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  1. Kasimir
    Aye, and I'll go study up on the rules, then. Would just like a clarification - does going Discord mean going audio?
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    Then the issue is @Darkness Ascendant's timezone, right? At least from what I've seen, EST converts to GMT -5 normally, and GMT -4 if you're [=GM Almighty] currently on Daylight Savings. (I'm not sure about that, so I just listed both.) This correctly means that since @Doctor12 and I are on GMT +8, there's at least a 12 hour difference, but one that could expand to as much as 13 hours. Depending on what your usual gaming time preferences are, I might be able to make it - I currently teach and the school holidays are coming up, so I can tank some slightly odd hours, but I'm not sure about Doctor12 (Doc?) And then there's whether Darkness Ascendant is in an equally uncomfortable timezone. (P.S. GM, if this timezone issue makes you feel uncomfortable, due to your preference for running it by chat, I'm willing to drop out in favour of players who are in a better timezone. I don't really want to have caused a whole bunch of problems due to living in a somewhat irregular timezone...) How long would you normally like for a session? (I assume at any rate this may stretch beyond at least one session.)
  3. Kasimir
    Thanks! At least for my vote, I'm obviously more concerned with picking an option favoured by our GM (i.e. chatroom!), but I suppose it would partly depend on whether our timezones are so horrid that it forces an option anyway. So my suggestion would be to also indicate timezones - I'm GMT + 8. I would therefore vote chatroom unless there's some logistical reason it couldn't work.
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    Hi timezone buddy from across the Causeway!
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    Then I'd be fairly interested in the Cthulhu game. I'm not big on voice sessions because I have difficulties tracking audio, and my webcam's busted, but I'm cool with text. The one caveat though is that I'm an utter n00b - but I'm willing to study up on the rules and how this is done, if you're okay with having me in.
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    One question - will any of these be a voice/webcam session, or just text?
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    Note: if there are any Pokemon fans, you can get a Pokemon word counter for your NaNo project from here. I thought it was pretty nifty, so signed in to share it. Only works for this year's NaNo, for the duration of NaNo, after which your Pokemon won't level anymore. Have fun!
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    I'm not back - I'm still gone for good, but I happened to come across this because of something Wyrm mentioned. Unfortunately (don't ask, it's a horrid story), I lost everything on my Google Drive, including the reports from my students, which I can tell you really drove the guy I'm working for up the wall. Basically, sorry, my bad - I tried to save the files but I couldn't recover any of them, and I don't have backups. Cheers.
  9. Kasimir
    So what is it exactly? 'His playstyle seems off'? Could it be, perhaps, that I'm low-activity in this game, which I've already stated (twice!) before this game will happen, due to RL commitments? Because you know what guys? I've found something very interesting. Every single time I've played a game and been unable to commit to my usual levels of hyperactivity, someone has always cited some mysterious, unanalysable gut as to my being evil? Gee, who'd have thought? Every. Single. Storming. Time. Without. Fail. The same claim comes up--as long as I can't be fully active. And here I thought it was okay to play a game and be minimally active, but I guess I'm wrong, huh Nice to know, guys. Next time if you don't like a player being unable to fully commit, then when they say as much before the start of the game, maybe you should bloody open your storming mouths and just say, "Look, Kas. If you can't be active, then you shouldn't join this game." Don't waste either of our times. Now, let's get this clear. I don't have a problem, except an epistemic one, with this kind of silly use of gut, and I certainly don't think playstyle analysis can't be used. My actual frustration here is because by now, I have seen a pattern and I find it thoroughly sickening because it implies I can't even play at less than my usual activity level without getting 'penalised' for it, as it were. Moreover, I don't see anyone else being penalised for being unable to be 'hyperactive'. Which seems to me an odious result because how the storming hells am I now expected to maintain a higher activity level then others? Is that how I'm supposed to treat SE in future? So noted, thank you very much, ladies and gents. I'll keep that in mind. *If Macen wishes to claim that his gut is not in fact based on this disgusting pattern, then he had better come up with some more substantial grounding as to what displeases him about my playstyle. Of course, he may always simply bite the bullet and agree that his gut is based on a reasonable explanation for my current low-commitment