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Offline Rune Traveller

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Skin Game and the Nickleheads
« on: February 21, 2021, 02:12:47 PM »
Don't read this if you haven't finished Skin Game!

So, during the fight in Hades' hall and when Nicodemus' crew is leaving that domain, 2 Denarians get killed and their coins aren't collected.

Does Hades have those coins in his possession now?

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Re: Skin Game and the Nickleheads
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2021, 10:46:02 AM »
Unlikely.  The Denarius coins by their very nature are meant to be in circulation.  There would be no appeal in them to a god who collects things to keep as his primary hobby, so they'll end up finding their own way back to Earth sooner or later. Plus there's a potential living host down there who may help at least one of the coins find a way out.

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Re: Skin Game and the Nickleheads
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2021, 01:55:30 PM »
Nicodemus had time enough to pick them up.
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Re: Skin Game and the Nickleheads
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2021, 12:44:59 AM »
It explicitly doesn't say.

But -- as per @ZhonLord -- the coins are meant to be in circulation, not in a vault.  I suspect that not even Hades' security is sufficient to overcome this.

And -- as per @Arjan -- there was plenty of time for Nic/Anduriel to recover Lasciel from the rocks, and then Ursiel from the ice.


Last but not least... I expect Jim has some stuff he's planning to write in a Harry/Bonny/Lasciel arc ...   The whole "child shared with a hostile Ex" thing seems like too much of a chance to torment Harry; and tormenting Harry is most of how Jim stays fed & housed these days.


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Re: Skin Game and the Nickleheads
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2021, 04:28:22 AM »
There is some information about what happened to one of the two coins in Peace Talks/Battle Ground.
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Re: Skin Game and the Nickleheads
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2021, 03:46:02 PM »
There is some information about what happened to one of the two coins in Peace Talks/Battle Ground.

There was mention of the holder of one of the coins not the coin itself. Considering what happened to the coin holder this smacks a bit like a corpsetaker mode of "survival". So I'd give it even odds they still have the coin.