DrakeMarshall

First of all, yes I'm still voting on Alv next cycle. And I support voting on Ecth C11. I'm just saying I believe y'alls should vote DA on C12, pending any major developments. Also... I don't think I can face myself after telling such bad puns. But I have this eary feeling that even worse puns are a foot. Arm yourselves against such a danger. Uther and Hithon exchanged blows. Both had learned extensively in the art of killing. Both moved with unnatural agility. I'm getting a lot of sparring practice, for a dream. Uther continued blocking the blows raining down on him with Ranatar's broken sword, seeking to slip by Hithons defense and disarm the man. A dagger arced towards Uther's face. Reflexively, he shifted his balance and slicked his feet, just barely managing to dodge the swing with the trick. That was storming close... I don't want to kill him, but it doesn't look like he's returning the favor. While Hithon re-balanced from the swing, Uther pressed forward, trying to score a hit on the blind initiate. Locked in combat, the pair ignored the battle surrounding them. With a sudden inspiration, Uther swept his foot across the stone floor, slicking it. Then, suddenly, he retreated. Hithon, in the grips of the thrill, surged forwards... And crashed to the ground. Uther hadn't anticipated the way Hithon would slip, and the blind initiate nearly impaled himself on the broken sword Uther still held out. Oops. Uther stood over Hithon. The initiate struggled on the ground, trying to get to his feet. Maybe I can make him listen. "Hithon, please!" The blind initiate seemed deaf to the words. With a snarl, Hithon tried to spring up on his feet. No. Quickly, Uther held out his hand, willing stormlight out of it. Releasing fire and forming it into a ball around his fist. He held it between himself and Hithon wardingly. The blind initiate stayed down, held at bay by the flames, glowering like a trapped whitespine. Slowly, he stopped struggling, and a pained expression crossed Hithon's face. Maybe I can still get him to snap out of it... "Hithon, please!" Remember... Hithon turned towards Uther's voice. Uther seemed to be getting through to the blind man. Finally. Hithon looked confused, perhaps afraid. Hithon spoke with a strained voice. "Help me..." Good. He's recovering! Uther dismissed the fire wrapped around his fingers, leaning forward to inspect Hithon. The blind man lay crumpled on the ground with a calm expression on his face. Suddenly the initiate sprang forward, redoubling his attack. Uther cursed, struggling to counter and dodge the onslaught from two daggers with the broken sword. I should have seen it coming... I should have kicked away his weapons while he was down... I should have done something. My subconscious must be trying to teach me a lesson, he thought. An ironic grin crossed his face and then was replaced by a grimace of concentration. The pair exchanged more blows. Neither could gain the upper hand. They were too closely matched. Again. Keph soared around the pair, apparently fascinated by the duel. Uther fell back a few steps, using the breathing room to scan his surroundings. The giant voidbringer was still distracted, apparently. I need to get this situation under control. And yet... How could either of them defeat each other? They were fighting from the same deadly training. Even their many improvisations were predictable to the other. They understood each other, and understood each other's approach to killing. And neither seemed to be tiring. The fight would run its course, eventually, but looking around, Uther didn't think he had time for that. "You can't beat him like this." Keph said. "Well thanks for that. Real helpful." Uther replied as he sidestepped another dagger. "I didn't say you can't beat him." "Huh?" "You're fighting like a Ghostblood. Hithon may be blind, but you can't beat him at that game. He knows your fighting patterns better than you do." "What are you suggesting?" Uther ducked back, evading another cut. "You are the first of the Order of Releasers. Fight like one." Right. "Well it sounds like a great plan and all, but how the hell do I do that?" "The first step to winning is knowing what you can lose."

Yeah well I don't have eyes on it anymore... G'night all, anyways.

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Sure you can get in on it. The wager... Bragging rights and maybe an upvote? Unless you can think of something better...

Knew it. EVERYONE LYNCH

I thought the point in all this was to sidestep the useless IKYK business. Anyway, even if I do see what I want to see, that's a poor reason to change my mind. It's even less logical to arbitrarily decide upon the opposite of my actual conclusion then it is to arbitrarily trust my conclusion. But, by all means, keep talking. It'll make the decision less arbitrary if I can get more information on you two.

