Girl Genius XXXI: Let’s look at it from farther away!

[Manga Shoggoth]

What was it Tarvek said? "I had no idea She was capable of such self-awareness"?

While the good ol' psycho version is welcome everywhere (for a given value of "welcome", of course), I rather like that the current arc is giving us more of a glimpse into our favourite pirate captian.

[wingnutx]

Bangladesh Dupree: life coach for Sparks.

I like it.

[Fyraltari]

A: "Do you two know there's a temple filled with ancient artifacts forgotten for 20,000 years under the island you're destroying"
M: "THERE'S WHAT?"

L: THERE WAS!

Bangladesh Dupree: life coach for Sparks.

And death coach for everyone else!

[Shining Wrath]

L: THERE WAS!

And death coach for everyone else!

Rising to the defense of Lucrezia, who gets picked on a lot, she'd want to preserve the ancient artifacts.
For use in the Mirrors, but still, she'd want to preserve them.

Now I'm trying to remember if Bangladesh has ever killed a Spark in-comic. None comes to mind. She did stab Tweedle a lot back when Agatha was escaping from his castle, but he's tough, he lived through it.

[Fyraltari]

Rising to the defense of Lucrezia, who gets picked on a lot, she'd want to preserve the ancient artifacts.

Please. I'm a time-traveller. I point and laugh at archeologists.

For use in the Mirrors, but still, she'd want to preserve them.

Meh, most of the mirrors are destroyed and she seems primarily concerned with Europa and Skifander for now.

[geoduck]

Meh, most of the mirrors are destroyed and she seems primarily concerned with Europa and Skifander for now.

We don't know if all the Mirrors are destroyed or just inactive.

[Fyraltari]

We don't know if all the Mirrors are destroyed or just inactive.

Potato, potato.

[Shining Wrath]

Potato, potato.

If, by obtaining an artifact from e.g., Atlantis, she could now travel to Atlantis and loot Atlantic artifacts that are any of [valuable, powerful, prestigious, or just pretty], I would think Lucrezia would be all about the looting.

[Fyraltari]

If the Mirrors don't work, they don't work, though. An Atlantean artefact won't help much if the thing is deactivated on the other side.

[Shining Wrath]

If the Mirrors don't work, they don't work, though. An Atlantean artefact won't help much if the thing is deactivated on the other side.

What we don't know is how many mirrors are in Skifanderian status (still functional but no one on their side knows how to use them), how many are still functional but there's no one left alive at all after Lucrezia visited or society simply collapsed, how many are functional but are buried in rubble like the one here on the island seems destined to be, and how many are disabled.

We don't know for certain that they can be harmed by anything short of Sparky tech.

[wingnutx]

She did stab Tweedle a lot back when Agatha was escaping from his castle, but he's tough, he lived through it.

He was also armored, iirc.

[otakuryoga]

wow
it is SUPER early
but i think we have a frontrunner for next thread title
"Didn't expect all this fuss"

[Shining Wrath]

wow
it is SUPER early
but i think we have a frontrunner for next thread title
"Didn't expect all this fuss"

I came in here with this same thought.

Dr. Rakethorne is not taking normal-level Agatha chaos well.

[St Fan]

Oh my, I am starting to think that Captain "Don't Care" may not be the most sterling example of competency...

[TheStranger]

Oh my, I am starting to think that Captain "Don't Care" may not be the most sterling example of competency...

Nah, he just didn’t expect all this fuss.

All kidding aside, taking advantage of some downtime to catch up on maintenance isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

[Ailurus]

Sure, using the downtime to fix up stuff is good. Using the downtime to start at least 3 separate maintenance projects (the engines, the door and the pest control) and leaving them all half done is not so good. One thing at a time, rather than multiple things all at once and all unfinished.

[Scarlet Knight]

Yeah but when you're a "Professional Castaway" you likely want to leave something to keep you occupied tomorrow...and Saturday...and next Arbor Day...

[Kantaki]

To be fair, before Team Agatha showed up he was stuck with a bunch of murderous lunatics (Okay, there's still Bang, but eh, that's family for ya.) so getting stuff fixed fast might not have been top priority.

