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  1. Bort
    So, if "bus" is an elim term, what do we call it when someone picks up a pile of votes at the end of a cycle? It used to be wagon, as in "jumping on the bandwagon," but it seems that bus is used a lot more these days. I assumed it was for "busload of votes" or something daft like that. So, if bus is the elim term for this, what's the village term?
  2. Bort
    Oh wow! Good job guys. I head off to run a game thinking Thaid or Stick would get it, and get back to see everything has changed. So, what was it caused the Araris bus?
  3. Bort
    Out of the two, I've got more of a village feel from Stick, so I'll switch my vote from Aman to Thaid.
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    We use the website Roll20 as a virtual tabletop, Discord for voice communication, and Paypal for payments. People pay an amount per session, or per month, and that buys me the new books and stuff, and from next month, I'll be earning a living doing it If you'd like to support me in my endevours, we do need a healer for a new Descent Into Avernus campaign starting up soon.
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    Initially I'll be running published campaign modules rather than create my own stories, but yeah. I'm going to be running D&D as a profession.
  6. Bort
    Ha!! With the fighting words in your sig, you HAVE to play now! Welcome to the Shard, and welcome to the madess which is SE! I'm in as Bortington the Blind.
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    I'll admit, I'm also kinda curious why @StrikerEZ voted for me. This is taking a very extreme view from what I said. Ok, so here's my thoughts... C1, it's likely a villager will by lynched, unless someone really screws up and reveals themselves, just by weight of numbers. There are more of us than there are of them. If we activate the Fang today, we guarantee ourselves at least one elim down, even if we do mislynch a villager during the exe. That is, after all, the point of the game, so why not use the mechanic we have to help with that before we lose the chance to? I think for now, a poke vote on Aman. @Amanuensis? ************************ "Oh, we've got trouble now," 'King' Bortington the Blind said, peering intently from beneath the rim of his horned helmet. The subject of his study was no more than an inch away from his nose, a scrawled mark on someone's door. Luna looked a little shocked by this. Had the senile old fool managed to get something right? "You're...right." The Beardspren couldn't quite keep the surprise out of her voice, and whipped off through the air like a wisp of beard hair on the breeze, following Bortington as he headed back for the longhouse. He barged open the door and cried out, "Danger! Trouble and murder!" The vikings around the hall paused, looked at him in silence for a moment. Then they all cheered, axes and swords seemingly magically in hand. "There's a mark, on a door down the way," Bortington explained, describing the curved pointed style of the Tashikki Brotherhood, who could be easily identified by their reliance on beard wax to make stabbing points. "Their hugs are most lethal! Do NOT accept one!" He warned 'his' warriors. "Now get out there, and arrest everyone with a suspiciously pointy beard. Go! Go!" As the vikings streamed out of the longhouse to go and detain all the possible members of the Tashikki Brotherhood, Luna sat on Bortington's shoulder mutely shaking her head.
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    A travel documentary about Kaladin?
  9. Bort
    I'm sat on a bus right now typing on my phone so rp will have to wait for now. I'll decide who I want to lynch later too. On the subject of the Dragon's Fang, out of the options presented, I'd rather see it used sooner rather than later, just so we don't lose it by accidentally lynching a darkfriend on day 1, like Striker in the last game. Could it even be worth not lynching someone this cycle to make sure it works? Would that even work? @Kasimir?
  10. Bort
    Hey Amira, welcome to the Shard! It's great that you're enjoying Way of Kings. You're in for a real treat
  11. Bort
    This looks like a good place to mention that I run D&D for a living then, or at least, I do from the start of April. I've actually got a couple of spots free in campaigns right now. One or two for a Tyranny of Dragons campaign that's just approaching the halfway mark. Some scheduling and real life issues meant a couple of the players are having real trouble attending and may have to drop out. It's a shame, but I will be looking for replacements. That's on Wednesday evenings, 6.30-10.30pm GMT. The other open spot is the final position in a group starting Descent Into Avernus, starting on the 7th April, 6-10pm GMT. The group could use a healer. Just to be clear though, these are paid campaigns. PM me if you're interested, and I'll give you more details
  12. Bort
    Yeah, I pretty much convinced myself I was wrong about this one too.
