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We're all weird, Joe. It's why we find FeatherWriter so charming ; )I'd second that. It actually sort of fits with the cinematic style of FATE core,mat least based on what you've implied about it, to have a secret stay a secret off-screen, reveal it, then BAM, flashbacks as to how it happened. It also lets us start a betting pool on what the reveal might be.

Editing in as I read, don't delete this post, not spam, yadda yadda yadda. You know the drill by now. Scene One If I was playing this game, I think I'd be nervous. This act opens up so... happily. Maybe I'm just cynical, but somehow I expect horrible, horrible things to happen this act at some stage. Besides my paranoia, though, this general optimism fits in pretty well, following from the epilogue and the intermissions. Everyone seems to be gelling together even better than they were before, as indicated by Seikko actually talking to Sylvie, and Sylvie responding, fairly civilly, back. It makes a pretty big lull in tension, which makes the fact that Katie calls Sylvie by her last name-and the fact that Sylvie noticed it- all the more ominous. Despite the intermission, Sylvie is still a little bit isolated from the group. And the reason I say a little is because of the Mike situation. It seems like that could make Sylvie open a bit more, and I'm curious to see how this develops. After all, she was more aware of Katie calling her by her surname, meaning she might be more vulnerable now, but it seemed to me as if she was treating Mile, and reacting with him, similarly to how she would have done with Vee. She didn't really engage in talking with the group because she was texting, and then when she needed information on Zhu, she text him. It's a logical progression, of course, but with her history I wonder if it means she's trading one obsession for another... For some reason, Eleanor's choice of fashion threw me. It might be because I associate her with the more social aspects of the game- so you can probably imagine how excited I am about the upcoming stealth mission- but, even though. I'm sure it was mentioned at some point, I have trouble picturing in her combat boots and military-camo pants. Again, like Sylvie, she seems to be a lot more open with the rest of the crew now; I'm not sure how many if them were exactly aware of the truth behind her father and mother, but the fact that she is mentioning her mother and wearing clothing to Miranda and Seiko would seem to suggest that she's getting more social. Just... Remind me not to tell her about my fourteenth birthday party, or let her near any photos of my family. It's interesting to compare Seiko and Katie's attitudes. The former is making an effort to engage with Sylvie, while Katie is pulling away from her. The brief mention of fiVe being with Katie could be interesting, as well; it makes me wonder if fiVe and Vee were in contact in the interim time and how that might have rubbed off on them. And I'm not sure what to say about it just yet, but Miranda seems quite a bit more comfortable with her relationship with Seiko now. It was a bit jokey, maybe, but the fact that she didn't seem embarrassed or avoided it seems significant, somehow. Scene Two Having Katie and Sylvie together is great; I love the tension that's in the dialogue between them, the way Katie is being terse and doesn't realise she might be saying anything wrong while Sylvie is maybe being a little over-sensitive to what she's saying. I sort of don't want to comment on the actual dialoupgye between them, for the same reason that Katie and Sylvie keep getting their wires crossed. It's a very delicate subject matter, which I think is handled well, and I'm worried that trying to overanalyse it would end up in making me sound like a homophobic bastard with great taste in whiskey. Suffice it to say that I love this scene. Scene Three Well this isn't ominous at all, is it? I like the fact that we are getting a look at the Jaeger facilities. As someone who has never seen the film, I would have liked to see more, but the fact that Eleanor is impressed, and the description of the tang of gunpowder and metal, helps build an idea of the grandeur of the place. As always, I like the social snooping things, so most of what I say would end up being rehashes of that. I admit I'm a bit leery about Eleanor's performance here, since she's getting more involved in the investigation than I might have expected her to- but then, she did identify herself as Eleanor, rather than a model, and it's being influenced by Doyle a bit. And about Foyle... This is where the homophobic part might come in. I hope that all the time I've heaped praise on Zhu will counteract any idiocy I say here, but as a technical point, I think I would have preferred if you had used male or female pronouns before xe asked for those to be used. The male/female ones have been used up to this point for all other NPCs, and I just think it might have made the contrast and the point a lot stronger when xe asked for these to be used instead. Besides that, Doyle is really likeable. I'm a tad suspicious of xer, because of the scar and my own cynicism, but... Yeah. I like xer. Xe's also the first character I can think of who seems romantically interested in El, so I'm curious to see how that develops, especially if the scar is the result of something sinister.

That's the real moral of the story, kids. Don't do drugs. Put in the journey to get a natural high! Without having read the Word of Radiance extracts (they'll just make me want it now!), I would say the Shin probably know more about the past desolations than the other nations do. That's not to say they are right, of course, and it all depends on what causes the death whispers; it might be that they are just more aware of the cognitive/spiritual realms than the other races of Roshar. What seems interesting to me, though, is that it's a sailor who knows what Taravangion is doing. That seems to suggest that that sort of knowledge is fairly well disseminated throughout Shinovar, rather than just being held by priests or scholars.

