User:Rej Maddog/Rej's Madlab

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Welcome to the Laboratory
You have entered Rej Maddog's Mad laboratory. Mad goggles recommended.

In here you will find experiments in ratiocination that would make Sherlock jump back into Reichenbach Falls. Speculation that would make the stock markets fall and real estate tumble (oops too late, drat).

Anyway its a place for some of my wilder idea's and wish-fuller thinking. For saner thoughts you are encouraged to visit Castle Heterodyne.

What becomes of "Agatha's" body
As you may remember, the last time the Baron was calling Gil and idiot, he was pointing to the ready to decant body that Dupree brought back from the trip to imprison Agatha. It was supposed to be Agatha's body. In fact (if this story can said to be have fact's) it was a reconstructed Madame Olga. The now somewhat grey matter challenged fortune teller. So what does the Baron do with her.

The Baron is good a picking the right monster for the right job. He also is working on the problem of 'quality of life' issues for some of his gorier spark experiments. So wouldn't the reanimated Olga make a good companion and intellectual match for Dr. Dim?

Just how sparky could the offspring of Agatha and Gil be?
LadyVivamus asks. Hmm. Can you imagine young sparks making birthing dingbots in the womb? Or constructing twins while they wait?

Perpetual Dingbots
Agatha's prime clanks wind-down in a day. While this is a design feature on Agatha's part. Might not the dingbots see this as a flaw at some point. Castle Heterodyne has access to enough power to keep it running for over 20 years without stopping. Gil's Heterodyne device and Agatha's lamp/death-ray battery seem to have an unlimited supply of the stuff. So it seems to me there is no reason the dingbots need be limited by winding. If they can't tap the source directly, they certainly could build something that did. Then task it with their winding. Like teaching a dog to chase its tail on a turntable.

Hedyrodyne Lamarr
Not her real name. Actress and Femme Genius found a way to communicate more clearly through noisy confusion using eighty-eight notes and a melody. Used the knowledge to help build and control death dealing devices for a good cause.

What's wrong with this scene?
Silas Merlot takes both hands off the controls, draws a pistol faster than Gil can drop on him from five feet up. And shoots Gil paw somewhat non-lethally.

Seems to me this is out of character for Gil to get himself into this situation. Or Silas has been training for making mayhem a lot more than one would think. The fact that he has smuggled the weapons in and been allowed to keep them belies his hot headed impulsive nature in the attack. Plus, except for Gil, his rounds have all the effect of those fired in an A-Team battle.

The carelessness of Agatha with her weapon, the lack of response from the tiger-dog. The carelessness of Gil with his zappy stick. Are all unsettling to this reader. We have main characters acting like idiots in situations where the stakes are too high for idiocy.

And another one
01:15, April 30, 2010 (UTC) last wednesday comic. Gil and Tarvek have gone thru a lot. Even helped each other survive and even had a chance to take out their aggresions on each other. Cured by Agatha and her dynefish antics, that are back to their old antics too. Nothing has changed except Tarvek is calling Gil Wulfenbach instead of Holtzfeller. What a disappointing lack of character development. I am just going to have to face it. I am reading a cartoon, with cartoon characters. Sigh. The plot (and character development) could use a shot of dyne water itself.

Woodcutter & Stormholder
At the beginning of the end of it was clear than Gil knew Tarvek. On the next page it was clear that Tarvek knew Gil. But Tarvek didn't know which Gil he knew. Tarvek clearly gave Gil a hard time in Paris. Gil's overt contempt for Tarvek is also apparent.

Then the mystery becomes one worthy of Moxana. Gil is willing to risk not only his life but a horrible death and madness to keep Tarvek from passing away. Fighting a horrible disease to pull of a SVV risky reanimation, could be motivated by Gil's sense of adventure. Hey, he risks himself regularly to save Zola. Yet my curiosity asks me, "Is there something more to their relationship?"

Paris
What did they both do in Paris? Was there an incident where Tarvek helped get Gil out of a difficult situation? (Probably something that required diplomacy, and general all around snakiness.) Were there times in Paris when Gil helped Tarvek? Was there then a falling out?

