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  1. Even Steal Inquisitors like to make snow ash angels! Thanks @sheep!!!
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  2. I don't recommend anybody making suggestions along this line to skaa, because the worst part of the vicious circle of this behavior is expecting something more to happen, then being disappointed when it doesn't. The healthy way out of this is to minimize expectations and stop feeling ownership over a situation that nobody owns.
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  3. Random thought: Batman is all about "me". I (or my social clique, whether that means friends or superheoes) know best, and aside from key exceptions outside that group (work colleague, commisioner Gordon), everyone else is wrong, and you are the only one who can make things right. Superman is about "you", and the idea that other people have their faults, but ultimately are good people. You don't have to do everything yourself, because other people are fundamentally decent, and will do things to help you. (And okay, maybe I just wanted an excuse to post this, because this is great.) Because seriously. Everyone who is reading this thread should go read All-Star Superman. This story makes me cry everytime, and this is why I storming love Superman.
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  4. Hi! I just created this account so... yeah, I'm new.
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  5. I'm sorry to hear about everyone's rotten experiences. Maybe some pictures of cat hugs will help.
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  6. A few things I'd like to throw out there: You've dated. The number of times you've been rejected no longer matters. Also, you're thirty, so high school definitely doesn't matter. You've been many slightly different people over time since then. There's no need to kick yourself for things you did thousands of days ago. Another thing I wouldn't file under Mistakes - asking her out. It happened in the moment, you had the confidence, it's all good. Her saying no isn't a defeat. Just a voluntary association that didn't happen. It's not a competition. Speaking as someone who did stalky things myself back in the day, I understand the urges. The worry. It took time and varied experiences to drift out of that mindset, but the most optimistic way I can put it is you don't need to get her apology. There's just no association between the two of you. Wanting to ask her out is not a connection. Being friends or doing things together often voluntarily is an association. Neither of you owes the other anything. But in general, don't stare at legs and stuff. Just with anyone. People can see you, so it becomes an action you are performing against them. "Playing her game" is not a real thing. There's no game, there's no chase, there's no win state here. You're just people. You should not approach or engage her at the party. You may be getting close to either "mace in the face" or "company disciplinary action" territory. You don't need to "pretend" she's not there. Just keep this in mind: Her presence isn't relevant.
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  7. @skaa It sounds like you've completely lost her trust. 1. She told you no to a date and you have not accepted this as a no. 2.You then made her feel unsafe by ogling her, I bet that one time at the meeting was not the first time she noticed. 3. She non-verbally told you to leave her alone but you didn't stop. 4. She asked you to stop sending notes and yet you are still trying to apologise when she has clearly told you to back off multiple times. Skaa, this is when 'no means no'. This isn't a slight abberation of good behaviour, this is intense creepiness that sends out literally all the red flags of 'here is a guy who does not respect your boundaries, he is not respecting them now and he will not respect them in the future RUN FOR THE HILLS'. She wants you to leave her alone. So leave her alone. She gets you're trying to apologise but you're still doing all the wrong things and I bet you're scaring her, probably badly. At the very best you're being an intense nuisance. Leave her alone. Try avoid her. Don't talk to her if you can help it. Remember that she doesn't owe you her attention. Aside from all the creepiness, to begin with she said no. Accept that, leave her alone. And next time, when a woman sets a boundary, pay attention. If you've gone into other dates with a similar attitude, I'm sorry but its unsurprising that it hasn't worked out. You've got to respect a woman's wishes even if, particularly if, they do not align with your own. Does this make sense to you? Edit: also, a hexaflexagon of pictures is intensely creepy in the context. I think it's kind of weird in any context but definitely not appropriate here. Edit 2: She probably didn't read your second set of messages because she blocked you.
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  8. I'm getting bored with my current haircut, so I'm planning on getting a new one at my next appointment.
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  9. Well, it makes sense now, thanks. I will continue avoiding her. I also plan to work from home as much as possible from now on, just to make things easier. Edit: I guess so. I had just rediscovered hexaflexagons at the time and was trying to actually make one, when the idea popped in my head. I guess I didn't think that through. If I'm not mistaken, blocking me would mean I wouldn't have been able to see her Facebook profile. I was in fact expecting her to block me or at least unfriend me (I checked daily; yes, I'm a creep), but she never did. I'm pretty sure she just muted our Facebook conversation. I guess it's a good thing I saved her the hassle of unfriending me in all the social networks we shared. Edit2: She's 23. I don't think the seven-year age difference really matters, at least according to XKCD (okay, just kidding). I think she just doesn't like me, probably for similar reasons as those other girls who rejected me in the past. I might try that at some point. Right now I think I'll just keep myself occupied with work and hobbies. For example, I'm currently optimizing my Rubik's cube algorithm. I might also go back to learning Japanese. Who needs girls when you have a few thousand kanji characters to befriend, amirite? Also, man, I can't wait for The Dark Talent and Arcanum Unbounded to be released.
