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  1. It is December It is officially Christmas Season I still feel like it should be barely half past summer I did not get anywhere near 50K words for NaNoWriMo I have to put in my two weeks in about ten days. Yikes I am now officially sitting on like a gazillion dollars but I'm going to college soon so you'd better believe I'm not gonna get to do anything fun with it I'm leaving for college in a little over a month I've been a legal adult for way too long What in the world and I supposed to do? My artistic ability has improved significantly tho so that's cool Iconar Collective? Can't write it for the life of me recently. The re-rough draft is 43K words rn and about a third of the way done but I honestly have no clue how to take it from here Changed the layout of the series from a trilogy to [number unknown] full novels to make it a saga instead, Robert Jordan style Probably started about fifteen other projects that never got past the first few pages What am I doing? It's not time for a year in review. There's still one month to go (December shouldn't count but whatever) Kay uhhh bye
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  2. I need advice. So at the end of the year seniors go on internships for about six weeks. Students can essentially choose their internship by talking to sponsors and organizations ect. The form for the internship choice is due in about two weeks. One option for me is to go intern at my uncle’s software company in DC. In college, I’m planning on double majoring in Math and CompSci, so this will be extremely useful for my career in the future. This kind of thing is also very important for graduate school admissions and I’m confident I could do impressive work at the internship and receive a fine recommendation. The other option is to intern with some professional musicians in NYC. Music is my greatest passion, and I feel like this could be a musical renaissance for me, a once in a lifetime opportunity. My orchestra teacher tells me I should publish a book with my compositions/arrangements—this could open up the door for me to do that. But it won’t help me in college and what I want to study professionally. Anyone have any ideas?
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  3. I became part of a nonet today without knowing it! I was choosen along with the other cellist and seven other students to be part of the nonet that's playing at the choir concert and christmas music at the staff party! I am excited and also nervous. Mostly nervous because I can't work on essays that day, but I should have most done by then.
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  4. Me, the guy who hasn't watched guardians of the galaxy, is hyped for guardians of the galaxy vol 3.
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  5. Duralumin contracts the conversion process from however long it would take to burn all the metal into one go. Given the lerasium seems to go all at once as is it probably wouldn't do anything.
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  6. Tomorrow, suggest I do that everybody vote. Like, right away. Even if for someone not sure you are of or based on pure silly Force intuition. But surely by now, suspicions we all have. Just grab people and dangling over the Sarlacc pit we should. Help it will for us to get the space-ball rolling and always change our minds we can later. Democracy dying to thunderous applause better is than democracy dying with “meh” fart noises. Unless something interesting happens, vote later for Silhouette I may just to make sure that die he does (so no funny business makes him somehow survive and force us to endure this entire same conversation again tomorrow.) (Sequels are overrated.) More interesting it is for me to have more than one person up for Sarlacc-into. But in the meantime keep whacking Alvron’s knees with my tiny lightsaber I will, because by the Force somebody has to.
