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Rebuilding (Little) Chicago.

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morriswalters:
Maybe Odin's map can do less but it may take less to keep it current. I'm pretty sure that Harry isn't going to have the time to collect samples.

I don't offer this too seriously, but maybe he'll learn to tap something similar to what Mab uses. What is a map?  Isn't it just a weak form of intellectus?  Rashid uses some form of it. Toot uses some form of it tied to Winter that allows him to speak any language. This is why, by the way, Jim saying the English prisoner isn't Merlin because of the language he speaks  strikes me as amusing. Harry's army of faeries is pretty much everywhere all the time in Chicago.  Maybe he'll tap into that somehow.  Maybe even develop some form of intellectus with them.

groinkick:
I think Harry may benefit from a more efficient Little Chicago.  The previous one took an incredible amount of time, and energy to construct, and I just don't see him being able to get material from every building in the area to connect.

On the other hand I think it could be a good idea to build a type of perimeter around his location, and places of importance like Mac's place, Michael's place and so forth.  There will be gaps in his information but he could have a reliable warning system that something is happening, and a way to check in on places.

Conspiracy Theorist:
Harry doesn’t have to get a sample from every building, the Little Folk can, which means BLC will be hellaciously accurate as regards every Pizza S’press. This means his time isn’t spent going out and cataloging only on the build. He could probably rebuild in 3 months whilst Maggie is in school.

Here is a thought though, at what point would BLC cease to become a tool and wake up and become the self aware genius loci of Chicago? An AI equivalent of Demonreach? Created in months rather than evolving through geological epochs all that magic floating around in BG...... it would then be self updating, rebuilding itself in real time to match the work outside. This would make it an appallingly powerful magical artefact, the first of Harry’s construction. Perhaps a friend for Demonreach?

That would make for a typical Harry “oh shit” moment, on a par with the sanctum invocation for Demonreach. Fortunately it would be benevolent Harry has always sought to protect Chicago despite all the property damage. However whilst Harry considers he is the Wizard of Chicago would a genius loci of Chicago consider Harry to be ir personal wizard? Who is who at the end of that particular leash?

BLC would be perfect to monitor the wider city, when CCTV cameras are working Bob can hack those as well, I am sure Gary would help, but this doesn’t help on magical disturbances. If he can trace an monitor the ways as well he can cover all entrances to the City.

morriswalters:
Which, would again, set up the need to be in one place to use it. If he gets cut off from that place then he doesn't have it.  Which is why, in it's place, he's been using the little people.

Molly gives a glimpse of what it might work like.
--- Quote ---She blinked several times, focusing on me by degrees, coming up out of the state of concentration she’d been in, and as she did her eyes changed color again, lightening to their natural sky blue, pupils shifting back to circles. “Give me a second, Harry. I’m . . . tracking about two dozen conversations. . . .” Then she exhaled, sighed, scratched at the end of her nose, and said, “What can I do you for?”

Butcher, Jim. Battle Ground (Dresden Files) (p. 60). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
--- End quote ---
And then read the rest of the chapter.  Seeing Harry with those creepy eyes might be cool.  But I think Harry will build the successor, just way bigger.

Conspiracy Theorist:
It means Harry has to get to his castle rather than Demonreach, but if Harry builds BLC as an artificial genius loci then within Chicago then it should with the sanctum invocation provides him with some advantages whist he is in Chicago. I doubt at Intellectus level, but the way he can run through Demonreach without tripping or bumping into things. To some extent Demonreach must have been modified  by the original Merlin to become the prison that it is.

By the way Chicago is a corruption of the Algonquin word  “shikaakwa,” meaning “striped skunk” or “onion.” According to early explorers, the lakes and streams around Chicago were full of wild onions, leeks, and ramps.

This means Harry is the Wizard of Onion. Listens to the Wind will laugh himself silly when he hears Harry has declared himself to be the Wizard of Chicago.

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