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Should probably replace Frost with Odium at this point but still I laughed

This one isn’t specific to Sanderson books, but it’s all too accurate. (apologies if someone has posted this before. I don’t follow this thread as religiously as some others do )

Kelsier: I am the one thing you cannot kill. Lord Ruler: Oh my me…are you that stupid jingle that's been stuck in my head for the past 500 years? Kelsier: Lord Ruler: Kelsier: Kill me now, and I will never leave you alone.

The Sibling was sleeping during the Weeping while the Chimney Sweeps were Sweeping, but Kaladin had a Salad in the Shower of the Tower when the fateful Hour struck and the Sibling was unstuck from the lumbering of his slumbering and the power in the tower turned back on. I have a disease, similar to Tourretes, where whenever I hear alliteration of certain variety I have to compose a Dr. Seuss like bit of nonsense. Please continue your discussion.

It’s not really irrational, I’m just using different criteria for why they should be in a relationship than you are. However, I have talked in the past on specifics of in-book reasons why I think they work together, but neither of us agree with each other’s interpretations, so that’s just an endless argument I don’t want to start right now. Anyway, I guess I didn’t phrase what I meant very well. Personally, I don’t find the “prince gets the girl” trope as annoying as the “main male and main female characters get together” trope. The latter annoys me so much more, so it was refreshing to see the main female character end up with someone besides the main male character.

Dalinar is next Holder of Honor most likely, age wouldn't matter for him anymore as he will be immortal. I don't expect him to die because given trope exist somewhere. Whom I want to die? Honestly, I don't know. I am not a great fan of many main characters in SA (yeah...), Shallan, Adolin, ect but it doesn't necessarily mean I want them dead. So I will go with the antagonists. Taravangian. He went too far. Also Nale.

I just want to say that all of you are very mature and kind, and I’ve really enjoyed being a part of this forum. I feel that I tend to have unpopular opinions and it’s fun to see other people share my feelings on things. Or not and be nice about it.

I discovered Brandon Sanderson in December 2017. Started with Mistborn, and have read The Final Empire, Well of Ascension, but got spoiled on the Hero of Ages ending before reading it all, maybe I'll get back to it eventually. I have read all the Stormlight books including Edgedancer, and just got through with Oathbringer last week. I'll probably read Warbreaker next.

Hi, I'm 31 and from Pittsburgh, Pa. I found 17th shard from reading a lot on Coppermind and felt I'd really like to keep learning more regaring the Cosmere. So far from Brandon Sanderson's books I've read: The Mistborn Trilogy eras 1 and 2 Elantris Arcanum Unbound - everything except for stories from Roshar since I haven't read the Stormlight Archive yet My next Cosmere novel that I think I'm going to read is Warbreaker and then start in Stormlight. I also am going to read the White Sands graphic novels eventually as well. I've also been currently reading Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds. Other than Brandon Sanderson, I like to read sci-fi and fantasy the most but also like to read true crime and mystery some too. Tolkien is one of my favorite authors as well and I've read LOTR, The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion multiple times each. I'm actually a mod for a Tolkien forum also, not sure if I can plug it so I won't :). When not reading I enjoy astronomy. I also like watching old movies. Horror and sci-fi are my favorite genres and I love old classics like Hammer films and Universal monsters. My favorite old sci-fi movie is Forbidden Planet. I also like to travel with my wife a lot, this year we'll be going to Ireland in June. I hope to read some excellent discussions and partake when I can.

Corrected this one: This one's a bit cruel: This one's not so good: And it's definitely enough for today:

I would buy this without hesitation This next one is an Edgedancer spoiler.

Alright! *celebratory high-five to @hoiditthroughthegrapevine* Way to go, partner! That was some excellent competition, @Sorana and Silva ( @Avlis presently, I guess). Both of your roasts were very well done! *vigorous handshake for each* Can't wait to see the Returned names you two come up with! Well, I got a lyrical genius and a graphics wiz rolled into one teammate, so I think I got the better end of that bargain. Thanks! I'm happy with how that one worked out. ...Though actually it should be "lighteyes highbrows." It has better rhythm that way. The "society's highbrows" is a vestigial remnant of my rough draft that managed to evade my proofreading and sneak into the final version. ...I'm going to edit that, for my own peace of mind. Thank you! I thought it might go over well. Thanks, but don't sell yourself short! Your raps from the first tournament were great, very fun to read. You got this. *thumbs up*

I'm a little confused why people think Adolin and Shallan getting together is an example of "The prince gets the girl" trope. Yes, Adolin is literally a prince, but he's not the main character -- not by a stretch. I think it would have been significantly more tropey for Kaladin (the closest thing this series has to a "main" main character) to end up with Shallan. And I'm saying this as someone who greatly prefers Shallan/Kaladin to Shallan/Adolin.