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  7. Am I a Brony? Well, I'm aware that one came out of nowhere, but I have a point with this question, so please hear me out. Personally, my answer to the above question - which I'm the only one asking - is actually no, I'm not. I intend to elaborate here a bit on why that is. But Trutharchivist, don't you have a blog here? Why use a status update? Well, my blog is for different things, like trying to explain the history of Judaism in the previous two-three centuries. I don't want to digress there. So, without lingering any further, let's begin. Since I opened with that, I guess I'll start with the Brony situation. Bronies are defined as fans of My Little Pony (specifically Friendship is Magic) who are outside the regular target demographics of little girls. Mostly, we're talking about adult men at around their early twenties. I am, indeed, a men at my early twenties, and I've been watching MLP: FiM and adjacent content a lot lately. That, supposedly, places me under the definition of a Brony. So why am I in denial about it? But here's the thing: I do like MLP: FiM, but I wouldn't call myself a fan of it. Or, well, not a very dedicated fan. You see, I tend to go through various temporal obsessions during my life. A few of the more severe ones include Harry Potter, Tolkien's Legendarium, possibly Percy Jackson and, yes, MLP: FiM. I have a somewhat extensive knowledge on those franchises, but not as extensive as more dedicated fans. I can tell you approximately what happened during the First Age of Arda, how Voldemort found Barty Crouch Jr. to infiltrate Hogwarts, How Percy reacted to meeting Echidna (and who's the Greek Mythology hero that defeated the monster he faced back then) and what musincal the song "Best Night Ever" from the first part of MLP: FiM's season one finale references (though it has more to do with liking said musical than liking the show...). I can randomly quote the Inheritance Cycle, Discworld or random stuff from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and it's not just 42). I'm also exaggarating a bit to sound impressive, but I do randomly quote books sometimes. Oh, and there's a person or two out there who view me as the resident Marvel expert (not around here). My point is, though, that all those won't be in my "most favourite" list (though all will be in my favourites); they had their effect on me, but I don't see myself as a part of the fandom. Same may well go for Sanderson books, BTW: I may read the Cosmere as it comes out, but I don't consider Sanderson's books to be necessarily the best I've ever read. My point may be mute after all that I said, but in the end, the fandoms I most identify with are the smallest ones I'm a part of. Perhaps the Underland Chronicles, Diana Wynne Jones' books, Anne of Green Gables... A few small books that caught my eye and - dare I say it - my heart. (Not necessarily just books, though.) MLP: FiM may or may not join this more exclusive group of media that had deep influence on me, but it isn't there yet. Which is why I don't see myself as a Brony, or Potterhead, or Whovian or whatever weird fandom name those others have: I'm not that much invested in those Fandoms for the long run, or not invested very deeply. My latest obsession is MLP: FiM. Who knows what I'll get into next? Hope it made sense! Thank you for reading, and have a wonderful day! -Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle- no, wait, that's not right... Ahem! -yours, faithfully, Trutharchivist, AKA Ookla the Questioning?
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  8. I think the biggest weakness of lashings and reverse lashings is that you have to touch the things you wish to lash... yes a coin being drug down would help to protect the radiant but I don't think it will be as effective no efficient as the argument says. How many lashings would you need to stop a coin from hitting you if you are just lashing the ground? A lot more stormlight to stop coins than steel to push them. And once the ground is lashed it is stationary. A fight moving around would cause a lot more wasted light than steel or coins... and you are literally giving the mistborn more anchor points to aid in their maneuverability at that point. The windrunner is better off reverse lashing a shield and using it more like a lurcher... again then you hand the mistborn more tools for maneuverability. It becomes mass vs mass at that point as well. While I agree that windrunners have more maneuverability and control in the air I would seriously advocate for the mistborn winning in acceleration. The need to flare pewter to keep from blacking out points to some pretty bonkers G forces that the mistborn go through when flying. They may not make it up as high in a jump off as a windrunner but those first few hundred feet will happen way faster for a mistborn. Its the difference between a bullet being shot out of a gun and being dropped off of a building. I know you can stack lashings but again we run into 1 use of steel and continuous flow and stacking of stormlight to keep up.
