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DF Spoilers / Re: Harry's lack of research
« on: November 09, 2018, 12:24:23 AM »
Quote from: Mr. Death on November 07, 2018, 05:06:01 PM
It's not Thomas he'd have to go through for that. It's Lara. Going to her for information is damn near on par for danger with going to Lea for it.This is a non-starter.

Thomas is in pretty good standing with the Court now - I don't see why the library would be off limits to him in his own right. And if he's bringing Bob for a ridealong in his head at the time, how's Lara going to be any the wiser?

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DF Spoilers / Re: Red Court/The Eebs question...
« on: November 09, 2018, 12:14:00 AM »
Quote from: forumghost on November 08, 2018, 07:04:19 PM
Yeah pretty much. Assuming they somehow survived the Bloodline Curse, and then Goblin 'Hospitality' (which is admittedly possible)... The Eebs are a couple of two-bit loser cowards.
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They were barely willing to fight non-Winter Knight Harry, with an army of minions and the full backing of the Red King. I doubt you could get them on the same Continent as him now.

Right, but that isn't the same as not being dangerous. The danger they pose just won't take the form of coming at Harry in a straight line and promptly getting their asses kicked.

They're perfectly capable of putting a price on Harry's head for contractors in the same general league as Kincaid or Goodman Grey from a continent away, for example.

Being smart and cautious where their own safety is concerned, though, I'd expect them to just wait for time to take care of Harry for them. At the end of the day, they're immortal and he isn't.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Red Court/The Eebs question...
« on: November 08, 2018, 02:06:20 AM »
The spell in Changes was boosted sufficiently to reach into the NN, but there was a WOJ that a few individuals in particularly remote / secured locations of the NN would have escaped. I don't have the source recorded, but it's pretty widely considered a cluebat to the Eebs.

I'd be kind of surprised if they came after Harry for a grudge, though. They already did business more or less along the same lines as the Blampires who have survived and prospered by being smart and cautious rather than particularly vengeance-oriented.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Proven Guilty Molly
« on: November 06, 2018, 01:38:38 AM »
Quote from: morriswalters on November 06, 2018, 01:07:38 AM
Because Mab doesn't have free will.  She wanted to respond to the Reds but couldn't.

Wasn't the Reds' trespass against Summer though? And Winter was only massing on the borders out of fear that Summer would hit them while their Knight was out of action rather than pay the Reds back?

Not having free will like a mortal is one thing, but that seems really extreme in the direction of troop movements being governed by instinct rather than conscious strategy. Besides, I don't think Lily would have found Mab's posture so inexplicable if it was a matter of Winter must do this in circumstances where they're disadvantaged by the margin of a Knight. Each side seems to have a pretty good sense of what's going to be driving the other in a given situation.

I think Mab had her troops far from Arctic Tor as a trap to figure out who else the infection had spread to from Lea, and / or restrict Maeve's ability to spread it around the army.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Proven Guilty Molly
« on: November 06, 2018, 12:10:05 AM »
Quote from: Bad Alias on November 05, 2018, 03:14:41 AM
I think I vaguely remember that. Do you have that handy?

I remember one that PG worked out really well for Mab despite the appearance of her home getting beaten up on. I don't recall explicit confirmation that she sent the fetches, though.

That seems like kind of a big mystery to just give away the answer to, really.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Madeline Raith and Christos
« on: November 03, 2018, 09:12:42 PM »
Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on November 02, 2018, 09:37:46 AM
Could just be Peabody, but I don't think so.  I don't remember Harry noticing that Peabody's voice had any peculiar characteristics, just that he came off as an officious little twit.

Plus, a name like "Peabody" is pretty much as native-English-speaker as it gets.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Some exposition I may have missed.
« on: November 03, 2018, 09:08:55 PM »
Quote from: Bad Alias on November 03, 2018, 02:46:22 PM
Sir Stuart, a non-corporeal, non-crazy, ghost was burned by fire in Ghost Story.

Yup, and it was a threat to Harry as a naked soul in the same scene.

I'm pretty sure that's actually why a flamethrower was on Jim's list of mundane weapons the Council employed to make Kemmler's execution stick for good after his final defeat.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Inconsistancy in Skin Game?
« on: November 03, 2018, 04:59:24 PM »
It could have been that one, yeah. In the one I'm thinking of, he definitely talked about the name of the assistant Bianca killed changing from SF to GP as an example of an oversight, if that rings a bell for anyone else who can find it.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Inconsistancy in Skin Game?
« on: November 02, 2018, 01:58:01 AM »
Maybe it was indeed a simple retcon to introduce the idea that Nic was the original buyer and Harry just wasn't aware that Marcone outbid him after the deal was supposed to be sealed. But the Denarians in DM never acted like it was personal payback for being double-crossed. They just seemed to be out to jack the merchandise - I don't think the Churchmice even knew who they were.

I'm not sure it's a coincidence that this came in the same book where bleed-through between parallel universes starts to be noticed in the form of Harry's dreams interacting with a bunch of other copies of himself. Jim has also said that some of the apparent continuity errors are actual oversights, and sometimes background details changing between books are a deeper clue. Which are which seems like a pretty worthwhile occasion to use author's prerogative to lie where necessary to cover a spoiler.

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DF Spoilers / Re: When Does AAAA Wizardry Take Place?
« on: November 02, 2018, 01:47:27 AM »
I remember thinking one of the shorts referenced a main novel later than the ones Jim had placed it between in the foreword.

