerolling to Agatha, but... considering he has just persuaded the guy against his better judgment to allow a Heterodyne wrench into his plan with a strong possibility of attracting a Wulfenbach hammer... um... well. Yes. It sort of looks like he is either really bad at this or not actually working in the usurper's interests.

Good that Agatha didn't quietly go along.

Bad that not only was she kidnapped in the first place, we didn't see her taking out those other copies of her kidnapper. Blasphemous writing.

edited 7th Aug '15 11:51:05 PM by Nohbody

I can see the appeal, but on the other hand, do we actually want this drawn out longer before we find out what's going on?

I wonder if Drusus is, in fact, controlled by the Master of Paris.

Foiling an attempted usurpation would be a good opportunity to meet the Master of Paris, who might otherwise not bother with tourists, even if they are prominent. If not for delivery of the would-be-usurper, then possibly for thanking her and offering help in return.

@Medinoc: that occurred to me -when I was deep in the middle of 'kids are at Grandma's till tomorrow evening, yay!' stuff. So I forgot about it until you mentioned it.

Remote drones where the actual person is somewhere where you may not ever have met them? What could go wrong?

Hopefully when(ever) they get to the novel for this part, they'll expand on the additions to the junkyard.

I can't see The Master going out of his way to sexually embarrass and humiliate The Heterodyne. For a thousand years known to be one of the most unrestrained, volatile and deadly entities on the planet. Bonus points for enraging the Jager, Gil, Martellus, the Monks, Krosp and his Bears, and everyone else who has a stake in the fate of this girl.