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  9. the big problem with all this is how is the mistborn going to kill the Radiant. You get close and they shardblade you unless you have atium. If the mistborn uses atium, the radiant backs off. if you try to kill them with pushes, that's what reverse lashings are for. they can just reverse lash all metal to the ground they're touching. eventually, I agree, the radiant eventually runs out of Stormlight before the mistborn runs out of metals, but I still think they win. plus @Wits instant noodles and i were talking about this which is the reason it's on here, and the original question was "does a fourth ideal radiant beat a mistborn" and I say definitely if it's fourth ideal. if it's third ideal, which is this question to be clear, it's a close fight but i think the radiant wins. tell me if there's any flaws in my thinking. Thanks for the good debate ya'll
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  10. A gift, democracy is. Use it, we should not be afraid to, because come on, not like your votes can against you be held in a future court of public opinion a case for being a murderer made, and in your violent public execution by an angry mob resulting, right? Don't look where I'm kicking *awkwardly kicks rug over Xino and Szeth's bloody mutilated corpses*
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  11. Alright. More GM clarifications in plainspeak because player confusion continues: Force Sense and Force Lightning are essentially abilities with a cooldown. The only thing I check for when determining if a player can send in a Force Sense / Force Lightning order is whether they've sent one on the previous term. Suppose Wyrm and Ashiok are both Jedi. As long as neither Wyrm nor Ash have sent in Force Sense on C1, they can send in Force Sense orders jointly on C2. Similarly, suppose Meta and Sart are both Desann Reborn. As long as neither Meta nor Sart have sent in Force Lightning orders on C2, they can both send in Force Lightning orders on C3. The only abilities in this game that are restricted to 'only one player can send this in at a time' are the unique abilities of the Jedi and the Desann Reborn: recruitment and Force Drain. Only at most one Reborn can send in a Force Drain order at a time, just as at most only one Jedi can recruit at a time. (I know this is not an elegant solution, but imagine this game if Jedi could breed recruit...like gizka :eyes: ) Any Cultist appointed as a successor to a fallen Desann Reborn does not themselves become Desann Reborn. Their accession also cannot be roleblocked. Look, let's spell it out as a concrete scenario. Suppose that Meta and Sart are both Desann Reborn, and Meta goes and gets himself killed C2. (This actually happened in the original MR2 which this game reruns, FYI.) Joe and Tulir are their Cultists. On the next cycle, I will automatically go to the Elim team and basically say, "K, look, Meta's dead now, y'all decide which Cultist will send in the kill now." As soon as they pick him, he'll immediately get access to the kill. (In a one Cultist world, this is a formality.) Don't think of this as an in-game mechanic you can substantively interfere with: think of it as a simple way to keep the logic that the Elims should get kill access without being overly mech-locked. The anointed Cultist does not become Reborn and does not count to their wincon and does not acquire any new powers beyond the ability to kill and any other powers a Jedi may have generously given them.
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  12. Ah I missed that. There is still the fact that it is the fastest leaking investiture source out there. Metal doesn't lose its ability to be converted to investiture. All gems with the exception of perfect gemstones are leaking and the light is evaporating off of them all the time. Even if a surgebinder were to breathe back onto the gems they would lose their investiture at an infinitely faster rate than metals in a vial (with the exception of perfect gems, 0.00001% of investiture lost over time is infinitely larger than zero). This was really just to the point of waiting out the atium. Just turn it off... how would the windrunner ever know that the mistborn was burning atium anyways? It wouldn't be obvious until suddenly they were being hit in the vitals every swing meanwhile none of their attacks hit. How many times can an unarmored radiant heal pierced vitals while missing every attack before realizing something weird is happening and still have the light to dip out? Meanwhile the mistborn very obviously knows when the magic is being used by his opponent and will be able to land shots from ranged ripping through torsos with future sight as the windrunner is running... plus yanking on nonmagically metal to keep in range? Windrunner at 3rd ideal is fighting an uphill battle the entire time against a mistborn from even era 1 already. Add in atium and the the 3rd ideal windrunner is hosed. Atium vs the 3rd ideal radiant is as much "can't touch this" plot armor in favor for the mistborn as shardplate is for the 4th ideal radiants vs everything short of nightblood (or other shardblades but speaking of outside Roshar systems specifically). Atium can sort of even out the playing field vs plate but seeing every move doesn't do anything if you can't break through (which is a horse so dead now its not even funny).
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  13. Does everyone here tend to feel useless and unwanted? And then sad and lonely for reasons you understand but can't quite grasp or solidify? Also, sorry, I wanted to make this poetic and sad like I would normally do since it's an idea I like, but I think bluntness here might better convey the tone I'm going for. We'll see.
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  14. When you have to look up a common internet abbreviation because it's just a jumble of letters to your eyes...