I know how this works. It's an endless cycle of IKYK. But none of that matters. You can go any number of iterations. I am looking simply at the concrete effects of his post. First, the vote, which means absolutely nothing. And second, the confusion. The direction he was actually manipulating me towards is completely indeterminate, which is I should think the point. If I was wrong, there wasn't much point in popping that bubble. If I was right, it might be worth muddying the waters a little. Anyways. It doesn't hurt that I read Joe as more town than you. Neither of you are very easy to read simply by merit of what you say, but *shrugs*

I doubt you can even vote to pardon me this cycle, silly... I'm not in jail right now. And anyway, self preservation is irrelevant to me at this point. As for why I'm actually voting on you... The unknown semi-active elim is you or Joe, and comparing you two, I choose you. It also helps that Alv is trying to raise doubts about specifically your being an elim (because that's more or less all his voting on you this cycle can do). If he literally had said nothing, like he'd been doing the whole cycle, we all know I still would have gone after you (there are certain advantages to being predictable most of the time). I'm not 100%, but I'm definitely betting on you being our hidden eliminator. There's no way out of this game that doesn't involve betting on something, and I'll take these odds. Oh, and thanks for defending yourself. It implies to me that your victory is still uncertain.

Ah, excellent! Sounds like a bargain. Tell you what, I'll vote to pardon you next cycle if you vote to pardon me next cycle. And we can both vote to jail Doc. We can make a little voting tally in the prison PM together. It'll be jolly.

Free Drake they said. What could go wrong they said. Well I'm flattered that you regret freeing me at least I'm sure you have your reasons, and your right, I can't do you much harm without spren... But I can still raise a bit of hell. Hopefully I'm not too late. That doesn't say very much. Assuming you are telling the truth, you could either be implying that they are already in jail and thus a useful part of your little elsecaller stunt, or that they aren't in jail and thus can turn the tide towards endgame. I'm not much a fan of the IKYK setup so I'm just going to ignore this comment. You know you are getting lynched this cycle Alv, so your vote on DA doesn't mean anything. No, that doesn't 100% mean DA is elim, or that he isn't. It literally just tells me nothing. You got me! Secretly, I am your team member. Keep me alive, vote to free me, and let me get the dustbringer bond again, and I swear I'll totally help you guys win.

No complaints there. It's another day out of prison. So... 2 bonds broken this cycle. In my understanding, that means last cycle... Alvron teleported Drought into jail, and the unbonded unjust who has been killing jailed people then killed Drought (this unbonded is very likely inactive). Then, the other two elims, who were bonded and active enough to have bonds, both broke their bonds to murder Jondesu together. One of the two elims that broke their bond was certainly Ecthelion. So. The inactive elim doesn't matter very much, but I wouldn't be very surprised if it is quiver. The active, recently unbonded, unidentified elim... As I see it, this could be either Joe or DA. My gut read is that the elim is DA. So. In conclusion. I predict that the 4 eliminators are Alvron, Ecthelion, Darkness Ascendant, and Quiver. Good luck to all you town. This is going to be a close game. "Teresh. It's...a pleasure to hear your voice again. I suppose the charges against you were dropped?" I wish... Uther thought, allowing his sword to disperse in a wave of heat. "You're a Ghostblood. In my pouches are all the standard equipment of one." The voidbringer closed in on them, nearly catching Uther off guard. "Blackbane, Backbreaker powder, Winterwort..." the blind man blithely went on. Teresh pulled Hithon to the side as a foot stomped where they were standing. We must be like cremlings to it... Cremlings that could use stormlight. The voidbringer lost interest, searching for easier prey rather than tiring itself our too early. "I don't--" "Teresh, listen. I'm blind. In this storm, I can hear nothing. I'm an assassin. I cannot fight a battle. I am next to useless, do you understand?" I'm still not sure if he is lying about the whole blind thing. But if he is lying, now would be a good time to start inexplicably sensing things like he did with the greatshell. "But take my supplies. You would be able to make much better use of them than I can." He patted himself down. "Daggers, blowguns, throwing knives. What do you need?" Hm... I imagine poison would work nicely on the creature, in a large enough dose... Uther glanced at the blindingly hot sword in his hand. Somehow I don't think I could poison it... "A good dagger might be... Hithon?" His already sightless eyes glazed over, and he started shaking. Uther glanced at the nameless initiate, who was in a similar state. Why does everyone keep falling into trances...? "Hithon!" Uther shook the blind initiate. Why can't you guys go into creepy trances when there isn't a giant voidbringer trying to murder us... There's a certain irony to everyone passing out inside of my dream... Hithon started screaming. Uther looked around quickly to check that the voidbringer wasn't coming for them. It was distracted, for now... Then the blind man got up, stopped screaming. Two daggers shot out at the nameless initiate, clattering off his armor. Apparently the attack shook the nameless initiate out of his stupor, because he leapt safely out of Hithon's range. What the hell...? "Hithon?" Uther asked, unsure of what just happened. Hithon leapt at Uther, daggers out. Uther barely managed to block the blade with Ranatar's broken sword. He was shocked by the attack, shocked by its ferocity. A twisted grin wormed its way across Hithon's face. Of coarse, the daggers would be coated in poison. Uther knew from painful experience that stormlight could cure that particular mix of poison, but a nick from one of the daggers would cost him. The pair exchanged a few more blows, neither landing a hit. Uther didn't want to hurt the man, but he would do what was necessary. "HITHON!" he yelled. It didn't seem to matter, whatever it was, the initiate was too far gone to hear him. Uther had heard stories like this from his time in Sebarial's army. Soldiers so caught up in the heat of battle that they succumbed to the thrill, killing ally and enemy alike in a fit of rage... If they survived the battle, they would usually recover... Although sometimes they wished they hadn't. Uther would need to incapacitate Hithon. That meant releasing fire could only be a last resort. Uther brought down the broken blade in an arc to leave a cut in Hithon's left arm, and hopefully relieve the man of one of his daggers. As he did this, he gathered stormlight to slick the ground below him to dodge a counterattack.

