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DF Spoilers / Re: Any news on Peace Talks
« on: July 02, 2019, 09:40:16 PM »
My son's is 26 Dec.

EVERYBODY is burnt-out on the whole "going to parties" thing, and often tapped-out for giving-presents.  Really sucked for him, as a youngster.  Often, friends were away on winter-vacation trips.

We always made sure he had something from us to open on his actual birthday.  Some years we gave a really-big combined gift, and then a little pro-forma thing or minor accessory to the Big Gift.  Usually we tried to do a more-even split, or even a bigger gift on the 26th, so it wouldn't be a let-down.

But getting a party with lots of friends -- or even his few best friends -- was ALWAYS a challenge.
 

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DF Spoilers / Re: Who dies in Peace Talks
« on: July 02, 2019, 09:32:24 PM »
... We may see something in Mirror Mirror, depending on how much time Harry spends in his reality, but we won't see a whole lot in that book.
I expect that in Mirror Mirror, Harry-prime will learn that mirror-Harry is a member of a "Council" (or dare I say... Circle?) that is in full-on Sith-mode.

It'll be interesting to see how much Jim actually pays homage to the various elements of the TOS-Trek episode.
 

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DF Spoilers / Re: Cowl Unmasked!
« on: July 02, 2019, 09:26:08 PM »
You know, Jim very rarely writes the incantations other wizards use. We get Harry's, one from Molly ("Harikii?"), and I think that's it. Every other spell is summarized as "snarled a word and clenched his fist" or something like that.
I'm pretty sure we hear some of Elaine's.
Which... may be telling?

I guess only the boy-wizards learn to snarl and clench?
(Anal-retentive lot, ain't they?)
 

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DF Spoilers / Re: Denarian Short Story
« on: July 02, 2019, 01:43:52 AM »
I really doubt that any of the Denarians are N-fected, I think they play for the same team.

My understanding is that "Nemesis" is an Outsider-y thing.  Denarians are not.  I suspect they stand to lose as much as anyone else, from the Outsiders.

Except... we know that some (apparently very-competent) folk do seem to make deals with Outsiders.  Cowl, for example, seems to be in league with them, to one degree or another.

"Nemfection" may begin with something accidental; Lea seems to have thought the Athame was "safe," but it wasn't.  Aurora and Maeve were probably Nemfected (possibly all 3 came from the Athame?).

Who's to say that a Denarian (or his host!) cannot also succumb to Nemfection?

Nic may have been putting on an act in the Aquarium, when he "seemed" angry/surprised to learn that Hellfire had been part of the assault on A.Tor; but maybe he wasn't faking.

So, if he wasn't faking it... why was he angry?  Was it from "I do not want Mab for my enemy"?  Was it from "Why was my subordinate running their own op & hiding it from me?"

Was if from, "I'm pretty sure that was a Nemfected op, WTF was Hellfire doing anywhere near Nemfection?"  And if so, was it a matter of "why was that moron assisting an enemy?" or was it "I thought the Fallen were immune to (or very resistant to) Nemfection, but it looks like they got to one of us... or more??!?"

Or something else entirely???

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DF Spoilers / Re: Proven Guilty speculation, because, why not?
« on: July 01, 2019, 09:22:19 PM »
...
This would make the BC seem like rank amateurs - they sent 1 powerful sorcerer with a small army to take on Mab at Arctis Tor??!...

Unless of course Mab suckered them.  Made it seem like she was busy at the Summer/Winter border, like only a few Fetches and other minor forces remained at A.Tor...

Then... yeah, a powerful sorceror (using Hellfire, remember) & backed by a Fallen Angel, with a small army in tow, does look like an overwhelmingly-powerful strike force.

But all of this is offscren, and thus (barring WoJ?) pure WAGing.
 

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DF Spoilers / Re: Ramírez & Lara Raith soulgaze
« on: June 29, 2019, 05:02:33 PM »
...

Lara clearly likes Ramírez even more after the soul gaze, but Ramírez doesn’t just consider Lara to be an immoral vampire - he seems to respect her more after the soul gaze & maybe even realizes that she is trying to help him better navigate the Whamp Court by playing the come hither at him instead just being a succubus, perhaps that’s why he wasn’t trying to dissuade her with his knife?
He WAS trying to disuade her with his knife.  But, whamps being whamps, Carlos was teetering on the edge anyhow.

Carlos initiates the soulgaze to stiffen his own spine.

Lara mistakes it as another attempt to dissuade her (the knife's not working! try magic!), not realizing that Carlos was using it to rebuild his own defenses against whamps, instead of as a weapon/threat against her.

Afterwards, they each come away with the soulgaze-granted understandings of one another, including his, that her word is good.  So yeah, he "respects" her more, even as he understands that she is basically cooperating with the inhuman monster inside of her.

