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The Dresden Files => DF Spoilers => Topic started by: Wolfeyes on June 13, 2018, 08:48:20 AM

Title: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
Post by: Wolfeyes on June 13, 2018, 08:48:20 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDpvbX9eCK4

Probably one of the best things to hear that the Jade Court Vamps (Jamps?) feed on breath! I had a player for the RPG who'd wanted to try homebrewing one but I'd only been able to find an old fan post the proposed they fed on intestines.
Title: Re: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
Post by: groinkick on June 13, 2018, 05:34:13 PM
Thanks!
Title: Re: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
Post by: Talby16 on June 13, 2018, 09:00:32 PM
Feeding on breath? That opens up a new can of questions. Are there different type of breaths? Do they need mouth to mouth contact or is being in the vicinity enough? What are the long term consequences? Inquiring minds need to know.
Title: Re: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
Post by: jonas on June 13, 2018, 09:06:08 PM
Quote from: Talby16 on June 13, 2018, 09:00:32 PM
Feeding on breath? That opens up a new can of questions. Are there different type of breaths? Do they need mouth to mouth contact or is being in the vicinity enough? What are the long term consequences? Inquiring minds need to know.
the example given was kill you from across the street at a motel and you'd never know what was happening.
Title: Re: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
Post by: Slowpool on June 14, 2018, 01:23:03 AM
  Sounds like they're more or less the Jiangshi of chinese myth (really, what else could they have been?).  Jiangshi feed on chi, or raw life force.  I've seen them do this in fiction usually through draining breath.  They may be rotting corpses, are too stiffened with rigor mortis to move in any way other than hopping around, and may or may not be mindless predators.
  Now obviously there's gonna be some difference in how they operate in the Dresden Files.  Maybe as time goes by and they absorb enough chi, they become sapient and regain a degree of mobility.  That might also partially explain why they never leave the Yangtze River valley; they just can't get around all that well, and they've had thousands of years to get their homes just so.
Title: Re: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
Post by: knnn on June 14, 2018, 11:44:00 AM
Sounds like this:

https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/sonic-attacks-us-embassy-in-china-issues-second-health-alert-in-just-two-weeks/news-story/00ab36e37e11eda7c9cb1f568e905ec4

Title: Re: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
Post by: SerScot on June 14, 2018, 12:17:34 PM
That is a great Bookstore.  I got to go when I was in Austin three weeks ago.  Wish I could have gone to the reading and Q&A.
Title: Re: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
Post by: Fcrate on June 14, 2018, 05:57:08 PM
Feed on breath.. Damn, that's a strong motivation to stop brushing my teeth.
Title: Re: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
Post by: groinkick on June 14, 2018, 06:20:15 PM
Well Breath is used in:

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Title: Re: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
Post by: jonas on June 14, 2018, 08:53:13 PM
Quote from: groinkick on June 14, 2018, 06:20:15 PM
Well Breath is used in:

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holy crap, that gives new meaning to anytime
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Title: Re: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
Post by: Snark Knight on June 14, 2018, 09:21:31 PM
His answer to if / when the Celtic gods (Tuatha) would appear was interesting. Somebody in book 19 and then otherwise not until the BAT lines up with previous comments that we wouldn't find out who or what Mac really is until very late in the series. A boost for the Mannannan Mac Lir theory?
Title: Re: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
Post by: wardenferry419 on June 15, 2018, 12:46:18 AM
I hope so.
Title: Re: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
Post by: Magnus on June 15, 2018, 06:45:24 AM
I think it was this one but I think one of the interesting things Jim said was that "Kringle is what Odin does so he doesn't die of old age"