Castle Wulfenbach
The falling out happened on the castle. Tarvek befriended a loner. They had adventures. They discovered things. And got caught. Gil stayed. Tarvek left. His spy equipment betrayed by Gil. By the time Tarvek got to Paris, they were bitter friends. Who got involved in each others adventures.

Castle Heterodyne
The SVV has made them blood brothers again. Though still rivals. While distracting the castle they had a chance to exorcise their bad blood. And who'd a thunk it. Tarvek can fight like a ninja. Gil has to up his game just to stay one up. One up is a relative turn. And with these two usually played like leap frog. So it looks like they will be best friends again. If they live.

Zola

 * What is her real last name?
 * She was known in Paris as Zola la Sir&egrave;ne d'Or&eacute;e.
 * Who were her parents?
 * Who raised her?
 * Does she have siblings?
 * Is she one of he good guys or one of the bad guys?
 * She is trouble!!!
 * How far back does her involvement with the Knights of Jove go?
 * What's her version of what she and Gil did back in Paris?
 * Is she legally Sparky?

I also want to remember that she most resembles Euphrosynia Heterodyne as protrayed by Reichenbach's opera. Of course this only proves the KoJ was behind the opera and the portrayal was to advance the plot. I personally don't think she resembles Lucrezia. The painting shows enough points in common for me to feel strongly she is a Mongfish. I will assume she is a child of Lucrezia's from before she married Bill. Probably by the chump who we know slept with our favorite minx at that time.

I am also now of the opinion that Zola is not a sympathetic character. Mongfish traits coupled with incompetence are unattractive.

Tarvek seems to think she is competent. E.g. the hairpin she used to set herself free. Not to mention the ability to overcome the ichor of somnia. Not only for herself but also for Tiktoffen. There is a large amount yet to be explained about her. She is very manipulative.

Q: with Tarvek's obsession with fashion was he behind the image of both Euphie at the opera and Zola in Mechanicsburg or was there some other hand in this (Kaja's doesn't count, were trying to deduce plot points here.) Apparently he knew her enough to remember her as a fool but also enough to realize that memory was a false impression she used in her manipulation.

Tinfoil hat speculation
Zola is always trying to be in the forefront of sparking things. And she is as likely to get her head in a bucket as not. So, to become sparky does she buckle on the helmet of the transference engine and channel Lucrezia? With the engine fixed it might not be too picky. Also with Zola's penchant for trouble she might find her parts need replacing piece by piece. Do you see where this is leading. Zola and Enigma are one and the same.

Heterodynes from Agatha to Zola
Zola is the last of the heterodynes at least in alphabetical order. Even Zod comes before.

The Incident
The castle blew up. What precipitated that?

Before the castle blew up there was nothing more important for the Heterodyne boys to do than deal with giant vegetables. After there is a war for two years that changes the face of Europa and wipes two thirds of prominent families. Then it stops. Bill is never heard from again. Lucrezia is never heard from again. Klaus mops up; gains control of vast holdings; installs pax Wulfenbachia on the remainder. No hive engines are seen for 18 years with the exception of the Strumhalten underground. Barry is seen again but on the run for seven years. Punch, Judy, and Agatha in hand and hiding. At the end of that time he leaves expecting to be gone only slightly. But Eleven years pass. Duke Omas/The golden duke resists. Is defeated. Vienna 707 carries Omar and Molock til it too is trashed. A hive engine is found and brought to Beetlesburg. An enigma appears from elsewhen pointing out to someone Agatha or her locket. The baron tests his sons perceptiveness in Dr Bettles lab. Agatha sleep invents the search engine mark I.

Agatha is captured by and escapes from the Baron.

Agatha is captured by Tavrek, Geisters, Lucrezia, the Baron and escapes.

Agatha passes the castles test and starts reclaiming her birthright.

Agatha defeats the castle, Zola, Gil, Merlot and that brings us up to now.

