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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

Candi Sorcerer in training from Closer to rimward than hubward Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: They can't hide forever. We've got satellites.
Sorcerer in training
#45026: Oct 28th 2015 at 7:05:44 AM

Agatha may not be telling Madame how the tracing can be done, but she has told her that it can be done. Knowing something can be done is often all a good inventor needs even without the Spark. It's one step up from "sci-fi thought that up? Challenge accepted."

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
GreybeardFan Since: Aug, 2009
#45027: Oct 28th 2015 at 8:49:51 AM

The second to last panel shows that Madame Des knows that with Agatha she's out of her depth. Heck, Agatha has turned Madame Des's demands to her advantage.

It seems this Heterodyne has the attributes of Storm Queen.

AnotherBear I used to be Ol Bear from Too far away Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
I used to be Ol Bear
#45028: Oct 28th 2015 at 9:30:54 AM

Which should give Tweedle and anyone else claiming the throne pause. Of course Tweedle's armor-plated ego won't permit that.

If it moves, eat it. If it doesn't move, kick it—then eat it!
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Bivalve
#45029: Oct 28th 2015 at 10:04:28 AM

[up]Tweedle's had screaming warning signs flashing in his face from the start, and he has ignored them. And this is totally in-character for him.

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AnotherBear I used to be Ol Bear from Too far away Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
I used to be Ol Bear
#45030: Oct 28th 2015 at 11:15:16 AM

Yup. As I used to tell my students, 'stupid' is a condition you can't do much about but 'dumb' is a choice, a bad choice. Tweedle isn't stupid but dumb? Man!

If it moves, eat it. If it doesn't move, kick it—then eat it!
GreybeardFan Since: Aug, 2009
#45031: Oct 28th 2015 at 11:29:36 AM

Yeah. Tweedle-Dum. Tweedle, dumb.

edited 28th Oct '15 11:29:48 AM by GreybeardFan

Candi Sorcerer in training from Closer to rimward than hubward Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: They can't hide forever. We've got satellites.
Sorcerer in training
#45032: Oct 28th 2015 at 7:54:30 PM

Tweedle's skill as a Spark is degraded by his arrogance.

I think Tweedle's run-in with pre-bot Chewie pretty much sums up how dumb he can be in the face of something blatantly and obviously trouble.

Tweedle must be really hard to kill. Even more so than we've seen. It's the only thing I can think of that explains why his own arrogance hasn't been used to bait him into a trap.

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
Mopman43 Since: Nov, 2013
#45033: Oct 28th 2015 at 8:03:12 PM

Well, we've already seen that, when he had to work his way up the family plot one stabbing at a time. If he could learn to actually exercise some caution, he might just get something done.

GreybeardFan Since: Aug, 2009
#45034: Oct 28th 2015 at 9:08:43 PM

And by depopulating the reserve of Storm King claimants, he might yet have done a service.

edited 28th Oct '15 9:10:04 PM by GreybeardFan

Nohbody "In distress", my ass. from Somewhere in Dixie Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
GreybeardFan Since: Aug, 2009
#45036: Oct 29th 2015 at 4:14:07 AM

More seriously, Agatha has all Lu's knowledge locked away. Will some of it surface in the face of a wasp attack?

AnotherBear I used to be Ol Bear from Too far away Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
I used to be Ol Bear
#45037: Oct 29th 2015 at 9:12:53 PM

Unfortunately I doubt that we're going to find out much about it. I feel a very strong vibe that there's about to be a change of scene on Friday.

If it moves, eat it. If it doesn't move, kick it—then eat it!
mona.soyun Since: Sep, 2014
#45038: Oct 29th 2015 at 9:16:00 PM

The page is up.

And that explains a lot.

Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#45039: Oct 29th 2015 at 9:28:54 PM

OK, right now, I just want to strangle her. Cold or not, you don't treat tea like that. Let alone treat a servant like that. -_-

JerryC Since: Jul, 2012
#45040: Oct 29th 2015 at 9:33:06 PM

Oooh Kaay. Crazy Lady alert. Shame. And here she seemed the rational one of the family, except for her Grandma.

Definitely gonna be a 40 clown car pileup at that masked ball.

Candi Sorcerer in training from Closer to rimward than hubward Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: They can't hide forever. We've got satellites.
Sorcerer in training
#45041: Oct 29th 2015 at 10:01:12 PM

Link.

And I bet Gil knows what Steffie's been up to. And after the inhabitants of Mechanicsburg found out about Klaus' plans so, so easily by intercepting messages to the troops, I suspect Seffie doesn't know as much as she thinks she does.

