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Harry's use of Black Magic
morriswalters:
Why would the critters in Demonreach have mantles? To clarify. Odin wears any number of hats apparently, Santa, Vadderung for two. But Odin is Odin what would be left if Odin took it off?
Arjan:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on February 26, 2020, 12:08:33 PM ---Why would the critters in Demonreach have mantles? To clarify. Odin wears any number of hats apparently, Santa, Vadderung for two. But Odin is Odin what would be left if Odin took it off?
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Mantles, masks, Grace, ...
There are all kinds of critters locked up in demonreach. At least some of them will have mantles and for most of them it will be useless to kill them in the long run, maybe because humans still know about them.
And who says that if Odin drops all his masks there won't be a perfectly ordinary norwegian left called Olaf?
Bad Alias:
@Yuillegan: Thomas doesn't say the gods existed to protect mortals from the old demons. He said that "in some parts of the world" "humans wouldn't have survived" without the help of those "old gods." (quotes from memory). At some point near that statement, Bob cites some Babylonian gods.
--- Quote from: morriswalters on February 26, 2020, 11:29:47 AM ---I should give up humor. The point, such that it was one, was in the plot to free the prisoners at Demonreach. Had they succeeded it would have set off the Banefire on Halloween. Bob's rule for immortals means that it would have permanently killed the inmates.(Including Maeve and Lily) Yet Harry implies otherwise.
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If I recall correctly, while the attack was happening on Halloween, the explosion was going to happen on November 1st.
g33k:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on February 26, 2020, 02:20:37 AM --- Have they put any new prisoners in? :o
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I suspect it takes having an active Warden to do so.
We don't know how long the island operated with no Warden, when or who the last Warden was, or whether that Warden put anyone into the prison.
I suspect -- from that "weary British" voice Harry spoke to briefly at the beginning of Skin Game -- that it was sometime in the late 30's or early 40's: the usage seems to have originated specifically in 1934, based on an earlier (1920's) more mild version that was just a colloquial for "depart".
https://notoneoffbritishisms.com/2018/08/30/piss-off/
noblehunter:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on February 26, 2020, 02:20:37 AM ---To the second, it does what energy does, it radiates, probably flashes Lake Michigan to steam, something like that. And you may be over estimating the problem. Morgan nuked a nagwhatever and nobody ever noticed. ;)
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That was in Nevada, right? I'm tempted to look up to see if there were any tests on potentially significant days with higher than expected yields. I know some tests were more powerful than expected but I'm pretty sure the ones I'm thinking about were in the Pacific.
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