What happened twenty years ago when the castle blew up?
 * Was Lucrezia possesed by the other at that point? Or before?
 * When was the first hive engine created.
 * Given that answer, when was the first hive engine activated?
 * Where did the hive engines come from?
 * Who knows how to build them?
 * What is the purpose of infecting people with wasps?
 * Did the castle kill Klaus Barry?
 * Who blew up the castle?
 * Was it deliberate?
 * Who burnt Lucrezia's notes?
 * Was it deliberate?
 * Who murdered Lucrezia's servants?
 * Why were their deaths necessary?
 * What did Von Pinn do that day?
 * Does she have an alibi?

New Findings
The explosion wrecked the castles main source of physical power, the water wheel. It left in tack the dyne dejuicers that left the dyne safe for everybody elses comsumption. Power from that kept the castle energized in its disassociated state. Other damage from the explosion hampered the communication of the parts.

Lucrezia was dabbling in the transmigration of souls. She built the summoning engine. Stored a copy of herself there. She seems to have migrated Otilia's soul to Von Pinn. And part of the castle to Otilia. Where did Von Pinn's soul wind up? Was some of it left in her body? All that fierceness and animosity does not seem to fit the angelic muse Otilia. On the other hand the protection and care for children seems to be the muse all the way. It was also stated that on that day Von Pinn went mad.

My speculation
There was a migration experiment that went wrong. Part of the castle imbuded the Other with the desire to wipe out Europa Sparks w/o relent or mercy. That seems to be the castles thing. Part of Von Pinn's original personality or maybe all of it got migrated into the castle. It caused havok. Deliberately as the castle, killing Klaus Barry and Von Mekkhan's son. Large portions of the staff died as well. No idea if that was deliberate. Actually not so sure about the first part either but it is dictated by the rule of cool. The explosion happened because the castle (or part there of) whet mad. The loss of the part that went into Otilia caused a madness and loss of control in the castle that lead to accidents and the explosion.

Two years and three months
Means two things. First Klaus could not be the father of Klaus Barry. Second there was enough time for Lucrezia to birth yet another child before Klaus Barry. If so this leads to interesting possibilities. E.G. Zola could be a half-sister to both Gil and Agatha (and maybe Zeetha). Everybody should have at least one overly annoying pink relative.

If this is true she would need to say her famous Tony Curtis line in the presence of Castle Wulfenbach.

Which of the Wulfenbach thirdlets is responsible for Gil?
Basicly is the part the provides the head (i.e. Klaus) from the same thirdlet as the part that provides the progeny?

What happens when there are two rival Heterodynes at the same time?
Would they each have the help of the castle in fighting each other? In other words. We know the castle has a test for blood. And a test related to the command voice. Does it also have a test for dominance of will?

Lucrezia's Game
Lucrezia's Game a meditation.

Begats
Who Begat whom?

Mimmoth Paste
This is a paste made out of parts of Mimmoth's that make sticky glue. It has the consistincy of fudge. It is used as a sloppy way of holding things together. The joins are somewhat loose. It seems to this fan to be used by the TPU Professor's of Almost Certainly True History in place of strictly tight plotting. When used in an article it is meant to remind the rabid fans that the story is not meant to be taken to seriously or too literally. If it rattles along like Baba Yaga remember that you need the eggs er laughs.

Time Meddlers
Hmm. There is hope for this story yet. Time travel doesn't work. At least according to Othar in his current adventure in a time line that doesn't seem to correspond to our own, contradicted by his own previous adventure where he not only went back in time but met his other ill-fated selves, and the suspicion that his survival of frequent defenestrations from airships is due to some continuation of the p-smith like duplication of his selves.

I fervently hope that the story confines itself to time viewing and not time travel. Unrestricted time travel kills the idea of story. Beginning middle and end. Cause and effect. The necessity of making choices. The finality of decisions and their consequences. Of course this means that the reveal in Othar's story has to have something to do with him waking up from a bad(?) dream.

A name on the door rates a rug on the floor
Pages for recently named characters. Here we name them and then create the linked page later.
 * Fraulein Snaug
 * Fra Pelagatti's Lion

Vonn Pinn and the Lady Heterodyne
Von Pinn and Agatha are like oil and water. They don't seem to mix. The castle was trying to interrupt their deadly argument. What happens if the one Von Pinn is to keep safe is really the other "Lady Heterodyne" you know, the pink one. Also if Gil were in a condition to stick an oar in what would he say about Von Pinn? According to his experiences and memories was Von Pinn fair and reasonable with him? Would Gil want to stand up for her?

