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    Spartan Writes Things

    in Creator's Corner

    Posted

    6 hours ago, SpartanBrigade said:

    This is just something I wrote right now

    If it doesn’t make very much sense I apologize 

    I’m really tired and running a fever

    It’s mostly just an explosion of thought

    Also note that this isn’t addressed to anyone here
    It’s aimed at another group of people

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    All of it is meaningless. All of it is the same. I see a collage of images all washed in sepia, dull, insipid, safe. I hear the scraping of a vinyl, always turning, always turning, always turning. What does it play? The Beatles, The Smiths, Buckley, whatever band is trending on TikTok this week. Beside it lays a scattering of books; Dostoyevsky, Austen, Kafka. Is this it? Is this how we measure humanity and life and value? How many words you’ve read on how many pages of how many books? I see pretension wearing the face of maturity, endless dronings on about philosophy and the nature of the universe. Don’t you know that if you read enough books, quote enough scholars, and speak constantly while saying nothing, you can run away from 16? You have a habit of connecting logic with feelings and feelings with logic but you don’t think long enough or feel deeply enough to realize that’s a basic function of human existence, not a trophy that makes you special. Again the ceaseless spinning.
    There is a light that never goes out.
    There is a light that never goes out.
    There is a light that never goes out.
    And me, why I’m the worst out of all of you. What do I do? I sit and I watch and I don’t act. I analyze all of you, pinpoint your flaws and ridicule them with a burning mind. The gadfly that spreads disease with its bite and thinks itself so very clever. The critic with the pen cutting a dream, a life, a heart. Not deeply enough to kill, but enough to leave a wound that bleeds for several minutes before healing in a thin white scar before vanishing altogether. Blind me, burn me, break my pen.  Beauty cannot exist without decay and destruction and pain. How quaint of you. Look away from your books, your thinkers, your art. Look to your mirror, your window, into the black fire with all of its infinite color. See the light which never goes out flicker, tremble against the night. And tell me Eleanor Rigby, who will cry over your headstone when the graveyard has been overtaken by moss? Who will whisper that once, very long ago, you thought one candle, your candle, could light the world?

    (Yes Coder I know I should add paragraphs and indentation)

    Have you considered not reading Kafka and Dostoyevsky that might help

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    ND survey

    in Forum Games & Random Stuff

    Posted

    17 hours ago, Deception said:

    I have seen from social clubs, signatures, posts, and a whole lot of other stuff that it seems like this forum is a literal magnet to neurodivergent people (including me, I'm autistic). I want to test exactly how much of a magnet it is.

    Even if you are neurotypical, please still take the survey for statistical accuracy reasons.

    They tested me and I've got nothing 

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    The Last Post Loses

    in Forum Games & Random Stuff

    Posted

    10 hours ago, Aeoryi said:

    @Argenti 

    I am already DMimg another group of the Stormlight RPG i fear. Once I start that one going I can maybe run stonewalkers

    9 hours ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

    Well DND is meant to be played when everyone is in the same room, without all the complications that come with a forum. For best experience, I would def recomend a voice chat

    You can totally do Play by posts- I'm playing 4 separate PBPs on discord rn lol

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    Full Cosmere Restarted RP: PHASE 3

    in Roleplaying

    Posted

    23 hours ago, al_lan_mandragoran said:

    I, Honour, looked and saw that in the not too distant future, Dominion would come. A vision of a storm, and stone creatures with glowing eyes flashed through my mind, and I shuddered. 

    This will not happen, I told myself. Gathering my power about me, I surveyed our planet. Scadrial. It had been only a week or so since its creation, but in that short time I had come to love all of our people. They had dispersed a bit since that first day up on the clifftop, yet some had begun setting up a settlement there. In time, I saw, it would become a large city - the capital of the world. But that was not this time. And if Dominion had his way, it would not happen. 

    My power recoiled at the thought, and I saw what I had to do. 

    I released a portion of my power, focusing it far above the clifftop, forming a gigantic sphere - though it was only a fraction of the size of Scadrial. With a gentle push, I maneuvered it into position, until it was directly above the clifftop - though far, far above it. I had made Scadrial’s moon. 

    That was not all, though, for a moon in of itself would not protect Scadrial. And so, I began to shape the surface of the moon as Gadris and I had done to Scadrial. A thick layer of stone and dirt covered the metallic surface of the moon. Trees sprouted and grew in seconds. An atmosphere, and air to breathe. Rivers and lakes, mountains, and forests. Birds took wing at my command, fish swam in the waters, and beasts filled the forests. 

     

    Still it was not ready. I formed for myself a body, in a valley between two mountains. From there I could see the clifftop. From nothing, I formed stone walls and iron gates, creating a fortress in the style of those on Yolen, but with a large courtyard in its center rather than a stone keep.

     

    Finally, my moon was ready. The stronghold of the Worldweavers was complete.

    I released my power one final time, infusing the circular glyph engraved into the center of the courtyard, creating a Connection. I then pushed the power outwards, down towards Scadrial. A shimmering line of white blue, invisible to all but Gadris and I, shot downwards and touched the clifftop. The thick line of investiture remained for a few moments, and then faded away. I reformed my body at the clifftop, and looked up at my moon. And smiled.

    It was finished. And Honour’s path would reappear every month, when the moon was full above the clifftop, to bring our people to the stronghold, if and when they desired. 

     

    Dominion would not find us easy to conquer, of this I was now certain.

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    I don't know why it's all bold - it won't let me change more than a few words at a time, and I can't be bothered.

