Girl Genius

Although you know Gil would have shared the vaccine with England. Herd immunity and all that. (Infuriating the Other is a bonus.) So the question would be, who's vaccinated and who's not?

Assuming the Foglios remembered about the vaccine.

Even if vaccinated we can still have a lot of eye scream to go around.

If wasps come out of that thing I'll eat my hat (and I have a verra, verra nice hat).

It's probably someone new. But if not, then it's someone we have completely forgotten until now.

It could be Othar.

Higgs and Vole would be more likely, since they were at least headed to Paris when last seen. But I still think this is all Madwa's doing. It's a Smoke Knight trick.

But even then there are limits to the Victoria's Secret Compartment to say the least.

Some wooden dolls I can get by but a second sub would be breaking the record on said Compartment.

edited 11th Jan '18 6:58:05 PM by Mauri

Comic for Friday, January 12, 2018

Spark of the Realm, indeed.

Just a random thought based on this page:

Would DK pair Agatha and Colette or Agatha and Miss Thorpe in an experiment that would leave descendants that way? Because it seems that the Spark really burns bright on these girls...

You just need to think multi-generational... Pair each of the ladies with a suitably powerful male spark. Pair off any promising children.

Isn't that how domesticated stock were developed? Eugenics R us?

Well you aren't thinking mad enough... while eugenics is not off there is the possibility of mixing the DNA of both sides. Then put a minion to play "womb", bonus points that this is a variant as played in Narbonic and the possible minion will be a male to play Mister Seahorse. And that is just an option just try to think of a madder one.

Isn't there a Fire Emblem game where this kind of stuff is encouraged?

Edit: Looks like so.

edited 12th Jan '18 9:06:39 AM by Medinoc

I get the feeling that Wooster and Miss Thorpe already have a thing going, which is maybe what made him the perfect candidate to shadow Gil.

I wonder if The Lantern had anything to do with this.

edited 12th Jan '18 12:24:50 PM by MagusLucius

Methinks Agatha has just developed a girl crush.

Nix my previous guess. Other couldnt keep silent. New secondary characters then, or the Vesperary Squad.

I believe Othar could keep silent if it was for the sake of a proper entrance.

I disagree. Other couldn't keep silent if his life depended on it. GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER's silent? I don't think so.

There's not going to be anyone we know. There will be a dead crew and no sign of Madwa or Zardeliv, because she's going to spirit him away through the hole that Ms. Thorpe just blew, if she hasn't already left.

Probably.

Is it truly silent, or is there a Sparky sound dampening field at play?

Re: Videogame I don't see a GG videogame working where the player actually plays as a spark. Sparks have themes sure, but pulling things out of their asses tends to be their modus operandi, and I just don't see how a programmed system could have the flexibility needed to do a player-controlled spark justice. It would work quite well in a tabletop setting, I think, but not a videogame.

If I was to do a GG videogame, the player would be controlling a high-ranked minion or otherwise badass-non-sparky individual, someone like Moloch, or maybe Wooster, as they try to deal with the NPC sparks, managing and/or manipulating their personalities in order to survive. The player would be able to use preexisting sparky tech, certainly, maybe even build some fairly impressive devices with a crafting system, but the only new things would be coming from the pre-scripted spark NP Cs, based on triggers, scripted events or procedurally based on some sort of tech tree and AI.

Hm. Though full disclosure, my head canon for a while now has been that sparks are actually warping the laws of physics when they go to the madness place. They don't discover a way to eg: magnetize molten metal, they force the universe to adjust itself until such a thing is possible, after which it is. If one believes that the GG universe actually does operate on a fixed set of physics, a videogame might be more feasible to program.

There actually is a GG video game, The Rats of Mechanicsburg. You play Krosp driving a bipedal clank and killing mechanical mice. It got released in some formats, but then development evidently stalled- there are people on its Kickstarter page complaining about not getting their pledged extras.

Here's the gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b7XAZnnW9o - doesn't look like a very good game...

I think a sparky crafting system could totally work - you could have a "normal" crafting system for crafting basic items - but could also switch to "madness place" crafting, where for a limited time you have creative ideas to use ingredients for special purposes; so if you're lucky you can get the effect you needed that wasn't available with your basic ingredients. Sometimes the effects can be hidden (you think adding that is a good idea but don't know why), and the limited time mechanic should encourage you to try to jam a bunch of extra effects in there, ending up with a device (often a weapon or clank or turret) that ends up not exactly doing what you wanted.

A mechanic that could work with that is that certain additions could be flagged as "exciting", which would increase your "madness place" gauge, allowing you to stay in that mode a bit longer.

edited 14th Jan '18 1:35:57 PM by Nomophilos

That does sound like a pretty fun mechanic.

Awwww... there's no Girl Genius Civilization mod. Although it was suggested in a Steam forum when someone was looking for ideas!

Someone started a Sims mod, but it doesn't look like it was completed.

edited 14th Jan '18 8:55:24 PM by Candi