If I were in Agatha's shoes I would want to get Von Pinn out of my hair permenently as quickly as possible. That would be the only acceptable solution. 'Course instead of firing the gun at her and hitting the castle, it would probably be more effective to fire the castle at her. Something Agatha has not thought to try.


 * How did Lucrezia manage to compel Von Pinn?
 * Can Agatha learn how to do that too?
 * Why did she choose that particular compulsion? (See Lucrezia's game).
 * Did she also give Von Pinn other compulsions?
 * In particular did she compel Von Pinn to protect Klaus Barry?

A Chilling thought
For two hundred years the Heterodynes have produced very few female heirs. Science suggests that as many Heterodyne women should have been born as men. So why so few heirs like Agatha? Has Von Pinn been protecting the world from Heterodyne females for 200 years? Keeping them safe by watching their graves?

There were several other memorials on the floor of the Heterodyne crypt. Are those the innocent daughters of Heterodyne? Watched over and kept safe by Van Rijn's Von Pinn?

When the goddess of the Geisterdamen changed Von Pinn's directives did she just change their polarity? Does that account for Klaus Barry's demise? Will the next 200 years be full of Girl Geniuses???

research material
Mr. Salley did a lot of annotations to the first 14 issues of GG.

Mad science question
If the castle jack completes a circuit in exactly a weeks time, estimate how far does it travel? List all of your assumptions and deductions.

What Enigma was pointing to
I had long harbored a suspicion that Enigma was to Agatha's locket. The text at the bottom of the sketch supports that.

First Prize...
...a night with.

Second Prize.. ...Two nights with Bangladesh DuPree.

As Higgs well knows. And she has not yet got a chance to thank him. For which Higgs is grateful.

Summoning engine in action
That was an upload.

Then Vrin prayed. The engine emitted a sound that looks like heterodyning. Suspect Trans dimensional Harmonics are in play.

Zownpf. That was the download. Agatha is now owned by her mother, the other.

Transdimesional Harmonics
Every time this happens a tuning fork or heterodyne notes are seen. Often both.

Who'll save Zola this time?
. Several thoughts.
 * "Actors"
 * Gil and Agatha are in sync and of a mind that Pinkie needs herself a lesson taught. What they are doing is putting on a show.
 * Will the courageous victim learn some self reliance or at least self restrain.
 * Agatha might be willing to lend her von Pinn.
 * The spider reminds me of zoing.
 * Is he in on the act?
 * Jaegers like bugs and now that there are two Heterodynes in the castle there is nothing stopping them from showing up on cue.
 * Tiktoffen could take a turn here.
 * Though I do picture Zeetha slicing and dicing it with her swords.

Fridays comic will have my interest.
 * Apparently they weren't acting.
 * The spider was totally commited to the role of villian. (Remember Olga?)
 * To the rescue: the Heterodyne portable claw mitt. In the hands of Von Zinzer.
 * No Zeetha yet.
 * Tiktoffen eventual takes a hand and extricates the pink Heterodyne.
 * Making us wonder again about where his loyalty lie.
 * And how comfortable that fence he straddles could possibly be.

A now discredited theory
On the doors of the McKim building at the Boston Public library are six figures Left: Music and Poetry Center: Knowledge and Wisdom Right:Truth and Romance

Outside there are two reclining female statues. One for scientists, one for artists. On the floor above the main entrance at the entry to the study room there is a mural of nine muses. Who all look pretty much alike to me and carry different variations of lyre like instruments.

The Foglio's muses don't correspond exactly. The symbology seems to overlap. I wonder where they drew their inspiration from?

The two in the middle, The Ying and Yang couple drew my attention. They seemed odd and hard to place in any of my muse symbology. Recently I notice that Von Pinn is similar in coloring to white haired dark coated one particularly as depicted in the Which would make the other....

Needles and pins, Needles and pins, When a Man marries, His Trouble begins.

Von Needle (black hair white coat) and Von Pinn (blond hair black coat).

