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Walin

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  1. Wait, Braize went kablooey? Alright, I’ll read the other cycles. Also, joining a hammer is both e!me and v!me behavior. Especially considering that in that first hammer, I voted out TWW who was Hoid. I’m playing by the seat of my pants right now, everyone. Or, was. I’m going to read the rest of the rules and cycles and maybe get caught up enough to contribute. Just to repeat my reasoning that’s I’ve checked the rules for—if there’s 7 alive players and 5 Avatars plus Bavadin right now, then a death of two non-Avatars means Autonomy wins. I don’t see how erasing the last Hoidite is a higher priority than reducing the number of Avatars. Now that I know Braize is gone I don’t have any plans and likely may not be very helpful from here on out, but me dying seems less productive than going after an Avatar. Me being Bavadin is a much scarier alternative, and I’d understand if you go after me for that, but I don’t get going after me for being a Hoidite. ————— Trukal had some oatmeal.* ————— *Trukal is not an exact representation of me and my actions during the game. I did not have oatmeal.
  2. Weeeellllppp. Trying to go for the train is a tried technique of mine but in this case not a true one. I can’t remember the last time it did work, anyway. Also TJ, I’m not a Hoidite, if you’re basing that conclusion off my last post. Looking at the roles I don’t really know what the Hoidites can do right now, and removing the Avatar almost-majority seems like a much higher priority. I’m going for a charge tonight (I have 2 with me), worldhopping to Braize, and killing an Avatar, if uninterrupted. I haven’t been following the game closely but that seems pretty cut and dry to me. As far as I can tell it will be easy to get a Researcher win once the Avatars are taken care of. I haven’t looked at either Odium’s or Ruin’s win conditions but Drake seems to want to give up his shard, so that just leaves Ruin that I need to brush up on, and Autonomy appears (to me) to be a clear population-threat. I’m going to go read over the relevant rules sections tomorrow and get back to you. I’ve got time tomorrow to go over the threads as well but I can’t guarantee that I’ll do that. ———————— Trukal awoke sleeping in a cot. This was a guest room in Silverlight, it seemed; had he wandered so far from his sleeping quarters that he just fell asleep in a random abandoned room? No, as he awoke he realized this was deliberate. Continuing to avoid any way he could be tracked or betrayed, discussing with other researchers over the Coppernet or in groups. Yet another researcher had been killed because of a disagreement on guilt. Well, now that he was up, it was time to do some research.
  3. Oof I’m sliding in under the bell, sorry everyone I’ll add on the train on Araris to counter any Avatars, but I’m really surprised no one’s been going for them the last couple cycles. Hoid needed to get all 16 Shards and wasn’t even close. If we lose one more villager after this we may lose to Autonomy. ——— Trukal got rollover’ed and did not do anything interesting.
  4. Yeah I’ll go for an Endowment breach! I…don’t think I’m thinking of the same player to revive that you are. But anyway best of luck to getting it if E breaks out. ——— Trukal joined another group chat to vote, this time hopefully better informed. They were going to attempt to breach the Endowment shard.
  5. I guess I’ll vote Wizard because of the train rn. I don’t have time to check for what I should actually do. But I was asked to vote and I said I would, so here it is. ——— Trukal sent a message within the system. He didn’t know what or who the researchers were talking about, but a standard “I agree” should cover his bases for a few minutes while he got his bearings.
  6. Sorry will vote in a few minutes. I’ve been busy the last few days, and I totally should have expected a lack of free time but neglected to make plans for my remaining time. Aka I forgor. ——— Trukal forgor
  7. I'll join in on the game again tomorrow. Still very busy today. -------------------- Trukal made a quick phone call. "Oh, and how is Lorn Haemtes? To shreds, you say. Well..." The conversation continued after that point, but the first few moments were a good indicator of how it would go. Some condolences, some bafflement (silently kept in), and some overall disappointment that now would be a bad time to ask about that zincmind medallion he had lent the man. Well, as far as personal survival went, he would probably be alright just having wakefulness available.
  8. Yeah a summary would help, especially considering the other inactives! But I still probably won't be on here for long enough at a time to make a difference until my exam is over so don't worry about it in my case; maybe for the others, if they start entering the game again.
