Questions

[TheCuriousFan]

But nothing about giant birds. The kenku must have evacuated their own dead.

And all the weapons old and modern. All the jewelry and strange personal possessions. Some cleanup was certainly done but the mess was so big that not everything could be dealt with.

Wasn't all that was said about the bodies was that they were all unrecogniseable or something? (Note: I agree the Kenku corpses were probably cleared out, just curious about how the corpses were described)

[King Ash]

Do we know that the kenku would have left a body? Fae leave a body behind, but many other creatures of the Never Never do not and just leave a puddle of ectoplasm. The Kenku may be like this.

[TheCuriousFan]

Do we know that the kenku would have left a body? Fae leave a body behind, but many other creatures of the Never Never do not and just leave a puddle of ectoplasm. The Kenku may be like this.

Their blood didn't turn into Ectoplasm, why would the rest of them? And who says they're creatures of the Nevernever?

[Arjan]

Their blood didn't turn into Ectoplasm, why would the rest of them? And who says they're creatures of the Nevernever?

Even if they are. Faeries leave bodies too. Red vampires also.

[Richard_Chilton]

Their blood didn't turn into Ectoplasm, why would the rest of them? And who says they're creatures of the Nevernever?

I thought they were a spirit court.  If so, spirits use ectoplasm for bodies in this world.  If not, then they were beings from the Nevernever who don't live in Faerie and might leave a body - which is one of the things the Grey Council would have to take care of before leaving.

Richard

[wyltok]

Monoc Industries must have a division dedicated to cleaning up supernatural evidence.

Wonder who's paying that bill?

[Paladino]

Monoc Industries must have a division dedicated to cleaning up supernatural evidence.

Wonder who's paying that bill?

I'm pretty sure the winner looted a lot of interesting things out of CI.. And being the first to know the RC was gone, Odin would have moved quickly acquiring a lot of the RC resources around the world.

[TonyA]

OK, I am reading the series for the second time and have a couple of questions.

1) Why did agent Benn's Hexbelt turn to goo (Fool Moon), everyone elses had to be burned? 

2) When Harry buried Lasciel's coin (Death Masks); why didn't the wet cement disrupt the circle? Harry broke the Shadowmans circle with a film canister.

Thanks

I hope it's not bad form to answer your own posts; but here I go anyway. I finished rereading (Proven Guilty) which states.

 "A ring of plain silver was set into the floor-my summoning circle. Underneath it lay a foot and a half or so of concrete, and then another heavy metal box, wrapped with its own little circle of wards and spells. Inside the box was a blackened silver coin."

So it looks like this is one of those minor inconsistencies. Like when Luccio is shot in the cheek in one book and then referenced as being shot in the back of the head in another. It makes me wonder though; how high/low a circle extends and why the box lid didn't break it?

[Mr. Death]

Luccio's body wasn't shot in the cheek--she was shot in the back of the head, with the cheek being the exit wound. Even in the original, she doesn't turn around before Harry plugs her.

[TonyA]

Per (Dead Beat):

"She never got it. In that single second of uncertainty, Corpsetaker had been relying upon her disguise to defend her, and had her mind bent upon planning her next step-not preparing her death curse. The bullet from my.44 hit her just over her right cheekbone."

[AcornArmy]

Per (Dead Beat):

"She never got it. In that single second of uncertainty, Corpsetaker had been relying upon her disguise to defend her, and had her mind bent upon planning her next step-not preparing her death curse. The bullet from my.44 hit her just over her right cheekbone."

If I remember correctly, it's always Harry doing the recounting of him shooting Corpsetaker. She was standing in front of him with her back to him, so even though she turned her head when he called her name, it may be that Harry still thinks of it in terms of shooting her in the back of the head. A personal-impression thing, rather than a strictly-factual thing. Harry's own sense of it at the time was that he was shooting her from behind, in the head, so he thinks of it as shooting her in the back of the head, regardless of where the bullet actually hit.

[DARTHYAM]

when harry and susan look through the records the items include a dagger, a sword, a brick and a vase. assuming that the dagger is the one big red used than where were the other artifacts and what were they used for? When Harry is in the chamber he sees the big altar in the centre, and that alone is enough to impress bob. 

[derrick]

when harry and susan look through the records the items include a dagger, a sword, a brick and a vase. assuming that the dagger is the one big red used than where were the other artifacts and what were they used for? When Harry is in the chamber he sees the big altar in the centre, and that alone is enough to impress bob.

I'll throw out a few WAGs.  From what I've read, a sword is sometimes used in place of (or alongside) an athame in magic rituals [as a side note, Harry does pick up a non-obsidian sword at some point at Chicken Pizza; no idea if it was that one.]  I suppose the vase is for blood.  Or flowers.  You never know with vampires.  I think the brick was meant as a joke. 

[DARTHYAM]

Okay fair enough; but why a vase and a brick? Given that the mayans had jaguar shaped altars I think they procured that through possessing them, and i suppose the brick and vase could have been used to release the energy

[Second Aristh]

Okay fair enough; but why a vase and a brick? Given that the mayans had jaguar shaped altars I think they procured that through possessing them, and i suppose the brick and vase could have been used to release the energy

Perhaps it's a link to the four elements instead of something Mayan specific?  Brick represents earth, vase is water, and dagger/sword go to fire/air in some combination.  I want to say that Harry has done something similar when he was setting up ritual magic before.