Hopefully coming in the fall of 2020, the return tour of Odium Against The Fabrials! Look forward to hearing their megahits such as: - Thrilling In The Name - Chulls on Parade - How Could I Just Kill A Man (feat. Adolin Kholin!) aaand then some new ones

Viktor Eventide waited patiently outside the house of a man named Oliver Woodsley. The man was currently inside, having lunch with his son Charles, his wife having been murdered 5 years ago. All in all, the man had had a reasonably comfortable life. That was not to last. Viktor heard a rattling at the door in front of him. The man stepped out, head turned to his son behind him. "Charles-" Viktor allowed the man to notice him as his head turned. He savored the sharp intake of breath, the quickening heartbeat, the realization. "What in the dickens-" Like a snake, Viktor struck, arm lashing out to grasp the throat of his prey. The rest of the man's words were cut off by the vise-like grip of the Epic. The child, Charles, froze just inside the house. "Do you know how hard it is to find someone who knows how to work a sundial these days?" Viktor's voice was as cold as his gaze as he stared unblinkingly at the struggling man in his hand, mouth flapping open and closed like an oxygen-starved fish. Power coursed through his hand, leeching hours of hard work and dedication in moments. "Very few still bother with such archaic methods of telling time." Contempt filled his voice. "Of course, you have one right in your backyard, don't you? You always had a knack for noticing minute changes in the angle of the shadow." Viktor checked his watch. Time was running short, and he wouldn't be able to drain the man for anything else. That was a pity. Viktor never was one to waste food. "Unfortunately, we may have to cut this short." He glanced down at the struggling man, his fingers growing weaker as they tried to pry apart the unyielding iron that was Viktor's hand. The man was able to breathe slightly, though he was still slowly suffocating. It hadn't been too long yet, but the power flow into Viktor's body was ebbing. The man's skill was running out. After all, one could only be so skilled at perceiving the time as shown by a sundial. But that was fine. Viktor already had excellent eyesight, and that would help a great deal. As the last dregs of skill left the man's body, a flick of the wrist brought a hidden dagger from the sleeve of his suit into a hand already moving to stab the man's heart. Viktor released the man just as his son screamed out in pain and denial. Charles rushed forward, embracing the fallen corpse, then glared with tear-ridden eyes the man who had killed his father. Viktor smiled bitterly at the boy, before stepping back. "Such is the circle of life, even though all of us sometimes wish it weren't so." Viktor Eventide stepped back into the shadows, as the boy let out a primal scream of rage. "All of us."

WARNING! INCOMING ALDERANT WALLPOST! I've made it no secret that I'm totally into the idea of Jasnah and Kaladin. I have been casually since Way of Kings, and Oathbringer only cemented the idea in my head as not only viable, but an excellent opportunity for growth on both characters' parts. Before I get into why, I'm putting a segment in here as to what I look at when I make these kinds of judgments. On analysis: Moving on now to Kaladin and Jasnah. First, I'll look at each character individually, then move on to how they could work and grow together. Kaladin: Jasnah: Kaladin & Jasnah: And that's my 2 cents regarding this. Hope you enjoyed the post! Footnotes: N1.) Note: This is a callback to his earlier assertion in Way of Kings that no matter what happened to those around him, he always survived--a fact that made him severely depressed and melancholic. N2.) Again, this is a callback to Words of Radiance, when Kaladin said that Shallan and Adolin "fit." And both of these declarations are accompanying a time when Kaladin is at a low. First after the chasms, when Kaladin thought he'd killed Syl, then here, when Kaladin is beaten down by repeated failures--including his failure to save Amaram from himself, and Elhokar in Kholinar. N3.) Kaladin is subtly calling her out. An "eel" is someone who fights dirty, like Sadeas. N4.) Note the retraction and change of language here. This isn't "Oh, I'm going to rip this guy apart," this is "Oh, okay. This guy isn't going to simply roll over when I get stern." As most people she interacts with do. N5.) Jasnah does not ask. Jasnah demands, and others obey. In this paragraph, she asks Kaladin if he could train his squires. And sidenote for the shipper within: Jasnah compares the Windrunners to skyeels, and says she'd happily cuddle a skyeel. The fact that this comes immediately after Kaladin's confrontation and opposition, which should have upset her and made for a hostile encounter, could be significant.