Most games have pretty straightforward signups (and if they don't that is explained in the initial post on the signups thread). So, pretty much just post that you'd like to sign up on the signups thread. The signups thread will be the only thread with "LG31" in the name in the Sanderson Elimination forum.

Sup. Good to see another person on the shard. And I approve of you jumping right in with a theory. Have an upvote. I'm not sure we can surely conclude that Lerasium (Fuzz's real name is Leras, by the way) has temporal effects like atium does. Might be particular to atium. But, that said, its entirely possible Lerasium shares some temporal characteristics, particularly since preservation is supposed to be the shard of eternity. In regard to harmonium's feruchemical traits... I notice a pattern. Lerasium is preservation's metal, and when used with preservation's magic (allomancy) it acts sort of like a wild card, making you a full mistborn (although potentially also doing other things). Atium is ruin's metal, and when used with ruin's magic (hemalurgy) it also acts like a wild card, able to steal any attribute and do so more effectively. It might be that harmonium, harmony's metal, will act like a wildcard when used with feruchemy, harmony's magic. Meaning it could store any feruchemical attribute, more efficiently then a conventional metalmind. Just a thought. There's always another Kelsier The cookies are indeed amazing. Help yourself. Just don't eat too many or you turn into a koloss and fall under Ruin's influence get a stomach ache.

Alright. Lets have another round of analysis and RP. Player List: INITIATES A Joe in the Bush as Jonly- Inactive for the last few cycles. He responded to a PM this cycle though. It doesn't feel like he is elim, but activity is low enough that its hard to tell. Assassin in Burgundy as Araon Darkblade- Mostly inactive. More active towards the beginning, I'll want to check that out. randuir as Ranatar- Good village read. TheSilverDragon as Rea- Inactive. No idea. Ecthelion III as Fifth Nameless- Confirmed elim, likely a truthwatcher who broke his bond this cycle JUQ as Hess- Completely inactive. Doc12 as Hithon- Good village read. Drake Marshall as Teresh- Good village read The lazy anarchist as Lyna Telavalet- Completely inactive. Alvron as Naihar- Very likely to be the elim elsecaller. Darkness Ascendant as The Phantom Stranger- I'm told he always plays erratically so he is hard to read. Potentially an active eliminator. Elbereth as Tintallë Iurnu- Inactive for the last few cycles. I remember earlier when El was active I saw something slightly off, but I don't remember what, and it wasn't very big. PRISONERS Quiver as Veriq- Completely inactive, potentially an inactive elim because at the beginning I remember Ecth really pushing against jailing Quiver, plus they've been teleporting people in jail to kill them which would make sense if one of their own got jailed and just sat in jail. I would definitely try and execute Quiver for good measure this cycle. Lopen as Shinon- Confirmed villager in my eyes. I wish pardons were more feasible (not just for Lopen's sake ), but I don't foresee either me or him escaping prison in this game. Shqeeves as Leif- I don't have very much of an idea. I don't remember him saying much, then you guys jailed him, and now he's been there for a while but inactive. Now. Hithon, I believe you've been looking for me? Soon after Uther had finished speaking, the voidbringer focused its attention on the group of initiates. It was an awesome sight, seeing the titanic creature charging them with a deep roar of inhuman fury. Even after growing so large, it retained the voidbringer's violent agility. "Keph! How do we fight it!" "Aren't you supposed to be a dustbringer or something? Dustbring it!" "How does that even..." Uther sighed. She was the only spren he knew that treated situations like this so flippantly. Then, she was also the only spren he knew, period. This is surreal... I'd bet myself a ruby broam that I'm actually still dreaming in my cell. Might as well go along with it though. Uther slicked the ground and dived to the side as the voidbringer thundered towards them. It was storming hard to balance while slicked, especially while holding out the slender, curved blade that burned with intensity. This is a hell of a lot more reckless than running with scissors... Still, Uther had years of balance and footwork practice. Mraize did not tolerate clumsiness in his subordinates, particularly those who were trained to kill. Even so, without the coordination and reflexes granted by stormlight he probably would have fallen flat on his face. Uther unslicked his feet, sliding to a stop. As the voidbringer stomped by him, Uther swung his blade in a quick, vicious slash on the creature's foot. It cut deep, cauterizing the wound as it sliced and leaving the smell of charred flesh lingering in the air. But the thing's legs were huge, and the cut probably barely hurt it. I wonder what the presence of colossal voidbringers in my dreams implies about my psyche. The monstrosity turned on Ranatar and Hithon, bearing down on them. Seems faster than the chasmfiend, but slower to change directions. The pair got separated as the voidbringer charged in between them, Hithon dodging to one side and Ranatar to the other. Hithon joined up with that initiate who kept refusing to give his name. That one was strange, no doubt about it. Ranatar yelled to the nameless initiate. "Initiate, get Hithon to Teresh, now!" Hithon... Wonder what he's planning. Uther ran towards the blind man, increasing his traction to compensate for the slippery wet stone he was running over. He saw the nameless initiate start leading Hithon in Uther's general direction... Then the nameless initiate fell into some kind of trance, stumbling to a halt, his eyes glazing over. Definitely a strange one. Uther reached the pair. "Hullo there Hithon. Thought I'd catch a breath of fresh air, and here I am. I hear you're looking for me?"

