Steeldancer

Granted, the elims did hand out (or chose not to hand out) some medallions, so they might already have some idea of how things are distributed. Which, honestly, is kind of a weird mechanic, but I guess makes sense when medallions are being passed around every cycle.

I'll actually get around to reading the rules in a bit, I have some homework I should get done first, so just checking in for now.

First, I like this. But where's my boi Taln? He can't just be useless sitting around. And Renarin is entirely absent, I've figured book 4 will involve Shallan looking more into this whole thing about Glys and whatnot. That, or Jasnah figuring more about that. I just feel like Renarin has some stuff to do despite not being the main focus yet, after the revelations of Oathbringer.

well, I'll sign up as me, unless I decide to sign up as a character later on.

heh, that might be fun.

Here, I'll just post my recentish theorizing upon this very fact. Have fun. I'm currently waiting on Brandon's promised AMA to get the dilation and compression of space confirmed, which would validate this theory.

What, you're not posting the doc you created solely to troll me? Also, I know it's a shocker, but yes I was Penguin. And holy crap did that RP take a bit out of me. I actually had no idea how I was going to end it, I was just sort of playing through, trying to figure it out. It all came at once when I realized I'm going to be leaving this community for 2 years in just a few months, and I sort of wanted to end my character in a similar way. I have no idea how it actually turned out. But it's over now, so whoopee. As for gameplay, honestly my faction picked a terrible win condition. We had no chance of finishing it, we should have done the Odium one. Or the kill the kill roles one. Would have been much more doable. Or if Hoid had contacted US instead. Well, whatever. I'm happy I finished my RP, even if I didn't win. As for RP, I forsee the next few months will be different RP kind, especially with what I've been learning in my creative writing class. If, you know, I actually have time to do RP and all that. Seonid, we're going to miss you. (And I'm going to be driven insane that we never ran a shard game with all 16 shards). Um, Mailliw, sorry for getting a bit stabby stabby on you. I tend to get a bit stabby stabby when I get mad. Or am having too much fun. And I'll try not to hold grudges against literally everyone who lied to me. Right up until the next time I'm a SK

Note, whether I play or not will depend on whether I end up running the next LG. I probably won't, but if I do, I won't be able to play.

Yeah, I could do thursday after 7, or saturdays for sure. I never really am doing much on saturdays.

Depends on what time on Thursday, because I have creative writing with sanderson until 7

Dude! Good to see you again! I'll hold out on signing up for now, but I'll sign up if you need the extra player.

I hope all listeners enjoy the new WTCC jingle, it was a labor of love. If you dont like it, blame chaos for the memes.

I haven't commented in here in a while, but I think this deserves a mention. First weekend of April, Saturday afternoon, I'll be singing in General Conference! I've known for a while that it was a possibility that my choir could be doing that, but now I've finally had in confirmed and I am THRILLED!

I do not like this Seonid-I-am, having been the 14th person to sign up in thread. I do not like it, Seonid-I-am.

We know just enough about darkside magic to know it is even less dramatic than Sandmagery. I very, VERY much doubt that their magic is what will allow them to achieve FTL tech. I'm currently basing this all on the assumption that the FTL tech they use will make sense, it won't be just "oh it's a hyperdrive, it just gets them faster than light," there's going to be a distinct reasoning behind each technology that will allow FTL, probably tied to investiture in some way or another.

Ok, I’ve done more thinking upon FTL tech in other parts of the cosmere. Roshar is pretty obvious, you should be able to create something like an alcubierre drive, using Gravitational fabrials. (Gravitation fabrial and an antigravity fabrial). Sel has a harder time of things due to limitation of their abilities by area, but with connection investiture like in secret history, so long as that investiture can still be used to power Aons or something of that ilk, they should have enough of variety in the magic system to pull off FTL (although, I’m not sure what Aons would be used). The one that stumped me is Taldain, which Brandon states would have been first to FTL if autonomy hadn’t interfered. Thing is, their magic systems are drastically underwhelming, and I haven’t yet thought of another FTL system that would really fit the bill for a world like Taldain. But, Yata pointed out one thing Taldain has going for it- sand. The sand would make a great investiture battery. I’m not sure what they’ll do with these sandy investiture batteries, but they’d be easy to store and refill. I’m sure this has something to do with how they could achieve FTL tech.

Sup peeps, I'm going to get my homework done then maybe say something intelligent. Or not. Not sure why I would need to be intelligent in this game, just dumb luck should do the trick.

The Returned Steel compunding edgedancer will return to face his ultimate nemesis once again. The story will be told. Worlds will tremble at the speed of his passing. Steeldancer, the character, makes his triumphant Return. Hopefully this time I’ll get to finish my story before I die.

be still my beating heart, it's time to THEORIZE ABOUT ALL THE NUTS STUFF WE CAN DO WITH THIS

Oh, what the heck. What’s the worst that could happen. I’ll sign up as the Squiddle, a drawing of a squid that came to life but is still (relatively) friendly.

