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DF Spoilers / Re: Mouse vs. Anduriel
« on: October 29, 2017, 05:06:47 PM »


   My guess is Mouse sees through the likes of Anduriel, so there is no B.Sing a would be recruit when he is around.  Not surprised that Mouse is stronger in Skin Game than he was in Small Favor, it takes longer for large breed dogs to fully mature both physically and mentally, and I bet that goes for power level as well, not unlike wizards...

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DF Spoilers / Re: Questions And Answers
« on: October 26, 2017, 05:01:32 PM »
Do you know where I can find the following woj on Murphy, her job, and powerups?  The actual woj goes something like this:
"Murphy already has a job, and she won't get any more powerups." [my words recalling woj]
Hey Serack, I saw you on Reddit. Do you know where I can find it, and source video, etc.


 Not sure where it is, but as far as I know it has made the rounds for the last five years or so give or take...  Being a Knight of the Cross could be considered a power up I guess, but she rejected that and hasn't had one since.  She doesn't have and hasn't had a formal job in quite some time unless you count working for Marcone...  Justice League is more or less self employment/volunteer and doesn't pay the bills...

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DF Spoilers / Re: Dead Horses that have not beenbeaten
« on: October 23, 2017, 10:44:50 AM »
Alfred is the prison; among other things, so I imagine he already has a list of all the inmates and what they can do.  He might even know that some of them shouldn't be called by their Name or even say it out loud.  Harry should start by asking Alfred if he has this knowledge, and if so, if there is way for Harry to access it.

He most likely has.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Deadline end of year
« on: October 22, 2017, 03:23:54 PM »
I agree with many in the main exit thread:  Forums aren't dinosaurs OR dying in the niches they occupy.  If anything, they're growing.  No other social media design captures near-time conversation, topic organization, search-ability, anonymity, and global 'one stop shop' for everything that forum is about.  Every other option mentioned (Facebook, G+, Reddit, Discord, etc.) fails one or more of those major features. 

Getting rid of the official forum concept is a big mistake, and will almost certainly spawn another forum(s) that are 'unofficial' for fans to get those community features.  Iago may be done with the forums, but he's likely to find out after they're changed to read-only that the fan base isn't done with the Forum concept.  It'll fracture for a while into all these other SM spaces, then imperfectly coalesce back onto another BBS style forum somewhere else.  After Iago breaks the tablets, and the JBO fanbase spends a few months wandering in the FaceBook, Reddit (lol), and G+ desert, perhaps the 17th Shard will take them in.  They certainly don't seem to be 'dying'.

I agree for the most part and have checked out Reddit and Facebook and prefer what we have here.  What is the reason exactly for having to disband and move?   

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DF Spoilers / Re: Dead Horses that have not beenbeaten
« on: October 22, 2017, 03:19:08 PM »
It might not be a good idea to even know details on what some of those things are. At least some of them probably operate on the same basis of mortal knowledge being beneficial to them as the Old Ones and the Venators' targets in the Oblivion war.

   I disagree with this, he may not need to know details but he needs to have an idea of who and what.  I don't think the usual "mortal knowledge" thing works in the case of the Warden of the Island,  Harry remains mortal but that particular mantle puts him in a separate box in my opinion.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Dead Horses that have not beenbeaten
« on: October 22, 2017, 11:07:15 AM »
To get back to the OP, we might think of some relatively new questions, but such issues will probably not have much meat on the bone.  In other words, they will probably be issues or ideas which have very little written in the books to go on.

For example, I've thought about Harry at the beginning of Skin Game, where he states that he has been thinking about his life, but what I mostly got out of that soliloquy was that Harry wondered who he could trust.  I imagine that was partly due to Nemesis; Harry can't risk openly discussing it with any of his friends, and partly due to neither Mab nor Molly answering his calls, but we later learn that Harry also felt he wasn't being visited very often by his friends. 

However, I would really like to know if Harry thought about anything else besides that.  I mean he had an entire year on the island.  He couldn't have spent the entire time learning how the island functioned and doing Parkour.  To get more specific, at the end of Cold Days Mab told Harry that the athame Lea received from Bianca was tainted and the infection spread from Lea to Meave.  In Ghost Story Lea told Harry's shade the reason she went gonzo on the Red Court was she owed them payback for the treacherous gift (meaning the athame) Bianca gave her.  Has Harry thought about this at all?  He knows or should remember that there were two powerful wizards (necromancers specifically) who were pretending to be Bianca's flunkies, dutifully retrieving and presenting Bianca's gifts.  Cowl and Kumori didn't contest this observation when Harry told them he recognized them from Bianca's party.  Cowl even played some one-upmanship on Harry by telling him that many things of consequence happened at that party that Harry wasn't aware of.

So we know Harry couldn't do any investigating while he was stuck on Demonreach, so there wasn't anything he could do concretely, but I hope in a future book this comes up, and hopefully it doesn't hit Harry out of the blue.  He's smart enough to have put the pieces together.  He should even be wondering how much his knowledge is worth.  I mean Lea would certainly be interested that other people besides Bianca were involved in giving her the tainted athame, and Harry knows that at least one of them (Cowl) is still alive.  Perhaps Mab would like some payback as well against a wizard or wizards who were instrumental in Maeves nemfection.  Without their specific identities Harry might not have enough information to make a deal, but he's an investigator, it's kind-of what he does.  So Harry should have thought about this topic and perhaps others while he was stuck on Demonreach Island. 