Alright, thanks Aman. So. Continuation! C10: We jail Alvron this cycle. He can't target anyone but people in jail at that point, making him no longer a threat. That means the elims are no longer capable of killing 2 free players a cycle, only 1. But, likely, Alvron and his partner murder people in jail next cycle because its all they really can do. Probably that means me and Lopen will both die next cycle (since I'll be returned to jail next cycle I presume). The other pair of elims probably murder another free, active, town player. Results: -1 elim, -1 jailed town, -2 free town. ~2 active elims remaining, ~1 inactive elims remaining, ~3 active town remaining, ~3 inactive town remaining. C11: We jail Ecth. Assuming the inactive elim is free, the elims still have one kill ability. Assuming the inactive elim is quiver, there will be one free elim left who probably turns into a skybreaker. Otherwise, there will still be two free elims. Either way, I imagine that gives the elims one kill, which they'll use against an active town member. Results: -1 elim, -1 free town. ~1 active elims remaining, ~1 inactive elims remaining, ~2 active town remaining, ~3 inactive town remaining. C12: Here's where it gets tricky. You'll need to find the last active elim. If the remaining two town agree and lynch the elim... Town wins. If they don't... Elims kill one more person, and active town no longer outnumbers active elims, and the elims win. Endgame. Note that to get to that point, the active town will all have to go through with lynching Alv and then Ecth. If you are town and you don't agree why we should do that... PM me, PM Lopen, ask people in main thread... But commit to getting Alv and Ecth in jail. Because Ecth is 100% likely to be an elim, and Alvron is 95% likely to be the elim elsecaller. So... After hashing that all out, I realize the possibilities are a lot more simple then I expected. I thought the continuation of this diagram would be somewhat complicated, but there's basically a clear turning point at C12. It all gets decided C12. So. Unless you want to dispute lynching Alv this cycle and Ecth next cycle, we should turn our attention to the question: what remaining active players (minus Alv and Ecth) are likely to be elim? We'll probably benefit from reviewing Alv and Ecth's posts earlier in the game... And maybe reviewing if they said anything strange in their PMs. We need to figure out who we are going to lynch C12. Good luck. I'll most likely be dead by C12, but I'll try and dig up what I can this cycle. I wish I could say the endgame is we are certain to win if we follow a certain strategy. The truth is... It all decides on who gets lynched C12. Oh! Also. I think we can actually say for certain that there are 4 elims. Because Alv's early game slip of the tongue confirms it. Also... I haven't really taken account for certain abilities that might pop up by C12... The basic layout I made could be seriously altered by certain powers. Windrunner could block Ecth this round, which would likely save someone's life. Stoneward could keep one of the active town alive (I recommend protecting Doc or Randuir but that's just me), or delay the town's executions (which actually shouldn't matter because all we need to do is jail the elims, not execute thenm). Dustbringer could literally be endgame at this point, finishing off the elims now that we know who they are, or murdering an extra active town resulting in an expeditious town loss. Willshaper could give either side a voting majority at this point, also spelling endgame. But I'm pretty sure we don't have a dustbringer at the moment, and the stoneward and willshaper just died. What I know for sure we do have is an edgedancer. Arinian confirmed that someone bonded it. That could be dangerous... In elim hands, it means someone could go free and also spell endgame for us... But wait! The elims just broke their bonds to murder people this cycle! That means they can't possibly have any of these bonds, just elsecaller! Which is excellent news... We might win yet. I'll probably be going to sleep soonish, but tomorrow I'll have some thoughts on the C12 lynch target... And maybe we can find out precisely how much damage 2 ghostblood assassins can do Doc. They didn't let me take any blackbane with me in jail, but as you may have seen I've take the writeup as implied permission to RP dustbringer powers

