Research Paper Observations

[ChipsAHoid He/Him]

On 10/6/2025 at 10:18 AM, Kansas Stormcursed said:

The spiked cookies I think started with @ChipsAHoid (somebody correct me if I'm wrong) and were a play on the usual spiking food and drink and stuff, but in this case it was literal Hemalurgic spikes through a cookie

Child this is ancient shard lore

Like

ANCIENT

This was from the Dark Alley back in the day

On 10/6/2025 at 11:37 AM, SpartanBrigade said:

Spiked cookies started in a huge roleplay series called the Alleyverse
It died a while ago but @ChipsAHoid kept the Hemalurgically spiked thing alive

Yeah thought it was funny

On 10/7/2025 at 11:05 AM, strmblsd said:

yeaah its funny. i didnt know that he did that until after i joined into the shard. elephant earwax is my brother. its funny and for the longest time his profile picture on his xbox account has been a spiked cookie. i used to wonder why he had nails in his cookie and then i learned why.

*genuine awe*

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

Just now, ChipsAHoid said:

Child this is ancient shard lore

Like

ANCIENT

This was from the Dark Alley back in the day

Yeah thought it was funny

*genuine awe*

Well you see

I am not ancient

I am barely more than a year on here

[ChipsAHoid He/Him]

1 minute ago, Kansas Stormcursed said:

Well you see

I am not ancient

I am barely more than a year on here

Yes yes back when I lurked the shadows I saw your rise

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

1 minute ago, ChipsAHoid said:

Yes yes back when I lurked the shadows I saw your rise

You say that like it was dramatic

[ChipsAHoid He/Him]

Just now, Kansas Stormcursed said:

You say that like it was dramatic

Well I can still act dramatic anyways

So there

[Argenti he/him]

Frankly, the only somewhat active people who are really OGs are @Treamayne, @alder24, and the people in Sanderson elimination. 

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

2 minutes ago, Argenti said:

Frankly, the only somewhat active people who are really OGs are @Treamayne, @alder24, and the people in Sanderson elimination. 

Yes

[Treamayne]

41 minutes ago, Argenti said:

Frankly, the only somewhat active people who are really OGs are @Treamayne, @alder24, and the people in Sanderson elimination. 

I only joined in 2016 - the forums are at least a few years older than that. . . 

 

[Argenti he/him]

Just now, Treamayne said:

I only joined in 2016 - the forums are at least a few years older than that. . . 

 

I mean- compare that to most people who are active these days, you precede them joining by almost a decade.

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

5 minutes ago, Treamayne said:

I only joined in 2016 - the forums are at least a few years older than that. . . 

 

Basically nobody OG is still active, you're close to the oldest active user

[Treamayne]

2 minutes ago, Argenti said:

I mean- compare that to most people who are active these days, you precede them joining by almost a decade.

Sure - just not OG like Chaos, AonEne, Harakeke, Jofwu, etc. 
 - My First two posts. . . 

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

1 minute ago, Kansas Stormcursed said:

Basically nobody OG is still active, you're close to the oldest active user

Some of the founding folk are active

Also little wilson is around in SE, and she joined in 2010.

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

5 minutes ago, KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren said:

Some of the founding folk are active

Also little wilson is around in SE, and she joined in 2010.

Again

Basically nobody

Proportionally a very small amount

[Argenti he/him]

7 minutes ago, KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren said:

Some of the founding folk are active

Also little wilson is around in SE, and she joined in 2010.

Hence "The people in sanderson elimination"

Spoiler

Really should join that, but I have no idea where to start.

 

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

Just now, Kansas Stormcursed said:

Again

Basically nobody

Proportionally a very small amount

There's more

Araris Valerian

Kasimir

Amanuensis

A Jo in the Bush

Doc12

STINK

1 minute ago, Argenti said:

Hence "The people in sanderson elimination"

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Really should join that, but I have no idea where to start.

 

Yes

Join the next game, I think it's a QF

Also if you want to GM eventually sign up now, because the wait is like 3 years.

[Hoid Slayer He/Him]

13 minutes ago, KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren said:

Some of the founding folk are active

Also little wilson is around in SE, and she joined in 2010.

I don’t know if I’ve ever seen Little Wilson post, though

I’ve only seen her IMing

@Kasimir’s pretty OG too, from 2014

@Seonid’s also from 2014

@Araris Valerian is from 2013

6 minutes ago, Argenti said:

Hence "The people in sanderson elimination"

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Really should join that, but I have no idea where to start.

 

It’s REALLY fun

A game is just wrapping up right now

20 minutes ago, Treamayne said:

Sure - just not OG like Chaos, AonEne, Harakeke, Jofwu, etc. 
 - My First two posts. . . 

OMG vintage Treamayne

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

1 minute ago, Hoid Slayer said:

I don’t know if I’ve ever seen Little Wilson post, though

I’ve only seen her IMing

@Kasimir’s pretty OG too, from 2014

@Seonid’s also from 2014

@Araris Valerian is from 2013

It’s REALLY fun

A game is just wrapping up right now

OMG vintage Treamayne

Yeah she hasn't posted in a while but she's still around

[Treamayne]

15 minutes ago, Hoid Slayer said:

OMG vintage Treamayne

Yeah, I wasn't consistently active until I got a new (non-shiftwork) job. Very sporadic until the 2020s

 

 

Edited October 13, 2025 by Treamayne
SPAG

[Seonid he/him]

I am from 2014. Guilty as charged. I think I signed up either right before or right after the Words of Radiance release party. Back in those days, I actually followed all of the Words of Brandon from various signings very closely. My biggest claim to fame (and the only time I ever actually "Won the Day" - gosh, I remember when that was new) was at the Shadows of Self (or Bands of Mourning?) release tour, when I asked a question at a signing and finally got the name of Bavadin's Shard - Autonomy.