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  15. This is why i hate my birthday Today I went out to celebrate it with my friends cause yesterday they were all busy and i was so excited cause it was the first time i was allowed to go out to celebrate And you know i got a new haircut. I got bangs like Wednesday Addams and every single body made fun of them. Said i looked creepy and like a drunkard and a drug addict. And i was also told my face is "puffy" and called "chubby" many times today And then we were going to a restaurant to have dinner and my best friend ditched me for her new boy toy. I got in huge trouble with my mom today cause she insisted that i come over to her house so she could do my makeup. I told her no and she still called up my mom and asked her. And my mom went off at me saying that i shouldn't ask my friends to talk to her when i literally told this girl not to So she ditched me. And the later she did end up coming but spent the entire time talking with her boyfriend. And none of the conversation included me. They all just basically ignored.me I'm always ignored. Always the outsider. I thought i was fitting in finally. But no, I'm always the loser. My birthdays always go horribly. And for the first time i thought it wouldn't, but no. Of course not.
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  16. Oh my gods! Holy flaming mother of death!!!! I finished nanowrimo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! words words words anyway you can read it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z-E_Y0XTxwQoCqO-yfUh1DMYseoEm-J6RKRn3aIE1XE/edit?usp=sharing Keep in mind that it's not finished
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  17. There is a pretty big difference between mistborn and radiant in this case specifically. Once a radiant takes a deep breath that stormlight is on a timer... it will run out. The mistborn has way way way longer to choose to use atium or not. A bead of atium may only last a couple of minutes but you don't HAVE to burn it all away once you start burning it. If the windrunners strategy is to run away until the atium is gone then only a truly stupid mistborn would burn it while not under attack. The windrunner has no way to know what or when a mistborn is burning metals meanwhile the mistborn will always be able to see when the windrunner is holding a breath of light... through tin usage and bronze the windrunner can't hide their usage of stormlight... which as already noted is use or lose once breathed in. I can't say for sure but I see the mistborn inching out the radiant in strength and speed pre 4th ideal. I believe steel and iron are faster acceleration when used for flight vs stacking lashings. Radiant has better healing and a potential 1 shot kill in the spren blade but the mistborn has ranged attacks and pewter enhanced movements. Stormlight perfects what your body can naturally do at its peak... pewter is literal magic enhancement. With no shardplate to block steel and iron yet the windrunner still has to wear clothes which likely means wearing some metal in one form or another. None of that is talking about emotional allomancy. Every other chapter we see these broken radiants spiraling away from their oaths one way or another... it wouldn't be that big of a stretch to think someone could riot and soothe Kaladin into a catatonic state. We can ignore all of the other metals for this fight and it wouldn't make that much of a difference. Add in the era 2 metals and you have leeching and access to time manipulation as well. A radiant passing through a time bubble would be hit by that terrible nausea and disorientation... stormlight heals well but all you need is a second to land potentially crippling attack of leeching all stormlight or an attack to the CNS. Again. All metals have an on off switch. Stormlight is the go button. You breathe and you need to fight. Infact there is more likelihood of the mistborn being able to evade conflict while the radiant runs out of light than the radiant evading until the mistborn runs out of metal. A vial on your belt will last the entire weeping while all spheres eventually lose light. I think mistborn vs windrunner before shardplate even with shardblade is 75% in favor of the mistborn without atium. 90+% with atium.
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  18. I agree. In a cat and mouse situation as Windrunner you have really good mobility, and with sprenblades being so versatile, it would take a very skilled Mistborn to avoid everything, even with the amount of tools at their disposal. Also, don't forget the other lashings. No amount of pewter, bendalloy, or agility will help you if the Windrunner is launching large, non-metal objects at you. Even without Stormlight, the Mistborn has to be super careful and probably kill the Windrunner with coins or something because if you get in any sort of closer range combat with the Windrunner you're just going to die.
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  19. I was going to say Mistborn, but I think that the buffs given to Radiants, including their spren possibly warning the radiant of assassination, is simply too powerful. Honestly, Radiants have access to an absurd amount of investiture. Obviously, the question of how much Stormlight and Atium comes to mind, but I think that the Windrunner wins, especially considering how fast a Mistborn uses Atium compared to Windrunners using stormlight. Even if the Mistborn somehow had unlimited Atium, the Windrunner could escape pretty easily because lashings are a much better way to fly than steelpushing or ironpulling, and it's much more accurate and controllable than duralumin boosting either of those things.