So we can talk about this and other things Harry might have mulled over, but I'm not sure there will be much textural evidence to backup any ideas we might come up with.

I don't doubt that he has thought about it, but he really doesn't have anyone to bounce these thoughts off of at this time now that Butters has Bob.  Bonny might know stuff but has zero experience in the world.  Murphy can help with her deductive cop reasoning but a lot of this is above her pay grade.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Dead Horses that have not beenbeaten
« on: October 22, 2017, 11:02:37 AM »
Estimate 11/2018.
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Wasn't that the estimate for this year? ???

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DF Spoilers / Re: Dead Horses that have not beenbeaten
« on: October 21, 2017, 04:40:13 AM »
When is PT coming out?  Is there a release date set yet?

Not yet as far as I know..

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DF Spoilers / Re: Dead Horses that have not beenbeaten
« on: October 19, 2017, 11:27:21 AM »
I would say that everybody is feeling a level of frustration with the situation. The whole spectrum with us (the demand) at one end to Mr. Butcher (the supply) at the other and all those inbetween like Iago and Priscellie are carrying some degree of irritation. Grumbling is always expected but never very productive.

But sometimes it is satisfying ::)   We all know it is out of our hands in any case, it will be done when it is done..   

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DF Spoilers / Re: Dead Horses that have not beenbeaten
« on: October 18, 2017, 08:07:40 PM »
What is frustrating is that it seems that there are as many loose ends created as are closed.  Although the reveal of Nemesis and ascension of Molly to WL, birth of Bonnie in SG, closed some loose ends.

To last few posters, I agree.  It's as if they must force water torture upon those that want a new book, because Jim feels water torture with the massive requests to hurry it along. So, they are willing to do the same thing to others that causes Jim pain.  Great move.

Worse yet, one gets the feeling that Jim may have more or less moved on... He has started another series, yeah I know he can walk and chew gum at the same time, but.....  So with personal appearances other projects and yeah the man is entitled to having a personal life, I get that....  The time stretches out into years between books...  Is it harder to come up with new stuff for a character he has been writing for 20 years perhaps, but then please end it skip to the BAT after Peace Talks..... Well, maybe do Mirror Mirror as well or many fans will burst a blood vessel if it is never written...

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DF Spoilers / Re: Dead Horses that have not beenbeaten
« on: October 18, 2017, 02:08:25 PM »
It has been a long time since a new book.  Interest wanes in that situation.  Short stories are simply too short to give a big boost to interest.

Yup, it happens every time...  Whatever the reason, good, bad, understandable, not understandable, the length of times between novels have grown...   The number of novels in the series seems to remain the same leaving a lot of us thinking we will never see how it all ends..    It is also true that especially the latest crumbs thrown the fan's way in the way of short stories have not satisfied.. 

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DF Spoilers / Re: Dead Horses that have not beenbeaten
« on: October 18, 2017, 11:21:28 AM »


  Oh we few.... We faithful few.... :'(

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DF Spoilers / Re: DuMorne and favors owed
« on: October 17, 2017, 05:31:49 PM »
You are correct. Here is the relevant WOJ I found:

 Should Harry’s first deal with Lea been covered by Maggie’s deal?
A:  Not really.  One problem is that Harry dealt with Lea the way that one would deal with another human, so he really didn’t get much out of the bargain besides some confidence.  Lea gave him the “magic feather” so to speak.
And, Maggie could have done a little better job on her deal with Lea, but she was kind of in a rush, so she wasn’t as detailed as she should have been.

I am thinking that Harry has been played by the Winter Court since his conception.  Margaret saw the need for a star child and agreed to conceive on in return for his protection by the Winter Court, hence Harry has a real fairy godmother in the form of Lea..  The Winter Court gets not only a star child but an eventual winter knight..  I think Harry's fate has always been more or less directed by others, but not so much to over ride his free will, he still has choices.   Yeah, Jim compared Harry to Dumbo, as you will remember Dumbo could always fly, but he didn't believe it.  Young Harry didn't believe he could beat Justin though he had the power all of the time..  Lea's mumbo jumbo gave him the confidence..  However I don't think the bargain he made with her was very binding, the real contract was made between Margaret and Mab long before he was born, he just doesn't fully realize that yet.

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DF Spoilers / Re: DuMorne and favors owed
« on: October 17, 2017, 11:28:43 AM »
I believe that the deal was contingent on power enough to beat Justin, not on his death. I would love to see Jim do another Ask me Anything Reddit so some longer form questions can be asked instead of the quick Q&A sessions at book signings. The nature of favors and power with regards to the Fae deserves a longer response.

Hasn't Jim also said that Lea didn't really give Harry anything in the bargain but a boost of confidence that he could kill Justin in a fight?  So it was a pretty dumb bargain on the part of a inexperienced sixteen year old.

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DF Spoilers / Re: The Great Migration
« on: October 12, 2017, 11:12:27 AM »


Very old dog, but Facebook will work I guess... But why can't we stay where we are at?

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