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Is Murphy truly dead
Conspiracy Theorist:
I think Murphy has more use than as a common grunt to Odin. I think she will be used initially as a consultant using her knowledge of policing and detective work, principally every law enforcement organisation will be breaking down the door to Monoc Security after Chicago and Murphy is the ideal person for that job. Field work may be a bit of a problem, though, unless there is some work around “not in mortal memory”.
morriswalters:
Her boss sells his service to a crime lord who murders, sells drugs and carries a Denarian Coin. Consider that. But I wasn't commenting on the story, I was commenting on the idea, for me personally. It sounds sexy when it's written but imagine going to war over and over again. And doing nothing else. I'd as soon have a harp.
Conspiracy Theorist:
Odin sells his services to a lot of people, Marcone but a single customer. Lara Raith is also a customer of Monoc. That’s at least two Aacords Members, governments of the supernatural world. Off course governments of the mortal world are going to use Monoc.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on November 13, 2021, 01:33:07 AM ---Her boss sells his service to a crime lord who murders, sells drugs and carries a Denarian Coin. Consider that. But I wasn't commenting on the story, I was commenting on the idea, for me personally. It sounds sexy when it's written but imagine going to war over and over again. And doing nothing else. I'd as soon have a harp.
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We are too far from the world where these stories originated and after the First World War most people got a better understanding about what war really is. But for the einherjar war’s terrible aspects are mostly removed. They won’t die or get crippled for life and it is not about getting wet cold and ill in some far away trench. For them it is more like extreme martial arts followed by partying every day. It is a simple and boring concept of heaven but I have never read a description of heaven that was good enough for me to spend eternity there without the treat of hell as the alternative.
But she gets to see how everything ends in the next apocalypse and she can even play her part in it. That will be soon and that is what she always wanted. She made the wrong choices for playing harp.
morriswalters:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on November 13, 2021, 02:47:01 AM ---Odin sells his services to a lot of people, Marcone but a single customer. Lara Raith is also a customer of Monoc. That’s at least two Aacords Members, governments of the supernatural world. Off course governments of the mortal world are going to use Monoc.
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Reconcile Murphy as a police officer and then as a bodyguard to someone like Marcone. How does that work as part of the her story? I'm sure that moral dilemma will never make it into the books, if we see her again at all. But it's implicit in the idea. You look at this in a way that is different then the way I do. For me sending her to wherever stole the emotional kick from her death. She didn't die in any true sense. All Jim did was take Harry's bone away and threw it into the yard next store. A plain headstone next to Harry's grave would have had more of an emotional punch for me. But Jim is the author so I bow to his sense of his story.
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