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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

DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#50876: Nov 13th 2017 at 9:26:12 AM

If he's English, he must be working for Albia, right? As in, any other choice is unthinkable?

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
32_Footsteps Think of the mooks! from Just north of Arkham Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Think of the mooks!
#50877: Nov 13th 2017 at 10:15:00 AM

Maybe my style has always to prefer someone Beneath Suspicion. I'm too used to aristocracy being backstabbing and self-interested to be surprised when they're secretly running something else.

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Mauri Absent-Minded Professor from Where was I again? Since: Mar, 2012
Absent-Minded Professor
#50878: Nov 13th 2017 at 12:42:04 PM

Well here is something that popped on the nogging while literally removing a cobweb from the head, although it is not on the whole "aristocratic spies". If Agatha is going to Africa then it is going to give a good time around before even thinking of what Asia but here is the kicker:

What if the Foglios were planning to make Agatha go to Australia. Real Life land of Everything Is Trying to Kill You and bringing DK ingbot with her... DK's reaction to the Corbetite security setup was onto "I have much to learn". Now picture what DK would do after a season in Australia...

edited 13th Nov '17 12:43:00 PM by Mauri

Well here goes nothing
Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#50879: Nov 13th 2017 at 4:21:05 PM

[up]Fall in love. DK in any size or shape would fall in love with both Australia and Madagascar.

Geoduck Bivalve from Pacific NW (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
Bivalve
#50880: Nov 13th 2017 at 5:48:31 PM

For all we know, Skifandar is in Australia, and she's scheduled to go there as well. (Tho I'm still mostly inclined to believe it's on Mars..)

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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
#50881: Nov 13th 2017 at 5:49:45 PM

Tasmania and New Zealand have their own special charms too. tongue

Dinky-DK, Chibi-Chewie, and the harmless-looking blue-ring octopus or cone snail. Fun times.

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DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#50882: Nov 13th 2017 at 6:49:13 PM

Dont underestimate the dramatic possibilities of Antarctica.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
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
#50883: Nov 14th 2017 at 7:05:29 AM

Just ask penguins about leopard seals.tongue

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Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#50884: Nov 14th 2017 at 7:22:10 AM

A South Atlantic pilchard probably has several nasty concepts to share about penguins, and all. [lol]

edited 14th Nov '17 7:22:27 AM by Euodiachloris

Mauri Absent-Minded Professor from Where was I again? Since: Mar, 2012
Absent-Minded Professor
#50885: Nov 14th 2017 at 8:34:40 AM

Considering the lethality of some of the other stuff including the weather DK would just ask Agatha for another season while Agatha and co will have a face of "no hell no".

Also what are the chances of meeting the local kangaroos with missile packs?

Well here goes nothing
Anura from England Since: Apr, 2011 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#50886: Nov 14th 2017 at 8:59:30 AM

I'm sticking with "Skifandar is on Mars".

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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
#50887: Nov 14th 2017 at 3:06:29 PM

I need to read some of the Barsoom stories -Project Gutenberg has them. Some of the monsters look like they'd give a Tasmanian Devil pause -before the fuzz ball ate the monster anyway.

(But not that Elvis/Barsoom crossover fanfic someone got paid for writing. Ugh.)

Back on topic, Skifander has some nasty monsters, Mars or not -Zeetha's mother had to learn to delegate killing them. tongue

edited 14th Nov '17 3:06:52 PM by Candi

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we must dissent (it/they)
#50888: Nov 14th 2017 at 6:40:38 PM

(But not that Elvis/Barsoom crossover fanfic someone got paid for writing. Ugh.)

wait what run that by me again

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DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#50889: Nov 14th 2017 at 7:42:54 PM

And yet the penguins become more sympathetic characters once it is revealed how they have been abused by the killer whales.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
Nohbody "In distress", my ass. from Somewhere in Dixie Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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GreybeardFan Since: Aug, 2009
#50892: Nov 15th 2017 at 3:24:41 AM

"I'm quite mad."

Tell us something we don't know.

Can this be Othar's stand-in while the Hero is locked in a time prison?

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
#50893: Nov 15th 2017 at 3:27:29 AM

Last panel: Ahl righty then.

Elvis/Barsoom: from Literature.Alien Pregnant By Elvis. A 1994 book that was the result of Esther Friesner sending out a call for sci-fi authors to out-tabloid the tabloids. Too much JFK, but decent brain junk food. The Barsoom one, though, is serious Mary Sue tripe written in the first person from Elvis' perspective.

And what is it with Elvis-in-hiding always having black hair? He was naturally blond!

Back sorta on topic, Sparks would be all over the turning-into-animal people thing.

BTW, is that guy saying he's a Spark, or just really close?

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Mauri Absent-Minded Professor from Where was I again? Since: Mar, 2012
Absent-Minded Professor
#50894: Nov 15th 2017 at 4:48:32 AM

Given he mentioned all the short hands and stuff and that for hiding info from others it also means that Brunel here has been dealing with several types of shorthand and stuff. So the engine in the Library can be one thing that can and will be asked, or that Agatha saved a lot of his time with the Weaselgraph.

Even if Brunel is a Spark capable of dealing with other Sparks codes (a mad cryptographer), they get as much use as mad social scientists. But in a place like England with a very clear and stable "Alpha" Spark like Albia then the minor Sparks have just learned how to behave.

And yeah you can say I took Mittlemind a couple o times.

Well here goes nothing
Geoduck Bivalve from Pacific NW (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
Bivalve
#50895: Nov 15th 2017 at 8:55:13 AM

[up][up][up] Gil extracted Othar from the time-bubble. The last we heard of him, he was giving a Rousing Speech in the Mechanicsburg workshops.

[down]With the added bonus that, as far as Gil is concerned, he's completely expendable.

edited 15th Nov '17 9:19:52 PM by Geoduck

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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
#50896: Nov 15th 2017 at 8:20:38 PM

And I think he was extracted at least partially because he rivals Superman in 'things that can't kill him'.

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
Mauri Absent-Minded Professor from Where was I again? Since: Mar, 2012
Absent-Minded Professor
#50897: Nov 16th 2017 at 3:42:19 AM

To be fair they started with Vole because that way they had knowledge with someone whom could survive but Othar was a casualty and for a small time fanservice. Not to mention that several people working under Gil were fans of Othar.

Gil and most of the Sparks of the setting would have wanted to leave Othar frozen in time for a longer time... which I am guessing was the other reason why several people were willing to work with Gil in the Empire to be sure to be on the side that has the sealed Othar in a can.

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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
#50898: Nov 16th 2017 at 4:07:42 AM

[lol][lol][lol][lol]

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#50899: Nov 16th 2017 at 5:21:39 PM

"sealed Othar in a can."

Should totally be a trope.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
Geoduck Bivalve from Pacific NW (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
Bivalve
#50900: Nov 16th 2017 at 9:51:34 PM

Backstory. That England is still in the process of sinking is an interesting twist.

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