Kasimir

I was pretty convinced after Faialen's lynch that Tion was a GB, but now after what he's said in his defence, I'm not sure again. My reasons for thinking Tion is not on our side are mostly the reasons that have been brought up in this thread already, and while I'd be happy to lay out my reasons a bit more, I've chosen to skip over it for now because I am not going to vote Tion. (And this, rather than the reasons for Tion, I think, is going to take a bit of explaining.) Storm it, Tion, did you have to go and make me doubt again? While Tion is still high on my suspicion list, I am not doing so for two reasons: first, I do not think it is likely that Tion, Mace, and Jost are all GBs. That being said, we have others running around there. Second: many people have consistently emphasised, in an attempt to draw out some of us more conservative players, that we do not have the luxury of certainty in this game. I can accept that, though I grant my threshold for 'vote-worthy suspicion' is probably too high for comfort. However. I feel that with regard to Tion, I need a higher level of certainty before voting him. If Tion is currently engaged in gathering information, then a mislynch at this point in the game is going to cost us. Badly. So I choose not to vote Tion. Instead, I vote (as Wyrm noted, possibly my last chance in this game to do so) for Grellin. I did not buy Faialen's suspicions of Grellin because I was initially in a PM group that Grellin had set up with Mace and Wes. My impressions of Grellin at that point in time gave me no reason for suspicion. At this point in time, though, he seems like the best lead, after Tion. I agree with the mentioned reasoning about the spanreed and the reverser. Although it's still a bit too chancy for my liking, I hope that my vote will help prevent any further shenanigens with reversers or painknives.

Trying to make sense of what's going on with the vote is....confusing. There are possibilities, but trying to tie them to what they mean in terms of motives is a real doozy. Offhand: Saritu--I think it's also a possibility someone used a painknife on one of the initial three people who voted for Dust. Or, if we're working with the Saving Noble Faialen angle--perhaps someone tried to painknife Tion thinking it would block his Shardbearer ability? (That would have to be before it was confirmed that the Shardbearer ability could not be invoked by that point in the day...)

If I have time, I'll throw in an RP later because right now, I'm dead tired from the madness that is a university open house. Unfortunately, I'm at a dead-end. Yesterday, something about how aggressively Meta was pushing his accusations/votes troubled me, which seems to be an ok starting point for a proto-suspicion, but not for declaring it in thread until I had something better. This was the most I'd carried over to today, until I just learned the GBs have (had?) attacked Meta. (In addition, he has said that having Plate was one of the reasons for the way he played on Day One.) I'm not sure where to put that: others in this thread (Claincy, Wyrm and Sphinx, among others) have noted that it might be Meta's ploy to appear to be our confirmed noble player, but have generally said that they don't think it's a ploy (with the exception of Sphinx, who holds a slightly different position). As these are all more experienced players than me, and therefore with a better understanding of what tricks are and aren't likely to occur in a game, I believe that I should revise the credence I have assigned this proto-suspicion downwards, and am accordingly left with nothing nagging at me right now. Obviously, this can and will change. I do have one or two things I'd like clarified though I'd stress none of these are proto-suspicions. 1. Meta, you said, "I made this claim because if Tors turned out to be innocent (which he did), then that means that at least two innocent people had voted for him. Now that might not seem like much, but by boiling it down to one or the other, it makes it so the Ghostbloods have to play it safe." I would appreciate help in following your reasoning, please, because I don't see how this works. 2. As on Day One, we have what I find to be an unnecessary heir declaration in the middle of a thread. Joe, Sphinx, and Claincy have discussed the merits and demerits of naming an heir last night, but any dispute was over the efficacy and timing of such a declaration. (The absence of debate over whether an heir action should be a night action is, of course, not the same as the matter being universally accepted.) But here's what I don't understand: it's a great way for Xanas to put his money where his mouth is, and to tell us all that he really trusts Meta but it's also a big screaming neon sign to the GBs that he has items. Having recently checked the rules (I have these rule lawyer tendencies, I know), I notice that a daytime heir action replaces a vote. So this is what I want clarification about: Xanas, why have you felt the need to make a daytime heir action at the cost of your vote and painting a target on your back? (I'm aware that this same clarificatory question can be asked of Jain and Macen, which is why I note it is only a desire for clarification at this point in time.)

An ardent, and an artifabrian, dead, and an innocent man at that. It had not taken long for word to pass through the war camps. Khas hunkered down by a rock and sighed. He thought of an old tale, about a general who had burned down a forest to catch a single foe. How many more did they face? And how many more would die in the process? That's the problem, Khas thought. You can't be sure. You can never be sure. He knew that. He knew all of that. And yet--it was different from killing Parshendi. At least you knew what you were facing. There was something to be said about being a soldier, watching the games and secrets of nobles. Sometimes, you found out secrets. There was a value to distance, too. So he told himself as he watched the sun go down, steadily ignoring, as best as he could, the squirming electric-violet fearspren coiling at his feet.