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  20. new favorite AI thing https://beta.character.ai/? if you can find a good character, it's amazing. There are a few cosmere ones but they aren't very good. like check out this velociraptor one I was literally dying at parts of this
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  21. Because it's not the end of a cycle and I might be able to get a tie if I do nothing til then. My faith is absolute and unwavering. I'm sure you remember MR29. I have every reason to trust in my Gods. I trust them implicitly. However, they only told me that Bookwyrm needed to be watched carefully, they did not say why. I admit, this has me interested. It almost sounds like you know of my rep yet in the same post you claim not to be familiar with players styles. Is someone warning you about me in Doc perhaps? Maybe we should see what kind of sabre you drop? *flexes fingers*
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  22. Okay, bad Moff feels about walking in on Silhouette making a valiant last stand and like a weirdo just dropping frogs out of my mouth. (In my defense, a big frog it was.) Asked I have been about why I retracted my vote for Xino yesterday. The answer is that something in Xino's words innocent sounded to me, and with all the accusations flying around, unsure I was what side to go for, so the Force told me to shut up for once and see what happened. Silhouette, vote for you I am not based on anything in past lives or "games." As an alien non-Sandersonian to your planet, unfamiliar with what the hell those arguments about are I am. The vote saving you unexplained it is, and concerned I have been about the secret voices corrupting our democracy. Proof of your evil it is not, but question marks in my mind you raise. Trust you, it is hard for me. If kill you today we do not, or saved by a secret for a second time you are, will tomorrow the same question be in our minds, from others distracting us? (*cough cough* ALVRON). In this particular galaxy unfortunately, to start chopping suspects in half and seeing what color lightsaber falls out, the only mechanic for determining any sort of true information is. Then move on we can to other suspects (cough cough ALVRON). I kid Alvron I kid maybe *smokes death stick of paranoia*
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  23. hi guys out back for a death stick I went, what’s up? Oh. Carry on.
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  26. Marie entered the building, peering in the cognitive as she looked at the people already here. One man had a mind that shined a bit brighter than the rest and slightly distorted the colour around him in the physical Probably breaths. Polaris said I know. she answered Looked at the other, they hadn't anything obvious going on except... The soul of a girl one who looked like a thief felt wrong, as if some part had been precision-machined, she had never seen anything like this More importantly, is this a storming kid over there? It's the alleyverse so I'd give it 50/50 odds She walked to the table and said "Am I late?"
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  27. "Thank you so much!" Temeria exclaimed and bent forward over the map. She reached into her pocket and took out a small notebook. Squinting at the street names on the map she noted down the addresses. "That sounds exactly like something we can do." She looked at Ember. "We can go and look into the buildings, turn them to dust and train our surge at the same time." She put the notebook back into her pocket. "And we can do something good at the same time." A smile touched her face. "Honestly, thank you so much. For the explanation regarding my surges and for the map and that you took the time for my question. I know that it's not what people look for usually." Temeria bit down on her lip and hesitated. He hadn't reacted when she'd mentioned her sister and she didn't really want to push him in that direction. But on the other hand, it was a chance to see her again. Torn between the two options she grit her teeth unable to decide, unable to stay here for longer. The longer she stayed, the higher the chances that Aln would arrive. She simply wasn't sure if that was a good or a bad thing. So better to avoid it completely. "I, I've got to go. I don't want to bother you further." She took a step towards the door, hesitated again, and then inhaled deeply. "Just, maybe, if you see Aln, tell her that if she wants to, we could go and grab a coffee together." Hastily she walked over to the door and pushed it oped, unable to look him into his eyes again. "I'm still at the Boarding House." She had ruined so much already, if she stayed she would ruin this as well. She always did. This was something her sister had build up, it had no room for her, not now, not until they had spoken again. "Tell her I'm sorry. I really am." She ducked her head and took a step outside, swallowed when she felt a tight knot form in her throat, but forced herself to look back. It wasn't his fault, he had only been polite. "Thanks again. I'm glad that she found some good people." Temeria lifted a hand and brushed a tear off her face, angry at herself. She was too old to cry like a little girl. It had been a mistake to go to this place. She should have kept her distance, waited for Aln to reach out to her. Another tear joined the first and she shook her head nearly ran from the building and off into the streets, tears streaming over her face. Tears of shame, of a life she'd ripped into pieces. Temeria ran, hand clutched around the handle of a sword, her eyes on the street her thoughts a whirlwind. She had to go and train. She owed it to Folorian. It wasn't his fault that she was such a mess. She hasted around a corner, nearly running directly into the man walking towards it and lifted her head to apologize but no word left her mouth. Instead she stared at him. "But you're gone." @MacThorstenson
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  28. Malsam rolled her chair up to the table of refreshments and carefully took a small pastry. She overheard a man, who on closer inspection seemed to be blind, mention a city on Scadrial. She rolled over to him and the young woman he was talking with. "Where is that in comparison to Elendel?" she asked. "I'm Malsam, by the way."