Alternate theory about Von Pinn's creator
As much as I like the above it is pointed out that Von Pinn is a flesh and blood construct not a delicate muse. So it is possible that something and somewhat else is responsible for her creation.

What are we leaving out? At the time of the storm king there were two powerful rulers. Presumably Ogglespoon who won the bride also had a brilliant spark working for him. Someone to help build bride stealing(rescuing?) airships and fearsome childrearing constructs? The story hasn't mentioned any names for us to hold onto but surely Van Rijn had a counterpart in the Ogglespoon camp. Else the forces would have been unbalanced in the Storm Kings favor. I wonder who would have kept accurate records of this? Paris? The Heterodyne castle library? Klaus's library? What ever happened to Ogglespoon? Who was on the otherside of the hundred year war? Which side of the war were the Heterodynes on? Hmm. Hmm. and Hmm.

Mammoths, Mimmoths and ...

 * Q: So, if mammoths are very, very large and mimmoths are very, very small. What do you call one that is just right? Say about the size of a pony?
 * A: Goldilocks the Meanmoth.

The Green Heterodyne
That would currently be Agatha. It works on two levels. She is newly known even to herself as a Heterodyne. She has made remarkably few errors to date, though hugging the resplendent duo might be responsible for her present bad hue-mor. She may also turn out to be enviornmentally friendly. If she lives.

Time dilation
From the clock tower we know that Agatha enters Mechanicsburg at 6 am on Monday by 8 pm on Wednesday she has managed to partially repair and completely shutdown the castle's AI. She and Gil and Tarvek have had many adventures along the way and precious little sleep.

The story in Mechanicsburg progresses about 64 hours as we in on the internet read it for over 32 months. Roughly speaking. So we are talking about a time dilation of 2 hours per month. 4 minutes a day. 10 seconds an hour. One second for every 6 minutes. A factor of 1 to 360.

How early do Mechanicsburger's rise?
It's six am when Agatha enter's Mechanicsburg. Before that she greets Carson von Mekkhan at the gate. Before that he was at home baking bread. While he was doing that his daughter was at the market buying victuals. Before that the vendors had to get up and put out there wares. Just how far North is Mechnicsburg that the sun rises so early in mid-May? It might make a little more sense if this were mid-June.

How cold is it this time of year
Mid-May Wednesday evening in Mechanicsburg we notice a lit fireplace and lamps and the pendulum clock reading 8 pm. There is still light coming in from the slightly open circular window. As I read this page in December 2009 the setting seems somewhat seasonal. Time to get out the Mimmoth paste?

GG a tale unfolding at the speed of light.
Since we have been in Mechanicsburg about 64 hours of story time has past and we have grown older by 32 months of calendar time. This is a time dilation factor of 1:320 which corresponds to a mad scientist given to travel at 99.9995% the speed of light. Gonna need that sleek ship Kaja and Phil won for their Hugo.

== What free and on the way up ==

This is guess nine and a half. The last guess is reserved for something totally different.

Well, what if the green light did not come from the core of the castle but from the heart of the construct. When the castle was destroyed Von Pinn went mad. What if she had reason. If Agatha could be suppressed by the other/Lucrezia personality. Might part of the original Lucrezia/Lucrezia be imprison inside Von Pinn? Imprisoned by a technique involving Transdimensional harmonics and therefore disrupted by Fra Pelagatti's Lion ? So what is climbing the walls is true goddess of the Geisterdamen. The fertility goddess and Mother of Agatha. She is still inside Von Pinns body and it's her heart not her bones that glow green.

In this scenario the Geisters were not introduced to the Shk-mah until after the other took over. Before that she was playing fertility goddess to the hilt. And since who ever heard of a fertility godess having only two kids I'll paste my bet that Zola is the offspring of Klaus and Agatha's mother on this guess as well. Zola having acquired the actress gene and Agatha the spark gene.

Besides everybody knows Von Pinn is Lucrezia ask any of the kids from Castle Wulfenbach.

Well What?
It's a Van Rijn muse. Probably Calliope. She has an unstrung bow and carries a quiver. Her hair, her attitude resembles Von Pinn's. She has Betty Davis eyes.

