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Here comes a candle
Post by NortonIDaughter   » Wed Mar 05, 2014 2:13 am

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Ok guys, we have a place for mourning our dead...

This thread is for guessing who's next! :twisted:



I've got money on Tom Theisman not being long for this world. Seriously, anyone named "Dreams of Peace" is destined not to enjoy it. (Plus he's my favorite, so he's doomed.)

Anyone else?
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Re: Here comes a candle
Post by roseandheather   » Wed Mar 05, 2014 2:30 am

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Re: Here comes a candle
Post by Bill Woods   » Wed Mar 05, 2014 4:07 am

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NortonIDaughter wrote:Ok guys, we have a place for mourning our dead...

This thread is for guessing who's next! :twisted:

I've got money on Tom Theisman not being long for this world. Seriously, anyone named "Dreams of Peace" is destined not to enjoy it. (Plus he's my favorite, so he's doomed.)
I dunno. Like Honor, he's so senior that it'd take pretty odd circumstances to put him back in the line of fire.
Anyone else?
I haven't read Cauldron of Ghosts yet, but it seems like there'd be ample opportunity for someone on the mission to run into trouble.
If Tristram's CO and XO got shot up, Lt. Hearns would be acting commander....
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Admiral [noting yet another Manty tech surprise]:
XO, what's the budget for the ONI?
Vice Admiral: I don't recall exactly, sir. Several billion quatloos.
Admiral: ... What do you suppose they did with all that money?
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Re: Here comes a candle
Post by NortonIDaughter   » Wed Mar 05, 2014 4:44 am

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I'm assuming assassination for Tom.

I also worry about Emily getting killed off, as a tactic to distract Honor and Hamish.

And I'm terrified for Gwen and Helga. They're just too good to be true.

Worst nightmare: having to read either Scotty or Harkness dying while the other looks on.
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Re: Here comes a candle
Post by Yow   » Wed Mar 05, 2014 5:26 am

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NortonIDaughter wrote:I'm assuming assassination for Tom.

I also worry about Emily getting killed off, as a tactic to distract Honor and Hamish.

And I'm terrified for Gwen and Helga. They're just too good to be true.

Worst nightmare: having to read either Scotty or Harkness dying while the other looks on.


Where one goes you know the other willingly (willfully?) follows.

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Re: Here comes a candle
Post by cthia   » Wed Mar 05, 2014 7:19 am

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Spencer Hawke.
Like really, if we want Honor to have 99 lives, someones are going to have to be donors!

Her armsmen are type-h Universal Donors.
Type-h, heroic.
Universal, they'll follow anywhere to die.

And Mateo Guttierrez is on the same hit-list.

The demon-Murphy hit-list.

Murphy demons have sattelite offices on Grayson, next door to the armsman training school.

In fact MD-101 is a Freshman course for armsmen!

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Re: Here comes a candle
Post by Bruno Behrends   » Wed Mar 05, 2014 7:52 am

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Hamish.

That would be a kick in the belly. More importantly: It would get the story going.

NortonIDaughter wrote:I'm assuming assassination for Tom.

I also worry about Emily getting killed off, as a tactic to distract Honor and Hamish.

And I'm terrified for Gwen and Helga. They're just too good to be true.

Worst nightmare: having to read either Scotty or Harkness dying while the other looks on.
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Re: Here comes a candle
Post by cthia   » Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:13 am

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Bruno Behrends wrote:Hamish.

That would be a kick in the belly. More importantly: It would get the story going.

NortonIDaughter wrote:I'm assuming assassination for Tom.

I also worry about Emily getting killed off, as a tactic to distract Honor and Hamish.

And I'm terrified for Gwen and Helga. They're just too good to be true.

Worst nightmare: having to read either Scotty or Harkness dying while the other looks on.


Bruno,
I think Harkness and Scotty are safe.
They are too much grist for the mill.
And since they are bonded like treecats, if one dies the other emotionally self-destructs.

Between you and me and a fly on the bulkheads RFC was cutting it rather closely on Tepes.

Thinking Sir Horace had defected :o
Poor Scotty was tucked in a fetal position, refusing to eat and mumbling & babbling incoherently for hours!

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Re: Here comes a candle
Post by Hutch   » Wed Mar 05, 2014 9:20 am

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Bill Woods wrote:I haven't read Cauldron of Ghosts yet, but it seems like there'd be ample opportunity for someone on the mission to run into trouble.


Well, I have read the E-ARC and without giving anythng away or providing any spoilers, I think you will find it...interesting.... :twisted:


It wouldn't surprise me if Elizabeth is killed off, RFC made something of a fuss during ART to show off her son and his new wife, whom would not be major players for another century or so if nothing happened to her....

And while most of the characters whose ranks are so high that they are back on their home planets (eloise, Tom, Hamish, etc.), I could see some of the mid-level Admirals pay the price--and if the MWW really wants to shake us up, Lester Tourville runs across one of the new Detwilers....

We shall see. Supposedly there is only one character that DW has sworn not to kill off, and that was because his wife has decreed it.



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Re: Here comes a candle
Post by Eagleeye   » Wed Mar 05, 2014 9:59 am

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My two cents say that Elizabeth will be assassinated, so that Roger and Rivka can show us the mettle they're made from ...

And Benjamin will die soon, but maybe not by assassination but from illness or old age. After all, he didn't get the prolong-therapies ... (by the way - why not? His student times on old earth were after the therapies got common knowledge, weren't they? Or was he already too old even for 1st generation Prolong?)
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