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  29. "Scadrial." Vivacia brightened at the familiar name. "I think my grandfather came from there." She froze, the memory of her father like a sharp blade in her side. He had to be somewhere, anywhere in this city. Vivi lifted a slightly shaking hand to brush her hair out of her face to cover her mistake. Better to change the topic quickly. "The food is nice." She referred to his earlier statement. Especially if you hadn’t eaten something decent in days. Vivi looked through the room and noticed that she was the only one who had taken something so far. "I thought it would be impolite to ignore the invitation. They only put it here for us, it would be a shame to let it go to waste." She lifted another little cake to her mouth and took a small bite, chewed and swallowed. It tasted slightly like tomatoes with some spices. She should try to pack a few of them in her box for later. "I don't know how many will come. But if it's only the few of us, at least the chances that we'll be hired are higher than if they have a whole bunch of people to choose from." "Do you know anybody here already?" She asked quietly. "I don't." @Ookla the Headmuncher
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  30. All we know so far about living Shardplate is that it is summonable, can repair cracks immediately if fed Stormlight, has at least some ability to change its shape, and in the case of Windrunners can be moved to be placed around other people.
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  31. It really depends, if it is a 3rd heightened 9/10 times the Mistborn would win, but when it comes to 4th heightened we need to learn more about how the shard-plate works for living Radiants Sorry if someone already said this, I just joined the discussion
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  32. There only appeared to be four others now, all keeping relative distance from each other. Vivacia, the smaller more sociable human approached and began conversation with Perses. “I've never seen that combination of greeting gestures before. Where are you from?" She seemed to be a bit on edge, but was still social. Perses wondered what that was about, but decided to carry on with the conversation. “I’m from Rashekin.” He said, quickly realizing that the human in question is probably not from Scadrial. “Scadrial.” He added quickly, hopefully naturally enough so that the person—Vivacia, she said—wouldn’t notice. “You seem to really like the food.” Was that an odd thing to ask? Perses hadn’t tried any, but it smelled decent. “Do you have any clue if there are more showing up? I thought this might be a larger gathering.” @Sorana
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  33. Vivi perked up at the mention of light refreshments and looked through the room again. There they were. A few snacks and something to drink. She walked over and fetched the snacks first, not too many of course. Better to go twice, than to appear greedy. Grinning at her plate she stuffed a small cake like thing into her mouth. Delicious. She hadn't eaten that good food in ages. Weeks. It had been weeks. Her grin vanished and she sighed quietly, before she turned back to the others. They were five now and she answered the friendly wave of the woman at the door with one of her own, wondering if she could interpret the gesture as an invitation to walk over and speak to her. She looked like exactly the type of a person Vivi should probably befriend given her current situation. Turning the idea in her head around another time she couldn't muster the courage to do so and looked away. She could talk to her later as well Instead she took a few steps towards Perses. "Hi." She greeted him again and tried to come up with something to talk about. "I've never seen that combination of greeting gestures before. Where are you from?" Hopefully that was a harmless topic he wouldn't mind talking about. And if he did - she shifted her position a little so that she partially faced the door. If things went completely wrong she could always try to run. @Ookla the Headmuncher
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  34. Fearmongering, fishing for information, creating a false sense of urgency, a refusal to consider the top two elim suspects right now (TUN, and JNV), and some general encouragement of paranoia. I think Cash might be evil
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  35. This happened a while ago.... "Mom! I'm hungry!" - my (then four year old) sister "Hi, hungry. Do you want this apple?" - my (then two year old) brother. He was two. Two! And making dad jokes. ....I'm so proud of him.
