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Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
« on: June 13, 2018, 08:48:20 AM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDpvbX9eCK4

Probably one of the best things to hear that the Jade Court Vamps (Jamps?) feed on breath! I had a player for the RPG who'd wanted to try homebrewing one but I'd only been able to find an old fan post the proposed they fed on intestines.

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Re: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2018, 05:34:13 PM »
Thanks!
Stole this from Reginald because it was so well put, and is true for me as well.

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Re: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2018, 09:00:32 PM »
Feeding on breath? That opens up a new can of questions. Are there different type of breaths? Do they need mouth to mouth contact or is being in the vicinity enough? What are the long term consequences? Inquiring minds need to know.

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Re: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2018, 09:06:08 PM »
Feeding on breath? That opens up a new can of questions. Are there different type of breaths? Do they need mouth to mouth contact or is being in the vicinity enough? What are the long term consequences? Inquiring minds need to know.
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Re: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2018, 01:23:03 AM »
  Sounds like they're more or less the Jiangshi of chinese myth (really, what else could they have been?).  Jiangshi feed on chi, or raw life force.  I've seen them do this in fiction usually through draining breath.  They may be rotting corpses, are too stiffened with rigor mortis to move in any way other than hopping around, and may or may not be mindless predators.
  Now obviously there's gonna be some difference in how they operate in the Dresden Files.  Maybe as time goes by and they absorb enough chi, they become sapient and regain a degree of mobility.  That might also partially explain why they never leave the Yangtze River valley; they just can't get around all that well, and they've had thousands of years to get their homes just so.
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Re: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
« Reply #6 on: June 14, 2018, 12:17:34 PM »
That is a great Bookstore.  I got to go when I was in Austin three weeks ago.  Wish I could have gone to the reading and Q&A.
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Re: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
« Reply #7 on: June 14, 2018, 05:57:08 PM »
Feed on breath.. Damn, that's a strong motivation to stop brushing my teeth.
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هل تحممت بعطره وتنشفت بنور
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Re: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
« Reply #8 on: June 14, 2018, 06:20:15 PM »
Well Breath is used in:

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Stole this from Reginald because it was so well put, and is true for me as well.

"I love this place. It was a beacon in the dark and I couldn't have made it through some of the most maddening years of my life without some great people here."  Thank you Griff and others who took up the torch.

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Re: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
« Reply #9 on: June 14, 2018, 08:53:13 PM »
Well Breath is used in:

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holy crap, that gives new meaning to anytime
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Re: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
« Reply #10 on: June 14, 2018, 09:21:31 PM »
His answer to if / when the Celtic gods (Tuatha) would appear was interesting. Somebody in book 19 and then otherwise not until the BAT lines up with previous comments that we wouldn't find out who or what Mac really is until very late in the series. A boost for the Mannannan Mac Lir theory?

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Re: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
« Reply #11 on: June 15, 2018, 12:46:18 AM »
I hope so.
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Re: Jim Butcher @ Book People, Austin, Tx
« Reply #12 on: June 15, 2018, 06:45:24 AM »
I think it was this one but I think one of the interesting things Jim said was that "Kringle is what Odin does so he doesn't die of old age"
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