The Stormfather

Uhhh I can’t drink yet, so, good guess. TPBM is going to have a username based on a storm light character or meme.

Unrelated, but I just decided that my character Arc's dad was named Ark. his brother was named Bark. His other brother was named Barc

I just remembered when my character actually blackmailed callie. That was so funny, I can remember telling @The Sibling "If I can't burn down the entire forest, then I'm blackmailing the gamemakers!"

So, basically, all of you have time for interaction amongst each other for the next i'll say two days and then the journey to the perpendicularity will start. good?

It's totally white sands.

Yeah, the solution was just taking off all the weights. On to the first case! I'm goign to assign all of the players to the same spot just to make this easier for me. The captain you have been assigned to introduces himself as Synwyl. She is a scadrian terriswoman, who clearly has metalminds but didn't say anythign about them. She gives this spiel to all of the people independently, but the talks are all about the same. This is one of them, "So, time for you're first case. This one.... Well, I'll just say that we might not be starting you off too easy. No cases for us are easy. We don't actually get many cases, so you'll probably be able to use a lot of resources and connections to figure out who's been doing this. (Context : Interplanetary trade happens. Roshar sends crystals and gems to scadrial, who sends aluminum back, horneaters claim they have a lightweaver who is soulcasting. There. Boom. Context!) "six days ago, one of the shipments of aluminum and cadmium from scadrial was robbed. It was still inside Shadesmar, which baffles me. There were three guards on the ship, a human and two reachers. They claim that they saw a person... swimming through the ocean. The person popped out, snapped the giant chains holding one of the crates in place, lifted the big crate (Weighed about 1000 pounds) and leapt into the ocean. Noone saw anything of them after. They moved so quickly, and the guards were too shocked to do anything. We suspected that they might be a full feruchemist, using a combination of tricks to swim through the ocean. That might explain the fast movement and the super-strength, but they would have had no way to gain momentum in the ocean. We thought about that for a while before realizing it was too far-fetched. Maybe they were a steelrunner, but they clearly had some other powers. We suspect they are scadrian, for obvious reasons. We're bringing in the three guards to see what it was they saw, but the reachers can't leave shadesmar. You all need to travel to the horneater peaks. be swift, and do not let anyone see you use an invested art. You are dismissed."

(I can tell you the solution so we can skip all the tests. I didn't realize they would take this long and we could get this going. I have a couple good ideas for cases that'll happen.) Also, @Brik_head you can join.

A series about cats for littler kids but it’s still pretty good. They live in the wild and there’s murders and wars and ghosts and magic and lots of random stuff and very convoluted family lines.

I would come, but, it's in the wrong country.

Yes, only one is unbalanced.

Well I'll be darned

Obviously stick would have caterpillars to carry them.

So basically there is three scales. one has two heavy weights, too heavy to carry, one has four and four small weights, and another has seven and eight small weights. The smalls are still very heavy, but liftable. "Balance all three scales."

You next. @Ookla thePresentParticiple, you pass. Who is your character? Sorry, I've got a lot to keep track of. Also, maybe I'm going to make it that each person only has to pass one test so that this can move a bit faster.

the room is about ten feet tall, and the holes go up to around your height. @Ookla thePresentParticiple

Darts continue to shoot for a few minutes, then stop. The ground has been peppered with darts, but no more are shot from the holes. That is only the first of three sets of darts, however...

Oh, yeah. I'll change that.

TFE spoilers. SH spoilers too.

I want a cat but literally my entire family is allergic to them. I like hamilton! Speaking of cats, Have you read Warriors?

Darts shoot into the plank. To clarify, the holes are in a pattern, not just random. Every three feet or so, there is a row of four holes in the wall, that goes up and down. The side of the wall that the holes are on alternates, and there is four sets of them in the hallway.

"no. Something else." You here Alan's voice. A box is dropped from a trapdoor in the cieling. "Here is everything you will need." Inside is a plank of wood, maybe two feet across and six inches wide, also inside is a key, along with a small toolbox, nails hammer, screws, screwdriver. "Let me demonstrate" The voice says. A mechanical arm pops out of the wall, picking up a random stone on the ground and tossing it. Darts pop from the holes as it passes them. "This is part one of your test, starting now."

Including humans? Alan leads you to an empty room with a few benches and he says it will be a fe wminutes to set up. He then leads you to a seemingly empty hallway, although holes in the wall at every second tile say that something is afoot.

It drops down, deactivated. " Congrats!" next test is... ... @Ookla thePresentParticiple's problem solving obstacle course. What is zhanat's greatest skill?

The rope wraps it's legs and drops it to the floor. It begins to drag itself towards Maki.

Sighsleeper sticks into the joint, and a metallic roar comes from the beast. It swings its arm wildly. "To win, it only has to not be able to fight back!" Alan shouts. The beast tries to throw Maki away by swinging itself wildly.