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School gets out next Thursday for me. RIP

I doubt this is the first time family members have been on the Shard together, but welcome! Have an upvote and a cookie! Trust me it's not spiked Also, which Cosmere book is your favorite?

Oh, it appears I have an entire house under my control. Hope no one finds the body.

Hey, this sounds pretty cool. I'll be Absolen. A skaa worker in the Conrad fields. This'll be my first game, so I need to go reread the rules for stuff like this again. Also, what's a spec doc?

I just want you to know that, no matter how tough things get, we'll always be here for you. *hugs and never lets go*

To the first point, objects do transfer over. As long as you don't use them to travel to the mirror realm, of course. So, you're clothes would stay on you, as long as you used a different object to travel through, if that makes sense. Seventh Tower? I haven't heard of that one. I loved his Old Kingdom series, so I might need to read that. Both. They form more naturally, but it's possible to make them.

I've come up with three kind of interesting ideas for magic systems recently, though they're still fairly new. The first one is actually an idea I had a long while back, but I never could figure out how to make it work well. I randomly thought of the idea again, while reading The Way of Kings, when it mentioned the symmetry of the ten kingdoms (sorry, already forgot what they're called). Anyway, the idea is that of the mirror realm, which sounds a lot like you'd expect. Of course, there's no people when you enter, and your reflection doesn't appear in the real world once you're in the mirror realm. Now, I think the cool thing is that, while you do have to touch the mirror in order to go to the mirror realm, you can use any object to do so (except living creatures-though dead bodies can be pushed through). The more reflective, the easier it is to push into the mirror realm. Of course, you can't bring the object you push through with you (for example, if I pushed against my shirt, and was actually successful, I'd travel through my shirt, but I'd leave it behind and be shirtless in the mirror realm.). Though, if you were powerful enough, it would be possible to push through the air itself or even create an open portal that everyone could go through, not just Mirrorers (I'll come up with a better name). In the mirror realm, time is funky. Sometimes, it acts like time in the real world, but it rarely does that. Most of the time, it behaves inversely with how you perceive time to pass-if you feel it to pass more slowly in the mirror realm, it will have actually passed very quickly, and vice versa. You can't spend too much time in the mirror realm, however; the longer you're in there, the more you 'fade,' a process where you slowly turn into nothing. Another, less thought out idea, is kind of similar to allomancy, except it involves all of the transition metals. You stab a piece of the metal into yourself, and it grants you powers. Of course, you have to deal with blood loss, possible metal poisoning, etc. And the metal only grants you powers if you have specific DNA (though there's nothing like Mistings or Ferrings). For example, a piece of iron stabbed into you would grant you the ability to control gravity around yourself, titanium gives you super strength and enhanced durability and endurance, and silver gives you the ability to turn invisible. The other idea is even less fleshed out. It involves what I call the shadow realm, a place where, obviously, there is nothing but shadow. In this realm, there live the Shadowbeasts. They're strange, almost humanoid monsters. They're not perfectly human, though they are intelligent and can speak and interact with humans. The only way they can interact with the real world is through the shadow crystals. Around these crystals, there is a link between the two realms; the real world and the shadow realm.

Welcome to the Shard! Have an upvote and a cookie! So, which Brandon Sanderson books have you read? Which one is your favorite, if you can pick just one?

Sadly, no. I'm gonna be busy all this week, then I have the UIL State Solo Contest this Saturday. Next week is exams, then I'm out of school. I'll start after school's over. I can't wait for Words of Radiance and Edgedancer. (Spoilers)

I just finished The Way of Kings. I am a changed human being.

I just finished part 3 of The Way of Kings. (Spoilers) I might be able to finish it tonight, if I don't get any sleep. Let's see how this goes.

What type of Twinborn would you want to be? What type would you really not want to be?

This is amazing. I can't wait to hear about some of your magic systems. Are you gonna post them in this topic too?

So, sorry for the slight necro. I opened the link I got in the newsletter, but all that came up was an error page. Anyone have any idea how to fix that?

*hugs very lightly but very firmly* I really hope you can start feeling better soon.

I'm almost 300 pages into The Way of Kings, and it's reached that point where Brandon's hooked me in now. Don't answer my questions, because I don't want spoilers, but I'm still gonna ask. So, the King's Wit is Hoid, right? Sadly, I also know that the letter writer is also Hoid, though I tried to avoid as many spoilers as possible (the things at the start of each chapter in part 2 are from that letter, right?). Also, how did Kaladin drain the Stormlight from the sphere that Gaz gave him? Gaz said it was fully charged when he gave it to Kaladin, and it usually takes a week for the charge to die, I think. I figure he's a Surgebinder, or one of those other magic users. Probably has something to do with Syl, I bet (is that what the nahel bond I've heard mentioned is about?). Also, what are Shallan's Memories? They're capitalized, so they must be important. Those are my only thoughts right now. I'm really liking this book. Off to read I go!

I upvoted you, because I don't think you deserved that downvote. Also, I'm not gonna lie. I fell for it. I didn't notice the thing at the bottom where you said it was water, but I should've realized when you said dihydrogen monoxide that it was water.

Woohoo! I'm in band, so it's always exciting to see people join the marching band, even if it's in color guard. You're gonna have so much fun!

I did it

So, uh...I accidentally posted this in the bad day thread...whoops. Anyway, today I got to perform in the band for a Make-A-Wish Foundation thing today. I don't really know much about the kid, except that he goes to my school, has leukemia, and there's apparently been a Wish Week thing going on at school this entire week I didn't know about. It still was really cool to perform, knowing that this kid had specifically asked us to play for him. It was kind of a once in a lifetime experience.

This sounds really cool, and I'd love to see what Brandon could do with something like that.

Oh...I could've sworn I posted that in the good day topic.

I just performed in the band for the Make-A-Wish foundation. I don't even really known who we did it for, but it was so cool to be a part of it.

Okay, I added you to the PM.