I'd like to buy this, given the implications, but unfortunately, I don't think it's going to be the case. Cosmere doesn't have all that many shout-outs. At some point in the SA, we're going to see Hoid's goals clash big-time with Dalinar's (the KR's.)

I enjoyed Miller's Kenobi, I'd have to say I don't like Kemp's work so much. (Didn't enjoy Crosscurrent or Riptide.) I was first introduced to Luceno through Cloak of Deception, and I've found him to be consistently good.

Kelek’s breath, Khas thought. It was a bad time to be a noble, which should’ve meant that was none of his storming business. Except that Highprince Roion had heard the news of the king’s death (who hadn’t?) and immediately doubled his guard. Most of the men Highprince Roion commanded were, unfortunately, archers. Khas was a spearman. His hands always trembled when he drew a bow, throwing off his aim. Highprince Roion didn’t pay his spearmen well, and tenth dahn was just barely better than a darkeyes. He wondered if he would’ve felt better had he a sword. All of which meant that Khas’s squad had been drawn to fill up the ranks of the Highprince’s doubled guard, and that Khas was knee-deep in chull dung. He’d misplaced a Highprince. He’d no idea where Highprince Roion had gone, and he was getting paid extra (not much) to guard the man. His sergeant was going to have a chull when he finally found them. Probably give him scut work for the week or so. He swore under his breath and trudged off in the direction that looked most hopeful. His thoughts wandered back to the slain king; perhaps, he thought, I'll burn a prayer for him. King Naladar had, after all, been a fair man, or so rumour had it. That was more than could be said of Highprince Roion.

Not to forget the thing about the hair colours. I'm not sure how to read this WoB, but together with everything else...

Yeah, fair enough--I actually found most of the developments in the Vandenreich arc ridiculous and increasingly contrived, so I stopped reading. But I know it's a matter of taste, and thanks for explaining to me what you enjoyed about it

Buy but I think it's going to be short-term. He's better than that. Lopen will end up being a worldhopper with a multitude of cousins across the Cosmere.

Neville and Nightblood. He'd get dragged around by the big puppy.

Now you've really made me wonder if a Shardblade can kill Voldemort.

I'm with you on this. One reason I could never get into Marvel was too many alternate universes and timelines. I do like continuity, and although most Star Wars fans are familiar with the different levels of canon, I guess I am a bit saddened that those of us who liked to draw on and discuss on that rich corpus mightn't really have that in common with new fans any longer, especially once the movie comes out.

Thanks for all the clarifications so far, Mailliw73! I think I asked this upthread, and I hope it's ok if I bump it: Very briefly, if someone's action has been changed through Soulcasting and that person is examined with an emotion bracelet, will the emotion bracelet-holder see the original action or the changed action? Is there any way of knowing said person has been Soulcast?

When June and July come around, my rank is going to appear wildly optimistic... Edit: I was referring to Hazekiller.

Not extreme enough. QWOP time!

Ilyena? Where are you?In the same vein as Kobold King: You know you're a Sanderfan when you pass a bunch of Boy Scouts and think of them as heretical Firebringers.

Which KOTOR? Darth Bane?

Buy. We've seen them appear in the interlude, and a viewpoint isn't that much of a stretch. And their mention in the epigraphs. Renarin will have his moments but he won't be a combat Radiant.

So, there was this moment in one of the threads where Ketek and I basically derailed for a bit over Vergere. Of all the Star Wars novels available, I enjoy books written by: Matthew Stover, Timothy Zahn, Jude Watson (surprising but I grew up reading Jedi Apprentice, so) and James Luceno. Especially Matthew Stover--if I say I liked RotS, it's not so much because of the movie (although I always enjoy lots of lightsaber combat) but because Stover did a great job in the novelisation. I enjoyed Shatterpoint (my copy is dogeared), I do love Traitor (despite my quibbles with the way it's sometimes regarded and how LotF made a hash out of Vergere) and Shadows of Mindor was honestly more than decent as well. Any other Stover fans around? Barring that, any other Star Wars fans who follow the novels? I've mostly stopped by now, first because I discovered Brandon Sanderson (not so, I lie) and more importantly, because things just seemed to keep going downhill since LotF and Traviss.

There are permanent ways too (traumatic injury--stuff like blunt force etc) which would do it by damage to the iris or cornea. But I suspect that would be from light to dark, rather than vice versa.

Just done with my re-read but it might be a while before I get to move on to Crimson Campaign. And yes, in answer to your question, Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 387973120 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 487328048 bytes) in Unknown on line 0

It's your storming picture--I look at that and I see al'Lan Mandragoran saying he can't take on a werewolf. It just causes me cognitive dissonance

Tentative buy, but I don't think we'll see it in SA. The person who calls himself Taln will eventually bond a spren and properly become a Stoneward.

I know not that of which you speak, Ba'alzamon.