You're welcome! I had fun with this one, because it seemed to me that Bob's curse would have to be fairly detailed in order to deal with someone as crafty as Bob is. From what I remember of my Medieval history courses, the people in that time period were scared of what they didn't understand, and were more inclined to kill things with fire. Lots of fire. So, it made sense to not only install a metric fuck-ton of restrictions on Bob, but to assume that Bob could break them given a few centuries of thinking really hard.
I felt for Bob because he really is at the mercy of whoever owns his skull. I'd hate to think of what Bob would be like if Ancient Mai were in charge of it. Hell, when you get to Dead Beat (book #8), you get a seriously good look at what Bob is like when he has a seriously evil wizard as his master. Sure, Bob is a spirit of air and intellect in the books, and not the ghost of a badass necromancer, so his personality's much more mutable, but it still stands. He's fucking scary.
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Date: 2010-05-18 04:57 am (UTC)I felt for Bob because he really is at the mercy of whoever owns his skull. I'd hate to think of what Bob would be like if Ancient Mai were in charge of it. Hell, when you get to Dead Beat (book #8), you get a seriously good look at what Bob is like when he has a seriously evil wizard as his master. Sure, Bob is a spirit of air and intellect in the books, and not the ghost of a badass necromancer, so his personality's much more mutable, but it still stands. He's fucking scary.