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Apollo-Soyuz
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« on: June 02, 2011, 11:43:17 AM »

lawyer outfit? (That doesn't look like a lawyerly outfit to me!) Cop? Ambulance chasing, dispute resolving, mediators?  What exactly is the profession of Agent Antigone Stone?
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« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2011, 02:18:28 PM »

lawyer outfit? (That doesn't look like a lawyerly outfit to me!) Cop? Ambulance chasing, dispute resolving, mediators?  What exactly is the profession of Agent Antigone Stone?

Based on her uniform and apparent equipment, plus her manner and apparent skills, I'd guess they're some combination of security guards, mediators, judges, and quite possibly counselors.  Antigone Stone seems well equipped for most of these functions...
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« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2011, 05:54:41 PM »

Based on her uniform and apparent equipment, plus her manner and apparent skills, I'd guess they're some combination of security guards, mediators, judges, and quite possibly counselors.  Antigone Stone seems well equipped for most of these functions...

Add "rights enforcers" to the list. She did seem to mention Seamus having a bond on deposit with her company, therefore providing a surety of his agreement to binding arbitration in the matter of the two anonymous assassins he and Nicole zinged DRT in the corridor, didn't she?

A guard gets paid to prevent such things from happening. Antigone Stone is obviously somebody who only gets called after the fact (note the enraged squawks of the hotel management clown), so strike "security guards" off the list.
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« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2011, 01:00:17 AM »

The title of the group (company?) is Smith and Holder Resolutions.

They resolve things.  I would presume that mediation would be part of such resolutions.  Seamus' deposit is simply a retainer, just like for lawyers here in 21st C USA (though I suspect that the law is the least of the Agent's abilities).  The point of a resolution is that the problem is taken care of, not just put into an outside system.

The comparison I suspect should be made is to justiciars -- appointed people of integrity (assumed) with the powers of high and low justice (ref: feudal power structure). On the other hand we have yet to see the full extent of the involvement of Antigone Stone, so this is speculation.

Stone.?  Any relation to Hazel, Caspar and Pollux?

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« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2011, 07:30:09 AM »

The title of the group (company?) is Smith and Holder Resolutions.
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Stone.?  Any relation to Hazel, Caspar and Pollux?

"Smith and Holder"? Any relation to L. Neil and Ken?

How enterprising....
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« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2011, 05:49:57 PM »

I've been doing a fair amount of hat-tipping lately, yes. But my fictional universe is distinct from any other writer's fictional universe.
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« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2012, 07:42:48 AM »

Now the bad guys are in trouble!!!
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