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Congratulations. You just put my ninja count up to two ; )

damnation it, there's some kind of a joke there about how Green Arrow is a social avenger, but I can't think of it. I really need to post more often and get my aim back in. Anyway, welcome to the forums. I'm really interested to hear anything you might have to say about the Wheel of Time, actually. I'm slightly backwards in that I found Sanderson and only started to read Jordan because of his recommendation, but In have to admit that, three books in, the series isn't grabbing me the way I thought it should. I guess you could say that liking Sanderson before Jordan makes me quite contrary, eh?

So, you lurked around in the background of all the forums, without anyone realising you were there or that you were omnipresent, and only came forward to find information on Hoid? I think we've identified the third person at the Purelake, guys.

Oh, I wouldn't worry about cheating. I was researching Shards while I waited for my copy of HoA to arrive, and accidentally found our about Harmony. If my cheating didn't get me expelled, you should be fine too ; ) Anyway, welcome to the forum, and I'm glad to hear that, even if it's taken you a while to post something, you decided to dive right in with away of a kings theories. It's like pulling off a band -aid; do it quick, and get it over with. The pain lasts a second, the rewards last a lifetime. (What? No, of course I haven't posted Way of Kings theories. Band- aids hurt.)

Spain, huh? That place with all the beaches and water? You must already be familiar with White Sand then. (Urgh. That was painful. Inactivity has softened my rapier wit.) Anyway, don't take my poor attempt at humour the wrong way. The people here are generally a lot funnier, and share your passion for Brandon's writing and the cosmere. Hope to see you around, and I hope you enjoy yourself.

I abstain from voting. I realise that won't have any kind of impact; Digits currently has nine votes, so unless he makes an impassioned plea or there is a last minute avalanche of voting, it seems safe to say he's the man whose being killed today. That being said, I'm not a fan of voting him down, albeit it for "feelings" rather than logic. So here's hoping that, even if I'm not the one holding the knife to him, not holding the knife might convince people who to vote for, either in the last minute scramble, or in future days. EDIT Ten. damnation it Grayv, I'm supposed to be the ninja here, not you!

So, I've been trying to work on this, and keep running into a stumbling block. I ended the last chapter on a revelation for a cliffhanger, but the next part I had in mind didn't quite fit with what I was going to do for chapter four. Of course, these are all first drafts anyway, so rather than spend any longer trying to put a square peg in a round hole, I'm just posting this as chapter three's post-script. (The idea of drawing more attention to this thread may or may not have factored into it.) On another note, this short addition pushes Kayla's story to roughly 10k words. It's not much, but given my scatterbrained attitude to attention, it might be the most I've written for an on-going story. It's rough, but I still feel inordinately proud. Anyway, here's the in-between scene (less than five hundred words) and Ill try and pick up the pace on this soon, for anyone who is still reading. Story Two: Kayla {Ongoing} Chapter Three.Five- Addendum Kayla fidgeted. Now that the words had been said, they couldn’t be taken back, so they were left to hang, almost palpably, in the air between them. Sheron’s head was cocked to one side, and Kayla could see the questions focusing in her mind- what, and how, and why, and- “That’s bad,” she said slowly. Kayla felt like she was sinking into the floor. “Well,” she began, “that’s why I don’t-” “He’s probably going to hang for it,” the Vennishwoman continued. “You know that, don’t you?” Kayla looked up. Her friend was looking at her as casually as ever. Her lips twisted into a frown. Sheron rose to her feet, and took the wanted poster from Kayla. She stared at it, turning it one way and then the other, as if to try and examine Roren from different angles. Her eyes flickered over the words at the bottom of the page. “But then,” she said softly, “if he did beat him- and if it was a public beating- he might want to be caught. Hanging would be quick.” Kayla shook her head. “No. I know- knew Roren. He doesn’t think like that.” She sat down on her bunk, and began pulling at the sheets. “He’d think he could get away with it, she continued. “Once he realised who he was dealing with, I’d bet he made a line for the gates and out of Tamith. Try and hide somewhere for a few weeks until this calms down, then sneak back in.” “And where would he go to hide?” Sheron handed the sheet back to Kayla, who folded it in her pocket. “I don’t know that. But I know who might know.” “And who’s that?” Kayla smiled, and without looking in a reflection, she knew it must look sickly. “You wanted to know how I got leave,” she said. “You’re about to find out.”

