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Rudolph's evidence doesn't make sense
TheCuriousFan:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on September 23, 2020, 01:20:13 PM ---I think we are going to see not Rudolph’s breakdown, but his total destruction, his disgrace. Prison time for him and disgrace.
There is a theory on Reddit that The Man In The Suit is Rudolph and that he tries to kill Murphy and Harry. We see Harry generate a shield and use it offensively to grind the man in a suit into a wall when he pulls a gun on Harry.
Harry won’t kill with magic but he would be willing to injure.
If so this shows two things, Harry may no longer need his shield bracelet as a focus, and secondly Harry has figured out a defensive shield can be an offensive shield. I never understood why he hasn’t ever run a spherical shield around an enemy and then contracted it massively compacting them to basketball size, would work nicely for Blamps, or if in a room full of adversaries just expanded his shield suddenly to crush them against the walls all at the same time, or created a shield around an adversaries head and then contracted it whilst striking a Darth Vader pose.
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Because he struggles with maintaining a full bubble around himself, he is nowhere near good enough to use a shield offensively outside of melee range.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: TheCuriousFan on September 23, 2020, 02:15:30 PM ---Because he struggles with maintaining a full bubble around himself, he is nowhere near good enough to use a shield offensively outside of melee range.
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The line between adapting the shield and forzare spells is actually kind of blurry. The shield is made of force, and he's used forzare with the focus turned out to full-body as a nonlethal for human gunmen since way early in the series. There's also blowing the front off Gard & Hendricks' safe house to create an escape in SmF, which is at least mid-range.
He seems to find planes easier than spheres to work with, but I'd argue what Harry did to Namshiel in the aquarium fight - squeezing him and batting him around with a soulfire-enhanced force spell - is pretty close to what Conspiracy Theorist is suggesting. He has the capability, he just has to figure out how to do it without Uriel bumping his elbow.
Though, generally, the strangler he tried to use on Shagnasty is probably lower effort. He just needs a couple extra loops to restrain the target's limbs and prevent drawing a circle to counter it.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on September 23, 2020, 01:47:51 AM ---I also thought Karin's attitude towards Harry when he said, "What should we do?" to be out of line. I don't remember her exact words but it was something like, "What are we, Bond villain's in Rudolph's detective fantasy?" Harry and Karin have both figured out that someone is targeting them and this individual or faction probably won't have any compunctions about creating false evidence to frame them. Harry knows people and not people who could literally make evidence disappear. That should be a reasonable back up plan for both of them to consider.
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They should definitely get a criminal lawyer who is aware of the supernatural seeing as how they are guilty of numerous crimes and have a bunch of diamonds from the crime. The government would definitely seize the diamonds if the found them, so they might as well use them to get a good lawyer using them now.
As to the evidence of Harvey being at the bank, I'm not sure if that exists. I don't know if the law requires it or if there are cameras in the vault.
--- Quote from: Mira on September 23, 2020, 05:21:52 AM ---However Bradley doesn't even know why it is IA that is investigating, he guesses because Murphy used to be a cop? Come on, does that sound right to you? If they are looking into a homicide then homicide should be looking into it. Chicago has a sizable department. No, it still sounds to me like Rudy is gathering what he can to be used later in blackmail.
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That it's weird that IA is investigating still doesn't have anything to do with my point that a lack of evidence isn't a reason to not have an investigation when there is sufficient evidence to know a crime has occurred and who is likely involved in some way.
Mira:
--- Quote ---That it's weird that IA is investigating still doesn't have anything to do with my point that a lack of evidence isn't a reason to not have an investigation when there is sufficient evidence to know a crime has occurred and who is likely involved in some way.
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Then you have homicide investigate.. Harry and Murphy are civilians. IA is for in house investigations pertaining to police misconduct, plus one of the investigating officers doesn't even know why they are there.
Conspiracy Theorist:
The problem with getting a criminal lawyer au fait with the supernatural world is that they are all Whamps, and Malvora and Skavi’s to boot. The Skavi’s feed when they send you the bill. Actually I think that applies to all lawyers.
Diamonds from what crime? They weren’t stolen from Marcone’s vault, indeed they gave Marcone diamonds, in what Pratchett would call an anti-crime. After this his vault will have had more diamonds in it, not less.
Why would the Government take them? Since they will predate any Kimberley records and are unlikely to capable of being shown to be blood diamonds (Greek and Roman diamonds came from India, nor Africa ) the Government would scratch their head and conclude they are heirlooms.
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