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From what I know of Alv, him trying to obtain a tie fits well with his playstyle and would be NAI. That said, I’m not confident that’s what he was actually trying to do. I doubt Alv would forget to account for vote manipulation, especially in a game we can assume would be rather heavy with it. On thinking about this issue further, I suppose it’s possible that he was trying to protect someone other than Drake, or if he were protecting Drake it’s possible that it was because they were housemates, rather than co conspirators. I’d agree that it’s NAI overall, although my gut wants to say it’s suspicious. I’ll be keeping a closer eye on him, and plan on looking over the chain of votes more closely when I get the time
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Agreed. Alv is cognizant enough of a player to realize that a tie vote would be very likely to be manipulated. That he pushed for it anyways seems suspicious to me
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I sort of want to vote on Roadwalker now, since he’s still giving me a bad gut read. I had agreed to give him the benefit of the doubt contingent on testimony by people who had previously played with him, though, and I’ll continue to do so. This does expire after the end of this cycle, however; I’m not giving you immunity forever
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Kyrain shifted restlessly in his formal wear, not at all content with the way the night was looking. His brother had dragged him along to the event he was currently attending, and he was having far from a fun, or even comfortable, time. His night had begun well enough, with his brother bringing over a number of women for him to dance with, all of them women to whom he was a potential courter. He supposed another man might have called them attractive, but he wasn’t too interested in things like that. He’d always felt that it was ridiculous to value beauty in courtship; the windows in House Lekal’s Keep were supremely beautiful, but he didn’t wish to court them. The dancing had been nice, posing a distraction from the boredom that predominated his life, but the queue had quickly exhausted itself. He was, after all, the youngest nephew of Lord Arryn; it wasn’t as if his hand in marriage was too desireable a prospect. He sat alone, now, at a table, lost in thought as he gazed through the tinted glass at the mists beyond. The ball today was a veneer of normalcy, a facade of stability in the face of the unknown, but that wasn’t true at all. Just the day before, in fact, they had discovered Skaa among the noble houses, serving as infiltrators for the ever mocked and ineffective rebellion in the north. It was he thought, startling, not that the Skaa had attempted to infiltrate the nobility, but rather that they had gone so long without being detected. After all, as the ministry taught, they were little more than beasts of burden, pretending at humanity like a child playing dress up in his father's clothes. The rest, assuming there were any, wouldn’t take long to round up. Rae, I’ve got some ideas for how to go forward in this RP. You ok if I just go for it, or would you like to confer first?
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I’d be happy to explain, Drake. A poke vote is, in this game, effectively meaningless. Starting a vote chain on a lynched Skaa earns a ton of merit, so people will want to start their own votes on people. Poke votes, in that manner, become toothless. Yes, I was bandwaggoning, and I’ll own up to it. The difference from normal bandwagoning is that I openly said I’d remove my vote if you responded, and as you can see I’m sticking to it. That shows that, unlike a normal bandwagon, it’s not just an attempt to get an easily excused lynch. It is, rather, an attempt to lend credence to Phatt’s attempt to exert pressure.
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That’s not what I was suggesting, no, merely that if kill orders are motivated by the power you can steal rather than actual suspicion, we’ll ultimately wind up doing poorly. If one house targets the Mistings of another, that house will see themselves targeted in turn, in what amounts to an escalating level of conflict. I’m not sure that’s strictly true. There are skaa, after all Hm. Can the skaa doc be spied on? Can a tineye spy on which docs a person accesses in a given cycle? That could give us a way to catch the Skaa, and since it’s not spying on the content it doesn’t seem as if it’d be explicitly prohibited. It seems I missed this part of your post earlier. This is a very dangerous assumption to make. If we do even have either of those roles, there’s no guarantee that they aren’t Skaa, and even if both are present and they’re both noblemen, there’s no guarantee they’ll take care of the Skaa for us. If that were possible, the Skaa would have no chance from the start, which would ruin game balance almost certainly. If I had a better grasp of your play style, I’d even venture so far as to say this was suspicious or an attempt to deflect attention from the Skaa. Someone who has played with Roadwalker recently, is this indicative of their usual playstyle, or is my gut right that this seems suspicious?
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I don’t care what Drought says in response, no one should try Hemarulgy. We all lose unless we stop the Skaa, and murdering the most effective mistings will only hurt in those efforts. We don’t want to begin a war of escalation, and if we can agree to a truce on this front it will help us all. Besides, by my best guess, the preciseness needed for Hemarulgy and the lack of knowledge our characters would have on a basis of lore means there’d be no way for it to work anyways, unless someone explicitly has a Hemarulgist role. In terms of other strategy, I’d say we should try to avoid infighting. Right now, the Skaa have an advantage on us, and that advantage is primarily in terms of information. Whatever has been shared in the various house docs is doubtless already in the Skaa doc, and we still have no actionable intelligence as to who the Skaa are. Tineyes, don’t reveal your role until you’ve scanned an eliminator, and then do so only to a trusted confidant or two. Don’t do so in the doc, since you’ll reveal yourself to the Skaa. You’re our best chance to figure out Skaa players at the moment (besides, of course, post analysis), so I’d much prefer you don’t die. Now, I agree that we need to start voting. Sorry about this, Drake Marshall, but I want to add a sense of urgency to the vote Phatt posted. Once you respond, I’ll revoke my vote.