Okay so let me explain... I was super bored yesterday, so I ended up doing this... You know how Brandon puts up those little percent bars on his website? I'm keeping track of those with the graph paper, and the spots around it will fill with stuff~ the title, cover, the pdf Brandon gives out with viewpoint and interlude characters laid out, etc.~ I might post again, in a few months, as it will inevitably fill slowly, but surely. (Also, I realized that the word Stormlight has 10 letters, so I colored the first 3 letter the color of the first three books, and will fill in number 4 once it's out. )

In Honor of the recent WoB confirming that Hoid has in fact ingested a lerasium bead and is now a Mistborn, I think it's time to cook up some interesting battles. So here's a summary of Hoid's power set (spoilered below, based mainly on WoBs, no new info here): He is limited in the fact that he can't intentionally hurt anyone, but he can intentionally allow someone to get hurt, sounds like enough wiggle room for the cleverest being in the Cosmere to figure out how to make any fight a fight to the finish, without necessarily doing the finishing himself. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to try and find a worthy opponent for Hoid, and to give this a narrative twist, say that he's dipped into one too many pots of investiture and our boy Hoid is starting to loose hold of his sanity. He thinks that to save the world he must first destroy it (he could potentially use the loophole that he is not directly hurting anyone he is just destroying the planet that just unfortunately happens to have a lot of people on it). I have a couple of different potential battle arenas in mind, I'll just list the first for now, but might edit in a couple more later. Feel free to have the fight take place wherever you want with whatever initial conditions that you think would make for the most interesting battle. Battle Arena 1: Aluminum Cage Match One of the Rosharn Gas giants, lets say Vev, has had the outer 100 miles of atmosphere Soulcast into a shell of Aluminum, and the rest of the gaseous/liquid hydrgen and helium have been soulcast into a habitable atmosphere similar to Roshar's. The outer 100 ft of the metallic hydrogen shell around the planets core has been soulcast to a garnet with a perfect crystalline structure and infused with Stormlight, descending from this shell to the surface of the planets core are tapering columns of similarly infused garnet, spaced at frequent but irregular intervals. The planets core is roughly .25 cosmere standard radii, and is a continuous primarily metallic metropolis like Cybertron or Corsucant. A large geosynchronous satellite intermittently Collects the rays from Roshar's sun and focuses them onto the outer shell of the Aluminum Cage Match planet, giving the planet a stable ambient temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit. It requires direct shardic intervention to enter or exit the Aluminum cage planet, and lets just say that Hoid and the other combatant(s) are transported to the surface by a shard and can only leave when the other side has been vanquished. For this arena victory by Hoid is complete and sustained immobilization or the death of his opponent(s) and lets say the same thing goes for the other side too, complete and sustained immobilization of Hoid or Hoid's death would constitute victory for your champion(s). You can pick up to two abilities to spike into your champion(s), but if you grant two hemalurgically stolen abilities to a single champion, there might be the real possibility that Hoid can control them with Duralimun boosted emotional allomancy. Also you can make 2 modifications to the Arena to give your champion(s) easier access to their preferred form of Investiture. Your champion, or each of your champions can have up to 2 unkeyed metal minds of any type that you want to specify. Let's say for this arena that Hoid has a bag of flour, one vial of Taldain sand and an unkeyed medallion that can store and retrieve mental sped (F-Zinc)

So long. They even wrote a book about it.

Definitely OB. I feel like at that point you're just super connected to all the characters so you're really on the edge of your seat while reading it, especially since the stakes are so high. It was really cool to see Dalinar grow so much. I was seriously close to crying with joy when he turned the tables right on top of Odium. Also, Renarin is my favorite character so it was awesome to read from his perspective. You just get to see all the characters in their element. Jasnah was awesome, Lift was hilarious, Szeth was fantastic. I think my favorite thing about the ending of OB is that everyone is together and, well, united.

