Kasimir

Welcome! The game hasn't started yet, as sign-ups for this particular one are paused until we can get at least eighteen players

My poor Village I pick Gaidin TJ: "Aha! I will make Kas RP as an Aes Sedai." Kas:

I gotchu bro. Yes, I saw you Ash RAVE TIME! \o/

Depends on how much time I have, and if it's an extended sign-ups game. Since we're committing to large-volume games for extended sign-ups, I think it's worth making something eyecatching for marketing. Goes back to how we can't use the old model of "if people come then they come" at this point of our life-cycle, and my being impressed by how Flight Rising's Interflight Mafia Hub handles sign-ups. Basically TJ's our pilot case. I'm hoping we can get some eyeballs with a banner compared to just words, and I'm planning on hitting some WoT communities and respectfully checking with the mods on their advertising policy. The fact WoT S3 is due in mid-March might help and that's something we should seek to ride as well IMO. Also I'm just of the view that a banner and a sig advertising Flame of Tar Valon might be more catchy than a subforum sig, IDK, not sure tbh. Just that one's a very specific targeted RP game or looks like, and the other is a tad generic. We'll see, IDK! Smhhhhh. Sir we legit player pinged smhhhh Good things will happen. They'll be bad for the Black Ajah unless we're all Black together in which case I quietly sigh in trauma and wonder how to rework my RP Oh? Why are you @ing me? Why don't you @ the people who you are disappointing now that this game won't be Fifty Shades of Blue (Ajah)?

Polly, is this confession hour, also you're fine

Love this You picked a fun Ajah either way. No one's beating British Racing Green! Dropping the first of a bunch of promotion banners/buttons in here. (More for TJ.) Some of it is limited by my time and anyone with artistic capability is more than welcome to take over. Ideally it might be nice to get one for each Ajah but there's also an effort to reward ratio to consider I guess. Sorry, I'm a walking version of this meme:

Tbf you can probably argue for most Ajahs. Reds are specced as the anti-misuse of the one Power Ajah, even if they focused a lot on male channellers by main WoT. Greens are the battle Ajah. They prepare for Tarmon Gaidon but the White Tower is being invaded, go for it. Blues are the Seekers After Causes. The most obvious for a quest to free the Tower. Greys are the mediation Ajah. Probably the ones to keep everyone working together and leading the effort and pointing them at the Black Ajah rather than infighting. Whites are useful until they start going into higher order logics which no one cares about

I've met less these days than I did growing up Ah, the classic Ajah TJ be here going "I NUMBERED THE AJAHS AND HERE YOU ALL ARE INSISTING ON COLOURS."

LotR fans represent

It is, but Terrisman indicated not being very comfortable with this as their first game, so my suggestion was just to avoid picking the upcoming QF if they're a bit more anxious/concerned about joining. You probably saw this in the LG you signed up for, but at 8 players, there's only so many times we can go "give the new player" space before it stops being practical, and that was an unusually small LG - QFs hit this point way faster. Is your member title from Lord of the Rings?

What Polly ( @KelsierApologist ) is implying is basically we try to be welcoming to newcomers, and give them some time to ease into the game. There's normally a taboo against pushing a newcomer on their first day/night, and people will usually be more accommodating. This all went to hell for Polly very fast because it was an anonymous game so no one knew who Polly was or to give any leeway I guess otherwise I'd say just have fun and don't be afraid to ask questions, as Polly said. People who know you are new normally know enough to be accommodating and if they aren't, someone else in the game probably will yell at them When in doubt, you can check things with the GM (guy running the game, in this case, it's TJ), and the IM (we don't know who it is yet) - at the start of the game, every player receives a PM with both GM and IM inside so that's your direct line of contact. (If you want a slower-paced introductory game, I would suggest picking anything that looks good to you that starts with LG or MR - QFs are often quite fast-paced, so new players may sometimes be pressured a bit earlier than they'd like to be) Gray, White, and Green. We need more Ajahs in this game!

Welcome to SE! Welcome and great RP! Would you like to ask TJ for a spec doc link? It's a place people who want to watch the game can gather, speculate, make bets, and just chill when the game itself is running.