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    Well, we do know the Shards are basically infinitely powerful, and why not herself or the other Shards? Maybe she didn't realise what was happening until it was too late, and now she can't affect herself or the other Shards that way because they are already "corrupted." Maybe, it was seeing how Tanavast was changed by Honour's Intent that made her realise what was going on. By that point, it's too late for herself, Tanavast or Rayse, but she can take steps for the next generation of Shardbearers.
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    I don't think it's the will of Adonalsium, so much as one of It's divine attributes. But given how the various magic systems work, I don't see why Cultivation couldn't "bless" Lift with something protecting her Intent, or Identity, whatever you want to call it, and preventing it from being altered by any outside source.
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    I wonder if this has to do with Lift. I'm in the middle of a RoW reread, and couldn't help but spot the conversation she has with Wyndle, regarding what exactly she asked for when she went to the valley. She asked not to change, and Cultivation gave her a blessing. Yet, she is still growing, so thinks that Cultivation lied to her. What if she didn't though? What if the tweak she made to Lift means that Lift won't be affected by Shardic intent? She would be the ultimate Shardholder, because she would always still be her.
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    There we go. Cultivation's plan to destroy Odium. Force him into a situation where he has to break one of his own promises, much like I think Taravangian is going to do with Dalinar. When he is weakened, get someone in to shatter his Shard.
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    Ooh... That would be good. Forcing Todium to break his own word. i wonder what that would do to a Shard, who are bound by their oaths.
  18. Bort
    Yup. Totally. That's exactly why I'm using them as inspiration ==================== The doors to the longhouse slammed open, letting in the winter air and revealing... A giant snowball? "Luna! Is this it?" The snowball spoke in a grumpy old man voice. "Yes, Bortington," it said again, in a different voice, this one feminine and lighter. "Good! Find me a seat, and next time Luna, no conditioner on the beard..." "Yes, Bortington," Luna replied, slipping free of the highly puffed up beard. She wore a mischievous smirk, and deliberately let Bortington walk into a column before guiding him to a seat. It was a nice seat, at the head of the table, and no-one else was using it. "YAAARRRGHGGGHHHH!!!" The others sat around the table cheered for some reason, and one by one they stomped up to Bortington, and dumped their flagons of mead onto his head. This helped his beard settle somewhat, and Luna was able to smooth it down into an actual beard, using her arts to weave it down into a long braid like some of the others at the table. Now that he had been revealed as actually human, just a very hairy one, the vikings(?) Bortington found himself surrounded by seemed to treat him with a great reverence. "I guess it's an age thing," Luna wondered aloud as one of the vikings dropped a circular metal cap, complete with horns, onto Bortington's head.
  19. Bort
    Right... Off to watch How To Train Your Dragon to find out how vikings act
  20. Bort
    This is fair, and I get it, life is complicated at times. I'm not reading the elim doc - the details of why you had to go are yours, I don't need to know them.
  21. Bort
    Bortington the Blind will fit right in then as Vikings often have great beards. They might just make him the leader. He will, after all, have the most impressive beard in the land
  22. Bort
    While this was a fun game, I'm not sure how we were supposed to be able to even attempt to identify Orlok as elim, given how he basically disappeared for half of the game, and barely scraped by on activity for the rest.
  23. Bort
    That made me think, that same sun is on all the covers. What is it's not a sun at all, but rather represents either Ashyn, or one of the moons, I know none of the moons are red, but what if one of the moons turns red as Odium corrupts it, since we know red means corrupted investiture?
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    Someone sent me this without knowing who was in the picture, but fair warning, it's a little sweary.
  25. Bort
    So, first order of business, lynch the GM Bortington the Blind is in.
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