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Two days ago, in a timeline that may or may not exist. Joon stepped into the bathroom, and locked the door behind him. He changed into the clean pair of pants, tossing his old pair into a corner. Joon found a body length mirror behind the door and looked himself over in it. These new pants were unfortunately cut in a wide MaiPon style that was a decade out of fashion, and was so loose that it flared slightly when he spun. Joon frowned. How was he to impress anyone with his physique when no one could see it? At least he could enhance his other aspects. Joon brought out a comb and some hair gel. He gently brushed the front of his hair upwards, curling it in the way that he knew all the girls on the street liked it. It ought to work on Ellira too. Finally, Joon brought out his cosmetics kit. His trump card. Inside, a Soul Stamp waited. He threw a furtive glance over his shoulder, but of course, the door was locked. Then, and only then, did he take it out. He went through the motions with a practiced air, inking it and putting it on the bottom of his foot. It sank in just a quarter inch more than it should, like always. The memories came in a rush. Five years ago, instead of letting his father discourage his first forays into politics, he had doubled down. From there, he had found the Discovery faction. In this life, he had learned disguise along with fashion, covert action along with socializing, blackmail along with flirting. He was now Banyung. Joon Banyung. And he still had a girl to seduce.

I present to you a short comic showing how things really went down, despite these many claims going on.

Me being unable to upvote anymore because I burned it all up upvoting everyone's posts: Me upvoting both Disco and Villagers alike: Me being unable to upvote Striker Kalebane, Gamebreaker, Terror of GMs, because I burned the last upvote on Rae's excellent RP: Yes, that's right, I'm roleclaiming Thanos, a hidden role. I win if half the village dies and half Disco dies. Alas...

....Now I’m picturing an AU where Ellira sees Joon killing Kavela, falls in “love” then and there, seduces him/lets him seduce her, and lovingly slides a dagger through his heart during a kiss.

Today’s prompt is: 22. Sacrifice Rashan sacrificing himself to save Max and Mara. Finally, we’ve gotten to the one where I can focus purely on the grand abomination that is the Phoenix

So the idea that T's boon/bane was specifically created to take out Odium (as espoused by @RShara, @Calderis, and many others, myself included) just got one more serious bit of evidence with this recent WoB from the Tel Aviv signing: It seemed pretty obvious with the nature of T's boon/bane that it most likely required direct shardic intervention, but this is confirmation that Cultivation herself gave T his vacillating states of extreme intelligence/callousness and extreme stupidity/emotional empathy. It can be conjectured with near certainty from reading Oathbringer that the unfolding of Dalinar's boon/bane was specifically timed for effect. In Dalinar's case the memories arrived at key times to keep him moving along his path of Spiritual Growth. The fact that T has seen Cultivation herself and his bane/boon is most likely unfolding under the, at times, active guidance of Cultivation makes it far more likely, as Rshara likes to say, that T is a Plant, and that he and the Diagram are weapons specifically designed to take down Odium. What's incredibly interesting is that the Diagram has multiple layers of subterfuge, in a sense it exists to distract Odium from the true plan, while at the same time guiding key actors towards the desired end goal. So it is both smoke and mirrors and the true plan. There are quite a few threads with the specifics of this theory, I'll update this OP with spoilered thread links later, I've got to get some work done. Just saw this WoB and was pretty excited about the mini confirmation of one of the most exciting theories on the Shard. Exciting stuff!

@little wilson We can’t both be the Spy, and my ID clearly says I’m the real Spy.

Greetings. It's funny how it all started. I got Mistborn 1 as a birthday gift a few years ago, but my book reading has been on a hiatus for a while then. After letting the book sit on my shelf for a few years, I finally dipped my toe in this universe just over a year ago. And it pulled me in with the force of a Shard. Currently I have completed almost all the cosmere works (excluding only white sand 2 and 3, waiting for the third to be released locally). I'm going to attend the upcoming Prague signing event so I figured that it would be fitting to finally join this group. So yeah, glad to be here.

*Looks at ID* I don't see your ID, Tess. If you wanna fall on your sharpened sword, you better prove to us you deserve it! Because my sword is also sharpened and awaiting me. ....huh. When I said I was planning on bathing in blood at the beginning of this game, I hadn't planned for that to be my blood, but I suppose this works too.

