Kaymyth

You do have to pay income taxes to the States, regardless of where you live. If you're an American citizen, you pays your taxes, or you gets in trouble.

Definitely crunch the numbers and compare cost of living vs. higher pay and make sure that they match up. If you do land Alaska, you'll probably want to consider investing in some daylight LED bulbs to brighten up your home. It'll help. And we'll help you keep an eye out for possible Seasonal Affective Disorder mood dips during the winter.

Hooray for two callbacks! Hmm. Alaska vs. Minnesota. Ironically enough, Anchorage has a milder winter climate than Minnesota due to the coast. However, you still have to deal with the winter solstice dropping your daylight to a whopping 5 1/2 hours...

I shall also vote Silverblade5. Because I can.

Good luck with keeping him that way. That man's come back from the dead so many times that he ought to have an honorary membership in the Marvel Universe.

Hmmm....nah. Let one go. I don't want to come across as a complete Destroyer of Worlds.

Well, kill Edward right at the beginning of the book, and he's not there to stop her from getting hit by a truck. Two birds, one stone.

Ugh, no. Moving topics/boards deletes the history that shows what you've read and what you haven't. Picking back up in the right spot for a dozen different topics would be a nightmare.

Because it has to be said - Edward Cullen. Kill that mother-rusted sparkling knave!

Exactly; they don't want people to know what they're up to. If they started blatantly kidnapping highborn women from their homes, the pattern would be obvious very quickly. I suspect that we're eventually going to find that there are actually a lot more women missing; I'm sure there are plenty of "ordinary" folks whose family lines can be traced back to Spook, and their disappearances aren't going to generating as much notice.

No! Don't take the cookie! It's a trap! And hi.

I don't have a good answer about the genealogy, but presumably there must have been a few scattered people who knew the truth. In fact, it might not have been as big a secret as Harms thought it was; there's an etiquette precedence for maintaining the "polite fiction" that Marasi was his niece. People might have known, but they certainly weren't going to be so rude as to talk about it when the family in question was in earshot. As to which women they chose, we know that Edwarn had a list. He says at one point that he probably should have removed Steris from it, given how much of a problem Wax's interest could be to his plans. I would surmise that each man had a sketch of a particular woman (maybe as many as two or three) from the list, and each was searching the crowd for the woman whose picture he had. They weren't specifically looking for just Steris and Marasi - they had a larger pool of women that they were searching the crowds for. They knew that at least some of the women on their list were at least likely to be there, but they didn't know for certain which ones. The first two found would be the ones they took. That leaves grabbing the sisters as pure coincidence, but it's not completely outside the realm of possibility. And don't even get me started about the huge etiquette faux pas it is to send out invitations the day before a wedding.

In exploring the neighborhood, we came upon a shop named "Gifts Decor Swords and More". It was late, so it was closed, but this is a magical wonderland which I must investigate at the earliest opportunity.

Even moving past the moral qualms (which are considerable, even in a war situation), I don't see many applications to a weapon that can only be used once a month on the night of the full moon. Remember, the Bloodbenders from the Korra era who could use it at any time were an aberration, and one that was completely unknown during the war.

Sure, all kinds of ways to apply it. Of course, they're all horrible and traumatic for your target... I'd probably be either a firebender or a waterbender. It's really a toss-up as to which.

"Lame Pun" would be a cantrip.

You really shouldn't. There's a reason why there's a separate sub-board specifically for Sanderson fic - it's because they expect the non-Sanderson fic to go in the other place.

I have still not ruled this scenario out as a possibility, personally.

Oh, the tragedy! The consequences of such madness being that we must read more books than we thought we would get! Whatever shall we do?

He was funneling them into the Set. There's a lot more going on than we've seen so far; all of these shenanigans were to fund the Set's operations. I think grabbing the women was just a side bonus.

Yes, sorry, I've read it; I changed my opening sentence mid-stream and failed to parse the grammar over to fit. What I meant was that the aftermath of 1000 will be interesting. I can just imagine Belkar and with a Vampire spirit in his head. He'd probably break out of its binding and torture the thing into being his new brain-pet. It should be interesting. I'm imagining a scenario where he "earns" his way into a better alignment afterlife, crows about having pulled the best con ever, and proceeds to wreak havoc.

I just revised the eras in my head. Instead of 3, we now have 4. Unless Brandon spontaneously comes up with more stories to slide into the history, in which case we'll have more.

Oooh, yes. Longtime OotS fan here; it's probably my favorite webcomic ever. 1,000th strip is going to be eeeeenteresting. I'm going to take a stab at saying that we might finally, finally be seeing Belkar's Heroic End soon. (He is totally not dead from that fall. He's too high level to die from falling damage. But....he might be crawling back up that mountain to enter the fight at a crucial moment to save Roy and the rest of the world in an endgame blaze of glory.) I know, I know. Everyone and their kid sister keeps trying to predict Belkar's prophesized end. It's practically a spectator sport.

I have to confess, I had a lot of trouble making it through Deed of Paksennarion. Elizabeth Moon is one of those authors that I really feel like I ought to like, but every time I pick up something else of hers, I wind up getting bored. I've tried her sci-fi stuff, too, and there's just something about her writing that doesn't gel for me. Agree about Patricia Briggs - her books are pretty light, easy reads, but very enjoyable. But for the love of everything shiny, do NOT read Masques unless you're already a fan of hers. It's her first work, and it's really, really rough; enough so that it could put someone off if it was the first book of hers they read. Lackey is a good one, and the Obsidian books are quite good. I've long been a fan of her Valdemar series. Unfortunately, she does suffer from Needs A Better Editor these days on her solo stuff, and her continuity sort of falls off the rails in there, particularly under the sheer weight of Valdemaran history. Read it, but try and have a forgiving heart and/or assume that the Doctor has been sneaking around altering the timeline. She does some interesting stuff with classic fair tales, too; the Elemental Masters series reimagine some of the more well-known stories in Edwardian-era England with elemental magic at the forefront. In a different vein, her 500 Kingdoms books are good if you like your fairy tales fractured with a side of humor. McCaffrey is an old favorite of mine, with the Pern books taking preference. Her work seems to vary wildly from series to series, and I find some of them more interesting than others.

You learn entirely new skills for the sole sake of cosplay. Chainmail and scale mail conquered. Next on the list - leatherworking.