FeatherWriter

What. Are you telling me that I've been sitting on this secret for TWO WEEKS only to find out that you've outed me to the thread days ago? Dang. I could have been gloating this whole time over it. Heh, I have finished the book. Just saying, I sobbed openly over the Renarin reveals at the end. For about half an hour. And then for days on end later.

Weiry. If you are going to be my also-evil twin, you cannot come and attempt to sway my brainwashed cult members loyal team of bodyguards away from me. Rude.

I'm up here in Salt Lake. I'll be driving down to Provo in the morning, ought to be there around 11 or 12 in the morning!

Just bring some light-colored contacts before you go! The Roaharans will never know!

What, you guys couldn't tell with a name like "Featherwriter" that I've been Returned this whole time?

Basically if anyone hurts Renarin I will probably like cause the apocalypse or something. THE FEATHERSTORM COMES...

True true. I've never been great at belting things though. Only one way to practice though, right?

Unfortunately, dorm rooms do not make for good "just belting" environments. (And I've never been a good loud singer unfortunately. I need some training still.) I suppose I could try it again one of these days...

Consider yourself the new leader of the Feathermancers I suppose! Quite a diverse group we've got over here protecting me now! Excellent. When I inevitably hunt down all those who speak against Renarin I will need a group protecting me from my enemies, of course!

Oh, since this thread is still kinda active, I suppose I can throw a link over here. Lightflame wrote some Mistborn lyrics for "Let It Go" and... because I'm a sucker for Cosmere songs, I decided to do a few edits to them and try to record it. I have no idea what I think I'm doing trying to sing this song, but I did it anyway, whoops. It can be found over here, with lyrics.

YES. YES IT DOES. *pulls Adolin into protective embrace as well* NO DEAD KHOLINS 2014. NO DEAD KHOLINS. Adolin is very much amongst my favorites as well, and I cannot abide harm being done to him! And Natans, if I ever got a cameo in a Branderson novel, ESPECIALLY ONE THAT MEETS RENARIN, I would probably die immediately and never recover.

I will consider any and all Kholin deaths to be an unnecessary attack upon my person and therefore APOLOGY NOT ACCEPTED. Especially darling Renarin. Nope, nope, nope. Not happening. And I will be deeply in denial if it does happen.

Note to others who will be there: Can someone please agree to carry me out when I inevitably faint from all of the awesomeness that will be at this release?

*reading OP* "Interesting... that's a cool way to think of that... Hmm... Interesting... OH HARMONY NO, NEVER NOT EVER IN A MILLION YEARS... and I suppose that seems reasonable." On one hand though, I'm glad that I have become famous enough that people feel the need to apologize when they suggest that terrible things might happen to Renarin. *cuddles him protectively and hisses at all who draw near*

THREAD ABOUT RENARIN ALERT. FEATHER INCOMING. Personally, I don't think Renarin's spent time as a patient in Kharbranth. Remember, he doesn't have a disease. It's not something that's curable. Medicine on Roshar is fairly advanced, so they could probably diagnose that and realize that it's not something one would really be hospitalized for. It's a condition, a "blood weakness" (though that's a pretty vague term) and his family knows that he's not dying from it or contagious. I've been theorizing for a while now that Renarin's got a surgebinding spren, ever since Brandon gave that info. I'm really, really hoping that's the case, though only more text will tell. I'm hoping he's already got his powers, but it's possible that he doesn't. We'll just have to see. I'm pretty sure he's not a traitor too, but well, I've already written that essay a long while ago. (And it was my copy of The Emperor's Soul, actually, not The Way of Kings, hehe.)

Basically, everyone who didn't have Renarin on their list is wrong. RENARIN KHOLIN. *ascends in a cloud of smoke while whispering "Renarin" over and over again*

*weighs options* Imminent possibility of tragic death... Getting to meet Renarin in person... Yep. Worth it.

Gonna go with Roshar. My ability to read and write is seen as inherently feminine? Awesome, I'm gonna go be a Rosharan cultural anthropologist and study religions, cultures, and people groups, thanks. Also languages. I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ROSHARAN LANGUAGES. I mean, does Roshar have a Proto-Indo-European equivalent? Alethi and Vorin are supposed to be similar. Could I find a proto language from which they are decended? Let's go try to crack the Dawnchant too! I suppose I could become a poet and start writing keteks for a living as well. I've got light eyes, so could pass for some kind of noble. Might need to dye my blonde hair with some black to pass for Alethi... maybe claim a little bit of Shin heritage somewhere back to explain away the eye-shape? I certainly want to end up wearing a havah because those sound super pretty and I feel so immodest with my left hand showing all the time. Safepouches seem like good places to store secrety things. (Also I might as well go try to marry Renarin while I'm there. I think I could get used to being royalty if I manage to marry a prince... Hehehe...)

