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Doylist analysis on LC fix timing
Priscellie:
--- Quote from: Serack on April 03, 2012, 04:49:41 PM ---You mind if I pin some of this down in my "Word of Mods" section? I ask because I don't want you to constantly feel like you have to self edit because you are considering what might be claimed for posterity.
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Sure thing. I appreciate you asking first!
Serack:
--- Quote from: Vairelome on April 04, 2012, 12:05:49 AM ---This is a very clever point; what do you think of this explanation? (The following would be consistent with Mab as the culprit.)
Thomas let someone into the apartment (random girlfriend, perhaps?), and then something happens that demonstrates she wasn't who Thomas thought she was. Suppose she managed to...outlast Thomas's WCV endurance and then cased the place while he was all happy and comatose. She fixes LC and then exits the apartment through a portal to the Nevernever starting in Harry's basement and ending in Lea's garden. Thomas wakes up before Harry gets home and is freaked out by the fact that he fell asleep leaving a stranger in the apartment, and the stranger is gone leaving everything bolted shut from the inside. When Harry returns, Thomas thinks it might be "mystery girlfriend" back for round two, and while he's OK with part of that idea, he'd really like some answers first. Hence the shotgun.
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Hmmmm. This idea fixes the issue I had with it being one of the fae. If Thomas had knowingly helped one of the fae into the appt, that would have been a favor that would have made said fae indebted to him. However if she tricked him into it, and gave him a wild ride... well problem solved.
However, I have two things that work against this. Firstly, the things Harry had to say about Thomas's recent habits made it sound like he wasn't leaving the appt wrecked from wild sex much lately.
--- Quote from: PG ch.5 to Murph ---"He's been very distant lately. And gone almost all of the time. Day and night. He sleeps and eats here but mostly when I'm at work. And when I do see him, it's always like that-in passing. He's in a hurry to get somewhere."
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Also, Harry wasn't gone from the appt terribly long, and didn't notice any coma inducing mayhem having been induced upon his apartment when he got back and found Thomas leaving (for a 2nd time that morning, since Thomas also left shortly before Harry left for the hospital)
1 concept for and 2 arguments against... I'm not throwing it out, but I'm calling it unlikely.
Keep em coming, I'm having a lot of fun here :)
Edit: I was going to add that Thomas might have had trouble feeding off of something supernatural and thus would have noticed something fishy with said mystery girl, however, he did feed off the supernatural baddy in Backup.
Electric MacButters:
Has anyone considered wether or not Harry met Thomas in his apartment?
Suppose another wizard finessed his (or her) way in past the wards once the house was emptied and started fixing LC. (S)he takes a couple of hours to deconstruct and repair the spell matrix and starts packing up to leave. While heading for the exit they hear Harry opening his door and cast a quick glamour to look like Thomas. Now, this mystery mage would be waiting for the other shoe to drop, not knowing if the glamour would hold. Since a wizard trying to secretly fix LC and help Harry would not want to risk leaving any magical clues (or break the first law) (s)he levels a shotgun as a last line of defense in the event that Harry notices the deception and attacks.
If we account for time travel it could have been Harry talking to himself disguised as Thomas while he was trying to escape from his own appartment after fixing his own broken spell. (has your head exploded yet?)
tonync66:
Just for clarification, was Bob removed from the lab at any time between him noticing the flaw and it being repaired. If he wasn't, and it was someone Thomas let in, wouldn't Bob notice such a creature?
۞†Grey Warden†۞:
My solution is so much easier you don't have to worry about bob or Thomas. If it fixed itself it wouldn't need to get in, because it was already there.
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