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DF Spoilers / Re: Cowl is Justin reboot
« on: April 23, 2018, 05:14:17 PM »
Actually, the T-Rex shield was for Ramirez. And Kumori was more or less in the same place Harry way.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Mirrors
« on: April 23, 2018, 05:09:06 PM »but at least it's you paying the price rather than a bunch of dead innocents you had to drain.Isn't DarkHallow supposed to be about sucking in spirits to increase your power? (Drunken Master. Heh) The vortex sucking life is more of a byproduct.
The Fallen will have more power over you, influence your thoughts, and eventually turn you into a monster that would just love to cause a Mini-Apocalypse. With DarkHallow you're still your own man, with nothing influencing your choices, so its more of a "Right-now-evil-act" vs a "Later on- a -chaos-loving-maniac" thing.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Cowl is Justin reboot
« on: April 23, 2018, 04:31:10 PM »
Hm, I went back and read that DeadBeat, and it appears that you are correct, there is no confirmation that Kumori is dead. In fact, her Master, Cowl, survived the collapsing vortex, which is supposed to be impossible. It makes sense that the apprentice a few feet away, in the same position "and probably league" as Harry would be able to survive.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Mirrors
« on: April 22, 2018, 07:51:19 PM »Come on, that's not the same as a DarkHallow. There is a difference in killing people for power, and casualties if war. His targets were the evil Red Court vampires, the innocents that died as a result weren't targets, but other victims of the Red's who'd been infected without permission.I agree with your first point.
I think the innocence being talked about were the people infected, but not turned who died. Only the younger once's survived I believe.No, he's right, I meant the vampires. And from their perspective, they're innocent. They have to feed in order to survive, they see humans as herd animals, so they have no qualms about slaughtering them to feed themselves.
Yes, they still have to be killed on basic principle, it's an "us and them" kind of situation. Wiping out an entire species was a concious choice for Harry, fueled by need and much anger. He was quite unhinged in Changes, and DarkHallow was a step away. That's still a moot point though, I can't see how he could manage DarkHallow in such little time, he didn't prepare the way as the Kemmlerites did in Dead Beat, no collective fear, necromantic energy to protect him, and with a broken back. At that point the only viable options were the Coin or Mab.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Mirrors
« on: April 22, 2018, 04:33:14 PM »I think that there's a huge difference between "sitting back, roasting marshmallows and watching the world burn"; and feeding thousands to the fire yourself to kickstart the conflagration.I can. Lucky for him and us, he had other options. I believe that the evil scale is: Winter Knight<DarkHallow<Coin. And Harry's preference: Winter Knight>Coin>DarkHallow.
Even for His daughter, and based on what we've known of Harry, I can't see him making a decision to go that route.
If Harry had gone with the Darkhallow, it wouldn't have been about sacrificing thousands to wipe out the Reds and save hundreds of thousands more from becoming their victims. Several Halloweens have gone by from Dead Beat to Changes to make that kind of a calculated choice if he was going to. Reaching there for power in Changes would have been killing thousands because his daughter matters more to him than all the other victims he would have had to kill to save that one life.I'm 99.99% sure that lacking other options, he would've killed thousands of innocents to save his daughter. After all, he did wipe out an entire species of innocents (relatively speaking) and Susan as an added bonus.
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DF Spoilers / Re: A new, bigger pistol for Harry
« on: April 22, 2018, 04:19:48 PM »
Fun, isn't it? 
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DF Spoilers / Re: Cowl is Justin reboot
« on: April 22, 2018, 02:33:52 AM »If Jim did in fact drop some fake info out there I think it could be that Justin is D E D dead. Me thinks that Justin is Cowl, and Kumori is Elaine.Except that Kumori is dead, I know she's into necromancy and all, but she didn't really have time to prepare any tricks.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Mirrors
« on: April 22, 2018, 02:28:55 AM »Battling Lasciel for control as she tries to get word to Nick...Nah, we've already read about 3 books where the main theme is battling Lasciel for control.
I'd read it.
Going with the Darkhallow would have been a harder choice to write, because it's virtually impossible to keep the audience rooting for a character who's life-drained thousands to tens of thousands of people to fuel his own power. There's no reason Harry couldn't have gone on to use that power against N-fected Maeve and then Nicodemus, but a Darkhallow probably would have left him overpowered for those to even be interesting adversaries.I disagree, you do what you have to do, and Harry always does. I'd still root for him; there's something captivating about someone who's dedicated enough to kill thousands to protect even more. Peace loving ideas aside, historically speaking, to get anything done you have to spill blood, and much of it (even innocent's blood)
I agree with the overpowered bit though.
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DF Spoilers / Re: The Well of Demonreach and the White Council?
« on: April 22, 2018, 02:23:23 AM »Probably the Council can't make Alfred choose a different Warden, though. Usually, too, I would think that the Council would choose the new Warden, or at least a list of possibles for Alfred to choose from. In the normal course of events, I can't imagine a Wizard as young, inexperienced, and politically awkward and troublesome as Harry Dresden ever even being considered for the role. Probably, the Senior Council usually chooses the short list of candidates.I'd say its more about raw magical muscle, willpower and dedication, as the warden candidate has to challenge the genus loci. In which case the decision will be demonreach's and no other.
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DF Spoilers / Re: A new, bigger pistol for Harry
« on: April 22, 2018, 01:58:47 AM »
With pistols being hard to aim, and use, I'd say more ammo. I like the fact that Harry can't aim well, can relate to that. I prefer rifles though; put the stock to your shoulder, line up the target and make it happen. For close and personal, bashing the target is the way to go, and its much more humiliating.
Wait, was that too CoD?
Wait, was that too CoD?
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DF Spoilers / Re: A new, bigger pistol for Harry
« on: April 21, 2018, 12:09:12 AM »
Hmmm. Harry is a bit lacking in imagination, he should've magicked himself a pocket sized rocket launcher with laser targeting. Ka-blowie.