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morriswalters:
You can probably trace the genesis of Butcher's idea to have Marcone pick up the coin to the Goodman Grey short story where the story concludes with Goodman Grey basically saying that if he comes for Marcone, Marcone will never see him coming. It is at this point that Marcone probably realizes that all the precautions he has taken to that point haven't made him safer. I don't have that in quotable text.

Conspiracy Theorist:
Marcone is a brilliant forward planner,when the castle was built he was certainly considering the option of taking up the coin, we don’t know exactly when or what provoked it.

Whilst Goodman Grey’s threat may have been the trigger, as big a trigger is likely to have been the re-emergence of Harry or the personal threat from the Fomor (Dead Mans Hand).

It should be noted in Dead Mans Hand Marcone is still using temporary headquarters, and I think that event was the trigger to start planning as he had gone as far as he could as a vanilla mortal, and he survived by the skin of his teeth.

Remember Marcone is developing his own list of supernatural enemies

1. Harry Dresden
2. Goodman Grey
3. The Fomor
4. Nicodemus Archelone

I think it really was the re-emergence of Harry, that forced him to pick up the coin as despite run-ins with the other 3 it’s Harry who he reveals himself to, because he has to eventually so from Cold Days onwards is the earliest he could have picked up the coin and put the Castle contingency in play which he started planning from Dead Mans Hand.

Ed0517:
The kitchen.... if you run the wiring UNDER the flooring, and put the circle ON the flooring, is it protected? Computer rooms had raised flooring to force ventilation and cabling underneath.... does a circle project underground? how high up? Likewise a PC can have cabling run from below

Conspiracy Theorist:
Bob can project on the walls, floors, ceilings of the Castle and can pick up electro magnetic frequencies. You just need a wireless router in one of the neighbouring houses too far away for Harry to disrupt to him to patch into the internet, and a nearby cell tower to patch in for cell phones.

Harry doesn’t need a computer, the Castle is now a computer. Harry has entered the silicon age. Literally.

Bob is capable of multi-tasking (at least at watching porn) so he should be interact with multiple users as his own local network for the castle users.

Initially his projections will be blue BUT we have seen him use other colours and Blue, green and red should be possible so he can go full colour. Harry will be so excited when the Mandalorian streams in the Dresdenverse (it’s currently late 2014) so several years to go.

Sound reproduction may be a problem, Bob isn’t a mimic and has only ever reproduced his own voice. In doing so it is either telepathic, of he is manipulating the air molecules to create sound. However as he can interface with a loudspeaker that ceases to be an issue.

Loudspeaker technology is old, Harry uses an old style radio but decent valve driven speakers date from 1912, over a hundred years old, so it would be relatively easy to custom build speakers using that tech (older by thirty years than the Munster mobile and amplifiers use valves today) with Bob acting as a carrier wave for them (he communicated via Harry’s office radio early in the series), Harry should be able to get full sound reproduction, even if Bob cannot provide it directly.Using a magic circle would cut off Bob’s carrier wave, but the tech would be old enough to likely hardly ever burn out because of Harry.

Whilst Harry can speak to Bob to dictate things it might be possible to rig up a keyboard. Get a slab of Castle Stone and have Bob project a keyboard touchpad on it. Bob should be able to discern the keys being touched and make the corresponding alpha numeric notation.

g33k:

--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on June 22, 2022, 01:00:18 AM --- ... he communicated via Harry’s office radio early in the series  ... 
--- End quote ---

I only recall that vaguely.  But I think Bob was actually *there,* speaking from the radio as he "speaks from" his skull

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