You're the one suggesting she'll take issue with us building a solution to the skavis dietary problem. Either she does or she doesn't, and this one one of those places I'm willing to tell her to take a hike over; it's too important to too many people.
Thats not what I said
I believe there are complications there that we would be better off not having to address yet.
Not the same thing.
It's exactly how he works, he just doesn't look at it that way.
It really isnt.
Marcone's mortal; Dresden cant exactly walk into his office and blast him to death with magic, and Harry frankly did not have the legal or bureaucratic skill to put a dent in Marcone's empire. Lara he could kill, but the White Court as an entity was far beyond his capabilities to destroy.
Especially in the early days, Harry had issues with underestimating limits and consequences until they were rubbed in his face.
He runs into it in The Law, when there's a mortal criminal that simply disbelieves his magic and dares him to do his worst
And he's stumped.
1) the Archive still charged for things that added additional risk to her day, don't see why this would be different.
2) All the more reason to do something that uses the opportunity. Social excellency isn't bulletproof either, especially if there's magic involved.
1)Because the Archive is under constraints almost as restrictive as the Fae.
Noone else appears to labor under the same constraints.
I will remind you that Harry literally walked into then-Bianca's Red Court seethe to question her about the initial murders in Storm Front, and it was considered unremarkable, with most people willing to talk freely about other people's business.
People often talk.
2)We are still gathering information to figure out where to point the gun
And Im willing to bet that you underestimate what social Excellencies + perception boosters do for gathering information.
Even a refusal to talk speaks volumes.
His encounter happened while Kemmler was still doing that stuff, and one of the consequences of letting a wizard tier necromancer go is that they're going to get go to some shit. The fact that Khemmler could legitimately make a divine mantle of death should have been a red flag.
1) Point of correction: Kemmler couldnt make a divine mantle of death.
An ascension ritual empowers a single person, a mantle potentially empowers any number of people who can take on that mantle.
2)We know for a fact that both Grevane and Corpsetaker were running around in the 19th century and didnt manage anything of note. So wizard-tier necromancer really aint all that; Kemmler was a transcendental genius of the breed.
This is not a defense. But it is an explanation, especially if you are a jaded old god.
3)He ran into Kemmler in the first decade of the 20th century
By this time, the machinations of the world wars were explicitly already well in motion for over a hundred years. The vampires, demons, gods and necromancers, as well as the mortalside machinations, had all happened.
Even if Arawn had killed him AND managed to make it stick, we were well past the point where pebbles get to vote.
The party was getting started with or without him.
This is not to say that Arawn is blameless here
But ascribing blame for the events of WW1 and 2 to his personal failure to kill Kemmler just strikes me as a convenient piece of scapegoating. Might as well blame Luccio for not killing him in that short story, or the White Council for fucking it up repeatedly.
There are a lot of things that would take an hour IC to do, and so far we've sold more stuff than we've used on our circle or character. They're also doing a lot of work for us essentially free or at their expense.
*checks rules*
Not particularly, no, not by the rules as given, at least not using Holdencraft rules.
There's a reason he carries a gun in the first place though. It does at least something to most creatures and doesn't tax his magical stamina.
The more I've actually looked at it, the less that appears to be true.
Harry's current weapon is a Smith and Wessons Model 29. .44 magnum, six shots. Its the Dirty Harry gun from the 1970s and 1980s Clint Eastwood movies, and he's clearly carrying it because he saw the movies growing up. He doesnt even appear to carry any reloads, which doesnt fit any supernatural situation where he'd need it.
The sidepiece appears to be his other less-lethal option and his mortal deterrent.
Its also what he uses to shoot mortal goons without breaching the Laws, but he generally appears to avoid that sort of situation. He's not a principally paramilitary operative like a lot of other Wardens.
Furthermore, both Morgan and Luccio apparently use what appear to be semiautos without issue.
They are both much older combat wizards; pre-Dead Beat Luccio was allegedly a potential Senior Council candidate before she got dumped in a younger body.
Carlos had his Glock working just fine in the maelstrom of magic that was the Darkhallow; that was how he killed Grevane and stopped Morgan from killing Dresden.
So I dont really think that the techbane argument applies to his weapon choices.
Inherently you are correct it was an expressed opinion by me. As well you are correct with the crafting it doesn't feel like it because we didn't use it for ourselves or our immediate circle but yeah we've been we've been hitting it pretty consistently. No let's go over that list two of those are directly helping Court Fae which range from untrustworthy beings that you wouldn't want to leave alone with anyone you care about to outright evil like Mab and Leahansinide lesser evils Than The Outsiders true but evil nonetheless.
BronzeTongue has addressed most of this so I dont have to.
I'd say shatterimg the WC as an organisation is definitly a step in the right direction, eigher by killing the Raiths or forcing Lara to push too far.
This is so astonishingly wrongheaded Im surprised you keep suggesting it.
Anyone who takes a look at Mexico in the aftermath of the shattering of the Guadalajara Cartel at the end of the 1980s can tell you precisely the sort of situation that ensues when you attempt to break up a criminal enterprise of that size.
Nevermind a situation where there are multiple nationstate level forces willing to stir the pot, if only to spite us.
Furthermore, its canon that in the immediate aftermath of Dresden et al arranging for the overthrow of Lord Raith and his replacement by Lara Raith at the end of Blood Rites, Nemesis and Nemesis-associated entities have repeatedly tried to destroy the White Court in part or in total.
In
White Night, Outsider-possessed Vito Malvora attempts to decaptitate the White Court, and does kill a good chunk of its elders. In
Turn Coat, Peabody and his backers attempt to frame the White Court for the murder of a Senior Council member to throw them into the war with the White Council. In
Battle Grounds, Nemesis-Infested Justine blackmails Thomas Raith, the White Queen's brother, into almost assassinating the head of state of the svartalfar in the middle of a truce to kick off a war
And Im not even counting the repeated fomor attempts to push into White Court areas after Changes, since they apparently did it to everyone.
Basically?
When your proposals involve doing the work of not just one, but several Bads of the series, including what appears to be THE Big Bad? Its a Bad Plan.
GOTTDAMN okay yeah that would be a lifetime of effort to actually bring down their efforts at all to be frank there's a lot of them oh God all over the world. I was not expecting there to be that many of them but really the Middle East I should reread the books I completely mistook that as them being like family units you know like Clans in Naruto except really large because they're old
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Which part of the White Court are a supernatural nationstate with global influence did you miss?
The Red Court essentially hold South America in an iron grip, and the White Court were considered at least a nominal peer.
I dont see how you would have thought that meant they were a clan just fucking around in the US.
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