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  10. Long Game 22, Day 11: TheTowers of Midnight --------------------- TheMightyLopen was attacked by Wolves but survived! Day 11 will end at 12AM EST Saturday the 23rd, so just under 48hours, more like 45. Player List: Meta Lopen Elodin Bugsy
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  11. Recently, while looking through Theoryland, I found this WoB on Glys. (source) I started thinking about why Glys's appearance might be important, and I came up with a few possible reasons. 1. We have seen Truthwatcherspren before. I'm not sure where this would have happened, though. The only unknown spren I can think of is the suspected captivityspren Kaladin sees in jail. 2. Truthwatcherspren have a significant feature in their appearance. The Truthwatchers are the order directly opposite of the Bondsmiths, who bond with godspren, so I could see Truthwatcherspren being different from other spren as well 3. Glys looks different from other Truthwatcherspren. I don't know why this would be true. Maybe since Renarin is the first Truthwatcher in a long time, they didn't send a "normal" spren. 4. Glys is not a Truthwatcherspren. Personally, this is my least favorite theory. I don't think it is true, but I felt I should put it up here. If Brandon told us that Glys has glowing red eyes, that would definitely be significant. Tell me me which theory you like and agree with, or if you have a theory of your own.
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  12. A woman this elegant was uncommon in this part of the city, and many people underestimated her. They were right. She was far more dangerous than they had thought. "What are you doing here?" a man asked. This was a notorious crimelord hangout, and those who frequented this area were either criminals or simply stupid. Mahogany did her best to look embarrassed. "I'm sorry, I must have took a wrong turn." She turned around, but he grabbed her by the arm, eyes gleaming. She spit on him and he slapped her Or at least tried to. A vine sprouted through the concrete, growing inhumanly (inplantly?) fast. It wrapped around his arm and sprouted another tendril. It pulled him into the air and slammed him against the ground, then released. The vines quivered, as if eager to finish him off. "I am an Epic, you stupid human. Get in my way again and you will be know what it feels like to have a vine strangle you from inside your throat." The vines feinted towards him, and he tripped backwards, then ran." One more human afraid, she thought. Always a good thing to have.
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  13. I'm no writer, and I definitely will not be writing anything about this, but I had a cool idea for a world. So you have this planet (or possibly moon) that's like Europa, the moon of Jupiter. It's got a solid crust of ice but a shallow ocean underneath, which is kept warm by geothermal/ tidal forces. There's a race of people that have naturally buoyant bodies, so they mostly live on the inside of the ice crust, upsidedown from 'normal.' They tie rocks or heavy weights to themselves to ascend to the rocky core of the world for farming and gathering natural resources. Nothing grows on solid ice, so it all has to be done on the 'ceiling' of the world.
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  14. I feel seriously disrespected by work. So, I got my rota the other day. Our bosses are aiming to sort us at 30 hours a week. By the end of August, I will have done 300 hours, and am pulling 10 shifts more than anyone else. Which...bothered me. But last night, I got called in to cover someone who was sick, and got an updated rota, and I'm working even more hours now? 318. You had to let aguy go, and couldn't distribute his hours a bit more evenly? Or you did so in a way that the guy pulling 300+ hours, doing more shifts than anyone else, gets even more? I am storming convinced that those guys view me as a workhorse or a dog at this point. They say "Do this," and I do. I was trying to be reliable and helpful, but...
