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How big was the Boarding House?
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Mr. Death on July 27, 2018, 02:01:18 PM ---Well, Odin does seem to like Marcone and it's his einherjar staffing the place...
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And they are paid.
Mira:
--- Quote from: SerScot on July 27, 2018, 11:22:47 AM ---In six months?
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Little longer, from Wikipedia
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The original stonework was used to clad a new concrete structure.[1] The reconstruction took slightly over three years and was completed in late 1971. The bridge was not reconstructed over a river, but rather it was rebuilt on land in a position between the main part of the city and Pittsburgh Point, at that time a peninsula jutting into Lake Havasu. Once completed, the Bridgewater Channel Canal was dredged under the bridge and flooded, separating Pittsburgh Point from the city, creating an island. As a result, the bridge now traverses a navigable shortcut between the Thompson Bay part of Lake Havasu south of Pittsburgh Point, and the remainder of Lake Havasu to the north.[5]
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But then again Marcone could of had some supernatural help from Gard's friends..
SerScot:
Mr. Death,
--- Quote from: Mr. Death on July 27, 2018, 02:01:18 PM ---Well, Odin does seem to like Marcone and it's his einherjar staffing the place...
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One of the things that I have always liked about DF magic is that it has some relationship to real world physics. It’s not “wave a wand and reassemble Manhattan” from “Magical Beasts and Where to Find Them”. If the castle appears with a finger snap we are definitely in the latter category.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: SerScot on July 27, 2018, 11:21:12 AM ---No. Moving a sizable working castle from Scotland to Chicago and having it’s mortar dry enough for it to be a secure facility in under six months would be impossible even with modern tech and magic. It is too much mass to move unless a god steps in and finger snaps the building from one place to another. Cash isn’t going to influence a god in that context.
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Im sorry, are you arguing that /Magic/ is incapable of making mortar dry? :o ;D
Im not saying anyone finger-snapped and made it teleport, though Im also not saying didnt do something close (aka NN Ways instead of sea-shipping) since doing it that much the Easy Way would likely be more Debt than Marcone would think it worth. But it absolutely, 100% does not take 6 months for mortar to dry in any universe. Certainly not in any universe with modern concrete technology, and especially not in one with both that and magic. Seriously, next month we are putting up a three story steel and concrete structure, plus all the processing equipment that goes inside it, during a 10-day scheduled mill shutdown and with maybe two months prior mobilization on the part of the contractor. Even Harry noted that they'd likely had the plan in place and ready to move as soon as he was out of the way, so really the only stage that had to happen in the six month period is final assembly; there is a very real possibility that Marcone had the castle shipped, staged and ready in a wharehouse just outside of town. Hell,If give it even odds that he had planned to put it up somewhere else and just change the final location when a last-minute opportunity arose (Im assuming he gets something out of it being the former bastion residence of a paranoid wizard which was coincidentally fortified on the NN side by one of the most powerful fae around).
Mr. Death:
--- Quote from: SerScot on July 28, 2018, 01:25:36 PM ---Mr. Death,
One of the things that I have always liked about DF magic is that it has some relationship to real world physics. It’s not “wave a wand and reassemble Manhattan” from “Magical Beasts and Where to Find Them”. If the castle appears with a finger snap we are definitely in the latter category.
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Doesn't have to be a fingersnap. We saw that Odin, for instance, was able to make a portal straight from Chichen Itza to Chicago. Hell, he's also Kris "Hit Every House On The Planet In One Night" Kringle. There's plenty of ways he could grease the wheels and get things done quicker.
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