...And there's the evidence I was waiting for to vote on you, Alvron. Nice one, Doc. Hadn't thought about Randuir and Lopen's chart of possible elsecallers, and I trust Randuir. As for the vote on quiver... I realize I could have killed quiver in jail right before my dustbringer bond broke, and I didn't. The pardon was close at the end of the cycle before I went to go to sleep, and I didn't want to risk killing an innocent and then going free. So, I'll try to make up for it. Quiver. Not only is that cleaning out jails, but it also might hit an inactive elim, because it's possible quiver has been the one killing people the elsecaller teleported to jail. So... Hm... Lets figure out how to do this. There are 12 free players this cycle. I'm pretty sure 4 of those are inactives. If I had to guess, I'd say 4 elims. 1 elsecaller, one partner who kills people elsecaller teleports in jail, and 2 other elims who recently broke their bonds to start killing people. That means 8 town. But only about 5 of the free town are likely to be active. @Amanuensis just checking, does those two bonds broken refer to the bonds of the people that died, or other bonds? I'm assuming it refers to bonds broken other then the deaths. Anyways. Alvron is likely to be the elim elsecaller. I'd bet that Ecth really was an elim truthwatcher and he broke his bond this cycle to murder someone. That means we probably have one other elim with high honor count... And one elim who never had a bond, quite possibly an inactive. Hm... @Amanuensis another question... Say the inactive elim is the only one left... Does that mean town wins, or can the other, dead elims, still give orders to the inactive one? At any rate... When there's one elim left, it can't technically kill people, but I'd be willing to bet that one condition for getting skybreaker is being 1 elim left. And skybreaker can probably kill people. So. What will happen in the next few cycles... Let's make a diagram. C10: We jail Alvron this cycle. He can't target anyone but people in jail at that point, making him no longer a threat. That means the elims are no longer capable of killing 2 free players a cycle, only 1. But, likely, Alvron and his partner murder people in jail next cycle because its all they really can do. Probably that means me and Lopen will both die next cycle (since I'll be returned to jail next cycle I presume). The other pair of elims probably murder another free, active, town player. Results: -1 elim, -1 jailed town, -2 free town. ~2 active elims remaining, ~1 inactive elims remaining, ~3 active town remaining, ~3 inactive town remaining. C11: We jail Ecth. Assuming the inactive elim is free, the elims still have one kill ability. Assuming the inactive elim is quiver, there will be one free elim left who probably turns into a skybreaker. Actually I have to go right now. I'll post what I have so far... And continue this in a few hours.

