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10 minutes ago, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said:
Darien nodded curtly, "yes, Alask, I've met him, I would like to talk to him."
The man nodded, then grabbed something wrapped in cloth beside the box. The other man looked at him, but otherwise didn’t comment.
“I’ll get him now,” the man said, revealing a chunky, rusting spanreed. The ruby attached to the pen glowed erratically and small bits of the fabrial seemed to be falling off, but the man wrote a message and pointed to a small flat beyond the gate, where a shadowy figure stepped out and began walking towards the group.
“That’s ‘im,” said the man fondly. He sighed. “I don’t know why he don’t just get the Night Protector to do it ‘stead of bringin’ in newcomers. Feels weird.”
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2 hours ago, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said:
"I was told to meet people here are you these people? I'm Darien."
28 minutes ago, Stormblessed0421 said:Deckh turned back to his card game, waiting on his companions to do the rest of the talking.
The men took their time, playing quietly in the misty night. The spheres they gambled with - clips and marks, no broams - glowed gently in the darkness, casting blue shadows against the box.
One of the men went bust. He cursed and leaned back in his seat, scratching his head. Only then did he turn to look at Darien.
“You saw the bulletin, eh? You’re here to offer help?”
He turned towards Deckh.
“Some ‘help-for-hire’ thing goin’ on. You didn’t hear? Alask’s orders. Needs people with ‘special skills’.” He nodded towards a shack beyond the gate that still had its lights on, before returning to gaze at his lost spheres with a forlorn expression.
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1 minute ago, Stormblessed0421 said:
Also, is there anything specific I need to read to get caught up with what’s happened on that thread so far or am I good to jump in with general basic context?
No worries, you’re doing everything fine. And you don’t have to catch up on anything. The Forge thread has been used for a variety of purposes, and now it’s being reused as the setting for a side plot. All the necessary information is in that post that begins with ‘Era 5’. Most of the players who’ll be on that thread (Emery, Thaidakar) are also new players like you, so everyone’s starting from the same point. In essence I’ll just be there to guide the plot/events.
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18 minutes ago, mathiau said:
Really? I thought it was just a bad shardblade, honestly it's mostly here to justify the weird eyes. I'll tag Voidus then
Oh, my bad
I saw the intangibility and I thought that was part of it too. I might as well try and make Voidus' job easier.
Here's a (tentative) scoring.
Duralumin Allomancy: 5
Average Melee Weapon Skills: 35
First Ideal Radiant: This is technically 85, but since her ability to use Transportation is extremely limited, I'm leaning to somewhere around 65?
Ametrine Blade: Shardblades are 30, so I'm thinking this should be around 20? 23?
Hot Headed + Superiority Complex: -5
5 + 35 + 65 + 23 - 5 = 123
Even by scoring the Radiancy at its maximum (85), that still makes it 143, which is within the limit. Do we still follow the rule where only 100 can be used for magic, and the other 50 have to be skills? I'm unsure. Again, this is just tentative. Hope it helps
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Just now, ZincAboutIt said:
Hey @I think I am here. we are likely going to call a time skip of one week very soon. I wanted to tell you before you start up your side plot in earnest. We’ve been waiting for the current hospital thread scene to wrap, and Voidus is going to write a bit more with the Professor and Whisper.
If you want you could probably just start your skip now, then the rest of us could catch up. But we wanted to have the plot span more than a single day
Gotcha, thanks for letting me know. I’ll say the Forge thread is post-time skip, and that it took Alask a week to make the poster
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21 minutes ago, mathiau said:
Hadn't that been removed by the forgery? Or at least diminished
QuoteThere was no nuke, but still destruction I think.
Going by this post:
(the spoiler tag in it)
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20 hours ago, Silva said:
You know, if you ever feel up to it or interested in doing so (but, seriously, no pressure either way), you’re welcome to continue it. Wouldn’t be the first months-spanning thread.
QuoteNo, it wouldn't
. I appreciate it. I've actually been talking to a few new players who don't know what to do about making a small side-plot in the slums. I don't know how related to Midnight Mystery it'll be, though. It's small scale, unless the players decide to interact with it more 
Post-Timeskip
A beggar boy runs to the bulletin, looks left and right, then pins a rough poster to the board with a rusty iron spike. He scurries off without a word.
