Lightspen of the Glass Sea

Booook!

Thank you anyway!

I am planning a party, and I would like to employ a murder mystery game. I have played several that I have found online in the past, but this time, I want to try a murder mystery party set in the cosmere and I could not find one online. When I say murder mystery party, I mean a group of people gathers and are each given a character to role play that plays a part in the mystery. The players go into the party with a knowledge of their character’s history, relationships, and secrets, as well as a list of goals to accomplish during the night. These goals may be vital to the story or completely tangential. For example, some goals may be: exchanging stories of adventure with friends, hounding an acquaintance about unpaid debts, or uncovering a suspected affair. Through interaction, examination, and deduction, the players will solve the mystery over the course of the night. I would write such a cosmere murder mystery myself, yet it wouldn’t be ideal to know the end result as a player. And so: Is there anyone interested in writing murder mystery party (or changing around the details in an existing game to make it set in the cosmere) for me and my friends to play? I would also write a game for you and your friends to play in exchange. That way, we could both have a cosmere-themed party that was still a mystery for us. I would want a game with room for 12-15 players. Mature topics could be alluded to, but preferably nothing too graphic. I would want to have it ready by June 15th, but if that’s not possbile it would be great to have a cosmere murder mystery in my back pocket for later anyways. Thank you to anyone who read this far, even if this project isn’t for you!

The haunted man finally gets to do the haunting for once I am legit laughing so hard right now.

A family friend recommended Mistborn to my dad. He started reading it and thought I would like it. I started the prologue, bounced off, and came back a while later. It happened to be the summer of 2020, so I managed to do nothing but eat, sleep, and read Mistborn for several days. I loved it. When I decided to start reading The Way of Kings, my dad warned me that he’d heard it was a big commitment. I gave him a look that meant “do not underestimate my powers of binge reading” and henceforth read through Brandon’s entire body of work. It has been my mission since to convert all who will listen to the ways of the Cosmere. By my last count, I’ve gotten at least seven other people hooked via my magic powers of Persistent Bugging.

Oh no. Not identity fields. I’m excited.

Everyone loves you Elan!! We’re here for you!!

That does seem to imply that Sigzil gave the dawnshard to Hoid. Hoid may have given it up since, to keep the trail long and stay a few steps ahead of the Night Brigade, but I do think he held it again at least temporarily.

Maybe the technology simply deteriorated? If they didn't have the chorus yet, they wouldn't have been able to create new parts. Maybe they used whatever spaceship they arrived on until it fell apart, and by that point they had sunhearts?

I've always thought Survive could be a dawnshard. This would make sense to be the one Hoid and Sig held. Kelsier mentions during secret history that he heard a voice telling him to Survive when he was in the pits, in a way that reminded me of the voice telling Dalinar to Unite Them. This got me thinking: What if dawnshards can speak to people through the spiritual realm when they need to be nudged in the direction of the dawnshard's intent? What if there are dawnshards whose intent aligns with Survive and Unite? Just an interesting thought that I'd be interested to see what others think of.

I'm very interested to see the origin story of the first Lodestar Zellion. How did he come to worship Adonalsium, and why did he go to Threnody, convert a group of people, and lead them to Canticle? He must have had some very interesting reasoning.

That... That is a good idea. Actually there's an open spot on my wall right now...

Interesting, thanks!

What? Noooooo! I better get on buying the ones I don’t have!

Yeah. Very entertaining.

Same. It’s just too pretty!

1. WHAT WAS DIER’S PLAN THAT HE NEEDED ELIANE’S HELP WITH? Please choose this one if you are going to answer any one of my questions. 2. I want to make sure Ian talks about Sylvain’s backstory. What was his history with Julian, what secrets is he keeping for his family, and what emotional trauma trained him to hide his pain so well? And why do Ian’s characters keep getting their hearts broken by Matt?! 3. A question for Matt: Do you headcannon that any of the NPC’s survive the catacendre? Players, do any of you think your characters could possibly have survived? And just more about Jenna and Dier’s future. Edit: In case anyone was wondering, that last bit of question 2 was a ploy to get Ian to react to it and maybe confirm some stuff about Royce. It worked beautifully.

Yeah, probably.

Yeah. We all know it.

Yeah! I still can’t get over how everyone but Sylvain got their happily ever after!

Thank you for doing this. I can say that this story had me on the trailer and still hasn’t let go of me. This was amazing and I appreciate everyone who worked so hard on this, it truly was worth it.

Wow! A lot of things make a lot more sense now.