Questions Specifically for Jim, Part 3

[MacShidhe]

I don't know if this question has been asked yet but:

What is up with MAC? Don't get me wrong cause I think he's all sorts of hidden bad assery underneath the layers of two word sentences. I just want to know if you have awesome plans for him. I don't need specifics or spoilers, just a yes or no will do!  thanks!

Jim has addressed that recently.  He says we will probably learn about Mac in the BAT.  (I really want to know how he got to be on a first name basis with Morgan :-))

[wardenferry419]

I think that we will find out Mac is a retired wizard who gave up the magic for normalcy.

[sjsharks]

Could MacAnally possibly be a son of Dionysus?
He's not a Greek god nor a scion of the gods, I'll tell you that much, but we will probably won't get to see much about MacAnally until the big trilogy at the end.

[Dina]

Well, he can be a not-greek gpd 

[MacShidhe]

Who takes care of the Archive/Ivy when Kincaid is away on "business"?  Also, she was too young to do anything on her own when she became the Archive.  Who originally hired Kincaid as her protector and did he have to change her diapers?   

[wardenferry419]

That's a weird idea. Kincaid and diaper-changing don't compute. But, then again, Cable (X-men) must have done it for Hope.

[wildone654]

Who takes care of the Archive/Ivy when Kincaid is away on "business"?  Also, she was too young to do anything on her own when she became the Archive.  Who originally hired Kincaid as her protector and did he have to change her diapers?   

Wasn't he working for her mother when she was born? 

[Snowleopard]

Wasn't he working for her mother when she was born? 

Kincaid had worked for the grandmother and knew the mother.  When grandmother was killed
I suspect he must have then been working for the mother when Ivy was born and mom killed herself.

[Alilisa]

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Why did you kill off Harry's one love, the only one who made him happy, I mean come on!! Susan??  I just started reading the books and found this out and now I just want to give them up, I wish he could get her back and hoped and prayed he'd have brought her back in Ghost Story, but after finding out what's happening in there, I am so frustrated, so my question is...why couldn't he just be happy with Susan and his little girl and be married to her (Susan), and still have the "adventures of a wizard" (yeah there still could be all that "fun stuff" and even more with the dangers of having the family life. *Lol*

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[uncanny]

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Why did you kill off Harry's one love, the only one who made him happy, I mean come on!! Susan??  I just started reading the books and found this out and now I just want to give them up, I wish he could get her back and hoped and prayed he'd have brought her back in Ghost Story, but after finding out what's happening in there, I am so frustrated, so my question is...why couldn't he just be happy with Susan and his little girl and be married to her (Susan), and still have the "adventures of a wizard" (yeah there still could be all that "fun stuff" and even more with the dangers of having the family life. *Lol*

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Welcome to the club Alilisa .  I think you'd need to read the rest of the series to understand where this fits in.  For Harry, I don't think he had any other option to

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protect his daughter from the monsters.  Thing is, when the monsters found this nugget out, they would have simply come back again and again.  When Susan died(warning: bigger spoiler ahead), she essentially

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turned the energy loose on the beings who knew about the connection.  Without Susan's sacrifice, this would have been impossible to do, and Harry would forever be looking over his shoulder.  Moreover, he can't settle down to a simple family - there is simply too much work to do, and whats more Harry makes a commitment as part of saving his daughter that means he will not be able to enjoy a "family" life - at the very least for a while to come. 

By the time Susan dies, there is nothing left of her to save - she is no longer human in any way/shape/form.

Sorry if some of that is a bit cryptic.. I really hope you give the series a chance, and I didn't want to spoil too much for you.

[knnn]

New question:

Will the RPG ever get a cameo in the series?

[MacShidhe]

New question:

Will the RPG ever get a cameo in the series?

That would be awesome 

[knnn]

Problem is that I could see it having a major influence on the world --  e.g. I could totally see Billy publishing it without all the censored parts now that [Changes Spoiler]

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Harry is dead, so who cares if he had a denarian coin

.   Then the next books have to deal with the fallout.

Alternatively, the first sentence of the Big Apocalyptic Trilogy could be:  "Hells Bells Billy.  You published WHAT???!!!"

[zandamascus]

Jim mentioned once that Mother Summer in SM is the second mother summer in recorded human history. I was wondering if anything significant happened in relation to the change.

[Warden John Marcone]

Jim mentioned once that Mother Summer in SM is the second mother summer in recorded human history. I was wondering if anything significant happened in relation to the change.

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