[TheStranger]

Sure, using the downtime to fix up stuff is good. Using the downtime to start at least 3 separate maintenance projects (the engines, the door and the pest control) and leaving them all half done is not so good. One thing at a time, rather than multiple things all at once and all unfinished.

That’s true, unless there’s some reason to run them concurrently. Even if that reason is just that the engine is too much heavy lifting to work straight through on, so he fiddled with the door when he got tired, or that he got halfway through the door mechanism and ran into a problem that he wanted to think about for a bit. The pest control, I think he’s actually saying he was going to get to that after he finished the other projects.

Or more likely the Foglios just thought it would be funny to have him treat airship maintenance like I treat home improvement projects. I swear I’m going to rebuild the fire pit in the backyard next weekend, really.

[Radar]

That’s true, unless there’s some reason to run them concurrently. Even if that reason is just that the engine is too much heavy lifting to work straight through on, so he fiddled with the door when he got tired, or that he got halfway through the door mechanism and ran into a problem that he wanted to think about for a bit. The pest control, I think he’s actually saying he was going to get to that after he finished the other projects.

Or more likely the Foglios just thought it would be funny to have him treat airship maintenance like I treat home improvement projects. I swear I’m going to rebuild the fire pit in the backyard next weekend, really.

If a man says he will do it, he will do it - you do not have to remind him every 6 months.

[Thomas Cardew]

Also other than the engines, which he had in pieces as the active project he was working on, the other problems didn't matter for his original mission: ferrying 2 probably homicidal passengers. Cargo doors don't matter if you're not hauling cargo. Half lift capacity doesn't matter if you're operating well below that. The problem is he's being asked to suddenly perform a mass evacuation.

[Kantaki]

Also other than the engines, which he had in pieces as the active project he was working on, the other problems didn't matter for his original mission: ferrying 2 probably homicidal passengers. Cargo doors don't matter if you're not hauling cargo. Half lift capacity doesn't matter if you're operating well below that. The problem is he's being asked to suddenly perform a mass evacuation.

Not the cargo doors.
The hangar doors. Meaning, even if the piece of junk could fly they wouldn't get it out.
Not a problem if you are just sitting around with some maniacs who won't (let you) leave anytime soon anyway, but kinda bothersome when everything's busy exploding.

[sihnfahl]

Dr. Rakethorne is not taking normal-level Agatha chaos well.

And that's when he realizes he can't do what his Queen wants; Agatha's NORMAL is so outside what is NORMAL that even Albia would have fun keeping up.

[theangelJean]

Sure, using the downtime to fix up stuff is good. Using the downtime to start at least 3 separate maintenance projects (the engines, the door and the pest control) and leaving them all half done is not so good. One thing at a time, rather than multiple things all at once and all unfinished.

I was wondering if he was a bit Sparky, what with the rebuild-from-scratch bit.

But I guess Sparks don't leave things half-done. 90% done and just haven't found the perfect workaround for that pesky side-effect, maybe...

[Radar]

I was wondering if he was a bit Sparky, what with the rebuild-from-scratch bit.

But I guess Sparks don't leave things half-done. 90% done and just haven't found the perfect workaround for that pesky side-effect, maybe...

Most importantly he does not have a single grain of excitement in him unlike any Spark we know.

[Shining Wrath]

Most importantly he does not have a single grain of excitement in him unlike any Spark we know.

Furthermore, he's not trying to turn the balloon bees into guard insects, nor trying to make the hanger door capable of crushing disobedient minions, nor increasing the engine power 10-fold. Clearly NOT a Spark.

[Scarlet Knight]

Do I detect doubt in Bang? Can't say that's in character...

[Shining Wrath]

I'm going to guess that pirate queens are pretty good combat pilots.

At least one bot has made it safely to Agatha's shoulder.

[sihnfahl]

Do I detect doubt in Bang? Can't say that's in character...

No, I think she's just surprised that Agatha asked it in the first place. After all: Pirate Queen who's been working for WULFENBACH all these years? How many deployments against sparks? And what's been going on the past few years?

[Agi Hammerthief]

No, I think she's just surprised that Agatha asked it in the first place. After all: Pirate Queen who's been working for WULFENBACH all these years? How many deployments against sparks? And what's been going on the past few years?

I read that with a „is water wet? you’ll find out when you jump in.“ tone of voice.