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~-~-~-~-~ Era 5 ~-~-~-~-
Post-Timeskip
The Northern Slums were a smattering of browns and blacks and greys, squat shacks and ramshackle buildings squeezed together with no heed for safety or comfort, and - in some places - extending as far as the eye could see. The streets stunk of cheap liquor and engine oil, and the main roads (if they could even be called 'main roads') ran in odd, twisted directions. The homes and shops here were cramped and unfurnished, hastily put together with as few materials as possible, and very few buildings exceeded one story, as if the architecture itself was afraid of reaching beyond its place. Like ghosts, the residents here clung to the shadows at night, hid behind closed doors and winding alleys, taking on odd, unsavory jobs. Adults took on dangerous levels of debt. Youth turned to vandalism and random acts of violence.
These were the abandoned people. The 'collateral damage' that politicians liked to talk so much about yet leave in the dust. Though slums existed all over the city, the North were where it was concentrated the most. Turned into ruins by the Seven Day War, then knocked down again when PlasmaCore decided to waltz in with an army of the Void - for those who lived here, poverty was all they'd known. The Slums were a dreary place, and to the rest of the city, almost forgotten altogether.
Almost forgotten.
In the darkness of midnight, a section of the slums - almost a third - had their lights on. The warm, electric glows were beacon of hope. In this section of the slums, the buildings were just a little bit higher, more fortified. The streets, they were just a little wider, less vandalized. And the people - well, the people, for the first time in their lives, they were just a little bit more hopeful. Clean water ran through their taps, and though crime was still higher than outside the slums, it was steadily decreasing. A tall, chain-link fence separated this section from the rest of the slums.
This was the Forge's territory, and over the course of the last three years, it had been expanding rapidly from its epicenter - a humble blacksmith's building that now stood taller than anything else in the slums. There were only a few entrances and exits to this territory. The main one was an old, brassy gate from a bygone era. It had been repurposed and shoddily fit into the chain-link fence.
A few men in brown clothes waited by the fence, using a cardboard box as a table for a game of cards. Their job was to sit and wait. They were expecting visitors soon.
@Emery the Windrunner @Thaidakar the Ghostblood
QuoteHello! Despite this being a long post, this is actually the set up to a small sideplot/quest that I've discussed with Emery and Thaidakar so they can get some character interaction going/have something to do, though it's open to all players
. I've also mentioned Stormblessed because they're a new player and this might be a good place to start. If you feel keen for an intro point, just pop a character in here .
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On 4/9/2022 at 3:43 AM, Stormblessed0421 said:
Name: Deckh
Physical Characteristics: Green eyes, slight but powerful, assassin's build, black hair, pale white skin
Investiture: Slider misting
Skills: trained as an assassin while infiltrating Rathbore Monastery on Sel
Equipment: 2 ornately engraved Raysium daggers, bendalloy vials
Weakness: If anyone makes him feel any sort of guilt for all his violent deeds, he will emotionally break very quickly; he's traumatically afraid of anything recognizably Selish (especially anything related to Shu-Dereth); prone to become very disoriented if he's trapped in someone else's bendalloy bubble
Family: No known living relatives
Home Planet: Scadrial
Backstory: Born on Scadrial soon after the Catecendre as a Bendalloy misting. His parents both died in the same fire, leaving him to fend for himself on the streets of Elendel. After struggling for about a year, he joined an unnamed group of Worldhoppers who offered to help him through his troubles. He was sent to Sel undercover as an aspiring Derethi convert, joining Rathbore monastery which trained him as an assassin. His mission was to investigate AonDor, but he deserted the mission and hopped from world to world, eventually making his way to Alleycity.
Guild: unaffiliated
Personality: Very cold and calculating, brutal, and efficient. However, he is capable of change if the right person induces it.
Appearance: normally wears a jet-black suit with a coat to conceal his knives; walks with a smooth, quick gait; tall
Fighting Style: Uses a sort of blitzkrieg style, getting in and out of combat very quickly to press the element of surprise and taking on individual enemies inside a bendalloy bubble.