StrikerEZ: "I'm signing up!" Kasimir has left the GM Lounge.

Well, huh. I got Alv and called out Elandera. Rae and Burnt are surprising but Burnt was the creator so I'm positive I would've gone after her at some point too. Clearly this makes me the Spy. Not these other imposters raining on my parade. Oh, also well done. And sorry, Alv. I mean, I'm not really sorry because I was right and you guys killed me anyway (really, a cycle 2 death in my first game back? What's up with that?!), but maybe I'm a little sorry about giving Asterion a panic attack. Maybe.

Assassination Cycle So Far It was a night of endings. Kwai slept fitfully, a hand pressed to the wad of bandages stuffed over his thigh. The crossbow bolt that had pierced his thigh lay on the floorboards of the storeroom, bloodied. Herat shivered, a thin sheen of sweat on her skin. She had not stirred in the last few days, as the conspirators fought, and argued, and died, but she still stubbornly clung to life, despite running a fever. If Shuos KanSeun hadn’t known better, he might have said that she was waiting for something. Ellira slipped out, a ghost in the night. Waiting for orders, wondering if the same orders would return again by spanreed. Watch and observe. Yesterday should have acted yesterday, she found herself thinking idly, as she crouched over Marzia and raised the twisted knife in her hands. She’d never killed before. She was surprised Somi had such a knife on her: more or less a twisted hunk of metal, wrapped in cloth, with a point. Too late for regrets. She brought the knife down. Marzia opened her eyes and smiled as the blade bent like a cheap reed. “Pity,” she murmured. “You should know better than to try to take the best armourer in the Rose Empire with a shiv like that.” Marzia lashed out with an elbow, forcing Yesterday backwards. “I’ve slept in armour ever since the Succession Riots,” she commented, idly. “It’s how I survived. You can barely see the thin ceramic plates beneath the jacket.” Elsewhere, Kavela was staring out at the moon. She shouldn’t have come here, Kavela thought. Too late for that now. With the conspiracy collapsing like wet paper, she would be lucky if any of her usual buyers were interested in the information she had to sell. No, perhaps the best choice would be to cut and run. “Copper for your thoughts?” she asked, sensing Joon come up behind her. “Sure,” Joon said. A thin wire bit into her throat, drawing tighter and tighter, and Kavela realised in horror that she shouldn’t have trusted him. Shouldn’t have let him behind her guard. She drummed her heels against the floorboards, struggling to break free, but Joon had a tight grasp on the stranger’s wire and did not let go. Eventually, dark smears crossed Kavela’s vision, and she tasted the sharp coppery tang of blood in her mouth, and then her struggles grew weaker and weaker, and ceased entirely. Joon leaned into the hold, and smiled. ㄢㄋㄌ It was a night of endings. Even as Kavela died, she wished...she wished they’d had a second chance. She wished it hadn’t ended this way. For a moment, Joon’s grip seemed to slacken. The walls of the teahouse blurred, and then came into sharp focus. Wai ZhierSen sat at one of the tables, and Asterion at another. Faitren was well again, and sipping at a pot of tea, while Lawrence Scholdei smiled, mostly to himself, his mask concealing most of his features. Shuo KanSeun was talking to Ellira, and smiling pleasantly, and Joon was trying his luck with Ellira, all over again, handing her a hairpin. Kavela’s nails dug into her palms as she sucked in a deep breath. Air. It felt so good to breathe. Tears stung at her eyes. She scrubbed at them. Wouldn’t do to be seen to be crying now. The Frozen Moon seemed like an unexpected vision, the momentary calm before the storm of suspicion, suffering, and privation that had descended upon them over the last few days. Could it be…? Was this her second chance? ㄢㄋㄌ Young Bard (Kavela) was killed! She was from the Glory Faction and aligned with the Conspirators! Elandera (Marzia) was lynched, but survived! Vote Tally The game has ended, and Discovery reigns victorious! Congratulations to Alvron, Arraenae, Burnt Spaghetti, and Elandera. Due to popular preference for an Assassination Cycle, a 24-hour Assassination Cycle has begun! This Assassination Cycle will not be played for the win, but for bragging rights and kudos. Can Discovery find the Reform Spy? Or will the Conspirators stave them off? Please be reminded that everyone playing this game may now post in the thread, but only Discovery members may vote to lynch the Reform Spy. Treat voting as though it were an ordinary lynch. The votes in red will be counted. Thank you, and have fun! The Assassination Cycle, and the game, will end on 9PM tomorrow, the 24th of October, GMT+8. Player List

