Not Making It Easy
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Not Making It Easy
23rd Mar 2017, 7:01 PM in Season Two - Part 1: Target: Felix Harper
Average Rating: 5 (7 votes)
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Yes, Bishop could have roughed him up, or employed other "enhanced interrogation techniques", but he didn't. There is a reason for that.

I'm not saying it's off the table. Harper could keep pissing him off, after all...

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Seabiscuit
Seabiscuit
"Gestapo-Enforced Veil"- Hahahaha! Ahh, I love Felix's annoyed face in the last panel...
Still, I think he's innocent... enough.:'D
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Thanks! <3

Felix is a lot of fun to write. Especially when he's up against super-serious aggro military peeps.

We shall see what his part in this thing is/was/will be...
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Chippewa Ghost
Chippewa Ghost
Definitely taking a trip to Azkaban.
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Are you suggesting that we use copyrighted locations from one of the world's most-beloved book and film franchises and risk an army of lawyers sending us to Azkaban? :P

In this world, we call such a place The Oubliette...
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Lord Myk
Lord Myk
How uncomfortable are we talking about here? Limiting his mobile data? Taking away his DVR? Itchy clothes?
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Oh, at the very least nails on chalkboard or a Rob Schneider film festival... :P
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melaredblu
melaredblu
"You're already making me severely uncomfortable. Just sayin'."
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Yeah, Felix is a free spirit and now he's cooped up. Also, Bishop smells like coffee and cigars.
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sigpig
sigpig
That combination brings to mind this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagavulin_distillery

I highly recommend the 16-year-old my wife calls it "liquid dirt"... lol
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
I will have to try that at some point. :)
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Delta-v
*Gasp* Rob Schneider.....HAVE YOU NO HUMANITY? O.o

Back to business. I'm figuring they have him in a magic-suppressor field or they fed/injected him with something that negates his magic ability. If he's the scamp they make him out to be, surey he knows some tricks to make THEM pretty uncomfortable, also.
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
It was the worst thing I could think of at short notice...

Yes, this room, the holding cells, and the hallways between them are all magic-dead. No tricks from our friend Felix.
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Miaubol
Miaubol
Felix hasn't lost the spirit! ;D

"Tradition"-
more of those nice words...
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
He's got the spirit, but lose the feeling... wait, no, just got the spirit. :)

There are a lot of coded words that get tossed around in the shadow society of magical people and their watchers...
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sigpig
sigpig
Veil, Shroud, we get the idea.

Also, Bishop COULD have asked Harper if he knew anything about the various phenomena, instead of outright accusing him of them...
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
The veil could also be referred to as the masquerade, or kayfabe, or a number of other ways. It's simply the most commonly used term in Autumn Bay.

The "Shroud" are so called because of the veil. The rule about "magic and muggles don't mix" is often stated "don't pierce the veil".

Bishop is using the time-honored interrogation technique of putting your subject on defense. As we will see, he has a distinct reason for that.
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HeSerpenty
HeSerpenty
Harperrrr I think he's serious!

Prof your dialogue is always so clever! <33
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Thankies!

And yes, Bishop is quite serious...
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