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  1. Voidus
    Or just baking cookies. Welcome to the Dark Alley! Do you have any special interests?
  2. Voidus
    So we're waiting on Scribbler at the clinic not Lyla?
  3. Voidus
    Skyrim: Link to the OOC page Hogwarts Link to OOC page I was mostly trying to get people to read the RPs for now but yeah, good point
  4. Voidus
    I'm a little confused on where I need to be writing right now, so anyone who's waiting on a scene let me know.
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    Or at least, that's what they tell first years. I love being able to see the reason people hide comments Incidentally hiding is basically the same as deleting, only mods can still see it if they want. I'm just going to speak up here and say that I don't know if I'd really be comfortable with that, transfiguration with muggle technology set at the current day would both consume a heck of a lot of power and also be very, very dangerous. You're essentially talking about fission and atomic manipulation. Sorry, I tend to get a bit nit-picky when talking about technology, anyway obiously I'm happy to go with consensus opinion about it but I feel like it'd be a bit distracting for me at least to introduce sci-fi level technology.
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    Mrs. Voidus may be joining soon Hopefully it'll get something happening back at Azuras shrine, are you still going to be there Silver?
  7. Voidus
    Technically if you're approximating Pi that should be 3.141593 since the next digit is a 6 so you should round up (I may be able to recite a thousand or so digits. )
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    This is the main reason I hate Egwene so much, she's written as having this awesome will and charisma that convinces everyone to follow it, yet to me she's still acting as the same petulant child she always was. If she'd done a Rand and threatened to murder people then I probably would have liked her more.
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    Lift
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    Yeah this is my point mainly, fighting in a different environment can be tough, but it is adaptable if you have well-trained troops. Something you can't just adapt to is suddenly fighting enemies who are twice your size and five times your strength. It would require a completely separate useage of tactics to what the Alethi are used to, they're used to being the military aggressors, they're used to fighting other formations, they're used to fighting against spearmen primarily. Koloss are none of those, they are giant tanks who are nearly on the level of Shardbearers. An army of 300,000 shardbearers would without question decimate the Alethi forces no? And they rarely fight in any kind of formation, they just charge in by themselves, destroy any enemy formations they can and then slip back if it looks like they're about to be overwhelmed. Concentration of forces are great against an undertrained enemy of comparable physical ability. Against Koloss? It is the single stupidest thing you can do, because one Koloss can swing through multiple enemies single-handedly, it would be like hoping that you could take down a Shardbearer if you all just stood close enough.
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    I can't take either anymore because of drug interactions with my cluster meds I might get Serotonin syndrome and die. But as I said I don't get them anywhere near as badly anymore so I don't need it that often at least. Painkillers generally work pretty well for me, though with the notable exception of my clusters which I can take morphine for and not notice any difference at all.
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    Of course Koloss can be beaten, just not in those odds in an actual war. Yes you can surprise one of the smaller ones and kill them with only a little more risk than if you'd attacked anyone else, but you can't really apply that tactic to an entire army too easily, and even if you could, it at best puts them at 1-1 odds against the Alethi so they'd still lose almost their entire army just to the Koloss. That's the standard tactic for minor rebellions, not full on wars. In fact the closest to a major battle instantly brought out Inquisitors followed by TLR himself. Depends how you define military leadership, they're less experienced at open warfare and sieges, but far and away superior in diplomacy, guerilla tactics and assassination.
  13. Voidus
    How old are you (Roughly)? As Kaymyth said it does take a while for some peoples to start. They're kind of evil like that.
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    I was probably around 9 my first one, my parents refused to believe someone that young could have a migraine so I mostly had to make do with paracetamol which didn't help at all. Once I could actually use it ibuprofen did work some wonders though, although it set a dangerous precedent since I probably took more than I should have. When I first started getting clusters I must have downed over a dozen trying to get rid of it. Pain makes you do stupid things sometimes.
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    The ability to summon pugs and make them do that cute head-tilt thing? Thereby ridding the world of all evil.
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    Mine were pretty bad during high school but they mellowed out a lot after that, because I guess my brain thought it would be nice to give me a break from them if it was going to start giving me cluster headaches instead.
