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raidem:
I've posted this before but I wanted an updated version that hasn't been delete.

Death Masks

--- Quote ---Mac caught my eye when I came in and nodded to my left. I looked. A sign on the wall said, ACCORDED NEUTRAL GROUND. I looked back at Mac. He drew a shotgun out from behind the bar so that I could see it and said, "Got it?"
"No problem," I answered.
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Dead Beat

--- Quote ---The minute I shut the door behind me, some of the fear and tension faded, the dark energies Cowl had stirred up sliding around the tavern like a stream pouring around a small, heavy stone.
A sign on the wall just inside the door proclaimed, ACCORDED NEUTRAL TERRITORY.
--- End quote ---

Proven Guilty
Referred to by Fix in phone call as:

--- Quote ---Accorded neutral territory,” he responded.
He meant McAnally’s pub.
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Then when they meet at McAnally's

--- Quote ---There’s a sign Mac’s got hanging up at the door that reads ACCORDED NEUTRAL GROUND.
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White Night

--- Quote ---On the wall beside the door was a wooden sign that stated, simply, ACCORDED neutral ground. That meant that Mac had declared the place a nonpartisan location,
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Small Favor
Reference to it

--- Quote ---It doesn’t keep out any of the supernatural riffraff—that’s what the sign by the door is for. Mac had the place legally recognized as neutral ground among the members of the Unseelie Accords, and members of any of the Accorded nations had a responsibility to avoid conflict in such a place, or at least to take it outside.
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Cold Day's References
(Vadderung's Bodyguard, I think)

--- Quote ---A woman with a voice cold enough to merit the use of the Kelvin scale spat, “He will meet you. Accorded Neutral Ground. Ten minutes."
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--- Quote ---Thomas swung to his feet and slipped the little automatic into the back of his pants, then pulled his shirt down over it. “Where are we going?” “Accorded Neutral Ground,” I said.
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When they visit to meet Vadderung, sign reads see excerpt:

--- Quote ---The two of them went to a far table, bickering cheerfully, and sat down, passing by the real reason we were meeting here—a modest wooden sign with simple letters burned into it: ACCORDED NEUTRAL TERRITORY.
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Skin Game
When Harry meets with Mab and Kringle at McAnnaly's it reads, see excerpt.

--- Quote ---Normally, Mac’s does a brisk trade, but today there was a sign on the door that read: CLOSED FOR PRIVATE PARTY. A second sign hung inside the door, a wooden one, into which the words ACCORDED NEUTRAL TERRITORY had been neatly burned.
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wardenferry419:
I am guessing that a simple explanation like Mac had a new sign made ain't going to cut it.LOL

raidem:
So, there is a flip flop between ACCORDED NEUTRAL GROUND, ACCORDED NEUTRAL TERRITORY mainly and one OUTLIER of ACCORDED neutral ground.  The last though might simply be a not ALL CAPS mistake.

wardenferry419:
So, what if Mac's bar is a nexus point existing out of time. (Like the Restaurant  in Adams' book) And, sometimes the scenery shifts, minutely, but Mac stays relatively unchanged.

jonas:

--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on November 06, 2017, 10:57:52 PM ---So, what if Mac's bar is a nexus point existing out of time. (Like the Restaurant  in Adams' book) And, sometimes the scenery shifts, minutely, but Mac stays relatively unchanged.

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Wow, beat me too it, what if, like MW, Mac exists in so many different realities as the same relative thing in each? So the background timeline shifts cause his sign to change more often than other examples?

Also, I wonder at the difference in wording in defining grounds and territory. Grounds makes it almost a 'hollowed' place whereas Territory refers more to it's protection by a group authority, small nuances like that.

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