Sirce Luckwielder

Winterspell flew beside Ice Bridge, standing on a small disk made of ice. Below the disk, water flowing up from the Columbia river to support him. There had been reports of a large pirate ship pillaging and ravaging the coast, moving towards Astoria. Bloody Mary, in her infinite wisdom, had sent him to check and recheck the bridge. Didn't she understand that he would know if there was even the slightest crack in the bridge? He breifly considered leaving before he had checking the entire length of the bridge, then decided against it as some vanilla miners walked past, heading for the bars on the waterfront. Sighing to himself, he continued to go along the full length of the bridge, checking everything off of Bloody Mary's list. It was another twenty minutes before he finished the slow process. He could have done it much faster, but he wanted to make sure that Mary had nothing to get mad at him for. He had a date tonight, and he didn't want to risk having another job placed upon his shoulders if Mary wasn't pleased with him. As soon as he finished his inspection he was off, flying accross the water towards his palace. Icesteel Keep was a brilliant contruct, forged of ice and surrounded by a moat bigger than any other. The keep was made to last, supercooled and bound so it would not melt while he was away. If any were to attack it, they would find it hard to crack. It only had two or three small bridges that extended from it and they could be destroyed at a whim. If they managed to get close to the castle itself they would find a two small armies. The smaller army was comprised of the Ice Guard, 200 troops split into twenty ten man teams, each with a minor Epic at the head. The larger army was Winterspell himself. As he neared the keep, he launched himself off his disk, letting it melt into water again. A second before he would have smashed into the keep he melted the water and peeled it back, opening a hole big enough for him to enter. He flew through the opening and slid into the room that was behind it, sealing and refreezing the wall behind him. Inside stood his wife, Lightwrought. She was a powerful illusionist, better than almost any other in the city. She could also suck in light from a room and eminate it, adding to her power base. Both of these powers were impressive, but it was her third power that had first made Winterspell fall for her. She could change the colors and textures of the sky in a massive radius, creating beautiful and awe inspiring skies. "Hello dear," Lightwrought said, completely unfazed by his entrance or the fact that he had almost slid right into the couch that she lounged on. "Have a good day at the office?" "Oh, it was fairly uneventful," Winterspell replied, the corners of his mouth curling. "Other than having to listen to our kind and gracious regent give me twenty-six reasons why her life would be so much easier without me, it was not particularly interesting. Of course, things livened up for a bit when I allowed water to drip on her carpets. She seemed to think I meant for it to happen on purpose." His mouth moved to form a slow smile. "She didn't take kindly to it and I was sent to inspect the bridge again." He scowled. "Speaking of which, could you inform her that everything is ship shape. "Of course," she said, smiling for the first time since he had entered the room. Suddently the sky erupted into a brilliant blue, then an orange, and then a pink, then turned back to the rich teal that it had been before. Even theough the walls of ice surrounding them, the flashes left an afterimage in Winterspell's eyes. Anyone who had been outside at that particular moment would have gotten a shock. "At least your back," she said as she rose to kiss him. "I would hate for you to miss the sunset tonight. I was planning on making it spectacular today." He smiled, if there was one thing he loved almost as much as Lightwrought itself, it was her sunsets. He proffered his arm to her, and she took hold of it as he escorted her to the central tower. At the top of this tower was a large room that the couple would use to entertain guests. The walls were made of warped and distorted ice that was specifically made to distort and relfect the room with the colors of the sky. The couple walked past this room, they could return her after the first few minutes of the sunset for their dinner. Circling this room was a stairway that led up to the roof. It was small, barely big enough for a couple chairs and a small table. Winterspell frowned at the arrangement, than quickly molded the items into one couch. Sitting down with his wife, she leaned against him as the sky started its show. First the sun went from a pale yellow to a brilliant gold, then the clouds towards the west began to become purple, creating rays of brilliance that swept accross the sky and relflected off the Pacific Ocean. Looking backwards, the clouds to the east had a coppery tint that was partially reflected onto the land, giving it a slight dusting of orange. With the sunset, Winterspell forgot about Bloody Mary and let himself enjoy the moment. After a couple minutes they went downstairs and began to dine, letting the waves of light create an aura of brilliance around them.

I have been talking with Edgedancer and here are the current roles of my charcters. If you want to meet up or anything just send me a PM.

