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Wizard McFee from “Changes”
Avernite:
--- Quote from: g33k on August 09, 2019, 11:21:51 PM ---There's also this: different wizards have different kinds of talent. It's possible that MacFee literally had no useful contribution in a crisis situation; note that, even with the older tech, she must have a very gentle, mellow gift, or she'd hex down the switchboard. IIRC there's WoJ that a couple of the Senior Council have no significant ability for combat magic, for example.
Behind the scenes, we discover that the Senior Council was secretly considering it very much a crisis situation.
It's possible that there was nobody except a full wizard that they'd have trusted to run Communications Central in a crisis!
All that said: yeah, it does seem a notable anomaly. Dunno if any of my speculations are true... or are sufficient explanation if true!
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I'm trying to figure which Senior Council members have no combat skills.
Mai came along to Demonreach for a fight.
Listens-to-Wind showed he could kick a Skinwalker.
Eb was at Chichen Itza and did well.
The Gatekeeper and
Merlin together stalled the whole Red Court with a ward in Proven Guilty.
Martha Liberty went along to help evacuate the Trainees - not sure if she has direct combat skills, but I'd assume as much or she'd be hiding?
And the ex-Simon obviously was the leader of the Brute Squad.
This leaves only LaFortier and Cristos (abnormality though he is), of which I can't remember much about their fighting.
KurtinStGeorge:
--- Quote from: Avernite on August 10, 2019, 07:18:41 AM ---I'm trying to figure which Senior Council members have no combat skills
Mai came along to Demonreach for a fight.
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I believe Mai is supposed to be an expert in making magical constructs like the stone temple dogs that were used to protect the Council meeting in the warehouse in Chicago in Proven Guilty. Anything else she can do is something of a mystery.
--- Quote from: Avernite on August 10, 2019, 07:18:41 AM ---Martha Liberty went along to help evacuate the Trainees - not sure if she has direct combat skills, but I'd assume as much or she'd be hiding?
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Martha Liberty is supposed to be some kind of intelligence expert who has extensive contacts with the fae, and probably others in the supernatural world. After that, I suppose anything is possible.
--- Quote from: Avernite on August 10, 2019, 07:18:41 AM ---This leaves only LaFortier and Cristos (abnormality though he is), of which I can't remember much about their fighting.
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Except Cristos was said to have distinguished himself in a war against a Rakshasa, so I think he must have some serious combat ability.
KurtinStGeorge:
The alternative to having a full wizard manning the switchboard would be having an apprentice or a team of apprentices handling incoming and outgoing calls. The problem with this is the importance of her job. It is not simply a matter of ensuring that information gets to where it needs to go, there is also the issue of wizards sending highly sensitive or classified information to the Council. Would you really want apprentices to handle such information? Probably not; the only exception I could think of might occur if Wizard McFee had an apprentice of her own, but one nearing being recognized as a wizard.
The situation is similar to Lt. Uhura in Star Trek. She appear doesn't do very much, but without her it's impossible to communicate with other starships, star bases, alien planets or Star Fleet itself.
SerScot:
--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on August 11, 2019, 07:42:45 PM ---The alternative to having a full wizard manning the switchboard would be having an apprentice or a team of apprentices handling incoming and outgoing calls. The problem with this is the importance of her job. It is not simply a matter of ensuring that information gets to where it needs to go, there is also the issue of wizards sending highly sensitive or classified information to the Council. Would you really want apprentices to handle such information? Probably not; the only exception I could think of might occur if Wizard McFee had an apprentice of her own, but one nearing being recognized as a wizard.
The situation is similar to Lt. Uhura in Star Trek. She appear doesn't do very much, but without her it's impossible to communicate with other starships, star bases, alien planets or Star Fleet itself.
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I appreciate that point but, at the end of the day you still have a full wizard answering phones. That’s odd.
g33k:
--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on August 11, 2019, 07:37:03 AM --- I believe Mai is supposed to be an expert in making magical constructs like the stone temple dogs that were used to protect the Council meeting in the warehouse in Chicago in Proven Guilty. Anything else she can do is something of a mystery.
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Dresden Wiki says
--- Quote ---She has "precious little gift when it comes to actual combat magic"
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There's a footnote but it points to the old-forum site, so the link redirects. I believe there's WOJ, but don't know if this linked there or not. Maybe @Serack can help track down my memory of a WoJ that cites Senior Council members with weak combat-magic?
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