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Unsolved Mystery Book11 Shaggy snacks
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on December 07, 2017, 07:05:39 PM ---I think that only makes sense if the whole thing is a ruse; Cowl and Mavra had the Erlking book all along, they release it into the wild and get the word spread, and hooray, the White Council and the other Kemmlerites start wiping each other out over it.
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If Cowl and Mavra were working together all along, how come Cowl hasn't just completed the Darkhallow somewhere other than Chicago by now? He's got all the pieces required.
Come to think of it, that's really a glaring question even if he isn't working with Mavra. He probably knows the Erlking summoning anyway from whatever copies he and Kumori tracked down prior to DB, and he had Bob long enough to get the Darkhallow instructions from him.
Ananda:
--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on November 07, 2017, 11:37:53 PM ---Who hired Shagnasty?
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Time travelling Dresden hired him. In the future, Dresden and the Nagloshi are in a buddy cop type story around book 19 with a working title of Shaggy and Harry Get A Trim.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on December 07, 2017, 11:32:32 PM ---If Cowl and Mavra were working together all along, how come Cowl hasn't just completed the Darkhallow somewhere other than Chicago by now?
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I do not think he has all the ingredients. When Harry explains to Butters why the Darkhallow happened in Chicago specifically, he comes up with a whole bunch of necessary components, including the ancient Native American zombies summoned from the exhibition in the Field Museum (not easy to replicate), the old ghosts following the Erlking, and the way the boundary between Earth and the NN has been torn up in the Chicago area. (Which is done in GP, either directly by Mavra or by Bianca under Mavra's tuition - iirc the black barbed-wire magic is never pinned down specifically to one or other of them, but either way it is a thing Mavra is doing as set-up that far back. I suspect that is also why the Stone Table manifests in Chicago in SK.)
--- Quote ---Come to think of it, that's really a glaring question even if he isn't working with Mavra. He probably knows the Erlking summoning anyway from whatever copies he and Kumori tracked down prior to DB, and he had Bob long enough to get the Darkhallow instructions from him.
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One more piece of evidence that the object of the exercise is not to actually complete the Darkhallow at all, IMO. Just use the prospect of completing it to lure a bunch of people into doing things that serve Cowl and Mavra's greater ends.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Ananda on December 07, 2017, 11:49:19 PM ---Time travelling Dresden hired him. In the future, Dresden and the Nagloshi are in a buddy cop type story around book 19 with a working title of Shaggy and Harry Get A Trim.
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Nah, the buddy cop story will be Uriel and Kemmler.
wardenferry419:
I think a Toot and Lacuna story would be fun, weird, but fun.
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