Welcome aboard, TheShogun! Always nice to have some new faces around here!

I should be there sometime on Sunday I think! I'll be getting in Saturday night, so I'm not totally sure when I'm joining the line, but Sunday sometime is a good bet!

Okay, finally getting around to respond to this: Scene 1 Said it before and I'll say it again, I love writing Seiko and Sylvie bickering at each other. Ellie does such a wonderful job with it, and I think it's probably actually a good thing for both of them. They're... getting closer to each other, in their own weird way. c: And yes, while fiVe's remark was rather petty, she is showing steps in the right direction. She sent that message to Seiko's private channel, rather than broadcasting publically the way she once would have. Miranda as the suffering parent is a pretty apt analogy I think. In fact, I'm pretty sure that she's second-in-command after Katie, so she's kinda the boss right now. I thiiiiiink that got officially established back in Act 1, though I'm not sure Sylvie and Eleanor are aware of it still. Scene 2 I'm pretty sure had Katie been able to find the yacht on her own, she would have just gone after it, however, because it scurried away, she had to turn back to the team. And yes, Rachel/Katie first-name cutes. Gotta love them. As for calling fiVe, Katie and fiVe are both very close now (though I think quite a bit of the bonding has happened off-screen.) If I'm remembering correctly Katie's currently sporting the aspect "AI Little Sister" in regards to fiVe, which is interesting. Scene 3 What, you didn't think I'd let Emma and Ellie get away with mentioning the source behind the name "Advanced Hydrophobia" without me mentioning the phrase? NOPE. I'm always a fan of cute ship names coming from canon quotes, so if I have to make those canon quotes myself, I will! Phase 2: use the phrase "Backwards Compatibility" with fiVe and Vee... A bad feeling? Oh, I'm sure everything's going to go exaaaactly to plan. Nothing going wrong at all. Scene 4 and 5 (because reasons) Heh, you can tell when we hit combat, because everyone's scenes get individualized. Basically, everyone goes in turns and each turn, they're going to "do" something. That might be an attack roll (using Fight or Shoot skills) or it could be something to "Create an Advantage," where -- if the roll is successful -- the result will be a new in-scene aspect with a certain number of "free invokes" (which are basically like FATE point rewards that you don't actually have to use a FATE point on.) So, some behind the scenes on the nitty-gritty dynamics, because combat scenes like this are going to be the most FATE heavy sections. We've got Seiko at the top of the order (who takes his first turn trying to sight at the boat, but the roll failed, so he doesn't get to do anything.) Then Katie, followed by Sylvie, then Eleanor, then Miranda. (With various guards scattered throughout.) Now, not everything from a character is a part of their turn, for instance, talking is allowed off-turn. So, as Ellie rolls for Seiko's turn and spots the group of guards, Emmalyn decides to have Eleanor speak (off-turn) before Seiko comes through with his successful Shoot action to take one of them out. Sometimes if you fail a roll you get bad things that happen to you, such as Sylvie who tied, rather than passed her Athletics roll to grab the ladder. So in that case, we would say that Sylvie "Succeeds with a Minor Cost." After talking with Gavin over what might be acceptable, I decided to have her get completely soaked by a wave as she does so -- and now there's an in-scene aspect on her of "Soaked Sylvie" which her enemies could use against her. (Which they do, as you might remember the comment about her slipping during her fight due to her wet shoes in Scene 5.) The whole combat scene is a lot of trading aspects and invokes around. You create something narratively new and then you figure out either how it gets used in your favor or against you. Katie throws a grenade at the boats to create the aspect "Panic! At The Waterline" which Sylvie then uses to slip through the chaos to reach the ladder. After seeing Eleanor starting to trick the guards, Seiko uses his turn to Create an Advantage for her to use using his Shoot skill; and he succeeds, resulting in the aspect: "They Couldn't Hit an Elephant At This Dis--" I don't always directly follow turn order, rather I like to group people together by location. So Katie/Sylvie and the guards that Sylvie's fighting all get grouped, Seiko/Eleanor and the guards that Eleanor's tricking get grouped, and Miranda's doin' her own thing down belowdecks. I try not to let a full turn cycle go around (because they often react to things going on in other areas) but sometimes things get a little swapped for clarity. Scene 6 There was a lot of shouting at Gavin when Sherman showed up. A lot of shouting. I just feel the need to pass this along. Obviously I don't have any more information, but my current theory is: Sherman found out that someone he worked with in the underworld was gonna do a really bad thing (the bomb probably, or whatever Peralta's real evil plan is) Realized that he's going to get tied back to it when it goes down because he's involved Tried to run and hide Maybe ended up feeling bad because he's responsible and deciding that he needed to do something to try to stop it instead and went after Peralta? IDK. I'm sure we'll get details as it goes on, but for now, that's kinda what I'm thinking. I am definitely going to make Sylvie do dumb things re: that little "Mike's Boyfriend" comment. For one, I need more FATE points because someone decided to take on five guards on her own and is gonna get her programming butt kicked unless I get her some bonuses. Also, compels are fun and she's got the aspect for it. as I've given her "Faint of Heart" to cover her relationship with Mike. So, yeah. I think she's going to maybe forget that she's supposed to be fighting for a moment and have things go wrong. Heh, don't say "Kill on sight" when talking about Zhu. Especially not where Katie can hear. You will die. Very quickly. Peralta's going down. We're gonna get that sucker, I swear we will. And yes, waiting. So we shall... (Saturday can't come fast enough!)

