Because I'm stuck!

[rflong]

and I have a headcold. And I don't want to have to trawl the internet anymore and all my books are at home and and and...

If you were going to defend your house against an attack by Dark Sidhe, what would you do?

No, I'm serious. It's a plot point. I know about iron, and apparently straw dipped in holy water, lanterns etc. I'm trying to find any others and ways of deploying them - logically. In a way that would not look silly. One thought I had was iron filings mixed with milk - they like it when you leave out milk. Any other devious ideas folks?

R 

Comments

[rflong.livejournal.com]

Great info. Thanks a million. Yeah, the crosses and holy water only work if you yourself are religious - some sort of extension.

I have a couple of books on herbal lore I can dig into with regards to broom.

The defense needs to be a mix of physical and magical. Basically two characters are in a cottage, one is Sidhe (Seelie) and one human. The Sidhe is in a weakened condition. I'm going for keeping them out rather than outwitting. I have another book to dig out this evening which may help.

Ironically a book we had in the library ended up giving me tons of material for Moy Tura Echoes, but not for this one!!!

Must read Jim Butcher!

Thanks
R

[clhollandwriter]

If it were me in that cottage, I'd go for some sort of magical early-warning system, and a barrier to keep them out if that would work using the kind of magic you're using.

Then I'd use physical measures for when the barrier failed. Ringing the place with iron nails might work. And if your character isn't religious enough for holy water, I'd consider water with iron soaking in it. Put nails in your supersoaker or whatever. :-D

How about a nail gun? ;-)

[rflong.livejournal.com]

I'd thought of a nail gun. Apparently roofing nails have a high iron content, so if you happened to be renovating your little cottage that could be a go-er.

My Seelie character might not be present for events afterall. You know the way these things go - you start writing, and they change their minds!!!

[clhollandwriter]

Just imagine the howls of indignation.... :-D

Oh, I know. My personal favourite was when a character, completely out of the blue, decided he was blind. Fortunately I hadn't got to writing him into the narrative by that point.