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EB McCoy after the BAT
Rasins:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on December 08, 2017, 04:10:19 AM ---Some of us are still not entirely convinced Morgan was innocent, fwiw.
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He was innocent of killing Lafortier. Luccio did it.
Kindler:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on December 08, 2017, 01:55:33 AM ---Yeah, once Ebenezar had seen the evidence on Peabody, responsibility for how to play it kind of is on the SC member rather than Harry.
Politically, they couldn't really have the Merlin just go "hey, trial on Morgan is cancelled" anyway. The spectators from LaFortier's bloc had to be convinced that Peabody was responsible because of how much suspicion was going around that Langtry would subvert the process to rescue his favourite attack dog. It wasn't just Harry that failed to anticipate the "bureaucromancer" posing a physical threat - Ebenezar and Carlos also missed that.
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Right, and Ebenezer should have walked up to the Merlin, said "Hey, we need to incapacitate Peabody with thorn manacles before the trial—trust me, man, this is going to be awesome." I mean, the guy might seem like a little nobody—the Butters of the White Council (pre-Ghost Story, before he leveled up)—but he's still a wizard of the White Council. There's some level of competence and power required. Why wouldn't they have anticipated him running? It was in their best interest to restrain him, but they failed to do so completely. And, you know, fifty wizards died while Harry played Poirot.
Actually, Harry's summation speech let Peabody prepare; he realized where this was going, and pulled out another inkwell during Harry's testimony, which was the one with the mistfiend in it. Or... some kind of mist that summoned a fiend somehow. Did he bottle a mistfiend, actually? Because that's pretty cool. Anyway, Harry should've made sure the Merlin was ready; there was absolutely no reason not to tell the whole Senior Council, so they could have all been prepared adequately. Privately, the blame lies mostly on Ebenezer's shoulders—he was supposed to be ready to shut him down, and wasn't—but publicly, it was Harry's grandstanding that got them all killed. Which they then used to force their guy onto the Senior Council.
Rasins:
I agree that it never set well with me that they weren't prepared for Peabody to run, but ...
We know that Eb is the junior member of the Senior council, and he's at odds with the Merlin. I can totally see Langtry ignoring Eb's warnings (if there were any) not believing them. After all, Peabody had been on the staff for a LONG time.
wardenferry419:
Basically, they under-estimated what a perceived paper-pusher would do even though he was also a wizard. I was a military clerk, so I know the mentality, even if I was a soldier as well.
Kindler:
--- Quote from: Rasins on December 12, 2017, 12:31:42 AM ---I agree that it never set well with me that they weren't prepared for Peabody to run, but ...
We know that Eb is the junior member of the Senior council, and he's at odds with the Merlin. I can totally see Langtry ignoring Eb's warnings (if there were any) not believing them. After all, Peabody had been on the staff for a LONG time.
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My reading of the events showed that the Merlin didn't know about Peabody at all; Harry describes Langtry as reacting with sudden hope when Harry stands up to give evidence. Something like, "The Merlin looked like he realized the game wasn't over yet." To me, that shows that Eb didn't even try to tell him, which is weird.
It's not quite Prometheus levels of "Why are you doing any of the things you're doing, this is dumb, run perpendicular to the falling thing, not parallel," but it's something I haven't found a reasonable explanation for beyond lack of foresight (rare for Ebenezer) or complicity (which I can't believe of Ebenezer, though many find him shady and I understand why).
--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on December 12, 2017, 09:02:46 AM ---Basically, they under-estimated what a perceived paper-pusher would do even though he was also a wizard. I was a military clerk, so I know the mentality, even if I was a soldier as well.
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But that goes against everything we've seen from the White Council. They really, really, really like to plan ahead. It's just not something I can reconcile with the characters involved.
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