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Thresholds

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Tinfoil hat:

--- Quote from: Mira on February 03, 2026, 07:06:15 PM ---
  Maybe because Basil was in the sky and landing on a roof and not entering a door or window it isn't technically a threshold?  ??? ??? ???

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Remember if you have no ill intent towards the household the threshold isn't a problem. Case in point the brownies ( Harry's cleaning service), Mab or lea or whoever fixed little Chicago. Basil had no ill intent towards Harry

Mira:

--- Quote from: Tinfoil hat on February 03, 2026, 08:03:42 PM ---Remember if you have no ill intent towards the household the threshold isn't a problem. Case in point the brownies ( Harry's cleaning service), Mab or lea or whoever fixed little Chicago. Basil had no ill intent towards Harry

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  That seems right, but though Lily arranged for the Brownies to come in and clean, it never said whether or not they had to be invited in the first time. 

Bad Alias:

--- Quote from: Mira on February 03, 2026, 07:06:15 PM ---
  Maybe because Basil was in the sky and landing on a roof and not entering a door or window it isn't technically a threshold?  ??? ??? ???

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--- Quote ---The creature tilted his head and blinked its eyes at me. “You invited me, did you not?” “Hah,” I said. I totally had, when I’d told him to come down. The outer defenses of the castle were based upon the foundation of its threshold, the magical energy field around any home. Given all the people living under my roof at the moment, that threshold had been a very, very solid one—and I’d invited the thing right past it. “Hah, heh, hah. I…actually did, didn’t I?”
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Some of the other characters go on about it. So it's definitely an invitation.

Faeries can enter without an invitation, but have to behave as guests. It's explained in Cold Days by Cat Sith. (Has anyone brought this up in relation to who fixed Little Chicago.

Snark Knight:
My b. Fell asleep reading and missed where to pick back up by the half page or so that contained that explanation.

On a related note though ... could an argument be made that Harry owes Drakul a favor in exchange for the warning?  There have been cases where a favor is incurred without prior negotiation, even when the party owing it benefited only indirectly from someone else's actions.  The most prominent example being Marcone owing Harry one for saving him from the Denarians, even though Harry acted out of opposition to the Denarians rather than out of directly wanting to do Marcone a solid.  The promo blurb for Out Law similarly seems to imply Harry owes Marcone for his help against Ethniu, even though that was about defeating a common enemy rather than helping Harry for Harry's sake.

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