Tssk, no real Scots... I mean, spy has their ID say so. It should look more like this:

No problem! Also a few months ago I entered a Lucky Charms contest thing where the winners get an entire box of only the rainbow and unicorn marshmallows. I ended up winning and now have a box of “sugar, corn starch, corn syrup, dextrose, gelatin, yellow 5, blue 1, artificial flavor, and red 40” that is “produced with genetic engineering”. I really want to eat it but I’m scared I’ll mutate into some sort of leprechaun monster. I originally wanted to keep it and not open it but I’m not sure if it will expire and the internet is being very unhelpful about it. I also now have a “marshmallow only” membership card that I am going to frame on my wall

For the prompt "Ancient" I give you the most ancient thing I could think of - the fabled Tombstone key! I tried to make it look almost more like a spear than a key because Thought's symbol is her spear and this thing unlocked that power, so that's pretty storming cool. And I also put two infinity symbols in there because eternal life and all that. I had a lot of fun doing this one. It's different and unique.

... Kavela deserved her strangling.

*all the short people in the room huddle in a circle and whisper in soft tones for a few moments* "Sure you are, mate. We believe you! This had nothing to do with the fact that entry 236 prevents us from properly arguing with you about this." *someone in the huddle coughs* "Mention Reason 221!" "What, that tall people have larger lungs so they always seem to produce more hot air? Shhh, we're trying to be humble, WINK."

I mean, it's a fairly good effort Striker, but I think the game is already up. It should be clear to the elims that the spy was someone that died C1, given the lack of spy-like activity in the rest of the game, so that means it's either you or me. Given the kill targeting me, I reckon the elims already know that it was indeed I that was the spy, and not Striker. I am wondering what gave me away though. I thought I was being really sneaky by ignoring the Alv lynch and going for supporting a mislynch first (again, sorry about that Striker). Either way, well played to the elims!

When your reading a non-sanderson book and are looking for Hoid. When your expecting the next storm to rip you off the face of Australia. When you call someone lifeless as an insult and watch their confused faces: *Me* Shut up you storming Lifeless. Your opinion on my thoughts are irrelevant. *Him* ...What? * @greeny-231 * *Laughs*

Oh wow that looks so cool!! I have some "graphite" ink that has that really cool shimmery effect, I'll have to look into those powders! Realm: Sharp:

In BoM we are shown that the Southern Scadrians have a problem that makes the brass medallions a necessity for their survival. They are shown to freeze to death in what appears to be relatively mild weather in the memory that Wax views at the end of the book. I've long suspected the reason for this, but through a recent discord discussion with @Extesian and @Spoolofwhool I think we've nailed down the actual mechanism. The Southerners were set aside by Rashek when he changed scadrial to preserve the original genetics of Scadrians in case his experiments in the north with the Nobles and Skaa went horribly wrong. We have a WoB, though, that he found a way to allow them to survive the heat created by moving the planet. Without the Ashmounts, or the altered genetics required from all of his cascading problems in the north. I believe that the method he found was a purely Spiritual alteration. I believe that Rashek altered the Spiritual aspect of the Southerners in a way that mimics storing in brass via Feruchemy. Storing would allow a person to survive extreme temperatures by making themselves colder. So I think that the problem that they suffer from, and why they specifically need Brass Feruchemy to compensate, is that there Spiritual Aspects have been altered in a way that causes the body heat that would normally be produced to essentially "store" continually, dumping body heat into the Spiritual as Investiture to make them function at a far colder level than is natural. Which, while the world was uninhabitably hot was a boon to their survival, but now leaves them perpetually on the verge of hypothermia. Genetic information preserved, still able to survive in temperatures that should have quickly lead to heat stroke and death... And a major problem with no physical source once the planet was returned to its proper orbit. It still doesn't answer why Sazed didn't fix them for me, but it is a mechanism that seems to make sense.

