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
Anyone else notice the pun: Conquest of the hair
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And we've passed a new Hundred!
edited 26th Oct '15 2:51:08 AM by GreybeardFan
The wasp info is out there, in the hands, for now, of a construct that can't be wasped. Excellent, and a piece of info the Foglios didn't keep hidden; so it must be important that we know it. I adore the idea of Agatha's little flying clanks protecting people from wasping, but suspect her voice will be more useful at the party. Maybe not though, the geisters must be aware of her ability after all, I wonder if the wasps could have been fiddled with to be more discriminatory between Agatha and the Lu-in-Charge.
Biological constructs are probably vulnerable on a general basis, although I wonder if the ones around Mechanicsburg 'happened' to get their hands on Tarvek's vaccine via Gil via the obvious back-and-forth between at least two people.
Since no Jaegers were wasped at any point, and Lu is darn well aware of their capabilities as soldiers, I suspect that an unforeseen side effect of being Jaeger is immunity to the wasps. (The Jaegers' return to Mechanicsburg is still hysterical.)
Zeetha and Vi were probably both passing the time by reading. If someone interrupted Zeetha's reading by attacking, she'd clobber them on principle. If someone disturbed Vi, they'd hit the ground while Vi muttered about being bothered at the good part.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
Wasn't it also mentioned somewhere before the big time bubble that Klaus had Mechanicsburg checked out by the wasp eaters and none of the townspeople were infected, and how impossible that seemed? Maybe the local Dyne water imparts some sort of immunity, even the de-powered variety that reaches the average citizen now.
Yep -- Jägers don't get wasped.
Interestingly, hardly anybody in Mechanicsburg is wasped, which Tarvek finds surprising
. The reasons for this are unclear. Tarvek clearly expects there to be some, but does he expect wasps to have just found their way there, a deliberate release, people to have moved in? Is it lack of exposure, or does the Dyne still have a few interesting effects even after the Castle is drained?
(For that matter... this still hasn't been addressed, I think... the Castle wasn't storing Dyne energy for about 19 years... so where was it going? Surely somebody would have noticed if that river out of a big tourist town was causing deaths and dramatic mutations all the way downstream?)
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Not Klaus, but yeah, they looked.
edited 26th Oct '15 11:48:44 AM by Schefflera
I got the vague impression that the Castle was still somehow draining off the Dyne-power all this time, even though it wasn't getting any electric power from the giant waterwheel.
The Mansion of EI've always believed that escargot tasted like whatever you cooked them in. They're basically a very bland clam. That being said I can't imagine any way that you could turn them into ice cream. Even if you cooked them in butter and parsley and then chilled it and mixed it with cream to make a savory ice cream? The very thought brings shudders.
A few years ago, a Japanese company came up with an ice cream with chunks of horse meat. Never underestimate humanity's weirdness or attempts to find new and peculiar dishes to try. And that's without getting into the making anything and everything into alcohol.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry PratchettThat's completely different. Gilroy is the garlic city. Surrounding cities can judge direction by the smell of garlic on the wind. People would look at them weird if they hadn't made a garlic ice cream.
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Zeetha, what HAVE you been doing in your life!?!
And Agatha just gave Desmana an interesting bit of intel for free -how to track certain items!
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry PratchettAlso, my impression from the last panel is that dkbot is the someone who she plans on tracking the emissions with; and we've not seen anything else like dkbot. She hasn't sold the information on building him.
Whoever Agatha ends up with will owe Zeetha many thanks.
Van recommends snail gelato to Agatha.
edited 27th Oct '15 10:45:23 PM by Lightningnettle
Zeetha comes from the city that worships Ashtara. A steamy romance is practically a holy tract.
Madame Des is going to be most interested in Dink-K. And what mysteries lie in the grocery lists of Professor Zardilev?
edited 28th Oct '15 2:43:17 AM by GreybeardFan

There's nothing special in most bio-constructs that would protect them from wasping (wasp eaters being a notable, purpose-made exception). Machine constructs and cyborgs however...
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