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    I refuse to believe it is possible for you to become an Epic without gaining at least one pug-related power.
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    Out of curiosity what kind of aura do you get with your migraines? I get little sunspot like things in one eye usually.
  19. Voidus
    That was added by Zas when he uploaded, and apparently I can't edit it I'll send him a message about it.
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    They do have a standing, trained army, while the population as a whole is not as used to war as TLR is they're not inexperienced with it. Thirty hoplites are as strong as thirty men, sure, but those aren't the numbers we're talking about. And clustering in a tight formation is a great tactic against other infantry. Against a giant with far superior strength and reach? It's suicide. Romans weren't 7 feet tall monsters with hardened skin, giant swords and the strength of five men. We've seen something equivalent to Koloss on Roshar already, Shardbearers. And they absolutely destroy regular troops, cause most of them to break formation and generally are most successful when they do exactly that, lead the charge and go straight at the enemy.
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    New around the cosmere segment up
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    The only known successful strategy fails completely if the Koloss are actually led by someone semi-intelligent.
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    A Koloss army can eat dirt if they need to, they need even less of a supply line than Alethi do. Plus they can replenish their numbers, Alethi can't. If Scadrians send nothing but an unsupervised Koloss army? Yeah they'd probably lose eventually, but all they need is one Inquisitor to supervise and they'd be effective in the long term too.
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    More information about "Around the Cosmere: RPs and Social Groups News For March"
    Hello everyone! Voidus here again for this month's Around the Cosmere segment on the RPs and social groups! This month, there's been two new RPs that have started up, the progress of Oregon and the Social Guilds, and we'll have our first hightlighted character and character from the Oregon RP: Nighthound, and his battle against Lightwards and Doctor Funtimes. It really is a ridiculously fun story. So let's get into it! New Roleplaying Games This month has seen the rise of two new RPs that are both going strong. ‘Owls and Wands: A Hogwarts Roleplay’, is set in the world of Harry Potter. Meanwhile, ‘The Beginning of an Era’, is a roleplay set in the distant past of Skyrim in the world of the Elder Scrolls series. ‘The Beginning of an Era’ is a roleplay set in the world of Skyrim and other Elder Scrolls games, it takes place in the first Era during the time of the dragon wars. Dragons rule the land, assisted by powerful dragon cultists who worship them as gods these giant powerful beings roam free through the skies of Skyrim, taking as they please and slaughtering those who oppose them. Meanwhile daedric worship has become popular in small pockets, with worshippers of Nocturnal, Azura and Hircine taking ever larger roles in the events that are to come. ‘Owls and Wands: A Hogwarts Roleplay’ is set in the world of Harry Potter, taking place at Hogwarts after the events of the books. Muggle technology is starting to creep into the magical world, cultural shifts have taken place since the battle of Hogwarts and rumor has it that a stair has started yelling study advice at students. The term hasn’t started yet so jump in now if you’d like to participate! The RP has been progressing pretty well and hopefully will continue on.[/background] Reckoners stuff Now on to the RP to rule them all: The Reckoners RP, six threads, hundreds of posts, enough teleporters to fill a small city, thousands of pages of Questions threads filled with insanity and somehow we still haven’t broken the internet. Well we’ll keep trying. What happened in the last month: Most excitingly the Wastelands Roleplay has started up again! Edgedancer has joined in the massive Roleplay set across the entire country of Australia and has revitalized it, with events proceeding forwards once again. Alliances are being forged, deals being made, and time progressing at a fixed rate once more! Other threads have seen the revitalization of some old characters, in the Dalles the Florist has become active once more with a truly stunning post from Cognizantastic, carefully tending his garden as the rest of the Dalles is enveloped in a war between giant metallic tentacles and enough missiles to shame any warzone. In the doctors clinic Shiny Sparkle has launched an assault on her newest victim, showering her with praises and hugs, while in the bus chase across town… people have seemed to forgotten the bus, though that’s understandable when Arsenal