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  1. I'm going to go off the deep end of science here, but it looks like the the cognitive anomaly is at a Lagrangian Point -- either L4 or L5 depending on the direction the planet orbits. A Lagrangian Point is basically a location in space created by 2 bodies (like a planet and sun) that a 3rd body (another celestial body, or a spacecraft) can orbit, despite being empty. There are only 5 Lagrangian Points, L4 and L5 are located 60 degrees ahead and behind the planet on its orbit respectively. Both points are completely stable, meaning that any object in or orbiting the point would stay there almost forever, having an extremely low change of ever moving relative to the planet. Many planets in our own solar system have small objects located in or around their Lagrangian Points. With the cognitive anomaly being around 60 degrees away from the planet, it looks like it could be an object in the physical realm stuck in the L4 or L5 point that has some conscious something on it, making it register in the cognitive realm. TL;DR Due to wired laws of physics it is totally possible, and even likely, that a small celestial body is located in the exact spot in the physical realm where the cognitive anomaly is. An object like that could certainly create a 'anomaly' in the cognitive realm in the right circumstances. Anyways, thanks for induing my science nerdyness. Super cool that we got the star chart; I can't wait for the essay and planet map! Should be super interesting to see what the challenge is.
  2. Kenton! Kenton! Bring me my boombox! I need to listen to this new audio book.
  3. I should be able to bring a high-quality recorder to capture all those juicy WoBs.
  4. Looks like Brandon has a signing for Skyward at a Costco in Orem on the 16th. I’m probably going to be there; is anyone else?
  5. I'm making a "What Cosmere Character are You" online quiz for a small project, and I need questions to ask the quiz taker, and suggestions on what characters should be available. The quiz asks a question, then lets the user respond with "yes", "sometimes", "neutral", "not really", and "no". The questions should be worded so that the user can answer properly, without confusion. Examples are: "Do you like to draw?" or "Do you like being alone?". The more the better, I need a way to really know what character you are most like. For the characters I just need a list of all of the ones we have enough information about to include. I'm thinking of going out to the Coppermind for this, but for ones that you feel *need* to be included, or might go really well with a question are appreciated. Hopefully I can get enough questions and characters to give an accurate representation of the Cosmere. Eventually I would like to get a whole bunch from Brandon's non-Cosmere works and allow the user to pick a book series, all of Brandon's work, or just the Cosmere. I'll post it online when I get it done. Thanks for your help!
  6. Great stuff at the signing. I uploaded the audio I captured to Arcanum, so y'all can start transcribing it. It was great to see so many sharders there! Everything I asked should be on the audio, but I'll share some fun stuff right now. One of my questions: And we finally got the Bridge 4 salute on video! Thanks to @Firerust for letting me film him. https://youtu.be/-2pKlqC1Wm0
  7. Now that I know about it... I'll try to be there. Hopefully I can grab a recorder. EDIT: I am going; and I got a hold of some audio equipment.
  8. They mentioned my Nightblood question too! Lots of good WoB discussion.
  9. A couple of weeks ago I had a run-in with Brandon ans was able to ask him a question. I thought I would post it here so y'all can see it. Here is the paraphrased Arcanum style transcript: Here is what I got from this: There are (or could be) shardblades off of Roshar, but definitely not a large number of them. Most (if not all) of the "missing" shardblades are still on Roshar. Also we now have definite confirmation that it is hard to take a spen off world, but it is possible. I would love to hear what the rest of the shard thinks of this WoB.
  10. Really like the chapters this week, lots of good one-liners! I feel that not to much happened, but that we are getting set up for something big later. Hopefully we get 3 more next week so I can come up with some questions to ask Brandon about how the novella is going to affect Skyward. I also can't wait for Spenca to plug in the space ship. Anyone else think that Spenca is going to be really good at using the light-lance. (Thanks for the hyphen Brandon)
  11. I could see some romance happening, but I do think it will be mostly innocent flirting. Hopefully nothing to complain about. It does feel like a TV show, most of the breaks end off on a cliffhanger (of some sort), I keep on looking forward to the next set of chapters. I won't mind if they never release the book and just keep this going till the whole book is out! That being said I also can't wait to read the whole thing in one go. I am really liking the dynamics of Skyward Flight, the way the personalities are playing off of each other is great and we have already seen several reversals on everyone's views of their flight members. I really hope they all band together and find a way to all graduate; but I think that kicking someone out (maybe a girl so Spenca can get a bunk?) would be a really good plot point. Really can't wait for more chapters; that combat scene was great and I want more. So far I am liking this book more than Reckoners or Rithmatist, a good sign. The thinks I am most looking forward to are: The spaceship's AI, really want that "girl and her spaceship" part of the story Chapter 17 so we can figure out what novella Skyward shares a universe with Spenca talking to her family about flight school This one is a long way off - Spenca getting full acceptance into the flight school and proving to all the DDF leaders that she can do this PS - Thanks to @Sandra and @Govir for giving me the word counts.
  12. I loved the action scenes this week. I'm disappointed that we only got 2 new chapters, but they felt pretty good. It was refreshing to see (the main character) struggling to do something they thought they were great at. Seeing Spenca not being able to execute the maneuvers she studied for years and her feelings of both amazement and disappointment was awesome. I really want to know what the deal with the broken spaceship is. I think it is pretty cool that Spenca is spending the night there, and I think she might stay there in the future. Brandon pitched the story as "a girl and her dragon" and I really want to see the spaceship wake up and start talking. This story is Brandon at his best; the plot could go so many directions and already we are being set up for something big. MY prediction for the next chapter is that Spenca will be woken up by the ship somehow, and some more flight school stuff happening. Anyone have any idea how far through the books we are? I think Brandon said it was around 110,000 words; how many words are we at currently?