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  15. I read your situation, skaa. From your perspective, it may seem like you're trying to do the right thing and she isn't responding, but here's what it may look like from her perspective. There's a girl who, through a quirk of genetics, is physically attractive. She's worked with this guy for about five years, and although she can tell he has a crush on her, he's never acted on it. She is not interested in him, so she has never flirted or given off any sort of "I'm interested in you, make a move" signals. By now, she's concluded that he isn't going to act on his feelings toward her, and so assumes that they've settled into a good working relationship. He asks her out. She says no. She expects that to be the end of it. It's not. He watches her, stalks her on social media, and she pretends not to notice. Sometimes, ignoring things makes them go away, so maybe if she ignores this unwanted attention, it will go away…. ….or maybe he'll just sit there ogling her legs. Great. She covers up and makes an exit as soon as she can. She wants to forget about it, but he sends her an apology over Facebook. What do you say to something like that? She, like any other girl in that situation, doesn't know, and so she says nothing. The apologies keep coming. It's starting to seem like this guy feels he's entitled to something, like he expects her to accept. But if she does, will he keep flirting with her? Ogling her? What sort of strings are attached to this apology? Oh Great Noodly One, it's a geometric figure with her face on it. Nope nope nope that is a big barrel of Nopefish. He keeps trying. Why does he keep trying? When will this stop? Again, reading the situation from your perspective, it's clear that you mean no ill toward her. But she doesn't know that. She can't see your thoughts or your intent. All she sees is your actions, and from an outsider's perspective, your actions come across as creepy. She's hoping this whole thing blows over, because she probably wants to forget the ogling incident and move on. Let her forget. Keeping your distance is the right thing to do here.
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  16. Oh man, Lark, 100% of this post is awesome!! I super super love birds, especially owls, so I am like totally jealous that you get to work with the raptors up close. Do you get an employee discount or free yogurt at your workplace? What instrument do you play in the band? (Marching band, right?) Today's been an exciting day for me. There was some good and some bad, but I think on balance it turned out mostly good. Bad things that happened today: I was involved in a car collision--first time it's ever happened to me while I was the driver. Good things: I and the other driver involved in the collision both walked away from it completely unharmed (I didn't even scrape my neck on the seatbelt or anything), and the damage to both our cars seems to be pretty superficial, even though she T-boned me right in the passenger door. There was also no shouting or apparent hard feelings in the aftermath while we exchanged insurance info and waited for a police officer to arrive after I called 911. The officer, once he arrived and heard both our sides of the story, determined that I was not at fault, which I'm hoping means that my auto insurance rates will not go up and that repairing the dent in my door will be paid for by insurance. More good things: I found a fledgling robin in a flowerbed after work. They are so storming cute! <3 I also attended a book swap at my local library and came home with Richard Paul Evans's entire 5-book series The Walk, all in pristine condition and four of the five in hardcover. And when I got home there was a very friendly kitten waiting to greet me and jump up in my arms and cuddle.
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  17. Oh nice. Good luck man, I know it'll come out great. Oh and also, what's basically been my life right now. - I've dyed my hair blue because you can only be young once. - I went to Alaska and have seen amazing things. Beautiful tall mountains covered with snow to vast cold oceans filled with whales and dolphins. Glacier ice as blue as the sky. Too. Many. Eagles. Moose. Made life worth living. - I got my driver's license and a car - I have a job now! I work at a fro-yo shop. Its not very glorious but hey. - I have found a new volunteering gig. Basically this story is wild anyway. Because. I started looking for instructions to get a falconry license. And decided: hey. There's this center not far from here that rehabs birds of prey. Maybe I should... I did. I am currently training to do shows with the education birds and have been even helping with vet tech work! I love the American kestrels. They are so cute and tiny little babies. Hawks are nuts, too, I had a redtail literally fall on top of me. Owls will click their beaks if you get close, but you can hold them by the back of their head and have full control. Barn owls also hiss and its scary. I have learned so much about raptors already and one of the volunteers offered to help me find a falconry master when I'm ready to keep my own bird! - I'm about to start my last year of band camp - oh and i passed physics yay for me
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  18. Well, officially signed and now complete with release date. Mind boggling.
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  19. Sure thing. I did mean to let Ren do my actual death, but I got a little carried away. Ruin shall reign...
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  20. No one seems to know how tall or buff Kaladin is, since his exact height is never mentioned and "fingers" is a completely arbitrary unit of measurement. There have been lots of questions asked about how Kaladin is so muscly if he lives off a slave diet. There have been lots of questions asked about how much Rosharan gravity and stormlight induced good health affects average height. In this picture, I drew Shallan as 5'6"/168cm and Kaladin as 6'5"/196cm and he is slouching slightly. To anyone who ships Shalladin, how would this ship even work, logistically. She is eye level to his armpits and we all know Kaladin is lucky to bathe once a week... Some other artwork to aid in your scientific research: Kaladin at the Gym Fanservice for Adolin
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  21. Yeah, it sees my name and takes suggestion to sleep over the problem of learning it xD
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  22. On the bright side, I have Deathwish down for "chokes to death on an olive after making a suggestive comment directed at a room full of pretty nurses who know CPR."
