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Annotations of Book Three, "Agatha Heterodyne and the Monster Engine".

Gil's Lab

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/cgi-bin/gg101.cgi?date=20060531 : The first appearance of The Heterodyne Device. I believe this will prove to be the Time Viewer, eventually.

Activating the Engine

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/cgi-bin/gg101.cgi?date=20060712 : Note that a revenant can still know quite well that what he is doing is terrible and wrong.

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/cgi-bin/gg101.cgi?date=20060714 : Note that, when he says "I have see her" (the Other), he is almost certainly talking about Agatha.

The Baron Gets News

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/cgi-bin/gg101.cgi?date=20060818 : It's pretty clear that, while Slaver Wasp warriors are a matter of concern, they aren't nearly as scary as the actual slavers.

Agatha and Gil vs. the Wasps

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/cgi-bin/gg101.cgi?date=20060825 : Implication: Slaver Wasps simply ignore clanks.

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/cgi-bin/gg101.cgi?date=20060830 : The first time Agatha consciously builds something. Note that the humming is crucial.

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/cgi-bin/gg101.cgi?date=20060904 : The moment at which we realize that there is something really interesting about the Heterodyne Device.

The Students Notice Something Odd

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/cgi-bin/gg101.cgi?date=20060913 : The Castle and its subsidiary ships have little mini-blimps that people use for individual transport.

Von Pinn Gives a Pep Talk

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/cgi-bin/gg101.cgi?date=20060918 : Castle messengers ride around on unicycles.

Agatha and Gil Find the Engine

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/cgi-bin/gg101.cgi?date=20060925 : The Slaver Engine makes music when it is ready to emit slavers. Isn't that interesting?

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/cgi-bin/gg101.cgi?date=20061004 : Crucial foreshadowing -- we find that Agatha can command the slavers.

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/cgi-bin/gg101.cgi?date=20061016 : We actually see the time-slip effect from the Heterodyne Device.

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/cgi-bin/gg101.cgi?date=20061020 : Lest we fall under the misapprehension that Slavers are easy to beat...

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/cgi-bin/gg101.cgi?date=20061110 : Do the countryside peasants really not get Sparks? The notion that Sparks still get burned as witches is fascinating. It implies that communication is wretched in this world, if the people really don't get what their own rules are.

END OF ONLINE ANNOTATIONS, at least of the old stuff. Have to switch to paper annotations for the time being. The following are indexed by page numbers in the collected editions.

Page 103: When he finds out that Gil and Agatha are engaged (and that Agatha knocked Gil out), Klaus remarks that this is "history repeating itself". Does this imply something about Bill and Lucrezia's relationship?

Page 107: Von Pinn apparently kills Adam. Also, another implication that Castle Heterodyne is sentient -- Lilith says that it will "help" Agatha.

Page 109: Strange coincidences and high weirdness are apparently quite normal in Heterodyne stories. Which is good -- it gives us an out for the level of coincidence necessary to a good LARP.


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