Not really into gg setting, so I will personally skip the side stories there, but I don't mind at all if the author wants to write more of those for themselves and everyone that seems really into it. After all they have written for us they deserve to do some spin offs and stuff to blow off steam. I bet writing the main story feels like a chore by now and if a few chapters of not main story is all it takes to re-energize then it is a very small price to pay indeed. You go man. Write whatever makes you happy.
Brockton's Celestial Forge (Worm/Jumpchain)
- Thread starter LordRoustabout
- Start date
- Location
- Lebanon
I love the GG setting, even though it's a thinly disguised grimdark world.
Phil is a very talented artist and the story and main cast are extremely interesting.
I'm happy to see a side story on this forum that I won't just skip. Especially when the main story is great as well.
Phil is a very talented artist and the story and main cast are extremely interesting.
I'm happy to see a side story on this forum that I won't just skip. Especially when the main story is great as well.
I think we have a consensus everyone loves the idea of the celestial Forge in the world of girl genius. So much
so that not only should it continue as a sidestory but maybe continue as it's own separate story to be updated more regularly. AND imitated by many others so we can have girl genius/celestial Forge stories to feed our hunger.
so that not only should it continue as a sidestory but maybe continue as it's own separate story to be updated more regularly. AND imitated by many others so we can have girl genius/celestial Forge stories to feed our hunger.
Well yeah, having inflexible preconception about how things should be and how they supposed to be done is not unique to him. It's called standards. Moral standards are a complicated thing, and, as Lisa noted, Joe has naïveté to him about how people supposed to be treated (One which extending both from his XX century upbringing, and his own trigger trauma), so when he sees people getting executed by slow suffocation in glass jars, or history about "Long war" of sparks where everything is collateral damage or anything about The Other don't expect him to go "this is fine". Standards of this sort not even alien to Europa either, even Bangladesh can agree with Joe on some ("Mind control is shit"), and she has no morals whatsoever.
Also, Joe did not make decisions based on anything. Joe did not make any decisions yet, except to lay low and learn more, and those have nothing to do with how thing look or how he thinks they suppose to look.
If that's your point, then there is no point in arguing it. You know it true, I know it true, Joe acknowledges it right in the text multiple times, along with the fact that Europa is better off than Bet, at least by virtue of not having Ziz.
Agatha is "SCIENCE! first, romance later" kind of girl, and Joe is a human shaped black hole who needed literal divine intervention to even start acknowledging that romance is a thing that exist. We might joke about shipping, but actual chance of anything developing between the two is as close to zero as possible. Not much of a loss, after all...
...Garment is inevitable.
- Pronouns
- He
Lord barely have enough time to write the original Brockton's Celestial Forge.
Joe have the time-honored denseness of a harem protagonist, which is exactly why we are shipping him with anything that move.
The complete and intentional avoidance of anything romantic or sexual might ironically be a point of platonic appeal to her.
And so much (more) jealous confusion on the parts of Gil and Tarvek…
Tetra in Civvies (Fables)
Gumiho
Reach heaven through violence!
Id rather not. I want to read the main story of BCF and we dont need another project slowing it down it down even more.
Narsauce
The Crucible Shitlord
- Location
- Here, there and everywhere
Yes! Amazing art. Best Daughter get.Fanart Baked, Tetra in civvies :3
nowicanbed
- Location
- Orlando, FL
Loved GG Crossover. Honestly, so many ideas for Joe to experience this world. Garment is gonna have the time of her life here with Victorian steampunk fashion mixed with modern techniques, she's gonna have so much social power here.
Tybalt would be Joe's Head Minon and won't even need the filter perk to fit in unlike in BB. I wonder what Krosp, King of Cats, would see Tybalt as? Would he be rolled earlier than Garment for more screen time unlike in the main story?
Matrix, Survey, Fleet, and Tetra could be different or even not show up in this crossover. Matrix and Tetra would but could have different values and personalities.
Overall a nice What-if of a story to explore if it ever continued either by Lord or some other author could attempt the challenge, there's certainly talented fans of this story to take a shoot at it.
Tybalt would be Joe's Head Minon and won't even need the filter perk to fit in unlike in BB. I wonder what Krosp, King of Cats, would see Tybalt as? Would he be rolled earlier than Garment for more screen time unlike in the main story?
Matrix, Survey, Fleet, and Tetra could be different or even not show up in this crossover. Matrix and Tetra would but could have different values and personalities.
