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Molly's cellphone ...
g33k:
--- Quote from: seanham on July 05, 2022, 02:06:04 AM --- ... Or it could be a mortal cellphone that was used as a plot device to show that Molly is becoming less mortal. Either could be true but I think the second is what was intended/does more to progress the story.
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--- Quote from: Ed0517 on July 05, 2022, 05:29:01 AM ---I think Harry sees it as her becoming less human. Less Murphyonic field...
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Oh, yeah! Clearly, Harry is worried about Molly "becoming less human."
The question I was raising was: do we think he's right? Or is this another bit of unreliable-narrator-Harry & Jim's misdirection?
Is Molly carrying & using an actual cellphone... and therefore using her mortalborn magic vastly less (and favoring her Winter/Mantle powers even when her own magic could have sufficed)... and thus becoming less human?
Or is she using something that looks like a cellphone, operates like one, but is in fact a magical doodad that plays very nicely indeed with her mortal magic?
I note that the pseudo-Harry illusion she provided (that Harry used on the docks, agains Ebenezer) could have been a Molly item without any Winter Lady power at all; or it could have been pure faerie glamour, without any of Molly's mortal magic involved; or it could have been any ratio or blending of the two.
I honestly don't see that we have enough info to make any firm conclusions... hence, I present a WAG and solicit comments from the Paranet(online) hivemind...
:-)
--- Quote from: Ed0517 on July 05, 2022, 05:29:01 AM --- ... The field is there or it is not. Hers is dying. Also, the Ordo Lebes seemed able to use modern things. Less power, less interference ...
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I think the "murphyonic field" is highly-variable between wizards. As noted, the Ordo Lebes could all mostly / more-or-less use mortal tech, with only minor glitches & failures (n.b. not none).
Harry reduces his own murphyonic field by staying calm & relaxed. I presume actively meditating would reduce it further. IIRC, he was doing something special (sustaining a spell?) to be "less murphyonic" on the Larry Fowler show.
Thus, one presumes that older and more-disciplined wizards have less troubles.
Also, we know Harry's own magical talents & inherent strengths include big, flashy, extravagant "boom" sorts of things, and that kind of magic is (we don't know with certainty, but surmise; if only for Jim's own torment-Harry reasons) probably more-murphyonic than subtle things like veils and mind-magic. Jim has said that Molly is in many ways "just as strong" as Harry is, but her subtler magic is probably less-murphyonic.
Arjan:
Before Molly became the winter lady she had to the same effect on technology as Harry. It is mentioned a few times. For example in the warrior short story:
“Molly sat on a blanket underneath a tree maybe ten yards away, with earbuds trailing wires down into her shirt's front pocket, as if she was listening to a digital music player. It was an effort to blend into the background, I supposed, since she couldn't have been listening to one of those gizmos any more than I could have.”
The cellphone was just a cry out to Harry that Molly was not completely human anymore.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Arjan on July 06, 2022, 06:56:10 AM ---Before Molly became the winter lady she had to the same effect on technology as Harry. It is mentioned a few times. For example in the warrior short story:
“Molly sat on a blanket underneath a tree maybe ten yards away, with earbuds trailing wires down into her shirt's front pocket, as if she was listening to a digital music player. It was an effort to blend into the background, I supposed, since she couldn't have been listening to one of those gizmos any more than I could have.”
The cellphone was just a cry out to Harry that Molly was not completely human anymore.
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Exactly, and if I remember correctly, that fact troubled Harry greatly.
morriswalters:
--- Quote ---That drew a quick, merry laugh from her. She bumped my fist with hers, and turned away—and as she walked away from me, I saw her pull a cell phone out of her pocket and turn it on.
That stopped me in my tracks.
Cell phones were some of the technology that was absolutely the most sensitive to the unbalanced fields of energy around a mortal wizard. When one of us got near a powered-up cell phone, it was likely to kick the bucket right there. Inhuman practitioners, on the other hand, had no problem with that effect whatsoever. And I suddenly felt very afraid for Molly.
Butcher, Jim. Skin Game: A Novel of the Dresden Files (p. 447). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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It's there to draw attention to the fact that she is no longer completely human. It is also a clue bat for Proven guilty if you assume Sandra Marling was Maeve. It's getting you ready for something later.
g33k:
--- Quote ---That drew a quick, merry laugh from her. She bumped my fist with hers, and turned away—and as she walked away from me, I saw her pull a cell phone out of her pocket and turn it on.
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I'm pretty sure this was Molly wanting Harry to see this thing.
I don't know if it was a cry for help ("Harry! I'm slipping!") or a warning ("My rules are no longer what they were, so tread carefully!") or a hint ("there are ways to handle tech") or exactly what Molly was saying to Harry here.
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