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  1. VAX is a discontinued instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the mid-1970s.
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  2. I didn't get home until 3am so I was entirely too tired last night to post things, but I asked some questions and got some answers! First I asked if Spren could be affected by emotional allomancy, and I got a RAFO, which is very interesting. Then I just asked for general information on Elend's mom. Brandon said that Elend takes after her a lot more than he does Straff, and then I asked if she had much of an influence on him growing up and who he became as a person and Brandon said yes, she did. (paraphrasing, my phone was dead at this point so I couldn't record it for exact wording) Just a bit of character info that's probably not too consequential, but interesting nonetheless. Then finally I asked if Vasher and Nightblood were separated before or after coming to Roshar (I kind of felt like this had probably been asked before but I couldn't find any info on it so I went ahead), and after hesitating for a minute, he said that they were separated after. In the Q & A someone asked if time travel will ever be a thing in the cosmere, to which Brandon said it was already a thing (speaking of Wayne) but then clarified that no one has figured out how to travel backwards in time yet. Someone else asked if we would see Hemalurgy somewhere other than Scadrial, Brandon's answer? We already have. It's not meant to be obvious though so we probably won't recognize it.
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  3. I had a front row seat! #score I've got a couple of new WoB's (and an AU spoiler) that I heard while there (all paraphrased): 1. AU SPOILER!!!! (read this at your own risk/spoilage) (credit goes to @Ecthelion III for catching this one; but he's asleep right now so I posted it) 2. In one of the Allomancer Jak broadsheets, there is a mention of a white-haired man who asks if the woman wants to hear a story. This man is now confirmed to be Hoid! 3. Fun fact: Lopen was actually considered to be the king of Alethkar for about 15 minutes. When his family was hiding Elhokar, his family did not want to lie about harboring the king, so they convinced Elhokar to renounce his kingship for about 15 minutes until the search ended. During that time, Lopen was considered to be the king.
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  4. I suspect that only Lift sees it, because she sees somewhat into the Cognitive Realm. As to what caused the phenomenon in the first place, his death does seem likely, as if his Cognitive and Physical selves weren't put back together quite right, so his Cognitive self is a little out-of-sync. EDIT: [All right, @Pagerunner, don't be smug.] This appears to be confirmed by WoB here. [Well done. Next time, don't talk to yourself in your own post, though.]
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  5. You just can't handle how awesome she is.
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  6. He mentioned that for the most part it will be Dalinar flashbacks, with I think he said 12 of them, but he mentioned he couldn't help but "stealthily sneaking" in other characters' flashbacks, with 3 flashback segments for Kaladin, to which the audience cheered!
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  7. In good news, I was finally able to paint my first painting since moving! In bad news, I don't like it.
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  8. Haven't we seen hemalurgy on other planets because there is a kandra world-hopper? That's what came to my mind when I heard his answer that it is non-obvious. I asked three questions. First, I asked the question above about if there is a power loss when a feruchemist switches powers from one metal-mind to another. Brandon said (paraphrasing) the power does have to enter the person, and there is a very little power loss. Less than we'd probably think. Second, I asked if Rust is a separate person than Ruin. I may have asked this question before, but it popped in my head. He said good theory, but NO. Third, my written question was "How will the everstorm affect Vasher?" He wrote: "Vasher will probably just hide, but it signals something bad for him..." Then he said out loud (paraphrasing) that we will find out what this means in a LONG time. I should have pressed him for more information, but I was just SO excited to have my oldest girls with me and to have them meet him. My impression from this was that we'd see very little of Vasher in the rest of the front 5 Stormlight Archive. My oldest daughter, Tori, was the one with the Pattern costume. She left feeling SO happy to have met Brandon.
