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Questions for Jim 2012 style 2
TheCuriousFan:
--- Quote from: Quantus on October 22, 2012, 02:16:17 PM ---I doubt its a specific list so much as individual effects for each wizard. In SmF for example, Harry gets glowing white eyes and sparks of green lightning all over his body. A heat shimmer isnt out of the question either, though there wasnt anything visual for it in the description
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Harry's comment kinda makes it sound like a consistent "you get X effect depending on affinity" thing. And that wasn't drawing in power with skill in SmF, that was desperately trying to hold in power.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: TheCuriousFan on October 22, 2012, 02:17:58 PM ---Harry's comment kinda makes it sound like a consistent "you get X effect depending on affinity" thing.
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He is just listing examples, which to me does not obligate any sort of hard and fast list tied to elemental affinity. However, in many cases he has stressed how everybody's magic is different, is used and expressed differently, etc. So it would suprise me greatly if there wasnt the same sort of variation in the visual displays of it.
--- Quote ---And that wasn't drawing in power with skill in SmF, that was desperately trying to hold in power.
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Those are essentially the same activities. The only difference there is that he hung onto it long enough to actually take notice of the effects, rather than immediately flushing the power into a spell and describing those effects. We know that there is a noticeable effect around harry, because he has noted other people's response to it, however that is the only instance where he pauses long enough to notice the effects.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: TheCuriousFan on October 22, 2012, 02:08:52 PM ---How did the Necromancers find out about the Word? Corpsetaker's Anthropomancy?
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Considering the way that supposed anthropomancy does not ever get mentioned again, I'm inclined to read it as quite possibly Harry misreading the consequences of a ghoul with a taste for organ means being peckish.
As for the Word, I had the impression Bony Tony was spreading word of it to sell to the highest bidder.
TheCuriousFan:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on October 22, 2012, 02:28:33 PM ---Considering the way that supposed anthropomancy does not ever get mentioned again, I'm inclined to read it as quite possibly Harry misreading the consequences of a ghoul with a taste for organ means being peckish.
As for the Word, I had the impression Bony Tony was spreading word of it to sell to the highest bidder.
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He's almost certainly seen the aftermath of Ghoul's eating habits (hell, he's probably seen it dozens of times) before and he thought it different, and he could sense the powerful magic used, it wasn't just a supernatural creature eating someone.
I was talking more about how they knew that it would be released in Chicago years in advance, and "those times we disemboweled people for information coughed up the location of the Word" is a lot simpler than the other theories I've heard.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: TheCuriousFan on October 22, 2012, 02:39:29 PM ---I was talking more about how they knew that it would be released in Chicago years in advance, and "those times we disemboweled people for information coughed up the location of the Word" is a lot simpler than the other theories I've heard.
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Im not sure what you mean by "Knew it would be released in Chicago years in Advance" since it was found in a storage locker from WW2, which I had generally assumed was elsewhere, likely Europe, and not in Chicago proper. But the Kemmlerites knew about the Word because the theif, Mendoza, approached Grevaine about it, then got nervous when he seemed to have access to unnatural resources. Says so right in the book, when Marcone is handing out background.
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