playstyle, even though I have already stated before the game that I cannot be active. At this point, I'm tempted to consider him an Eliminator looking for a cheap score since gut can't be held accountable for error (you don't, after all, commit as much as you do when you go all out to make a case against someone.) But then, at this point, I'm not terribly inclined to be charitable, and so I shall decline to make a judgement call. - Actually, something strikes me as odd about Elodin's phrasing. "N1 I redirected Orloks role action last night I attempted to redirect DCs" (Emphasis mine.) Why did he say he attempted to redirect DCs action? (For that matter, if he thought DC was good, then why even target DC in the first place? And if he failed to redirect DCs action (as I think he is implying), then how does that help him conclude DC is good?) It's kind of striking if you notice he flat-out says that he redirected Orlok's role action. So what happened? Looks to me like he's trying to tell us he got role-blocked. - At this point, this is the current status of my beliefs. Will provide justification if/when specifically asked: Slightly Trust: Nyali Neutral: STINK Twei El Slight distrust (default): Everyone else not mentioned Lopen (Putting Lopen in a lower category is contingent on Joe's posting his promised analysis since I don't have the time to trawl through MR13) Somewhat distrust: Wilson (default) - I currently am not convinced by the Nyali-Wilson-DC trifecta of madness. As far as I'm concerned, it's turned into a game of he-said-she-said, since Wilson is basically accusing DC of lying, and presumably the other way around, and while one way to cut that Gordian knot might be to just lynch one of them and find out, it's...not something I really want to experiment with when it comes to them. If someone wants to go through their respective reports (and Nyali's) in search of inconsistencies, be my guest. My vote is not doing much good on Wilson as it currently stands, and so I'll like to press Mark further on a comment: "For now though, I believe Luna is innocent. Rather than outright defending Luna, I feel a better move would have been to seal her fate had she been up for lynch. But, both those moves are not too good in the long run." What do you mean here?
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    Why not? I grant it's an assumption, but IMO, it's perfectly logical: if I had a Soulcaster, that's exactly what I would do, because it makes Ghostbloods kill themselves, which means that I wouldn't run the risk of say, accidentally redirecting the Ghostblood to kill a Noble with a spanreed or our Shardblade wielder! But here is further reason I simply made that assumption: For reference, the relevant post can be found here. IMO, it would be really weird for Elodin to advocate something he didn't actually want to end up doing. So I don't think it's too much of a stretch to believe he would do exactly that. (And am I the only one who already found his harping on the Soulcaster strange from the get-go? It already seemed to me as though the reason he was so invested in strategising for Soulcasters was because he likely had one. But it's not the sort of thing you mention because if the Ghostbloods know, they know; if they don't, no sense in helping them.) Now, I will grant that there were other suggestions being advanced, e.g. 'Soulcasters, please swap actions to target people you distrust.' But that came after Elodin had already acted on N1; I find it implausible w.r.t. the timeline to think that would have influenced his past action--recall his post was made on Day Two. So no, I don't know it, so I'll willingly grant I could be wrong. But I believe the evidence is with me on this ...You have a point, but still, that assumes they don't start with emotion bracelets or anything, which requires them not to have those items, since they'd only be able to use one item from Tier 2 at a time. I mean, it's theoretically possible, but so much depends on how Maili did the distributions that I'm currently reluctant to speculate too much on it. Even so, my question still stands; I'm going to leave it up there first precisely because of your point, that information-gathering items are awfully convenient for them. I don't think there's a right or wrong answer because it depends on your predilections. You could be like Joe; we all know he likes to work out the people he trusts, so whoever he's left with are the people he finds suspicious. My personal take is that it would be more useful for our hypothetical person to go after the suspicions or the people they're not sure about. The reason beind that unless the emotion bracelet specifically says 'used Shardblade to kill' (my personal suspicion is that it will say 'used Tier 1 Action to kill' or so--Maili, could confirm please?), you aren't really going to find things to exonerate or to give you more reason to trust people. So you found out they Heired someone or used a spanreed. Cool. What's that do in terms of trust? What is that evidence for? On the other hand, finding they killed or used a pain knife on someone? That's a bit more of a smoking gun, IMO, or at least more helpful. Edited because my formatting went to hell.