Spensa:

Two weeks ago The truck stopped. Again. Karina sighed, sat, and then stood up. Her back had been rumbling against the back of the pickup for the past hundred miles or so, giving her back pains to go along with her ever-more-painful headache. "Why did we have to sell the shock absorbers?" she mumbled as she climbed over the thin lip that had guarded her life as she'd travelled north. The driver, Clovis, was hunched over, a large map spread out over the wheel. He was mildly pudgy, but much cleverer than one might expect from the sports fanatic he was pre-calamity. Karina walked up to the truck door. "What happened? Why are we stopping? I mean, I'm in no hurry, but I hate just being a sitting duck out here. Is something broken?" Clovis continued studying the map. "Well, nothing's broken. Might have some trouble starting this hunk of junk up again, but the truck's fine for now. I'd hate to leave it behind." He had told her he'd gotten the truck from a Newcago scrapyard with his buddy Turt, who was snoring in the passenger seat. "What's the problem then?" "I think we've drifted too far west. Take a look." He pointed at his map, then looked at the compass dangling down from the mirror. "Remember when we made that detour to avoid Ashburn? That's Minot on the map." Karina frowned as she traced his thick finger down their route. "We took this highway west, passed through Bismarck, and now we're at this junction. We'll want to avoid Helena, because I've heard there's a bunch of different Epics fighting over it. Instead, we'll be passing through Missoula, where we'll probably also be able to get some extra gas. Then we'll head north and we'll be in Edmon- I mean, Olympia Polaris - in no time." Karina thought about it and said, "I don't like passing by Hauntsville," as she pointed to Spokane, "but it's probably necessary. We're avoiding Calgary for sure, right?" Clovis nodded, grinned, and then said, "Then it's settled then." He got out of the truck, flipping the hood over as he did so. "Could you hold these two wires together so we can get back on the move?" --- --- --- One week ago "Stop the car!" Turt slammed on the brakes as Karina screamed from the passenger seat. "Sparks, you almost gave me a heart attack. What is it, Indy?" She frowned and said, "I'm getting out. I thought I saw some smoke in those trees over there." Turt shrugged and said, "It's your funeral. We're almost to Edmonton; only an hour away or so. If you want to walk the rest of the way, go ahead. I'm not stopping here." Karina glared, then threw open the car door, grabbing her backpack and rifle from the back before she trekked off. The skinny freckly guy watched her go, then said to thin air, "I know you wouldn't like it, Clovis, but hey. I'm going home." --- --- --- Karina batted at the brush in front of her with her rifle, cursing under her breath. "Sparking bushes. Hope there's actually something back here, else I'm walking to Edmonton for nothing." She hit a tree with her rifle, and snow fell down on top of her. "Calamity it's cold up here." She looked up, and saw that the smoke plume was only a couple dozen meters in front of her. Karina pushed through the branches and bushes with renewed urgency, until she stumbled upon what appeared to be a campsite. Surrounded by corpses. Karina looked around at the carnage. The fire had burned out of control slightly, burning its way to a nearby snow-covered tree, which was slowly putting the fire out. If I'd gotten here earlier, I probably would've been killed. Later, and I never would have noticed this. Looking back at the corpses, their methods of croaking varied significantly. One guy was decapitated, another impaled, and two of them had been shot, one much more than the other. Karina noticed a piece of paper in one of the female corpses' hands, and wrenched it out of her stiff grasp. It read, "Taylor Swift drank a black cherry Perrier and shared the rest with a fan during her last stadium concert" Puzzled, Karina put the paper into her sack. Maybe it's just a treasured piece of trivia? A code, perhaps? She entered one of the several tents placed around the campfire, finding a mobile. She turned it on, and, unfortunately, it had a password on it. Sighing, she stuffed that into her pack as well, found some ammunition (into the backpack!) and started trekking north, hopefully towards Edmonton. Or, as it was called now, Olympia Polaris.

It ate the pie. Edit: ninja’d With the exact same sentence.

Welp. Yay. I get to be wrong about the death of 2.2 million (?) as opposed to 1.3 million (?) EDIT: Apparently, he also ruled Houston at some point. Interesting. Here's my idea of an intro post.