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  9. Alright, I have a few interesting tidbits concerning Hoid... 1- I asked if Hoid would call himself a good person, and I specified that I was not talking his cause but actually him as a person, and he said, "No." 2- I asked about the age Wit appears to be, and he kind of mentioned the obvious that he appears to be different ages depending on his disguise, but when I specifically asked about him as Wit in the SA, he said mid-30's. 3- Without spoiling anything the scene where Drifter punches a certain "dead person" in Secret History is important because he normally can't hurt people. (Also sidebar, are we allowed to discuss Dragonsteel in the public forums?) 4- And lastly I asked him if Hoid had to describe Khriss, as in what he thought about her, what would be say. And Brandon mentioned that it was good because Hoid had actually met Khriss, and then he wrote in my book verbatim, "Hoid thinks well of Khriss." Which I find particularly interesting, especially considering his opinion of the 17th Shard, as expressed in the First Letter. Stormlight Archive Letters Also non-Hoid related info: 1- He mentioned that if he could he would love to have open auditions for the Cosmere movies, and will post them if possible. 2- The Broadsheets, particularly the one in BoM, may have missing info in the Jak' s assistant story, because of the nature of newspapers. I'm still so excited from the event, I don't know if it's been mentioned but he read a Kaladin flashback scene from Oathbringer that was characteristically tragic! I am perhaps most intrigued by why Hoid might think he's not a good person...
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  10. Oh, you are going to feel so silly when you find out this information is available in plain text in the collection itself
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  11. I found Hoid. LOL. That must have been what started the event that Hoid referred to when he talked about spending "the better part of a year in a large stomach, being digested" back in WoR.
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  12. First of all, I don't have Arcanum Unbounded yet, so if there's anything pertaining to this topic in there that wasn't in the publicly available excerpts, I don't know it. Alright, so we know that something bad happened to Yolen, which made all humans who survived it relocate elsewhere and all Shards to go away as well. We also know that Yolen is not reachable through the Cognitive Realm. I think that this has less to do with Adonalsium shattering (though that's certainly a factor), and more with something called fain. Now, for those who didn't read the Liar of Partinel excerpt that Brandon has published on his website (LoP was his unpublished novel about Hoid's origins), fain was a sort-of infection/parasite that turned everything white and inedible to both humans and animals while "Corrupting" living things. The excerpt doesn't really specify what Corruption does, but it's bad enough that one character considers killing children rather than banishing them into fainlands. Of course, Liar of Partinel hasn't been published and isn't really canon in its current form, but in the Google Play excerpt of Arcanum Unbounded (well, I suppose it's in the full version of AU as well), Khriss makes a reference to fain on Yolen, which means that it does exist in canon and presumably has similar corruptive properties. So what if everyone on Yolen decided to abandon ship because fain was overrunning everything? I don't really want to go into the topic of a potential connection between Adonalsium's shattering and fain here, but I have the following theory: the surviving people of Yolen left their homeworld to run away from fain, and the Shards did something in the Cognitive to stop anything from coming to or leaving the planet to prevent some adventurous worldhopper from accidentally bringing fain with them and starting the cycle all over again elsewhere. In other worlds, Yolen has been quarantained. How does that pertain to Mistborn Era 4, though? Well, in this era, the people of Scadrial will have faster-than-light travel. Imagine if it was FTL travel that does not require jumping into the Cognitive Realm. With technology like this, Shards' quarantaine of Yolen would have all the stopping power of tissue paper, which means that some FTL-capable ship could either stumble upon it or deliberately travel there. So imagine this happens. They go to the planet's surface to investigate, find nothing worth seeing - or worse yet, find fain life and decide to take samples - get back on their ship and go on their merry way... with an unwanted extra passenger on board. Then they reach an inhabited planet, go to visit the surface and thus fain spreads again. In conclusion: I think fain and fain-corrupted creatures will be the primary antagonist of the final Mistborn trilogy.