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    All right, so this more or less exonerates our Grandbow archer. (With, always, a tiny bit of wariness held back.) I still think that reasoning indicates the Shardblade-wielder ought to be on our side, but at this point, the strongest evidence for it is still the knowledge that they are an extra victory condition for the Ghostbloods and so are unlikely to be granted them from the start. (Yes, I'm paranoid. Deal with it.) Nyali, if you do have items, then unless it is a reverser or a Shard, then I don't really think it matters whom you declare as your Heir, so long as you do it publicly, because our thief is going to be going item-shopping the moment you die. (And really, assuming you don't die this night, you can always keep tweaking it.) There's one thing I can't make sense of. If Orlok was a Ghostblood Artifabrian, then we would surely expect the Ghostbloods to make a Grandbow off the bat, because they want to rack up kills ASAP. (At least, that's my opinion: the immediate question ought to be: why turn down a free extra kill?) But then, why didn't we see an additional Grandbow kill last night? (Sure, Elodin redirected Orlok's role action to himself on N1, but that should just mean Orlok had a Grandbow. But then, why do we only see 2 kills, rather than 3?) Here is a related question. If we know the Ghostbloods had an artifabrian, and that no extra kills went off, then what happened to the spanreed Wilson received? ^ I solemnly swear this is neither my gut nor diarrhoea this time, but a question I wish to pursue. Edit: Hang on a tick, why did Orlok die without any items? Hey Maili, if Orlok created a Grandbow on N1, would we still see it in his possessions by now?
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    Are we seriously going to turn this into a gambit pileup?[/yurl] Wilson: It was an OMGUS vote. I freely admit it. What's more, it was intended to be an OMGUS vote, to put my point across more sharply than the treatises I've written about gut votes in the past. It boils down to this: gut votes are a cheap way of voting for someone and appearing to be nice and contributing (which is, after all, a good thing for an Eliminator, given the metagame on inactives, at least when I last played!) Can gut votes be right sometimes? Sure. Can looking at a stopped clock be a correct way of telling the time sometimes? Also sure. Can reading the future in entrails or in the fur patterns of a panda also be a good way of telling the future sometimes? Sure, maybe if you're lucky. Sure, people who are Team Village sometimes end up resorting to gut votes too. And honestly, if you do this, then I think you are epistemically naughty and ought to be spanked. If and when I rely on gut votes of my own, I too will submit myself for spanking because I may as well slaughter a goat and try to read my suspects in the entrails for all the good it will do. (I can't dictate how others play, of course. It wouldn't be right. But I can strongly disapprove of methods that don't tend to be epistemically reliable nor virtuous, and I can strongly disapprove of methods that are epistemically irrational. So there, you can't take this from me! >> #footstomp ) At the end of the day, my point is this: the vote on me had exactly as much reasoning as my vote on you did. I can even promise to carefully go over your posts to decide what sets me off about them, in order to make my epistemic situation nicely on par with Macen's. If I'm suspect for it, then to be logically consistent, shouldn't you raise an eyebrow at what Macen is doing too? Sure, he didn't package it in crude local gangster slang, but surely my sounding like I been never eddycated in me life shouldn't be a mark against my vote itself, innit? (Of course, as I mentioned, perhaps it was a case of diarrhoea and not my gut actually telling me something was weird with you... ) - Joe, yafeshan: My assumption is that reading yafeshan charitably, he is questioning the idea that Ghostbloods would automatically think a spanreed holder is a Shardbearer, and that people would automatically assume/find suspicious someone sending a PM. In response to the first, yafeshan, I think El was trying to get at this idea: using a spanreed, if you're a Noble, is generally a deathwish because it makes you a great target; taking down Village communications and all that. So one natural assumption might be that if someone with a spanreed uses it, they must have a reason to not worry about getting killed, which generally implies either Shardplate [shardbearer], or a lack of a healthy sense of self-preservation. With regard to the second, you're partly correct that it is not the only possibility, but people would naturally be wary: there have always been way too many info leaks in PMs and just because someone's nice enough to PM you doesn't mean they're actually on your side. The point, or Joe's and El's point, as I see it, is that we know the killer inherited a spanreed (from Araris) and so this adds a bit more certainty to the notion that whoever it is could be a Ghostblood. (I mean, imagine: let's say there are 3 spanreeds in play. This is just a random guess. Then this gives us at least a 1/3 chance that one of them is evil, based off the fact Araris's spanreed was taken by the killer. And this doesn't even include the possibility that some of the Ghostbloods began with spanreeds. So what, 2/3? 1? I daresay that's pretty good odds--and unlike a normal situation, the odds are, we're not losing the role permanently either.) So, they're not saying they must be one, but that if you are a Noble with a spanreed and you know that using it will invite suspicion on you, then it's tempting to just not use it at all because dealing with people might be bloody exhausting or might detract from what is the point of this: hunting down the Ghostbloods.
