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Mab preventing use of Little Chicago
Griffyn612:
We've seen Harry use locator spells before. and it requires triangulation. he ends up running around rechecking his results. but little Chicago tells your where someone or something is exactly. that's how they located Pell's theater as the nearest point to Molly's location. he didn't project himself astrally to do that.
my issue with him not using little Chicago is that it's obviously the most efficient tool to find him if Thomas is being held in Chicago. not using it at all, or even mentioning considering it or specifying why he's not, is extremely odd.
I get that using little Chicago takes effort. but was finding Thomas not worth the effort when other things failed? when he started growing desperate from lack of options?
Tami Seven:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on January 31, 2015, 07:06:49 PM ---We've seen Harry use locator spells before. and it requires triangulation. he ends up running around rechecking his results. but little Chicago tells your where someone or something is exactly. that's how they located Pell's theater as the nearest point to Molly's location. he didn't project himself astrally to do that.
my issue with him not using little Chicago is that it's obviously the most efficient tool to find him if Thomas is being held in Chicago. not using it at all, or even mentioning considering it or specifying why he's not, is extremely odd.
I get that using little Chicago takes effort. but was finding Thomas not worth the effort when other things failed? when he started growing desperate from lack of options?
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I agree with this. We don't know for sure what would have happened if Harry had tracked down Thomas earlier, but best case scenario would have been that Harry rescues Thomas before Shagnasty really starts torturing him.
Uriel had said to Harry that it wasn't his fault Thomas got tortured.....perhaps it's fair to say that it was Mab's fault.
namkcas:
I agree with the Triangulation, but I think the thing I am thinking through is that I don't know if LC makes the Locator Spells more powerful...reaching further/overcoming more issues. I thought that once he found that he could not make any Locator Spell work that it made LC not valuable to the operation. It takes a long time to use LC and has lots of other issues as well. If he could get a Locator Spell up, then I would have expected him to use LC. But given his inability to get one going - and he tried several different ways, that it meant he could not use Locator Spells in any way to locate Thomas. As I recall the other LC uses, he connected first with a standard locator and then used LC as an way of adding value to the tracking not a way to start the tracking.
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: namkcas on January 31, 2015, 07:35:27 PM ---I agree with the Triangulation, but I think the thing I am thinking through is that I don't know if LC makes the Locator Spells more powerful...reaching further/overcoming more issues. I thought that once he found that he could not make any Locator Spell work that it made LC not valuable to the operation. It takes a long time to use LC and has lots of other issues as well. If he could get a Locator Spell up, then I would have expected him to use LC. But given his inability to get one going - and he tried several different ways, that it meant he could not use Locator Spells in any way to locate Thomas. As I recall the other LC uses, he connected first with a standard locator and then used LC as an way of adding value to the tracking not a way to start the tracking.
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In Proven Guilty he sits down to use Little Chicago to find Molly while running out of time, and did so without much preparation time or precursor location spells.
The fact that he had time to do numerous other searches that week failed indicates he had time to try little Chicago but didn't. to me, that's suspicious. if you don't see his lack of mentioning his number one location tool and magical construct as suspicious, there's nothing more I can do.
namkcas:
I disagree with that entirely. He went and got Charity'sblood and started a tracking spell. Then he used LC to move around. Without the tracking spell, LC would not have worked.
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