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> Steeldancer hears actions can be submitted based on your character > Steeldancer has idea > Steeldancer suddenly changes character to a girl ...On a completely unrelated note, I’m ace and therefore not prone to being affected by any of Steeldancer’s feminine wiles
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Good to have you back, Phatt! This looks like it'll be a good game to start back up on
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Kindle edition is the way to go, you can read it the instant it’s released
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Will each house be given a doc? Will skaa be spread out between houses or consolidated into one? Will the skaa be given a doc as well? Do skaa earn their houses favor for the RP, etc? Do houses know how much favor they have at any given time?
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I like this idea. Maybe it requires relevant RP to be submitted? Also, I’m in. Name and character tbd. (You convinced me, BR :P)
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Arcanum, the Brandon Sanderson Archive, Is Here!
Bugsy commented on WeiryWriter's article in Site News
The site is amazing, and I can't thank all of you who made it enough. I'm going to try to do my little bit here and post how to make a change I think would improve the site, although I'm sure my explanation will be unnecessary thanks to our phenomenal programmers. If you go to an event page on the site, such as https://wob.coppermind.net/events/127-salt-lake-city-comiccon-2017/, you'll notice that as you scroll down, the navbar at the top of the page attaches to the top and continues coming down for ease of access. I think this is a phenomenal feature (and I know a lot more work goes into something like this than it seems on the surface), so when someone else mentioned that the event box on the side should do the same, I agreed. I then played around in Inspect Element until I figured out how to make that work, hopefully making things a little easier on our dev team. To do this, you'll need to use JQuery (and therefore JavaScript), but I'd imagine this is already incorporated. The change is minor; it should be 10 lines at most. Basically, you need to add a new function in your JavaScript doc which identifies the div element surrounding the event box, then add a line which uses ".offset()" to find how far down it is on a given user's device and assigns that value to a variable. With that done, you can make a function that will determine whether the window has a ".scrollTop" value of greater than the value of the variable minus n, where n is how much space should be at the top of the page when the effect takes action. If the window does, invoke ".css({'position':'fixed','top':'y','right':'x'})" on the div element, where y and x represent the desired displacement from the top of the screen and right side of the screen respectively. If the window doesn't, reset the position to static. You may want to add a secondary "if" condition to see whether or not the changes have already been made before invoking them again so as the user scrolls further down the attributes aren't continually applied - that would slow the browser and make the div potentially lag. Again, if there's anything else I can do to help, I'd be happy to. -
¡Bienvenido, Val! It's good to see you on the forums! Also, I agree that you should read worm. I already made you your channel and everything, it'd be a pity if it went to waste
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Don't worry, I didn't interpret it that way at all.
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Well, since we do know energy and mass and investiture are interchangeable, infinite production of energy must be impossible given that investiture cannot be created or destroyed. Otherwise, one could systematically create energy and convert it to investiture. And what I'm saying is that investiture does not warp spacetime on the physical plane, so it's not contributing to a planet's gravitational well, but if said investiture then forms mass it begins to do so. An object thrown into the air before such a conversion will reach a maximum height dependent on the planet's initial g value, and this height will then be used to calculate a new GPE of the object based on a constant m and h value to before the transformation and a greater g value, meaning the GPE of the object inherently increased. Hm. That's interesting, I hadn't seen those. Thank you! Any amount of mass, no mater how small, exercises gravitational pull. That means that yes, even a bead of atium will cause the object in the air to gain some minuscule amount of GPE. This obviously won't be enough to actually harness the resulting energy and be at all efficient, but that any energy is created means it must come from somewhere else. In your example, for instance, we might expect that the coin on which the coinshot pushes loses investiture as it draws away from the invested coinshot, meaning its kinetic energy growing sees a resultant decrease in its spiritual energy. I, of course, have no idea if that's right; it's honestly sort of baseless conjecture. That said, we know the energy must come from somewhere, and there are only so many possible sources
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One of the most important - and least understood - elements of the Cosmere is the nature of investiture. Our universe is, at its most fundamental level, simply the interactions of mass and energy, and the introduction of investiture poses an incredible divergence from this. We have few guidelines from which we can base our observations on this issue, although more will hopefully be revealed as time goes on. What we currently know includes the following: Investiture can become kinetic energy (as seen in the powers of coinshots) Investiture can become mass (as energy can be converted to mass) Investiture can remain investiture but take the form of mass (as seen in Atium or Lesarium) Investiture can become electromagnetic energy (as seen in the way stormlight glows) Investiture cannot be created nor destroyed, merely redistributed [1] By means of 1, 2 and 5, mass and energy can become investiture, as investiture cannot be lost and therefore any conversion to mass or energy must be reversible A newly introduced WoB may shed some further light on the subject. It is as follows: Q: Does investiture warp spacetime like objects with mass/energy do in our world A: Yes - but the warping is not on the physical realm This introduces some troubling dilemmas. One is that this seemingly allows for the introduction of infinite energy. Imagine, for example, an object being shot into the air. As it moves up, it loses kinetic energy and gains gravitational potential energy. The amount of kinetic energy it has at the start (.5mv^2) must equal the gravitational energy at its peak (mgh). If we allowed it to reach its maximum h value where v equals 0, however, and then converted investiture on the surface of the planet into mass, the value of g suddenly increases and energy has spontaneously been created. This is impossible under the laws of our real universe, and is likewise presumably impossible in the Cosmere. Where, then, is this energy coming from? With the increase in gravitational energy, there is a clear growth of energy in the physical realm. That means energy must be lost in either the cognitive or spiritual realms. I propose, then, that objects are spiritually pulled to planets or other places with high investiture concentrations in an analogue to a gravitational well. This is supported by some observations from Secret History, such as Kelsier’s inability to leave the highly invested Well or later leave Scadrial itself. As the object rises from the investiture-heavy planet, its spiritual aspect weakens as it spends investiture to escape the planet’s spiritual gravitational well. When the investiture at the planet is then converted to mass and the object falls back to earth, the lost spiritual investiture is reformed as kinetic energy in the falling object. The energy within the object remains constant, as it loses kinetic energy and spiritual investiture when rising, then gains a kinetic energy equivalent to the sum of the lost values as it falls. I of course don't presume to know all of the ramifications while still in my second year of physics, so those of you who know better than me are more than welcome to issue corrections as needed. I hope this can spark some more insight into the world Sanderson has sculpted!