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  36. Yep, she is Kaise. The Lost Metal chapter 39:
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  37. Little late to this as I'm just doing my theory building reread and I agree. I think it has something to with Cultivation and her Pruning of Dalinar. I believe Honor gave the Dawnshard to her for protection, hence her hesitation towards giving him his boon. This would also explain his strange change in behavior before his death. I think Tanavast wasn't as able to seperate the Shards intent from his own mind as well as he could when he also had the Dawnshard. A part of me also wonders if Bondsmiths get their shardplate in their third oath, or that he may have swore another oath as well. We know that shardplate is the manifestation of lesser spren right? Well thousands of glory spren surrounded dalinar as he was facing odium. And as they came to him, more and more all at once, his mental fortitude gained stronger and stronger. Strong enough to defy a GOD. That seems like the type of shardplate someone like Dalinar would need. Not physical. But mental.
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  38. While I also had this theory there is a WoB that seems to disprove it: Solfor (paraphrased) So the Iriali, their religion, the whole the One breaking themselves into the many to experience the universe. You also have Autonomy breaking themselves into many avatars. So I was wondering is Autonomy connected to the Iriali in any meaningful way. Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) So are the Iriali connected to Autonomy in a meaningful way? I'd say no. I mean they're slightly connected, but in a meaningful way, no, they're not connected. Autonomy did not start the Iriali religion. DragonCon 2019 (Sept. 2, 2019)
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  39. I also think the Irali were on Sel. They built Elantris and left which is why modern Elatrians found it empty. https://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/108743-crack-theories/?do=findComment&comment=1362762 That both have metallic skin seems like a big clue. Also the names they use are often 3 letters like Aons. Iri, Evi, Toh Not sure if Sel was first world for them or not. I can see the Autonomy connection. They have three monarchs each working independent of the other two. Their Long Trail mythology of a god dividing themselves into many fits Autonomy as well or better than Adonalsium’s shattering.
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  40. I was thinking alot score the minecaft1.19 update and I realized this. Minecraft used one of Sandersons mythical creatures the spren. Here is my evidence. Minecraft renamed it the allay. First the bond you cannot kill it. Second and greatest the finding things syl goes along helping bridge 4 get the weed. And the allay if you give it an item it will find many of them. I think it proves that Mojang used Sanderson's idea of spren.