  9. Alright, so I should be more active now...but I have my class final in two days and I didn't anticipate how much I would be trying to put off studying for it. I'll be mostly gone for the next two days, just skimming and barely reacting to what's in thread. I can spit out a bunch of word salad, but reading and retaining anything coherent from threads will be near-impossible for me--and that's just in general, but it's worse if I'm only skimming like I will be for the next two days. All I remember now is that Fifth was the something-shooter, Mat died going into this cycle, and something about Fadran being distanced? Anyway, Kasimir asked me and other lurkers for an action schedule so here's mine. Stillll on Silverlight. I don't know of anyone on the same world as me and I don't think I'd gain anything from using the charges anyway, so I'll hold onto them until further notice. --------------- Trukal stored wakefulness for a few hours in a pocket medallion. He was likely to need all the focus he could get in the coming days. Now, one might say that he should be staying awake at this point -- his mortal danger had never been higher. But Trukal didn't actually have a wakefulness stockpile at the moment, and he had a rare moment of downtime in which he didn't have to watch his back for researchers or Shards deciding to put a hold on his current state of being alive.
  10. I don’t have anything to say, really, since I committed to read through previous posts but have not actually done that yet. Also, I’ll be busy for the rest of tomorrow so I’ll probably not post in-thread. But I will confirm I’m on Silverlight, if that helps any factions make decisions about whether to kill me or otherwise take an action. —————— Trukal sipped on an algae smoothie, cultures from the Elantrian moss on Sel. It supposedly increased ability to process foreign Investiture, much like how certain intestinal bacteria were responsible for breaking down given foods. He was still coming down from the headaches from the lab incident earlier, and suspected he might soon be exposed to Stormlight or another Investiture that chose to disagree with his biology. He had talked to another researcher a few hours ago, but the details of the conversation slipped his mind. All he knew was that it wasn’t relevant to the situation about the Shards, so he could file it away in a copper ring for later. He couldn’t spare the trouble to try and remember that manually even if it was personally important, because he had to first be alive to respond to it.
  11. Cough. I completely forgot to put in an action, and I haven't yet caught up on the thread. I'll do that soon enough, but for now I also have some other stuff to do today so it'll probably be after rollover. ---------------- Trukal learned the basics of juggling two roughly spherical objects while he considered his next move. It turned out that this was harder than it seemed at first glance, but that it lent itself well to transitioning to three objects. He was probably going to die before getting around to three, but a man might as well try.
  12. Alright! I’m happy to be here! I don’t think I’ve participated in a Shard game before, so this is going to be fun. And not only that, but since Drake Inferno didn’t have a character I get to bring in Trukal (I assume). I’ll be catching up on the last few cycles today; I don’t think I’ll have time for analysis but I’ll definitely at least submit an action, so you can work that into your theories. ——— Trukal came to after a particularly long hallucinatory walk around the halls of Silverlight. It appeared that he had inhaled the fumes from a Scadrian Investiture research lab. As soon as he felt steady, he resolved to tell them to properly ventilate their experiments. Come to think of it, why *were* they still experimenting at a time like…this…oh. The “hallucination” that multiple Shards had breached containment was actually true, and he was just now processing the implications. Games were afoot, it seemed, though he didn’t see how research into metallurgy and Feruchemy could possibly lead to a hidden faction’s benefit. Maybe those researchers were just really dedicated. And if his rapidly returning memories were correct, he had actually walked into the lab despite a “USE FILTRATED AIR” sign taped to it. They were following procedure, and he wasn’t. Trukal was zoning out when walking in and hadn’t registered the importance of the sign, and the researchers sent him out before he caused any damage to the equipment or himself in his haze. In the current situation, no one had the time to sit him down until he became lucid. It had been a full Rosharan day since Trukal had last been truly conscious. I’ll probably need some sleep, thought Trukal. I’ll be sure to do that as soon as I avoid dying to a rogue Shard in the next week.
  13. I'll sign up as a pinch-hitter. In the unlikely event, if there are RP agreements with whoever I pinch-hit for or funky mechanics interactions, that I can replace their role but insert my own character, then I'll be pinch-hitting as Trulak. He's just a guy who's here to have fun, and also wield devastating power where he can find it. I'm happy to pinch-hit the normal way; I just wanted to have a character to put in the pre-game thread.
  14. Welp, one hour until rollover. For the sake of self-preservation, I'll keep my vote on Mat, so this is mainly just an update that I'm looking at the thread. --- Jen did something uninteresting.
