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Jun 30 2006, 08:17 AM

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QUOTE (stevebugge @ Jun 29 2006, 06:03 PM)

A Beauty Salon and a Gym

Also within the central section there are the offices of the National Geographic Society (geomancers, no doubt), the Washington Post (evil media), the American Enterprise Institute (say no more) and the Swedish Embassy ;)

And right at the center I see a mysterious club called "Lavarre WM". ?

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Jun 30 2006, 08:41 AM

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But as far as I can tell, he died/disappeared close to the Watergate (although possibly, just possibly at one of the points of the pentagram- which would do, I suppose, although the center would have been cooler!)

He died in front of the Watergate on Virginia Avenue. I have a photo of the spot (from a distance). For the life of me I can't figure out what made the Watergate so special other than the possibility of sloth on the part of the author to actually figure out some of the places more commonly used for inaugural balls.

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Somebody did design the layout for Washington DC (Pierre Charles L'Enfante IIRC)

And Benjamin Banneker. And Andrew and Joseph Ellicot (who surveyed the area). The three (and others) completed the job after L'Enfant was fired.

I fail to see the point. You all seem to be forgetting that the Capitol was designed as the geographic and political center of Washington. And the edge of downtown is hardly the center anymore.

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Jun 30 2006, 08:58 AM

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QUOTE (SL James)

He died in front of the Watergate on Virginia Avenue. I have a photo of the spot (from a distance). For the life of me I can't figure out what made the Watergate so special other than the possibility of sloth on the part of the author to actually figure out some of the places more commonly used for inaugural balls.

I've not actually been able to find an exact location for the Rift (don't have the right sourcebook / novel I guess). What I've read just says that his limo was speeding away from the Watergate (could it then have made it as far as the Washington Circle?) Of course he might not actually have been in the limo at the time! But it would make sense that the Rift formed over where he sacrificed himself.
I suspect that the Watergate was used by the writers because its name is known worldwide. EDIT: Also it has a really massive Presidential suite.

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I fail to see the point. You all seem to be forgetting that the Capitol was designed as the geographic and political center of Washington. And the edge of downtown is hardly the center anymore.

Ah yes but the New World Order is really run by a group of Illuminati who have their secret underground headquarters under 16th St NW. Everyone knows that! ;)

EDIT: btw, point of accuracy: the pentagram is present and correct in the original plans by L'Enfant. See here.

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Jul 1 2006, 12:23 AM

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QUOTE (Witness @ Jun 30 2006, 02:58 AM)

I've not actually been able to find an exact location for the Rift (don't have the right sourcebook / novel I guess). What I've read just says that his limo was speeding away from the Watergate (could it then have made it as far as the Washington Circle?) Of course he might not actually have been in the limo at the time! But it would make sense that the Rift formed over where he sacrificed himself.

Oh, no. I mean I took a photo of it when I went there last year. And the books all mentioned it was right in front of the Watergate, so there's not really much of to it. It was also speeding down Viriginia Avenue towards the White House, so the furthest it could be would by the northeast entrance near where VA Ave, NH Ave and 24th St converge. The explosion did occur only a few seconds after it moved, and the covered entrance/exit to the Swissôtel is a ways back down the street. The Rift was also described later in Stranger Souls when Daviar or Mercury (or both) are staring at it from her suite in the Watergate (I assume that would be the Presidential Suite) and where Burnout is watching them from across the street on top of the HoJo (which is now a GWU dorm). If it wasn't Dunkelzahn, he'd have never been able to exit that way and he'd have blown up (as would a good chunk of NW Washington) underground or on the other side of the building near the Kennedy Center. OTOH, I recall something about the Gencon tourament involving wendigos in the basement/garage. Frankly, everything about this was designed to be completely out of control.

Jak Koke did a very good job of writing the book (sex scene aside, the damn trilogy was supposed to be epic... And how. I still like it. A lot.) like he'd actually been in Washington (or at least had an idea of what was where). Meanwhile I'm still waiting for an answer about where in Foggy Bottom one might be able to find the IOND headquarters as described in Loose Alliances (and why they moved from Georgetown as described in previous books).

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I suspect that the Watergate was used by the writers because its name is known worldwide. EDIT: Also it has a really massive Presidential suite.

And a very small ballroom, especially compared to say, the National Building Museum or Union Station, or the stupidly massive new convention center. Wow.

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