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SolTerrasa posted:Isn't that from his shield bracelet overheating? If it's wrists, plural, probably the thorn shackles he was restrained with when he was being auctioned on eBay
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Angry Lobster posted:Yup, noticed that in my recent reread but then I asked myself: Why did Cowl needed that copy from Dresden when he could have asked Peabody for a copy of the poem if it's true that both of them were Black Council? I can come up with two possibilities. The first, is that much like the Grey Council, the Black Council is organized into cells. It's entirely possible Cowl et al simply didn't know that Peabody was Black Council. The second option, and one I find more interesting, is that they may not have even been on the same side at all. Given what Kumori said about necromancy etc being able to be used for good, I think it's entirely possible that there is a Black Council operating that is not working as an agent of Nemesis, but in fact is opposing the Outsider forces. If you think about it, turning yourself into a demigod (via darkhallow) would be a pretty drat good way to arm yourself for defending reality. I'm probably missing a bunch of things that poke holes in this but I pretty much have the shakes waiting for Skin Game to be in my hands.
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I really should have just ordered this off Amazon instead of planning to pick it up on my way to work tomorrow. It appears it's CIA document time in the thread, see y'all tomorrow night!
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Xtanstic posted:
Vadderung helped Harry for a nickel because he actually wanted to help him and so asked for something trivial in return, because it's against his nature to do something for free. I assume a similar thing is going on with Grey. Or perhaps it's the nature of the exchange that he benefits from. Maybe completing a bargain has value to him in and of itself.
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SolTerrasa posted:Five artifacts, five points to a summoning ring, each of which needs an artifact of some kind... Holy poo poo.
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Illuyankas posted:"Look, the line's 'But of that day and hour knoweth no man', right? Says nothing about wizards." "Besides, I don't KNOW. It's 50/50 on whether this works or just explodes."
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Fangz posted:I don't really know. I thought the point of handing off the Grace to Michael is that Michael gets the power while Uriel is left with the responsibility. In which case it still matters. I think the idea is that whoever is holding the archangel grace can't make choices that affect free will, but since Michael's choice had already been made the grace didn't actually end up affecting anybody's free will. Thus, when Uriel is graceless, he can make the same choices any other mortal could make. I guess. Actually, my random post in the old thread was... weirdly close to the truth. AllTerrineVehicle posted:This has me wondering about something. Could a supernatural being freely act if they were to constrain themselves to working as a vanilla mortal? Could say, Uriel, decided "gently caress this noise I'm gonna go mix it up" and put his power and most of his knowledge in storage or something, then go after Nicky with a shotgun? AllTerrineVehicle fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Jun 2, 2014 |
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Xtanstic posted:I don't understand what conclusion we're supposed to pull from Molly looking like the Hecate statue. Is it supposed to mean that Molly's transformation to fae is happening faster than we realize? Or does it mean that Molly was always meant to become a fae because of historical incarnations? The point I got from it was that it was supposed to hint at the Faerie Queens being merely the latest expression of their role and part of the slowly changing mythologies. i.e. the Hecate statues reflect whatever Hecate (or the equivalent) is currently, and one of the entities is currently Molly.
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cultureulterior posted:Well, according to Stross's blog, the next two won't have Bob as the protagonist, but rather Mo, and Alex Interesting. I guess that makes some sort of sense as Bob will likely be spending the foreseeable future learning to be Angleton, which probably involves stupid amounts of time reading through the memex. Good thing he has more spare time now  
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Wittgen posted:I totally agree about Marcone never being shown as evil being an annoyance. I kind of hope Marcone slips up at some point and shows his true nature in front of Harry so that Harry can smack him down hard. Marcone being completely unreasonable and dickish at the end of Skin Game gives me hope. Harry would probably still go after him, but he is a signatory of the Accords so it would bring a shitstorm.
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Pwnstar posted:Well so does every other person of European ancestry in the world. I've always kind of assumed it's a bit of a  thing that Harry doesn't clue into
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Just as a reminder, Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London 5) comes out on the 13th  Speed edit: In the UK, at least
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Wolpertinger posted:As far as Amazon is concerned I live wherever the book I want is coming out first. To Amazon, I am a globetrotting adventurer, never staying in one place for too long, skipping across continents at the drop of a hat. In reality, I am a man who wants to read his wizard books right now.
