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The YLC (Why Little Chicago) thread
KevinSig:
--- Quote from: kytheros on September 19, 2012, 10:40:37 PM ---He hadn't taken Bob with him yet. He took a cab from his apartment to Mac's for the Lily and Maeve meeting, though he did bring Mouse with him.
He only took Bob out with him the second? Third? day that he went to SplatterCon!!! - when he set up the warning web. Aka, the same day of the Xenomorph-phobophage attack (the last phobophage attack, the one that grabbed Molly), and his capture by Madrigal.
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Check again, Harry grabs Bob & Mouse in chapter 15 (& puts Bob in a backpack), chapter 19 is where Harry meets the Queens. In Chapter 21, Bob is still in the backpack. So in my mind, even if he did drop Bob off briefly, at his apartment, (like he did with Mouse,) Bob remained in the backpack.
Most likely put on the couch, or somewhere else coiveniant, for a quick grab.
The fixing of Little Chicago likely took place between chapter 15-18, or between 21 & whenever Harry gets back to his apartment afterwards (which might not be until he actually uses LC, from my recollection).
Thomas is around the apartment between the 15-18 period, but 21 onward he's obviously been following Harry. So it's possible to do the fix with & without Thomas. However, there's a huge period of time to do the fix without Bob being able to see the change, until after the fact.
dpara:
I think we are missing a valid piece of motivation;
what if someone wanted to use LC ?
I am also not quite certain why one could not just tell Bob to forget about it.
Can only his owner do that?
edit: doesn't the Chicago in the sky also sound like a remarkably similar piece of magic?
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: dpara on September 20, 2012, 12:27:10 PM ---I am also not quite certain why one could not just tell Bob to forget about it.
Can only his owner do that?
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Come to think of it, have we grounds for assuming Bob will always automatically wake up if someone is in the apartment ?
knnn:
--- Quote from: dpara on September 20, 2012, 12:27:10 PM ---I am also not quite certain why one could not just tell Bob to forget about it.
Can only his owner do that?
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In Backup, Thomas gets Bob to promise not to tell Harry about the Venators, so there is a precedence.
breck:
Wild guess here. Have the brownies who clean the apartment been known to fix things? Depending on what the actual fix to lc was maybe they just cleaned something up on lc and it made the power flow better.
On later consideration i do not believe the brownies enter harry's lab, so withdrawing brownies as suspect. The brownies were a gift from the current summer lady though perhaps she can enter the apartment. She might even know someone with a toolbox that fixes things. Only being half serious here that speculation was just for laughs.
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