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  13. Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection is finally here. This is a big, 670+ page book, with a ton of stuff. This has every single cosmere story that has been published outside of the main novels in one convenient collection. It has: The Hope of Elantris, The Emperor's Soul (which is incredible), The Eleventh Metal, "Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania, Episodes 28 and 30", an excerpt from White Sand (both graphic novel and from prose), Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell, The Sixth of Dusk, and, for the first time in physical print, Mistborn: Secret History. That's a ton of value, just considering Secret History and Emperor's Soul. But that is not all. Its main headline feature is a large, 40,000 word long Stormlight Archive novella: Edgedancer. It's a novella about Lift, of course, and covers her story after we saw her interlude up until the end of Words of Radiance. Not only that, but Arcanum Unbounded has some crazy cosmere information--essays from the author of the Ars Arcanum, Khriss, on each of the star systems--and star charts. So how is it? I'd say its a resounding success. The original content is enough for me to be thrilled about this release, and if you haven't read any of the older content, the value keeps piling up. Khriss Essays and Artwork First, let's talk about the cosmere goodies. Each of the stories is separated per star system, and at the beginning, we have a gorgeous drawing of each solar system, followed by a short two page essay written by Khriss. Since she writes the Ars Arcana in each book, that gives you a certain level of expectation on awesomeness. And, well, get excited. Khriss talks about more than a planet's magic system. She talks about the sizes of planets, the Shards of the planets, and overall covers the basic history. I know that sounds boring, and maybe if you aren't into the cosmere, some of this will be boring. But each star system has crazy, unique things. Here's the thing: Khriss delivers lore bombs casually, if they were nothing. Things that I have wondered for years are answered in a sentence. There's a thing that I never even considered could be possible that is discussed, and it is insane. And, like always, there are new mysteries for us to ponder. (If Khriss can't figure them out... well, we will have on the forums theorizing about it for years to come.) There are essays on every planet, save for Nalthis. It's probably because there was no Nalthis content in this rather than any other deeper reason. While I'm sure much of this essay info you'll find on the internet (like on the forums, or on the Coppermind soon), but it really does add to this idea that these worldhoppers collected and catalogued this information. It's awesome. Each story has original artwork preceding it, and every star system gets a neat icon. Oh, and on the endpages of the book, there's also a completely awesome star chart of the cosmere. It's an artistic thing, with drawings that represent constellations on it. It's gorgeous, and terrifying, for a reason that you'll see as soon as you lay your eyes upon it. The entire product is far more than an anthology. Edgedancer But, of course, you want to know about new Stormlight content. It feels like an eternity since Words of Radiance, so it is amazing to finally advance the story. Edgedancer is about Lift, featured in one of the interludes of Words of Radiance. She'll actually be a main viewpoint character in the back five Stormlight books. So, if you love Lift, you'll love Edgedancer. It is that simple. It's funny. It's dramatic. It's emotional. It's everything you wanted out of a Lift story and more. It's hard for me to imagine going into Oathbringer without having read this. Significant stuff happens. There was actually some mindblowing events here. (And it also has something I did not expect, which answered a huge, huge question in the series. It totally blindsided me that this was the story that this happened in, and I did actually scream.) I suppose it isn't strictly necessary, because the characters here are separated from the main characters of the Stormlight Archive, but you'll be really glad you read this. I will say, though, that Edgedancer was so sweet that it made me desperate for Oathbringer. It made me realize how much I love Roshar. So, in a way, this piece which Brandon wrote to tide us over until Book 3 as an apology for it taking so long ends up being a novella which makes me need Oathbringer, immediately. I'm basically Gollum, and I wantses it now. I think any way you slice it Arcanum Unbounded is worth the full price release. The original stuff is great, and the value that the art and the essays bring to the old work is fantastic. Sure, some of the older works in this collection are not my favorite, but come on, with Emperor's Soul, Secret History, and Edgedancer, you get a lot here, and that isn't everything. It's a great anthology.
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  14. I am making homemade peanut butter cups.
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  15. I went to the signing last night, although I was too tired to post when I got back In the signing line, I asked him what would have been included in a hypothetical Nalthian essay had there been one. He said it would have talked about how close the scholars there were to being Cosmere aware, and how they knew more than anyone who wasn't a worldhopper. He also said he would have given clues to where the pool was. That's not verbatim at all, unfortunately, and I was a bit too frazzled to ask any more questions (yesterday was a long day). Also, he wrote "Are you listening?" In my book, although I have no idea what was meant by that. Re the Kaladin flashback he read, he said we might have noticed there were holes in what we learned in the flashbacks in the previous books, and he was going to use these stealth flashbacks to fill them in. In the one he read, we learn more about Tarah. He said these flashbacks will be shorter than the main flashbacks. They're probably, like Argent said, in-chapter sequences when the character has a reason to think about them rather than part of a series of flashback chapters dedicated to exploring the past like the main flashbacks.
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  16. I don't agree that having socializing issues is disqualifying as boyfriend material. not everyone has to like phones or have the guts to ask girl out in person.
