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  1. Wonko the Sane
    There are ten primary Shardworlds. Remember, though, that the prevalence of 16 on Scadrial isn't part of some grand pattern -- It's the result of direct Shardic interference. Preservation used it as a sign that Ruin couldn't tamper with. All the 16s and 1024s on Scadrial are there because Leras intentionally put there.
  2. Wonko the Sane
    I will unfortunately have to withdraw from this game. Sorry, everyone.
  3. Wonko the Sane
    You aren't GMing LG19, either.
  4. Wonko the Sane
    Len burst into action. As the Doc was so fond of pointing out, he'd never be a great scholar -- but he did know people. "Hello, gentlemen! Welcome to the headquarters of the Abundance. My name is Won LenReen, and this is Dr. NeLaar. How can we be of assistance today?" A flash of light caught Len's eye, and he glanced up to where Ena was hovering, discreetly out of view of the newcomers. He had found someplace to eat. "NeLaar and I were just about to head out to get some Tay-rss food. Perhaps you could be persuaded to take lunch with us?"
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    "Hm. Dr. Lestibournes doesn't like to talk about his past, but I've been able to gather a little." Len leaned back against a wall, arms folded. "Maybe you could already tell from the name, but the Doc's from this planet, originally." "He had a circle of friends, in those days. They were called the Abundance. I think it was a joke or something. 'An Abundance of Doctors', you know? Anyway, they disbanded, and I think the Doc blames himself for it. He named the new guild in honor of them." A sudden thought seemed to strike Len, and he looked up, eyes wide in terror. "Oh, Nights, please don't tell him I called him Doc!"
  6. Wonko the Sane
    "Err... Right. Okay." Oh, Nights, how obvious is it that I'm uncomfortable? He probably thinks I'm racist now. Am I racist? The Doc never has these problems. "Um, while we wait for Ena to find us something, what was it you wanted to talk to Dr. Lestibournes about?"
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    Hello! Dr. Rewan Azith is here to represent the Abundance in these momentous events!
  8. Wonko the Sane
    Is there a way to see the poll on mobile? I'm having computer troubles.
  9. Wonko the Sane
    Wait, really? Could somebody find this? Because if this is true, then calling the Everstorm wasn't Voidbinding.
  10. Wonko the Sane
    Can the mad Necromancer Sev Resterford join your guild? He got kicked out of the other Arcanum for inhuman levels of brutality.
  11. Wonko the Sane
    Len froze. "Oh! That's right! You, uh, eat... differently." Nights! Don't they eat dead people? Maybe he wants to go to a graveyard. He shivered involuntarily. "Would a, um... Tay-rss restaurant have... something... for you?" He did his best to smile nonchalantly. It didn't go well. It took me way too long to find a swear appropriate to Len. He's not well-traveled enough yet to use 'storms' or 'Colors' like Nowko might.
  12. Wonko the Sane
    Kwon grimaced. The girl was living on a rooftop! "I'm sure it is. Why don't you come home with me for the night, instead, though? I've got an extra room since... since Mal left us. I'll fix you up a meal, and you can sleep in his old bed."
  13. Wonko the Sane
    Quick Note: Nowko just died in QF14; Len rescued him with a last-minute Resealing -- which he was lucky to be able to make work, considering he was on Scadrial. I'll RP that in the game once it's over. Nowko looked up from his research, surprised to see someone other than Len entering the room. He was still getting used to the idea of having a guild again. At the moment, it mostly seemed an inconvenience. "For remembrance", he said abruptly, then turned back to his work. Couldn't the creature see he was busy? Len peeked into the room. "Hey, Nel, let's get out of the doctor's way. Come on, we'll go get something to eat." Once the door was closed behind them, Len turned to NeLaar. "Sorry about that. He gets like that sometimes, especially when he doesn't have a problem to solve. He doesn't mean anything by it." The Forger turned and called out to the air. "Ena, mind scouting ahead and finding us someplace with food?" The little orb of light that was Len's Seon drifted down from whatever he'd been doing. "Of course, Len." Len felt a small satisfaction at that -- It had taken years to convince Ena not to call him 'Master'. But that had been just too creepy. "Try for something with a little flavor; the people here like their food blander than water." "I believe the Terris cuisine employs a number of spices in common with MaiPon, Len." "Find us some of that, then." "Of course, Len. I will return shortly." The Seon zipped off ahead. Len wondered what the people here thought when they saw Ena. He was usually good about being discreet, but still... Len turned back to the kandra, smiling. "Anyway, I gather you had some questions the old grump couldn't be bothered to answer?"
  14. Wonko the Sane
    Ah! Point taken: read more carefully.
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    Kwon looked at Star Thief with that equal mix of fondness and frustration that any parent is all too familiar with. "If you'll promise to stop running yourself ragged every night," he grumbled goodnaturedly, "I may find the time to make you a few odds and ends on my forge. I worry about you, girl." A thought occurred to him. "Do you even have a place to stay the night?"
  16. Wonko the Sane
    Kipper, I'm pretty sure that there aren't any rules here. You and Maill are the only people with a single nomination. Though, maybe we should do something more formal, once we've got our nominations nailed down. We could set up a poll.