Overall a nice What-if of a story to explore if it ever continued either by Lord or some other author could attempt the challenge, there's certainly talented fans of this story to take a shoot at it.
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Nullius in verba
- Location
- a Pale Blue Dot
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Totally agree, but if Lord's moving to biweekly updates and hopefully more consistently, a change of pace may free up creativity for new unexplored territory for BCF.
ExploerTM
Ruin has found you at last!
- Location
- Russia, Perm
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Depends on what LordR ultimately will decide. Its equally likely that he would channel that free time into main story and will start dropping humongous 20k words chapters again.
That is, assuming, there would be free time and LordR is currently not desperately juggling IRL stuff and writing BCF
Celestial Forge Song (MountainMorus)
A hammer of gold
beats neverending
In halls of old
Where mythril's bending
The workshop's pride
Maker of all
Great powers applied
A tinker's Graal
Pyrokinesis
Technology's extent
Demigod's thesis
To surpass all, intent
A golden god
Surpassed long ago
May He reap what was sowed
By His tech's endless flow
Be welcomed to
The Celestial Forge
Holding to what's true
It is only Joe's lodge
Felt like writing a song, not my best stuff but here yall go
(might make something better later)
beats neverending
In halls of old
Where mythril's bending
The workshop's pride
Maker of all
Great powers applied
A tinker's Graal
Pyrokinesis
Technology's extent
Demigod's thesis
To surpass all, intent
A golden god
Surpassed long ago
May He reap what was sowed
By His tech's endless flow
Be welcomed to
The Celestial Forge
Holding to what's true
It is only Joe's lodge
Felt like writing a song, not my best stuff but here yall go
(might make something better later)
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- Pronouns
- He
- Location
- Up on a Hill
I support the Girl Genius AU continuity 100%
There are currently ten trillion wormfics, while GG fics are likely to get about three chapters of content (collectively) per year at best. No guarantee of those three even being good, of course. Europa deserves more love.
There are currently ten trillion wormfics, while GG fics are likely to get about three chapters of content (collectively) per year at best. No guarantee of those three even being good, of course. Europa deserves more love.
CnidarianMessiah
Totally not a flying polyp <whistles innocently>
- Location
- Cooling Water Intake
I know the timing doesn't work but I still dream of seeing a meeting between Tybalt, Son of Ares (1) and Krosp, Emperor of Cats
(1) I probably mangled the title, didn't manage to find where he got the retroactive adoption.
- Location
- Up on a Hill
I know if he's rolled again here he'll probably start off with new perks and earn the rest in a different order, like with Joe, but I just had a thought myself.
Tybalt's unbreakable fiat aura of normalcy would be fucking useless in Europa. There's barely anything about him a Europan citizen would consider unusual, with all the weird spark shit running around.
I'm pretty sure that Krosp is the Emperor of all cats, not Felynes.
Also, he has the canonical problem of all his subjects, except one, being, fundamentally, cats. He can give orders alright but nothing about his existence does anything to make them more likely to be carried out successfully.
Also, he has the canonical problem of all his subjects, except one, being, fundamentally, cats. He can give orders alright but nothing about his existence does anything to make them more likely to be carried out successfully.
- Location
- Auckland
This is true.
However, Tybalt is heavily favored by Ares because he's good at his job. A good soldier knows when to follow orders, and Krosp is such a talented general that the Jagergenerals made him an honorary Jagergeneral during the time skip.
However, Tybalt is heavily favored by Ares because he's good at his job. A good soldier knows when to follow orders, and Krosp is such a talented general that the Jagergenerals made him an honorary Jagergeneral during the time skip.
Is it not? Why?
- Location
- Poland
From what i remember, their clothes arę more like on our earth at that time, and for most of our history, men's clothes were more colorful than now, more complicated too. No simple suits in dark colors.
Sure, women wore dresses but it only meant more fabric, no bearong on the fashion.
You really underestimate how much more a fashion designer can do with dress then with most other types of clothes. All this fabric is practically free real estate for art.
Plus, in GG, ladies have all options men have AND all the insanity that is the era's ball gown fashion trends.
Yeah, in this setting the ladies don't start getting dressed hours early because of their makeup, but because they need time for the boiler in their gown to get up to pressure, or to wind up all the clockwork. Garment, here, would find herself in a situation where high end dresses are expected to be animated, self-illuminating, multi-modal, and possibly also a decent defensive emplacement.