Mod edit to add this convenience link to Girl Genius. Original OP below:
Last thread vanished with the crash...
So, the Weasel Queen interlude is over. Is this Storm King opera another one?
Edited by wingedcatgirl on Feb 19th 2025 at 1:51:41 PM
I think they are amazed by her because they have a tendency to be amazed by any feat of science. it's what makes our hero-trio so fun. They aren't jaded or cynical yet. think if it was Klaus or Beetle taking a look at the Madame; they'd go straight form admiration to wanting to dissect. Agatha and Gil (and Tarvek too, sometimes) just enjoy the process of geeking out, even if it's something they've seen iterations of. It's like a model plane enthusiast. Sure, we've seen plenty of planes and we will see plenty more but this one is cool too and deserves admiration.
edited 12th Oct '15 9:01:33 PM by OriDoodle
DoodlesFor some reason the GG site keeps crapping out on me. Forutnately, however, I can see the comic via the Livejournal post for the strip.
And thanks to the Facebook thread on the strip, I can't help but thinking of the door chime sounding like the one of the cries of "Science!" from Thomas Dolby's song "She Blinded Me with Science".
The way I see it is, it's the same reaction I have when a new cool tech comes along: I squee. Even if sci-fi's been predicting it, even if it's been extrapolated from current technologies, it's still cool. Ditto for scientific discoveries. One of my current favorites is the use of plasma beams to break stuff down to its base elements; so many applications just for recycling. (Just really expensive to initially build the plants.)
It's also who is doing the mind swap, copy, or writing code that "looks" like the mind. It's easy to go 'meh' when it's another Heterodyne/Other thing, but when it's someone completely different hitting a similar result through their own means? That's great.
I wouldn't mind an explanation of what the deal is with the Other and Lu. And it's perfectly possible to feel sympathetic to a past version of a character while wanting to stomp the current version into the ground. And then pour concrete on them. And then break it up and do it again.
edited 13th Oct '15 7:30:04 AM by Candi
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
Not just implied, either. He discussed his lack of them with his spymaster a while ago. Going by the ones that escaped to Mechanicsburg, Tarvek had given them some kind of warning, although it's not really clear when he had the chance or what it was about, as we see him basically the whole time from when he interprets Phil's story to mean Klaus is wasped to when Gil sends him back to Mechanicsburg. I'd really like to know more details on what specifically led to their all fleeing CW while Klaus had people try to shoot them down.
edited 14th Oct '15 8:26:49 AM by Schefflera
I assume he just sent a note from the command center when he was sending all sorts of other orders. Of course, the bigger question is why the Vespiary Squads haven't arranged for a weasel to come into Gil's possession. Even if they don't trust him, they should know he's fighting the Other.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.
Granted he was still in the Command Center when he listened to Phil's story, but he spent the whole time after hearing it arguing with Gil or racing off to Gil's secret lab. And oddly the Vespiary Squad member he talks to acts like they've met in person before.
You'd think it would be obvious Klaus was against the Other all those years, too, but Barry and Dr. Beetle evidently weren't confident in it. The Vespiary Squad got run off and fired on by Wulfenbach forces, and then Klaus (with a highly suspect wasp-eater) first declared Gil wasped and then that he'd put him under some second kind of mind control. There's just... nothing in this that seems likely to inspire confidence: even if the Squad thinks Gil means well, they're probably going to assume he's compromised one way or the other, and they don't want the Other to have the weasels.
edited 14th Oct '15 8:45:00 AM by Schefflera
Hee. If this was the Star Trek universe, I'd say Agatha just encountered her first Ferengi. She'd better hang onto everything she has with both hands. And I'm still not convinced Desmana-clank doesn't know anything about the missing Professor, even if she admitted she hadn't seen him for a while. After all, information is just something else to be bought, sold, and traded. If she could track Agatha through !Science! just by knowing why she was in Paris, maybe she can track the Professor by knowing what he was looking for also.
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Well it is a nice wording and it is more like every single piece of information is worth the salt and any info broker can value the info over the money...
Thing is: Is Desmana going to hold some hold time before spilling the beans or is anyone, most likely the Sturmvoraus, pay her off quite nicely? And it seems that unless I'm on the snooze, or highly away the comic won't be up.
Well here goes nothingTarvek could have met at least one member of the Vespiary Squad before learning about the wasping, and then sent them a message after Phil's story. The guy networks to get allies and keep track of opponents like he breathes. It would be entirely in character to subtly chat up a few squad members, then use that acquaintance when he realized that these incredibly valuable soldiers and their even more valuable charges were at risk.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry PratchettYou were right about everything! And it's even worse than we thought!
I think the "worse than we thought" line probably suggests that something happened before they left. It sounds like they got confirmation and more. But it'd be nice to know what he said.
edited 14th Oct '15 10:39:09 PM by Schefflera
"Tarvek Sturmvoraus, Boy Detective." Besides the backstory, I think this was intended to show us that Tarvek is very good at putting pieces of information together and acting accordingly.
Tarvek has studied Klaus extensively, by his own statement in DK. He would notice if the guy was going OOC, and he would react accordingly.
The weazels and their handlers may not have been part of whatever plan he formulated while in the sack, but the guy has proven good at adapting on the fly when things aren't flatout overwhelming. Probably one of the reasons Gil so annoyed him.
Heck, running military maneuvers wasn't in his plan when he was let out of the sack!
Tarvek may be a little weasel who still owes everyone an explanation for screwing with Agatha's communicator, but he's NOT stupid.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry PratchettI am amazed that weasels are that rare. I thought Tarvek had the vespers and the remaining weasels dispersed
into several cities, Paris among them, and Dr. Brenn had them apparently breeding.
By now the next weasel generation should be underway, and I would be disappointed with the MOP and the parisian underground, if the vespers could establish a base in their city without their knowledge
edited 16th Oct '15 2:11:56 AM by blauregen
All I know is, my gut says maybe.

I think we need to address why Desmana-clank seems to impress Agatha and Wooster and company, when they've seen entire intelligences swapped with ease and even Agatha's little clanks have complete personalities. Heck, the tiny fragment of Der Castle and the train pack a whole mind into the tiny case. Compared to them, Desmana-clank is crude.
The only thing I can think of is, it's not described as a personality transfer, but seems to be code written to duplicate Desmana's memories and mannerisms. Even then, that's only a cruder method of creating a clank that acts like the person than we've seen used already.
So is this an example of how much more advanced the uber-sparks like Agatha, the Other, and Gil are from even the gifted students of this University?