I dont think this is plausible.
If it did, Mab's glamor in our first encounter would also count as an attack, and it didnt, and wasnt meant to.
Neither does fae glamor in general.
Hell, we didnt use the Crown in that scene because we decided it wasnt worth the risk of letting her know we could do that, not because we thought it would count as an attack.
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Teenagers.
Talking about shit on unencrypted SMS. BlackBerry Messenger is encrypted, but we dont own or use a Blackberry, Whatsapp only enters the market in 2009, and Signal/Telegram are both around 7 years away.We really should look into cooking up a magic phone.
Rici sounds like he's a mob lawyer. Or something else.
And the story has been deliberately written to prevent us actually meeting him.
Hmm.
50k for 33 carats of jewel quality stones, with no heat? No sign they were obtained via criminal activity? Not great.
Not terrible, but not great either.
It sounds much better when you realize that's
ten thousand dollars per stone.
Still an unsatisfactory rating in my opinion.
We should probably look for better deals elsewhere, instead of making him exclusive.
Maybe Thomas.
Checking 2007 tax brackets, an income of 50k has a liability of 25% federal + 3% state, meaning a tax burden of max $14,000.
So we have $36,000 to spend.
Not deprived, existing home, old enough to care for herself, unwilling to go into a care home, existing legal arrangements for her welfare. The DCFS case officer probably has like a couple dozen more cases a lot more urgent than a upper class kid pushing for legal emancipation three months before she would legally qualify under Illnois law.
The rest is Lydia just being a teenager and venting to a friend.
Her father only went missing six days ago, on July 22. Its July 28 now.
Legal shit has always taken time to get in motion.
Not particularly. If we want to see her DCFS officer right now, we could just go along as her friend. Thats all.
And she's Resources 4. She doesnt need money, and being in business is not a requirement anyway.
School attendance frankly benefits her more here, but with Academics 3 she's got Masters degree level knowledge.
High school isnt going to benefit her much unless the intent is just socialization.
She should be looking to university courses for certification to match her knowledge.
And thats the sort of thing that impresses family court judges.
No there arent. There REALLY arent.
There isnt a large market for high end melee weaponry, as a look around Google will tell you. Expensive swords are valued for their antiquity, not their crafting quality.
The market for jewelry and precious stones is much larger, by several orders of magnitude, because men and women both buy jewels and jewelry, for themselves and each other.
From rappers and athletes with jewelled grills to high end bankers with jewelled rings, tie clips and watches.
From middle class women with diamond engagement rings to socialites wearing ten years salary around their necks.
Only a subset of primarily Western men buy expensive melee weapons, and thats for themselves. The market is tiny.
Jewelry otoh is an actual industry that shows up on global economic balance sheets and involves millions of people yearly.
The global jewelry market is estimated to be worth ~$270 billion in 2022.
The global revenue in the 'Jewelry' segment of the accessories market was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total 88.1 billion U.S.
www.statista.com