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  17. That was amazing. The reading, everything. Anyways, I do in fact have some WoB's to report! First, and I think we already knew this, but I wanted to confirm, as it's of great interest to me: we will be seeing the actual Ghostbloods symbol at some point. He said that they actually had a draft at one point, but that it wasn't true enough to the book, so they're working on it some more. Also, he said there're a few really good interpretations around the internet, so there's that. Second, I asked: if a person with an eidetic memory were to store in a coppermind, would their memories degrade upon tapping? He said, paraphrased: True perfect memories are disputed by science, but if one did exist (or a magical one as we have seen already) then no, their memories would not degrade, as it's the brain's own failings that cause degradation, not magic. Also, his favorite flavor of gelato is lemon.
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  18. First of all, I'm really sad there hasn't been a post on here in a long time. Rithmatist needs more love! Anyhow, I made this today to teach myself something and I feel like sharing it, even though I doubt many people check here any more So, the irregular nonagon, AKA the Line of Warding with 9 bind points. The important thing to remember is that while the 2, 4, and 6 bind point versions all look the same (apart from rotation), ones made with 9 bind points are much more flexible. Now, let's get down to business. First, draw your circle. Then, pick 3 points on the circle and mark them. These are your first 3 bind points. The only restriction is: they can't all be in the same 180 degree section of the circle. You'll see why in a moment. Now, you're going to need to mark down 3 lines to make a triangle where the midpoint of each of the lines is one of the bind points you marked in the last step. There's only one way to do this, so don't worry about messing it up! You'll probably notice that the lines of your triangle intersect the circle in more than one place. The extra spots where they intersect are your next 3 bind points! I forgot to mark them in the picture though. The only issue would be if you put all 3 of your original bind points on the same half of the circle - then your triangle would be obtuse, and you'd probably feel pretty obtuse too! Obtuse triangles aren't allowed here, so keep some healthy distance between those points, mister. The final step now is to draw a line from each corner of your triangle to the extra bind points you marked in the last step. In order to do that you'll have to intersect your circle again, and you know what that means! That's your last 3 bind points, done! See, that wasn't so hard. Now, it's pretty well known (thanks to the hard work of people like KalynaAnne) that you can make the 6-point, 4-point and 2-point circles with the irregular nonagon, and you can even create top-secret 5 and 8 point circles that aren't discussed in the books. How exactly you can do this I will show after I update my post tomorrow (or the day after), as I'm currently working on some swanky animations to get my point across better
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  19. Prior to the release of Khriss' essay on the Drominad System by Tor, I included a question for Brandon to answer in my pre-order. I wanted to know if Patji's Eye was a perpendicularity on First of the Sun, and if so would a creature like a Nightmaw worldhop. The first part is a RAFO...and probably a legitimate "read and find out" because Khriss more or less confirms this without saying it's Patji's Eye. However, Brandon did answer the second part of my question: non-sapeint creatures can worldhop, but it's hard. My motive for this question was that a long time ago I wondered if Thunderclast were from other worlds (probably not) and if Aviar could be on other planets on their own accord (I originally thought maybe Denth's parrot could be an Aviar). So for fun, I wanted to see if Nightmaw could worldhop, because come on, how crazy scary would it be to run across a Nightmaw on Roshar or Scadrial or Nalthis?! Now I also imagine every horse in the Cosmere is a Ryshadium that wants to kick every stranger in the head. All in all, this isn't a big WOB, but it's at least somewhat interesting.
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  20. Hey, @Rubix and @Chaos (wow that makes it look like I'm writing a letter) Kip and me were just chatting and he said that he was still mod-queued from what happened like a year ago, and is he still actually mod queued? If so, could you please take him off so he can post in SE again? (We'll take anyone we can get after all :P) Anyway, seeing as this looks like a letter, might as well finish it like one. Wishing you the best, STINK (Oh, and it's going in here cause this totally is out of the blue So might as well also mention that your painting kinda reminds me of Van Gogh and his sunflowers with the nice colours and all that, @The Honor Spren)
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  21. This is also my thought here. Brandon has said for a long time an inspiration of the cosmere is Asimov's Foundation series, which in its last book, Foundation and Earth, Asimov connected his Foundation series to his earlier stuff, notably the Robot series. That book is set in a late stage Galactic Empire where humanity has wildly spread, but no one knows where the origin planet was. In Foundation and Earth the main characters go to find that origin planet. I would be exactly zero surprised if such a quest to find Yolen was a major part of Era 4. (I find this to be cool, because Foundation's Edge, the book right before Foundation and Earth, is one of my favorite books.) Yes please. As for having humans make an exodus from Yolen, I think it is still inhabited as well. What makes you think Yolen is not inhabited?