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Read warbreaker, and then reread the bit at the end of WoR. You may catch something important. I'd say what, but spoilers
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Hey! Welcome to the forums, it's always great to have a new person around. What books have you read so far? Which were your favorites? Oh, and if someone offers you cookies, you may want to consider running in terror
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Hello! It'll be great to have a SE bot up and running, and the project sounds really cool. I'm a novice coder myself, and if there's some way I could help I'd be willing to at any point after May 5th (My schedule is booked until then). What language is the bot in? I likely wouldn't know it (I know Python, C++, Git, and web design languages), but I can try to learn
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I apologize to everyone here for my recent inactivity. Unfortunately, I can't promise I'll be more active with my approaching AP Exams. I can, however, promise an effort That said, I skimmed the last cycle or so, and I agree with Wilson's assessment on Hero. From his behavior, especially as described by her, is suspicious. I would, however, be interested in hearing a defense Edit: Aaaaand I was ninja'd. I'll try to post my response to hero's defense soon
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I fail to see how my actions are similar. Lopen prejustified a list of suspicions saying they were all gut reads, and has shown repeated willingness to vote based on this hidden list that none of us get to see. I, meanwhile, have said that I no longer trust my gut reads, which formed the entirety of my suspicions, and as a result I have none beyond those backed by arguments like the one DA presented. I don't have a list of suspicions I'm preemptively justifying and refusing to share; rather, I've essentially said that as it stands, any suspicion I have must be backed by evidence. As far as I see, that's close to the opposite.
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While I find your detailed analysis very impressive, I disagree with your assessment of Arinian. You say he might have been working in conjunction with "his elim buddies", but with the way this game was structured he wouldn't have had any fellow Elims until he (or whoever the inquisitor is) just converted one. I hadn't originally thought the same of Drake, but you make a rather compelling argument. He's moved to the top of my suspicions now. A couple nights ago, I reread the entire thread and looked for any suspicions. The biggest one was Drought, who is clearly not an elim. That was based on a gut read. I'm not too confident in the rest of my gut reads as a result, all of which were significantly weaker than the one on Drought. I'm going to place a vote on Drake for now because DAs analysis regarding him seems solid. Also, can we see your 'very real list' of suspicions? Having a secret list of suspicions composed entirely of gut reads has the potential to be an excellent elim tool, because the person could justify any vote by saying the suspect is "next on the list"
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The dead guy is running something called an 'MR'? Jelwynd scratched his head in confusion. This must be more of that allomancy talk. Unless he was missing something. He had spent most of the past cycle sleeping off the thug-sized dose of whatever they'd used to get everyone here. He'd only caught pieces of what was said, but was determined to catch up. "What did I miss?" he asked the nearest person blearily Sorry everyone, real life has been getting in the way of my ability to dedicate enough attention to this game. Teachers apparently assign a lot of homework and exams in the week leading up to spring break so they have the extra time to grade them and can submit the grades in time for the semi-semester progress reports. On the bright side, 2 of the 3 projects due this week and 4 of the 7 tests have already happened, so I should have more time coming up. I'm going to read the backlog as soon as possible to catch up as much as I can
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You clearly know that this game is essentially a rerun of LG2, yet you apparently didn't read the rules of that game (despite them having been mentioned multiple times in thread, I might add). I'm confused as to why that would be. Care to clarify, @Elenion? I'm slightly suspicious of you, as it currently stands. @Amanuensis, I'm on mobile and too tired to reformat your earlier post to quote the section I want to answer, but I feel as if the Inquisitor will be primarily focused on getting roleclaims in PMs to try and find good converts, and will try to avoid attention in-thread by posting infrequently or with medium frequency
