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Oh man, always, but lately I'm so bad at keeping up with writing...which one? All right! My advice is cliche but something that has helped me recently: to remember that there's always something good on the horizon as well as bad. It's never all bad coming up. It's not! Looks like it temporarily died for a little bit there, though. Sometimes RPs do that but it doesn't have to be permanent! (Though an unfortunate amount of the time it is )

I am still here! Did not mean to drop off posting I am always interested in continuing here, I just need to get up the motivation to write my own characters... Anyone is welcome to join! Check out the pinned threads for some info and stuff. The worldbuilding is pretty neat! Essentially, all the cosmere (and Brandon noncosmere) worlds still exist and are out there doing their own thing, there's just also the Alleyverse which can be worldhopped in and out of, and that's the setting where everything is. It allows anything from Brandon's works to coexist while also having some of its own worldbuilding and lore! In later eras/years it has moved from being largely nonsense RP to more serious writing of stories, but there's always room for humor!

Wow, I completely disagree! I loved this moment and thought it made sense and fit well. As you said, this is someone he's spent a long time with. He is extremely close to Aux, and at this point they're even more linked than a normal Nahel bond, with Aux being half-dead and only able to sense things through Nomad. Nomad's used to living life with Aux there, so when he's in a life-or-death situation, he of course turns to his best friend and magical partner. That is his instinctive reaction. I can easily imagine myself doing the same thing; if one of my best friends died, someone who I share thoughts with and am often talking to, I can see myself excitedly clicking into a chat...only to suddenly remember that they're not there anymore. I can't talk to them about it. The human brain can only hold so many things in front at once. (And I do believe that psychologically, Nomad is still essentially human, if warped by the Dawnshard.) He was in the middle of an attack on the Cinder King. He was thinking about the upcoming fight, Elegy and Rebeke, his Shardplate and how it was gone again, the overarching plan...he's had a lot of different things to focus on throughout this book and not a lot of time to process more than a few. Aux died, what, an hour ago max? This isn't something he's internalized yet. He has a plan to execute and another day to survive. Some thoughts and emotional processing aren't at the forefront yet. (Which I think fits pretty well with the overall theme of the book - he never stops running, moving, fighting. The pace is fast and he doesn't have the time to process, as much as he may want to, or he will die.) On top of that - people just deal with grief differently! Some people, when someone they love has died, completely fall apart. Some people dissociate and avoid like hell. Some people face it head on and deal with it easily in the moment, but later on it hits them much harder. And some people hurt, but their grief doesn't damage them, even if they felt deeply for the person who they lost. I have lost people; thankfully, no dead best friends or immediate family, but I've lost people I cared about, and...while I missed them, I didn't have a hard time coping with it. People cope differently with different traumas! Grief is different for different people. I have felt bad about it in the past, feeling like I'm not grieving enough. There is no such thing as enough. You feel what you feel, and there isn't a wrong way to feel after someone has died (or after any traumatic event!). Not a beta but this book was proofread quite a lot from what I have heard XD just because you don't personally like or relate to the outcome doesn't mean it wasn't read over or was written badly. Totally valid to think it was anyway (I think Frugal Wizard had a major flaw), but others may read it differently! There're more than two ways people can deal with grief. It's not just either a breakdown now or a breakdown later; sometimes there isn't that kind of breakdown ever, and that's valid and fine and realistic too. It might have been a punch in the face to you, or to me, but not to Sigzil. The breakdown might come after what we get to see, days later. Or it might never come. Wanting to see that breakdown is understandable! I would have loved to see it too, actually, if there was one. But I disagree that us not seeing it was bad writing. It's one method of writing grief, and it is NOT an unrealistic one. You could also consider the fear of Aux dying, that moment under the airships, to be the emotional climax, along with the moment of death itself. The rest isn't the focus. Which you're also allowed to not prefer as a style of storytelling, but it's a reading of the story that is valid.

(Merged the two threads.)

Yes, sorry for the delay! If you still need the advice, what's up?

I definitely disagree with that, I'd think it's different amounts or different abilities leading to the same effect. I think Investiture can just have that effect on people, regardless of how much it is.

Page 15 of the book, Dragonsteel premium, 35 in the PDF: Should this be "assumed they had stayed low earlier", since the rest of the sentence is in that tense? Page 162 of the book, 184 in the PDF: There's an extra space before the period. [Tagged this next one in case someone pops in here before they finish reading the book. Pretty major spoiler in this next report, be careful!]

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Welcome out of lurker-dom!

Welcome, Leah! I hope you continue to enjoy your book journey Good news, Brandon is likely to write a novella from Rock's perspective at some point!

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I think it's the "the spike thinks it's stabbed in a body" thing that stops the decay - there's a WOB on that somewhere - and that meat and blood would trigger that in a way I don't think pee would.

Heyyyyy, there's a name I recognize! Welcome over here too

"Getting dehydrated, apparently," Ene admitted. "Hang on, I'm going to go get some water." and then he didn't return because I don't want to interrupt the continuity lol

I think that's a very good idea, in fact probably the only sustainable one. Not that I don't believe you guys could PM every single person involved, just that it's work and not everyone would reply. That's why I suggested taking some parts of the plot you're familiar with (and that don't run into what Star is already writing? I don't know how active that project is or if you intended to use those bits of plot anyway) and focusing on those - that gives you a lot fewer people to have to deal with, in addition to a more manageable plot.

I'd love to meet people! I'll stick on a nametag or something lol. The Shardblade fights are fun! I tried one in 2021, didn't win any rounds though XD

(We forgot a couple lines! I'll catch us up) No one else was in the room where it happened... Is that a yes? (aight back) You see, it was my wife you decided to - whaaaat?

Ele is active over on Discord. I can poke him to take a look over here if you guys want to talk to him about something, but while he made (this second iteration, lol) of TLT, no one really ran it? Even at the start. It's always been a chaotic mess A couple notes - I don't want to spoil any fun, but I will say that the likelihood of getting a coherent and good novel out of TLT is probably low; vast swaths of it were a much sillier story that jumped around a lot more, and honestly wouldn't need to be included at all. In addition to all the editing work people have mentioned here, you'd need to blend the sentences and POVs so they read smoother. And most importantly of all, you'd need to get in contact with anyone who's posted anything you keep to get permission to use their content. (Which, considering how many people how participated in this over five years, may not even be possible.) You're also not the only ones who have worked on making a novel out of some of the more coherent events there! I'll tag @Zephrun’s Imperium, who has been working on something involving Narrators and such for a long time. My advice would be to pick some of the later chunks of plot that you guys participated in and start there. Get the permission of whoever you need to after you've winnowed the posts down. Then, if it were me, I'd rewrite the events entirely; sometimes that's actually less effort than editing (though not always, so if you think you have something you can work with, yay!). Ultimately, my two cents is to stick to a few plot beats and concepts from the end of the thread and focus on making those the best they can be, not trying to interweave every event and character.

Almost a thousand dollars paid in different amounts

Ene did a quick bow. "Hi there! I'm a Narrator, but it may have taken me a second to remember the difference between us and Authors." He made an embarrassed face, then shrugged. "Though I suppose my Author tends to have the same name, these days!"

Moving this thread to the events subforum. I'll be there too, excited to see people there!

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