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More evidence Eb is sketchy
Mira:
--- Quote from: SerScot on October 20, 2021, 05:35:51 PM ---Mira,
Well, “don’t set up wards that will stop a fleeing traitor” is an awfully specific and overt manipulation to work on older minds (remember they made a big deal about that). Peabody’s ink only worked because it was very subtle manipulation.
Something about Eb makes my spidey senses tingle.
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The ink worked on all minds, maybe not to the degree as on younger minds, but enough so all the decisions made by the Senior Council in the has dozen years or so had to be revisited. Senior Council minds are not younger minds. So I think yes, Eb was affected, I don't discount your spidey sense, I'd also toss in beginning stages of dementia as well.
Peabody was able to cause so much havoc because he was totally trusted, as secretary, all decision papers and orders went through him, these all had to be signed off by a senior wizard.. That made Peabody the perfect plant, the ink affected everyone without them realizing it.
SerScot:
Harry told Eb, before the hearing, that Peabody was the mole. Wouldn’t Eb have made preparations to keep Peabody contained?
Mira:
--- Quote from: SerScot on October 20, 2021, 06:13:25 PM ---Harry told Eb, before the hearing, that Peabody was the mole. Wouldn’t Eb have made preparations to keep Peabody contained?
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I have to go back and reread that section of Turn Coat, but if I remember rightly it wasn't as easy
as it sounds. Politics entered heavily into it if I remember correctly and the need to find Morgan guilty even though this was proof that he wasn't guilty.
morriswalters:
--- Quote from: SerScot on October 20, 2021, 06:13:25 PM ---Harry told Eb, before the hearing, that Peabody was the mole. Wouldn’t Eb have made preparations to keep Peabody contained?
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--- Quote ---“Working on the evidence Dresden found,” Ebenezar said, “Warden Ramirez and I searched Peabody’s chambers thoroughly not twenty minutes ago. A test of the inks he used to attain the signatures of the Senior Council for various authorizations revealed the presence of a number of chemical and alchemical substances that are known to have been used to assist psychic manipulation of their subjects. It is my belief that Peabody has been drugging the ink for the purpose of attempting greater mental influence over the decisions of members of the Senior Council, and that it is entirely possible that he has compromised the free will of younger members of the Council outright.”
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That's what he was doing.
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on October 20, 2021, 07:13:28 PM ---That's what he was doing.
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Yup, and it still was complicated by the politics.
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