User:Rej Maddog/Rej's Madlab

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.

Rej's weekly blow by blow comic summary
I am currently negotiating with the powers that be about my summarizing the weekly comic. Even if I win the results of my labors will be subject to re-editing by others and by myself for brevity when the month is done.

Still I was enjoying the process and particularly the Rej Maddog tone of those summaries. So I want to insure their preservation on the wikia. Which means a place more under my control. So I think the laboratory needs an alcove: Blow-by-blow summaries

Zola

 * What is her real last name?
 * Who were her parents?
 * Who raised her?
 * Does she have siblings?
 * Is she one of he good guys or one of the bad guys?
 * 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.

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.)

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?
 * What did Von Pinn do that day?
 * Does she have an alibi?

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.