I suppose we shall just have to find out. That being said, I figure that they are people in each city that work on figuring out who Epics are, why they work, classifying their powers, and, most importantly, finding their weaknesses. Or they could just simply be the underground, maybe working for Epics for some money, maybe not. They could just stay low, or they could rebel if given the opportunity. You will all just have to wait and see.

Sure, that sounds good. Even to just meet up with other Epics would be cool. We can hash out the details through PM and decide there where it should lead. Thanks.

Oops, sorry. I misread your first question and thought you asked how long it took him to get to Astoria. He was in Vancouver for a while. If he wanted to infiltrate and work his way around he would need lots of time to establish himself. A year and a half is a bit longer than I was thinking, but I wouldn't mind stretching it for this. Yeah. I am pretty excited for this. I also am planning on having at least one more Epic in Astoria besides these two, Winterspell. Edgedancer is helping me find a place to integrate him, but once that is done he should be fun to write.

This could be cool. What Epic is it and do you want them to meet up, have him or her set up a contract with Lockvault? I think so too. We have been having some amazing sunsets the last few weeks and I wanted to integrate that into an Epic when I saw that Astoria was covered in diamonds.

About two or three weeks. Why?

I was talking eith Edgedancer this morning about having an Epic that could change the colors of the skies and clouds in Astoria. Since the city has so many diamonds, they could refract the different lights and look freaking awesome. HavIng such a citywide effect she would be under Lucentia's thumb and would keep the sky to her specifications. Mainly it would look different colors and the sunrises and sunsets would be purely fantastic. Here is the profile that I intend for her. I appreciate any feedback.

Lockvault woke up wondering why his back didn't ache. Looking back into his Memory he Recalled the previous night. So that was why he didn't have aches when he had awakened, he had slept in a bed. Having traveled for several weeks from what used to be the city of Vancouver, he had finally reached Astoria. I will need to Place a bed in Storage one of these days, he thought. That would certainty be convenient to have the next time he went roaming. After being forced out of Vancouver when his cover was blown he was ready for a start in the new city. Before he could get any deals though, he would need to establish himself in the underground. Once he had a good start he would contact some Epics through indirect channels and see what they had to offer for his services. As he got out of bed, he felt his stomach grumble. He had spent the last day and a half without food. Making the three week trek had depleted his Storage more than he would have liked. As he walked toward the door, he Placed his current set of clothes into Storage and Withdrew cargo pants, a faded black t-shirt, and a large trench coat. May as well establish myself while getting filled up, Lockvault thought, and Tagon needs to stretch his legs. Tagon was his alias for when he went about among the vanillas. Putting himself into a role with its own personality always helped him infiltrate better. With food again on his mind he walked to a nearby shop. Inside he bought two grocery carts filled with all kinds of food, from yogurt cups, to chocolate pastries, to fruit. As he came up to the counter, he got a skeptical look from the cashier. "Are you sure you have enough to pay for that hun," she asked. "I don't want to put it all away if you are just planning on wasting my time." Lockvault smiled, then reached inside one of his pockets Withdrawing a cracked leather wallet. "Oh, you'll find that I have enough to get by," he chuckled, handing over some large bills. The cashier's eyes widened at the crinkled money. "Say now, how did you get enough to buy all this at once?" "Working around, doing odd jobs, discovering secrets and knowing where to put them," he said, lowering his voice. "Is there any need for that kind of thing around here?" Placing a ring onto the finger in his other pocket, he pulled it out and patently raised it to stroke his hair. The ring had the symbol of a viper coiled around a burning flame. If there was anything going on in the city, the ring would get him into those circles. In a city as big as Astoria the Listeners would be active, and many of the local vanillas would know where they met, even if they didn't support them openly. The cashier looked around, checking to make sure that no one around was listening in on their conversation. "If you are planning of stirring up trouble son, you better keep me out of it," she said then paused and gave him a wink from the side. "But if you just want some honest conversation," she continued, stressing her words, "there are some kind gents on the south side of the city that meet at the old post office for a drink and some . . . talk." Lockvault smiled. She thinks I'm here to cause some trouble, she doesn't know how right she is. However, she might be suprised who that trouble is intended towards. "Thank you ma'am," he said, gathering his purchases,"perhaps I will pay them a visit." "You take care son," she said as he departed, "this city is much more stable than many around and you may have trouble . . . finding work." "Oh," smiled Lockvault, "I think this city is just what I am looking for."

