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The big question I have is, have the Dark One graphic novels been dropped, or are they still in progress.

On 13/10/2023 at 10:28 AM, CalanoCorvus said:

DARK MODE PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ADONALSIUM

But if you do dark mode, please have light mode still as an option. My eyes don't dark mode.

Next question - does the Kelsier skin somehow actually shoot coins instead of whatever the default ranged weapon might be?

2 hours ago, Knight of Iron said:

Every character has a default pickaxe for collecting materials, so it's just a default weapon that you start with, basically.

Ah I see, thanks for that!

WIki time then!

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Back Bling is a cosmetic item players may equip, wear, and use for Fortnite: Battle Royale. A Back Bling that is gained via purchasing an outfit can be worn independently of that outfit.

Ooooh, so the spikes are useable as a cosmetic on any character, not bound to Kelsier. That's cool.

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Harvesting Tools (also known as Pickaxes) are tools used for gathering resources in Fortnite. They exist in Save the World as well as Battle Royale, performing a similar function. While pickaxes can be used as a weapon, dealing 20 damage per hit, they are better used to gather resources.

So it's a reskinning of the 'pickaxe', which is not a good melee weapon in the game That seems an odd choice.

Do you have an explanation for the item descriptions?

"Volcanic Glass Daggers Pickaxe" - is "pickaxe" just what all the melee weapons are called?

"Hemalurgic Spikes Back bling" - they're a decorative item he carries around on his back, for some reason?

Thanks for guinea-pigging yourself with this game

Regarding the party swag pack t-shirt, Michael Bateman (who works at Dragonsteel) was talking about this in the unofficial Kickstarter discord channel, and he said the following things:

"Note that the shirt design is simply a placeholder. We have not finalized color or design"

"We will update the images as soon as we can get the new ones, but the artist who is working on the project had their computer go out for the past week"

"The pin is the final design, that is an actual picture of the pin in hand"

"Online release party announcements come from Tor. Should be coming soon!"

19 hours ago, Karger said:

Brandon before speed!

Brandon before The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down

Yeah, spoiler for existing books, not for Rhythm of War

And a MAJOR spoiler out of Karen's mouth for Words of Raciance (I think?)  Oopsee

17 minutes ago, platnumkid said:

I am concerned, is Brandon okay?  He was very animated with his right hand, but seemed to keep his left hand in his pocket the whole time.

He started with both hands!

Holy moly, those sold-out tiers!  :-O

Are they real leather? XD

12 hours ago, Use the Falchion said:

 how I feel when reading a Stormlight book, in the sense that it felt almost too long at times

I don't understand

Edit: Never mind, I thought the dramatised audios were new because they had a recent release date, but they're not.

1 hour ago, One_Armed said:

Wow, he actually offers WoK prime! Didn'the said that it contains spoilers to stormlight book 6? Thats one amazing reward!

I think it's not a reward, he's releasing it free outside of the kickstarter?

Where did you hear about the spoilers?  Did he give an indication of how big the spoilers are?

7 hours ago, omeros said:

Im not sure how kickstarter works yet, but is there a limit on how many backers they'll be taking for tier 3? Or they'll be taking as many as possible until it ends by august 7? Thanks. 

Probably only Tier 4 will have a limit.

Huh, I thought alley cat vs guard dog was about being a loner versus a protector.

Tier 1!!!   Digital novella that isn't wrapped in the hide of deceased meat-creature FTW!  Also, hoorah for not having to set an alarm!

pxchris found this website (the publisher's?) which has a release date of the 14th of September for The Original.

https://www.recordedbooks.com/title-details/9781980062813

May not be correct, of course. 

2 hours ago, Chaos said:

@WeiryWriter says it will be three volumes of graphic novels.

Thanks!

Hmm.  Amazon have it as "Volume One" https://www.amazon.com/Dark-One-1-Brandon-Sanderson/dp/1939424453/

Which implies it is the first of a graphic novel series.

2 hours ago, Smye said:

Do we know if this is a self-contained story or the first of a series?

It's supposed to be part of a cross-media series.  They are working on a companion TV series with J. Michael Straczynski as showrunner.  Also a podcast and prequel novels - according to Coppermind.

I'm hoping each type of media will be relatively stand-alone?  Does anyone have into on this?

It was on Brandon's facebook!  Yeah, I didn't spot the preview on the product page at first, you're right, it's in both places.  Yay!

Excerpt is here!  So exciting!

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/dark-one-excerpt-brandon-sanderson-unveils-fantasy-graphic-novel-1297122

I'm really confused where I found this link.  Thought it was on Brandon's home page or my email, but it's not in either of those places.

2 hours ago, hutonahill said:

darn. right in the middle of school. there go my grades.

So ... ask for it as a Christmas present, and no reading until then!