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I don’t think anyone is in the Kelsier Hate camp, I love Kel and I think most people do too. I think you’re misinterpreting the divide of “Villian!Kel VS Hero!Kel” as “I hate Kel VS I love Kel”.

Welcome! Sounds interesting, I'll be sure to check it out when it's done!

Woah this is cool. Has Brandon ever been on Shardcast before?

MAGIC PURELAKE FISH. We know the windrunner’s? I thought we only knew the lightweaver’s. The whole memory thing right?

I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and I believe in an all-loving and all-knowing God, and that He is a separate being from Jesus Christ and the Spirit. Related question that I would like to pose to the thread: Do you believe in a devil? I believe that there is such a being, but I do not believe in a ‘hell’.

But they should care about what kind of a person he is. Could you picture the Kel we know in Mistborn letting Lin Davar into his crew? I think only time will tell how true this is. I personally would not be surprised if Kel is a completely different person at this point.

Seems like those are the same thing tbh. Especially the carriage driver one, where it was done by a ghostblood for ghostblood reasons. Sure mraize is somewhat freelance, but he still has the tattoo, and he’s trusted enough to train new members of the organization, so I think his actions pretty solidly represent the Gbs as a whole. You could argue this point about Lin Davar, but the Ghostbloods still let him into their organization. A brutal, abusive, not entirely mentally stable person. And the ghostbloods welcomed him with open arms. Doesn’t seem like the most honorable organization, does it?

*cough* that one carriage driver *cough* *cough* also everyone Shallan’s father did *cough*

oooooh that's a good idea. I wonder what a good downside would be. Would probably have to actually create the whole game in order to find a good one, but maybe something with PMs. Like if you have a single dose of poison, you can receive PMs but not send any. If you have 2 doses you can't even receive them, and the GM would remove you from all existing ones. I have absolutely no idea, but I think this is probably fine. It's an aspect of a game, albeit not an entire one.

I had an idea for an alternate voting system last night, what do you guys think about this? The way the village votes seems to be the one constant throughout most games, and I was thinking of how it could be varied. I thought up a 'Poison-Antidote' system. Each player has 2 votes, represented as a dose of poison, and a dose of the antidote. The poison is essentially the same as a normal vote. An antidote vote is like a vote removal. So every player has vote manip kinda. One dose of antidote cancels out one dose of poison. If a player has even a single dose of poison not canceled out, they die. A Poison vote would be in Red, like normal, and an Antidote vote would be in Yellow. All votes would be public in the thread. Does this seem like it would be fun? Is it needlessly complicated? Any game-breaking flaws I'm not seeing?

I'll play! I wasn't going to sign up for this, but I suddenly have some time on my hands. Thanks LG73 D1 vote swings! And I'll go ahead and say this now because not saying it last game got me killed, but I will likely not be able to get online on weekends.

aaaaaaaahhhhhh screw it, I'm signing up full time. is this a mistake? yes. will I regret it? probably. am I still doing it? heck yeah

@A Joe in the Bush You might find these exchanges from the mega Roshar Doc funny (I'm assuming you're the Joe in question. =P)

"Uhhh lemme check." He scrolled up to find the post that mentioned his name, all attempts at mending the fourth wall forgotten. "Oh! It's Steve."

"Not sure! I believe I came into existence just a few moments ago!" As he said this, he crashed through the wall again. "Ah, dank farrick. I just fixed that!"

"Oh, sorry." said Steve as he fixed the broken fourth wall.

"I can!" said Steve, the RP character I just made up 4 seconds ago. "Also, I'm refusing to read anything before this exact page, so no context for me!"

I'll pinch-hit. I might change my mind later and be a full player, but for now pinch-hitting seems the way to go.

@Illwei

This was certainly a.....unique experience. It was fun, but I wasn't nearly as active as I wanted to be. I think I'll probably stay away from anon games in the future, the whole account switching was a bit hard for me to keep track of, especially on mobile. I was having more fun guessing identities and just messing around in docs than I was actually playing the game =P Anyhow, thanks to the GMs for running this beast of a game! Could not have been easy with all these people and accounts.

I need help identifying a writing...thing. What is it called when a writer does that thing where they have the story being relayed from the main character to the side character, and then the side character becomes apart of the actual story? It's a really awesome writing device and I can't remember if there is a name for it or not. I'll describe it some more. Here's an example: Imagine a story that opens with someone from present-day earth exploring an ancient tomb. They find an ancient scroll, leave, and start to translate it. There's a chapter break, and we are thrust into the story of the scroll. It tells the story of a forgotten empire fighting the magical forces of evil: orcs, demons, that stuff. Occasionally we get an interlude chapter from the POV of the explorer, them translating the scroll, or some other conflict that is happening in the present day. The contents of the scroll confuse the explorer, because magic isn't real. Obviously. But then, in one interlude chapter, an orc shows up at his door. That feeling of immersion is amazing. I have no idea why, but I love it. The best actual example I can think for this is those Pendragon books. We see the story from the eyes of the main character, who is relaying his stories to his friends via journals. (I think, I don't actually remember the books all that well, I think I only remember them because they use this technique. Don't even remember the names of the characters.) The friends aren't actually all that important, we see like 90% of the story through the main character's POV. But in the later books, when the friends all of a sudden go on the same magical adventure, and visit all the same places they had been reading about, it's so immersive. I have no idea why, it makes no sense. We, as the reader, have already been to these places when we saw them from the POV of the Main Character, all that's happening here is that we're seeing them again. And yet, it's somehow very different. Another great example of this is a fiction podcast I listened to once. I can't actually remember the name of the podcast, but the story is this: A guy is in an accident and falls into a coma. When he wakes up, he finds that he has been receiving emails with some audio files attached to them. The audio files are recordings of his old friend. The files have all these crazy, creepy things happening on them. Very supernatural. And then the guy starts trying to find his friend, but its like she's been erased. He then talks to people that knew her, and they can't remember her. The structure of the podcast is that each episode opens from the POV of the guy, goes into an audio file from the friend for 90% of it, and then closes with the guy again. So the majority of the story is from the girl's perspective, she has all the super intense really paranormal things happening to her. And yet, when tiny little paranormal things start happening to the guy, it feels so much more real. It's immersive, it's epic, it makes no sense, and I love it. So do any of you know if this technique has a name? Any other suggestions for works of fiction that use it? Because I really really like it, and I don't know why.