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  1. Seonid
    Well, I guess I get to have the first word here. I'm not sure how to feel about it. My gut is screaming at me that not everything is as it seems here. First - to the cook whoop targeted Maill, poor form. Just poor form. I can understand any you thought he was suspicious, but for shame! This would have been the third game in a row he was killed on the first night. Other than that - it's odd to me that nobody messed with the lynch vote. It's odd to me that two out of three kills were protected. And it's odd to me that Arrenae was attacked at all. Also, I love the mechanic of not learning roles upon death. But I also hate not getting that information. Just a PSA. EDIT: storming autocorrect! EDIT 2: storming ninjas
  2. Seonid
    Amen to that. Thrawn and the X-wing novels are best star wars.
  3. Seonid
    Worry, you should not. Stepped on, my toes have not been. Room enough for two Star Wars threads this forum has. And most awesome, Kotor is. Indeed.
  4. Seonid
    I ship Nighthound and Paladin''s sword...
  5. Seonid
    Nothing more to say yet, really, other than a few housekeeping items. Alvron, care to fill me in as to why Sheon Idris ended up on a kill list? Also, since the player list description of Sheon seems confused as to why he's here. The former king of Arelon worldhopped to Roshar, almost got murdered by the Diagrammists, turned out to be Hoid, almost got murdered by the Shardic coalition, and ran away to the ends of the Cosmere to hide, and then came back to get revenge on the Diagram. See? Simple.
  6. Seonid
    Finished my Arabic final! Now I just have to write my stupid final paper.
  7. Seonid
    Aaaand I just finished my Arabic final and my brain is too shot to start on my final paper just yet, so I'll get started on the being useful earlier than I thought. To my cursory read-through of the thread, there jump out at me 5 important events so far: Stink's public roleclaim, Hellscythe's vote on Stink, Venture Mistborn's public roleclaim (including the pronounced lack of reaction to it), Mailliw's information phishing, and the discussion about how to use the Veristatelian Scholars. Both of the roleclaims have me thrown for a loop. The Eliminators have unhindered conversation in a doc - no rules about what cycles they can use it, or anything similar. The Village has the thread and very limited PMs. And we have two(!) players claiming to be a runner on the very first cycle of the game. We have no ways of guaranteeing protection, and we wouldn't offer guaranteed protection without confirming the role in any case. And with two claimants, coordinating protection would be difficult anyways without revealing protection roles in thread, and that's a recipe for village suicide. So I don't get either roleclaim. The Eliminators have every reason to want PMs down. If they have unfettered communication and we have only the thread, we are at a severe disadvantage. No gathering trust groups, no private roleclaims, no discussing the results of VS or assassin scans. None of that happens without PMs. And anonymity is the best protection. Roleclaiming makes yourself a target for the eliminator kill, and almost guarantee that you will die sooner rather than later. A roleclaim just doesn't make sense. At least, if it were true. If it were false, on the other hand, you have drawn protection to yourself for a time. You rule yourself out as a target for the Cooks (because the Village had better not want to kill its own runners). Maybe you're gambling that it can last long enough... Long enough for what? If you're a Radiant, that type of claim might make sense. Kind of. Rule yourself out as a target for the Cook kill. Count on loads of protection against the Eliminator kill. Establish yourself as a supposedly neutral player in the faction war - at least one that the other faction isn't interested in killing. Disguise your importance behind importance of a different sort. That could be useful, perhaps especially for the Bondsmith. The Bondsmith can mimic a runner, after all. Of course, this all makes sense for an Eliminator to claim as well. And it's a perfect setup for a Wounded Gazelle. Claim to be important. Get protection. Survive an attack. And if a WGG hadn't been tried (with a reasonable approximation of success) in LG15 - see Burnt Spaghetti - I'd say it had a reasonable chance of working here. I know my suspicions are up right now, and I'm not going to clear anyone who survives an Eliminator attack. Having worked out these thoughts, Hellscythe's vote makes much more sense. Why would we want to lynch one of our runners? Because it's not