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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 4581234" data-attributes="member: 907">Dude, get thee to a library or bookstore and check out the Dresden Files series of books by Butcher. It is among the most awesome stuff I've seen. It's like Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Philip Marlowe.It's set in more-or-less the modern world, but with semi-hidden magic going on. Not that there's a big conspiracy to hide magic (like in the WoD), it's just that it's pretty rare and most people who get tangentially involved with it tend to rationalize it away. The main character is Harry Dresden, a wizard/private investigator, who occasionally does work for the Special Investigations department of the Chicago PD. Other mostly helpful people who show up in the books are:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Karren Murphy, detective in charge of the SI department and doing a good job of it (unlike most of her predecessors).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bob the Skull, a spirit of Air who's basically the Junior Woodchuck manual for magical stuff. He gets paid with trashy romance novels. He lives in/is bound to a skull, hence the name.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Susan Rodriguez, reporter for the Midwest Arcane, and sort-of Harry's girlfriend. The Arcane is a tabloid along the lines of the National Enquirer, but with a more mystical bent.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Michael Carpenter, the Fist of God, as well as an actual carpenter. One of three Knights of the Sword, wielders of holy swords.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Donald Morgan, Warden of the White Council (an organization of wizards), which means he's basically a cop. Severely mistrusts Harry because of background stuff, and is just waiting for Harry to slip up so he can be given his rightful punishment.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Thomas Raith, vampire of the White Court (which feeds on emotions rather than blood, basically making them succubi/incubi), but mostly a good guy anyway.</li> </ul>Antagonists that show up in the books are evil wizards, vampires (three kinds: Black, Red, and White court - a fourth type is mentioned but hasn't been seen yet), werewolves, fairies, ghosts, necromancers (who seem to be at least somewhat distinct from regular evil wizards), demons, fallen angels (not the same thing), mobsters, and assorted other things.If you need more persuasion, consider this: one of the books in the series starts with Harry running through a library that's on fire, carrying a crate full of puppies, and trying to avoid the flaming poo that's being flung at him by winged demon monkeys. And that's just the first chapter.</blockquote>

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