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DF Spoilers / Re: White Court clothing [BG Spoilers]
« on: October 17, 2020, 02:32:17 PM »
I guess I'm mostly curious about method and origin.  We haven't seen much in the way of self-propelled enchanted items in the Dresdenverse.  We've seen it in other series like Harry Potter and Alex Versus, but with its physics grounding, the Dresdenverse has so far constituted movement and reaction with intelligent sentient beings. 

Between the movement and intelligence and the durability, I don't think we've seen anything like it.  Not for Insider folks.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Dangling Participants
« on: October 17, 2020, 01:57:53 AM »
This should be turned into a poll, and people can vote on what characters we want to see again.

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DF Spoilers / Re: White Court clothing [BG Spoilers]
« on: October 17, 2020, 01:49:09 AM »
Well, if it was flayed from someone/thing that was under her control, the enchantment would only need to handle movement. Possibly strip away the humanity from a rival vampire, so that all that remains is a mobile skin?
But it doesn't act or look like skin.  Otherwise Harry would have been more adamant about how gross it looked.  And it's described as looking like fabric, so it's not likely even leather.

I'm trying to think of any enchantment we've seen that's even remotely like what the fabric is.  Short of spirit possession animating objects (like Bob and the statues), we haven't seen that level of manipulation, other than Before's tendrils, like TCF said.

But I took that as more that Before is used to having tentacles, and he made something that would let him control them like regular limbs.  I don't think they would have worked if detached.

We've seen the Wamps mess with Little Folk before, using them as lamps.  I'm wondering if they're doing the same with the cloth, imbuing it with some spirit creature similar to Bob but not in his class.

And depending on the level of cooperation, would Harry do the same with his duster to make it similar to Strange's cloak of levitation?

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DF Spoilers / Re: White Court clothing [BG Spoilers]
« on: October 17, 2020, 12:15:45 AM »
Huh, the only other living clothes I remember are Sharkface's cloak.
It might not have been Dresden Files.  I read some scifi stuff recently that had smart clothing that put itself on, so maybe I'm remembering that.

Still, it makes me wonder at the mechanism behind the Wamp's clothing.  It's like it's enchanted in smart cloth that obeyed Lara's presumed mental command (attacking the enemy) even after being detached.

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DF Spoilers / Re: White Court clothing [BG Spoilers]
« on: October 16, 2020, 10:53:12 PM »
It seemed like something new to me. I don't recall it having shown up before ... though I could be mistaken...
Seeing it in combat seemed new to me, but I kind of almost recall something about clothes settling on or around her or another Wamp at some point.

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DF Spoilers / White Court clothing [BG Spoilers]
« on: October 16, 2020, 10:44:16 PM »
There was a mention of some special clothing that Lara was wearing in Battle Ground. I think there was a previous mention of it in maybe Peace Talks, but was there another somewhere along the way?  I meant to revisit it after the initial reading because it seemed like a known thing but I didn't remember it.

Edit: Here's the references towards the end of Battle Ground.
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A group of panicked, fleeing octokongs went by as Lara and her people came bounding out of the chaos, their flowing, shroudlike white robes stained in various shades of blood. None of them looked hurt, and I saw one take a panicked blow from an octokong’s emptied arquebus. The shroud material twitched and moved, gathering thickly beneath where the blow began to land, and the body beneath seemed to briefly lose mobility and stiffen as the arquebus struck—and rebounded, the shroud actively pushing the weapon away, as the White Court vampire wearing it dealt a pair of lethal blows and breezed on by in a little twirling dance step.

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Lara’s fighters sailed through the air with the greatest of ease, taking thirty-foot strides in great, leaping bounds, moving almost weightlessly, their shroud-armor fluttering and snapping.

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Ethniu batted Lara aside like a rag doll and rose—only to stumble, as Lara’s shroud-armor writhed off the vampire like a living thing, like some kind of bizarre invertebrate from the deep sea, and wrapped around the Titan’s knees, binding them together. Ethniu fell back down again and was forced to briefly struggle against the living cloth.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Butters *battle grounds*
« on: October 14, 2020, 09:10:16 PM »
At this point I'm left with the distinct impression the "it would have been two expensive to print it as one book" argument is dishonest.

Let's be realistic, using a fairly large font size is a choice. I'm pretty sure the word count for PT + BG is still less than a Rothfuss or Sanderson novel, and they aren't prohibitively expensive.
From what I saw, he wrote too much even before the split, and the publisher didn't have the equipment to publish a book the size of what it would be.  They would have had to have subcontracted it out to another publisher under the parent, which was going to cost money to do and result in a $50 book.  Or he could cut stuff out, or they could do the split.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Backcourt vampires WAG [spoilers all incl BG]
« on: October 14, 2020, 04:13:39 AM »
And like I said, Sigrun is going to be *pissed* if she and Hendricks didn't know about the coin, and Hendricks died to protect Marcone when his life wasn't really in danger.

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Well, in a way, Butters removed something from Mab that restrained her and would have led to her death. Butters trying to claim that removing the Lady mantle from Molly might be equal, in the loosest of terms.

But getting both seems highly unlikely.  And I doubt he'll try. No doubt something else will come up.  Like Butters asking Harry be freed from something he didn't want to be restrained by against his will, a.k.a. the engagement.

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DF Spoilers / Re: 22 Case Files and BAT
« on: October 14, 2020, 04:06:15 AM »
I think it was Fight Night last I'd seen anything even remotely official-adjacent, but it wasn't terribly official and it was years ago, so who knows now.

Don't give it away! You destroy Griffyn's fun.
Indeed. It's all correct and accurate, in one time line or another.  :o

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DF Spoilers / Re: [BG SPOILERS] Why not thaumaturgy
« on: October 14, 2020, 04:02:09 AM »
They would have needed something of Ethniu's to do thaumaturgy related to her.  The whole battle was to get the blood necessary for Harry to make the thaumaturgic connection with the Demonreach crystal to imprison her.

As for the triangle to pin Alfred, that worked because Alfred was stationary, because he had a place to stand and defend.  Ethniu had no such requirement and could move wherever she pleased. 

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DF Spoilers / Re: 22 Case Files and BAT
« on: October 13, 2020, 04:24:18 AM »
I'm not sure Windows 10 even has Microsoft Paint for me to use.  And that's the only elite product I'll use.  :P

But I'll think about it...

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DF Spoilers / Re: 22 Case Files and BAT
« on: October 12, 2020, 10:09:03 PM »
I went and found the original thread for giggles. It's got (small) covers (thanks Photobucket) for the FIRST CRUSH/LAYING GHOSTS/STUDENT SCORNED trilogy, which in my head paralleled PG, GS, and a future unnamed book.
https://www.paranetonline.com/index.php/topic,31662.msg1361967.html#msg1361967

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DF Spoilers / Re: Mirror Mirror returners
« on: October 12, 2020, 09:32:33 PM »
Yep, in a recent interview Jim said that the time travel book will probably be the one before the BAT.
Fingers crossed it's the PG theorized simultaneous, but it seems like a long shot, as that might not be a big enough plot for the casefile finale.

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DF Spoilers / Re: 22 Case Files and BAT
« on: October 12, 2020, 09:30:52 PM »
Yeah they were kind of in line with this. They're not available online anymore (thanks Photobucket) but they may be on my old computer.  Maybe I'll revisit those one day...


(I think this one predated Aftermath)

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