  13. Kasimir
    Technically, that makes me even worse a sinner because I clear my exams even later than he does :/ It's true that it seems kinda pointless to join a game if you're only going to be semi-active or even completely inactive, and it sure means you don't have a moral leg to stand on when you lament other people's inactivity. It happens. We make bad decisions, at times. He wanted to play with me and Wilson. I really wanted to play this game. Did our emotions override our better judgement? Maybe. Certainly, if we end up dying because of general lack of activity, we'll have brought it on ourselves. That, I at least, am more than happy to accept. Why sign up? Because we both thought that we would have fun, even if we couldn't be there 100%, even if we ran the risk of dying. Isn't that, in the end, why anyone plays?
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    Thank you, DeathClutch. As far as I'm concerned, I'm not too happy with the Heiring during the Day business because all it does is tell us that you really trust someone (as one would presumably hope that Heiring ought to be done to someone you have good reason to think is a Villager rather than a Ghostblood), and my views on the importance of voting are, by this point, made to redundancy. (I will acknowledge that one can make a good case for someone's likely guilt and not vote, but then that would be odd: why, after all, express such conviction in guilt yet not be willing to vote for it? There are circumstances under which that may be acceptably odd, but discussing these at the moment would cause me to deviate from the point of this post.) 1. Nyali: You've been flagging Seonid for a while; I thought you might like the reminder that my favourite person of the month Seonid has already mentioned he can't play until the 1st May. There is, of course, a bit of ambiguity in what he might have meant by 'not going to be active', but I think it is fair enough to assume that we won't see him in thread until then. I would hope that he be cut some slack since he mentioned this before the game began. (Admittedly, I also say this to be consistent since I should be studying for my final exam, and so any condemnation directed towards Seonid for giving in to akrasia and signing up should be rightfully borne by me as well since our situations are identical ) 2. El: Your comment about a thief with a kill is worth noting, but it relies upon the assumption that the Thief's win is also achieved if they can obtain items through killing (although perhaps you simply meant the weaker claim that a Thief with a kill item from the beginning would be pretty blasè about killing since it doesn't affect their win condition--except it somewhat does.) My guess (Maili, could we get confirmation on this please?) is that a Thief wins if and only if they can steal the required items. That means getting it through killing or being Heired items doesn't count, and neither can they find a friendly Artifabrian and just get them to create what they need over consecutive turns. 3. So, we know that we have at least one kill role (insofar as the Shardblader is likely on our side.) Here is my question: have any of us thought about turning the kill into a secondary lynch? Indicating in orange or some other colour who we think is suspicious and worthy of a Shardblade through the spine? It would increase what we have to discuss about, and to forestall objections that this would tell the GBs who to protect: A. not unless they have a half-shard, and B. we don't need to determine who the Shardblader kills. We just need to give them a list of likely suspects and let them decide. That way, they get the final say. - Oso ah, I was reading through the posts, one by one...and everytime I read Wilson's posts hor, I felt very uncomfortable de. Dunno why oso leh. My stomach growling, not feeling good, like want to diarrhoea liddat...I tink my gut says Wilson is evil leh. But dunno why hor. Cannot say. I neh say hor, it's my stomach say one, don't blame me ah, blame my stomach. Gut only, neh confirm plus chop. Or maybe the mee siam I ate for lunch...that one ah, very lan, very chou chou, maybe turn bad liao. Later I go toilet then come back and baotou to everyone whether my gut or the mee siam, ok? Can? Eh bro, this gut game chao fun to play siah, why you bojio?!
