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TonyA:
OK, I am reading the series for the second time and have a couple of questions.

1) Why did agent Benn's Hexbelt turn to goo (Fool Moon), everyone elses had to be burned? 

2) When Harry burried Lasciel's coin (Death Masks); why didn't the wet cement disrupt the circle? Harry broke the Shadowmans circle with a film canister.

Thanks

Curator's note:  This topic contains a lot of great discussion on the nature of the Prison Harry built for Lasciel's coin.

TheCuriousFan:

--- Quote from: TonyA on March 14, 2012, 07:58:23 AM ---OK, I am reading the series for the second time and have a couple of questions.

1) Why did agent Benn's Hexbelt turn to goo (Fool Moon), everyone elses had to be burned? 

2) When Harry burried Lasciel's coin (Death Masks); why didn't the wet cement disrupt the circle? Harry broke the Shadowmans circle with a film canister.

Thanks

Didn't he draw a circle around the wet cement? And its not the object that breaks the circle, its the will behind it.

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TonyA:
Didn't he draw a circle around the wet cement? And its not the object that breaks the circle, its the will behind it.

Nope!
"I dropped the coin into the hole. I slipped a steel ring about three inches across around it. I muttered to myself and willed
energy into the ring. The whispering abruptly cut off.
I dumped two buckets of cement into the hole and smoothed it until it was level with the rest of my floor. After that, I
hurried out of the lab and shut the door behind me."

TheCuriousFan:
That's odd.

Paladino:
Two possibilities came to mind for me,

One is about the williness to break the circle. In SF Harry wanted to disrupt the circle, so trowing the film can did it, note that he only disrupetd the spell, the circle was still there, if victor would start again for example he wouldn't need to draw a new one. In DM, he did not had the intention to break the magic energies of the circle, so they didn't break.

So it could be that there is need for intention to break the magic of a circle just trowing something in to it. If he has for example spilled the cement over the steel ring, it might have broken the circle anyway, because it would have damaged the circle it self, not the circle energies.

Or option number two, Jim made a mistake..

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