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Questions for Jim 2012 style 2
Quantus:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on October 11, 2012, 12:52:03 AM ---I suspect that Harry might at some point get out of the Knighthood only to find that favour still waiting to bite him in the behind.
Indeed, I am not entirely convinced that he's been careful enough to rule out getting past Knighthood and favours both and only then discovering that Mab actually counts those favours to pay off the three times he broke his word during SK and he still owes himself to Lea.
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That would be cool, and classic Sidhe trickery. But whatever he may owe to lea was very explicitly overwritten by the deal he made with mab for the three favors, so as far as I can tell at most she would only be able to claim the one remaining favor.
If I had to make a guess, Id say shed be better off using that loophole to weedle a martyr deal from molly or thomas, with them thinking they were freeing harry from an obligation that may or may not be applicable at this point.
TheCuriousFan:
Was the chant to call He Who Walks Behind in Blood Rites actually in English or was that Lash making it sound like English so that Harry could understand it?
How does He Who Walks Behind speak English? (with a British accent no less)
Quantus:
--- Quote from: TheCuriousFan on October 11, 2012, 11:12:59 AM ---Was the chant to call He Who Walks Behind in Blood Rites actually in English or was that Lash making it sound like English so that Harry could understand it?
How does He Who Walks Behind speak English? (with a British accent no less)
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We have a demon that wears old man spectacles perched on a beak, and you want to know that? :P
TheCuriousFan:
--- Quote from: Quantus on October 11, 2012, 12:35:37 PM ---We have a demon that wears old man spectacles perched on a beak, and you want to know that? :P
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He at least has access to the known universe and was probably around to watch the language develop (also, glasses are probably ectoplasm constructs to humanise him in the eyes of those who make deals with him), HWWB was trapped outside the the universe in Outside, he would have had precisely zilch chance to learn English (which is a bitch to get right even when you're raised with it).
I'm asking because it's one of the mechanics questions that occasionally bugs me (the other being why things instantly age to death when something stopping their aging is removed, shouldn't they just go back to aging as normal?).
Also, there is very, very low chance of it getting a *singsong voice* "I'm not gonna tell you! I'm not gonna tell you!" answer due to it containing spoilers.
Sheaman3773:
--- Quote from: TheCuriousFan on October 11, 2012, 12:42:22 PM ---I'm asking because it's one of the mechanics questions that occasionally bugs me (the other being why things instantly age to death when something stopping their aging is removed, shouldn't they just go back to aging as normal?).
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Quintus Cassius was more than old enough to have been instantly aged to death, but instead he merely started aging at an extremely accelerated rate. He described it as a balancing effect, the aging process making up for lost time, etc.
I tend to like the explanation that it was all of the entropy that was being held off hitting them all at once, though obviously that argument fails when brand-new immortals react the same way as the ancient ones.
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