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SpacedCowboy:

--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on September 01, 2020, 06:32:21 PM ---No calamari joke? Harry (and Jim are slipping).

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I think the line from Murphy pointing that out was the telling one. It sort of weakens the impact if he then starts kraking jokes..


--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on September 01, 2020, 06:32:21 PM ---Molly has control of weather and sharks, does anyone else find that ominous? She also knew Harry had gone to the island.

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Well, she is the Winter Lady, a certain power over dark creatures is indicated... As for knowing where Harry is, I'd imagine there'd be some way the queens can locate their knight, otherwise he'd just run away and hide pretty darn quick.

(click to show/hide)I thought the 2 chapters were awesome - definitely a good start :) I was kind of confused by the "You don't want to take on the Winter Knight in dark places" line though, considering that he didn't *do* much as the Winter Knight after that. Everyone else did, but Harry's contribution was limited to stuffing a magnesium flare into the wound made by Lara. I was thinking maybe blades of ice, lots of them, but ... no.

The other thing I think worth mentioning is that this über monster of the deep is destroyed by mortal weaponry - from a sword, to a flare, eventually to a grenade. The scariest creature of the sea (up until now :) was despatched by 4 sort-of-humans. Maybe there's going to be a theme in this book...

Mira:

--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on September 01, 2020, 06:33:53 PM ---But not Marcone.....

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No, which if you will remember surprised Harry, and actually made him a bit afraid of Marcone.  However he did find a corner where Marcone was vulnerable.  One has to wonder, perhaps Marcone wasn't afraid because he was trying to come up with a way to use Harry?

Mira:

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I thought the 2 chapters were awesome - definitely a good start :) I was kind of confused by the "You don't want to take on the Winter Knight in dark places" line though, considering that he didn't *do* much as the Winter Knight after that. Everyone else did, but Harry's contribution was limited to stuffing a magnesium flare into the wound made by Lara. I was thinking maybe blades of ice, lots of them, but ... no.
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That depends on how you define how much he did.  The soul gaze, the Winter Mantle made Harry realize something, the kracken was afraid of him!  Then his allies came in and did their part.  However if they hadn't I wouldn't be so sure if Harry wouldn't have done more, because with the knowledge gained he now had the upper hand, but he didn't need to do more.  Notice he didn't even attempt to use the knife, he is still keeping that knowledge from the Enemy.

SpacedCowboy:

--- Quote from: Mira on September 01, 2020, 06:50:03 PM ---That depends on how you define how much he did.  The soul gaze, the Winter Mantle made Harry realize something, the kracken was afraid of him!  Then his allies came in and did their part.  However if they hadn't I wouldn't be so sure if Harry wouldn't have done more, because with the knowledge gained he now had the upper hand, but he didn't need to do more.

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I guess. Maybe I'm not reading enough into that, it just seemed an odd line to have, if there weren't immediate consequences backing it up.


--- Quote from: Mira on September 01, 2020, 06:50:03 PM ---Notice he didn't even attempt to use the knife, he is still keeping that knowledge from the Enemy.

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Yup. Although I thought he took two of the weapons off-island. We only get to hear about the knife ...

The_Sibelis:
Yea wow, kraken soul gaze? Does that mean other things in the fomorian ranks have them? Then they can basically makes actual choices? That interesting..

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