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    My current assumption is that Maili used the locution 'by the Ghostbloods' in order to indicate that the kill that took Araris down was specifically the Ghostblood kill. To be fair, depending on team composition, the Ghostbloods could have a Grandbow: this tells us nothing so far because a Grandbow killing on N1 would be perfectly consistent with either a Vigilante Noble or a Ghostblood Archer, and so it is not particularly informative as evidence. However, I'm about 80% certain that the Shardblade wielder should be a Noble because the Ghostbloods have the goal of getting a Shardblade. Kind of defeats the point if they started with one. could have been raised in favour of a Noble Shardblade wielder is if they had not killed the first night, since we would exactly expect the Ghostbloods to go on a killing spree had they a Shardblade. To be sure, this is an asymmetric point: that there is a kill evidentially supports either that we have a Vigilante Noble, or that the Ghostbloods have a Shardblade. But had there been no kill, it would have stronger evidential support for there being a Noble Wielder than a Ghostblood Wielder.] So the 20% uncertainty includes the knowledge that Maili is a troll, and that we don't have assurance it is a safe item. DeathClutch, why the day Heiring? Seems to me a great way to avoid having to chime in on a lynch. Note: The grey brackets denote an additional point I am making that is, however, neither germane nor essential to my main point. Edited for colour. Edit 2: I don't think the Ghostbloods have both a Grandbow and a Shardblade though. That would be so overpowered that what, 90% of us should have Shardplate or something. So if the statement 'Either the Ghostbloods have a Grandbow or they have a Shardblade' is true (which it might not be, but we have no evidence to tell either way at this stage), then I would be more willing to put my spheres on the Shardblade being on our side.
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    "I've sent the dispatch to Brightness Mahiri, as you requested," Karnan said. "Good," Terneas replied, but it was clear his mind was elsewhere. He rifled through several of the books on the shelf--he must've paid a fortune to have them translated into glyphs, Karnan thought--distracted, rather than searching. "Brightlord, should I leave?" "Hmm?" Terneas said. "Oh, no. Stay for a while." "As you command." "Have you heard word of the king's assassination?" "Yes," Karnan said. "The word's been all over the warcamps by now. It won't be long before every Highprince on the Shattered Plains fancies themselves the next candidate for the throne." "Mmm," said Terneas. And then, "It was not us. Do not fear." "I didn't think so." "But you did," Terneas replied. "It's obvious it was troubling you." Karnan shrugged, realised it was not the most appropriate response. Brightlord Terneas had had a bodyguard before Karnan had assumed the task: a grizzled old warrior by the name of Jalar. But Jalar had died, with an assassin's blade to the throat, and now it was Karnan's task to protect and to serve the man who had saved his life. Who had taken him in, freed him from prison, and given him purpose. Some of what Terneas asked of him...troubled him. But then, what did a man do when all paths led to dishonour? There was honour in service, in following your Calling. That was all. And he was a duelist, meant for the thrill of combat, of crossing blades with another. It was how he served. "What I think doesn't matter," Karnan said, at last. Terneas turned away from the bookshelf. "Oh, but it does," he said, with a raised eyebrow. "I could command you by the oath you swore to the Sons of Honor. I told you, on the day you were inducted into our ranks, that we would sometimes ask you to do horrible things--horrible indeed--in the name of the greater good." Karnan pressed his lips together. "For the Church," he said, at last. "To return the Almighty to the hearts of men, and the Heralds to the broken lands that remain. I remember. No deed is too..." He could not quite find the word he meant. Too abhorrent? Dishonourable? Would he, he wondered, have slain the king, if Terneas had asked it of him, in the name of the debt he owed the man, in the name of the Sons of Honor, of the Church and the Almighty? The things we do, for the greater good, he thought. For the Almighty. Terneas said, crisply, "Then I have a task for you. I've spoken to Amaram and I've been informed that we have reason to suspect that the Ghostbloods were behind the killing of the king. We've also discovered that Brightness Mahiri is a Ghostblood, and very likely one of the circle behind the king's death. You've sent her a dispatch informing her that we know about her allegiances. She will, of course, seek to silence me. But we can always live in hope. Your task is to shadow Brightness Mahiri, see if she leads us to any more of her co-conspirators. If she acts against us, kill her." "By your command," Karnan said, quietly. "I will follow your order without mistake." - Okay, I'm back. I'll start catching up by tomorrow as I just want to rejoice in having finished the very last term paper of my undergraduate existence D:
