Friday's comic!

[murgatroyd666]

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20191018

I have a prediction ...

Comments

[murgatroyd666]

... She's going to use the Command Voice ... and we shall learn that someone has been wasped (or the equivalent).

[kelkyag]

She'll probably get the royal marines back, but I think the rest of the folks present have all passed wasp-eater inspection. (Has Martellus been checked out by the wasp eater since the mess in Paris?)

[murgatroyd666]

Has Martellus been checked out by the wasp eater since the mess in Paris?

I doubt it.

Do we know for sure that Gil hasn't been wasped?

[elmegil]

Pretty sure he took Tarvek's antidote?

[kelkyag]

He made up Tarvek's formula and force-fed it to Bang, and told her he was going to take it too, but then there was a cut and next we see him he's waking up in his father's custody, so it's not so clear whether he actually dosed himself.

[murgatroyd666]

Very likely, but not definite. And are we sure that the antidote works on Spark Wasps, assuming that's what got Gil?

I'm still trying to figure out why Klaus' wasp weasel reacted to Gil the way it did.

What if Violetta is a revenant? Most of the townsfolk around Castle Sturmvoraus were.

I think it's likely that kelkyag called the shot, though: She'll probably try to control the Royal Marines. But she doesn't know about their ear plugs ...

[spectrum_09]

Agatha shouted "NOW SEND ME HOME!" at Gil back on 20031124. She told him 'Then get me off this ship." on 20040716.

Gil ignored these.

[elmegil]

That would have been prior to his hypothetical wasping though.

[spectrum_09]

Umm...Klaus claimed Gil was wasped in PARIS. I recall Gil had returned from Paris by then.

[elmegil]

Ok, I did forget that part.

[kelkyag]

Only the Royal Marines outside the room that encountered Wooster&company will have earplugs (and they're not back at the lab yet). The Royal Marines who entered with clank-Lukrezia we haven't seen since Albia freed them and they fired on clank-Lucrezia. They may be in the room or just outside the door, and still vulnerable to her command voice.

[jbwoodford]

I'm not sure how many of them are Still With Us--Lunevka did not seem to be averse to the use of deadly force.

[glorin_4]

"I'm still trying to figure out why Klaus' wasp weasel reacted to Gil the way it did."

I thought a theory had been floated that Klaus squeezed its sensitive parts? Maybe that was just me.

[spectrum_09]

Klaus made it react. This was staged so that Lucrezia would think Gil was already wasped. He did this in front of a large number of witnesses. Also to try to turn Gil away from Agatha.

[spectrum_09]

From Dimo's comments here, I'd say Gil is not wasped.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20131204#.Xau7wehKhWw
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20131206#.Xau77ehKhWw

Also Violetta is not wasped.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140514#.Xau8O-hKhWw

As Tarvek said about those who are wasped: http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120215#.Xau9tuhKhWw

[turbobeholder]

We don't… but then we don't know for sure that Tarvek isn't the Queen of Skral, either. ;]

[madfilkentist]

Now it's Zeetha who's monologuing, giving useful advice to her adversary.

The command voice isn't specific to Agatha's body. What Lucrezia has in Agatha is a hostage. We might shortly see a replay of a very politically incorrect scene from "Blazing Saddles."

[spectrum_09]

Lucrezia in Agatha ordered Vrin to die. The Geisters recognized and obeyed Lucrezia in Agatha but not Agatha.

[turbobeholder]

They did obey Lucrezia because she is their "goddess", but they also obey the voice. Vrin could shake it off, but not ignore it. Thus she stopped as ordered, then started moving again, but the next order came through anyway, and so on.

[spectrum_09]

My point is the voice is different.

[jbwoodford]

We might shortly see a replay of a very politically incorrect scene from "Blazing Saddles."

OTOH, remember the scene under the Castle when they were trying to cure everyone--Lucrezia made a similar threat, and Violetta laughed it off.

(Come to think of it, Violetta wasn't susceptible to the command voice then. We'll see.)

[kelkyag]

She's monologing, but she's also buying time without putting Agatha at quite as much risk as a sword fight, and she might get her other sword back in the process.

The command voice is somewhat specific to Agatha's body. She can generate it naturally, most easily when she's angry. Lucrezia-in-Anekva can generate it because Tarvek built her that capability, based what he learned from studying Agatha's accidental use of the command voice. Lucrezia in some other body might not be able to generate it without building something similar. Have we seen Zola use it?

But yes, Agatha is also a potential hostage.

[jbwoodford]

The command voice is somewhat specific to Agatha's body.

IIRC, it's hereditary.

[marycatelli]

And this, boys and girls, is why you don't gloat in the middle of a fight.

Ideally, not after it either, you never know when there might be a rematch, or who's listening, but NEVER during!

[murgatroyd666]

I don't suppose we can get The Other to wear a cape ...