Hm... Alv, you're right, I do want to But I don't think I will. I have a gut feeling that you are an elim, but I won't back it up with a vote unless I can back it up with real evidence. I didn't really appreciate being falsely jailed on "gut reads" and I won't subject you to the same unless I can find a better reason for it. I'm wondering about the attack on Drought though. I see 3 possible explanations: 1. The elims randomly attacked someone with a high honor count, and got lucky by hitting the stoneward. Probably the most likely. 2. Drought told people his role in PM, and one of those people killed him. I doubt that he only told one person, if he chose to tell anyone... So if you were told and you know he told other people, probably speak up. 3. Ecth is an elim truthwatcher, and deliberately located and killed the stoneward. I don't think this is very likely, but it isn't exactly impossible. Also, DA, I frankly don't care if you suspect me. What're you gonna do, jail me? Been there, done that. And anyone who actually bothered to PM me when I was first jailed received plenty of evidence. Yes, if you try to lynch doc I will defend him. I may be bad at picking people I suspect, but so far I've been pretty good at picking people I trust. And, speaking of that... So far, literally everyone who bothered to PM me back then has turned out to be village. Those are people who genuinely cared if it was right to lynch me or not. Nobody would have faulted any of them for just voting for my execution early, or maybe just tossing a pardon vote on the bandwagon later. But they still did it. Mind you, the validity of that information is somewhat contingent upon my being town or not... But, here is the list of people: Jondesu, Mage, Randuir, Lopen, Arin, and sort of Doc I find that list interesting... Why? Well, because Lopen's on that list. And he's totally an elim, right? But then there's still the fact that I've had a singularly bad read on Ecth the whole game, only alleviated by Ecth's claim against Lopen being supported this cycle. And so. Speaking of PMing prisoners to get game changing information, then all of that amounting to nothing because inactivity. I just PMed Lopen, and just received proof that he is innocent. Ecth claims to have scanned him C4 and C7. C4 he wasn't elsecaller, C7 he purportedly was elsecaller. So that means he bonded inkspren on C5, C6, or C7. Only the writeups for C6 and C7 had elsecaller abilities being used. So according to Ecth's claim, he must have bonded on C5... Only there was only one bond formed C5. And Arinian, who is now confirmed town because you guys killed him, claimed that he knew for sure that edgedancer spren bonded on that cycle. So... Ecthelion had to have been lying. You may wonder... Why would Ecth lie, unless it was close to endgame? Well, we got a lot of inactives. If we don't jail an elim this cycle, I'd bet the free, active elims will outnumber the free, active town. So that would be endgame, and it wouldn't matter if we all knew Ecth was elim because we wouldn't have voting majority. It might even be too late already. Maybe town already lost. I'll need to calculate some things to know. But... Lets hope it isn't too late, hm? Lopen Lopen. I know for sure now that Ecth is elim, but he isn't the elsecaller. Ecth is all but certain to really be truthwatcher, just an elim truthwatcher. Which means by jailing Ecth, we'll still have elim elsecaller on the loose. And elim elsecaller could literally just teleport Ecth out of jail next cycle, which would be very bad news... So... While I'm tempted to vote on Ecth, the confirmed elim... I need to think more. We need to find that elsecaller. Alv, I confess, I'm even more tempted to vote on you now. But I'll be true to my word. I may still end up voting on you, but if I do, I'll have stronger reasons to do it then I do now.