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My girlfriend, a few minutes after midnight on a Tuesday: Just finished Turn Coat! Me: Nice! You should start Changes, it's a hell of a ride! *10 minutes pass* GF: THAT WAS A TERRIBLE SUGGESTION. HE HAS A KID. WHAT. I had to keep reading, I thought it was a joke.
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Dang and I was looking for some books to read, too!
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I didn't read the second libriomancer book because I was afraid of getting an iron druid treatment. It sounds like it's worth picking up though! Which is good because I burned through Firefight in less than a day and need something else to read 
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ConfusedUs posted:I agree with this. Hmm, what other impetuous young(ish) wizard do we know who gets in trouble with Faerie Queens?
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I just realised something about rivers of london. Spoilers for most recent book: the folly has a fairy godmother
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Metal Loaf posted:I just finished Neverwhere. It was really good. I went through it a little bit at a time, then powered on through the last half dozen chapters this afternoon. It's too bad Gaiman doesn't like sequels, because it's an interesting world he created here, one I think it would be fun to explore. I really liked both London Falling and its sequel, and they're generally like by the thread. They're much, much darker than Rivers of London or Dresden though.
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builds character posted:I really thought there was someone who said that the smiling man was new and that, by implication, this whole everyone goes to hell thing is new also. Related, it's possible it's not really everyone that ever lived (died?) in London because it's the smiling man - dude could just be lying. I think it's stated to Quill at some point that it's new, or something. I definitely recall there being a hint or clue about it but it's been a while since I read the book.
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Fried Chicken posted:so I'm not sure if it really counts as urban fantasy since it is set in the 1300s instead of modern times, but I want to drop a plug for Son of the Morning by Mark Alder (http://www.amazon.com/Son-of-the-Morning/dp/0575115157) Thanks for posting this, this is my poo poo. Just bought it The one star review containing only the word "Blasphemous" made me buy it even faster
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Blasphemeral posted:'What is a "Suvudu Cage Match?"' turns up nothing incredibly descriptive in Google. Suvudu is the website that said cage match story thing appeared on Edit: I dunno if the Sanderson thing was there but they do regular cage match tournament things with various characters
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Tunicate posted:For example, Vin vs Zeddicus Zu’l Zorander, which is pretty funny. Ahaha this is great
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Norns posted:Quick question. Are all the books told from the same POV? They're all from Harry's POV yes A few of the short stories are from other characters' POV though
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Deptfordx posted:The whole (Winter) Knight power does seems to have been toned down a lot. Ironically the peak of human limits is literally captain america's powerset
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apostateCourier posted:The Winter and Summer mantles are pretty explicitly more than that- Harry just refuses to embrace the vast majority of the power offered, because of what he thinks it would do to his psyche/sense of self. My interpretation is that the mantle basically causes you to ruin your body because you can't feel pain and are all jacked up on faerie dust, and as your body/soul get progressively more battered and broken the mantle grants you more power until you can't do anything without using Winter power. And as you said Harry is very clearly fighting the mantle and not using the power he could
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Literally The Worst posted:So here's my other question having not kept up on poo poo since Skin Game. What's the prevailing theory o. Everyone's favorite bartender? Somebody earlier theorized he was Jesus, and while I think that might be a stretch, I found myself liking the idea that he's an immortal who "retired" but is still bound by the rules and can't freely share what he knows (thus the whole man of few words thing). If i had to guess I'd pick Heimdall, or maybe an angel/archangel
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Skippy McPants posted:They're under no obligation; it's just weird to see stuff that I aged out of like PA, South Park, or Kevin Smith films still ticking along because I wonder who they're for anymore. The exact same demographic they always were for?
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The outsider isn't a native English speaker. Mac specialized in the design and repair of quality timepieces.
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I thought the dialogue was not great, it feels like he just wanted to make it sound "old timey" without putting any effort into it or giving any of the characters their own voice. I will probably still give it a read because despite butchers flaws as a writer most of his stuff has been least somewhat entertaining.
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Potooweet posted:Here's my favorite. He chose a different powerup option in Changes is my guess. Actually it would be pretty funny of that choice was like, he stepped slightly different as he escaped from the apartment fire after saving the landlady and never hurt himself. Or what if he told Morgan to just gently caress off when asked for help. Brought Susan fully into the loop before the masquerade? poo poo. Dammit Butcher.
