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General Ramblings and Questions after re-listening to Battle Ground
morriswalters:
Harry is going to time travel, at least goes common wisdom. One scenario to free Thomas from the Swartelves is for him to go back in time as Harry does, along with Justine, and stay there. Maybe become a Knight in Medieval France
Mira:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on June 13, 2022, 06:27:19 PM ---The placard gave Harry peace of mind, a safe place to stash Murphy. Murphy had other ideas.
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It also protected the bulk of the Paranet.. Yeah, Murphy had other ideas and abandoned her post to go and help Harry. If she had lived and all those with in the bar had perished because she wasn't there to protect them, how would she have felt?
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Mira on June 13, 2022, 07:51:47 PM ---It also protected the bulk of the Paranet.. Yeah, Murphy had other ideas and abandoned her post to go and help Harry. If she had lived and all those with in the bar had perished because she wasn't there to protect them, how would she have felt?
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The placard was there. That was not the place where she could make a difference.
Conspiracy Theorist:
--- Quote from: Arjan on June 13, 2022, 08:15:23 PM ---The placard was there. That was not the place where she could make a difference.
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Harry should have known this, and perhaps subconsciously did.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on June 13, 2022, 10:00:16 AM --- ... Well, since the Artifacts were used in Battle Ground and Harry would have failed without using them, it was meaningful.
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This was an end-of-book plot-twist -- "This isn't a treasury... it's an armory!." Almost the entire "heist" plotline was about other things... wealth, greed, etc. And of course the "spiritual" heaven/hell thing of a Fallen Angel in possession of the Holy Grail (which, it should be noted, was an outright win for Anduriel, however disastrously-Pyrrhic the victory was for Nicodemus Archleone).
But Harry's powerup could have been equally-advanced by the "heist" being run against (for example) a Church-run armory (an arm of the same group supporting the Knights, which holds the Coins they get, but also could have held the Superweapons); or even having Forthill just hand them over, etc (but of course that ain't much of a story!). In many ways, Dresden doing a run against the Church could have been even better, furthering his isolation, his separation from his old life, & emphasizing how much he's a "lone wolf" ... but running with the monsters more than with humanity...
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