She is also larger than Von Pinn and probably a match for her. If Von Pinn was made by Ogglespoon's wizard then she and the muse are opposite numbers. So are their eight other constructs to opposite number the other muse's or just the one? Might as well await developments. Ah, Otilia, the Muse of Protection. I think I got my prediction wrong. Out of the pit came not another personality in Von Pinn's body. But a personality from Von Pinn back in her own body. So I get a hundred and eighty degree twisted Moxana point for this. and Anaxom point I guess. lets make that an Ana Mocks point.

04:02, February 9, 2010 (UTC) Well, well, what, what?
Tarvek recognises the muse as Otilia the muse of protection. But Otilia says she is not one of the Storm Kings pretty muses. Complains about her limited hardware and claims that inside the shell, she is the castle. Ah well. Gas lamp fantasy apparently means nothing is as it seems. Absolutely nothing.

For all we know Von Pinn might still crawl out of the hole. And inside her shell? And we may wonder where she came up with the epithet "May her bones burn green."

Questions

 * Why does Otilia glow green?
 * Where is the original personality of Otilia?
 * Whose personality does Von Pinn hold.
 * Where might her true personality be?
 * And how old exactly is Von Pinn.
 * Who really did construct her?
 * Who did the personality swapping?
 * When?
 * Where?

February 22, 2010 (UTC)
Who is Higgs? Where is he from? When is he from? He survives a powerful blow from Otilia. The clank processes that fact. Comes to recognize who she is dealing with. Or rather who is dealing with her. Just as Higgs dismantles her before she can say. Tarvek figures out something very quickly and backs up Higgs story.

So who is Higgs?
 * Barry Heterodyne: The hair color is right and he joined the Baron about a year after Barry disappeared.

But he did not contact Agatha and he doesn't have Barry's sense of grim purpose or bulk. It's hard to think Barry would have lost the former even if he might have been motivated to lose the later.

Higgs has the air of an immortal about him. Low profile. All the time in the world. No desire for conflict. Wonderful competence when called on.

I am guessing it was Otilia's memories that were called on or very old memories of the castle. Higgs is an immortal from the storm king era. Possibly:
 * Van Rijn: He seemed to know his way around Otilia's mechanisms. Plus he his attitude was nerd/geek like.
 * Andronicus Valois: Like Embi someone who takes his promises seriously. Immortality may have mellowed him.
 * Faustus Heterodyne: Also someone the castle would know. And someone sparky enough to solve the immortality/eternal-youth formula.

The authors have access to several other possibilities to difficult to guess. I would award this guess some Moxana points if it turns out to be someone from the Storm King era. More if it is actually one of the three I mentioned. Andronicus seems like the best shot but I like Van Rijn because it is my guess alone and my first impression. Faustus is my third bet because he's got the chops to solve the problem and I can't see why he would share the solution.

The other clue is that the Jägers seem to know something about Higgs they are not telling. So he is on their (and therefore Agatha's) side.

Now we just need to wait for the full reveal.

I still wonder if Zeetha can get the unstopable Higgs started. Oouh. He might be another offspring of Skif.

If it turns out to be Bill I'll eat my hat. I will bet Moxana points Bill is dead.SB undefined

01:35, April 10, 2010 (UTC)
He has given Agatha Dyne-water.
 * Was this his idea on his own?
 * Was it something suggested to him by Otilia?
 * Did Higgs twist Otilia's arm (clean off) to persude her to keep his secret?
 * What relation is Higgs to Agatha?
 * Why does Otilia start to say "Your... ah ..."

04:24, April 29, 2010 (UTC)
He has reminded the castle of Igneous Heterodyne who reacted to the dyne similarly to Agatha, and blew up. That was a long time ago. He seems to have been present for the show and explosion. That would make him part of the Heterodyne inner circle. So Faustus? Because taping the Dyne skillfully could lead to the secrets of longevity/immortality. Or a Seneschal, his temperament and pipe remind one of Von Mekkhan. I still like the idea of Higgs being van Rijn but now that seems like a looong stretch.