likely that they'd have claimed like this if they were a real runner. On the other hand, I could have missed something - reasoning that makes this make more sense, a pattern of trolling into which this would fit, etc. And that makes me hesitant to join the bandwagon on Stink. Because he is a known troll, and this might just fit his playstyle. And I don't want to lynch him if he really is a runner. Venture Mistborn, on the other hand, has had almost no reaction to his roleclaim. It's been swallowed up be the reaction to Stink and the following bandwagon. I think he needs a little bit more scrutiny - some pressure. Why on earth did you publicly roleclaim like that, Venture? I'm going to pass over Mailliw's information phishing in silence for now. It's Mailliw. This is what he does. Nobody who's played a game with him before should be surprised at this. I think I'm going to rule him out as either Bondsmith or Runner, though, because if he had PMs, I suspect he'd have run this project there instead of in-thread. And now we come to the last bit - and possibly the most important. The discussion on how to use the Veristatelian Scholars. Most important because, unlike most games, we get exactly zero information out of a lynch. Nothing at all. Not without a scholar scan, and those can't even be trusted 100%. I like the plan of having one faction scan the lynch and the other scan the Eliminator kill. I'd like to propose an addendum - if one of those kills doesn't happen, the faction that was supposed to scan it should scan the Cook kill instead. If there are 3 kills, I have no suggestions on what to do. My final thoughts are on lynching. Normally, I'm all for a first day lynch, or at least the idea of one. Without lynch pressure, we don't learn anything from discussion, and lynches normally give us a great deal of information (at least role and alignment). This game might be tempting to hold back on a day 1 lynch - just because we don't learn anything. Unfortunately, we can't afford this. We don't learn anything on a lynch, but our Scholars are absolutely useless without a pool of dead bodies to scan. So no matter how tempting it would be to play this differently, I think it is important to actually lynch this cycle, so that our scholars can start getting to work. With that said, though, bandwagons are next to useless in any case, because they shut down discussion for almost a cycle. We need lynch discussion more now than we have in any game I've ever played in. So whatever you do, do it to try and get people talking!
  8. Seonid
    Interesting ploy, Mail. You have a reputation for being excellent at this information game, and you continue to prove that you deserve it. As a public service announcement, I am not going to be available until the end of Monday, MST, due to my final exam and paper. I apologize for the inconvenience, and look forward to being useful in future cycles.
  9. Seonid
    Welcome, zas! Or welcome back? You've been around for one or two games before, right?
  10. Seonid
    I hate finals week. Just hate it. All over the place. All I want is to quit my job, finish school, and be able to spend my days with my wife and son. And writing my fantasy novels. Is that too much to ask?
  11. Seonid
    Wonderful! I really hope this works out for you.
  12. Seonid
    This reminds me of the MMOIPWAR. Which died while I was still behind by 2 months - which is probably for the best, because I would end up even further behind. I still think we should resurrect that eventually, but that's Quiver's domain, not mine. Anyways, if you're interested in something like this, you should look at this and see if it is similar to your idea. If it is, we should look into bringing it back.
  13. Seonid
    I'd be down for either, but i liked the idea of another rerun for the anniversary game. I loved that it was played that way last year, and I think that rerunning the first game would be really fun. A 17th Shard Holiday tradition, if you will.
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    I'd be all in for that.
  15. Seonid
    Spartan, but functional. I like the faux typewriter font for the Reckoners RPG - and the tagline is nothing short of brilliant. The song lyrics in italics are a nice aesthetic touch, but the lack of color overall holds the signature back from being truly great. I give it four-and-a-half sparkles. Four-and-a-half out of what, you may ask? Four-and-a-half out of the square root of custard.
  16. Seonid
    I might actually be able to do this over the break. I may not be as active as in past games, but this one is too fascinating to miss. So, Sheon Idris is back from his long exile.