  13. I have been thinking the same thing for months. I think that Skyward is in the same world as DE. The Krell sensing large groups of people sounds a lot like Cyto; and with some other small bits... The only other option I can think of is Firstborn, Brandon's other novellas don't seen to fit. But while Firstborn (most likely) has FTL; it doesn't have AI and humans are in a much different place than in Skyward. Honestly I really want the connected novella to be DE because I love Cyto, and feel like way more should be done with it. It would be awesome to see Cytonic abilities in dogfights and just see more of it. But we only have 11 chapters so far, and I have no idea where the story is going. I can't wait for Chapter 17!
  14. I personally think it is Defending Elysium, both it and Skyward mention Earth (I don't believe Firstborn does) and both have alien races. The ending of Defending Elysium also could easily (I think) lead to a group of humans stranded on a remote planet, being constantly bombarded by alien spaceships. I could also see Cytonics explaining how the Krell can find large groups of humans and maybe the light-line. But that is just me guessing (and wishing for more Cytonics), it could easily be any of his other books, I just don't think we have enough information yet. Guess we will just have to wait for more sample chapters to come out.
  15. Thanks, I looked it up after I posted and that is the same answer I got. I also got confirmation with another WoB. "There is a connection between Autonomy and Patji". Guess thats what you get when you don't read the shard for a week.
  16. Just got done asking questions. The answer to the Hoid one was "he was talking about the mansion " I also asked "what is Patji's intent?" He said "it has been revealed". He further explained that I might have to make some connections to find the answer. Any ideas on what it is?
  17. I can ask that one. Great question, I want to know the answer now...Hopefully not a RAFO... I will be definitely be recording the line and almost certainly staying the whole time. Nothing more exiting than listening to WoB's for 3 hours!
  18. I will be there. Me and some friends got the first 5 wristbands, and I plan on dropping a recorder to get some WoB's, but I don't know how long I will stay. I heard that there is only a signing, no Q&A or reading or else I would try to (video) record that too.
  19. Here are some WoB from the Oathbringer Release Party that I can help out with: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/171/#e8176 Here are the book pictures which I have also uploaded to Arcanum: (spoiled for size) The last one and https://wob.coppermind.net/events/171/#e8177 are both from @JoyBlu, who got my copy of Warbreaker and her copy of Arcanum Unbounded signed. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/171/#e8175 and https://wob.coppermind.net/events/171/#e8169 are both mine (@OrangeJedi) On https://wob.coppermind.net/events/171/#e8175 I think that audio might have been cut short, I remember say something like; They have done worse and Brandon laughing, but the mic might not have picked that up. Also the person who asked https://wob.coppermind.net/events/171/#e8169 was part of my group; I will asked him for what he said so we can get rid of those nasty *inaudible* Obviously the footnotes on @JoyBlu's book one need to be updated; I think everything else is fine. A big thanks to the Arcanum staff and for getting those WoB out; It was like an early Christmas. I really appreciate what you guys do and so am glad I can help.
  20. Yes, I need this. You guys should post a PDF after the giveaway so those who don't get it can print a fake cover.
  21. When you see the word "that" and think, hey a perfect palindrome.
  22. Jasnah does not dance, she raps. Also here is mine: It starts with us finally seeing ANARAM go BETRAY the SONS OF HONOR. Then it turns out MRAIZE didn't EXPECT JASNAH the RADIANT, but SHALLON, and PATTERN. You get SCARED and it's immediately time for A DUEL, and it's this epic FIGHT right away. Oh, and not only is it SUPER CRAZY, but just [redacted for swearing] LIFT is AWESOME. It turns out ADOLIN was the SON was DESTINED to be THE CHAMPION, and for a moment you HAVE TO CRY. All in THE KOLIN FAMILY was so SAD, and GREIFSTRICKEN. JASNAH makes RENIRIAN KILL the CHAMPION. All the while, SHALLON, VASHER, and VIVIANA are in JAIL (because of MRAIZE) at KOLINAR, fighting THUNDERCLAUSTS and trying to get OUT, but the GAURD refuses to OPEN THE CELL. ADOLIN tries to get ELKOHAR to GET THEM OUT, but KINGDOM DUTIES keeps HIM OCCUPIED. All the while there's ISHAR the HEARLED. Oh also there are VOLCANOS, because why not, clearly more needed to be happening. But then, THE ASSASIN (the actual chapter title), KILLS FOR NO REASON [redacted for swearing] KALADIN. LIFT just [redacted for swearing] AWESOME, or CARZY. LOPEN faces MRAIZE and SHALLON and JASNAH, and it is so [redacted for swearing] COOL. KALADIN COME BACK ALIVE, reaches LOPEN,ALMOST DEAD, JUST IN TIME to HEAL LOPEN, SAVE SHALLON, and KILL MRAIZE, and they are HALWAY into the HIGHSTORM and it's so freaking amazingly awesome. You see SZETH and NIGHTBLOOD. Oh, and that's just the first half of the avalanche because then [redacted for swearing] DALINAR EATS with LIFT and it's just insane. The most intense thing ever. I probably spelled most of the names wrong, please don't judge.
  23. I was wondering about the rate of posts and how it varies day to day on the 17 Shard, and especially how the Oathbringer sample chapter releases affect rate of posts. I was wondering if there was an easy way to view [graphs] on site use data. Because if there is not, there totally should be!
  24. Thanks for pointing that out, I fixed it in an edit
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