16:26, June 2, 2010 (UTC)
At the pit bottom. Higgs and Otilia have met Von Pinn. Von Pinn says "Oh, you've returned". She is looking at Higgs, maybe Otilia.

My belief is she recognizes Higgs. Why? What relation is he to her?

Could be the his and her slabs seen on the way down to the pit were for constucts. We assume those constructs were Punch and Judy. We also assume that they were the only constructs not just the first the Heterodyne Boys made. Maybe Von Pinn and Higgs were a construct pair themselves. At least in body.

The timing would not be right for a Heterodyne era construct to have the memories of ancient Igneous. But we are dealing with a theme full of transfered souls. So we could have an ancient Heterodyne's soul in a indestructible construct's body.

A construct pair would be both symmetric and explain Higgs blond coloring. Plus give a reason for the wall Otilia pushed him into to give way rather than his body.

What is the significance of the ?
The story centers on a young boy that finds himself indebted to a living doll.

So what is Higgs relationship to the Van Rijn muses? Notably the Otilia in Von Pinn?

A man who smokes a pipe
The one place you can sure find pipes is the Von Mekkhan residence.

A man with blond hair.
The his and hers slab might have been for Von Pinn and Bosun's Higgs current body.

What surprises wait at the bottom of the pit?

 * Von Pinn!
 * Results of other experiments in mech to organic consciousness transferal?

Violetta has a lovely pair of misdirections
Violetta is awesome. My favorite character at the moment.

In the panel in which she tells Lu-Agatha her specialty it took me extra long to see the dialog balloons. Violetta has a lovely pair of misdirections.

How Maxim buys a hat.
Well, the professors have given enough clues for the astute to jump the rest of the way.

Maxim gave his hat to Lars when Lars bought the farm. OMD would not mind losing his hat. It does not mean to him what it means to Jägers. He would hate to lose a fight. Maxim has only one chance left. Actually half a chance since the third attempt is now underway. Suppose Maxim not only loses this round but "dies" in the process. Might not the Old man give his hat to the corpse in sympathy, respect or disgust at it coming to this? So all Maxim's corpse has to do at this point is claim his prize.

Oggie: How did you manage that, Maxim?

Maxim: "Brainzzzzz"

Now let see if I've jumped to the wrong conclusion successfully or not.

--Rej 23:17, June 6, 2010 (UTC)

Ah well, I knew I had to write that yesterday. Just goes to show you can't outguess the Foglio's.

Now that we've seen Maxim get his blows in it seems very unfitting for him to get a hat by beating up on an old man, even one who never before lost a fight.

Maxim actually earned the right to claim the hat. Now we just need to see who's thrown the jar and what they want from the situation.

Maybe its the daughter and she wants the hat for herself. Or his wife. So the hat Maxim has to buy would be one to exchange for the one OMD is wearing.

Vun hat sammich to go.
So Maxim wins the hat. Obeys the daughter and her fancy olives. Wins a cheesy hat w1th his brains. Ewww Messy.

Plus an invitation to call on Zeuxippe. Good thing Jägers are fuzzy on the rules.

Internal Chronolgy quake
The professors Foglio are planning a Girl Genius Novelization. They have read some of it at a con. The midnight chemist has taken notes. If the notes are correct it takes at least three years after the castle blows up for Bill and Barry to fight the other to a stopping point. Those three years take place eighteen years before the story begins. Agatha has just turned Eighteen before the story begins.

So that throws the time calculations for a loop.

I still assume Klaus Barry was born around the autumnal equinox in 1892 and died when the castle blew up Halloween of 1893. However the notes from the novel would indicate that Lu was not pregnant with Agatha when she left to become the Other. Rather than the six months pregnant I had assumed. The story then could be taking place in 1895 give or take an annum.

It also means there is some story as to how Bill got Lu with child namely Agatha.

I am also curious as to how Aggie got her name? She is named after the most resplendent of Graces and apparently only the second Heterodyne main line girl child in 200 years. With the first such girl child named after another of the graces Euphrosynia. Which leaves one to wonder about a third girl child and whether she will be named after the grace ( and muse of comedy ) Thalia.

So there now appears a part of the story too Heisenburg to even guess at.