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Chicago, Sanctuary City?
Basil:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on October 14, 2020, 10:03:31 AM ---Employ paranoid Gary and the Paranet to hack the White Council’s finances, and distribute it to the relief effort in Chicago, as I don’t see the White Council putting their hands in their pockets, the tight beardy gits.
Use the rest to pay the Wardens involved in the Battle of Chicago a one off gratuity, let’s see the White Council try and get that back without alienating every Warden. At the same time publish the White Councils financial records to make it clear they have been stiffing the Wardens for decades.
Thus the Paranet earn their bones in economic warfare against the White Council. In this day and age property registers are all electronic, bank accounts, and share holdings and registrations, the Paranet have a huge advantage in that respect over the White Council who must be using mortal middlemen.
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I don't see Harry embezzling, but the meta point is a good one. The White Council was so hidebound that it had to rely on the Fellowship of St. Giles and other mortal organizations to run legal and financial interference for them against the Red Court.
The fundamental problem with the White Council as an organization is that they only care about magic talent. The Paranet could be, in the end, much more useful and powerful as an organization and for humanity because they are more open to broader human talent. I don't think Paranoid Gary is a practitioner of any power at all, is he? Yet, he's a pretty useful person to have around. The Paranet is even in a better position to identify Wizard level talents than is the White Council.
Conspiracy Theorist:
Not embezzling, Robin Hooding it. Harry wouldn’t need to touch the money, just deny it to the White Council, but not the Wardens.
WOJ has it that Paranoid Gary is an Oracle, a very low powered practitioner but whose minor gift greatly enhances his first rate hacking skills, he can “see” things like in Psych, and put apparently scant random data together to create a coherent model. So if you want someone to run a hacking organisation, ferret out passwords etc Gary would be your man.
Langtrey’s Password for everything is probably “Bottlecap123”
Arjan:
That would not be wise. there are probably still people in the council who do not want to act against Harry and it is better just to try find out what is going on in stead of giving his enemies more ammunition.
Conspiracy Theorist:
Really? They would peg Harry for this? The notorious computer expert Harry Dresden? Marcone, White Court, Swartalves are all far more likely, especially Marcone, they don’t bank with him and word will get round to them that Marcone has the Eye, they might think he is warning them to keep out of his Town.
Setting up a showdown between Marcone and the White Council is a win win situation for Harry.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on October 14, 2020, 06:20:50 PM ---Really? They would peg Harry for this? The notorious computer expert Harry Dresden? Marcone, White Court, Swartalves are all far more likely, especially Marcone, they don’t bank with him and word will get round to them that Marcone has the Eye, they might think he is warning them to keep out of his Town.
Setting up a showdown between Marcone and the White Council is a win win situation for Harry.
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From white Night:
--- Quote --- The
Council’s investigators worked more slowly than Lara’s had, but they got to the
same information by following the money, eventually. The Council confronted the
White Court with the information.
Lara
sent them the heads of the persons responsible. Literally. Leave it to Lara to
find a way to get one last bit of mileage out of Madeline and the business
manager’s corpses. She told the Council to keep the money, too, by way of
apology. The next best thing to six million in cash buys a lot of oil to pour
on troubled waters
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They have investigators that can find things out.
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