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  23. Nothing else was to be expected here XD
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  24. I find it fitting that I shall strike the final blow. Don't ask me why, (There is really not a good reason.) But I do. Heal Kaladin, Hurt Marsh. 1. Kaladin 125 HP 2. Marsh 0 HP And Death Retreats to his realm.
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  25. Next crappy Sandersomething meme.
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  26. Yeah, Hoid being human is probably complicated in similar ways to questions like "was TLR human?" or "are inquisitors human?" though, as opposed to him turning into a part-dragon suddenly. All the stuff on Dragons is either in Brandon's unpublished version of Dragonsteel, which is a thesis available (at least theoretically) at the Brigham Young University library, or directly from WoB. It only became relevant that the Recipient of the first letter was a Dragon because Hoid explicitly calls him an old reptile, which of course resulted in a question about whether he meant that term literally or not.
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  27. Hey guys! I've seen a bunch of stuff about 17th Shard and finally decided to join! I have read The Reckoners and the first two books in The Stormlight Archive. I own Mistborn but haven't gotten around to reading it yet!
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  28. Are they any more unnatural than Jupiter's Red Spot, though? A massive, unending storm that circles the planet isn't incomprehensible. Keep in mind the geography of Roshar is insane: a single continent set in a massive sea, no other land on the rest of the planet so far as we know. With those conditions, nothing would ever completely stop a storm like that, even if the part over land broke as it does. It might be of magical origin, but I'm not convinced it absolutely must be. jW
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  29. Well, as an attempt to forestall the inevitable: Keep me alive, and I'll use my kill to target the village's best guess at Jeskeri. No strings, no frills, no subtext, and no lies (I'm not Aman, after all). If I'm alive at the end of the day, I'll take requests in the night cycle for the Derethi kill target. As a gesture of trust, I'll take credit for the Aman kill - I found the arguments in favor of his Cultishness more convincing than the arguments for anyone else. (He's wrong about Elb, by the way - she isn't Derethi. I tried to kill her N2, but due to poor Doc communication, I missed that Mail was going to protect her. I didn't get on towards the end of the cycle, after all.) If not, well...I'd say it's been a good game, but I haven't even been active enough to really play it.
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  30. @Radiant Returned there is an "Events & Signings" forum here: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/forum/27-events-and-signings/ It generally has transcripts of most events. The good people of the 17th Shard record the events and then transcribe the recordings. As far as I know, Theoryland is the closest thing we have to a WoB database and learning to navigate that can be a bit tricky. Of course, one can always google Brandon Sanderson and certain keywords to try and discover a WoB. Last resort for me is usually to beg in a thread for someone to look it up for me haha. There are some real pros on the site who have a great knowledge of WoBs.
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  31. Welcome @Storm! Glad to have you! If you have any questions about Sanderson books, the forums, or anything else do not hesitate to ask. The community here is pretty awesome and people are always willing to help out. If you haven't read them yet, it might be a good idea to glance through the forum guidelines found here: Also, please be careful when reading in some of the forums; there are a TON of spoilers. I would seriously stay away from the Cosmere Theories forum, the Coppermind wiki, and the Mistborn forum until you have read more of the books. The ending to the first Mistborn trilogies is one of my favorites and I would hate for it to be spoiled for you.
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  32. Jezrien - Windrunners Nale - Skybreakers Chanarach - Dustbringers Vedel - Edgedancers Pailiah - Truthwatchers Shalash - Lightweavers Battar - Elsecallers Kalak - Willshapers Talenel - Stonewards Ishar - Bondsmiths
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  33. So, we know little of aimians. We however know that at least one of them, Axies, is followed by something called the Curse of Kind. The curse might give bad luck, since Axies says: So, Axies has his curse, and thus we can guess (or is it even confirmed?) that the other Aimians have it as well. Now, how did they get it? Theory: Aimia was scoured some time ago, and most Aimians seems to have been killed. A guess is that the Aimians then went to the Nightwatcher and asked for a boon for their whole people in order to survive. They got it, whatever it is (immortality, perhaps), but also got the Curse of Kind, which brings bad luck upon all of them. What do you guys think?