For those wondering why I've been so silent on this thread, it's mostly cause of how it's kinda derailed? I don't really know what's going on anymore to be honest. The guild was originally made as a place to make friends and chat and all that with some light, silly rp as the means by which that could happen, and that's obviously not what it is anymore. I'm not saying that it's bad now, but right now it really isn't something I want to participate in. I'm still following the thread, so I am reading all the posts, but mostly just to make sure you kids are all getting along. Also, while I'm on that note: please get along. Try not to make big changes without consulting everybody else (which kinda started this whole mess and is what is making people mad), and keep it friendly in here. Remember, this is a wholesome thread. The atmosphere has been getting toxic and I don't like it. Also, I don't know the rules about this sort of thing, but if you want to get intense with your rp and all that maybe it would be a good idea to make a separate thread in the roleplaying section. If you're gonna be doing all this double universe and involved plotline stuff that might be scaring away casual members, that might be an option for y'all. Somebody should probably check with a mod first cause I'm not sure if that's a thing you can do, but my point stands. This thread's gotten a little scary for the non-serious poster/newcomer. Edit: Just wanted to add that the whole concept and community of the KA is something I'm very proud of bringing together, and something I really would like to enjoy participating in again. I want to feel the same warmth from the community here that I used to. I don't think that's a complete impossibility, but I am very sad that I've started to feel disconnected from it all. I know I'm rambling a bit, but hopefully y'all understand what I'm trying to say.

So... Kokichi was playing with something shiny, sorta distracted like. Some stuff had gone down, what with the cake, and they had kinda stopped paying attention. Just, for a few seconds. Or had it been a few minutes? Whatever. So, cake. Yeah. There was actually cake now. It had not been a lie. Jade was a pretty dang epic Epic. One that reminded Kokichi a whole heck of a lot of an Epic they'd heard about, from word of mouth and whatnot. An allegedly maybe dead one? Then again, it coulda been a breezy, metaphorical sort of death? Life was complicated. Rumors were complicated, especially when their source of rumors tended to be mutterings about shiny Epics and teleporters from Oregon. Contrivances. Contrivances and not-lying cakes. There was someone else coming into the stadium now. Someone... familiar. It was the dude from earlier! The one who'd nearly gotten into a fight with them! Whoah, that was like, forever ago. Maybe he'd forgotten about their little altercation? It sure would be convenient if he had the memory of a goldfish as well as the hair of a tree-- wait what, no, trees didn't have hairs. That was a terrible metaphor. Whatever the case, he didn't have the memory of a gold fish. "Hey! Where's your bear of a friend, Mr. Mentalist Epic?"| Mister. Ohhhhhh boy. Misgendering. That was a righteous provocation. The idiot didn't know it, and they didn't let it show on their face, but he'd givev them the ability to throw him THROUGH THE WALL. SEVERAL WALLS, actually. Kokichi's face flushed. Their eyes darkened with a spark of PREPARE FOR SMACKDOWN "I'm still technically supposed to be chasing you, y'know," he continued, digging the hole he was about to find himself in even deeper. Like, if he'd gotten a shovel and started literally digging, it would've been better and-- wait, what was Nathan doing? "I—look, we didn't even use the hot sauce. It went bad in 2017." "And that brand was gross anyway," Jade added. "Tabasco is just hot vinegar." What. Why. Why did they have to say that. It totally ruined the righteous pummeling. Anything they said would make them the butt of the joke. At least the random comments defused the situation, with both the green haired totally not a tree guy and Kokichi looking at each other and making the same confused face. Question marks popped up, before vanishing, and their eyes turned into white circles with thick back outlines. Sweat drops appeared over both of their foreheads and those fish cakes showed up around the background. "Uh what," Kokichi said.

I don't have the book on hand so I don't have an exact quote, but Jasnah justifies her murdering the men in Kharbranth by saying something like "They were planning to rob, kill, and possibly rape us." And the way Jasnah talks about the men makes Shallan wonder, "Who hurt you?" I doubt Brandon would include a line like this unless it contained a grain of truth. I suspect that Jasnah was sexually assaulted as a child. Her reaction to the event was labeled "insanity," perhaps because it was so out-of-line with her previous behavior, or perhaps because she dared to name her (high-ranking, lighteyed) assailant. Either way, the horrific Alethi method of "treating" mental illness only compounded her trauma.