Whoa. Okay then. This is a new feeling. Session #31 is up. Aka, everything we've played thus far. The last half of this session is what we played last night. Sydney Scroungers is... current. You now know (almost) everything I do. *basks in the glow of being caught up*

Valentina as Vanaline? OH NOOOOOO... As for who would be Len, I'm pretty sure Len and Seiko would get along pretty well, especially as teammates or something. Cool, disinterested professionals who don't care too much about getting their hands dirty, though beneath the surface, they're rather different. (I'm not saying that I've got Vanalen fic stashed away as a present for another friend for reading Scroungers... but yeah.) Scene 1 I'm pretty sure it's both on the flirting/threatening thing. It's at least flirting, because I remember Gavin talking about how ze was hesitant to use the “depraved bisexual” trope... But it fit too well for Valentina, and after the rest of Scroungers, hopefully people are aware that it's not meant to be a stereotype and she's certainly not the only queer representation here. Sylvie and Miri are in a similar situation, yes, though Sylvie got Vee back unharmed, while Miranda's still got people out there who know her secret. They react similarly until that point, and then they diverge. I'm not sure it was intentional way back when we were originally building the team, but I definitely like that Eleanor, who is probably our least combat-ready member, showing off her skillset and owning the situation with the bad guys. She's good at reading people and she's good at diplomacy, and she's especially good at conning people. She and Seiko make a very nice “shady underworld folk” team. Katie is definitely awesome. As for her awesome planning skills, I think her current High Aspect is “Mastermind-in-Training” so that's certainly a side of her character that's gonna show up. (Except for when it doesn't... More on that later.) Scene 2 Woo! fiVe apologizing! Being contrite about her actions! Character development! And... what is going on with her and dear Vee, hehehe. The “pinning” statement was made because I'd already written the scene that comes after this (and was at that point planning to adapt it a bit to put it in here.) Vee recognizes the taunt in the threat and she's determined to show fiVe that she's A.) not scared of her and B.) willing to trust her no matter what in order to make amends. Vee's current MO is: whatever fiVe wants to do, so long as she's interacting with us, then let's do it. Scene 3 Subtext, what subtext? This is obviously just an innocent interaction between two sentient computer programs that has no real-life analogue whatsoever. c; Ellie has created a monster in turning me into a BackCompat shipper, I swear. CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP. Also, it is very fun to see Gavin glitch out when the AIs start doing stuff. Very fun. Scene 4 Yep. I have a feeling that during the break after Act 3, that little moment of getting a tiny bit of fiVe's damage fixed is gonna be something that Sylvie, Vee, and fiVe are all going to think about this a lot. Vee and Sylvie see it as a victory. fiVe sees it as a moment of weakness on her part, but... one which may have made her life better with a little bit of her pain and damage gone. She's gotta think about that a lot. Was it a ploy on Sylvie's part to make fiVe trust her, or was it genuine? fiVe's not sure, and she doesn't think she wants to give Sylvie another chance in order to find out. Peralta's goin' down. He has messed with three Scrounger love interests now (assuming that he was a part of the attack on Avery). Do not do that thing. Scroungers are scary people and they will take you down. Do not do. Bad things happen. I remember reading you talking about “Wow I want to see Katie not being in control, hopefully,” and I just: *jetski flashbacks*. So yep, nice job calling that one. Proposition for an Interlude in a Scrounger nightclub? That sounds awesome. It'd be nice for the team to go to one of those while they're not on the job for once.

No worries. Hmm, I believe you'll hear from fiVe by the end of Act 1 (Session 10). I think you meet her for the first time at the very end of Session 10, part 2!

Hehehe, fiVe's a VERY fun character. (I may have missed it in the earlier sessions, but her name's always stylized with a lowercase f, even at the beginning of the sentence.) Seiko and Miranda hurt my soul with their perfection. UGH. ADVANCED HYDROPHOBIA FOREVER. On that note, for the current readers: Session #30's up! Woo!