Okay... I just typed out a storming lot, and it got deleted. Not chill. I'll summarize it again in brief. I'm perplexed why I am free. I'm guessing it's because I don't really pose much of a threat to the elims without a kill power and only free for 1 cycle. I'm not sure why they wouldn't just free an inactive like Quiver, maybe just to confuse us? I understand that being freed by an all but confirmed elim might look suspicious. Well, frankly, if the elsecaller was on my side, I can't imagine why they wouldn't have freed me earlier, at least often enough that I could keep my bond. As for reads on people... Well, even if I was wrong about Rae, I was right about Arinian, Jondesu, and Mage. It's a shame I find out they were indeed town by their dying. The only living people I really trust now are Doc and Randuir. In regard to Lopen and Ecth... Originally, I had a pretty bad read on Ecth. But Ecth's claims all match up. According to Lopen's own calculations, Ecth is one of the only candidates for truthwatcher. Plus, there are no counterclaims. Plus, it wouldn't make sense for Ecth to lie unless the game was really close to finishing. And there's Lopen's defenses. Personally, if I were town and knew Ecth was lying, I'd go after getting Ecth lynched as best I possibly could. Instead you were desperately defending yourself. So... Lopen. I find it very unlikely that you are anything but an elim elsecaller. Lets find out for sure. In regard to interrogation... I'm not sure who to vote on, but I am sorta wondering about @Alvron. There's how you've narrowly avoided so many lynches. The last time someone did that, it was me, and I was playing elim. The time before, it was Dalinar, and he was playing elim. I know that's not solid evidence, but all my experience indicates that it is suspect. Then there's Lopen's claims on you. When nobody really suspects Lopen, he defends Alv on grounds I'm still not sure I understand. Then, once Lopen is pretty much assured to get lynched, he starts pushing to get Alv lynched (and not Ecth). Feels like that could be bussing since we'll probably find out Lopen was elim soon. If I were more sure of things, I'd probably actually cast the vote, but I'm really not. Not yet anyway. If I could, I'd also vote to pardon myself but I doubt this is possible. Alright. I've caught up to when it deleted things before. So. RP time! It's been a while... A blinding flash of stormlight. A sudden wall of frigid water raining down. Uther's eyes snapped open. He wasn't lying in his cell... He was on the cold, hard, rain-slicked stone of a plateau. Exactly like his dream. “Teresh?” asked Ranatar. “Is that you?” Uther noticed Ranatar on the stone next to him. Out of stormlight, clearly wounded. Just like the dream... If its the same as the dream... Uther looked up. Aww hell. It was the same creature as before, in the chasms. The demon shardbearer. Eyes still shining like blood red stars through the cracked faceplate. Tiny arcs of hatred coursing along its plated body. A wickedly curved, impossibly large blade held easily in one hand, stained red. The stump of its other hand stained orange. Just like the dream. The shardbearer's mask of hatred cracked for a moment, replaced with surprise. Then it flicked up the shardblade with casual grace, preparing to cut right through Uther and finish Ranatar off. Apparently, it didn't much care that Uther had just appeared in front of it. It was probably deep in the grips of the thrill. With a shout, Uther rolled to the side, pulling Ranatar out of the way with him as the blade cut through stone like it wasn't there. He instinctively tried to suck down stormlight. None came to his aid. Keph... The valorspren hadn't fared well in prison. She had slowly grown more quiet, disappearing for longer stretches of time, and zipping in circles around his candle, attracted to the light like a mere flamespren. He knew that it was related. His ability to breath stormlight came from the bond, or so the book had said. First Keph, and now this... What have I done? Uther jumped to his feet, but the movement felt sluggish without the stormlight he was used to. It was right in front of him. He could feel the light streaming from the voidbringer's armor. He imagined it flowing towards him, granting him its icy clarity, speed, and strength. The light resisted him, dissipating uselessly into the air instead of coming to his aid. Uther ducked under the voidbringer's next swing. "KEPH!!!!" he screamed into the rain. Uther hadn't seen her in days... And without each other they would both be dead soon, if she wasn't already. Uther grabbed the sword Ranatar had dropped when he went down, desperately parrying the voidbringer's next blow. He got Ranatar's sword up just in time to block the Voidbringer's cut... And the voidbringer's shardblade cut right through it. And then right through Uther's knees. An unimaginable pain shot through his calves. Then, just as quickly as it had come, it disappeared, replaced by a terrible, terrifying numbness. He collapsed on the ground as his legs refused to move. The creature smiled down at him, sword poised to finish it. Keph, I'm sorry... I've failed. "How did you get here?" the demon asked, apparently curious to know before finishing him off. Uther stared up at the creature. "Funny, isn't it. You never feel like it could all end, and then... It does." he said, ignoring the question. Perhaps he was in shock. "I guess in the end, it doesn't much matter who finishes me. The Sons of Honor, the other initiates, the storming Voidbringers straight out of a bad fairytale... In the end, all that matters is that I fought." The voidbringer looked perplexed at that. "Answer me, you fool." The shardblade glowed a dull red, point nearly touching Uther's neck. I doubt I would tell you even if I knew. Uther looked up, defiant. "Burn in hell you overgrown parshman." A look of fury crossed the voidbringer's face. Uther was going to die. He tried once again to suck in some of the light streaming down at him from the creature's plate. He felt the same resistance as he did before. He pushed up against it with all he had. Keph, you're free now. Please... If you're still there... Uther saw the familiar orange glow dancing before his eyes. He could feel it, he was close... But it hurt so much to keep going. He couldn't... No. That's a lie. The greatest of lies. Fear. I will deny the grip of terror in myself. I will not shy away from self-sacrifice. Uther looked at Ranatar, who was just getting to his feet behind the voidbringer. Maybe if Uther kept it distracted for a few more seconds, Ranatar could get away. I will deny the grip of terror in my allies. I will remain loyal to those who fight at my side. The wall in his mind cracked. Stormlight rushed through it, and Uther drank it up greedily. He saw Keph flying towards him, and the cracks widened. With a roar he crashed into the barrier one last time, shattering it. A torrent of stormlight flooded through him. The voidbringer general swung at Uther's sprawled form on the ground. Uther lunged for the demon's legs, sliding across the floor like it was ice. He collided with the legs and kept sliding, forcing the voidbringer to slip and topple on the now slicked rock and causing its blade to disappear in a puff of mist. He stopped sliding close to the edge of the plateau. The stormlight slowly poured into his legs. Uther hoped that meant the cuts would heal. The plate-coated voidbringer tried to roll over on top of him to crush him, but Uther threw it off balance, slicking the rock to make the demon slip again. He knew the creature would eventually learn to stand up and balance on the slicked rock, like Uther had, but until then, he would take any advantage he could get. He felt feeling enter his legs again, and threw himself to his feet just as the voidbringer did. The pair stared at each other, a few meters apart. Rain crashed down around them. The voidbringer screamed in fury at him, arcs of crimson thunder building up around its arms at an alarming rate. Uther willed stormlight into his hand, igniting it. A bright red-orange flame curled from his fingers, Keph swirling around it. A spear forged of all consuming fire coalesced in his hands. Tongues of flame curled off the weapon, unquenched by the heavy rain. The arch-demon released its terrible thunder. At the same time, Uther hurled his spear right at it. There was a bright flash of light between them. The afterimage faded. The voidbringer was stumbling back, its plate showing a few new cracks. Throwing the spear had drained all his stormlight, but it looked like the voidbringer was low, too. It's plate was definitely slowing down; a little longer and it would lock up. The creature threw it's head back in roared at the sky in defiance... No, not just the sky. There was something up there. A figure glowing intensely with stormlight... And a single, baleful red orb, glaring at the figure. An eye. The eye focused down on the shardbearer and Uther. He immediately felt a wave of dread. The eye shone with malevolent intelligence, and power. Then a bolt of lightning, like the ones the voidbringers could throw, only huge, streaked down and hit the shardbearer. A flash of blackness radiated from his opponent. Uther watched in horror as the creature grew, crackling red energy outlining it in the darkness. He stepped backwards as the voidbringer doubled, tripled in size in mere seconds. Storms... Just my luck to get teleported into this. Uther was exhausted and devoid of stormlight, and Ranatar looked to be in even worse shape. Why is it that every time I survive something I shouldn't, something even worse comes along? The figure overhead started glowing even brighter. Uther realized it had to be captain Kaladin, just as he felt a surge of energy... Stormlight. As if radiating from the windrunner. Ranatar's wounds healed and he stood beside Uther. And every time something even worse comes along, I survive it again. Lets hope today isn't the exception. Revitalized, Uther stoked the fire again. This time, the flames formed into a slender, curved sword with a long reach. He fell into fighting stance. Flamestance seemed appropriate, all things considered. The other initiates were approaching behind, also glowing. Some looked confused at his presence. "If you're wondering how I got here, I am too. What's important however is that there's a giant storming voidbringer thing in front of us. And it's very, very angry at us, particularly me and Ranater I think. And we're going to need a plan. If we try to run, it can probably outrun us with those legs. I don't think that's an option. So. It's bigger than that chasmfiend we fought. More importantly, it's legs are a whole lot thicker and we aren't going to be able to chop them out from under it very easily. And it's smarter than any greatshell. Chances are, it's also retained its ability to harness lightning. If we assume that it's larger size means larger lightning bolts, that means it's going to be incredibly dangerous. But on the bright side... Like I said before, it's also really, really angry. And it's missing a hand. And it doesn't have shards anymore. All of these things can be used against it. Hm... I say we try and trip it, then go for the eyes. Keep moving so the lightning can't get you, maybe throw some metal to deflect it. Thoughts?"

