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The YLC (Why Little Chicago) thread
Ms Duck:
--- Quote from: wizard nelson on December 16, 2012, 02:40:52 PM ---haven't seen anything on this so, little chicago had atl 300× the energy of a kinetic ring, why didn't it blow sky high in the fire? the spells around the lab would have been eaten away first and i'm pretty sure even on fire that much energy wouldn't just dissapate, its pure energy. so either the lab survived or someone snatched it (lea). i say it survived an i can think of why too. harry made it during the theoretical time travel era. using its connection to how chicago was BACK THEN harry will use it as a springboard/focus to leap backwards to that time frame al la' thaumaturgy.
god i'm awesome when i'm tired 8)
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fire is a puryifing force, according to Jim. its destoryed and disapated the magical construction.
Serack:
The origional YLC thread
In brief, for the amount of buildup that was put into YLC, as a potential "Chekov's gun" (tvtrops warning) it sure didn't have much of a proportionate bang.
So my new thought was born from thinking about this recent comment from Tami Seven
--- Quote from: Tami Seven on September 11, 2013, 02:27:24 AM ---4. Harry walking around as just a Soul in GS was like a person walking around naked -- so is the soul more important that the physical body? You can exist as a soul, you don't need a physical body (in theory)?
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Which made me wonder if Harry would, in the future find it advantageous to put his GS experiences to work by wandering around Chicago disembodied like he did in GS. And then I remembered. Harry's already done that! He tracked Malvora in White Night in disembodied form via Little Chicago.
--- Quote from: WN Ch. 14 ---"My own flesh dissolved into flickering silver light, and I felt myself rush after the energy of the seeking spell, streaking through the ghostly images of Chicago's nightlife in the model all around me, one more insubstantial shade among thousands.
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So what could this mean for the YLC question? Possible answers would run like...
* Harry's experiences with LC helped prep his soul for his GS experience
* Harry's GS experiences helped him gain a new paradigm that would allow him to utilize a new LC like spell/foci more effectively
* I still haven't completely* ruled out the idea that whoever fixed LC saved it before the burndown in Changes (see #2)
* Maybe we'll come up with more
*not that I think it's likely or anything.
rekshek:
--- Quote from: Serack on September 11, 2013, 04:18:28 PM ---
* I still haven't completely* ruled out the idea that whoever fixed LC saved it before the burndown in Changes (see #2)*not that I think it's likely or anything.
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Hey Lea has done crazier things in her time, and she had the ability/entrance too.
Oh god, why am I imagining a terrible ritual involving the stone slab, and little chicago as a catalyst/foci now?
Tami Seven:
--- Quote from: Serack on September 11, 2013, 04:18:28 PM ---The origional YLC thread
In brief, for the amount of buildup that was put into YLC, as a potential "Chekov's gun" (tvtrops warning) it sure didn't have much of a proportionate bang.
So my new thought was born from thinking about this recent comment from Tami Seven
Which made me wonder if Harry would, in the future find it advantageous to put his GS experiences to work by wandering around Chicago disembodied like he did in GS. And then I remembered. Harry's already done that! He tracked Malvora in White Night in disembodied form via Little Chicago.
So what could this mean for the YLC question? Possible answers would run like...
* Harry's experiences with LC helped prep his soul for his GS experience
* Harry's GS experiences helped him gain a new paradigm that would allow him to utilize a new LC like spell/foci more effectively
* I still haven't completely* ruled out the idea that whoever fixed LC saved it before the burndown in Changes (see #2)
* Maybe we'll come up with more
*not that I think it's likely or anything.
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I think that was what Harry did, kind of, separated his Soul from his body for a walk around Little Chicago. Same for what happened in Changed with Mab and the Stone Table, possibly even as early back as GP when Harry fought the Nightmare for the final time.
peregrine:
I don't buy that every type of an out of body experience is separating soul from body. Otherwise we'd have to include things like the talking stones that he and Eb have.
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