  15. Sorry for the inactivity. I'll get back on later tonight, but for now I'll put in a vote for Mat since as far as I remember, my two candidates were Mat/Araris and one of those is dead now. ----- Jen did something that could possibly be construed as interesting. No one saw it because it was offscreen. Blame the narrator for forgetting to record this event.
  16. I've got Iron Will, if that changes anything. Kind of disappointing that we didn't get an exe, but I get what everyone's saying. I don't exactly want to get killed tonight, but since I've got a bit of a Finger of Suspicion pointed my way I don't expect to be, anyway. I don't know if we have any remaining Coinshot roles rn but I'm fine with getting targeted since that should narrow down choices for potential elims significantly. ------- Jen tried not to trip over any roots. The ground was particularly gnarled right now, and she had heard stories of skinning hands on accident from falls. She didn't know if capillary bleeding counted as "blood" for the Shades, but it wasn't worth risking.
  17. Man, every time I start a game I am baffled by how you all can make so many connections and keep track of them. I think I'm going to have to become literate in spreadsheets in order to try to mimic all that skill on my own. I just caught up on reading JNV's posts and any posts that mention JNV (just scrolled through every page while hitting ctrl-F for "jnv"); I don't really have anything to say. I'll just play parkour on and off the chariots until a bandwagon emerges and I can hop on that. (i.e. I'll just look at the read that I like the most and follow that one until there's a clear majority-winner read) So with that strategy in mind, I'll vote Mat even though he had good rebuttals for the arguments of e!him. Unfortunately, the arguments were better, and I judge them to have won over the rebuttals. ------------------- Jen woke up underneath a tree, a couple stones' throws off the main path. She had made it to her house, but it had clearly been broken into, so she only slept there one night before gathering some supplies and journeying for a bigger settlement. There were rumors of banditry in the area, but she hadn't expected it to reach her, far as she was from any settlements. She would have to find work, and buy laquer and silver to repair her protections. Hopefully soon, she would rest easy again. Well, as easy as anyone in the Forests could.
  18. Happy to be here! I'm going to be catching up throughout the next 24 hours, and then will post a little after that.
  19. Tallet was well aware of the Herald he was named after. Most people that he knew growing up were named after Jezrien or Kalak; his was a much more unique name. When he asked his father if he was named after any relatives, the answer was a simple denial, followed by dinner in awkward silence. It wasn't because of any events in his parents' lives, either; they had simply decided on the name for no specific reason. At the time he was born, his parents hadn't thought that the meaning of a name had any importance, so they "went with what sounded good." They applied that philosophy to the raising of their family; decisions of any kind were made with patience and deliberation, but with no particular reasoning behind them. He had inherited his parents' attitude in his employment, going by whim applied with some measure of diligence. He became a sphere-maker, melting glass and forming it around small gemstones so they would be protected against wear and tear. It paid well enough that Tallet never thought about pocketing any spheres, but it was certainly monotonous. While working, he would think about his purpose. Not his Calling; that was glasswork, which he admittedly did not spend much time doing other than in sphere-making. Tallet's purpose, in his eyes, was to try and emulate his namesake. Taln was called the Bearer of Agonies, among more understandable titles. Tallat was especially curious about this title; after all, the Heralds had suffered equally grave wounds in their battles against the Voidbringers. During the Desolations, they suffered the privations of their armies and people equally, or so he had gathered from Vorin teachings. What made Taln stand apart from the rest of them? Once, when he had asked for the reasoning behind this, he was told that "Talenelat'Elin volunteered for the most deadly of battles, and sacrificed himself first before the other Heralds. After the Final Desolation, he was last to join them in the Tranquiline Halls. They had left him behind briefly, because they trusted him to win a battle that turned out to take several days." After hearing this, he was then given an hours-long treatise on the attributes and accomplishments of the other Heralds, circling back at the end to the Final Desolation. He resolved to go to the Order of Talenelat for answers that wouldn't be drowned out by descriptions of other Heralds. He enjoyed the teachings of the order, and learned far more about Taln than he thought would be possible. That earlier treatise about the other Heralds was a rockbud on the chull that was Herald knowledge. As the years went on, he listend to books that discussed Taln or his Order of the Knights Radiant; he did not have access to all of them, but occasionally the chance would arise to travel to Kholinar to visit the larger libraries. When news came of Dalinar Kholin refounding the Knights Radiant, Tallat was dumbstruck. He had heard rumors of the Kholin highprince being erratic at times, but he hoped this was not one of those times. He was of the opinion that the Radiants abandoned, rather than betrayed, humanity. If they were returning, then Tallat might get to join their number. Or, at the very least, he could witness them in temples the Order of Talenelat, for surely they would spend time receiving training from the ardents. In only a year, Alethkar was occupied and he had yet to see a Stoneward. From hearsay, a Radiant could be any ordinary person, but they needed to bond a spren beforehand. Tallat hoped that he would get to hear of someone doing so, but the occupying force kept him from hearing anything from the outside. To make matters worse, he was removed from sphere-making and relegated to pottery, something he had no expertise in. When he told this to his immediate superiors, they replied that the resident potter had died or fled, and that glassmaking was the closest skill that could be found among the populace. With no rebuttal for that, Tallet got to work and hoped for Radiants to show up. Day after day, week after week, with no end in sight.