     

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    It does that sometimes when it's copied- try copying it, but pasting via Cntrl Shift V

     

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    The Serpent King’s Pilgrimage

    in Roleplaying

    Posted

    On 4/27/2026 at 1:36 AM, Through the Living Sherma said:

    @Kansas Stormcursed

    @Through the Living Hope

    @KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren

    @Mystic Syn

    @Argenti

    @Through the Living Hopper

     

    Previously on: The Serpant King's Pilgrimage!

     

    Each of you were promised a power, and began to receive!

    Yall were involved in an engagement.

    The set-up:

    Fungal Abomination (A-C), Blighted Nodes (A-C), Infested Corpse (A-B)

     

    People's Turns

    (BN A takes a basic attack

    BN B & BN C die

    FA A&B set to attack IC A

    IC A takes an attack

    IC A and B attack each other)

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    I'm about as active as Frustration on his mission I fear

     

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    To win a Desolation

    in Cosmere Discussion

    Posted

    5 hours ago, Frustration said:

    Interesting strategy, I was not expecting it.

    What do you do if Windspren create a barrier and don't let the gas in?

    I don't think they can do that (without a ton of extra stormlighy); but if they can.... If only there was an unmade who could corrupt lesserspren. And if she's not available, we can break the barrier with idk... Focused ones? Maybe the transformed ones can do it too.

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    To win a Desolation

    in Cosmere Discussion

    Posted

    12 hours ago, Frustration said:

    Yeah, yeah I know these threads are so last month.

    I still wanted to do this.

     

    I have long said that I don't know how Fused were ever supposed to pose a threat to Radiant forces during the Desolations. Well, I want to see if the people of the internet can change my mind.

     

    Your mission:

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    During the visions Dalinar sees an obsidian fortress in the purelake, your mission is to take the fortress.

    The inside is assumed to be coated in aluminum, and has the following as defenders

    1. Windrunners: 1 fifth ideal, 3 fourth ideal, 12 third ideal, 100 squires
    2. Skybreakers: 3 third ideal, 3 squires
    3. Dustbringers: 1 fourth ideal, 1 third ideal, 12 squires
    4. Edgedancers: 3 third ideal
    5. Truthwatchers: None
    6. Lightweavers: 2 third ideal
    7. Elsecallers: 1 second ideal
    8. Willshapers: 4 third ideal
    9. Stonewards: 1 Fifth ideal, 3 third ideal, 4 squires
    10. Soldiers: 1,000

     

    You can take whatever resources you deem necessary, however as this will take place during a Desolation, there is no anti-lights, no everstorm, and only surge fabrials, with no suppressors.

     

    How do you do it?

    Go upwind, and use the surge of transformation to create a caustic gas that chokes and poisons. The point isn't to kill the radiants (it won't) but to kill the mundane soldiers, damage stormlight reserves and hurt morale. When the windrunners and skybreakers try to stop this, ambush them, and kill as many as you can.

    Wait for the gas to clear out. Maybe a day or so.

    Next up, your goal is to kill the soulcasters. Secret spren should be able to scout out the castle; look for where they sleep, and record it. Prepare some Metcha-Im, and load them up with Boulders. Strike where they sleep under the cover of night; all going well, you'll crush the wall and maybe crush them. Send in a Nex-im to make sure they're dead: cut their heads off with one of the aluminum shards and hold it until the other radiants come and kill you. 

    While this is happening, on another spot, shoot more Boulders close to the ground and have a full assault; thunderclasts, magnified ones, deepests ones ect.

    Throw some Tatak-im into the moat to fill the air with boiling steam, destroying visibility, and removing the issue of the moat. 

    Let some flowing ones scale the walls while this is happening- they can't stop us all. They're mostly trying to distract the radiants.

    Heavenly ones aren't attacking, moreso trying to keep everyone grounded.

    The goal isn't to kill everything; the higher radiants will be very hard to put down, so just try to ignore them. Thin out the numbers and damage the fortress itself. Take away all the aluminum you can find.

    Once the strike begins to turn, retreat, and recover. Wait for the next highstorm to allow more fused to come back, but in the meantime, harass them with deepest ones and make them kill their friends with the faceless ones.

    Of course, this means the radiants have more investiture; but that shouldn't be a problem.

    After a few days, strike with the infantry and everything else; the exact options don't matter, since fully repairing the fortress Is impossible. Now you kill everything

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    To protect a Dawnshard

    in Cosmere Discussion

    Posted

    56 minutes ago, Clarkmon22 said:

    is the worm juice kinetic then? also, if starling tried to use her powers, would the bands suppressing them make her float?

    When applied to something, yeah!

    7 minutes ago, Through The Living Grub said:

    When the worm juice was in a jar, it sank. It was only when an object was coated that it worked. No idea how to categorize that.

    2 hours ago, Frustration said:

    It needs to be touching the emberdark.

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    To protect a Dawnshard

    in Cosmere Discussion

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Clarkmon22 said:

    But would Lashing it make it float? 

    IotE spoilers

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    Starling thinks that she would fall until dragons came and rescued her and she is HEAVILY invested. I think the only things that would float would be things like the dawnshard (maybe) that come from a shard or sharpool. so I don't think so about the lashing, and yes to the rock. But the aluminum might suffice... We need like an arcanist in here

     

    I think any kinetic investiture would make it float, (which lashing are) while innate investiture wouldn't.

    A dawnshard probably would, but aluminum should be able to as well.

    Put it in nearby the well of control?

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    Greek Mythology RP Interest

    in Roleplaying

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, Through The Living Coder said:

    Is hermes the god of death? oh yeah i guess he is

    listen, at least im not thanatos, alright??

    I wrote an essay on this, they're both psychopomps. And sirens are too?

    it's a whole thing birds are ghosts man

     

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