Girl Genius discussion OPEN SPOILERS

[thorny]

I think Agatha and Albia had an earlier discussion about it, shortly after they first met. No time to look for it now.

And I'm hoping that Albia can, and will, give some of that energy back. She might not have realized that she was taking too much -- and whatever her motives, I think she needs Agatha at least on her feet in order to avoid complications she probably doesn't want to deal with. If she'd wanted Agatha dead or incapacitated, she's had other chances before this.

[thorny]

Unclear, but maybe all Albia did was to put Agatha to bed (or get somebody else to do it.) It seems to have worked, however; and at least Albia seems to have provided quite a fancy bedroom.

As to prior discussion between them about Agatha becoming a queen, I found one page implying it; but the comic then moves on to other subjects. I can't remember whether there was another discussion later, though there may have been (whether or not we were shown it in the comic.)

https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180302

[wavewright62]

Wow, thorny, you came up with the right page, as Albia almost exploded our dear Agatha with this stunt.

[wavewright62]

Albia has put the two of them into Skifander gear in their private conference room?  Agatha is wearing a zumil outfit? Noice.

[thorny]

I don't think that's Skifander gear; not on Albia at least. It looks a whole lot like what she was wearing in a memory flashback to when she first heard of the mirrors, thousands of years ago.

https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181212

[Jitter]

I absolutely love how Albia’s true form? Preferred form? Private appearance? Is a stone-age big and sturdy woman, and not e.g. something delicate, elf-like and super thin (with boobs of course because this seems to be a constant).

[thorny]

Jitter, I agree very much with that!

[Róisín]

Also agree. Albia is magnificent!

[thorny]

There is certainly flame in Mechanicsburg, and right near the Dyne.

Whether it's the right kind of flame, I don't know. Being able to put it out with cistern water would seem to argue against it; but we know even less than Albia does about the Queens' Flames.

https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110216

https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110218

https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110420

[wavewright62]

In which it's Gil's turn to say, "Nize hat."

[Jitter]

You don’t need anything else!

[Jitter]

Our batch of what? Wasp eaters? Or wasps? Because that looks more like a hatchery od wasps than anything mammalian.

[thorny]

That's what I was thinking. And we've seen wasp eater babies -- looking very mammalian indeed. Tarvek rescued a batch from their dead mother, back when we first met them.

-- I'd forgotten to check Girl Genius for several days, and got three pages at once for my troubles; which hasn't left me less confused about what's going on. I don't even remember when the other wasp eaters disappeared -- or is this the first that we've been told about it?

[Jitter]

The library detour was so long that I can hardly remember that Mechanicsburg is in the time trap. And there are several Lucrezias. Other than that I’m mostly drawing a blank.

[wavewright62]

I don't have the reference to hand (maybe thorny will know?), but I'm under the impression that they were exterminated deliberately (via Geisterdammen?), and Agatha's escaped because it was sheltering with her.  Agatha pulled the switcheroo enabling her to escape Martellus' bio-shackle - but I forget if that was before or after the extermination of all the other wasp-eaters.  She is still bio-shackled to that wasp-eater now, though, and if any harm comes to it, Agatha will be in some difficulty.