On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 02:26:53AM +0100, Adam Canning wrote:

> > Oh, so it's so much better when Othar goes around randomly shooting people or dumping them off heights or otherwise murdering them simply for being Sparks - for example.

Of course, most other sparks are *also* dangerous lunatics,
so what Othar is trying to accomplish really isn't that
negative. For that matter, I don't think we even know of
anyone he's actually managed to neutralize.

> > We only have theories about Vapnoople, but I'm still betting that he was responsible for the sentient bears in the Schwartzwald

Well, sure.

> > - and bears are dangerous enough without being uplifted. He provided them the capacity for weapons-use. That's worth lauding. Let's let him run around loose, too, the Long War didn't kill enough peasants.

BTW, I was thinking Fuest was a Swartzwalder?

> We know Dr Vapnoople made Krosp.
> We know someone ordered Krosp's destruction due to him being an
> embarrassing failure.
> Krosp failed to stop Klaus from braincoring Dr Vapnoople.

> But I'm more than willing to believe that trying to dispose of Krosp was
> what got Dr Dim on the operating table.

I doubt that that by itself was enough. I would, however,
accept the possibility that it was trying -- in secret,
while in the Baron's employ -- to create an army of sentient
animals to undermine Pax Transylvania that led to Dr. Dim's
being temporarily downgraded from personnel to materiel.
Klaus berating Merlot for disloyalty argues for this.

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030127


I think I still like my "Zog ate Dim's brain" theory better,
though.