We did use it Polly scanned Alb during the Opening Ceremony, and after a few failed hops, Karn went into Alb and discovered that what Polly had found was a Reporter. I recall we were unlucky in that we knew most of Alb's scans already, and at that time, we thought we'd hop back into Alb sometime. Makes sense to me! Let's hope it doesn't, not so much SE-wise as because mental health nosedives aren't great, but also take care of yourself first! For the Emperor!

1. Okay so this one's a little weird. Basically a bunch of things came together for me - Mistborn really did not seem interesting to me, and the hard magic selling point was whatever. But I was a hardcore WoT fan thanks to this girl at high school, and Robert Jordan passed in late 2007 but then it was announced that Brandon Sanderson was going to be continuing the series. And that's when I said, "Okay, let's check out his Mistborn work I guess so I know if I feel optimistic about WoT going on." I started in maybe early 2008, then got hospitalised mid-to-end 2008 which was right after I finished the first Mistborn book, so I then had lots of time to do nothing except read. And that's how I finished the Mistborn trilogy, Elantris, and I think the free early draft of Warbreaker, and then kept reading. 2. Words of Radiance released, I really enjoyed the book and found 17S when Googling. I joined because I was high on the hype/excitement from the book and wanted to find more fans to enthuse about the books with. Hung out on the general forums, then found the Sanderson Elimination subforum a couple weeks later, made friends there, and never looked back. 3. Funny story. I wanted a new username that wasn't the same ones I'd used many times, and I'd just gotten out of a university physics lecture on the Casimir Effect. Then I decided I wanted a harder letter than C so swapped it out for the K. Then I stuck with it through the years.

Space is no excuse to avoid your therapist! He can find you even in space! No spaceship will keep him out!

Wylla was...perturbed. It had always been a strange, insistent feeling through the bond, like ants scurrying up and down his calf. By this point, Kamil was by his own reckoning rather good at ignoring it. He scraped the file steadily along the edge of his sword, steadily removing the slight nick from the bad parry during the spar with Roderick. Thank the Light, the blade was still serviceable. He didn't fancy taking the blade to the Tower blacksmiths for a new one, or for admonishment over a novice's error. A moment's inattention. And there was the matter that preoccupied them all, even Wylla. But Kamil said nothing. He was old enough to know you didn't rush Wylla, not when she was left to her own thoughts. Steadily, he ground away at the edge. If the nick had run deeper, there was no saving the blade. Sometimes, wounds were like that. He thought about the death of an Amyrlin Seat, an event rare enough to shake the very foundations of the White Tower. And when the Amyrlin Seat had been murdered in her bed, and her Warder slain with the use of the One Power, then that was something far more terrifying. The Aes Sedai did not brook talk of the Black Ajah. Kamil knew this. Nothing got the Aes Sedai of Tar Valon to band together like Saldeans defending the Blightborder, or more prickly than a Kandori whose honour was at stake, than mention of the Black Ajah: the very whisper of which was a stain on the honour of the White Tower. And yet. And yet a Warder had been slain by the One Power. Kamil'd known Tancred passing well, had sparred him several times, as had most of the Gaidin in the Tower. He did not think a Darkfriend Warder—and there it was, the forbidden thought—stood a chance against a blademaster of Tancred's calibre. Not in a fair fight. "It was them, wasn't it," Wylla said, at last. She let fall her pen, and capped the open jar of ink on the desk. "The use of the One Power demands it. Of course, there are possibilities in which the Amyrlin Seat fought another Aes Sedai, who used the One Power in defense of her Warder, on Tancred, but that's just absurd. If it isn't—them," she said, as though invoking the very name of the Black Ajah was a taboo beyond her, "—then what could possess an Aes Sedai to strike out at the Amyrlin Seat herself and disappear?" "What indeed," Kamil said, ironically. His kit still lay open on the carpet before him, and he selected the whetstone, now, wet it with water from his drinking flask, and set to work scraping it across the blade. As Kamil saw it, there was little better than a Shienaran waterstone for honing a blade to a keen edge it would keep, and there was no shame to Kandor in the admission. "But why kill the Amyrlin Seat?" Wylla asked, aloud. She was not looking at the letters and books and treatises on the desk now. He felt the heady rush of her mind working, spinning about from thought to thought like a blademaster dancing from form to form, rebounding from one opponent to strike at another. "We elect a new Seat, of course. The Tower cannot afford to be threatened like this. And—oh, I suppose. They control the election, and put their own in the position. An Amyrlin Seat of the Black Ajah. Then we will truly have fallen far from the Light." "You think too complicated," Kamil said. He was used to this, to half-conversations, but sometimes Wylla was wont to soar in flights of complex fancy. Someone had to keep those Whites anchored firmly to practicalities. She looked at him. "It could be the opening strike," Kamil said. "Like in a fight. Open aggressively, force the Tower into a defensive play, tear it open with fear and doubt, and then go for the kill." There wasn't a need to elect an Amyrlin Seat if the Black Ajah were truly ready to kill everyone and anyone who stood in their way. Light help them all. "Well," said Wylla, slowly. "We'll just have to stop them, won't we?" Whoever said Whites were forever divorced from matters of practicality and import, Kamil thought, had never met Wylla. The problem wasn't that Whites were detached from reality: it was that you had to give them time, had to nudge them back gently when they strayed. And even then, they could surprise you, with how ruthlessly they followed the path of reasoning. He suspected an Aes Sedai of another Ajah might have spent longer in denial, questioning the existence of the Black Ajah no matter how plainly the facts stood, having been laid bare before them. He felt the steady-burning embers of her resolve across the Warder bond, and met it with his own steel. "We will," he said. He was Kandori. He had been born to stand against the Shadow: whether at the Blightborder or in the heart of Tar Valon itself. The immensity of the task itself did not daunt Kamil. In this, they were both of one mind. Signing up as Kamil Lovric, pragmatic Kandori Warder determined to guard his Aes Sedai and stop the Shadow.