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    The page entered. He heard the rasp of cloth as she pulled back the flap of the tent. Karnan was bent over before the scribe's desk, glancing down idly at the sheaf of papers Ivani had left behind. He traced the smooth script with a curious finger, but straightened up as the page entered. It was not a proper interest, he knew. He knew the glyphs, was permitted to study them, even, but writing was the domain of women, with their carefully-veiled safehands. War was his province, but all the same... He could, he thought, not for the first time, become an Ardent. But joining the Ardentia wouldn't solve anything. "Page," he said, shortly, by way of greeting. He picked up the sheaf of papers and folded them carefully into a courier's pouch. "Brightlord Terneas needs this delivered to Brightlady Mahiri as soon as possible." He handed over the courier's pouch to the waiting page, added a tip of a few spheres just as an incentive for speed. "Dismissed." Okay, I'll have to cut back even more. I won't be on 17S until Tuesday because my term paper isn't going well and it's 50% of my final grade. Shouldn't miss too much.
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    Kasim picked his way cautiously through the warcamp, feeling thoroughly out of place. Bloody one-eyed man. No, what was it they said here again? Storming. Storming one-eyed man. What right did he have...? "Ah, but it will be the challenge of your career," said the one-eyed man, leaning casually against his spear. Kasim said, flatly, "Going up against a device from hell." The one-eyed man shrugged. "You did say you were the best. Or was that an idle boast?" "I am the best, but you don't seem to understand--I can't work miracles." "Details," said the one-eyed man, cheerfully. "Let me know when you're done, will you?" "I haven't even agreed--" began Kasim, before he was literally half-booted and half-shoved through to...wherever this was. Roshar, he remembered. That was what the one-eyed man had said. He was being sent to some gods-forsaken place by the name of Roshar. "Coming through!" yelled someone, and a man roughly yanked him to the side. Kasim blinked, as a cart being pulled by what he swore was a crab, of all things, skittered through the space where he had been. "Watch yourself," said the man who'd hauled him to safety in time. He wore a long navy coat, with buttons up the sides, and a neat white shirt. A sword was belted at his side. "Last thing we need is another supply cart running over somebody. So, what is your business here?" Did it truly matter, if he was honest to this man, from another world? Kasim squeezed the packet of grave dirt in his jacket pocket, drawing reassurance from the fact it was still there. The prayer beads around his wrist clacked slightly as he withdrew his hand. "I am looking for a lady...Brightlady," he said, belatedly. "I think she's called Kenara?" The man frowned. "I don't know of any Kenara here," he said at last, "Although the warcamp is big, and I'm only serving directly under Brightlord Terneas. Doesn't sound like she's in Highprince Gavilar's warcamp, though. Try somewhere else. And next time, watch out for the chulls." "I will," Kasim said, nodding his thanks. Chulls. So that was what they called their crabs. - It took Kasim an awfully long time to find the elusive Brightlady Kenara. One man he asked looked about him immediately, and leaned in to whisper, "Haven't seen her. Heralds be thanked," and then resumed digging what looked to be fresh latrines. But eventually, he was pointed to an entirely different warcamp, and brought into her tent. "Brightlady Kenara?" he asked. Hesitated. She looked at him, weighing. He was a puzzle, he thought, abruptly. That was it. "What?" He drew a deep breath. "Kaddar sends his regards." Brightlady Kenara's eyes narrowed. "What?" she demanded, in an entirely different tone. Kasim couldn't decide if it was a good thing or a bad thing. He resisted the urge to touch the ironbark amulet he was wearing, just for reassurance. "I understand that you have a...cursed and possibly-possessed...communications device..." he cast about for the word they used on this blasted place, on Roshar. "A spanreed. I understand that you have an immensely evil spanreed. I am to wish you a happy birthday and to attempt to exorcise it. I'm Kasim, a witch doctor of...well, you wouldn't know where I come from." Happy birthday, Wilson! Also, Maili: I'm not playing as Kasim. This was just a one-off thing. This might be early because timezones.