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    Oh, dear. I didn't think of it until you mentioned it, Araris, but I think I just realized the limitation you're talking about. I've also thought of a way around it, but I'm not certain that way is the right choice. I'll inform Clanky and Elodin, and they can pass the concerns along to the Windwhisperer. I'll leave the final decision up to them. Even if we only hit one Eliminator, though, the Operation will have been valuable in that it will have brought together a team of confirmed Villagers, which, as you may recall, is how we won the last game. I agree that those among us with no useful abilities should be sleeping, rather than spending all their time searching. However, I'll argue that this isn't the case for many players. There is simply so much power at play in this game that the Lynch becomes almost marginalized in its significance. It's still our single best killing option, but as an information-gathering tool, it is less critical than it is in other games. I'm not saying that it's useless, but there are much better options. I'm well aware that it can be frustrating to those of us kept out of the loop, and I wholeheartedly encourage a decision on who, if anyone, is simply not going to be scanned. There's no way that we can expect a single Windwhisperer to work their way through so many players in a reasonable time, and even if we could, that would make for a pretty boring game for the rest of us. I'd propose Mark, who I suspect least of the scannable, and Danosaur, whose inactivity would make scanning him a wasted action. I'd put Ms. Spaghetti on this list as well, except that I have been, shall we say, 'burnt' by such a decision in the past. Above arguments aside, I do think we should begin lynching in earnest tomorrow. I'm sure many of you are forgoing sleep in order to use your powers; I respect and encourage that. On the other hand, I think searching for items should be a slightly lower priority. If last game is any indicator, the majority of items found are going to be spikes of one form or another. These are great for the Spiked and the kandra, but less so for the Village. And recall that last game, we were told when and where higher-value items appeared; here, we're searching blind. I know you all yearn for those lerasium alloys, but the fact is you'd be better serving the Village by participating in the Lynch. Um... So I was going to end this by telling everyone that it's 'Windwhisper', not 'Windwhisperer'. When I pulled out Bands of Mourning to get a reference, though, I found that the Ars Arcanum there said 'Windwhisperer'. This confused me, because I could have sworn that I had read otherwise in Alloy of Law. I don't have a physical copy of that lying around at the moment, but I pulled up the ebook -- and sure enough, it called it a 'Windwhisperer'. So where had I heard 'Windwhisper'? Had it all been in my head? I looked to the Internet, and found that the Coppermind is mixed on the subject. The page on Feruchemy calls it a 'Windwhisper', but the page on tin says 'Windwhisperer'. Wikipedia says 'Windwhisper', and references this table, which I regrettably do not own -- could someone consult it for me? The spell-check in this very text editor is allowing 'Windwhisper', but marking 'Windwhisperer' as misspelled. Of course, this same spell-check fails to recognize both 'kandra' and 'lerasium', so it can hardly be considered a valid data point. Ultimately, I'm going to bow to printed media, and accept that a tin ferring is called a 'Windwhisperer'. I don't like how that feels to say, but it isn't really my decision. I both came up with and named the scanning plan, though, so I'm gonna declare that that is my decision. And I like 'Windwhisper'. Deal with it. I would like if someone could figure out where 'Windwhisper' came from, though -- its presence on the Coppermind and Wikipedia tell me that I didn't make it up. Maybe Brandon mentioned that it was called that before the Alloy of Law release, then changed it in the final print? tl;dr: A tin ferring is called a Windwhisperer. The plan relying on them is called Operation Windwhisper.
  18. Wonko the Sane
    You're a strong player, despite your luck, and more importantly, I feel like you'd represent us well. That said, I think availability is the most important thing, so if you won't have the time, that's absolutely fine. Meta, you haven't weighed in on your own nominations. Would you be able to do it?
  19. Wonko the Sane
    I actually disagree. I think that a longer game is usually a good thing for the Village. I'm sure if they could, the Eliminators would be having us lynch players left and right. The lynch is best used as a method for investigating motives -- it kills more Villagers than Eliminators, but we usually learn things from that. In a Role Madness game, though, we have better options than the lynch available to us for checking players' identities. The fact that the Eliminators are complying with the plan doesn't mean they approve of it. There's no way for them to fight it without throwing at least one of their few remaining players to the wolves. The other thing to keep in mind is that group confirmation happens exponentially. A Windwhisper can only scan 1-2 players a turn, true, but the moment they hit someone else with a scanning role, the group starts growing much faster. We're in no hurry. Thanks to Mailliw's blood frenzy, we started this game ahead. I can't imagine that there are more than three Eliminators left -- as others have remarked, there are probably only two. Instead of panicking and tossing nooses around, let's take advantage of the extra time we've bought with our early luck.
  20. Wonko the Sane
    This led to a great deal of paranoia last game, so I'm gonna try and nip it in the bud now. No player can be converted until a One Metal Spike item has been charged, and we WILL be able to tell that has happened from the writeup (unless Phatt is doing things differently). It is currently impossible for a player to have been converted. Remember that the Spiked need to know what your power is, and have the appropriate spike, or the item is destroyed upon use. It's very hard for them to get their hands on a charged spike.
  21. Wonko the Sane
    Meta, Haelbarde, Alvron, Mailliw. This sounds so exciting! I can't wait to spectate on this. If we're really trying to show off what makes us unique, I think our delegate should be ready to do a little RPing.
  22. Wonko the Sane
    Lopen and I have been saying the same thing since nearly Day 1. By all means, feel free to propose such a list. I have already said that I believe that Aman should be at the top of it, and Araris at the bottom. Who else is still open to Operation Windwhisper?
  23. Wonko the Sane
    Elodin, can you drop your vote from Joe, just in case? We want the Yosef vote to count.
  24. Wonko the Sane
    Wait! DC tells me that voting for Joe isn't the same as voting for Yosef. Change the vote! The same is true of Haelbarde/Heatherlocke.
  25. Wonko the Sane
    Absolutely! Aman. Joe.
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