  17. Seonid
    Thanks. I came home from class today to find that my wife had gone to the store, found out that they didn't repair phones, and bought me a new phone (on sale that day) all in the time I was gone. I love her.
  18. Seonid
    So last night my phone died. It refuses to turn on now, and keeps vibrating consistently. It isn't the first time this has happened - Google says that it's a common problem with this particular phone, but none of the fixes are working for me this time. I may end up needing to get a new phone, and that's not fun right before finals week.
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    Brilliant, and more than a bit disturbing. You've hit the nail right on the problem of evil's head. The single most enduring Christian (and to some extent, Jewish as well) theological problem in history. Don't want to threadjack, but it's quite an interesting way to go about it. Ethics of power - what is the responsibility of those who have power towards the weak and suffering? It's a cutting question, and only grows more and more pressing as the walls that have shielded the largely affluent western world from the plight of the poverty-stricken global south come down.
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    When, oh when will I have time to write in Edassa? Or Starnet? Or anywhere else that's not school?

  21. Seonid
    I've got a short story here and a creation myth here (although it sorely needs to be updated). Most of the rest of the stuff I've done here has been worldbuilding, but I'm going to get more actual writing up here over the Christmas break, I hope.
  22. Seonid
    The clearing is peaceful, serene. All things considered, this would seem to be rather odd in this place. Fortunately, it won't last long. Fire screams down from heaven, flattening the grass in the clearing, flash-igniting several of the nearby bushes. Quickly, the fire is gone, leaving only smoldering undergrowth in its wake. In the exact center of the clearing lies a curious vehicle - designed for rapid atmospheric re-entry. The sides of the craft fold down, revealing only a perfectly circular ring of some white metal, mounted on a dais. Space bends, ever so slightly. Perhaps time does, too, although this has never been proven. Abruptly, the space inside the ring twist chaotically, eye-numbing and mind-tearing. Then it is over, and the view through the ring is substantially different from the rest of the clearing. A hallway of brushed metal, lit with a cool blue-white light, curves away. From the wormhole - for such it is - steps a nondescript man. He looks up into the sky of the clearing and pulls some advanced communication device from his belt. "Control, this is operative 017. Test is successful. Repeat, test is successful. This thread has now been added to the Starnet." A crackle of static answers him. "Very good, 017. Now go and participate." "At your service, Control." The man looks around again, and begins walking.
  23. Seonid
    Well, the original purpose of this thread was just to geek out about the new trailer, but if you want this to turn into the Official Star Wars Episode VII Discussion ThreadTM, I'm more than happy to edit the title to reflect that.
  24. Seonid
    Alright, I added Dunestriders, Charbacks, and Shockbacks. I've been out of commission for a while, but I'm going to try and keep up better with this project, even if I'm not going to be adding more stuff of my own for a while. ChickenPlague, go ahead and post your ideas here, I'll get them into the OP.
  25. Seonid
    I'd say let's keep all of the stuff that has been created, even by folks who have dropped out. They still contributed, and those contributions are still valuable. For myself, this project is still amazing and awesome, but I have little time to actually devote to it. And most of that little time is going towards other projects I've got - Edassa and Starnet, mostly. Hopefully over Christmas I might be able to at least put my stuff on the wiki. It'll be May before I really have enough time to actually add new material to my areas. That said, if anyone wants land next to mine, and would like to coordinate what things are like in the borders (or is even interested in splitting an empire) - I am able to do that. Just send me a PM or post in the thread. About the Rachnyx - what if we made them telepathic? That would solve the possible problem with communication rather neatly, I think, but we ought to discuss other options to and find the best one. Final thought - I think it may be a mistake to think of our areas as completely isolated from each other. There's no a priori reason to think that our creatures only exist in our areas. For some, of course, that may turn out to be the case. Other species might be better off being more widespread than our individual areas, but we have just chosen to limit our worldbuilding to the places that interest us. Otherwise the world tends towards being artificially segmented in a way that could break suspension of disbelief. Just random thoughts from a busy contributor.
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