Steeldancer

Joining as the mighty Squid of Steel again.

Same!

Heck, this one was difficult even knowing who the conspirators were! I don’t know that I would be able to make the time to always play this format, but it would be both simple to run and easy to play in the future. So I would be interested in keeping it around. Perhaps more like cosmere codenames?

By the time I would have said something, so many people had already said intelligent things. For a while I thought it was you and the cliff, but I felt like my reasoning would compromise me. I was planning on making an attempt on not one of you three to throw off the trail, but I’m glad i saved it.

and that’s game right there. Well played PK, Joe, and Itiah.

Haha, I got it RIGHT! Clearly it's because I'm the witness.

Ok I've gone through each scenario in my head that is left, and I have arrived at a possible thing. @Herowannabe, I am Making an accusation. I think it was PK using the deathants leaving behind the spectacles! Gosh I hope I'm right. We don't have much more time, and if I'm wrong we need to have everyone else who has accusations left to use them.

I hate when people tell me this. If it hasn't been asked, it is not guaranteed! That's not what I'm saying. I think Taln broke somewhat before the events of WoK, give or take a few months. After he lets them through, the heralds are supposed to go right back to Roshar in order to prepare humanity. But note how broken Taln is, after all that he might have just collapsed of exhaustion for 10 months, eating up that time delay before the voidbringers could finally arrive. Therefore, when Taln shows up, he is too late to properly prepare humanity as he understands it.

Why would he have any reason to lie about that? It doesn't seem like the kind of thing you make up in order to look cool. Also, why would he lie to Venli of all people? I get skepticism, but I'm inclined to lean towards that meaning something. Also there's the line in OB where they say it takes about a year after a herald breaks for the Voidbringers to show up. Now as pointed out in this very thread, he showed up a couple months before they did. That means that he might have sat there for 10 months, maybe from sheer exhaustion, maybe he was so broken he couldn't move or something, who knows. Or maybe it was shorter because the oathpact was weaker. But I just don't see Taln having broken a long time ago, because that makes a lot less sense than him lasting for 4500 years. And 10 months is a pretty serious delay when going to prepare humanity for the forces of Odium coming. Also, looking through WoB's we have no context whatsoever about when Taln broke. So, in order to defend my favorite character, I plan on asking Brandon about when Taln broke. But I only see "late" being a difference of 10 months, not centuries.

Or, you can fight me because we all know everyone really means me. First, the whole late thing- Hoid doesn't seem overly concerned about Taln being late, he doesn't give any indication that Taln is something to be feared. Second, he cracked at some point. The likely thing is that Taln didn't head back to Roshar immediately after he cracked. We don't know exactly when he gave in, but I find it doubtful that he came right back. Now, let's look at another thing- the Diagram. The diagram says pretty clearly that the ancient of stones begins to crack. I think Taln did finally bend sometimes between the diagram being written and the time that he arrived at Kholinar. Another note, Ulim seems to be a spren that got out despite Taln's oathpact, from what his dialogue implies. That implication wouldn't make sense if Taln had broken long ago, which would have allowed all of that out without Ulim being special in any way. Now, perhaps Odium did want this. He wanted humanity to grow complacent and war among themselves. But manipulating Taln's sacrifice is a far different thing from saying that Taln's sacrifice was planned to give an advantage to Odium. I can see Odium using circumstances to his advantage, but not Taln being his pawn. Because honestly there are way better ways for Odium to get the advantage than to let Taln just be tortured for a long time. Just imagine if Odium had sent his minions right after Honor died, which occurred soon after the Recreance. Or even any point after that. Wouldn't it make more sense to attack humanity while the spren are wrecked and feeling betrayed? As soon as possible after that, in order to not give the time for things to heal like they are right now? Or before when humanity started developing more technology? No, that doesn't make strategic sense. Finally, and most importantly, you are a cynical old dude who has no appreciation for how beautiful Taln is. /s

Gosh I really have no idea. I’m going to think for a while and try and make an accusation later on today.

Guys i can’t believe I’ve never though of this before. Of course it’s a pokeball. You throw gems at a spren and BAM you catch it! If you catch them all... you can do something with it. Heck, if you throw your gem on the ground, maybe the gem will crack and release the spren allowing for a spren showdown. Spren mom lets go please.

Waves hands about in confused frustration

A. This makes no sense as a witness because it makes no sense to even put up the question. B. It makes no sense as a conspirator because it just makes us more suspicious. C. This makes no sense as an investigator because an investigator would be interested in solving the murder, not posting something that will confuse literally everyone. Conclusion: this post makes no freaking sense from any point of view.

The thing is, even if the aluminum-alloy bullets aren't as good as normal world bullets, in world it is worth the trade off because you sacrifice perfect bullets for anti-allomantic viability. So even if we don't know the exact alloy, I don't have a huge problem with it. Plus, we've never seen a situation where aluminum bullets are used for like sniping or something that would really require the bullets to be really aerodynamic.

Hm. I was more thinking of Adonalsium along the lines of the One eyed One horned flying purple people eater.

I apologize, I'm really not feeling well atm. I might have time later tonight, but it really depends on how I feel.

Great, you just gave me a flashback of LG34.

Speaking of surgery, I've been interested in possibly using hemalurgy to perform (very careful) surgery. I wonder if the cancer would have enough of a different spiritual aspect in order to carefully spike it out without killing the patient...

I'm pretty sure kelsier is pretty much how it would work, although it does mean that they would come out still having a body.

The thing is, I feel like that extreme ability will also be limited by how much stormlight a person can hold. I doubt we are really going to see lightweavers going and lasering things up. It would be a one-shot move.

I think my rank just changed, because I think I used to be an ancient one. EXCELLENT! I am finally an edgedancer in rank, and have fully become the Steeldancer!

Steel is returning as The Squid of Steel. The Squid of Steel's planet blew up when he was a baby squidling, and he was sent away to Scadrial, However, on Scadrial, he gained the ability to use Steel allomancy and feruchemy (for reasons). Therefore, The Last Squid of Squidly became the Squid of Steel.

aghhhhhh my poor, poor wallet. It cries out in pain.

Well that was something. Also, rand was evil again. Of course.