  20. The character list looks great; short and to the point. Each character is as fleshed-out as they can be from how short their character descriptions are, and I would keep the descriptions at that length. I have no feedback the rest of the post; if you post more I'd love to read it!
  21. Awesome game. I stopped following it soon after I was dead; in hindsight I probably should have helped with a couple hammers but I'm not going through a thread this long if I have anything to say about it. I'm busy enough as it is. Well done, everyone! (Happy dance for the villagers)
  22. I'm just checking in for the cycle. As before I have no extra information to offer, but for those who have had trouble keeping up on the thread I'll just reiterate: I trolled Aman N1, forgot to Troll N2, and got exed D3. I was a Village Troll. Also I'm fairly busy for the next few days so my next posts will be similarly short until I can find enough time to very lightly skim and summarize the thread, and thus be able to offer any of my own conclusions. ------------- Walin looked at the screen. Then, he remembered that the built-in camera was up above the screen. Embarrassing. After that he checked that the webcam was on, the mic was on and functional, and that his VPN was turned off. Finally, he looked just above the screen and said "hold on, this whole operation was your idea." He then facepalmed. Some people might run scripts to get into his computer at any moment, but those who really wanted to save time would just scrub through his files. So, he fired up OBS Studio, started recording, said the line again, finished recording, exported through VLC media player, and covered his desktop with the same video file. There. That was it. Now to go leave his laptop unattended for several hours. ------------- I award myself 0.5 XP.
  23. Oh yeah I was village. I'm fine with this outcome, though. I was looking forward to the cat video and the oncoming scarring that would result. It would definitely turn back anyone who dared to replace an ordinary SE player. Me, however? This kind of video is only my Internet sustenance. It brings this video to mind: ---- Walin got removed. Once again, presumably some things happened but I did not write them down. Good day to you. ---- I award myself 0 XP.
  24. Welp, I don't have enough time today to do more than lightly skim the past few days of the thread. From what I remember of my last quick skim, I was asked who I Trolled. Well, I forgot to do it on N2, but I trolled Aman N1--and iirc he became immune to Trolling for the next cycle (which is in the role description of Trolls, and would have worked that way if he was Trolling himself), or something? I won't make any promises about reading and analyzing through the cycles I missed; I probably will post only this time during the cycle and get back online in about 10 hours from now, so after rollover. Welp. I looked through all my pings; sorry, @Amanuensis. I never Trolled Bookwyrm. I can Troll Wiz N3 or Bookwyrm this time, if you want. (Please tag or quote me in your reply in case I can't scroll through the thread) No votes on the incumbent or the unincumbents, as I haven't heard their platforms yet. GL to Steel in the finals of D3! ---------- Walin may have done something interesting. He also may have not. What, you were expecting me to pay attention and write it down for your own amusement? Oh, you were? Wait...oh, yeah, I said I would do that. My bad. Maybe next time. ---------- I award myself 0.1 XP
  25. PHEW! I forgot to check and join in the thread for about a day, and I didn't die. In actuality, I've been mildly afraid that I'd get exed or NK'ed ever since the almost-exe on D1. Once I saw how few votes I got D2, though, I really should have entered the thread again. Anyway, I'm going to go be inactive again. There's a lot of thread to look over right now, and I don't have the time just yet. --------- Walin lamented his choices that had led him to this moment. Namely, being the kind of person who spends 5 hours on the Internet instead of 2 hours on the Shard. --------- I deduct from myself 2 XP.
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