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Bob, Butters, and the White Council...
peregrine:
Did the whole council have a "destroy on sight" order for Bob, or just the Wardens?
Mira:
--- Quote from: peregrine on August 01, 2017, 02:49:50 AM ---Did the whole council have a "destroy on sight" order for Bob, or just the Wardens?
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The Wardens do not act unilaterally, the original order had to have come down from the Council, or at least the Senior Council.
Quantus:
They arent going to execute Bob on sight, they'd need to actually recognize him as the same Spirit that belonged to Kemmler, and he currently looks, acts, and I daresay his energy Feels substantially different. And now he has the very real and truthful defense that HE is not that Spirit, not anymore.
So the only way it's going to get pushed is if somebody traces the Skull back to Kemmler via Harry and Justin. Which in retrospect might well be another reason he wanted a spare skull. Otherwise the more likely public explanation is that Butters got it from Marcone's organization. It would have started appearing post BFS-founding but while Harry was good and dead.
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: Quantus on August 01, 2017, 11:58:19 AM ---They arent going to execute Bob on sight, they'd need to actually recognize him as the same Spirit that belonged to Kemmler, and he currently looks, acts, and I daresay his energy Feels substantially different. And now he has the very real and truthful defense that HE is not that Spirit, not anymore.
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Makes no difference. Remember, the Council is not about justice, but restraining power and maintaining public safety. They don't want Bob destroyed (and they think he has been destroyed, remember) as a punishment, they want him destroyed as a preventive measure. Too much knowledge and power with too little restraint. That's true whether he's good, bad, or neutral.
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on July 31, 2017, 08:30:31 PM ---The entire reason Butters and company have had to step up so openly is that the Council doesn't have assets on the ground in Chicago.
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For the time being, yes. But eventually they'll have agents in place again, probably a resident Warden (Chicago's a natural place for a ranking Warden in North America), and Harry being THE Warden means that they'll eventually be focusing a lot of attention in that area. Which means somebody may start hearing some odd stories...
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Another angle that I think might be riskier than Butters' gear is that Evil Bob is still out there. If some of his schemes get on the Council's radar and they trace the deception about him being destroyed back to Justin, it's a short jump to Harry.
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True enough, and possibly a real risk.
One possible 'out', that the Council might accept (under the right circumstances): Harry could claim that he's holding Bob prisoner in his capacity as THE Warden, letting him operate on limited parole. It's the sort of useful fiction that the Council might pretend to believe if it was politically convenient to do so, and Harry appears to have Bob on a tight leash.
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