Better? I can probably change the knives as well if the added weaknesses and removal of Steelrunning isn't enough
Looking at Voidus' previous scoring and taking into account your changes:
Slider: 40
Raysium Knives: 30
Prone to emotional breakdown: -10
Now, onto your changes:
Nauseous in other people's speed bubbles and traumatically afraid of Selish Investiture: -5 (I score this because there aren't many instances where you'd be in somebody else's speed bubble, but you're likely to come across Selish Investiture. I guess this sort of depends on how afraid he is).
This allows for:
Average Assassination Skills (1-5 years of training): 40
Skilled Melee Weapon Skills (5-10 years of training): 50
40 + 30 + 40 + 50 - 10 - 5 = 145
Seems like this should all be good and approved, but I'll tag @Voidus since I haven't done this in a while and may be rusty
On 4/15/2022 at 9:27 AM, mathiau said:Welcome to an other round of will mathiau get a scored sheet this timeHere's Marie, she's probably a bit above the cap but I'd like to know by how much.
Name: Marie Lemoine
Physical Characteristics: 25 years old. Tall from her father’s Terris and mother Rosharan origins, Makabaki skin colour (dark), yellow eyes with a purple circle around the iris (go to fully yellow if she doesn’t summon her sword for too long)
Investiture: 1st oath Willshaper (spren: Polaris), A-Duralumin, Epic ability to create summon an ametrine weapon.
The weapon basically functions as if it was made of steel except it’s sharp as obsidian. The weapon can be summoned either as a dagger or a longsword, summoning takes 10 heartbeats. It can’t be switched between dagger and sword without unsummoning it, if it somehow gets broken Marie cannot summon it again for one day.
By flaring duralumin, Marie can become fully intangible for a fraction of a second (enough to negates exactly one hit, assuming she can time it right), similar to how the deep-ones can phase through stone. Doing so will exhaust all of her stormlight reserves, including the ones she hadn’t breathed in yet, and make her aluminium sword drop from her scabbard/hand
If there are other use of duralumin powered cohesion, she doesn’t know about them
(reason for being broken: her parents were murdered before her eyes by peoples who sook vengeance from her brother and his wife)
Skills: Average longsword and shardblade combat, amateur dagger combat. Skilled stone carver
Equipment: a few perfect perfect gemstones, an aluminium sword, and some vials of duralumin. An imperfect amethyst embedded in shardblade metal she wears as a pendant (used to be the gem that allowed NullBlade’s blade to be bounded). Own some stone carving tools but generally doesn't have them on herself.
Weakness: Hot headed, almost a blood knight. Has an inferiority and superiority complex, the inferiority part is particularly strong toward NullBlade.
Unable to return from Shadesmar without a perpendicularity (and is aware of how hard it would be to find one in the Alleyverse). Unable to teleport with Transportaion
Family: Her parents are wordhopers originating from the Alleyverse who decided to settle in Invocation Earth’s France, his father was an atium Ferring and his mother a 4thoath Willshaper, both were killed shortly before she left to the Alleyverse. NullBlade is her brother.
Home Planet: Reckoners’ other Earth (the one with Invocation instead of Calamity)
Backstory: Marie was born on Invocation earth the same day it first rose into the sky. Growing up she always felt like she was lagging behind every other member of her family, especially her brother who was her mother’s squire at the time.
She became her mother square at the age of twelve, when her brother stop being a squire and left to join an Epic team. The timing was a coincidence, -her parents just thought she was too young before that, and still had doubts at the time but Polaris insisted- but it didn’t feel like one.
A few weeks after NullBlade left for the Alleyverse, the same group who had killed his team came to exert vengeance on him by killing her parent and attempting to kill her, she escaped them and fled to the only place where they would never find her, the Allyverse.
Guild: STE
Psyche and Personality: Brash. Alternates between blaming her brother and herself for the death of their parents
Fighting Style: Will attempt to impede her enemies’ mobility with Cohesion to compensate her not-that-good skills with the sword. If she gets desperate, will launch a desperate assault in Bloodstance, using duralumin to negate the first big hit she’ll take.
I'd score this one too, but since her powers are so linked to her Epic-ness, I'll handball this one to Voidus
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About time this place got an ad
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18 hours ago, mathiau said:
“We... We should find somewhere safe for the night, and refill out spheres.
