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Kincaid microfiction "Goodbye"
g33k:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on March 28, 2020, 05:24:23 PM --- ... I'm a strong advocate of the WC publicizing the existence of the Laws and the fact that consequences will be inbound in a credible manner. All they really need to do is get it on the internet next some basic principles of magic like circles.
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Not gonna happen 'til the Masquerade drops.
Of course, the Paranet is pretty darned open. Not much privacy/security wonkery there, AFAIK. Like the internet itself, the goal is connectivity and information-sharing, not privacy. They've GOT to be reaching out & recruiting.
I think that -- below the level Harry or the White Council (or many other members of the supernatural community) can see it -- the Masquerade ***IS*** dropping. It's happening "now" in the series, it's mid-drop.
Avernite:
--- Quote from: g33k on March 28, 2020, 06:55:40 PM ---Not gonna happen 'til the Masquerade drops.
Of course, the Paranet is pretty darned open. Not much privacy/security wonkery there, AFAIK. Like the internet itself, the goal is connectivity and information-sharing, not privacy. They've GOT to be reaching out & recruiting.
I think that -- below the level Harry or the White Council (or many other members of the supernatural community) can see it -- the Masquerade ***IS*** dropping. It's happening "now" in the series, it's mid-drop.
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To be fair, I get half a dozen witchy posts on my facebook feed per week. Doesn't make me think magic exists.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Avernite on March 28, 2020, 07:25:01 PM --- To be fair, I get half a dozen witchy posts on my facebook feed per week. Doesn't make me think magic exists.
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Yeah, but this is something new.
Folks are discussing events. They are sensibly confirming and denying events. They are suppressing panic & baseless rumors, but passing warnings; sharing methods.
Last but not least... most of the Paranet'ers already KNOW magic is real; they are (or personally know) practitioners and Gifted's of various sorts.
Large organizations -- military/intelligence & other government agencies, NGO's reaching marginalized religions... hell, maybe even really-socially-engaged AD AGENCIES! ... will suddenly have "the Paranet" on their radar. It will appear to either be The Real Deal, or a stunningly coordinated & dedicated multinational prank.
morriswalters:
If it was something that would get her killed by the wardens why tell her anything at all? And I mean anything. He clubs you over the head with it in the first two paragraphs.
--- Quote ---I never used to keep close track of the phases of the moon. So I didn’t know that it was one night shy of being full when a young woman sat down across from me in McAnally’s pub and asked me to tell her all about something that could get her killed.
“No,” I said. “Absolutely not.” I folded the piece of paper, with its drawings of three concentric rings of spidery symbols, and slid it back over the polished oak-wood table.
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--- Quote from: Avernite on March 28, 2020, 07:25:01 PM ---To be fair, I get half a dozen witchy posts on my facebook feed per week. Doesn't make me think magic exists.
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You are a minority depending on what you consider magic.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: g33k on March 28, 2020, 06:51:18 PM ---TYbothVM!
So, it didn't even cross his mind.
Gotta call that EIW.
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You're welcome. I kinda agree with EIW. It can also be explained, not just hand waived, with Harry having such a bad experience with the Council coloring his experience and then slowly change his mind as he has to interact with more of the Council than Morgan and more often as well. It you recall, the other warden in Summer Knight thought Morgan was being overzealous with Harry when Harry was trying to gain entry to the meeting dressed in a bathrobe. Harry never gives the guy or the wardens generally any credit for that, but we surely can.
--- Quote from: g33k on March 28, 2020, 06:55:40 PM ---Not gonna happen 'til the Masquerade drops.
Of course, the Paranet is pretty darned open.
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Yeah. I think Harry has largely sidestepped the Council by founding the Paranet. Even if it wasn't his intention of it going as widespread as it did.
--- Quote from: Avernite on March 28, 2020, 07:25:01 PM ---To be fair, I get half a dozen witchy posts on my facebook feed per week. Doesn't make me think magic exists.
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Are you talking about the Masquerade falling or my idea of publishing the Laws of Magic?
--- Quote from: morriswalters on March 28, 2020, 07:55:15 PM ---If it was something that would get her killed by the wardens why tell her anything at all? And I mean anything.
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Because she was already asking questions about it meaning she was already messing with something that could get her killed. "Hey, stop messing with that! It's dangerous," is something.
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