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Thread: Girl Genius: XXXenophile Edition
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2021-11-19, 12:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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2021-11-19, 12:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-19, 02:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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This ... is my signature finishing move!
"It's never good when you make a fiend cringe" - MadGrady
According to some online quiz, I'm a 6th level TN Wizard. They didn't give me full XP for all the monsters I've defeated while daydreaming.
http://easydamus.com/character.html
I am a Ranger Archetype: Gleaming Warden (thx to Ninja Prawn)
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2021-11-20, 04:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Totally not GG related - just ordered The Night Sherrif - Let's see what Mr Foglio can do when doing a straight novel...
(The GG novels were good, but still based on the comic - this is completely original).Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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2021-11-22, 02:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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"There's no way this current adversary of ours belongs to this group of people the backstory of whom I am going to explain in details for several pages. I mean come on now."
Suuuuure, whatever you say, Princess.
Also, who else thinks this "Eshkigax" is actually The Other?Forum Wisdom
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2021-11-22, 03:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Ponies not only make ME want to be a better person than I was before they entered my life, they make me want to HELP OTHERS be better people too.
And that is a GOOD thing by any definition.
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2021-11-22, 03:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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participate in fan translations of OotS to your native language:
English transcript, Deutsche Übersetzung
(links to dormant projects from others: Traduzione italiano,
Traducción español, Tradução em português, Traductions françaises [- trois fois!], מסדר המקלתרגום עברית )
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2021-11-22, 03:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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So, Ashtara and Eshkigax. There's a clear nearly-Sumerian naming scheme going on in Skifander, given how close those names are to Ishtar and Ereshkigal, goddesses respectively of love & war & politics for Ishtar and the dead for Ereshkigal.
Hark! An avatar drawn by Kate Beaton!
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2021-11-22, 04:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-22, 06:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Wow, I remember it like it was yesterday. 1969...the Summer of Love...and into my life came an exotic girl, who taught me the practices of her goddess Ashtar or Ishtar or sumethin'. We celebrated for weeks. *Sigh*. Then September came...I still sometimes wonder where she is ... and how much was due to the drugs...
Last edited by Scarlet Knight; 2021-11-23 at 02:04 PM.
"We are the people our parents warned us about!" - J.Buffett
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2021-11-22, 01:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, I was remembering incorrectly. For some reason I thought there were more. I blame it on too many pixie sticks and eating the tootsie rolls with the wrapper still on when I was a kid.
(in my defense I lived on Okinawa when I was a kid, and a lot of the Japanese candy had wrappers you could eat)
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2021-11-22, 01:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Of course, my immediate thought was "She's talking about Klaus!"
Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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2021-11-23, 11:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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She is definitely talking about Klaus.
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2021-11-23, 01:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-23, 03:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Of course. It is clearly the name of a noble and courageous warrior.
Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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2021-11-23, 05:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-23, 06:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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She may have been hoping someone will recognize the name.
Alternatively, she may realize that people expect more than just one name from her and that in Europa, your father matters more than your mother.Forum Wisdom
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2021-11-24, 01:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Soooo, recent discussion here led to a little googling. Skafander (from French scaphandre, inspired by Ancient Greek) means "diving suit" or "space suit" in Macedonian and Polish.
Now, I'm not saying that proves Skifander is on Mars (or the Moon, or maybe under water) the way some of us have previously predicted, but it definitely looks like a possible clue.Last edited by runeghost; 2021-11-24 at 01:36 AM.
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2021-11-24, 01:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on, just hold on...
Are you telling me there are no sparks in Skifander!?Forum Wisdom
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2021-11-24, 01:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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There is some evidence, presented throughout the comic, that Sparks, as understood in Europa are a Europan creation and that people in other lands, especially other continents, employ powers in different ways. For example the circus guy who was probably from Africa who managed to drastically extend his life by making a sacred vow. Agatha also described her pre-Queen powers in magical rather than scientific terms. Zeetha says that there were 'rituals' to convert a normal person into a four-armed one. It may well be the same sort of transformation a spark would conduct, but via different means.
Originally Posted by runeghost
Hypothetically, the may share this underground domain with the Geisters, who recognize Skifandrian fighting styles right away, suggesting familiarity.
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2021-11-24, 08:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-24, 11:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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I like how Agatha is being genre savvy there at the end.
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2021-11-24, 11:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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New theory: Boris is the Baron's Chief Advisor because Klaus was socially conditioned in Skifander to think of four armed people as being reliable sources of advice.
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2021-11-24, 12:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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New theory: Boris is the Baron's Chief Advisor because Klaus was socially conditioned in Skifander to think of four armed people as being reliable sources of advice.thnx to Starwoof for the fine avatar
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2021-11-24, 12:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-24, 04:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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It's also possible that Chump is a more heroic (in a classical sense) figure in Skifander than Zantabraxus is, at least to Zeetha.
He's got a few of the elements of a mythic hero, notably arriving and dissapearing without a trace in an otherwise isolated land, while Zantabraxus is their queen, they know her and have her as part of their normal life, some of them will remember her when she was a toddler. Klaus basically showed up like something out of a greek fable, did a bunch of heroics, married the queen and then poofed away with baby Gilgamesh.
He'd be like the Skifandrian version of the Heterodyne Boys, a historic figure whose actual actions are clouded by exaggerated or outright fictional tales.Last edited by Grim Portent; 2021-11-24 at 04:46 PM.
Sanity is nice to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
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2021-11-24, 04:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm kinda amused by Agatha just being savy here.
"Yeah, let's assume the four armed lady looking for Skyfander is one of those four armed priestesses.
My live's basically a dime novel."
Last edited by Kantaki; 2021-11-24 at 04:57 PM.
"If it lives it can be killed.
If it is dead it can be eaten."
Ronkong Coma "the way of the bookhunter" III Catacombium
(Walter Moers "Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher")
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2021-11-25, 10:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-25, 10:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-25, 01:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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They died, yes, but they still might have fought very well - better than most I imagine, since they were all four-armed.
Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee