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  2. MAJOR bands of mourning / secret history (original work I drew it)
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  3. MEMES?! MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!! I have a meme:
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  5. Just came up with this
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  6. As my two-thousandth, two-hundredth, twenty-second post, I wanted to do something a little special. So, I think now is the best time to dump a stockpile of memes I made (plus one I found earlier today). Enjoy Mistborn spoilers; More Mistborn spoilers; Probably counts as a Mistborn spoiler; Era 2 Mistborn spoilers; Warbreaker spoilers; Mistborn Secret History spoilers; Just to be on the safe side, Mistborn spoilers; Stormlight and Mistborn spoilers; Aaaaaand, that's all I've got for right now. Hope you got a good laugh!
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  7. Hellooo! I finished my handmade mistcloak the other week and just threw together some stuff I have collected for Ren faire over the years. My Vin cosplay is about 80% complete, I plan to change out everything that has metal to just leather so I have to craft that myself, and I will be adding some bandages to kind of represent Vin more so in book 2. But overall I am super happy so far with how it looks! In action: https://imgur.com/gallery/ZS2n2cI
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  8. I got my mission call today Brazil Curitiba South Mission, Portuguese speaking! Reporting to the Brazil MTC on July 31. Incredibly excited and grateful
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  9. having finished Sunlit man recently, I'm starting to notice a pattern (minor all SP poilers) and furthermore (more minor SP spoilers
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  10. The problem with abbreviating Brandon books (especially in the context of a certain upcoming novel...):
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  11. The crab!!! Imagine this crystal when it is filled with stormlight
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  12. We had to make a poem imitating the rhyming scheme and rhythm of The Raven. I made mine about the Cosmere. Also I got to go on The Coppermind for homework. Which was fun.
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  13. When you very nearly start crying because the video for the new secret project won’t load at school …when you have a teacher who loves Brandon and he sees you almost crying in class and asks what’s up and you wordlessly turn around your phone to show the video that won’t load and he says “go to the doors at the end of this hall, that’s where you get the best service” and he suddenly becomes your favorite teacher.
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  14. More SA spoilers:
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  16. Major spoilers for Yumi and the Nightmare Painter ahead. Overall, an excellent story. Highly recommend.
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  17. For safehand use only
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  18. Hi all, We are extending the spoiler period for The Sunlit Man. Normally, it would end on March 1st if we follow our standard six month rule. However, Tor's release of the book is March 5th, so that doesn't feel appropriate. We are extending the period to April 5th to give people a little time there.
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  19. HoA I drew this in like 2021 so big shift in style, I was still using a mouse to draw back then lol
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  20. I created this account under a different name months ago, but never did anything with it. I took that Knights Radiant quiz and three times got Lightweaver, so I picked the name Maze because it's short and sounds appropriately Cryptic. I started my Cosmere journery all the way back in 2010 with The Way of Kings, but admittedly, I still haven't read most of what Sanderson has written. I've read or listened to the Mistborn novels three or four times. I've lost track of how many times I've read Stormlight. Sometimes when I'm at work, I'll switch on favorite chapters on my audio copies. I just recently finished Elantris. It was okay. It felt... condensed? Like the story was too big for the book we got. I also read the Reckoners series a few years ago. I don't see myself spending a lot of time on the non-cosmere stuff. Even though his Secret Project novels are still sitting unread on my shelf, I think Warbreaker will be my next read. When I first made this account, I was just looking for an easy-to-use blog. I saw that offered here and thought I'd give it a try. I have no idea what I'd write about. Maybe everything. Probably nothing. I'd like to think of myself as an intellectual, but thankfully I'm smart enough to know better.
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  21. I used the SVG file https://coppermind.net/wiki/File:Cosmere_symbol.svg with the library's laser cutter to etch this tile. Applied a powdered pigment to get the gold and silver colors.
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  22. I've seen more on Discord, that's where a lot of memeing (with, well, activity in general) has migrated these days. There are also some on Reddit. Here's a favorite of mine from AdoWillRemOurPlightEventually:
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  23. Dunno if these are quite accurate, I did them in class without a reference
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  24. Hi friends, I am new to the 17th Shard and this is my first post here. Now what I am about to discuss here is not entirely my theory, most of it has been theorized by the fandom for quite some time now. I am just gathering the most probable ones together and see if it fits to form a mostly cohesive narrative. Spoiler Alert for all of Stormlight Archive, including the chapter of Wind and Truth released by Brandon. So, with that complete I am going to discuss the possible ending of Stormlight 5 and maybe some plot points that can be expected in the back half. Now there are dozens of characters in the Stormlight Archive each having their own compelling stories, but predicting the ending for each of them is impossible. So I will be focusing on just 4 characters, the 4 most important characters to the narrative of Stormlight Archive, the 4 characters who started it all: Kaladin, Shallan, Dalinar and Szeth. Yeah, Brandon pretty much says they are the key. So, let's examine their paths and come to a conclusion for each of them. I think that will give us a pretty good idea of where Book 5 will end. Shallan So, Shallan. Her story is basically finding out who she is, confronting it and accepting it. Pattern said that Lightweavers don’t have oaths, but they have truths. This is because of their unique position as spies. Knowing their truths will keep them grounded, since they impersonate other people there is a possibility that they may get lost in the role they are playing so they must know who they are. This is why Adolin was the right choice for Shallan and not Kaladin. Adolin knew which one was the real Shallan, the woman he loves. So far Shallan has spoken 3 truths: She killed her father, She killed her mother, She killed her spren. With the third truth Veil merged with Shallan and only Radiant is left. So, the next truth will be the one where she and Radiant merge and it will happen in Wind and Truth. One of the biggest Chekhov's guns that Brandon planted but never used in his the series so far is that Kaladin is the one who killed Helaran. And this is her reaction when she learns of it. Yeah, she suppressed it. I am not suggesting that she is going to fight Kaladin in book 5 because of this, quite the opposite really. And it comes down to Shallan’s mother, the herald Chanarach. Yes I believe Chanarach is Shallan’s mom especially after the release of Book 5 Prologue. Again it is not my theory but it is already there. The basic premise is, Chanarach has red hair just like Shallan and she had connections to the Skybreakers and tried to kill Shallan because she was a radiant. We also know that Taln didn’t break and this theory explains that too. In the book 5 prologue we learn that one of the heralds died on the day of Gavilar’s feast, which happened six years before the Way of Kings, exactly the same time period when Shallan killed her mother. She killed her mother Chanarach and sent her to braize. Chanarach endured the torture for 6 years before breaking. So, Taln didn’t break. This will be Shallan’s final truth. She is the one who is (indirectly) responsible for the desolation. And I don’t think Shallan will be able to ignore or suppress the truth that she pretty much caused the end of the world. I think at this moment of shame all her suppressed emotions will come out including her brother’s death. Then there is Chanarach herself, who will not be happy to learn that her eldest son was killed by Kaladin. This is my theory, Chanarach will confront Kaladin over Helaran’s death and try to kill him. At the same time, despite knowing that Kaladin killed her favorite brother, Shallan will choose to help Kaladin by fighting her own mother whom she very much still loves. Choosing Honor over revenge and her mother. Shallan will merge with Radiant and become a fully realized Lightweaver and possibly even revive Testament. Shallan will also survive Book 5, and go on to transform her Lightweaver Radiants into a cosmere wide spy network with the help of Hoid (who is also a Lightweaver) in order to fight the Ghostbloods. Dalinar Dalinar is the one on whom I am most conflicted. I mean his character arc pretty much came to a conclusion in Oathbringer with the You cannot have my Pain moment. There is really nothing much to develop in Dalinar except for the Duel he has with Odium. Now, Taravodium is not that different from Raysodium. So, Taravodium wants to rule over the entire cosmere and he thinks he will do a better job than the current shards. So, what he wants is simple, to be free of the Rosharan system, while also maintaining some control over it. So what is the way for Taravodium to get what he wants? Brandon has removed Rayse and introduced Taravangian as Odium because Rayse doesn’t have that fear factor anymore. So I think Taravangian will get what he wants. So Dalinar will somehow end up breaking the contract. It wont turn the Stormfather into deadeyes but it will let Odium to corrupt the Stormfather, potentially ending his ability to supply Stormlight. Szeth Szeth’s character is all about finding the truth himself. First he followed his religion blindly, then he followed Nale blindly and now he is following Dalinar blindly. His character arc is to break free of this and learn to distinguish right from wrong by himself. To learn what is the truth without blindly following others. Szeth’s fourth Ideal is ‘I will cleanse the Shin of their false leaders, so long as Dalinar Kholin agrees.’ And he will complete that successfully. But it won’t be the end for Szeth, by the end of book five he will be a 5th Ideal radiant. This is what Nale says regarding the fifth Ideal So imagine, Szeth completes his 4th ideal and returns to Urithiru, to Dalinar and what does he see? Dalinar has broken the contract, the law. Szeth will be forced to confront the reality that Dalinar was wrong and following him is not the right way. This is when he rises higher and swears his fifth ideal, becoming his own man. After that Szeth will kill Dalinar, thus stopping Odium’s corruption on the Stormfather from getting much worse. Since he would be using Nightblood to kill Dalinar this might even sever his bond to Stormfather and Honor. Odium will then transform Dalinar’s cognitive shadow into a Fused. Kaladin Well if there is one thing I am certain about our sad depressed bridgeboy, it is that he will live. The entire point of Kaladin’s character arc is that no matter how good and powerful he becomes there will always be those he cannot save, and he has to learn to live with it. And Kaladin finally achieved that in RoW, so killing him off in Winds and Truth even if it was a heroic self sacrifice will not be satisfying. Also he is being set up as a therapist for the Heralds. So, what do I think will happen with him? Well, he will Ascend to honor. There are many references to this in the books. Kaladin’s very first POV chapter is named “Honor is Dead”. Then there is that moment in WoR where he says, “Honor is dead, but I’ll see what I can do.” Brandon pretty much said that Kaladin never felt the Thrill because of Syl, but he was not bonded to Syl in Amaram’s army. Syl seems to remember Kaladin’s childhood despite not being bonded to him at that time. His connection to Aesudan as he recognizes the tune she is singing. He is also related to her by blood for some reason. In Oathbringer Kaladin killed, like actually killed a corrupted spren using Syl. The corrupted spren died like Phendorana. Then in both Oathbringer and RoW he commanded the Windspren to blow back the storm itself and they did it. Honestly there is so much more to Kaladin that is very similar to Vin from Mistborn. There is the Child of Tanavast. Overall? So what is it that I am trying to say? Well the Duel of the Champions will not be the final act of the book. It will probably happen at the end of Part 3. The true final act, the Sanderlanch will not be at Urithiru or Shinovar, it will be at the Shattered Plains. There a loophole in the treaty So after the Duel, there will be a final battle between the Radiants and the forces of Odium at the shattered plains. It will probably be for Ba-Ado-Mishram, each racing against time to get her for themselves. Only the Radiants will be low on morale and Stormlight due to Dalinar’s loss. They will be losing against the forces of Odium when the Singers led by Venli and Rlain join the battle to help the Radiants. Oh, and they will probably be riding on Chasmfiends as in RoW we saw them controlling one at the end. It is after this Kaladin will ascend, and by this point I think he would have lost Syl. Syl would be alive, but he would have lost his bond with her. I think Ishar would have brought Syl into the physical realm by this point. So how will Kaladin ascend? This is what Hoid told Kaladin in one of the SA 5 chapters released by Brandon What I think will happen is, during the battle Kaladin will play the Flute, and he will play the Rhythm of Honor. Just like how Navani produces Towerlight from a Rhythm, Kaladin will produce Stormlight with the Rhythm of Honor. This coupled with his near deity-like status in Urithiru among the Radiants and the recently forged alliance between Men and Singers will help Kaladin reassemble the Splintered Shard of Honor and Ascend. Maybe he might have help form Ba-Ado-Mishram, or Hoid, or Cultivation or even Dalinar. This will give the edge the Radiants need to defeat Odium’s forces. Szeth will probably fight and then convince Nale to rejoin the side of the Radiants, thus bringing the Order of Skybreakers back to Honor. Moash will have his redemption journey and will take Jezrien’s place as a herald. I am not sure exactly how this will happen but I am confident Moash is on a redemption path. Once the battle is won, Kaladin as Honor will reform the Oathpact and seal away the Fused. Only this time he will go to Braize along with all the Heralds. His presence will allow the Heralds to fight back against the Fused and give Kaladin enough space and time to perform Mental Therapy on them. The back half of the books will deal with the scarcity of Stormlight, the Men who have bonded Odium’s spren like Aesudan, The introduction of Lifelight through Lift. A shadowy war with the Ghostbloods over Investiture. Now although Odium is free from the Rosharan System, he has also pretty much lost control over Roshar and the Fused. So he will return in the end back half for a Final Confrontation. This is when Kaladin and the Heralds return from Braize. By the end of Book 10 Dalinar will break free of Odium. Since there are so many Corrupted spren and unmades like Sja-anat who go against Odium, perhaps by the end of Book 10 Kaladin will splinter Odium and take it up himself and become War. After all, Kaladin is described as a passionate man many times. This will set the stage for an overall cosmere wide conflict. Harmony vs War vs Autonomy vs Endowment etc…
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  25. I’m reading WoR, Warbreaker? No, WoR rhythm of War? No, WoR.
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  26. After mentioning the name Adonalsium to Dalinar Kholin, the King's Wit, aka Hoid, quickly plays it off, claiming he's speaking gibberish. He drops this quote. Interestingly, while he does use two 'real' nonsense words of Nonsense and Balderdash, the term Figgldygrak was apparently a wholly Brandon invention. It was an amusing word, nothing more. Then, a user by the name of Natans had an interesting idea. Balderdash could be anagramed into the word Shardblade. Perhaps, the same could be done to Figgldygrak, in turn revealing some deep truth about the Cosmere. You can find the thread here: Surprisingly, Peter Ahlstrom himself weighed in, calling the people in that thread "Very special people" Clearly, we were reading way too much into this. The theory was basically abandoned, and we moved on. However, the word reappeared in Rhythm of War, this time in Navani's inner dialogue. Specifically, it was used in the context of writing ciphers that meant absolutely nothing. It was literally meant to be a waste of time. I was surprised to see it reappear, but laughed it off as Brandon lightly poking fun at his fans reading too much into his words. Then the secret projects happened. In Tress of the Emerald Sea, Hoid once again uses the word in his narration. It was another callback to the same forgotten joke. It's clearly used as a synonym for mystical nonsense in all of its appearances, but it kept cropping up. Why keep the joke going? The word then reappears a fourth time in Yumi and the Nightmare Painter. At this point, I'm starting to get paranoid. While it does not show up in SP4, this nonsensical word has appeared in four separate places, uttered by three different characters. Some of you might guess that this is a word that Hoid has invented. However, this is tenuous at best. While he was the first to speak it, we have to consider that both Navani and Tojin used it in everyday speech. You could maybe stretch that perhaps Navani overheard Hoid make up the word, but that doesn't explain Tojin. Hoid is a statue for most of that book, and Design wasn't bonded to Hoid when he said that line. It's at least two degrees of separation. Even more interestingly, Hoid claims he doesn't make up words. Again, from Yumi, Admittedly, this is spoken with the indignation of someone who probably makes up words, but the point still stands. Hoid denies that he makes up words. Where, then, does the word figgldygrak come from in the Cosmere? Let's consider that three different characters of wildly different origins and planets have used this word. Therefore, I propose a theory. The word figgldygrak is Yolish in origin. It's the only root language all of these human characters would share. Is this wahoopli and figgldygrak? Probably. Is it fun to speculate about? Absolutely. Leave your own takes on this mysterious word down in the comments.
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  27. I finally dusted off my patriarchal blessing and gave it a read. It’s amazing how they’re specifically tailored for us. It was a lot of the things that I had specifically been thinking about, even to the exact wording. I really do need to read it more… take this as a reminder to either read yours again or pray about whether if it is time to get yours or not! They’re an enormous blessing.
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  28. Hello everyone! I had a friend get insanely into Mistborn in high school and he begged me to read it. I read often so I gave it a shot, then set it down after chapter 1 and let it sit on my shelf for 5 years. Earlier this year on January 6th, I bought TWoK without even knowing about the Cosmere, read until chapter 11 when Kaladin decides to run Bridge 4, and LOVED IT. I then looked up Brandon Sanderson and stumbled onto the Cosmere and immediately dropped TWoK to read his published order first (yes I went back to my local bookstore and got Elantris that same day). Since January 6th I have caught up to Sixth of the Dusk and have loved everything. It feels crazy good and monumental to arrive on Sixth of the Dusk THE DAY that he announced his new secret novel is an extension of it. Looking forward to interacting with people and being a part of the community! I'm including my tier list of my read works so far just cause tier lists are fun
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  29. I am very much of the opinion that as well the Cosmere advances into the space age, investiture banks and changers will very quickly emerge in the CS. We know the spren cities of Roshar have already started this process with transfers into perfect gemstones. It is natural that as as Cosmere technology and ability to manipulate investiture grows, investiture will become a sort of commodity. This is why I believe that people who are technically knowledgeable enough, likely in Silverlight, will begin making business of changing types of investiture around. Especially with Scadrian advances in Feruchemical technology. This makes me believe it is theoretically possible to do things like switching around attributes, or even using unkeyed investitures to make custom metal minds. This will make a demand for the ability to easily transfer between investiture types, which at this point can probably be rented to regular people. Naturally, very smart people who want to be rich will step in to fill this demand. TSM spoilers In summary, I thought this was an interesting little theory and I am interested to hear thoughts. P.S. Alder, please don't slam me with 20 WoB's
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  30. So something that was learned about Southern Scadrial is that there is another continent below it reffered to as the 'Maskless'. We also know that they are considered dangerous by the Malwish, which makes me think that in Era 3 they'll be antagonists. But something I'm theorizing is how they are so dangerous to the technologically advanced Malwish, so I'm going to theorize on what they probably don't have and single out the possibilities. 1) They probably don't have high amounts of Metalborn like the North, since the Basin has the Terris and Lerasium in their ancestry, thus have by far the highest amount of Metalborn on Scadrial. 2) They likely don't have access to Malwish tech, since the Malwish have access to Harmony's Perpendicularity, which I am willing to bet money on also being a new Pits of Hathsin, except it produces Ettmetal instead of atium. The Malwish control the source of both Ettmetal and Unsealed Metalminds and considering their rather frigid relations to the North I doubt they'd let their literal enemies have access to any kind of tech. So if they likely don't have access to lots of Metalborn or Magitech, what could they have access to? Hemalurgy. Specifically I think they've taken the attribute Hemalurgy (Iron, Tin, Copper, Zinc, Etc) as far as they can go, making Hemalurgic Constructs unseen by the rest of Scadrial. Such as different versions of Koloss but using the other metals instead. After all if you can make anyone a near-genius with 4 Copper Spikes then it should be easier to make greater strides with Hemalurgy than anyone else, and narratively it doesn't make sense that we've seen nearly zero experimentation with the attribute Spikes in the story thus far, only the Koloss and the Kandra. Though this is just pure speculation and wishful thinking on my part.
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  31. I lack your patience.
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  32. You might be the person he mentioned as predicting the book correctly! This is wild. So many things. My brain is overwhelmed but just off the top of my head, in no particular order (SP5 reading, MBE 2): I said I didnt want Sixth of the Dusk sequel but I was wrong. This is exactly what I wanted. When he said 'High Cosmere Connectivity' he wasn't kidding...
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  33. Huzzah! Please excuse my excitement. I've just recently been caught up enough on Cosmere to hazard a guess at something coming so I'm happy I got it It may not be exact if we're being pedantic, but I'm counting it as a win!
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  34. You know you're a sanderfan when you refrain from doing a March Madness bracket because that would be predicting the future and the future is of Odium.
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  35. Me waiting for it: Edit: this ages better and better by the minute...
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  36. I just did that to get your attention. Sorry. Hi, I'm YarnSpren! I was bullied into reading Brandon Sanderson by my brother @LightRinger and then actually ended up liking his books. I've read all Brandon's Cosmere works and am currently working on Reckoners. Favorite Sanderson Book: Elantris/Tress/WoA/All of them Favorite Magic System: Feruchemy Favorite Hobby: Reading/Crocheting My goal is to make amigurumi Cosmere characters, so I'll keep y'all posted. Favorite Kind of Bagel: Cinnamon Raisin If you see me commenting, it'll mostly be on the memes page.
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  37. Absurd theory? In SA5, Kaladin encounters Moash and hits him with such supercharged lashings that Moash is launched into space... Moash soars through the inter-planetary space in the direction of Scadrial... Resulting in the first line of Mistborn era three : "Moash fell from the sky."
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  38. I have been summoned (and I'm bored in class soo . . .) In summary, you're an icon imo
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  39. Well, now that you mention it, I finally got around to reading RoW. A couple years late, but I got around to it. Anywho, I'm not even done with the prologue, but it's memein' time.
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  40. Light SA spoilers I guess? Really I just wanted to use this meme format.
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  41. It's a pattern of which could mean it's foreshadowing for
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  42. The Deadrunners were swift in the night. If they controlled the spore supplies, then they controlled the shift. However, the noble sprouter, Sarkan, tried to fend them off. A fight broke out, scattering spores left and right. Not daring to get them wet, the mutineers choked poor Sarkan, shedding not a drop of blood. However, the fight had made too much noise, and they had to flee. The rest of the crew woke up to pandemonium. One of their own was dead, a wealth of spores was there for the taking, and no one was there to regulate it. It would be an all out free for all, as they quickly squabbled over the scraps. Sarkan has died! He was a Sprouter who was part of the Loyal Crew. Spore Supply: Player List:
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  43. Y’all something interesting happened today. So, I’m going on a performing arts tour to NYC in…10 days. Choir and band are both performing multiple times, but theatre isn’t performing at all, so we basically get to go see a bunch of shows on Broadway. I have friends who will be seeing…6 shows? Woah that’s a lot. Anyway, something got messed up with the schedule, and today they said that the theatre students have to make a choice. We can either go to an LDS sacrament meeting and the 9/11 memorial, or we can go see Sweeney Todd. A lot of you probably don’t know what that is, but it’s a fantastic musical. And a really, really dark musical. I already made this choice once for this trip. I had the option to see Six on a Sunday, and I decided not to. It kills me inside, though, because most of my friends are going to choose Sweeney Todd, even religious ones. It’s one thing that happens so much in Utah; people who claim to believe in and love the same God that I do are just…well, following their families. Because so many people are religious here, it’s not as much of a personal choice to care. And it hurts to care, sometimes, especially when you have to avoid things you love and watch others enjoy them without seeming to have any bad results (be it things you choose to do on Sunday, books you choose not to read, music, or so many other things). Anyway, I made that same choice again. I knew it was what I was going to do, but…it hurt a lot more than I thought it would. But then I realized something. I didn’t make this choice for me. I probably won’t get anything out of the sacrament meeting, and they’ll probably love the show. But this is a choice I make for God. It’s a choice I make now so that when harder choices come up later, I can make them knowing what comes first. And it’s a choice I make to show Him that He is what matters most to me. …sorry this got way longer than I thought it would, but uh moral of the story, when you recognize that you’re doing things for God rather than yourself, there is a whole new meaning to them, and it makes sacrifices that you would otherwise regret completely worth it.
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