All hold your breath for: (credits for the image to @Silva) At first we would like to thank you @Ashspren for organizing this and for making this even more interesting by adding twists. Especially I am still grateful, that you invited me to participate this round, despite not having won a single round (yet). As we are a team, we decided to post our raps together, you will find both behind the spoiler tag. Silva's is coloured blue, mine is green, so that you can keep them apart.

Memes are a salve for boredom.

I am not at all convinced Kaladin and Jasnah would naturally make a good couple. I think there is a good case that it would take a lot of work, at best. At best! (at worst, they kill each other). Nor have I followed the Jas-adin debates closely, so I apologize if this has already come up. But I am not convinced Jasnah would spend much time even taking their compatibility into account. Of course, for that matter, I think it is entirely possible that Jasnah perfers women. But when she first realizes Shallan was a Radiant, she immediately has her engaged to Adolin. Now, there are far too many Radiants to that for everyone. But arguably the most important man on Roshar, after Dalinar, is Kaladin. He is the most accomplished Radiant so far (even if Shallan is technically ahead of him in oaths) and he has the most squires by far. Of course, part of that is his order's resonance/quirk, but still, he has the most. Jasnah is going to want him to marry into her family. This will be important for the Kholin Dynasty survival and stability. It would not be wise to have someone so powerful compete for power, even if utterly unintentionally. History will be a compelling factor here for Jasnah. I am sure she knows of other great dynasties that collapsed for similar reasons. So, if Jasnah can't marry him to one of her sisters, she will make a play for him herself. And I expect she will be terrible at it. Shallan might be helpful, with her powers of transformation, for instance how she helped the bandits become better men, even if she is helpless at transforming material. (I am a stick!)

As the title suggests, I posit that a Radiant could form a bubble out of their blade. While the plate can be broken and shattered the blade seems to be nearly indestructible. Since they can summon their blade in almost any form, why not a hamster bubble? Windrunners and Skybreakers should be able to fly in theirs, Dustbringers and Edgedancers should be able to make theirs "awesome", and Lightweavers should be able to turn theirs into a disco ball.

Or law. They know I was involved with a court case or two. But they are pretty sure what I'm doing is legal. EDIT: All they know is that I work for grandpa's old company.

See, this is why I love the Shard. We can all be roasting the heck out of each other, but at the same time, give compliments like there's no tomorrow.

I see now. Yeah that is really annoying when she does that. Jasnah has a point when she calls her out for it constantly. It's great to be witty but not all the time that it makes a person feel horrible

It seems I’m alone on my feelings on Shallan. When I say “I like her least when she’s being herself”, I’m talking about her clever for the sake of being clever nonsense. Twisting words around, making the other person feel stupid. I see it as rude, and I can’t stand real people like this, so how could I stand a character with this attitude? I only like her when she’s not doing this, so in other words, I only like her when she’s not being herself. I’m the kind of person that’s been put down and made fun of because I’m not clever. Or I don’t get a joke or don’t follow a funny statement. I don’t find her funny at all when she’s written to be funny, I just find her annoying. I find her backstory, powers and abilities interesting, but her character as a whole is not to my liking. To be honest, if I ever met this character I would avoid her like the plague.

You may think you are engaging in debate, but what you are doing is called sealioning and I will not be part of it. I will not explain to you settled caselaw you clearly have neither read nor understood. That is not my job, and I do not owe you that time or effort simply because you claim to enjoy a "debate" wherein you have repeatedly implied I was stupid and ignorant. This is off-topic and I will not participate in it any longer.