STORMS. A lot happened this cycle. I still need to read the write up and make sense of it... But right now I got a track meet to go run in. I'm temporarily out of prison, though I'm not sure what that will do... I'll make a real post once I get the time.

It's more or less cosmere themed mafia.

Granted. Wyndle is the best shardfork. As your bane, it turns out that Wyndle is a real Voidbringer. PLOT TWIST. Pretending to be cultivationspren, Wyndle slowly manipulates Lift so that she ends up murdering Kaladin. That's why Nalan was trying so hard to kill her. Also you forgot to give kenod a bane. So, Kenod, I will give you one. Your bane is that through some vile magics, the raspberry pi can now only run windows 10. I wish for a perpendicularity to appear somewhere on earth, but not anywhere too close to where I am. EDIT: Ninja'd by HH!!!

If your WoB on cohesion is accurate... That means the stonewards could probably make super-strong fortifications out of bits of trash, or anything really I'd guess. Including stone, which exists abundantly on Roshar...

So. I was thinking about the surge of abrasion. And a similar idea. So. What is tension? Typically, in physics, tension refers to the force applied through a string or similar object. It is pulled taught, and there is a force there. I've also seen theories where tension relates to increasing surface tension in a fluid, or making air molecules stick together to make a force-field. But... It also occurred to me that, if we take a slightly broader approach, it might be said that tension can also include elasticity. See where I'm going with this? The surge of abrasion can change the frictional constants of objects (on a slight tangent, I'd like to point out that this can not only let you slide across the floor as if it were ice, but it can also let you scale very steep walls by increasing friction). But... What about a power that manipulated the restitution (bounciness) of objects? It's right in the same them of manipulating basic, physical forces... And the effects could be pretty awesome, without being too overpowered or underpowered. You could spring off of normal ground, and (especially with stormlight enhanced strength and speed), jump extremely high. You could slam into a wall and just rebound off it (would still hurt though since your body absorbs all the force... on the other hand stormlight seems to protect people from falling off heights so maybe it wouldn't hurt after all). You'd literally be bouncing off the walls. Think almost a bit like what the epic newton was capable of in reckoners, although probably not so dramatic as to let them reflect bullets back at the firer. Just an interesting possibility for the surge, that I don't think anyone's thought of yet. TL;DR: We know Abrasion lets you alter the friction of something. I am suggesting that Tension lets you alter the bounciness of something.