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  22. Yes, but it's also a brand that retails electrical goods and cleaning products in the floor-care sector, and which has its headquarters in the United Kingdom. Is this exactly ambiguity that has us all confused. Secret History spoilers
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  23. That's extra interesting. In retrospect, it's not, but I had it in my mind (for no good reason) that Vasher had come to Roshar chasing Nightblood. A lot more pieces fall in place if we know that they had arrived together however. Welp. Put on your tinfoil hates, folks, it's time to let the borderline insane theories out of the box! Good questions, @valerieofavonlea, and good answers.
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  24. Okay, so I took video of the speech, Q&A, and reading. I will post the first two, and wait for admin okay on the third. It's on my phone, but I'm not sure how to upload them. They are over 5 gig total with just the first two, and it was uploading really slowly from my phone. After an hour, it is maybe 1/20th done. Any advice on how to get it to finish sometime this week? In other news, during the Q&A, I asked if it would be possible to recall Breaths from an object that you had not placed there if the Awakener who did place them there had no Identity at the time. He semi-dodged the question by saying that for many powers this would work, and for almost all powers it would work if you also had no Identity at the time. Here is the verbatim for the signing WoB from me: Dj: So, say you have a gold/gold Twinborn and they worldhop to Roshar and they study the magic and do the whole Khriss and Nazh thing for a while so that they know a lot about the magic, but they've also left themselves a lot of options with what they can do. So then they manage to pull up a gold shadow of them having actually become a Surgebinder and then kind of meld themselves with that shadow a bunch, could they change their Cognitive Identity enough so that they could, like, tap a lot of Gold and grow the spren and actually be a Surgebinder? B: Unfortunately, no. It's a good question, but no. That won't work for a couple of reasons. One of which is simply creating Investiture is not something that can happen, right? Dj: They are a gold Twinborn, so they can tap a lot of gold... B: They can tap a whole bunch, that's true, they can do that, but simply having it is not gonna create a spren because the spren is from a different god, right, a different Shard. Dj: So if they had Regrowth cast on them, would that do it? B: hems and haws for a second. Dj: A really, really big Regrowth like in the middle of a Highstorm. B: Hmmm, this, you are getting to the realm of plausibility at that point. I still don't think gold is the way to do it. I think you just get all that Investiture. It would become sapient by you sticking a whole bunch of Investiture, and then you can bond to that. But it's not like people gain what you would have done. Does that make sense? That's just what's going to happen, is you're gonna, you can create a, potentially create a spren that way, but you are more likely to end up with something like Nightblood. But you could potentially create a spren, but I mean you're just gonna end up... Dj: So there are more optimal ways to do that? B: Yes, go bond a spren. (evil grin of course) Dj: But you can't easily bond multiple, and if you did this you could maybe get multiple. B: Nyeaaahhh... The spren still has to choose. If you want to be a Surgebinder, the choice is being made. You can't fake your way into it. Decision and Honor are too much a part of Surgebinding for you to be able to fake your way into that. Other magics you might be able to do that. Other magics that don't require, like, Surgebinding works because a piece of Honor or Cultivation or a mix has chosen you specifically. There is will from the actual Investiture involved in it in Roshar. Dj: Okay. B: So it's not something you can cheat your way into, right. But cheating your way into Breath might be easier, right. I'm wigging out! This one was sweet. This is a virtual confirmation of how gold shadows work. Also, the idea that this would potentially work to create more spren... wow! Even if they don't bond to you, there is potential for more Surgebinders! Then the last bit about how much choice is involved for the spren was interesting, but the idea that you could fairly easily hack your way into Breaths this way was fascinating.
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  25. The one hope I have with this next book is we get to see quite a few conversations between Szeth and Nightblood. Szeth is very introspective as to what he did and such, coupled with the almost youthful wonder and awe of Nightblood in fulfilling his duty. The dynamic of those two together to me at least is very exciting and something in which I look very much forward to.
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  26. Can confirm they don't. It's really awkward in the doc, btw, what with them being referred to by Omen and you can just tell they're dying to hook up and let each other know who they are so Wyrm and I have to keep a constant eye on them to make sure they behave. It's like dealing with teenage dating, I swear... AHEM. LISTEN TO EL.