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    Hmm. I still have that paper and that exam, but I think I'm willing to sign up (admittedly, what tips the balance for me is the idea of closing the circle, since, as previously mentioned, the original LG5 was my first game on this forum), under the assumption that 1-2 posts per cycle is non-ideal but acceptable. (Be warned. I really want to graduate and so I need to pass this last class. Also, I have strict ideas of passing and will therefore require at least an A.) My character will be Karnan, lighteyed swordsman, bodyguard, and factor to Brightlord Terneas. (Terneas, as I see him, will owe allegiance to Highprince Gavilar, and thus be in his warcamp.)
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    "No," Khas said, firmly. "Whyever not?" the second asked. "Wurum Heron isn't around this time. No danger of that. Neither is the dirtman, the thief." "I'm not afraid of either of them," Khas snapped. Crouched on the outcrop, scrutinising the warcamps below. He saw a familiar figure, walking unperturbed in the aftermath of the Highstorm, into one of the Alethi warcamps. This, he identified as the warcamp of Highprince Roion. His lip twitched. You started somewhere, he thought, often perfectly inconsequential, until the world swept you up in its wake, like the howling winds of a Highstorm, and then all you could do was to go where it took you. He had been a spearman, once. An insult for a lighteyes, who was entitled to a blade, but not for one of the tenth dahn. The Wit said, "There he goes." Khas knew who he was referring to. "Should I, then?" Khas demanded. "Am I to repeat the same story, over and over again?" The Wit shrugged. "Do whatever you want," said the one-eyed man. "All stories are fragments of the same story, told again, across the warp and weft of time. The tale changes in the telling but it is the same tale, nevertheless." Khas shook his head, tiredly. "Do we choose our stories," he wanted to know, "Or do the stories choose us?" "I think," said the Wit, "It is a bit of both. You cannot have it either way, without the other. And it is the choosing that matters, in the end." He turned, faced Khas once more. "Will you go down to them?" Khas shook his head. "Not here. Not now. Not like this," he said, simply, and continued to watch. Despite having been liberated from samsara [=the cycle of thesis suffering and rewriting], I have not quite achieved Nirvana because I still have to finish one paper on logic conditionals and one exam on advanced logic. So I'm going to vascillate about whether I can join this, but I just felt this game deserved some tribute since LG5, run by the same GM, was the first SE game I ever played on this forum.
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    Congrats, M'Hael! Best wishes, and have fun out there!
  23. Kasimir
    Thesis done and submitted! Now, I can be said to have achieved moksha and freed myself from the endless cycle of suffering and rewriting...
  24. Kasimir
    I think there are two separate things in your question: A. how to build a game (because that's what I get from you saying that you have some good ideas but are just not sure how to incorporate them) and B. how to run a game itself, etc. With regard to the first, as Joe said, there's a lot of experience game builders and GMs you can PM, and of course, the Game Creation thread is a good place to bring problems of implementation to. With regard to B., there's another possibility, and that is that if you want some experience GMing (in tutorial mode, so as to speak), then you might want to ask some of the people up to GM a game soon if they'd like a co-GM. Doing so gives you some of the responsibilities of GMing and if you pick an experienced GM, you can learn a lot without being thrown down the deep end on Day One. That's what I did after the storming disaster in a bucket that was my first GMed game, anyway. Anyway, just some suggestions. Also, I'm slightly drunk, so if there's a spelling error, hwoops, sorry
  25. Kasimir
    Guess he had Gregorian chants in mind rather than sutras.
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