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Mac, A T-Shirt, and the 1994 Unseelie Incursion
raidem:
Now in the above I was talking about Corwin racing to make it to the Hall of Mirrors. And now, Mac's bar has 13 mirrors.
--- Quote ---Mac keeps a player piano instead. It's less likely to go haywire around us. I say pub in all the best senses of the word. When you walk in, you take several steps down into a room with a deadly combination of a low clearance and ceiling fans. If you're tall, like me, you walk carefully in McAnally's. There are thirteen stools at the bar and thirteen tables in the room. Thirteen windows, set up high in the wall in order to be above ground level, let some light from the street into the place. Thirteen mirrors on the walls cast back reflections of the patrons in dim detail, and give the illusion of more space. Thirteen wooden columns, carved with likenesses from folktales and legends of the Old World, make it difficult to walk around the place without weaving a circuitous route—they also quite intentionally break up the flow of random energies, dispelling to one degree or another the auras that gather around broody, grumpy wizards and keeping them from manifesting in unintentional and colorful ways. The colors are all muted, earth browns and sea greens. The first time I entered McAnally's, I felt like a wolf returning to an old, favorite den. Mac makes his own beer, ale really, and it's the best stuff in the city. His food is cooked on a wood-burning stove. And you can damn well walk your own self over to the bar to pick up your order when it's ready, according to Mac. It's my sort of place.
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(Page 36).
raidem:
--- Quote ---Susan Rodriguez was a reporter for the Chicago Arcane, a yellow magazine that covered all sorts of supernatural and paranormal events throughout the Midwest. Usually, the events they covered weren't much better than: "Monkey Man Seen With Elvis's Love Child," or "JFK's Mutant Ghost Abducts Shapeshifting Girl Scout." But once in a great, great while, the Arcane covered something that was real. Like the Unseelie Incursion of 1994, when the entire city of Milwaukee had simply vanished for two hours. Gone. Government satellite photos showed the river valley covered with trees and empty of life or human habitation. All communications ceased. Then, a few hours later, there it was, back again, and no one in the city itself the wiser.
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This 1st mention of the Unseelie Incursion of 1994 occurs during the 1st onscreen appearance of Mac's Bar, Susan, and the "Chicago Arcane." I think this further supports the idea that Mac was involved in some way with the Milwaukee event of 1994.
jonas:
--- Quote from: raidem on February 09, 2018, 12:30:06 AM ---This 1st mention of the Unseelie Incursion of 1994 occurs during the 1st onscreen appearance of Mac's Bar, Susan, and the "Chicago Arcane." I think this further supports the idea that Mac was involved in some way with the Milwaukee event of 1994.
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Pretty sure this was already more or less confirmed by Mac questing for his neutral territory around the events of the 1994 Incursion?
raidem:
It hasn't been spelled out that explicitly, which is why I have included this as another circumstantial piece of evidence to support the idea.
We knew his quests likely occurred around 1994 as that was when his pub was established but nothing equated him to the incursion necessarily. This quote of Harry's thinking while at Mac's bar introducing it and Susan for the first time seems to establish the connection clearly.
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