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  27. Several people are unhappy that there are so many radiants in the Kholin family (except maybe Adolin; sorry maxal). However, there is an interesting reveal in Edgedancer that gives a possible reason for this. Nalan states that his reasoning for killing radiants is to keep them from grouping together. When left alone, radiants naturally group together, perhaps at the behest of your spren. Suppose you are a spren from the Cognitive looking for someone to bind to. You realize that to succeed, you will need to join up with other bonded spren. But you also see that proto-radiants are being killed off before they can join with others. Your natural inclination will be to bond someone in a group of already existing radiants, so that there is no danger of you being isolated. More importantly, you are going to pick as high-profile a person as possible so that attempts on that person's life will not be easy. Hence, the Kholins.
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  28. (Got this meme idea last night and it kept running around in my mind so I figured the only thing to do would be to express it. Original image comes from here.)
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  29. Khaos hurried into the room the second that brute left it. He'd crushed her poor pen. Brutalized it. It was....gone. She crouched down beside the little broken pieces, sifting through them for any sign of a piece big enough to possibly still be useable. As her fingertips brushed the first couple, they trembled and she froze, staring at them. The first tiny sliver righted itself and started scribbling on the floor. Idol of idiot-worshippers! The second soon joined it, with an entirely different message. Storytellers will tell cautionary tales of your tremendous senselessness for centuries after you are publicly executed. Khaos' eyes widened and she looked at the rest of the pile. There must be hundreds of the little slivers. And all of them, somehow, could still insult. Colours, she thought. This is brilliant. And while a part of her insisted that this wasn't how Awakening worked, she was never one to second-guess what could cause a little chaos. She picked up the first sliver and placed it in her pocket, just in case. The rest, she gathered up into her hands and left the room. As Khaos explored that night, she dropped a few slivers all along her path, in corridors and rooms, spreading their insulting joy where'er she went. The more spread out the slivers got, the better. When her hands were empty, she brought out her full (well, half actually) insulting pen and considered finding the Hammer again. Maybe he'd break this one too. She studied it as she walked around a corner, and when her head cracked against something hard, for a moment she wasn't sure what she'd hit. And then she noticed another person. A girl. The...crazy one. Khaos got another brilliant idea. Or crazy (fitting, for the company she was in). She looked at her pen and then back up at the other girl. "Here," she said, holding her pen out. "This is for you."
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  30. I took Bruce on two walks today.
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  31. I asked him what happens to the perpendicularity when a Shard dies. He said that if the Shard's power is still there, even without a consciousness, the perpendicularity can still work fine, but there are other ways of destroying them. I also asked how to pronounce the main characters in Elantris: RAY-O-DEN, SA-REE-NEE, hRAY-THEN
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  32. Hm... I'm calling it: Vax is the world of the Dark One. Cause DO's world has a superpoweful constant electrical field.
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  33. You know, I imagine that Hoid is exactly the kind of person who would go around with Lift breaking into places and stealing people's dinners. That sounds right up his alley.
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  34. What a great idea about Foundation parallels. (It's at the bottom.) Hoid is the total Mule to Taravingian's psychohistory.
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  35. Just start killing people. Since you are a villager, your actions don't have the same organization as the eliminators. So vote, and be willing to change your vote based on thread discussion. Don't be afraid of killing people with useful roles, and maybe have some fun with RP on the side. If you have an RP character that you are invested in, it is a lot easier to follow a game. I'm nowhere near as comfortable as other folks here with coming up with personalities, but I've had a lot of fun with Aralis, especially last AG. On that note: Aralis wandered around the House in search of a chair. Since the House seemed unwilling to stick to a floor plan, he tried to follow roughly the same path he had taken the night before. After all, if the House was changing, and he was changing paths, they might cancel each other out, and that would mean he would find the Library again. People these days just don't make houses they way they used. Libraries always should have a nice place to sit down and bother youngsters that make too much noise. As he was thinking, Aralis noticed a glass door leading off the hallway he was in. And right outside the door was a rocking chair, on a porch! Suddenly, Aralis's legs began to ache at the sight, and he leaned more heavily on his walking stick to stay upright. Unfortunately, the door wouldn't open. It wasn't locked, just stuck. Well, Aralis had dealth with stubborn people before, a door wasn't all that different. He imagined a fellow he had met once, named Rent, was right where the door was, in between Aralis and his porch. Then he hefted his stick and gave the fellow a THWACK upside the head. A different sort of noise reverberated through the House, and Aralis was brought back to the present. Bother. The door seemed to be on par with Aralis's stubbornness. Well, now I have an incentive to see this whole bothering thing through. That is quite a fine porch, and I bet nobody could find me and bother me there.
