A Mechanicsburg Solstice Story Chronology - Page-by-page descriptions of the comic.

Clytemnestra Narcia Gearmacher, one of the more enthusiastic Heterodyne-hunters.

Mechanicsburg Solstice - a description of the holiday itself.

Happy endings all around, ✣ like in all good Solstice Stories! Agatha gets all the glory for another (non)successful hunt, while Kaja gets some cake and, as promised by The Castle, a copy of a certain rare book. Agatha returns from Zagreb at dawn, the Doom Bell is rung, and she and Kaja unwittingly swap places. They set the warehouse on fire, and Plumm immediately runs afoul of his numerous creditors. They discover that Plumm has been scheming to let Agatha/her stand-in get caught and then sell a whole warehouse's worth of tacky 'I Helped Capture The Heterodyne' merchandise. Kaja probably wouldn't have lasted long, except it turns out that since she's not really The Heterodyne, the Castle is for the first time ever still active, and helps her evade capture. It's never made exactly clear what hunters do to The Heterodyne if they are successful maybe nobody knows as supposedly it's never happened. Accepting this adornment means that the wearer is hunted through the streets of the city by bands of his/her own citizens, trying to avoid being caught until dawn. The Heterodyne is now completely alone ✣, except for a mysterious waif who offers up a glowing horned crown. In the more public part of the whole affair, 'The Heterodyne' officially shuts off The Castle for the night and starts the Jagerstomp: some quality balcony ranting and then a parade through town to the Jagerhall where the Jagers lock themselves in and party for three days.

She gets over-enthusiastic about this quest to the point that she volunteers to Revelsmeister Ignitheus Plumm to stand in for Agatha, who has left town on short notice to deal with a problem in Zagreb.

The Professora hears enough that her academic curiosity is aroused, and she goes off on her own to investigate. Oggie tells Kaja about the city's traditional celebration of this holiday, which is being 'properly' celebrated for the first time since Agatha became the Heterodyne. Phil and his new wife Kaja attend a Winter Solstice party hosted by Oggie in Mechanicsburg.

A Mechanicsburg Solstice Story is a 2020 end-of-the year story that runs for 33 pages, starts at the end of November, ✣ and is set in the immediate aftermath of the Other War.

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