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Post by Mavromichali on Apr 18, 2007 13:23:40 GMT
Oh I seem to be right that they're some sort of elite squad, but I'm still not sure where from, although the older chap is the same one Agatha ran into when Wulfenbach's troops flew into Sturmhalten?
Ooh a haunted castle. The Jäger Generals did mention when Agatha came to tea about asking the castle about Agatha, but that it had gone mad.
I wonder how she will get in now.
And what's the doom bell? And why does she have to be a boy?
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Moralis
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Post by Moralis on Apr 18, 2007 21:34:23 GMT
although the older chap is the same one Agatha ran into when Wolfenbach's troops flew into Sturmhalten?
Yeah, that's Scorp. I wondered if we'd see him again. And, er, Wulfenbach is spelled with a "u." Sorry for nitpicking. These things bother me. Ooh a haunted castle. And if haunted is all it really is, I will be quite content to eat my hat -- unless haunted turns out to mean something radically different from the word I know. But, really -- haunted? And we got the information in such an anticlimactic way, I'll be very surprised if it's completely true. And what's the doom bell? The name seems kind of self-explanatory, doesn't it? It's a bell rung when something bad has happened/is happening/is going to happen, and nothing can be done about it. Of course, you could get into specifics, but that would require more effort than I'm willing to exert right now. Maybe ringing the doom bell is traditional when a Heterodyne heir is born: something pretty horrific is probably on the way for the people of Mechanicsburg, at any rate.
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Post by Mavromichali on Apr 18, 2007 22:57:55 GMT
ooh sorry about that, I can't spell on my computer lately for some reason. Sensory overload perhaps. I blame studying Law.
I noticed Kate McClure had the same idea over at Yahoo Group as I did about the possibility of the Black Squad having a Heterodyne invisibility device like Gil's.
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Post by rjacarnegie on Apr 18, 2007 23:36:20 GMT
Oh I seem to be right that they're some sort of elite squad, but I'm still not sure where from, although the older chap is the same one Agatha ran into when Wulfenbach's troops flew into Sturmhalten? Yes. There's a lot of information on this page... the Black Squad disturbs Wooster, they came out of nowhere, and yet the other young soldier who spoke has quite an ordinary background. They aren't teleporting monsters or dragon's teeth or inflatable. They may have something weird about them, though, like teleportation or time travel. D'oh... one of the "radio plays" features size enlargement and reduction, and it's also a topic that Phil Foglio has enjoyed using in the sketches we've seen, with Krosp stalking a shrunken Agatha across the tea-table... Maybe the Black Squad are normally miniaturised, with barracks in the cracks in the pavement, and they pop up to full size when needed. there are superhero comics heavily based on this simple concept. So an evil Spark would only require a kettle of boiling water - eww. If Mr. Wooster is not about to explain what "haunted" means here as far as he, the general public, and possibly the Wulfenbachs or Queen Albia know it, I will eat... someone's hat. (Whew! Close!) I figured the prisoner would be taken inside by the guards. Nice and easy. Not so! A bell usually rings for death, not always... I suspect that traditionally each male Heterodyne birth leads, in the course of many years, to many deaths. It's a warning: look out, here comes the next generation of Heterodynes! It also could be for celebration but then "The Doom Bell" isn't a great name. I vunder if anyvun effer dared to tell dem dat it zounds like "dummbell" und vat heppened to dem aftervards. Dere are all dose crane tings around de kestle dat hyu could be suspended from like a pinata only higher - ve know dat de Jagers iz familiar vith de concept of de pinata. ;-) And I think we're being told quite firmly that Lucrezia Heterodyne's first child was a boy - we have it from the midwife's nephew, which is overdoing it a bit for a simple misunderstanding, so it won't be that. That doesn't worry me, Lucrezia turns up in Geisterland "carrying the Holy Child" - pregnant, going by the artwork. So Agatha had an elder brother, simple as that. The list of candidates is up to you - I've already imagined that Heliotrope himself has concealed the heir, not stolen after all but kept safe, disguised as Helio's grandson - none other than, aha! I can make a case, and have done, for Phil Foglio -or- Othar Trygvassen being he! At least being the grandson - beyond that it's murky ;-)
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Post by Mavromichali on Apr 20, 2007 9:58:54 GMT
If I remember correctly, bells tend to keep their names even if there use changes, so it may have been a Doom bell when the old Heterodynes were in power, but used for other purposes when the somewhat nicer Heterodynes came into power.
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