So today I was at work and was thinking about allomancy and FTL technology when I realized that speed bubbles compress space. I can't believe no one has mentioned this before, so I'll act as if this has been proposed before and try and add as much detail as possible. Since I had many hours to work this out, here's what I have: I am basing this on the idea that the cosmere still has einsteinian physics, because I don't think Brandon is just throwing out all that stuff. He's relying on that. And here, there was an idea for a FTL drive called the alcubierre drive. The basic idea is that while no THING can move faster than light, space-time can. So, like surfing a wave, you compress space in front of you, and expand space behind you, and end up going faster than light. So, what I realized is that a speed bubble can't be dilating time without dilating space to some degree or another. Obviously it's not a huge amount, because it's not affecting the people inside enough for anyone to go "huh, this is weird." But, if you're compressing time, you should also to some degree be compressing space as well, based on the whole idea of space-time. And that means with 2 bubbles, you could potentially achieve FTL travel. This idea has several things going for it, but obviously there's a bit more to this process than just a slider and a pulser in a rocket ship. First, this is a relatively viable method of FTL travel, given that unlike many other methods in stories, it doesn't break hard physics. The main issue in the real world is that we don't have a great way to compress space and expand space in the way that an alcubierre drive would require. But huh, look at that! Coincidentally, Bendalloy and Cadmium EXACTLY fit the bill for what you would need! It's almost as if Brandon read about the alcubierre drive at some point, and decided to create speed bubbles to fit the bill, so that they could be around as a power but then later on be realized for their greater potential! Even recently, he's mentioned that there's more to speed bubbles in relation to FTL travel that we haven't figured out yet, and we've gone on and on about the ability for cadmium to enable a "cryosleep" of sorts. This would exactly fit the bill for something reasonable for them to discover in the future once they have a better understanding of realmatics and physics. Speaking of which, real quick, I'll list off what Scadrial needs to get to to have this be a viable technology. First, they need to get an understanding of Einsteinian physics, specifically space-time. Furthermore, they need to understand that speed bubbles are locked on in location to things like the planet, or a moving train. This would allow them to extrapolate that a bubble would stay in place on a spaceship as well. Finally, they need to have completely mechanized the metallic arts in order to get the ship off the ground so that this drive will even work, because it won't work on a planet. Furthermore, I expect them to have figured out how to create spirit webs with allomantic powers that can draw more investiture than even lerasium mistborn would be able to, much less any allomancer born to their powers in that era. So, here's what I'm imagining Era 4 to look like. A long, thin ship stands up on the ground, surrounded by a large, ringed tower. The tower activates, each ring activating a constant upward steelpush on the ship, sending it up and up, faster and faster, like an allomantic rail gun. Once in space, the ship stores its weight as it determines its course by going through similar, larger rings in space. Then, in the back, a large, powerful cadmium bubble activates, and in the front, a similar bendalloy bubble activates. Space time is compressed in the front, and expanded in the back, sending the ship to speeds that are faster than light. In the middle of the long ship, between the large bubbles, smaller, nested cadmium bubbles multiplicatively slow down time for the people waiting through the voyage. It probably also has another form of propulsion, perhaps a solar sail or ionic engines or something. It could land something on a new planet by simply finding a large enough metal deposit to push against as it descends. Now, my hope is that either I will get the chance to ask him about space compression next time I see him, or that someone else will get around to asking it. Given that he worked with Peter closely on the physics of speed bubbles, and that an understanding of space time is fairly universal, I can't imagine that he would create a power like speed bubbles where they manipulate time in such a way, and NOT have it affect space as well, especially as it affecting space leads into exactly the sorts of discoveries we expect from scadrial at some point. Frankly, I'm more surprised that I can't seem to remember this being mentioned before. edit: oh, and I figured I should mention this thought about Era 4 here. Brandon has always made it clear Era 4 isn't going to be the Avengers. My thought is that instead, it's going to be more akin to Star Trek. With a more focused plot line.

I still haven't read anything, but my thoughts are that yes, the village was a bit underwhelming in this game. Both in activity, and in power. Because, DANG, the elims had a lot of options! Normally eliminator teams are given very few players, with only a few powerful members if anything! In this case, you had multiple cases of double lives, multiple actions, and I couldn't even one shot a forsaken. Anyway, I think it was still balanced in concept, but our playing definitely ruined us. I still enjoyed it though, I always enjoy getting a power role. Ironically, Rand is technically an orphan, so maybe I'll feel like using him as an RP character in the future... but probably not. Anyway, nice job Fifth, and nice job eliminators (even if I am a bit grumpy you said so little for me to work with).

Huh. I honestly think the village was a little underpowered this game. We only ended up having the ability to go through with 6 lynches, giving us 1 lynch to be wrong. The eliminators had 5 lives out of 20 players, and they were REALLY powerful with the Blight, a ton of creatures and stuff, and a variety of abilties and stuff. I was fairly limited in what I could do, both in that my kill only took a single life from Forsaken and only a single life from the creepers and creatures. I'm supposed to be the Dragon Reborn, and I couldn't hardly stop anything! While I think it was absolutely still possible for the village to win this game, a combination of inactivity/invisibility on the elims part, and then large numbers of creatures wiping us out just made this game perhaps a bit too difficult. However, despite my complaints and my inactivity until what turned out to be the end of this game, I still enjoyed this. And I was on to you, Aman. A reread of everything was making me extremely suspicious of you. Too bad you weren't Aginor, though, I was guessing that Aginor would most likely be hidden in the Fal Dara doc.

Ironically I attacked Aman...

I agree. Brandon's pretty smart. I think he has some idea of how this is going to look.