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  41. Hi I just want to say I exist but Ive been really really busy for the past few days I kind of lost track of the game a little bit so heres a bit of RP Ill try to get some actual game thoughts in once IRL stuff clears up but I just dont have the brain for that right now oh and by the way my pronouns are they them and nothing else thanks Ive seen some bits floating around Jev kept up the step-jerk walk as they stepped out of the bar, wearing Tilana Pavin's smile and cold intensity. No one followed them out. Good. They just needed to get out of eyesight, preferably in a place with multiple entrances and exits. It would look strange to have Pavin enter a place with only one way in and out and have someone else exit. The back alley was clear, and it had some offshoots for misdirection. They slipped into the shadows and began wiping away the traces of Tilana Pavin. The teeth were the first to go. By the time they'd left the bar, their gums had ached. Next, the lenses. Make-up was a more careful affair. Even a trace left on their face could implicate them. The next identity was relatively non-descript. A wanderer stopping by for a drink or two or five, soon too drunk for coherent conversation. They had the cloak, and a good bit of dirt in their hair and on their face would sell the rest. The fancy outfit of Tilana Pavin went back in their bag, and they were soon dressed in the tattered clothes of an ordinary person. Time to get absolutely covered in dirt. It was a bit undignified to be rolling around on the floor, but it was the quickest and easiest way to get the job done. Soon, they looked the part. Now to act like it. Body language had to be more clumsy and stumbling. Maybe they'd already had a few drinks. Maybe they'd had something a bit stronger. Voice... Rough, coarse, faltering. The voice of someone who was half-expecting to have the bartender stop giving them alcohol. They could feel the barest hints of an accent slip in, tumbling around their mouth like stones. Perfect. The alleyway was small, but it had a few exits, and they scurried away before anyone could potentially track Pavin. Now, they just had to wait for long enough that their entry wouldn't be associated in any way with Pavin's exit. The sun was past the horizon when they stepped back through the door. They sat at a stool at the end of the bar, perfect for the person they were pretending to be. The tricky bit was managing to seem like an unruly drunk while not actually getting drunk. It involved a lot of spilling drinks and casually pouring alcohol down their shirt. Several credits later, they were firmly established in the bar. They gave a quick glance around while leaning back and pretending to chug their drink. The bounty hunter was still there. Not exactly optimal, but they could work with this. They just had to be clandestine. It wasn't the end of the world. The bounty hunter glanced their way, and they fought the urge to flinch. Nothing draws attention more than someone with something to hide.
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  42. Brandon switches main antagonists pretty often. You could say the same about Mistborn - after Book 1 (The Final Empire), what's he gonna write about when the main antagonist (Lord Ruler) died immediately, instead of lasting the whole trilogy? ...or, after book 3, when Ruin is killed - what's Brandon gonna write about for 2-3 more eras of Mistborn, now that the main antagonist is dead? In Stormlight, well, the guy who might have been the main antagonist (Rayse) was killed at the end of book 4. What's Brandon going to write about? ...the new, bigger, stronger antagonist (Taravangian). No reason the same couldn't happen in Stormlight 5. Main antagonist (Taravangian/Odium) gets shanked, new main antagonist takes center stage and takes over for him in the back 5 books.
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  43. They just made up a prison because they were lazy? I don't know. *Shrugs* Good question, though.
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  44. I'm so sorry. It's awful to be treated like that, especially by people who should be your friends! Your new haircut looks amazing!!! You don't look like anything they said. You are not a loser I promise. You are amazing. Again, I'm so sorry. If you want to talk or rant or anything, my PMs are open.
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  45. Me too. I hope it'll be good. Most things on Angel Studios have been.
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  46. Is it just me or does Deadwei hovering at the bottom of the thread feel like she's judging our reads and choices rn .__. Edited to add: Ngl if you want to solidify I think it takes both of us. If Stick gets on and I recall she did D1 EoD, Stick+Alv will force another tie. The problem is that I can't convince myself that this train doesn't just feel wrong. Even if there's the threat of a tie and redoing Bookwyrm.
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  47. To me both Fleet Running story and Girl Who Looked Up are metaphorical representation of Kaladin and Shallan character arcs. It may be interprented either as foreshadowing, or the lesson both need to learn, or the future they have to challenge. In my opinion both stories represents the beginnings of both character arcs. Kaladin has to run forward, run, run and run, without mercy for himself. Is it good for him? Will he manage to save everyone without sacrificing himself, his own happiness? Shallan is the girl who has to destroy the wall of delusion she is hiding behind. Will she look up? Will she stood up? I doubt both characters will meet the same fate as Hoid told him. After all, Brandon's words imply that both Kaladin and Shallan may do better than Fleet and Girl who looked up, in the very end, and ther character arcs will bring them right there.
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  48. Thank you so much, and now I present *terrifying* art. Haha! Tenebrous: Spiked: "Shallan disliked confrontation, but Veil loved it."
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  49. Just plastering this all over the internet. When the Stormlight Archive facebook group hits 10k members there is going to be a giveaway and this little piece will be one of the prizes. Blackthorn
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