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  1. Seonid
    Love the write-up Joe! I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that we just lost all of our nighttime PM ability though.
  2. Seonid
    @Araris Valerian, that's a good point. Thanks for bringing it up. We can't afford to treat the voters on the Ornstein lynch as cleared yet.
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    @Drake Marshall, I saw your post, but I didn't have time to really respond. I'd have swung to asterion, too. Now I'm glad I didn't. That was a fast swing at the end. I think we've got a lot of new threads to pursue tomorrow. For the moment, everyone on the asterion lynch is looking a little less than rosy. I'd be surprised if everyone on that last push was clean. I need to go back and read it again to see who was driving the train and who bandwagoned on it.
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    @Drake Marshall, my argument isn't that lynching an inactive is better for SE overall but harmful to our win chances. I'm arguing that lynching an inactive helps our win chances more overall than lynching an active at this point. By keeping people who are actually around and playing talking longer, we improve both the amount of information we receive over the course of this particular game and the quality of that information. It is worthwhile to consider whether lynching inactives might dissuade inactivity - but if filters don't, then I'm not sure lynches will.
  5. Seonid
    That's a thing that folks do in Joe's games, because he hides secret roles and interactions and everything in his games. Certainly non standard, but always ridiculously fun! Of course, in this game, the scum win con is to kill the GM, which they are only able to do via the lynch.
  6. Seonid
    I'd rather not lynch Steeldancer today, especially on such weak evidence. (I'll admit to being somewhat influenced by his emotional appeal. It reads town to me, and also hits a particular spot. If you're an Eliminator after that, though @Steeldancer...) Other forums use the term 'policy lynch,' referring to lynching someone because their play harms the town. One class of players often targeted by policy lynches are inactives, because their play is extremely detrimental. They allow the Eliminators to gain number advantage turns earlier than they otherwise might. In addition, if we lynch the active players while ignoring the inactives, we end up with situations where few people are discussing, which kills the chances of the town to find an Eliminator via analysis. So, I propose to lynch an inactive today. I'm not saying we should do it always, but on D1 seems like a decent idea. And after this particular D1? Lynching an active player after such a sparse day doesn't give us much info - more than lynching an inactive, sure, but I'm arguing that the long term information benefit is greater if we leave active players around to talk (thus revealing connections between people, allowing us to act off of more information in the crucial later turns of the game). With that said, I'm up for Ornstein (where my vote is currently), but I'm not married to the idea. Any of the inactives would be someone I'd be fine with.
  7. Seonid
    Sorry it took me so long to get started, but I am serious about being more active this game. @Devotary of Spontaneity, I'm starting to making good on my pledge now. I agree whole-heartedly that Straw's vote on the GM was worrying. Aaand, now that I'm caught up, I see that Straw has retracted it. Fair enough. Ornstein @Ornstein Haven't seen you posting around here yet. Want to jump in the game and start talking with the rest of us?
  8. Seonid
    Thanks. I know the feeling! I'm spelt working on pushing out a draft, though. I'm sure it will get there eventually. Adventures in Edassa was among the most fun I've ever had on these forums! That said, it also required a lot of work out of me. I just don't have the time to re-open it at the moment. Maybe when I get a job (I'm a stay at home dad atm, which is much more busy than a regular career).
  9. Seonid
    Count Senn Conrad III (no relation) in for this game. I look forward to rectifying past inactivity
  10. Seonid
    Thanks! I'm glad you like it so much! I have early drafts of political maps, but they are decades old, and the shape of the continent had changed significantly since then. I actually lost the original to the map in the RP thread, but I can probably redraw it without too much trouble. But more than that, I could just print it off and add in a rough political map. I'll see what I can do for you.
  11. Seonid
    I’d remind everyone that prior to the game, as moderators we ruled that players should not change their profile picture if they change their username mid game. Players that do change their profile picture and username mid game will receive an SE subforum warning. @Mesa the Ookla would you please return your profile picture to that which it was as Darkness_?
  12. Seonid
    That looks awesome! Sign me up!
  13. Seonid
    Here's the relevant bit from the last viewpoint from Moash: And then he becomes Vyre, He Who Quiets, in a process that seems exactly like what the Parshendi survivors go through. If there's another way to read this, I'm all ears. But it seems unambiguous to me that Moash has been replaced.
  14. Seonid
    I'm pretty sure he is. He became a Fused, which kills the host - as far as we know. If he's still alive, then something weird is going on.
  15. Seonid
    I thought this way at first, until I read a reaction to the book that pointed out that the murder made it so that Amaram and his men were willing to turn. The murder has not yet had personal ramifications for Adolin, nor political ramifications in the coalition, which is what everyone expected, but it did have a significant impact to the plot.
  16. Seonid
    Absolutely right. I should have clarified that I completely agreed with your conclusion concerning Cusicesh, and I just disagreed with your interpretation of the WoB.
  17. Seonid
    I had thought that Cultivation had set things up so that Dalinar's memories would come back before Odium tried to bring them back. That way, Dalinar wouldn't be blindsided by his memories, but instead would have a chance to deal with them and their implications before the confrontation with Odium.
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    Hmm... that actually made me wonder. Brandon said that there is a level of spren between Stormfather level power and "sapient spren," by which I assume he means radiant spren. He specifically calls Cusicesh out as being of this level. My question is this: where are the unmade's power levels in reason to the Stormfather/Nightwatcher? Do they fit that description? If so, is it possible that Brandon had the unmade in mind when he bright up that gradation in spren levels?
  19. Seonid
    He does not say Cusicesh is a sapient spren. You say that in your paraphrase, but I believe that to be a misinterpretation of Brandon's words. He says (my paraphrase) "there is a level of spren between Stormfather/Nightwatcher and sapient spren, and this is what Cusicesh is." The phase "this is what Cusicesh is" refers to the intermediate level, and not to the immediately preceding phrase "sapient spren." Sapient spren is part of the parenthetical statement used to define the intermediate step where Cusicesh belongs. As additional evidence, to be sapient means possessing human level of intelligence. There are no known spren that have these attributes that are not radiantspren or higher.
  20. Seonid
    Why would it have been the right thing to do? I think it's clear that Renarin is on team Honor.
  21. Seonid
    Um, my read indicates that Cusicesh is one of the intermediate spren between a sapient spren and the Stormfather/Nightwatcher level. The sapient spren are spren like Syl and Pattern.
  22. Seonid
    Which Cosmere stuff in particular bothered you?
  23. Seonid
    Brandon has indicated that Vasher and Nightblood were always Stormlight characters first, and that Warbreaker was written to provide their backstory. In addition, Brandon does not intend to keep the Cosmere stories separate with only cameos connecting them forever. He's been rather upfront that, the further we go along in the timeline, the more interconnected they will get. Your understanding about the wider Cosmere not being necessary to enjoy the stories is correct for the early works, but it isn't a goal Sanderson has set for the entire sequence. We've already seen the Mistborn storylines start getting more deeply involved with the larger Cosmere. That said, Roshar is certainly going faster into the wider Cosmere scope than I expected, but I still don't think we've passed the point of "essential to the story" yet. Except maybe Warbreaker, but that seems to have been intentional from the start.
  24. Seonid
    This might be a stupid question, but what is an HSQ?
  25. Seonid
    I'm not qualified to comment on most of the theory here, but we do have positive evidence that Allomancy does work on Roshar. Hoid uses it during one of Shallan's flashbacks in WoR
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