may be about to start Armageddon. Salem has been the most recent victim of the art-loving Epic Vandal who has decided to annoy the resident spymaster by defacing all of their portraits, while in Corvallis the captive Euphoria has been struggling to understand the motives of her jailer. Astoria has been going through some heated discussions and power struggles, although Bioterror spent his time treating us to a mental image we could all do without when he decided to walk around without pants. In Portland the attack on Neverthere is proceeding forward, with Nighthound earning a few more entries in the ‘And then they died’ list for being creeptastic, Backtrack meanwhile was being terrified (as usual) after being confronted by mad Epic scientists and asked for a blood sample. Featured Character: Nighthound Nighthound (whose icon is shown above) is a somewhat infamous character in the realms of the Reckoners RP, he is known to be one of the darkest and creepiest of all characters and was so horrible that he caused the phrase ‘And then Nighthound died’ to become something of a catch-phrase. Nighthound is a High Epic and a gifter, capable of bestowing his incredibly rapid healing and greatly enhanced physical abilities to others, though in doing so they secrete a black mist which forms wolf-like appearances and become slaves to Nighthounds commands. Nighthound’s personality and plans are perhaps even more disturbing than his abilities, through planning, luck and being a creeper he is steadily gaining a harem of female followers, some unwilling to be so but kept there with a mixture of circumstance, blackmail and mostly because no one has yet figured out how to kill him. Featured Event: The infamous battle of the three crazies (Nighthound vs. Lightwards and Funtimes) This battle is somewhat famous for being one of the most Oregon-RP type things to ever happen in the Oregon RP. It includes maple-syrup, carpet bombs, zombie vultures, a net made of two-minute noodles and the memorable phrase "AAAAHHHH EPIC ON THE WINDSHIELD GET IT OFF GET IT OFF!". Taking over three pages to reach its conclusion and ranging from hand-to-hand combat, to gunfights, to a race through the streets in a catmobile, there are simply not adequate words in the English language to describe this fight. For anyone not already convinced of the insanity of Oregon RPers then I can only recommend that you read this scene and then watch your own sanity slip away to join the remnants of ours. The scene eventually resulted in a stalemate after Nighthound continues to shake off the barrage of bizarrity that Doctor Funtimes produces, this eventually leads to an alliance between those present and the formation of the Empire of Light and its infamous zombie dinosaurs. Social groups In social group news the Dark Alley has been suspiciously quiet this month, but maybe they all got distracted by the newly formed Debate Club! Yes if you’re in the mood for some formal or informal debates, drop on by the new thread for Debaters where you can argue over the morality of cookies, and which of the Head Admins is most likely to spike you. (Hint: It’s all of them False. I, Voidus and making a joke. Ha. Ha. Ha. There are no spikes. The Admins are to be praised.) Other social groups are still active and accepting members so everyone who likes pretty much anything should drop by and say hello to the various groups of insanity down there. Well that’s it for this time, big thanks to the GMs of the various RPs and of course the other writers who have made them all into such amazing worlds. And also the admins for putting up with us all! See you next month! Thanks again everyone!
  25. Voidus
    Actually 4x spikes does mean 4x strength, each spike has stolen the physical strength from 1 person, minor loss due to hemalurgic decay but that's not going to be that noticeable. Again, I'm not undermining the effect of training, but there's simply no way to compare those events because what they encountered was exactly what they trained for, you can't train for Koloss if you don't even know what Koloss are. Alethi armies are well trained at fighting other humans and Parshendi, they are not well trained at fighting Koloss, and the skills are not necessarily transferable. The reach that Koloss have renders spears all but useless, that's my point, you can train for how to deal with an attack by heavy infantry but there is no infantry like a Koloss until you've fought an actual Koloss. Yes Koloss can be killed, they're not undefeatable. But having an army of 300,000 of them is very difficult to beat without having a far larger army opposing them. My point exactly, the townsfolk are led by someone who does have experience fighting Koloss, so they can be said to have a tactical advantage. Rosharans have no such experience nor any reason to think it would work. Sure they're superior in fighting other swordsman and spearmen, but a Koloss is neither.
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