I replied to this already. "Don't expect her to take us up on this" =/= "don't want her to take us up on this". It's important to make an offer, even if I expect it to be rejected in favor of other options.
As far as I know, there's nothing in the Rules about maintaining the Masquerade. Nicodemius Archleone could theoretically descend on the shadowy wings in the middle of Times Square and Magog could fight our shintai form on prime TV, and it wouldn't violate the rules.
So far, yes. Broken Seeker and his minions were pretty damn blatant, I want to point out.
We are, essentially, forcing her to do that, if we don't make an offer. I have very strong feelings about "yeah, it was your completely free choice of X or death" types of chicanery.
I will rephrase: Dont make offers you cannot guarantee you can keep.
So why hasnt he?
No they were not.
That is not true.
Because ICBMs actually have more protections than that in general*. That much magic in the area is likely to turn the computers launching them to scrap. He would almost certainly have coincidental opposition Knight based or otherwise. And a miliary base might actually manage to kill him not likely, but Nick only goes for long odds on big payouts.
1) Denarian magic does not fuck with technology unless they want it to. Because motherfucking Denarians.
We can keep this promise.
Perhaps he wanted to do it this way for some reason, like inflicting maximum suffering. Perhaps it correlated with some other plan of his. Perhaps it isn't about body count at all, but a state of mind. Perhaps, it would have provoked a response of the Knightly kind. There are many options. Deriving "Rules include masquerade maintenance" from such thin evidence is a really, really big leap.
Again, this is sophistry of the worst kind "you stay here, or on the street with zero support or resources, while being a target" is not a meaningful choice. She had no choice in staying with him.
MIlitary can brick the missiles.
Being prepared to help facilitate a bad decision we prompt doesn't seem that helpful.
The problem is that our defense improvements aren't enough to take serious supernatural assaults made by people who don't have to give shit about being subtle and can pick their battles. It's better than nothing, but I don't trust it to stand up to anyone with a name worth knowing.
Do you think the Ordo would be freaked out by having a place too close to Dresden?
That seems like an idea with a lot of moving parts, it'd probably be expensive to get each piece in place.
Might just be that he's not willing to eat the interference and retaliation of the rest of the supernatural world.
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Not if the people who would are mindwhammied, incapacitated, or killed.
Which is used by mortal free will.
Anduriel is literally Master of Shadows.
Could be.
They do have the shadow scrying from Anduriel, yes?
Yeah, a lot of effort goes into those systems and subverting them with magic may be possible but it wouldn't be simple.
That was "just" mass death and a lot of people wouldn't actually know what he did anyway. Breaking the masquerade is a lot more of an immediate problem for supernaturals and a lot harder to conceal his involvement in.
30 denarians with full war forms working together roll over Dresden, Mouse, and most likely Mab. It's pointless to discuss "what do we do if enemy rolls with overwhelming power" because we can't do anything. Dresden can't do anything either in this situation.
30 denarians aren't really on the table, if only because the church does keep some out of circulation.
Despite being taken by surprise, the Archive was taking 8 to 10 Denarians until she got punked by sedative gas, and she's supposed to be Winter Lady-tier.
Not entirely true. Molly can do some pretty destructive things that could take out at least a chunk of Denarians by starting to ferry soldiers and explosives from Five Courts at maximum speed. Though Last Station still would be toast.
Mouse is also much more polite than Harry.
Because with Harry, Mouse and Lash present, arson is hard.
And with The Vamps, security bots, Ghouls, Porter, Lash and whatever other help comes to help with a blatant attack attacking Last Station is also hard.
Yes I do in fact think that he doesn't have them. I don't know all the security on them for obvious reasons, but I know that they change regularly and that the Library at least exists enough to include very basic information security. Also do you think that the codes are just a password or something? They are multi factor. Come on expect more security than your bank account has.
She can easily get her own money.
