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    By the way, @A Joe in the Bush, can future cycles include the countdown timer for that cycle?
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    So now it's only @Sart and @cloudjumper who are valid targets for the Contribution Crusade. As for marriage: It is probably better for it to wait until we have a better idea of whom to trust.
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    I generally have limited ability to contribute near the beginning, but try to do what I can. What type of contribution would you like to see?
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    And it's not so much that he mixed up the names, as that he mixed up the names while claiming which one he was. So that could just be a mixup like Rippleglyf's...but it could also be a Freudian slip, and it's not like we've got any stronger indications.
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    Jack looked around, and somehow his little study (not quite a library, but possibly the closest thing to one in Nalhalla now that it had computers and wi-fi) had filled with people. This room's going to take a bit of thinking anyway, maybe I'll get up and wander around. Apparently, a dinosaur was asking to eat someone. "I think he minds if you eat him." He turned to the prospective eat-ee. "Am I correct?" @OrlokTsubodai now's your chance to not be eaten.
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    Jack didn't bother watching the man go.
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    "When I immigrated from the Free Kingdoms, the thing I missed most was video games. Thing is, there's nothing about Hushlander tech in particular that is needed to run video games. Any Turing-complete system could do it, and silimatic technology certainly qualifies. So I've been reading up on chip design and working with silimatic engineers to emulate a standard Intel chip using silimatic technology, though I doubt that means much to you. And now, to celebrate, let's open up a game with a decidedly anti-Librarian bent." He double-clicked on an icon; a window opened up, and a catchy tune began to play. (OOC: The game he just started is known as Deadly Rooms of Death, DROD for short.)
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    Jack walked into the room. "What are you doing here? I can't imagine that many Nalhallans have an interest in Hushlander computer chip specifications."
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    Also: If there's a tie, that can produce a double (or more) lynch. But that's also more subject to manipulation by Hushlanders...but that sort of manipulation will be fairly obvious (unless done via a Smedry power). So we need to decide whether we want to try for a double or triple lynch. EDIT: My mistake about the term; in the books, it's the Free Kingdoms, hence the mistake.
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    I think you mean Free Kingdomer. The bigger giveaway as to what you meant was that nobody would claim to be in the evil faction. As for a day 1 lynch: In a game with no detective role, lynching every day is probably the right play.
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    Er...You know that the Hushlanders are the evil faction here, right?
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    I must have been unclear: I didn't mean that Taln's scar should be noticeable from other systems. I meant that, if it were moving fast enough for the red color to be due to redshifting, that movement should be noticeable in the systems from which it can be seen. i.e. Taln's Scar at the time of the Last Desolation should be in a different place in the sky (and a lot closer) than at the current day. Edit: Just saw that Calderis already explained what I meant. So I wasn't all that unclear. And yes, most things are red-shifting due to the expansion of the universe...but even leaving aside the exceptions like Andromeda, for something to red-shift so much that the stars appear red (rather than just a tiny bit redder) due to that it would have to be quite far away, and Taln's Scar does seem to be in the same dwarf galaxy as the others. To put it another way: Dwarf galaxies seem to range from 200 to 8000 light-years across; let's assume the Cosmere is 1000. Then if Taln's Scar were moving fast enough for yellow stars to appear red due to redshift, it would cross the Cosmere in about 7500 years (I'm approximating and assuming quite a bit, but somewhere in the 5000-10000 years range seems fairly likely.) That's a while, but noticeably moving in the sky would take a lot less time.
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    Note: Due to the Jewish Sabbath, I will be unable to post on cycle 3; unless Joe lets me compensate by making an extra PM on cycle 2 that can't say anything of substance on cycle 4 (that way it won't have an advantage over a cycle-3 PM in terms of earlier communication or later decision of whom to make it with) I'll have to miss one PM; that shouldn't be too problematic.
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    This is a valid point, though "Mistborn could get in and steal the soulcasters" would have much the same effect on the war as killing the Ardents would (if not more so). True. Though most of those problems disappear if they simply kill the shardbearer while he's wearing the plate/wielding the blade; even pewter would likely be enough to give the Mistborn an advantage in close combat, and atium would make it a foregone conclusion.
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    If it were being red-shifted enough for those stars to actually appear red, I'm pretty sure they would have enough movement to be noticeable from other systems.
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    So it's only Librarians where we know what the relative rates are between Hushlanders and Free Kingdomers?
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    And once signups end, you'll post the rates for Smedries and Knights, and for the rerolls?
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    You said that Hushlanders are 1/2 chance to be Librarians, and Freeworlders are 1/6. What are the chances for each of being a Smedry, and of being a Knight, and what is the approximate ratio between Hushlanders and Librarians? (And how do the three roles impact the chances of belonging to the others, if at all?)
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    The rules say you can start one PM each day.
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    The more you want to tap, the more of the physical metal you have to burn (and I think it scales faster than linearly), so it wouldn't reach super-heavy levels. That said, that is a good point about Chromium twinborn being extremely powerful. Nicrosil twinborn really wouldn't be, since the only abilities they can get ridiculous amounts of are nicrobursting (which is probably limited more by the metal stores of the target than the ability of the nicroburster), and investiture feruchemy itself. Now, combine it with other powers, and you can get something more significant.
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    I find it unlikely that Helaran's blade was an Honorblade, if only because it wouldn't really work as well narratively if the blade that Kaladin originally rejected was an Honorblade.
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    Same reason that most people do: He was ready to move on. He seemed extremely confused, and it seems likely that he did not have a clear recollection of being Ruin. (Considering his personality and what Ruin did, it's probably best that way.)
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    I don't think it is at all clear that the God Beyond refers to Adonalsium.
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    To answer question 1: Clearly, if you try to store all your Nicrosil feruchemy, it will fail and you'll store nothing due to not being a Nicrosil ferring for the duration. If you try to store none, obviously none will be stored. In the middle, you can store some. If we knew how store rate/efficiency and tap rate/efficiency scaled with the power of the Feruchemist, we could use math to get more detailed info. The problem is that while storing the ability to be a Coinshot, you can't be steelpushing at the same time at the strength you normally would. Likewise, while storing the ability to store attributes, you can't store at the same strength you normally would.
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    I think the biggest thing to keep in mind here is that Roshar is very dependent on particular key personnel (Shardbearers, ardents to use soulcasters), and Mistborn often serve as assassins. Roshar could almost certainly win a pitched battle at the beginning, but Scadrial can use assassination to even and then reverse the odds.
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