OH I MISREAD THE SHEET, LOL I ENDED THE GAME IN SWAN This entire game has been Araris and I swapping bodies with extra steps, wild.

Thanks for the game, Steel! I enjoyed the laidback chaos and it was honestly a fun switch from playing in a bunch of serious Elim games/work stuff at the same time. Shoutouts to @Araris Valerian, @Karnatheon and @KelsierApologist as fun docmates Next round, we can go SE meta: Dingo has a bonus to just not being remembered by the Village, Penguin will kill anything... For anyone who still wants your SE fix, keep in mind TJ has an extended sign-up currently open in which you can elect the Amyrlin Seat and also kill some nasty Black Ajahsses on the way, and Aeo is currently still trying to finalise a QF ruleset By the way, so do we do a logbook entry for the current body we ended the game in? We should right? @Araris Valerian ig? Because I think if not, TJ is going to be quite sad, he still has the only Kanga entry

I think I was introduced to it by a local gaming group and it's quite fun, though I'm still a bit more of a forum/Discord mafia fan. I've also played with some groups/GMs that come from the BotC tradition so they end up hosting some kind of intermediary between the two. Just came off an 'Oops All Elims' game that was run with BotC-type roles, even if there was no demon. The thing I like about BotC IMO is that it gives all players something to do (via roles), keeps the dead engaged, and allows latecomers to join as Travellers. The script looks fun - definitely Valentine's Day themed. Do you play online via the app, or in person? I've liked the in person groups, but we don't meet that often. The games I remember most are a Leviathan game and an Atheist game. Genuinely traumatising

Incidentally, I'm a little surprised no one noticed the white text Fair, I do think a PH is the optimal solution but recognise that two cycles can suck until then. And there's cases like Spirit and Tani where they can't be on on Sundays and sometimes I feel we should be able to make accomodation. IDK.

Tress is a great choice! Really enjoyed that one.

Welcome to the Shard! Which is your favourite of all the Sanderson books you've read?

Hey, haven't seen you in a while It's actually interesting to me you feel this way, because yeah I didn't realise the effect was pretty much this pronounced. Not too surprised. I think that's how I now interact with all the friends I made when I first came to the Shard - we keep in touch via Discord, game off-Shard. They mostly don't come back anymore.

Welcome to the Shard! Which is your favourite of all the Sanderson books you've read?