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Verra romantic!

The Heterodyne's Observation Tower is/was one of the taller landmarks in Mechanicsburg, and is located fairly close to Castle Heterodyne. The open-topped swaybacked tower is equipped with a large fancy telescope, and an equally large umbrella. According to Mamma Gkika, it's useful for directing battles from, using as a platform to launch (presumably) more mundane spitting attacks, and taking your steady sweetie to for some kissing. (On the negative side, it tends to attract lightning strikes.) She offers up this opinion when she and Agatha visit the top of the structure to get the lay of the land as the Siege of Mechanicsburg begins to really heat up.

During the Siege, the Tower is manned for a time by an unnamed team of Mechanicsburg citizens, whose observations are interrupted by the near-simultaneous (if coincidental) arrival of the Sparks Cornelius Senear and Igneous Slaghammer, both of whom are requesting asylum from Baron Wulfenbach.

Later still, Agatha attempts to reach it again to use it for another purpose: deploying the highly-improved Zappy Stick to re-charge the Castle. Unfortunately, Agatha uses the Stick to clear a path through the Siege, which works all too well, obliterating not only the various obstacles, but the unoccupied Tower as well. Oh well, on to Plan B...

The Print Novels[]

In Agatha H. and the Siege of Mechanicsburg, during her first visit to the Tower, Agatha learns that the devices at the tower's top allow a choice between local and remote viewing, remote in this case meaning she can look at the Awful Tower in Paris.

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