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Stone Table Sacrifice
peregrine:
If a Sword can destroy a coin, then they wouldn't need to keep locking them away.
Shift8:
They should irradiate the coins in a nuclear reactor so that no one can ever safely handle them.
kazimmoinuddin:
The descriptions of the well, make it sound like it is capable of containing the goin collection. Especially with a warden with soul hire, and a pseudo nephlim spirit of intellect daughter.
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: Rasins on July 14, 2017, 07:58:08 PM ---Really? In the never-never? Wielded by ... Mother Winter?
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That would be my bet.
JB has pointed out that the Coins have been around for ~2000 years, and there have been attempts to release their prisoners. So far, no dice. I'd guess that even Mother Winter would bounce off.
As for sacrificing a Denarian, I think the only thing the Table would get is the personal, innate power of the Denarian. The Coin is more like a weapon or a carried object, it probably makes no more sense to talk about sacrificing a Coin on the Table than it does to ask what would happen if you sacrificed Harry's .44 or Stallings' badge on the Table. Meaningless.
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: Shift8 on July 15, 2017, 02:13:41 AM ---They should irradiate the coins in a nuclear reactor so that no one can ever safely handle them.
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You're assuming that would have an effect. I tend to doubt it would. If the Coins are immune to change in the sense of melting or hammering or whatever, there's no reason to assume they can undergo nuclear transmutations either.
Now, you might just be on to a tactic, though. You probably can't make the Coins radioactive as such, but you could possibly put radioactive material on them. Say, dip one in glue, then sprinkle it would radioactive dust. But over time that would fade away (as a rule, the more powerful the radiation, the shorter the half-life) and it could be removed by removing the sticky coating.
Or you could coat the Coin in poison, or corrosive, or something, but it could still be washed off.
Of course, making the Coins lethal on contact temporarily removes the risk of a new Denarian, but it has its own nasty moral problems, and the Adversary has plenty of time, at least on a mortal scale. The Fallen could just wait until the radiation fades away, or somebody washes the poison off, or whatever.
A more practical idea, it seems to me, and more moral, is Harry's approach. Take the Coins, encase them in blocks of high-density concrete, that sort of thing. Make them physically harder to touch at all.
But nothing will work for very long, by the very nature of the case. The Coins, to borrow a line from Tolkien, 'have a way of being found'.
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