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2019-03-28, 11:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
So, do you think, "What could possibly go wrong?" was something these guys officially recited en masse at their weekly club meetings?
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2019-03-29, 03:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-03-29, 05:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Tor zur Welt
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Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
it would be realky funny if they summoned the extradimentional equivslrnt of a chicken.
* my emphasis
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Things that don't kill me make me strong
Things that do kill me leave me dead
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2019-03-29, 09:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Land of Stone and Stars
Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
Spoiler: My inventory:
1 Sentient Sword
1 Jammy Dodger (I was promised tea)
1 Godwin Point.
Originally Posted by Kairos Theodosian
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2019-03-29, 12:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
"All will gratefully bow before us, even Albia herself!"
Last panel of Wednesday's strip.
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2019-03-29, 01:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2007
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- Land of Stone and Stars
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2019-03-29, 02:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2013
Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
You made the mistake of assuming they had some survival instincts, no matter how vestigial. You forgot these are Sparks we're talking about.
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2019-03-30, 03:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2009
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- Hungary
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Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
Even a demigoddess such as Albia has so much trouble keeping her spark subjects in line. Now consider Klaus, an ordinary (relatively speaking) spark, who could keep his empire together without the implicit loyalty that's usual towards Albia. That's a feat.
Guess what spell I cast before posting this message.
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2019-03-30, 07:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2010
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- right behind you
Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
Its impressive sure, but dont forget to add that his empire is WAAAAY bigger than paris or england on top of it all. Too be fair he isnt as good as the master or albia as there is always trouble, which is why he lives in his giant sky fleet, but yeah, being able to keep things together and conflagrations on the small side is a really good sign of just how effective he is with his government plan. (Mostly it boils down to "DONT MAKE ME COME OVER THERE!")
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-03-30, 07:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Pacific NW
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Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
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2019-03-30, 04:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
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.
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2019-03-30, 05:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
So far, rules like to keep tabs on their sparks, keep them in singular places, and get rid of them when the need arises. The Master knew of the secret societies, Albia keeps them in one easy to explode dome, and the baron has them concentrated in his airfleet.
As for Albia's rule. I think its unthinkable to go against her, but these are sparks. People for whom "unthinkable" is bullet point three before lunchtime.
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2019-03-31, 05:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
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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2019-03-31, 10:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
Wulfenbach certainly had a lot of sparks on the Castle (or in the other Castle), but it was far from all of them. Taurus Beetle, Aaronev Sturmvoraus (and Tarvek, from about the age of 10), Gottmurg Snarlantz, Martellus von Blitzengard (assuming he hadn't been in Paris or something) and probably dozens of other powerful sparks that either I've forgotten or haven't been mentioned were running around free in the Empire with no greater control than the threat of the Baron "coming over there".
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2019-03-31, 01:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
Wulfenback really had a rather simple solution.
Leave each Spark in his own sizeable domain, moderatly isolated from to much contact with other major sparks.
And then just try and keep them isolated in those small enclaves with the threat of "comming over there"
I honestly think its one of the better solutions, when you dont have the power to stuff all of them down into a single dome.thnx to Starwoof for the fine avatar
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2019-03-31, 09:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-03-31, 11:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
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2019-04-01, 09:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2009
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Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
Varpa apparently didn't make it. :(
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2019-04-01, 09:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2015
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Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
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2019-04-01, 10:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
We only have Gil's word on that, and he was a) in the middle of a speech about how Wulfenbach is superior to other rulers and b) impersonating a pirate captain, who would probably not be as well-informed as the real Gil. It's entirely possible he made it up or repeated some exaggerated rumour in order to bolster his disguise.
Though frankly, it actually just makes me think their might have been some rewriting for Albia's character in the YEARS since Gil gave us that description. Perhaps the folgio's did originally intend for Albia to be much more tyrannical in how she controlled her kingdom even deploying a certain degree of mind manipulation, but they realized it made her sound too much like the Other and thus decided to scale her back.
Seffie paid passage for herself and two others; Varpa could easily be the third.
incidentally i noticed that the previous page with seffie was recolored. As i recall, in that previous page Seffie's hair was colored a light brown, and I assumed she had dyed her hair, but now its back to normal.Last edited by slayerx; 2019-04-01 at 10:23 AM.
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2019-04-01, 11:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2007
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- Manchester, UK
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2019-04-01, 11:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-04-01, 11:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
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2019-04-01, 12:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2017
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- France
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Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
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Mage avatar by smutmulch & linklele.
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2019-04-01, 12:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-04-01, 12:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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- France
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Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
The shambling revenants aren’t older than the normal looking ones. They’re statistical outliers who appears when something goes wrong during the infestation. The normal looking revenants were thought to be newer because they hadn’t been discovered until that one scientist on Castle Wulfenbach but the majority of them were infected during the Other’s War.
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Mage avatar by smutmulch & linklele.
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2019-04-01, 01:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
Yeah, shamblers seem to be something akin to having a serious allergic reaction to the insects.
Also, is anyone else gettingan Aldin vibe off of this guy? Someone who just wants a nice, quiet, humdrum existence but can't because of what he keeps getting dragged into?
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2019-04-01, 02:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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- England. Ish.
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Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
That is the general belief, but there was a slaver wasp developed to infect sparks (the Baron was hit with it).
If I recall correctly, the novels imply that not infecting sparks was a deliberate choice by The Other.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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2019-04-01, 04:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
Yes I know and it wasn't developped by the Other. That is a recent invention and that perticular wasp is the only one of its kind as it is a prototype that's irrecuperable (unless someone manages to cut Klaus open,; good luck with that) and te plans are lost.
I don't know about the novels, but the comic certainly doesn't imply it was by choice that the sparks were spared.Forum Wisdom
Mage avatar by smutmulch & linklele.
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2019-04-02, 11:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
C'mon guys, this is mad science 101. Don't get so exited by the abomination of science you've created or summoned that you don't even try to keep it from eating you. Your efforts to stop that from happening are doomed to fail, but at least make an effort.
I swear, nobody ever reads the warning labels.Last edited by Ellen; 2019-04-02 at 11:06 PM.