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  36. I'll make the argument that Stump and Ym are actually Edgedancers. They are both following the Edgedancer's second oath, remembering those who are forgotten, specifically orphans and urchins. Wyndle was the first sent, but other cultivationspren were sent later, to other candidates. Spren look very different in Shadesmar than they do in the Physical Realm - just look at Pattern. Cryptics manifest in Shadesmar as symbol-heads, but look very different in the Physical Realm. Ym's spren is described with elements of both; the specks of light, but it moved like a growing plant. The only other spren we've seen in both realms is Ivory, and we never really got a good depiction of him in the Physical, but at the very least there was a size difference.
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  37. Bee movie thing is good plan. Keep it up.
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  38. I suspect those non-Dalinar flashbacks are more like Kaladin's flashback from The Way of Kings where he remembers Tien's death - not a flashback chapter, but an in-chapter sequence.
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  39. I think I'm probably the only one who actually loves how silly Lift is while still being, well, awesome? She can be serious and coolheaded, but she doesn't ever let go of her innate Awesomeness. The Your Pancakefulness made me laugh out loud and it's my third favorite bit-- besides the climatic hugging and the Shardfork, of course.
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  40. I hate the word awesomeness. It's jarring, an awful word and it's ruining all of Lift's interludes for me. It doesn't fit in Roshar and pulls me out of the book.
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  41. And remember that "obvious for boys" is soooo much different than "obvious for girls"
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  42. I THINK A GUY IS TRYING TO TELL ME HE LIKES ME OVER FACEBOOK CHAT AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO AND I'M WATCHING THE BEE MOVIE BUT EVERY TIME IT SAYS BEE IT GETS FASTER IN ANOTHER TAB AND NOTHING IN MY LIFE MAKES SENSE HELP
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  44. All right, I think this tangent is played out. Maxal, you are well within your rights to be disappointed by Adolin's page count but I think we're done with this discussion. Its not going anywhere productive. Everyone, feel free to continue discussing this update from Brandon, but the debate about Adolin's page count is over. If you all would like to continue this discussion about Adolin's POV, feel free to take it to PM's. Thanks all!
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  45. Yes. The author himself has said he has expanded Adolin's role, and that he will 'dig into things with him in this book.' I will read the book before judging whether or not he has a satisfactory character arc.
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  46. They totally would get along. Awesome. Lift and Hoid being besties headcanon is a go.
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  47. Rule Clarifications: 1. Is there a Traitor Doc? Or are the Traitors (if any) simply drifting around aimlessly hoping to hook up with each other? As El has pointed out, the rules state that "When an Omen is discovered, a player has their will subverted by the House, gains a Role and access to the Traitor doc, and their Alignment changes to ‘Traitor’." Interpret accordingly. 2. Am I allowed to lie to everyone and say I found something I didn't? Yeah, sure, knock yourself out--the GM and Sub-GM will neither confirm nor deny whether: A. an item actually exists, and B. whether the claiming player actually has that item, so go ahead...and here's a bucket of water for those pants! 3. Does it take an Action to give someone an item? Yeah, it does.