Alright, time for some of my thoughts. First off, I’m very disappointed in the activity levels of the game. This was really fun and it picked up here and there, but with a slew of people who were only names on the player list, it totally affected the game. I feel that we did a good job as traitors, but that we definitely owe a portion of our win to the fact that there were so many inactive villagers, which should never be a contributing factor to a win. Straw put in the time to balance a game with the people who signed up and when that changes significantly a day into the game, it throws off everything he’s balanced. I’d rather have been struggling to survive and even die because people were actively analyzing me than survive because five people didn’t check in. I don’t know how much of the inactivity was due to strategy or trying to lay low as a tactic, but I’m definitely opposed to that. The SE Sparta initiative was started a while back with the ideal of promoting a culture in the games where we all play to have fun, not to survive. I’d like to re-encourage that mentality; when we sign up, we play and have fun, even if that means death. The dead doc is always a fun place as well! A second meta game thing that I noticed, but wasn’t a problem yet, is that some players get really focused on winning and ignore the fun aspect of the game. These are always about having fun and winning, while part of that, is not all of it. I think this game went well this way, but it was a focus I noticed near the beginning of the game. I loved the simplicity to the rule set and the flexibility that allowed both teams in their gambits and tactics. For myself, my two favorite gambits were making up a Seeker and voting on myself to swing votes away. Snipe’s ploy to pretend to be a Soother rather than a Rioter was a good initial play and it took me a couple cycles before I suspected it. The 3 beads of atium was a bit low, I felt, but with the amount of inactives, I think it balanced out number-wise. If we’d had a full game, one more bead would’ve been a bit more balanced, in my opinion, but it all worked out well. The opportunity to use it to survive or to convert was an interesting one as well. Overall, I had an absolute blast playing this game and was very impressed by all who participated! I thought for sure a few times that we’d be caught and the game would end early on.

Granted! You now have narcolepsy, along with an uncontrollable urge to prove undeniably to everyone when you first meet them that you have narcolepsy. You carry around a folder stuffed with doctor's notes that verify your narcoleptic status for this very reason. Fortunately, this folder fits very nicely inside the many, many pillows that you carry with you everywhere you go. Your bane: you now have narcolepsy, so even though you can (usually) fall asleep whenever you want, sometimes you fall asleep when you don't want. This makes driving a vehicle very dangerous, among various other activities (extreme sports, moderately-treme sports, walking up or down stairs, operating heavy machinery, ladders... so on and so forth. Also, bears. Just a general warning: bears). I recommend carpooling, or getting a chauffeur if that's more your style. And bear spray, because, you know, bears. I wish that we have the technology.

Turns out the Nightwatcher gets a bit confused and you become pretty fly for a white guy. (Yup, that means if you're not a white guy you just became one.) Vanilla Ice Cruising in your pinto 31 tattoo You're livin' the dream I want to make sweet beautiful sleep to my many pillows whenever I want and I want it to be socially acceptable to do so even if I should be at work.

HAP BIRTH TO YU HAP BIRTH TO YU HAP BIRTH DER EN HAP BIRTH TO YU

I totally agree with this. Plus, in my opinion, the only thing Shalladin had going for it was the fact that, usually, the male and female leads get together. And there was the chasm scene. But that would’ve happened if you’d shoved any two young, attractive people together in a life or death scenario. Adolin always felt like a much better option to me, simply because he wasn’t the lead male character.

Regarding the reversed names: Its my fault. I'm officially announcing it, I did it first. I wasn't expecting all of this insanity. The way I did it is obviously the correct way, where you capitalize the letter at the beginning only.

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I'm not sure why he couldn't. Jasnah Soulcast Shallan's blood after she was poisoned.

Next in my ad hoc series of cute-animals-I-see-that-remind-me-of-a-Shard memes

I'm back with a new load of cosmemes... This one's kind of dark, but so is Mistborn: This is pretty self-explanatory Mistborn stuff (WoA spoilers): Speaking of Mistborn, here's my biggest question from Secret History (spoilers): Don't get me started on this: I used @Zas678's face to make this one, technically, so credit goes to him, I guess (WoR Pattern stuff): I regret this one, but here goes the bandwagon: Dragons: Poor Sovereign (Bands of Mourning spoilers): Spoilers for Words of Radiance and Oathbringer: This is all of us: And I couldn't help but do this too (Well of Ascension spoilers): And a couple of Skyward memes (SPOILER WARNING FOR SKYWARD):

I've been rereading OB and noticed something that just struck me as... kind of obvious foreshadowing of something. Possible foreshadowing. Jasnah does not smile often. She only smiles when it feels most genuine to do so. From p. 482 of Oathbringer, in the chapter "Broken People": Why is that little fact important? Consider the very next chapter, Notes", p. 499. And of course there is the somewhat infamous low key flirting scene. But in addition to the flirting, there's also a flash of genuine positive emotion from Jasnah. Dalinar, who is one of the closest family members of Jasnah and knows her very well, states that she only smiles rarely - only when it feels most genuine to do so. And here we have Kaladin sparking that reaction from her in the span of a single conversation, which, if I am not mistaken, is also the first time they've talked to one another. It's hard not to draw the conclusion that they have some chemistry together.