And you don't treat good china like that. Or a good servant like that. sad

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
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World's Cutest Direwolf
#45042: Oct 29th 2015 at 10:23:31 PM

I don't expect she makes a habit of either treatment, or Grandmama wouldn't let her use the good china and Crispin wouldn't feel comfortable questioning the wisdom of her hobbies.

Dear, dear, Gil. When the Heterodyne is the reasonable one out of your suitors I do fear you've inherited your father's luck with women.

Candi Sorcerer in training from Closer to rimward than hubward Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: They can't hide forever. We've got satellites.
Sorcerer in training
#45043: Oct 29th 2015 at 10:45:56 PM

Agatha's the nice Heterodyne, kind to children, small animals, and constructs. tongue Just don't tick her off.

Edit: OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I just realized... what didn't Steffie see in that purloined stack of Gil's mail!?!

Didn't Hobbs tell Gil to write Agatha a letter? I don't see Stef staying quiet about that!

edited 29th Oct '15 11:10:38 PM by Candi

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ilaine Since: Jan, 2013
#45044: Oct 30th 2015 at 12:30:27 AM

"Since I was a child" implies she has crushed on him since he was in school, which means she likes him for himself, not just his empire — or that her intel was really really good. Albia knew, and the Master probably knew. hmm.

GreybeardFan Since: Aug, 2009
#45045: Oct 30th 2015 at 12:55:26 AM

I suspect that Higgs will carry that letter himself. Meanwhile, Seffie's crush isn't just new politics. (It might be old politics).

And Seffie blames anyone but herself. She's more clever than her brother, but no less Dumb.

If Gil is anything like his father, he knows about the interception.

And Seffie has a huminoid cat (or feline human?) to serve her tea. No wonder she calls Tweedle's Sparkhunds 'filthy dogs'.

And that gives us Seffie's real attitude towards her brother, as if we didn't know.

edited 30th Oct '15 1:00:05 AM by GreybeardFan

mona.soyun Since: Sep, 2014
#45046: Oct 30th 2015 at 2:23:31 AM

Yeah, I'm definitely getting a genuine um, attachment here.

This page is actually a huge relief...

I'd been feeling kind of bad for her, since she seemed sane enough and her crush on Gil was pretty surely doomed. Not so much, anymore... :D

I'm also relieved that she finally revealed her brand of crazy. I was expecting her to stay an unknown for a lot longer. How refreshingly unambiguous!

Candi Sorcerer in training from Closer to rimward than hubward Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: They can't hide forever. We've got satellites.
Sorcerer in training
#45047: Oct 30th 2015 at 6:28:38 AM

Something about Stef's body language in the last 3-4 panels really, really bothers me. But I can't put my finger on it.

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
ilaine Since: Jan, 2013
#45048: Oct 30th 2015 at 8:07:50 AM

[up][up][up] I'm not getting where it shows Seffie's attitude towards her brother - although it is definitely in her interest to see Agatha attached to Tweedle and out of the way, so she's likely to genuinely support him in that.

Now I wonder what her position is vis a vis Zola, who was always underfoot getting rescued by Gil.

Speaking of Zola, I'm putting my Moxana chips on her being "Queen of the Dawn" having infiltrated the Giesters via her ability to impersonate Lu well enough to fool Lunevka. I'm putting her in one of the party clown cars.

scionofgrace from the depths of my brain Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#45049: Oct 30th 2015 at 8:09:56 AM

[up] Yeah. Hey, do we know if Zola's sparky? Do we ever see her spark out? (Besides being generally insane/sadistic, anyway.) Because that would explain why the Queen of the Dawn hasn't invented anything new.

Lightningnettle Nettle Since: Apr, 2012 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Nettle
#45050: Oct 30th 2015 at 8:52:02 AM

Oh dear. All this time I've been blaming Klaus for intercepting the mail from Theo et al.; now it seems more likely to have been Seffie. I never fully understood why Klaus would do that, and defaulted to isolating Gil to make him stronger; but Seffie would have much more motivation, wanting him to turn to her. There may also be some backstory there that explains why Gil seemed more friendly with her when they were together on the ship than I expected.

Candi, I think it's the wide swing from intense anger to silliness to blaming someone else for her misdeeds. Though, I have been around people with serious anger problems and it's quite true that they don't remember what they do when in the throes of anger. Still, she should have gotten a clue from it being in her own hand.


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