Author Topic: "Thou Shalt Not Open the Outer Gates"  (Read 5971 times)

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Re: "Thou Shalt Not Open the Outer Gates"
« Reply #15 on: June 14, 2022, 08:02:59 PM »
Has this been WoJ'ed?  I thought it was only a fantheory.
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It was in Cold Days, when Harry visited the Gates, I think. Can't look it up right now, but I believe Harry saw Rashid's eye and noticed the similarity to the material the Gates are made from.

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Re: "Thou Shalt Not Open the Outer Gates"
« Reply #16 on: June 14, 2022, 10:36:44 PM »
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I looked around me. Yes, definitely. The other eye had been replaced with the crystalline material that was identical to that which had been used to create the gates and the walls around them.

Butcher, Jim. Cold Days (The Dresden Files, Book 14) (p. 347). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
I suspect that's as close as you'll get to truth unless Butcher drops his drawers and has the answer tattooed on one cheek. The Outer Gates are the sonic screwdrivers of the Dresden Files.


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Re: "Thou Shalt Not Open the Outer Gates"
« Reply #17 on: June 15, 2022, 10:37:01 AM »
I don't think he is. Remember, at the end of the conversation, the Gatekeeper says something to the effect of, the Council only knows what it has to about our jobs. Meaning that only Harry knows the full extent of his job (if that). Yes, the senior council probably knows something about his job (but not the fullness of it), but they could also believe one thing and in reality, he does something very different.

Not unlike Eb, who knows what he does outside of the Senior Council?

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Re: "Thou Shalt Not Open the Outer Gates"
« Reply #18 on: June 15, 2022, 03:47:13 PM »
I suspect that's as close as you'll get to truth ...

Thank you for providing the cite!  Agreed -- that seems clear... crystal clear.
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Re: "Thou Shalt Not Open the Outer Gates"
« Reply #19 on: June 18, 2022, 06:39:09 AM »

Thank you for providing the cite!  Agreed -- that seems clear... crystal clear.
Oh, come on now -.-
هل أخذت الغاب مثلي منزلاً دون القصور
فتتبعت السواقي وتسلقت الصخور
هل تحممت بعطره وتنشفت بنور
وشربت الفجر خمراً من كؤوس من أثير

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Re: "Thou Shalt Not Open the Outer Gates"
« Reply #20 on: June 18, 2022, 02:58:53 PM »
I can certainly see eye to eye with the citation.

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Re: "Thou Shalt Not Open the Outer Gates"
« Reply #21 on: June 18, 2022, 06:00:48 PM »
Oh, come on now -.-

Just roll with the punches, my friend!

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Re: "Thou Shalt Not Open the Outer Gates"
« Reply #22 on: June 18, 2022, 09:42:04 PM »
One in the eye FCrate.

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Re: "Thou Shalt Not Open the Outer Gates"
« Reply #23 on: June 18, 2022, 09:58:31 PM »
I think he's just walling off the experience.

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Re: "Thou Shalt Not Open the Outer Gates"
« Reply #24 on: June 18, 2022, 10:59:58 PM »
It's making me wish that Bill Gates had added a pun filter to windows firewall.
هل أخذت الغاب مثلي منزلاً دون القصور
فتتبعت السواقي وتسلقت الصخور
هل تحممت بعطره وتنشفت بنور
وشربت الفجر خمراً من كؤوس من أثير

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Re: "Thou Shalt Not Open the Outer Gates"
« Reply #25 on: June 18, 2022, 11:05:08 PM »
It's making me wish that Bill Gates had added a pun filter to windows firewall.
"Thou Shalt Not Open the Outer Gates"

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Re: "Thou Shalt Not Open the Outer Gates"
« Reply #26 on: June 19, 2022, 06:23:52 AM »
“Thou Shalt Not Open The Router Gates?”


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Re: "Thou Shalt Not Open the Outer Gates"
« Reply #27 on: July 11, 2022, 08:46:14 PM »
“Thou Shalt Not Open The Router Gates?”

I mean, lowering your firewall WOULD let Outsiders in and render your PC into a condition not unlike an Empty Night.

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Re: "Thou Shalt Not Open the Outer Gates"
« Reply #28 on: July 12, 2022, 08:12:07 AM »
I mean, lowering your firewall WOULD let Outsiders in and render your PC into a condition not unlike an Empty Night.

Nemfection is pretty clearly a code-insertion attack, with individual filespeople getting corrupted & propagating the infection when they run ...

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Re: "Thou Shalt Not Open the Outer Gates"
« Reply #29 on: July 12, 2022, 09:54:23 AM »
Nemfection is pretty clearly a code-insertion attack, with individual filespeople getting corrupted & propagating the infection when they run ...
Yes, that is pretty much confirmed by the fact that Rashid "x-rays" every soldier with his eye as they return through the Gates after a skirmish. Either he misses one now and again, which I doubt, or Nemesis gets in our world another way, which it does.  It relies on mortals who are willing to summon it knowingly or unknowingly with they play with the dark arts.