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ImpAtom posted:My general feeling on the Laundry Files is that basically every single book except maybe the Jennifer Morgue is 'things are getting worse for everyone." The book is basically founded on the premise that we're creeping closer to an inevitable apocalypse so yeah, pretty much
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Friends and I came up with another idea for the mirror mirror thing. Harry doesn't skip school that one day, and thus doesn't interrupt dumorne while he's enthralling Elaine. I can see three outcomes that are different from the "main" one: -Harry notices something later and reports it to the council, who investigate and take care of matters themselves, and the Doom is never used. This could be a way to have Harry on the councils good side -With the help of Elaine, Harry is convinced by dumorne that black and white magic is an arbitrary distinction made by people too afraid to take action. We get a Harry who's more or less the same as ours (too stubborn to change all that much, even with the ongoing corruption from the magic) except with years of training from a powerful black magic user, so he's more careful and still on the councils good side. Dumorne was never exposed and Harry is much subtler as a result of his years of deception. -Harry is completely convinced by dumorne, goes full supervillain, eventually killing dumorne and elaine before taking an apprentice of his own (two there are, a master and an apprentice). This is probably the least likely if he went with the school choice.
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Dresden is a huge goon, and it gets a bit better but doesnt go away entirely. Also books one and two are easily the worst in the series, so if you liked the first you'll love 3+ AllTerrineVehicle fucked around with this message at 08:15 on Nov 29, 2015 |
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They don't just get better from 3, if I'm remembering right Butcher himself recommends new readers start with book 3. The first two books are basically the first thing he ever wrote and it shows. That being said the series certainly has it's flaws, and if you're looking for a mature character drama you've come to the wrong place. If, however, you are interested in books containing some very memorable action scenes as well as climactic finales which sorta remind me of a mix between an Old West showdown and pro wrestling if the participants could blow up buildings by waving their arms, you should probably keep reading. Edit: there are some persistent issues, but a lot of the most painful stuff is polished away early on AllTerrineVehicle fucked around with this message at 07:22 on Feb 23, 2016 |
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jivjov posted:McCoy calls one of the other members of the council "Injun Joe". Pretty racist. I might just be rationalising it but isn't there an exchange which implies this to be a sort of thing between them and not just anybody gets to call him Injun Joe?
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It's potentially problematic in the real world where we are reading a story, not in the dresden-world. Two friends referring to each other by insulting names is fine and between them. A fictional character doing it without context, less so, because the people involved don't actually exist and it's entirely the author deciding it. Anyways I kinda want to run a game or two of Dresden RPG, and I'm thinking of running it similar to how they played D&D in Community. Basically me and one or two others would draw up maybe 10 character sheets along with a basic adventure, and let the 4-5 players choose whichever character they prefer. We'd try to keep it to one or two nights for the first one since we're all pretty new to tabletop. If we decide to make it a regular thing I'm probably going to structure it in such a way that people can drop in and out week to week without loving things up. My best idea so far is to make every character have some sort of loose affiliation with the local Paranet, allowing a convenient loophole for why everybody would know what happened the previous session. It would also work as both a plausible reason why a character isn't around all the time (they couldn't be reached, maybe we'll see them next time) and a way for people to join with a new character when Drizzt Fartbelcher the 69th inevitably bites the dust (hey I heard you guys needed some help, my friend Galactus Bongripper might be able to assist) Is there anything I should look out for regarding party composition? Or is the game flexible enough to allow the DM (probably me) to compensate a bit if, for example, nobody in the party has any support abitilities. Would also be interested in if any archetypes are especially over- or under-powered.
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Blasphemeral posted:
Not at all. I'm merely suggesting that with this sort of thing authors should consider whether it actually adds anything to the narrative. As it stands, Ebeneezer could have used "Breezy" as a nickname instead and not really change anything about the story, so what's the point? At the very least it's a missed opportunity to include a bit of info about the two characters or the wider historical context that exists in Dresden's world. quote:RPG stuff Yeah, none of us are dedicated enough to stick with a long term campaign anyways, especially when there's so many other boardgames we could play, so monster of the week is what I'm gravitating towards.
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