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"Job placement" microfiction
g33k:
--- Quote from: Avernite on May 18, 2020, 09:01:18 PM --- Pretty sure the ink was only for the old coots Peabody couldn't directly mentally remodel.
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"Old coots" would include Anastasia Luccio -- she's 200ish years of age (per WoJ she can recall the War of 1812, though she was young then and didn't much take note of it).
Yuillegan:
Indeed, yet it also would seem the physical body has some impact. The understanding is that Anastasia would have been caught unawares and not taken steps as she had gotten so used to being an old coot, she forget the danger of being physically young again - and hence was vulnerable. So her 200 years didn't insulate her.
Mira:
The point is, old coot or not, Luccio was one of Peabody's main targets. However lets not ignore that Peabody was after the young coots as well. The only reason why Harry, a relatively young coot
was spared influence from the ink is he was never around headquarters to come in contact with it. And when he did visit, Peabody tried his damnest to get him to sign paperwork. The same goes for the rest of the younger Wardens.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Yuillegan on May 18, 2020, 02:30:56 AM ---Yeah, hard to know isn't it? My guess is Battle Ground is after Christmas Eve...
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2. True. We can only guess. I would tend to think the more experienced wizards survived, just based on that.
...I wasn't doubting you wrote it.
Don't get me wrong. Harry opening a buisness and managing a team of PIs and Wizards would be great. Sadly, I think the character just isn't the sort to do that.
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Assuming Karen survives, I can see them working together. But I think she is marked for death, and has been for some time. Listen to Dresden's theme song "Gone Away" by The Offspring again. Almost like a neon sign.
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Is free time really free if you can't use it? A debate for the philosphers among us
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I think Christmas Eve will be after BG, but I haven't seen anything that strongly supports anything one way or the other.
I'd agree that older wizards were more likely to survive because older generally means better in the DF, but I would also imagine that some of them still died. Just not as many as the younger wardens. In fact, we know that at least one died on Demonreach in Turn Coat and then Morgan died a little later, so we know some old guard wardens died.
Yeah, but I was doubting I expressed myself clearly enough, so I checked. Having checked, I figured I might as well share.
I agree that Harry is unlikely to turn his one man sole proprietorship into a real agency.
I honestly don't have an opinion on whether or not Karrin is on the chopping block.
Yes, because it helps my argument. ;)
--- Quote from: Mira on May 18, 2020, 02:50:23 PM ---I don't think that is relevant here
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Where's here? If it's who is senior out of Ramirez and Harry, then I agree. If it's why Ramirez is in charge of security instead of someone older, then it is relevant because there aren't a lot of older someone's to choose from.
--- Quote from: Mira on May 18, 2020, 02:50:23 PM ---Perhaps the last thing [Peabody] wanted was for Harry to be given a sword matching his talents, even if he never was a great swordsman.
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Interesting. I imagine we'd find out soon because he's no longer messing with her mind.
--- Quote from: Mira on May 19, 2020, 04:35:05 AM ---Peabody tried his damnest to get [Harry] to sign paperwork.
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I think Peabody always or almost always used the ink to establish his mind control because of the scene alluded to. IMO, it is the light touch that was reserved for the "old coots," which doesn't include Luccio because the brittleness of mind is apparently a physical consequence of age and Luccio isn't even physically older than Harry.
Mira:
--- Quote ---Where's here? If it's who is senior out of Ramirez and Harry, then I agree. If it's why Ramirez is in charge of security instead of someone older, then it is relevant because there aren't a lot of older someone's to choose from.
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I was talking about the fact that Luccio made a sword for Ramirez because he became a Warden some time before she had her body change, where as her body change happened right after Harry became a Warden so she wasn't able. Don't think having or not having a sword is relevant to whom was put in charge.
--- Quote ---I think Peabody always or almost always used the ink to establish his mind control because of the scene alluded to. IMO, it is the light touch that was reserved for the "old coots," which doesn't include Luccio because the brittleness of mind is apparently a physical consequence of age and Luccio isn't even physically older than Harry.
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According to Rashid, Peabody did a lot of messing with Luccio's mind, further he enhanced her existing propensity for violence to set her up to murder LaFortier.
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