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I believe Jim said that was Michael's happy ending.
Exactly.
He IS going to Heaven (possibly via Uriel's afterlife-spooksquad), but for now, he's got a slice of Heaven on Earth.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Ramírez & Lara Raith soulgaze
« on: June 27, 2019, 09:15:53 PM »
... The part that is interesting about the exchange is the part I have highlighted in the OP. What does Ramírez mean when he tells Lara that “it wasn’t to dissuade you”??

Ahhhh!  Yes, I see.

I think the understanding comes with particular spoken emphases (or an understanding of that quote being a partial sentence with an implied/unspoken 2nd half):
Quote
It wasn't to dissuade YOU
=OR=
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It wasn't to dissuade you (it was to dissuade me).
Lara doubtless understood what it would be like for Carlos to have seen her soul as she saw his, how much a true vision of the demon would "dissuade" him.  Hence, her remarking that he was wise (to have "innoculated" himself).

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... Though I should point out that Michael was crippled for life as a result of going to the Island, so maybe the paper-thin excuse that Dresden manipulated wasn't good enough.

No, I think that was actually the very best thing (for Michael) that could have happened.

His injuries, in the final analysis, free him from being a Knight. They let him be home with his family, let him build houses (for which he evidently has a passion).  Yeah... cane.  So what?
 Occasional twinges of pain?  Not like the Knighting lifestyle is exactly pain-free (usually more than "twinges").

He'd pick up the sword again in a heartbeat, if that's what he'd be called to; but he's he's not:  he's being given the reward of the life & family he always wanted.
 

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DF Spoilers / Re: Ramírez & Lara Raith soulgaze
« on: June 27, 2019, 07:04:34 PM »
... I mean Ramírez knew that before the soulgaze (hence be pulled a knife on her pre-Soulgaze)...
Maybe he knew it, in his head.  But his hormones were screaming louder (it's what the Whamps do).

After the soulgaze, Carlos had a direct experience of the demon/phage, and what that meant.  He no longer merely "knew" what a WCV was, he felt it, in a visceral personal-experience manner.

Sorry, though, but this part:
... after the soulgaze he seems to be telling her that his guard is not up to dissuade her. 
I cannot parse this bit clearly.  I'm not sure what you're saying.

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DF Spoilers / Re: SO CLOSE!!!!
« on: June 27, 2019, 06:53:44 PM »
So Mirror, Mirror happening before Christmas Story?  Seems weird, but who knows.
Why would this be so?

The big novel-event stuff Harry seems to be wrestling with in Christmas Story is fallout from PT.

In Harry's life (not order of release), it seems to be:
 PT --> Xmas-short --> MM

Have I missed something?  What makes you think MM comes before the short?

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DF Spoilers / Re: SO CLOSE!!!!
« on: June 26, 2019, 09:55:12 PM »
... Wrestling Book ... 
I barely recollected that one being mentioned.  Went looking.

According to this post:
https://www.paranetonline.com/index.php/topic,50222.msg2291069.html#msg2291069
WoJ is that order (after PT) is MM 1st, then Wrestling.  Has this info been changed (or was it just wrong?) ?
 

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DF Spoilers / Re: SO CLOSE!!!!
« on: June 26, 2019, 09:39:03 PM »
...
As to why the denouement chapter is taking so long, I don't know. Maybe there is some other twist that he's got to take time on.
Maybe he's doing some review and reconcilliation with the Beta feedback?  Some "oh shit, this thing is impossible given that other thing I need to be true..." etc.

Maybe?

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DF Spoilers / Re: Proven Guilty speculation, because, why not?
« on: June 26, 2019, 08:13:35 PM »
... So I think she expected what Lily did and what Harry would do.

Yeah, that's what I thought too.  But that WoJ pretty strongly implies that Summerfiring the Winterwell was unexpected by Mab.

Lily's giving Summerfire... yeah, Mab saw that a mile away; she was counting on it (so her proto-Knight didn't get all Kudzutized).
 

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DF Spoilers / Re: SO CLOSE!!!!
« on: June 26, 2019, 03:37:17 PM »
... Seeing as how Harry is going to be kidnapped and sent to an alternate universe in the next book, I wonder if Jim would take a page from Quantum Leap and have that happen in the last chapter of Peace Talks with Harry suddenly appearing in the mirror mirror world as a mob of enemies closes in around him and saying the words in "Oh boy!"
I don't think we'll see him in the Mirror'verse.  I think we'll see him get snatched, and cliffhang on "what thing just reached out of the mirror and grabbed Harry?!!?"

Is MM confirmed 100% as the next book, BTW?
 

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