Girl Genius discussion OPEN SPOILERS

[wavewright62]

Yes to the latter, although Zeetha has teeth like that so we can't assume the former.

[Jitter]

It’s not just the teeth but also the ears!

[thorny]

Somebody apparently has read Chapter 12.

(whoever said "Aw . . . " )

[thorny]

Well, that makes a lot more sense.

I was wondering why on earth the monks would keep clobbering their own people while doing nothing whatsoever to stop the person trying to bribe them.

[Róisín]

Sounds like the sort of sneaky triple-deal the Corbettite monks would pull. I like them.

[thorny]

This lighthearted story has taken a pretty dark turn.

[wavewright62]

This lighthearted story has taken a pretty dark turn.

Tsk. And you a long-time reader, you sound surprised.

Also, laughing at the reference to having to pay to get published in a journal, which is of course how the industry stands today.  It is ludicrous and ridiculous in the literal sense of 'worthy of ridicule'.

[Róisín]

Yeah, real-world academe can be like that in its worst parts.

And I suspect the Professor intends to kill Franz anyway, or at least try to. But for the moment she meeds him to get in. I will be curious to see if she and the librarian can alchemically jigger his flame to open the way to the dragon’s hoard. I also wonder whether that ambassador’s credential thing that Franz is wearing has some sort of alarm in it that will notify Agatha if something happens to him.

[Kiran]

For a hot second at the start of this short story I thought that Agatha eventually courted Wulfenbach based on the designs of the Seneschal's.... seal? buttons? The crest, anyways, appears on his cuff many times: a Heterodyne sigil affixed with wings. Tried to find Tarvek's crest to see if the theory could be proven false, but I didn't find his crest at all.

[thorny]

It's my headcanon -- and I suspect a lot of other people's -- that Agatha gets to have both of them.

[Róisín]

I do hope so!

[wavewright62]

No time to look it up now, but there is a crest that Tarvek and Martellus wear (maybe Seffie too).  Some reference to the Storm King?  Dunno about the winged trilobyte offhand.

[thorny]

So we get to wonder over the weekend whether Franz was joking.

-- he might be; he made a bit of a thing about scaring the kids who were supposed to come down and take something as part of their initiation, and then, instead of eating them, he sold them tchotchkes.

On the other hand, the Professor probably really does intend to kill him. (I think her chances of succeeding at that are pretty poor, though.)

[thorny]

Cat is not interested in treasure.

[thorny]

How did she get Furry Cat to go anywhere near Clank Cat?