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"So. Big bomb. What's the hardest target we have to take out?"
"The Netherbrain. Won't work, too hard a target."
"Okay, what's the second hardest target?"
"Chosen of Bhaal."
"...Sold."
I just sort of assumed Voss had to lay low and not do anything too weird because he was prominent enough that Vlaakith was keeping an eye on him. Meetings in bars and sewers, sure, but if he starts bouncing across planes smacking random devils rather than doing his assigned task of hunting for...
Fair point.
Huh. Philosophical question- do individual Illithids have free will?
And if so, how much thought/maturity does an Illithid tadpole? Can it choose not to eat the brain it's in?
Yeah, that's about what I thought. She really can't help herself, can she? It'd be sad, if her inflicting her drama on everyone else wasn't just making it infuriating.
Cracking good storytelling, though- both you and Larian.
I'm just wondering if it had to be a manipulated Selunite that killed the Nightsong, or if Shar let her cruelty and petty need to stick it to her sister get ahead of practicality... and it backfiring on her hard.
I mean, why send an Acolyte like Shadowheart to kill Dame Aylin, when she could...
I wonder how locked in Transformer 'genders' are. Give Tailgate a smoother chassis and a different voice file and this whole problem might just poof away.
Given how all the other Goa'uld generally acted- basically from birth, thanks to their genetic memory- I can fully understand the sentiment.
Just not the smarts of even mentioning it while hanging around under his roof.
Well, that's a good sign at least. "Well, you asked for teachers, not...
The adventure and escape was good, the relationship discussions are nice, but the place this 'fic really shines is how Harry and Hermione and everyone around them are dealing with the two's trauma and PTSD.
Especially including the delicate art of getting across to someone that they do...
Probably because it's a person- and thus potential threat- appearing with no warning, at a decent clip of speed, in a flash of sudden fire.
Probably has the same reaction if anyone enters the room by banging the door open suddenly.
Have you considered making an omnibus thread for your stories, so that people can follow your work generally? I've missed several of them when they fell off the front page before I noticed them.
I'm well aware of the history, and the myriad forms personal bondage can take throughout. But if you've got full-on legal government-supported chattel slavery,you don't need to go about hiding your operations as if you were working under a regime that outright banned such and actively worked to...
Hrm. Interesting overall, but one thing that just keeps bugging me, re:the slavery thing in Wizarding Britain, is that you've got a situation where it seems that slavery is illegal and there are well-armed, organized, and dedicated groups of law enforcement actively hunting it, but also legal...
Yup, section 4.7.2.
Of course, this did nothing to discourage Hermione's kidnapping- because (a) Malfoy had already set it up and carefully removed his connections to the process; and more importantly (b) the low-level people that actually do the kidnapping and brain-wiping cannot be...
Um. I think that plan was "throw the Rule of Law by the wayside, go Full Vigilante on everyone he even suspects of involvement, turn himself in afterwards".
Without the Big V in active play, the bulk of the 'bad guys' in Wizarding Britain basically only exist because Dumbledore's really...
Call up her parents and get them to implement the more paranoid summer plans. Or any one of a dozen other adults with both a high standing in Hermione's lights... and, in extremis, the actual authority to restrict her movement.
Of course, you're right in that Harry isn't the one with the...