I'm not sorry at all I died when I did. Whenever I RP a character I try to get into their head so I can feel what they feel. Asterion was not in a good place. There were several times where I had to stop typing his RP and go outside for a breath of fresh air because I got too deep into his mind. I was happy to be lynched. It was my idea to kill you. You were a threat and threats need to be removed. I don't care about keeping talkative or 'experienced' players alive so I can hide among them. I would rather keep new players alive so they get experience or the not as much talkative / analyzing players so they can flourish without others overshadowing them. Clearly that isn't me eating those pancakes. After all, everyone knows Waffles are superior. Guys, guys. It's very clear who the spy is. It's me! Think about it. I knew the ids of all the Discovery members before they knew mine and I even had Rae pegged as the EO the same cycle she turned. But really, Stink, Wilson or Itiah is our best bet. Wilson seems too obvious but maybe that's what she wants. Striker and Venture are possibilities but I discounted them. Striker because while I can see it, there's just not enough to go on one way or another. Venture I doubt because he could've easily voted for me on D1 when everyone thought I was tied in the lynch with Striker. If I was a betting person, and I am, I would say Itiah is the spy.

Right. I apologize. Thank you for correcting me. This is my real ID.

The Divine Breath healing is clearly capable of a couple of things that normal healing isn't. For one thing, Susebron had his tongue cut out as an infant. He should have no self image of himself with a tongue to begin with, so the "Cognitive filter" should have kept that from being healed... But not only did it heal his tongue, it's specifically noted in the text that it did more than just healing in granting him the ability to use that tongue perfectly for speech without every having learned to do so physically. Generally, from what we've seen, breath provides no passive healing, just a sort of... Resilience to internal processes. If healing via breath is possible, which I don't see why it wouldn't be, I doubt think it will match what a divine breath can do,and it will probably be a use of awakening that actually consumes breath itself rather than just color...

No, no. I'm pretty sure I'm the spy and you're the imposter. See, look at my spy ID. I'm totally the spy.

Hey, I’m the one that voted on Alv, so I dunno what you’re talking about. I’m still annoyed you lynched me though, maybe we could’ve won otherwise. No, I’m the spy, you’re the imposter. @Kasimir Thank you for the titles. I really appreciate it. I can’t wait to do business with you again.

It will be my first signing event, but I'll do my best to record the audio from the event.

And, it being Cultivation directly makes this WoB just a little more conspicuous. Not that it wasn't already.

What do you think I was going for?

Don't you mean Joones Bond? J/k

Great game everyone, and a special thanks to our GMs for the fun! I look forward to killing you all some more in the future.

Oh snap! The Nightwatcher bursts into raucous laughter "what an enterprising human! clever, clever, very clever... hmm, very well, I shall grant it, Radiant, but!" you start to sweat profusely "I shall remain here, listening to petitions, I shall not deign to give my aid to Roshar in their time of need! Perhaps, in time you may convince me, with higher Ideals you may even coerce me! But until then, you shall remain here beside me, listening to foolish mortals wishing for foolish things, for that is your bane, my Knight!"

Okay, elims, good job. I was hoping to be able to last longer before I died to help the villagers find you, but that didn’t go too well. Now we can play some mind games. Are you gonna call my bluff of me being the spy? For all you know, I could be lying. Or I could be telling the truth, and you waste your assassination on someone who’s not the spy. What are you gonna do?

Sighs but then taking a deep breath, straightens my shoulder, looks up ignoring the touch of hundreds of tentacles on my face, I said “So be it. The bane I wish of you motherspren is to bond with you as your bondsmith. To endure your company till I die, there is no bigger bane I think. Life before death, strength before weakness, Journey before destination!”

"Who is this? What fell sorcery is this? Two Nightwatchers? You think to mock me! Impostor! I shall punish you! Oh how shall I punish you...?" *croons* "Well now, let's change the game then, shall we? For you, impostor I shall make an exception to my rules: you may petition me for your bane, a bane suitable as punishment for your grave error that so besmirched me by imitating me. Perhaps I shall be merciful and grant you a boon as well..... well? speak!"