There were people older than me though - Wilson is one of the oldest; I met her in person once or twice at signings. She's pretty cool lol (and I'm not just saying that because I used to be an SE moderator with her). I remember all of those old names, and some others.

Kobold King and TwilightSansSparkles were the big names when I was last on - they started the Reckoners RP with "What Happened in Oregon." That kind of took off like a rocketship. Inspired a lot of other RPs later on, but none of them ever quite had the same success. Until maybe the Alleyverse? For a long time, "And then Nighthound died" used to be a mantra on the Shard for a while. See this link for a brief explanation. A quick google search says that it actually made it into a TVTropes page.

That was after my time, though.

I do remember the Dark Alley, but they were a group in Social Clans and Guilds back then. They hung around in the Introduce Yourself forum and offered spiked cookies to new members. I wondered where that had gone. I assume that group turned into the Alleyverse RP?

I retired from SE and took a vacation from the Shard in roughly 2019, but I can provide some perspective on those 5 years - mostly from the Sanderson Elimination and Creator's Corner angles, but the different areas of the Shard were a lot smaller back then, and there was a lot more interaction between regions.

Edited October 13, 2025 by Seonid

[Argenti he/him]

2 minutes ago, Seonid said:

I am from 2014. Guilty as charged. I think I signed up either right before or right after the Words of Radiance release party. Back in those days, I actually followed all of the Words of Brandon from various signings very closely. My biggest claim to fame (and the only time I ever actually "Won the Day" - gosh, I remember when that was new) was at the Shadows of Self (or Bands of Mourning?) release tour, when I asked a question at a signing and finally got the name of Bavadin's Shard - Autonomy.

There were people older than me though - Wilson is one of the oldest; I met her in person once or twice at signings. She's pretty cool lol (and I'm not just saying that because I used to be an SE moderator with her). I remember all of those old names, and some others.

Kobold King and TwilightSansSparkles were the big names when I was last on - they started the Reckoners RP with "What Happened in Oregon." That kind of took off like a rocketship. Inspired a lot of other RPs later on, but none of them ever quite had the same success. Until maybe the Alleyverse? For a long time, "And then Nighthound died" used to be a mantra on the Shard for a while. See this link for a brief explanation. A quick google search says that it actually made it

That was after my time, though.

I do remember the Dark Alley, but they were a group in Social Clans and Guilds back then. They hung around in the Introduce Yourself forum and offered spiked cookies to new members. I wondered where that had gone. I assume that group turned into the Alleyverse RP?

I retired from SE and took a vacation from the Shard in roughly 2019, but I can provide some perspective on those 5 years - mostly from the Sanderson Elimination and Creator's Corner angles, but the different areas of the Shard were a lot smaller back then, and there was a lot more interaction between regions.

While you're here, I must ask- were guests able to post back in ye olden days, or are those deleted accounts?

Edited October 13, 2025 by Argenti

[Seonid he/him]

Just now, Argenti said:

While you're here, I must ask- where guests able to post back in ye olden days, or are those deleted acounts?

Pretty sure those are deleted accounts. I don't remember any guest posting from back then.

I do remember one or two joke accounts - there was one where someone created an account explicitly to see what all of the downvote titles were. I think they ended up with -10k rep or so before the mods shut it down. I wonder if they got deleted for violating the rule against duplicate accounts at some point?

[Argenti he/him]

3 minutes ago, Seonid said:

Pretty sure those are deleted accounts. I don't remember any guest posting from back then.

I do remember one or two joke accounts - there was one where someone created an account explicitly to see what all of the downvote titles were. I think they ended up with -10k rep or so before the mods shut it down. I wonder if they got deleted for violating the rule against duplicate accounts at some point?

Oh god I forgot about negative rep. I read about that one. 

[strmblsd he/him]

I remember many years ago seeing my brother elephantearwax doing stuff and hanging out wiht people on a website. for the longest time i had no idea what it was. it was the shard. i remember a story about a guy walking with his mouth open for 10 years and then he ate a bean. 

i dont know much about the shard back then but i know my brother was a big person in the alleyverse and stuff. i have a picture of a recipe for spiked cookies he made once. and a couple years ago he told me i should join the shard so i did and now im here. he is a quite well known person on here and yeah. for a while i was offering the cookie to new members just for fun and then ib went offline for a bit but i think im gonna start doing that again  

[Treamayne]

6 minutes ago, strmblsd said:

but i think im gonna start doing that again  

My only problem with the Intro Post Cookie gag was that it seemed to be used indiscrimately. Many people were coming here after just finding the Cosmere (or Sanderson, but not Cosmere at all - like Reckoners and Cytoverse) - and rarely were their first books Mistborn Era 1; so it just caused a bunch of confusion and Spoiler tags and what not. Used when the OP can get the joke it's fine. Used for everybody without regard for if they have read Era 1. . . not as fine (in my opinion). 

[alder24]

12 hours ago, Argenti said:

Frankly, the only somewhat active people who are really OGs are @Treamayne, @alder24, and the people in Sanderson elimination. 

I'm not OG at all. I made the account just to get Aether of Night (which I still haven't read), but I became active only after TLM release and I'm only posting in the Cosmere section.