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Jim Butcher interview from 2 months ago

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raidem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gmu76ritoQ 40:00

I didn't know this but Jim intends Harry to have Indiana Jones Fedora.

Quantus:

--- Quote from: raidem on May 11, 2018, 09:35:06 PM ---https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gmu76ritoQ 40:00

I didn't know this but Jim intends Harry to have Indiana Jones Fedora.

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Oh, ya, that hat has been sorta kinda established in canon already.  Apparently there exists a hat that LTW gave McCoy way back in the day.:


Shecky posted some very interesting information about LtW and Ebenezer McCoy in the quote below
--- Quote from: Shecky on August 22, 2012, 03:38:00 PM ---
--- Quote from: Greg Scott Neuman on August 22, 2012, 01:41:10 PM ---A black staff
Overalls
Flannel shirt (several to choose from, actually)
Work boots
and I'm growing a beard, which comes in appropriately grey.

What I still need to know:

Does he regularly carry any other gear besides the Blackstaff?
What color flannel shirt?
Does he have a pentacle like Harry's and Thomas'?

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Be sure you get old-school overalls, not something fancy and trendy; Ebenezar uses his clothes to work in. I don't remember where, but he was also described once with a white t-shirt, which will help with the Atlanta weather. Finally, he also wears spectacles—it's only mentioned in TC, but some fake wire-rims wouldn't hurt.

When I went to NYCC 2 years ago as Ebenezar, I used black latex to show the "infection" on his hand from the Blackstaff (which, oddly, only has the descriptions of "dark" and "twisted"). It was a fun little bit to add.

FWIW, I was a bit leery of shaving my head, so out of pique and a "what the hell" attitude, I sent a question to Jim about whether Eb wears a hat. He was MOST emphatic ("You bet he has a hat"); turns out he has a black leather OOOOOLD-style hat. Listens-to-Wind gave it to him at the end of their very long feud (Jim said the details are really horrible). LtW had taken it from the last surviving paleface from the group that killed his family, so yeah, it was an ugly thing all around. Anyway, this is the hat that I got and Jim approved fully:

http://www.sheplers.com/Minnetonka-Silverthorne-oiled-leather-hat/6964.pro


Sadly, this hat is apparently no longer available. But that should give you some idea if you want to go that route.
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raidem:
Yeah I had read that too. Thanks for reminding me of it.

jonas:

--- Quote from: Quantus on May 11, 2018, 07:53:52 PM ---And harry used it to raise a zombie dinosaur. Which I been under the impression had still stained him with detectable black magic, same as his earlier run-in's with Black Magic had stained him in a detectable way. 

And stabbing a Senior Council Member in the face is punishable by death but is not Black Magic Council "Justice" is a wildly different topic.   :P

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Here's a nice metaphor... Imagine a clear glass of water as someone's source of magic, this magic is effected directly by what they use it for, what they actually manifest, ect. squirting food coloring into it, say red for using fire magic, black ink for black magic, ect. well, once you squirt some ink into it the resulting alloy/mixture isn't ever gonna look quite the same even if you start dumping white out in to try an balance it... imagine the best you could hope for after a time is a deep purple. ;)
On the hat thing it's long been my belief that (click to show/hide)Harry will wear a 'black hat' instead of wielding it in staff form, to make a joke on his own term for evil magic users, the blackhats... Now wither MM Harry in fact is already wearing the hat, and if after MM Harry always remembers wearing the hat, is the interesting thing to me

groinkick:

--- Quote from: Quantus on May 11, 2018, 09:33:16 PM ---You mean except for the guy that they hunted down and put on trial with full intention of executing for stabbing a senior council member?  :P

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Don't recall that happening?  Even so, it's not in the laws of magic.

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