Silus - Shard of Flame

The shield she put up softens it a bit, so she's not out, just down. If you can fend off the bear again, you'll probably be able to finish her off.

I'm pretty sure the jealousy thing is gonna happen anyway.

Death by ARGENTINA, where I'll be going at the end of November, for two years.

Didn't they promo that book on Writing Excuses at some point recently?

I got the War of Souls from Tracy Hickman at LTUE, and I really liked it. Not the best thing in the world, but definitely not the worst.

Death by MBI links.

You clear the fire wall, a shout of pain coming from Victoria. You land hard, rolling, and look up to see her ahead of you. She doesn't bleed, but that's not what Damnation is for. Black smoke curls up from her arm, mingling with the flames yet distinct. She holds it protectively to the side, grimacing at you. She grins. A massive weight hits you from the side, throwing you almost to the other side of the arena. Thankfully, the wall has dissipated. Then you are hit with a searing pain. You aren't just bruised by the hit, but whatever it was has left a burn with its touch. You look up, and see what it is that hit you. A huge, black scaled snake, at least thirty feet long and three feet thick. It has a ridge along the back of its head, giving its face a dragonish look. The air around it is distorted by heat, and steam billows from its nostrils. Its eyes are black and pitiless. A heat serpent.

Death by apocalypse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrN4vMRDZGM *ahem*

But until you read Mistborn, Elantris, Warbreaker, and The Way of Kings, I'd recommend staying away from their respective boards, especially the General Theories one. SPOILERS EVERYWHERE

So can anyone give me elevator pitch for the magic systems in White Sand an Aether of Night? I don't care about details, I just want the basic idea. That's not too spoilery, right?

The Magic night was fun, even though I didn't actually play. XP I'm very much looking forward to WoT being done, simply so certain elements of the WoT community get off his back.

*repeated headdesk*

I finished The Hunger Games today. I like it a lot, the ending felt weak, though. There's a chunk just before the climax where they let all the tension out, and it shows. The ending would have been awesome if they had kept that tension up. Good thing I have 2 and 3 on hand!

Death by the V speech...but with Ds.

She fries the stake just by looking at it, and her attention is back on the fight. She looks mad. "Fighting dirty. Really all I can expect from a dirty thiefskin!" A blast of fiery power shoots from her hands in a beam, but your speed and momentum are enough to get mostly out of the way, your armor making up the difference. It stings. "I thought maybe you could be different, since you obviously know Jay, and he seems like a good kid." A wave of the hands creates a delayed explosion just in front of you, but you manage a quick stop, though one of your cloth strips catches fire. "He's naive, a little too trusting for his own good. He's just some kind of con to you, right?" The explosion has you stopped in your tracks, and you're not quick enough to get across the line that appears on the ground before a wall of fire twenty feet long appears there, separating you from her. Your armor may have fire resistance, but it's not enough to just run through this. "That's all your kind are, an infection." She goes through some hand gestures, creating symbols out of fire in front of her, and a summoner's circle made of lines of flame burns itself into the ground around her. "And how do you stop infection?"

If you get one. I haven't started writing the next chapter, though I might break up my NaNoWriMo project from last year and post that.

It's better than a pillar of fire. Also, I laughed. EDIT: Actually, a pillar of fire would be kinda awesome...I must think on this.

Zas, you are amazing.

But aren't the Elantrians immortal, or close enough that 600 years isn't that big a deal?

Elfen Lied! That's the one I was thinking of.

I'm not sure how mine would work since Shards don't have physical bodies. Well, they DO, but their bodies are made of pure power so it doesn't really count.

Isn't SEL heavy on the blood violence and nudity? I've heard it's really good, but those are sticking points for me.

Wasn't the rebellion supposed to be doing something big at the Ball? Is that coming?

Atium allows you to move with perfect precision, and while the heat is scalding, you manage your glass dust trick. Her fires flare as she sputters and coughs, she seems in more pain than you would expect. You go in with the stake, but she lashes out, forcing you back even with Atium. Your stake is set alight from the raw heat around you. Your hammer isn't much of a block, but the cold aura given off is enough to keep off the worst of the heat. You can feel your skin burn like you've been out in the sun too long, and while the pain is distracting, it's not enough to stop your charge. A roar from you behind you announces the return of Tibbers into the fight, but you're too close to your target to be stopped. She shrieks and throws up her hands. Just before you hit a bubble of fire forms around her. Your hammer moves through it, landing a solid hit on the girl, but the fires sear your arms again; you can feel that this time it's worse than a sunburn. Your clothes are on fire and you can hear the enraged bellow of a charging bear. "The aura is a function of the training headset I'm using. Once you get used to it, these are things you'll be picking out on your own. Here we go." He walks you through the incredibly detailed process of working with the Spherebreaker. Shows you how the codes represent microscopic, fibrous bindings within the Sphere, attachments that are a strange hybrid of magic and tech. You learn to see the framework of abilities bound within those codes and the bindings that link them together. The raw complexity of it is astounding. While you learn a lot, the details remain elusive; you can only make out the broad strokes of the coding - like the division between equipment and abilities - and only with help at that. "Now we start with an incision," he says after what must be a good half hour of intricate explanations. This is going to be a long day.