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Does Marcone have Little Chicago?
Mira:
--- Quote from: SerScot on December 26, 2022, 01:49:41 AM ---I seriously doubt Little Chicago survived the fire intact.
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Either way it is a moot point because big Chicago will never be the same.
vincentric:
Harry made Little Chicago by gathering all the components from all over the city on his own. Marcone has hundreds of people to take pictures and gather materials and has the head start of Harry's work to build off. Yes, there was a great deal of destruction but 60-70% of the city is still there and Marcone would be able to get a full picture of the damaged areas much sooner.
Mira:
--- Quote from: vincentric on December 26, 2022, 03:41:32 PM ---Harry made Little Chicago by gathering all the components from all over the city on his own. Marcone has hundreds of people to take pictures and gather materials and has the head start of Harry's work to build off. Yes, there was a great deal of destruction but 60-70% of the city is still there and Marcone would be able to get a full picture of the damaged areas much sooner.
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Reconstruction takes time and changes minute by minute as things are built and torn down... They just finished building a huge house next door, you could take a picture of it one hour, but it wouldn't be the same the next hour. Other things burn and get torn down, in truth Little Chicago was never really practical because a city is dynamic and never static..
Conspiracy Theorist:
--- Quote from: vincentric on December 26, 2022, 03:41:32 PM ---Harry made Little Chicago by gathering all the components from all over the city on his own. Marcone has hundreds of people to take pictures and gather materials and has the head start of Harry's work to build off. Yes, there was a great deal of destruction but 60-70% of the city is still there and Marcone would be able to get a full picture of the damaged areas much sooner.
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I have considered that argument. Magical tools are most attuned to their maker, staffs can be used by another wizard but never as well. LC is far more complex than any staff, another practitioner could use it, but with a far lesser level of proficiency than Harry, say 20% if they can use it at all. Harry gathered everything himself, made it himself, physically and magically.
Harry is also unusually adept at making and working with magical tools. He has intuited that the swords contain an angel rather than being a purely magical construct like a staff, and that the Castle needs a guiding spirit of intellect to work properly (which Namshiel didn’t)
vincentric:
--- Quote from: Mira on December 26, 2022, 03:56:29 PM --- Reconstruction takes time and changes minute by minute as things are built and torn down... They just finished building a huge house next door, you could take a picture of it one hour, but it wouldn't be the same the next hour. Other things burn and get torn down, in truth Little Chicago was never really practical because a city is dynamic and never static..
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The city was changing in those ways when Harry made LC the first time around. Marcone probably has people in some way involved with over 90% of the construction going on. He could easily keep it more up to date than Harry. Google Maps does it in the real world and they keep making updates year round.
The attunement factor could be a problem at first. But most magic items in the Dresdenverse seem to be something that any person with the will and skill can master eventually. Marcone may not start at 100% but he could work his way there.
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