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  48. Night 1: Paint It Black They moved as a group at first. They were all present and alive, and they were intent to remain the same way. But they fragmented over time. Shifty gazes and paranoid glances meant that this arrangement would never last, and in due course, it did not. The disappearance of Kasther did not implicate any of them, and in a way, that was the problem. Any of them could be responsible. That was the best-case scenario. Food was not impossible to find. The kitchen did indeed seem stocked with food. Strangely, all of it was fresh, but there was no mess that would hint towards fresh preparation. No crumbs littered the floor, or discarded fruit that had fallen by the wayside and been missed. The only possible rational explanation was that the food had been prepared expertly and it had been cleaned up expertly as well. And yet the food itself, while not tasteless or horrible, was merely of decent quality, rather than suggesting a master chef had prepared it. They checked upstairs, above the study, as best they could tell. There was no body there, no hint of blood. Again, it suggested an expert clean-up operation had taken place. “There is only one conclusion,” the nameless man in red said. “The murderer must be one of us. They must have killed Kasther and hidden his body somewhere.” “But who could have done it?” Quintus asked, shaking his head. “Weren't we all there?” “One of us must have been missing,” Frost said. “There are so many of us, is it a strange idea that one of us might have nipped out quickly for a spot of light murder?” “You say it like they popped down to the market because they forgot something...” Exion muttered. “So what about now?” “Someone is missing,” Locke pointed out. “One of the doctors. Ogle-whatsit.” “It must be him then,” Isaac nodded, smashing a fist into his open palm like his namesake. “Must be Oglethorpe.” “I must be what?” It was to his greatest misfortune that Doctor Ryan Oglethorpe had appeared in the doorway at that moment, a tad confused. “Get him!” Dr Neuems shouted. Ryan ran. He did not know why he was running other than that there was a mob after him. They chased him because he ran, and he ran because they chased him. Thirty people stomped down the corridors, a wave of vigilante justice caught up in itself. He looked back to see how close they were, but kept putting one foot in front of the other to keep going. One foot in front of the other, until suddenly he couldn't. His foot fell down as he hit the staircase, and he tripped over the step he didn't expect. His body swung forwards, his other foot failing to find traction and falling as well. His head smacked the hard, ancient wooden staircase, and he kept falling. He landed a crumpled heap at the bottom of the staircase. “Stand back!” Doctor Arelle shouted, holding her arms out to prevent people getting closer. “Let me examine him!” “You're not a medical doctor!” Doctor Neuems retaliated. “If anyone should examine him, it should be me.” “Forgive me if I don't want someone braying for his blood to examine him,” Konwa muttered dryly as she turned Ryan over. She winced at the angle of the neck. She put a finger to the man's pulse just to be sure. She shook her head. “Dead. I'm not a medical professional, as you say, but seems clear to me he snapped his neck on the fall.” “You'd be right about that,” Doctor Neuems muttered, patting at his forehead with a handkerchief. “Can't youth today handle falling downstairs? Back in my day we'd have to fall downstairs twice a day as we left the house and came back...” “Colours!” Eques grabbed Konwa and pulled her arm off the corpse's body. “Look!” Slowly as they were talking, the colour started to drain from Doctor Arelle's face, as she watched it literally drain from Doctor Oglethorpe's corpse. No, it was not just that. Even as his skin turned greyer and more colourless, more dead, it continued to encroach. His shirt went from a somewhat dirty white to grey. His trousers paled. The change covered his entire person, man, clothes and effects. And then it stopped. “I think we can be pretty sure that there's something odd happening here now,” Konwa muttered, checking her fingertips to ensure they too wouldn't start paling and losing all colour. “I've never seen Breath disappear from a body like that. Never. It's like this place... Absorbed it. I don't like it. We need to get to the bottom of this place, I think.” “But what about finding out who killed Kasther? What about finding out which of us is a blasted murderer?” Yiferien asked. “A human killer doesn't scare me half as much as a House that has somehow become Awakened. Become alive. Human rage and maliciousness and anger, all these can be understood. But who knows what a damned structure wants?” Konwa shook her head. “We'll meet in the study later. We have some more exploring to do. This is one mystery I refuse to let get the better of me. And who better to solve it than a BioChromatic Scholar such as myself?” She gave them a wry smile in spite of everything. "I will see you later. Let's hope we find something, eh?" Night 1 has begun! It will end on Thursday at 9PM GMT. PMs may now be resumed until the end of the Turn. Doctor Ryan Oglethorpe/phattemer was an Explorer! Doctor Ryan Oglethorpe/phattemer (2): Isaac Jones (Elenion), Dr Artie Neuems (Arraemae) Exion/Unodus (1): The Guy in the Red Uniform (Ecthelion III) Moro/Magestar (1): Frost (Doctor12) Isaac Jones/Elerion (1): Khaos (little wilson) The Guy in the Red Uniform/Ecthelion III (1): Exion (Unodus) Sean/polkinghornbd (1): Huxton (The Young Bard) Character List Kasther's Pocketwatch
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  49. The way it worked in WoR's first draft is still canonical. There are subtle things that make the two situations different.
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