*uses Aes Sedai mysteries to heal SoT* Seriously though, I hope you feel better! Just remember, every hour not spent at school mean one more hour on the Shard....

...when you can't read any other fantasy

I very much enjoyed this game while I was alive—my only comment on balance would be the confirmed good roles, which Elandera already addressed farther up. The game probably would have been fine in this regard if it weren’t for the Government Agent, which really seemed to give the village quite a lot of power. I will say I had a mild panic attack when @Amanuensis and I had our intense 3-hour PM, and not slipping throughout that entire back-and-forth was very hard, especially since the conversation was moving quickly enough that I couldn’t talk to my team. Once I figured out enough about his role, we made sure to kill him because getting that conversion off would have been fatal to our chances of ever pulling off a win with Rath alive, and the unassailability of Devotary, Sart, Araris and Venture made me sacrifice myself C3, which, despite our incredibly poor luck with the shades, did eliminate at least half of that group. That said, full credit to @Rathmaskal and @ILuvHats for the win. You two stuck in there to the end, and made my first elim game a ton of fun Especially props to Rath for misleading the village for just long enough to whittle things down to parity, and trolling and planning your actions magnificently.

I'm sorry, but "Character: Atheist" got a chuckle out of me "Please hand me the salt," Jasnah said, atheistically.

@Grim_Aeonian I in no way meant to imply that you're incorrect. I was just trying to provide some of what I know Brandon's said. Even if he has shared it, or it wasn't intentional, I'm interested in any parrelels. Despite my own atheism (or perhaps because of it) I've always been fascinated by religions and theology in general. Edit: and yes, the double eye is used as a Vorin symbol, and was also the symbol of the Knights. The most complicated version being the surgebinding chart, the middle ground being the circle with 5 crossed swords, and the most simplified being the twin pupiled eye in the chapter headers. In the sword image, you can actually see the order glyph circles from the surgebinding chart overlaid in the center. And in the border you can the simplified eye.

For most if it, I can't truly speak to the accuracy or inaccuracies of your opinions because I don't know enough... The double eye though, the symbol of the Knights Radiant, (with multiple versions, the most complex being the surgebinding chart itself) is based loosely off of the Tree of Sefirot from the Jewish Kaballah.

Seriously, God needs your hand! OPEN THE WINDOW, TARAVAGIAN, AND GIVE IT TO HIM Crap, I don’t know pop culture well enough here’s Johnny? I honestly don’t even know what that saying is from.

I've answered this question before, but seeing as the format changed and there are new cards, a new banlist, and a completely new mechanic in Link Monsters, I figure that I should update it. I think that the first priority for any player has to be negating Odium's Field Spell, Everstorm. That card is insanely busted and allows him to infinitely recover his destroyed Fused monsters while providing investiture for effects. Set Rotation is a hard counter that will completely prevent him from activating a field spell, but since it's limited to 1 and not searchable, it's not reliable. Same goes for Imperial Order. I think that both triple Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit and Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring are necessary to either negate or destroy Everstorm, especially if Odium moves first. If you can't stop him from spamming the field, Nibiru, the Primal Being can wipe his board in an instant. And since it doesn't destroy, Odium won't be able to recover those fused. Evenly Matched can also do this, but is much riskier. Ultimately though, I think that the best way to beat Odium is to abuse the mirror match. Ghost Reaper & Winter Cherries can snipe crucial play extenders from his extra deck, and Super Polymerization is spell speed 4 mass removal that can give you a beatstick. I think that an anti-meta control deck focused around a Sky Striker or Thunder Dragon engine would provide enough firepower and resource recursion to simply grind him out.

I like this idea. It could also be a dedicated, shorter video, whenever we get around to doing some of those!

The problem with this post and Kaz's list in general is that tall people are objectively superior to short people.

I am convinced the Shin or Shinjas only had honorblades. Seems like making Szeth a truthless was an attempt to surpass any Knight Radiant rising on their midst (possibly influenced by a herald, or Odium)

Exhale Intuition

When you extensively imagine when Frost would look like and this is what you find matches it the closest