Girl Genius discussion OPEN SPOILERS

[wavewright62]

Wait no! don't lose Skifander yet!  But a new week beckons.

Ohohohooo, an evil organ. 
Maybe it isn't strictly evil, if Lucrezia's incarnation does not approve of it.  But look at it, that thing is evil.  And the bench is a crate?  Tsk, sparks.  The bench also needs embellishment.  Steam-assisted lift at the very least?
I know who I'd like to see playing it, though.  Young Miss Clay has neglected her music studies of late, not even humming any more.

[Róisín]

My bet would be that those ‘effluvia’ might just be about to be harnessed with music in an attempt to make a Queen? And remember Agatha with redesigning and repairing the circus organ? And that one of the things Judy did to make a living while being ‘Lilith Clay’ was give piano lessons…….?

[thorny]

And the Heterodyne does so with music --

[Jitter]

Lucrezia is in a clank body, right? I hope the waters don’t work with that!

[thorny]

Good point, Jitter! Yes, I think that particular body's a clank.  -- I've lost track of whether that's the only body she's got right now. If she's only got one, I doubt she'd risk it to any form of Dyne water until she's got herself into a spare.But she doesn't seem to hesitate to risk bodies when she does have a spare.

[Jitter]

I seem to recall there are supposed to be more, or a master copy, in the other world or dimension she disappeared into. But the remote body/bodies don’t have any direct data link to it so that when a body dies, the entity loses all knowledge that body had not shared with the others.

The Train and the portable Castle are working on the Flame that is mentioned here, aren’t they?

[wavewright62]

I think not even Lucrezia herself has knowledge of where all her copies are, if the exchange between Zola and hospital!clank!Lu is to be believed. 
I also don't think the copy that was finally expunged from Agatha had any oversight on the others, based on her tantrum about nobody coming for her.  (Um, Lucrezia, the Knights of Jove *did* come for you, and looked after you until they could instill you into Agatha.  Anyway.)

Crackpot theory du jour - Bill Heterodyne is in that dimension, Lucrezia having gone back to the past to snatch him up just after he & Barry got back from Mars (or wherever they actually went). 

Spoiler: show

The time-traveling Lucrezia theories fall apart at the point where Lucrezia realises Agatha has in fact grown up and goes back to affect or effect that, which of course she did not do.  Nor did she save her baby son.

[thorny]

Huh. Missed a page.

Friday's page: Bangladesh's dad? Really?

I wonder what sort of plot point that's going to turn into, if any. And Bang just referred to her mother in the past tense, didn't she? Or did the mother just retire (seems unlikely) or get deposed (wouldn't Bang have been trying to fix that? Unless, of course, she was the deposer.)

[wavewright62]

Interesting.  Mr DuPree (I presume?) doesn't look happy to see Bang after 10 years, albeit shrieking in his face (as Foglio characters are wont to do).  Just... chagrin.  A marginal grifter/castaway would look to exploit an advantage, and butter up this captor, no?  But yeah, mum is past tense.  Pirate queens probably don't have long-term ...job security.

[thorny]

How old is Bang, anyway? Was she still a child when he left? She seems pretty ticked off about it; though that might just be because he apparently didn't say goodbye properly.

I was going to say that it doesn't take much to tick Bang off; but I'm not actually sure that that's true. It doesn't take much to cause Bang to kill people; but she actually usually seems quite happy at the time.

[wavewright62]

When of my favourite Bang scenes is when she is shown Vole's evolution into a far more fearsome jaeger, and her reaction (many thanks to the Gril Genius wiki for helping me find this page reasonably quickly): Is it Christmas? My birthday?!

[thorny]

Lucrezia is in a clank body, right? I hope the waters don’t work with that!

Apparently not; or, at least, she doesn't expect that they would.

But she does seem to think that she's still in Agatha, hidden well enough that nobody realizes it. I do hope she's not right.

[wavewright62]

Apparently not; or, at least, she doesn't expect that they would.

But she does seem to think that she's still in Agatha, hidden well enough that nobody realizes it. I do hope she's not right.

Agatha was divested of Lucrezia only recently (their time), this version of Lu has been shut on this island without a debrief, no matter how much she gloats about being able to see. 

[wavewright62]

"And then, ascension, godhood, and drinks all around."
"Yessss..."

Ruh-roh, we know what happened to the last set of minions who believed in that.  Although *when* that happens to our rat fancier with the fancier rats, Lucrezia may end up with a horror scene straight out of 'Willard'.   

[thorny]

"And then, ascension, godhood, and drinks all around."
"Yessss..."

Ruh-roh, we know what happened to the last set of minions who believed in that. 

Yes, indeed.

And trusting Lucrezia is proven to be a bad idea.
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