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Just to be grumpy.. Agatha, pre-Master Collete and Krosp together in a scene? Maybe making these new combos is the point of the game, but still.. Bleg. And Collette doesn't look much like she does in the canon. --Geoduck42 (talk) 20:35, April 11, 2018 (UTC)
- Sometimes the book covers have, e.g., Gil and Tarvek together on a book during which they were both active but not together, don't they? (I'm not at home where my books are.) But I had the same feeling about Collette. From a distance she looks as if she had a mustache. But there are several instances documented in this wiki in which a character's Works card from the first edition doesn't look like the character in the comics, especially when the card was drawn before the character's first actual appearance, e.g. Albia. What surprises me is that they picked Collette for the box cover in the first place. If they wanted another female warrior, Zeetha has been much more important to the story than Collette, who came late to the action. Maybe they didn't want it to look too WASPy (despite the importance of lower-case wasps to the plot). Bkharvey (talk) 20:13, April 12, 2018 (UTC)
Hey it only just occurred to me that maybe Klaus isn't faking ✣ the wasp-eater's reaction to Gil; maybe Tarvek's vaccine (like a lot of real vaccines) is chemically similar enough to an actual wasp infection to make the wasp-eater react that way. Was everyone else thinking that all along? Bkharvey (talk) 20:33, April 12, 2018 (UTC)
- Nope. I've just assumed that Klaus was bald-facing lying about everything, Gil being "infected", Bang being "poisoned", in order to (help) convince Gil to agree to having the Klaus overlay stuck in his head. Also, we never saw Gil take a dose of the formula, or have one forced on him by Bang. If it did happen off-screen before the weasel-scene, it's very sloppy storytelling. And Albia doesn't appear in the original version of The Works, there was only the rough bookplate sketch Phil did for a fan. --Geoduck42 (talk) 23:45, April 12, 2018 (UTC)
- Some thoughts on wasp infection. Once infected it would be pointless, or even counter productive, to have a secondary infection. Therefore a second wasp has to have a way to know that infection has taken place. This could be done by emitting a chemical signal, say a pheremone, to keep other wasps away. Then all you need to do is have the "immunised" person produce the pheremone naturally and they will be protected. If the wasp-eaters also respond to that pheremone you will have a false positive. Did Baron Klaus think of this possibility? If so why wasn't he using it? IanAH (talk) 12:31, April 14, 2018 (UTC)