Ghanderflaffle

@Toaster Retribution @Hentient @Hoiditthroughthegrapevine don’t forget to post your roasts! (Or ask for more time) And I still need a character from @Brightness Warrior.

I was on a little bit.

I haven’t had a chance to open my stuff at home yet, but I’m hoping I get some Cosmere stuff there. I did get two shirts (a Harry Potter one and a band one) $20, hobbles (it's for horses. It's a length of leather with a buckle that you can wrap around a horse's front legs so they can’t go very far when you can’t tie them. It's great), and a wild rag (a silk scarf that cowboys use). From the other side I got another shirt, some money, and some hair ties. Example of hobbles:

I mean I did it in my first game, but it was bad luck instead of somebody killing me. Aaaanyways, I feel it's most likely the vote manip was placed early in the round and never removed.

I remember reading it, I just forgot where it was and decided to be lazy about going back and looking for it. I don’t have a ton to say yet. I’ve never been great at reads, especially c1. I’ve read through some posts and just don’t see anyone as much of an elim yet. I do kind of agree with the Ventyl being a bit sus, but at the same time I don’t feel like I’ve heard enough from them yet to decide.

What was the vote count?

Yea, @Archer was your vote just a poke? (Or just for the pun)

Alrighty! As I said, I’m trying something different this round. There is no need for anybody else to do this, it's mostly just to make it a little more fun. If you people don’t like it I won’t do it next round, but it sounded fun to me. Ghanderflaffle stomps up onto the “stage,” which is actually just a bunch of boxes pushed together, and regards the people gathered here. “Man, I really need to do some renovations...” She thinks to herself as the various people turn towards the front. “Welcome to the Cosmere Roast Battles! Thank you all for joining. Before we start, I need to lay down some ground rules. Number one, this is a neutral space. Nobody cares about what's happening on your home planets, keep the drama out of my rap battles.” She look towards a strange man in a blue uniform who's floating next to a tall, blond man with scars on his arms. “Number two, no excessive use of Investiture. There's too many types here for any showing off.” Ishefinally turn towards the Roshar crowd “And finally, keep the latest workings on Roshar out of all roasts. Thank you for your cooperation, and now we can being.” _________________________________________________________________________________________ Ok! This tournament will be run in three rounds. The first round will have four battles made of three competitors each. Each person will roast both of the other people in their round. The second and third rounds will be 1v1. I am also establishing a new, not necessarily rule, but very strong suggestion this tournament and from now on. I ask that you please follow the entire tournament if you are able and vote on each battle. We never seem to have enough votes, especially in the later battles. Another thing on voting, please don’t vote for yourself. I keep forgetting to tell you before the tournament starts, but this time I remembered so no excuses. Here's player list. The first battle will be between @Toaster Retribution (Nale) @Hentient (Silence) and @Hoiditthroughthegrapevine (Vyre). You will, as normal, have 3 days to write your roasts. I’m going to make it a little more specific this time, so you have 72 hours. So, your roasts are due on Sunday, December 27, at 12:00 PM (CST). Because of the holidays, if any of you three need this extended, let me know and I’ll be pretty flexible on it. Good luck!

I nominate myself for best dealing with people missing deadlines. Oh wait, the latest tournament was supposed to start a week ago. One second.

YKYASW you take what could be a simple Christmas story and give it deep plot, lore, magic, and feelings. In all seriousness, amazing job! Well done to everyone.

It was kinda fun to read through. That was a very successful elim game, nobody was overly suspicious of any of us until the end. Aaanyways, this game I should probably say something. I’m not reading anybody as elim yet, but I’m keeping an eye on things and watching for any warning signs.

I mean hey, we could always do the death pact. Ninja'd

I feel like we should still be planning on four so that we aren’t taken off guard if there are more than expected. That happened in QF48 and we (I was an elim that game) really used it to our advantage. So it would be better to overestimate than underestimate. Also, I will miss most of the first half of next cycle, I’m going to be with family.

Nailed it. All for the pun. (I’m guessing that's where the vote came from anyways.)

I'm in the same boat, it's at 9 PM for me.

Rithmatist Two

Atium just stores youth. That's all it's explained as. TLR is thousands of years old, which led to his body trying to catch up to that age when he loses the metalminds. A normal person could never live that long, therefore his body had given out on him. (That and Vin stabbed him through the chest with a spear)

I can find the exact textual explanation in a few hours.

The mists are Preservation, who is looking for someone to take the power and ascend. The times Vin uses the mists is when she doesn’t have the earring in, which is hemalurgic and of Ruin. The mists are the actual power of a Shard, while tLR's power is mostly just some very strong allomancy and feruchemy compounding at this point. Age was so important for him to store because he was so old. Without compounding age he was too old for any human to continue living, which is why he aged incredibly quickly once the bracers were pulled away. He did store other things (probably anyways, I’m not sure if that's cannon. The other powers we see from him are purely allomantic) and we do see him using allomancy on Vin to Push on her.

Welcome! I agree that Sanderson's books are fantastic, but him as a person is part of the reason why he's my favorite. He's so sweet and I love that he's such a storming nerd. You’ll fit right in here, but we need to do the inaugural question, who's your favorite character?

Can anyone find the exact quote for the horneater recipe joke? (The first time it's mentioned) I know it's in part 1 or 2, but I can’t seem to find it. There's one in part 3 that I found, but I want to see the phrasing on the other one first.

He writes better if he can jump between projects. And Lost Metal is Cosmere, it's the end of Mistborn era 2.

When you’re sitting here, refreshing Sanderson’s website, waiting for SotS.