vineyarddawg

Bort is correct that I've been covert in past games, most notably in LG10, when I was an eliminator. (The role kinda calls for covert deception if you're an eliminator, right?) I was also trying to be covert in the MR5 game that just ended, because half of my team was knocked out in the early stages and Wilson was acting like she'd defected to "team Chaos," so I had little choice but to try to fly under the radar and take covert action. In the only other game where I've been a villager so far, QF6, I was completely open with everyone else who was a villager, though I was careful about revealing information to people who weren't confirmed as villagers (as anyone should be). I've been very open with everyone I've been communicating with in this game, which should be a sign that I'm not trying to play both sides of the coin here. Other than that, though, I suppose I have no proper defense in this case, since any conclusive game-related information I could give could be detrimental to the actual, not-a-lie confirmed villagers group of which I'm a part, and I won't sell out information about my fellow villagers just to save my own skin. I only know that we had a colossal case of bad timing with Ostrich getting attacked. We don't even know if the spiked were targeting Ostrich specifically... they could have been simply targeting a random person in that room. If I had a vote, which I don't, I would be voting for Honey Badger. His behavior patterns are definitely suspicious and lead to the conclusion that he's either spiked or acting rather oddly for some other reason.

Yeah, in my mind this practically confirms that the Unmade are the Parshendi/Voidbringers' gods. We know that the Unmade have been analogized as "Odium's Heralds" before.

Akak Sumi Arak The Reshi Isles in general

I really don't see why it's so difficult a concept to grasp. If the series is based on some alternate-reality version of Earth, it isn't Cosmere. Earth, in any recognizable form, is not in the Cosmere. Done. Period. End of Sentence. Thank you, drive safely going home.

Chouta!

I'm fairly certain there's a sizeable backlog, but Adam (Brandon's assistant) did eventually get back to me and e-mail me White Sand after a couple of months or so.

Spencer, the point was to get you not to vote for random people. I'll even take the first step and take my vote off of you. Spencer12347. EDIT: Sorry if that seemed a little heavy-handed, but I'm strongly opposed to random voting.

You might want to change the color of your post, Honey Badger. As it stands now, you're voting for Clanky, because his name is in red (and is the first name in red) in your post. Unless that's what you were trying to do in a sneaky way...

Here's an old meme but still a goodie. (WoK spoilers)

Yes, random voting is bad, spencer12347.

Vasher Nightblood

I still haven't received my post-cycle-report PM.

It's never a bad idea. I'd say sign up for all the games you feel like playing. With that said, though, I'm going to have a very crazy two or three weeks ahead of me, so I'm going to sit this one out.

Creating these is fun. Spoiler tags because the pics are huge:

All the reader has to do is click on the thumbnails to view them full-size, Chouta. Your post is just fine. EDIT: And more entries.

Oh, man, Kobold King, you're so right on with those deaths in Firefight. That was quite possibly the most traumatized I've ever been with a non-GRRM-related character death.

Hmm... spoiler tags would seem to be in order here, yes? With that said... (WOR spoilers)

This thread is a prime example of why I love this site! I have to be honest, in my first reading of the short story, I was rather underwhelmed. Well, I was underwhelmed on a Sanderson scale, that is... on the grand scale of all literature, I suppose I would have been "merely whelmed," but all of Brandon's previous works have set the bar a little higher for him in my mind. I suppose, going into the story, I didn't keep in mind that this was a novella-length work, so Brandon was naturally not going to be able to provide the kind of in-depth world exploration that we see in his full novels. But it seemed to me as though he spent a disproportionate amount of the small numbers of pages he had expounding on Kai's fantastical state... and Kai's state was essentially tangential to the story. So we spent half the novella learning about a state that really wasn't that important, then we raced through the last half of the novella in the (very, very different) state where all the action happens, and we find out all this new information that is barely explained at all, and about which many, many more pages could be written. Many of the reviews I've seen written in this thread, however, have really brought me around on the merits of this story. And the reviews are not just "ZOMG IT'S SANDERSON SO IT'S AWESOME," but they're a thoughtful discussion of what actually happens and why it's good (or bad). With this feedback, I can step back and really appreciate the story's arc, and even moreso, the fact that the "firehose effect" of all the new information at the end is exactly what Kai is experiencing, so it's appropriate for the reader to feel that, too. I suppose the final thing that bothered me was the overt sexuality and a veritable explosion of Earth-curses, which we don't frequently see in Brandon's work. But that's not the worst thing in the world, and most authors delve into the sex and cursing far more than Brandon did. It's just that most of his works use fantasy-curses and tactfully dance around the edges of the sex stuff, so it was a little jarring to see it so blatantly handled here. Overall, I'd have given Perfect State a C- before reading this thread. Now, though, I'd have to say the opinions and views expressed here have caused me to rethink my opinion. I think I'd now give it a solid B.

That game makes my head spin just after reading all the rules. I love it!

Well, that didn't take long! This is correct.EDIT: And that was pretty dang clever, Joe. I almost wish that had been correct.

He is risen! (He is not risen, indeed.)

Oh, Kai!

Nalthazar.

Bingo! EDIT: I figured my clues would totally give it away, but that was fine with me. I was just looking for something that fit the Da Vinci Code riddle.