This was beautiful. Granted, it cannot leave your house and t always finds the most wonderful places to leave its droppings. I wish that I had Feruchemy in real life with enough metalminds and I can use them.

My favorite is the Elantris cover. I have the hardback so the picture is large and I just love to look at it. Every once in a while I will pull it down just to look at it. The picture is just so intricate and is a little mysterious. I love it.

I think that a game like Bang! would work pretty well as ground work. It would be a fight between Epics primarily with the Reckoners only showing up to add flavor and chaos to the game. I would think that each player would choose some powers based on predetermined cards or whatever everybody can agree is fair. These power cards could be like the character abilities from the actual game. Other than that, people just duke it out and use their powers for cool effects and to spice up the game.

Granted. You know how you have your dominant hand (the one you write with and such), and the other one is just crap at doing things? Both your hands are crap at doing things. I wish that I was ambidextrous.

Thanks for putting this up. I had forgotten about Bloody Mary. The rest of the information is great too.

If Astoria is opening up tomorrow, can we hear the backstory today? That way we can evolve our Epics and vanillas to fit?

Thanks for getting it for me. I put i up right before I left for a play and I didn't see that until now. I thought that we were okay to leave it open since this is a Reckoners RP. Sorry about that.

I like the Hunger Games idea. It lets it keep from getting old and for renewing it with each round. The different laws of physics and reality breaking is cool too, as long as nobody takes it to be a deux ex machina where they are suddently saved by random things happening in the environment and not their own skills and powers.

Thank you. I never was sure what Investiture was, I had only heard it referenced by my friends and in forums, so I had always assumed that it was the actual ingots of power like the Metalurgic metals, Stormlight, Breath, etc. Thank you for clarifying that.

Yes. A proving ground that people can join and leave whenever. They could then move their Epics to other threads or get them killed off. If people wanted it to become an independent fourth location, that would be decided after a while and would need a majority consensus.

Astoria is coming out soon and it seems to have been planned well and will be awesome. Thanks goes to Edgerunner for his work. Many people have been planning Epics to place into Astoria. So we can start seeing what the Epics are like and start building alliances, I move that we start a small town. This town can be just a proving ground or it could be a long term event. I suggest a Bend if we want s big town or Tigard if we want a smaller one. There could be three gangs of Epics and/or vanillas. Each gang wants control over the city, but if they move against another gang then the third one will attack and win over both of them. Just think of it in the same context as the Siege of Luthadel. Each gang would have minor skirmishes to test out defenses and train themselves, striking and then leaving. Perhaps there is even a Reckoners cell stationed in the city that is trying to take out as many Epics as possible before being discovered. Here people could test out vanillas and give them experience. Doing a thread with a drawn out conflict will make it easy for people to come ans go as they wish. If the thread ever needed to be wrapped up it can do so easily by having an all out war between the gangs. Please let me or TwiLyghtSansSparkles know if you support this. I think that having a proving thread will be helpful and will help new Epics test out their powers and get a feeling for how the game works.

When you know that there has to be an afterlife because if Brandon died before he completed the cosmere then the world would literally end.

When your friend, who has never shown an emotion other than sarcasm, hugs you in the middle of class when he finds out that you sre letting him borrow your signed copy 17 of Firefight. When you write a bigger essay for the 17th Shard than your college English class.

Thank you for that. I have been a member for less than a fortnight so I have not had time to delve back even close to that far. I think that you are right on the account of fabrial users not being Invested. That is like saying that Shardbearers are filled with investiture, but it is not. They are merely using objects fueled by investiture. I agree. What says fanatical nerd followers of the cosmere like a thread where people write essays of about 1800 words to describe things that we have no clue about? Not to say that we don't have evidence to support our theories, but we have no official Words of Brandon concerning anti-investiture using that term.

Unless you have another term for an individual that can access a Shard's power, I think that "Invested" works until we have a better one. This is at least the term that I use. If you have "canonical" evidence and quotes to back up he use of terms I will happily hear what you have to say and correct myself. Until then, I would use my own terms. David did the same thing until Tia informed him otherwise.

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