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  34. So, @Delightful and I were talking about nothing in particular today, and for some strange reason, she challenged me to write a ketek in High Imperial about a Horneater princess and some boots. For some even stranger reason, I accepted and wrote this little ditty. I hope you enjoy it! Wasing the Horneater princess, paired with a new friend, of the taking of the boots, for her big two feet of the walking Wasing the apparently airsick lowlander giving of the insult, dishonoring of the name Naming of the dishonored, insult of the giving, lowlander’s airsickness of the apparent wasing Walking of the feet, too big for her boots, in the taking of the friendly new pair, the Horneater princess wasing Constructive criticism or questions about the hopeless obtuseness of the wording are welcome! Edit- I wrote this ketek in regular English first and then translated it as best I could into High Imperial, so I thought I might as well add on the original ketek to hopefully make the High Imperial one a bit more clear. Paired with a new friend, a Horneater princess then took boots for her big two feet on her walk An apparently airsick lowlander gave insult, dishonored her name Her name dishonored, insult given, the lowlander’s airsickness was apparent To walk on her feet, too big for her boots, took then the princess Horneater a friendly new pair I know I used a homophone in there instead of words with the same root, but I like the way it turned out, so there. Enjoy!
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  35. Clubs was the Smoker. Dockson was not Metalborn. He handled the team finances and supplies. He took Kel's crazy plans and used his incredible quartermaster/account skills to make them possible. Kel was the dreamer and Dox handled the details. Without Dox they would have been broke, lost, and wouldn't have had food/beds haha.
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  36. Yay you're back! @Iron Eyes @sheep This thing, it is awesome. ETA: Has anyone here seen the show Twin Peaks?
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  37. Ok! Thanks guys! I already feel really welcome! I am going to Spain for a vacation and brought Mistborn with me! I'll probably start it today!
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  38. I was going to say something along those lines. Well done! Are you able to say when we can look out for AFD hitting the shelves?
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  39. eeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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  40. I always saw the Black Smoke of Nightblood as a twisting of Shard-Investiture's Mandate. For example Nightblood is an Endowment's creature who take with force (aganist Endowment's intent/mandate) and doing it, can't keep the Investiture. This may be possible both for Nightblood be an Endowment creature or for the Breath to be taken with force. It will be really usefull to see who the Nightblood's leaking will be when fueled with Stormlight (it will remove the Breath-taken with force-problem to help us with a new model). I find this part quite strange, after all we have a lot of WoB that say "nightblood may feed all kinds of Kinetic Investiture" and we know Nightblood's hunger keep growing while used... I don't think Nightblood may drain more than he need to. EDIT: It just come to me an Idea...Can you give some breath to Nightblood ? (willing with the Command "My life is your, My Breath became yours") it may be the perfect case to test quite all Nightblood's function.
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  41. I wish more people would read this. It might lower the silly fanatical devotion to "stick", knowing that Jasnah has power over it...
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  42. But if you don't kill the Mistborn before he began to burn Atium, also the Breath trick would fail. He will never let you grab/touch him.
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  43. It IS a nice idea, and I like some of the possibilities it would introduce. A potential challenge however would be avoiding making Amra's pining (too strong?) for a little shop not seem hypocritical, when her philanthropy would be undermining it, to some degree at least.
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  44. Yeah, and you could make her a (very) competent negotiator, but having that weakness (nice idea). Her being a good negotiator need not mean that they would be a lot more successful, as she would only be able to work with whatever cargoes Prot can scare up. Having him look more like the challenged one of the pair would raise the personal stakes (it seems to me) and make their exchanges more tense, but importantly, more balanced.
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  45. - I like the computer responding to Oz's half-hearted "I feel threatened". - "Parallel your hands" sounds a bit awkward, but that could just be m. - I like the building suspense of Calgary's condition. - Oz's conversation with Dion and Hayden ends pretty abruptly, even with the circumstances. - I like Pascal and Oz's banter. - Overall, I found this chapter pretty engaging. I like the suspense of the story, and I'm really curious where this is all going.
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  46. (And, for the record... this isn't a picture of Khriss from the book. But I couldn't find that. So please accept this awesome looking Khriss artwork by Botanica in it's place!)
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  47. Oh also you have to completely master your own mind and soul as well as spend a few years creating stamps for it. If you understand yourself and your motivations enough to create a Soulstamp it would be far easier to just treat your addiction yourself. One thing I can definitely see this as being useful for though is in psychiatry. Being able to confirm what motivates someone would be very important and helpful and it wouldn't require years since you're not making an entire stamp, just checking how well certain things would hold.
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  48. Lol, easy cure for addiction, there's just this one thing you have to do every day, forever.
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