Just then, a forgotten flyer, old-timey yet charming all the same, drifted from an open window and floated in the air for a moment before landing gently on a nearby table.
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I think there was a theory that Orders have a “primary” surge and a “secondary” surge (supported by the fact that Kal learns Adhesion before Gravitation and that Szeth learns Gravitation before Division when he becomes a Skybreaker) but I don’t think it was confirmed.
Obviously, Shallan learning Soulcasting before Illumination, which disputes that theory, though one could argue Illumination came far more naturally to her.
WOB:
Quote[Dustbringers] are one of the only orders where their abilities weren’t all available at the beginning, but instead were delivered slowly, as they made the proper oaths.
This seems to imply that for most orders, all of their abilities are available right at the start. I’m not sure if any more info exists on this topic.
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I imagine he might he more present in the physical realm, and therefore less visible in the cognitive realm (but still visible enough he can interact with Shades). I think his cognitive element would definitely be unique compared to other Shades
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Castled nodded, a little uneasy, then looked to Scarred. The man must’ve been desperate.
“Well, you look strong enough,” he said to Jami. “You been through the Forests before?”
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11 hours ago, Channelknight Fadran said:
"Yeah. That's me." Jami put on another smile. "Who're you?"
“He’s Scarred,” Castled said, eyeing the newcomer. “As in, his name is literally ‘Scarred’. Not that he is scarred. Which he is. But that just so happens to be his name as well.”
He shook his head and thumbed at himself and the Shade. “I’m Castled. That’s Willem. I think with you here, the crew’s complete.”
The boy looked pretty young. Castled narrowed his eyes. “Say, how many jobs like this have you been on?”
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21 minutes ago, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said:
He sighed and then said, "well, I should be off, I need a good strong bath if you know what I mean?"
Not waiting for a response Darien headed out the door.
Alask tried not to look surprised as the man took off. A friend of his. That sounded eerily familiar to…
“I have a friend like that, too, you know,” he called after Darien as the man left the tavern. “If you ever need a hand, you know where to find me!”
The bar was quiet again in Darien’s absence, and Alask was unsure if the man had even heard him.
“Shadows,” he cursed as he snatched his jacket from the coatrack. A man like that was an opportunity, and Alask had just squandered it. Maybe he needed to follow Shez’s advice and be more direct. He hadn’t even gotten the man’s name.
“What are you all looking at?” he called to the few bar-dwellers who had paid attention to their exchange. They returned to their drinks, and Alask pushed himself through the thick tavern doors and into the night. The Forge was waiting.
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9 hours ago, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said:
Darien groaned and then looked around wildly and then sighed, he stood up dazedly. "thanks. I wasn't trying to kill myself, I was... trying to forget something."
Alask stood up beside Darien, eyeing the man’s movements closely. Though he was thin, he looked like he could hold his own in a fight. And those pockets by his sides — for coins, or the perfect place to hide a knife?
Alask smiled. “You’re from around here, aren’t you? You’re no newcomer.”
He took steps towards the tavern exit. No use tempting the man for another drink at the bar.
“I only ask,” he continued, turning back to look at Darien. “Because on other planets, they have… easier ways to forget. The Nightwatcher. Soothing stations. A quick soul Forgery.”
He shrugged. “Don’t get me wrong, we have all those methods here, and then some, but…”
Alask nodded his head at the shattered mug on the floor. His grin melted into something more somber.
“For some reason, drinking’s the way everyone wants to do it over here.”
He looked up at Darien.
“You must have been trying to forget some really messed up crem, hey?”
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Hello! This was your last post, Ashlyn was talking to Lissa. Since Stick is also thinking of joining, it’s possible that while talking, you both heard the sound together and went up to James’ room to investigate? (Thus stumbling into us)
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6 minutes ago, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said:
Darien stirred and groaned, "Elek?" he croaked.
Darien looked through his lashes, a man knelt by him grumbling at him. Darien opened his eyes and managed to say, "hello?"
The man awoke. First he groaned a name Alask had never heard of. Most likely a friend or lover or something of the like. Then, he opened his eyes and addressed Alask directly.