That was the one where Harry was telling the Warden cadets a story, right?  I'd guess the earlier timeline is when the events actually happened, and the latter is when Harry was narrating them.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Some exposition I may have missed.
« on: November 02, 2018, 01:44:35 AM »
Quote from: Avernite on November 01, 2018, 06:54:48 PM
It would be a bit weird for Harry to have lived years under the Doom of Damocles for not-even-killing Justin. Why would the Council consider him a Warlock? I thought they could detect black magic to some extent.

Yeah, he would have been soulgazed by the Wardens before trial, plus Ebenezar to see if he was still salvageable before taking on his probation. I can't see both sets of professionals missing the distinction between someone who'd fought with lethal intent but the target got away, vs someone who had actually recently taken a life.

And given that fire hurts ghosts and naked souls just as well as it does living flesh, burning is a tough one to come back from via Corpsetaker's methods.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Rashid the Gatekeeper, Intellectus, Foresight.
« on: November 01, 2018, 12:39:58 AM »
Quote from: morriswalters on October 31, 2018, 09:49:24 PM
One must wonder though what the structures on the island with all those nifty runes  from some ancient era were doing while the ice went over the top.  Just maybe those damaged buildings are the source of the limp. ???
It all makes you wonder exactly how long ago those building were put into place by Merlin, as played by Alec Guinness.  Apparently the last glaciers went over that area about 35,000 years ago.  Or 34,000 Years BM(Before Mab) ;)

Well, Merlin must have gone some distance into the past to lay the spell for the prison in five different times. But the stone buildings may not have been created at the earliest point he visited the island.

For one thing, even if he quarried and assembled the stones by magic, the fishing town that occupied the island somewhere around 1900 probably would have noticed something out of place if the architecture of the lighthouse was characteristically pre-medieval European from Merlin's native time, and showed obvious centuries worth of wear. Chances are Merlin convinced some settlers to build the structures on one of his forward excursions through time, and dropped his own enchantments on top.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Was the skull made on Demonreach?
« on: October 31, 2018, 03:44:28 AM »
Quote from: groinkick on October 30, 2018, 05:40:33 AM
I really wish I remembered which video it was...  I thought the topic was Harry's staff that he created from a tree on the Island, and Jim saying something like anything that comes from the Island is tainted...  I could be remembering completely wrong but I think that's right.

I think there was something about the new staff glowing with Alfred's characteristic shade of green rather than natural red-orange fire colours like the previous models being a consequence of the making it on and of the island, and Harry hasn't fully realized the implications. But I don't think the Q&A I'm thinking of outright said it was tainted.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Some exposition I may have missed.
« on: October 31, 2018, 03:41:35 AM »
Quote from: cptnspldng on October 31, 2018, 01:18:30 AM
In the first person storytelling mode we're experiencing, it makes sense that Harry is reluctant to divulge every detail of his last confrontation with his ward and mentor but when can we expect to see it? Is this the big choice that Harry makes in the "Mirror, Mirror" book? To follow Justin down the left hand path? Or later to succumb to the wolf belt in "Fool Moon?"

Jim's plot tease for MM was that the divergence started with the "big choice at the end of Grave Peril".

The readers have, to some extent, disagreed on exactly which big choice that was. The leading candidates were whether to tell Susan he loved her, whether to accept Ortega and Bianca's deal to give up Susan in exchange for peace, whether to fight or flea at Bianca's masquerade (which is stretching the definition of 'end' of the book since it's only about the 2/3 mark) or possibly whether to trust Thomas when he returns Amoracchius.

That last seems like less of an obvious big choice, but I've argued the case that it's potentially at least as consequential in terms of setting Harry's path afterward as the others.

As for a full flashback of Harry roasting Justin, though, no you haven't missed one. JB hasn't detailed that, and there's probably some reason. I'm hoping it's not a "Justin faked his death" reveal, though.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Cowl and Kumori are...
« on: October 23, 2018, 12:43:45 AM »
Quote from: Maz on October 22, 2018, 02:25:59 PM
Harry is shockingly observant.  He recognizes Cowl and Kumori later on just from their appearance at Bianca's party.  He recognizes people by scents and nuance and the feel of their magic.  It, as several character have remarked, takes him some time but he always unravels the train of clues.  He knows Elaine so intimately he can psychically communicate with her.  Harry was sitting in a stairwell and had clear view of Kumori, albeit not her face and not her voice.

The Kumori persona might be an artifact of Cowl picking up the threads of Elaine's enthrallment. If she's not acting of her own free will, that might alter the signature of her magic - if recent heavy use of necromancy wasn't enough to throw Harry off of recognizing her anyway.

Besides, Harry is only observant when it's plot-convenient. The flip side is that he's quite capable of ignoring things that might be painful to look into, like how he never followed up on finding out what shady business his mom was actually into, or the probability that his dad's death was not natural after all. He has a pretty big blind spot when it comes to trusting Elaine.

As for Cowl "allowing" the Skavis to threaten Elaine in White Night, Vitto and Madrigal were his agents. The Skavis was an adversary not under Cowl's control. There are a couple of plausible reasons he might not have warned her who the Skavis was - possibly he subscribes to the Mab school of management where if your flunkies aren't smart and strong enough to deal with their own low-level problems, they don't deserve to survive anyway. Possibly if Kumori is a split personality, he can't just show up and give hints to Elaine when she's awake and in control of herself.

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