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AcornArmy:
--- Quote from: TonyA on March 22, 2012, 11:30:49 PM ---Per (Dead Beat):
"She never got it. In that single second of uncertainty, Corpsetaker had been relying upon her disguise to defend her, and had her mind bent upon planning her next step-not preparing her death curse. The bullet from my.44 hit her just over her right cheekbone."
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If I remember correctly, it's always Harry doing the recounting of him shooting Corpsetaker. She was standing in front of him with her back to him, so even though she turned her head when he called her name, it may be that Harry still thinks of it in terms of shooting her in the back of the head. A personal-impression thing, rather than a strictly-factual thing. Harry's own sense of it at the time was that he was shooting her from behind, in the head, so he thinks of it as shooting her in the back of the head, regardless of where the bullet actually hit.
DARTHYAM:
when harry and susan look through the records the items include a dagger, a sword, a brick and a vase. assuming that the dagger is the one big red used than where were the other artifacts and what were they used for? When Harry is in the chamber he sees the big altar in the centre, and that alone is enough to impress bob.
derrick:
--- Quote from: DARTHYAM on March 30, 2012, 07:10:34 PM ---when harry and susan look through the records the items include a dagger, a sword, a brick and a vase. assuming that the dagger is the one big red used than where were the other artifacts and what were they used for? When Harry is in the chamber he sees the big altar in the centre, and that alone is enough to impress bob.
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I'll throw out a few WAGs. From what I've read, a sword is sometimes used in place of (or alongside) an athame in magic rituals [as a side note, Harry does pick up a non-obsidian sword at some point at Chicken Pizza; no idea if it was that one.] I suppose the vase is for blood. Or flowers. You never know with vampires. I think the brick was meant as a joke. ;)
DARTHYAM:
Okay fair enough; but why a vase and a brick? Given that the mayans had jaguar shaped altars I think they procured that through possessing them, and i suppose the brick and vase could have been used to release the energy
Second Aristh:
--- Quote from: DARTHYAM on March 31, 2012, 07:14:36 AM ---Okay fair enough; but why a vase and a brick? Given that the mayans had jaguar shaped altars I think they procured that through possessing them, and i suppose the brick and vase could have been used to release the energy
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Perhaps it's a link to the four elements instead of something Mayan specific? Brick represents earth, vase is water, and dagger/sword go to fire/air in some combination. I want to say that Harry has done something similar when he was setting up ritual magic before.
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