“Hey,” Alask said, returning the greeting. Now that the man was awake, Alask could take a better look at him, at the clothing and cloak. Alask himself was dressed in simple browns and blacks. Slum clothing. “I’m Alask. Good to meet you.”
He waved to Darien, holding up the goldmind.
“Before I go further, I want to ask if you were trying to die of alcohol poisoning. If so, it’s really no inconvenience. I can leave you to it.”
And he was honest about that. Maybe a year or two ago, the words would’ve seemed out of place coming from Alask. But a lot had changed in a year or two.
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On 12/4/2022 at 1:24 AM, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said:
Darien didn't even notice how long it took for the bartender to give it to him, or the looks people gave him as he downed it in one gulp and asked for another, or when he collapsed in a drunken haze after his third mug.
Alask was in the bar. He usually frequented these places for business reasons, or to meet someone important, but those were the good bars. The expensive ones, like the Bleeding Spike Tavern. A bar like this, shoved into the corner of an alley, grimy and unwashed from years of no cleaning? No one visited here. No one important, anyway.
Someone collapsed beside him and Alask looked down at the man on the floor, the shattered mug of something strong beside him. You didn’t drink like that unless you wanted to forget something or die trying.
For a moment, no one moved from their places. The man had chosen to drink, he’d chosen to forget. The fact that he was on the floor in a blind haze didn’t make a difference. Everyone had seen worse.
Alask took one look at the man, took in the brown hair and green eyes, the sorrow of it all, and sighed. He wasn’t heartless.
“Storm-shadows, man,” he muttered as he slid off his barstool and knelt beside Darien. From a knapsack he held around him he took out an unsealed goldmind, then pressed it against the man’s forehead. “You really screwed yourself up, huh?”
Some people turned to look. Some didn’t. Alask concentrated on the man, hoped he could take away some effects of the alcohol with the goldmind. It was a precious commodity, one that Alask wasn’t too happy throwing around, but if he’d let the man die, it would’ve been on his conscience for at least a week.
“Come on. Wake up,” he grumbled, more so he could conserve the contents of the goldmind than anything else. How much did this guy drink?
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Not interrupting anything
Basically we’re all in James’ room because Rob just proposed a genocide of Voidbringers (and also a few Radiants who he thinks are continuing the war). It’s all part of his angsty corruption arc
Anyway, he just sealed the deal and made a wish with the Nightwatcher. I have a post planned out for Rob where he’s going to become some sort of void monster, but I don’t want to post before everyone’s gotten a chance to react.
After that, I’m not really sure what the plan is. I think we might reconnect the perpendicularities? Are you on the Discord? We discuss more there. (The link is on the first post of this thread)
So, hop on into James’ room! We have cookies, drama, the Void, and plenty of trauma to go around
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Do authors often have interludes like Brandon does in SA? I think not. Maybe that’s what he’s using to foreshadow future events (which is difficult for other writers who don’t have interludes). For example, the whole thing about measuring a flamespren and fixing its shape.
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Do you want someone to interact with Darien in the Alleycity thread? I can put a character there if you want. Poor guy seems to be dying of alcoholism alone in an alley somewhere
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It's fine, Emery.
The old thread was dead anyway, and the user who created it has left the 17th Shard.
I will add something to this if I can think of anything. This would have been the perfect place to advertise that Midnight Mystery plot (before it went inactive [which was completely my fault {sorry guys}])
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The shadowy figure came closer and closer, until the glow of spheres illuminated the face of Alask. A deep frown was set into his face, and the dark circles under his eyes seemed more prominent. He wore different clothes tonight, a brownish-black cloth that covered most of his body. Only his right arm stuck out.
At the sight of the two men, he smiled wearily. Help had arrived.
“You,” he said to Darien, shaking the man’s hand with his right arm. He had hoped this man would arrive since their encounter at the tavern. “You certainly don’t look two sips from death anymore.”
At Deckh’s wisecrack he turned and waved, again with his right hand.
“You have no idea,” he said with a grin. This man also looked tough, strong. Exactly what he was looking for. “Are you also here to help? We need every hand we can get.”
Lastly, he turned to the man who’d activated the spanreed and his companions. He waved at them and they smiled and waved back. They all knew each other. Tough conditions built strong relationships, especially when you were the guy fixing up their homes and providing them light.