I have to say, I'm a tad reluctant to vote for someone based on inactivity. If they were the Inquisitor, I'd have expected them to, minimally, make votes often enough that we don't get suspicious by them ignoring it completely. I'm more inclined to think they've just forgotten about the game entirely. (If they haven't, and this really is part of a plan, then good job sirs.) I'm hesitant to vote for Digits or Mathieu, since it seems like a wasted vote if they are just being inactive. There's less than five hours left (I think?) and I'm unlikely to be here for that whole time, so I'll vote before I go, but I'm still waiting to be convinced. Right now, my decisions are based more on gut instinct rather than logic, and my gut is telling me that attacking the doctor would be a waste of time. After all, he'll just regenerate anyway, right?

I... think I'd be in favour of the information being posted, with the caveat that you give some kind of indication as to why you think the way you do. That was the problem with the last vote; I was prepared to follow you since we had no other leads, but we could have used a bit more information; it might have helped us avoid killing Shimble. Even if your list is wrong, it can give us a starting point for finding discrepancies, narrowing the target pool and starting some debate. This is a game where we need to know each other's thought processes. Have Digits and Mathieu voted at all? If they haven't, I'd be reluctant to knock one of the inactive players out as the 'safe bet'.

(Oh, and since I'm going soon and I'm bored, here's some Quillion roleplay) The master of the Canton of Orthodoxy listened to Quillion's report carefully before dismissing him. The obligator was grateful for any excuse to be out from under Lord Ollivier's eyes, but he didn't relax. He spent the night slumped in a chair in his chamber, his duelling canes crossed and with a blanket draped over him. The bed was fluffed, artfully posed, and Quillion kept his vigil, alert for any sound from behind the door, or a figure at the window. He felt relief ease out of him as the sun rose and the mists curling around his window vanished. For a second, he wondered at that; the mist had been lingering more and more each day. Then he realised what the mists burning away meant, and his excitement every other thought out of his mind. Alive again! It was slightly sobering. Well, it's bad that I'm getting to the point where I can be grateful for that, but still... He offered an internal prayer to the Lord Ruler. He changed- Lord Ollivier would note and disapprove of it if he didn't- and steeled himself for another tension-filled day in his master's service. "--And one last thing, Quillion," Lord Ollivier said as he finished relaying his orders. He shuffled some sheets on the table. "You might be interested to know, but it would seem all of your friends survived the night." They aren't my friends, Quillion thought, remembering the way they had turned on Shimble. The only people there he didn't completely distrust were the noblewoman and her terrisman- 'and,' a small voice added, 'the mistborn'. He shook his head to dislodge the thought. "Good," he said aloud, trying to smile. "That mean's that perhaps these skaa aren't as incompetent as we thought." He had a sudden sense that he said the wrong thing. Ollivier stared at him cooly over the rims of his glasses, and Quillion swallowed. At that moment, he'd rather have been facing the Lord Ruler himself. Lord Ollivier spoke slowly, as if to a child. "It means our rouge Inquisitor had a more pressing need for the skaa than to kill them." Quillion frowned. "But... my lord? What would an Inquisitor need with a skaa?" "My dear boy, where do you think Inquisitors come from?" The words seemed to echo and hang in the room for hours, but Quillion knew it could only have been a handful of seconds. Lord Ollivier waved him away. "Now, go and meet with your friends, Quillion. You have a busy day ahead of you."

Hm. It sounds like I may have made up more complaints than actually existed. Wierd. Thanks for setting me straight on that though. As I said, I didn't want to come across as ungrateful, because I do appreciate the work Brandon puts in; the amount of work he puts in is why I was so surprised by the amount that seemed "wrong", which... seems to have been misinformation I made up. Which is wierd. Thanks again Weiry.

New theory: Sigzil "murdered" Adonalsium. Honestly, I haven't read Way of Kings in a long time, so I ended up conflating Sigzil and Moash's stories of murder. The main thing I remembered abot Sigzil was the "apprentice to Hoid" part.

You know... I hate to sound ungrateful, because I'm not. Brandon publishes more books in a year than most authors do in two or (in the case of GRRM) a lot more than that (it's mandatory for ASoIaF fans to diss Martin's writing speed, right?). It also isn't really that big a deal for me, since I had the paperback copy of Way of Kings, with the strange, sort of misty art to it (I'll try and find it). Anyway, as I'm trying to say without using more brackets... am I the only one who is slightly bothered by the errors in WoK? The cover isn't a deal breaker, but, considering how important people are speculating Natan's attributes are, the fact they got swapped around is rather annoying. I also believe I read something about some of the surges being in the wrong place on the endpapers? Are there corrected editions of these available?

Heh. I definitely feel your pain with regards the AA. Whenever you join a forum where everyone (and I mean everyone) is talking about the endpapers, and the names of the orders of the Radiants which you could have sworn hadn't been mentioned yet, and what all the surbindings are, and Shadesmar and... Yeah. It gets confusing. Then again, I'd imagine you're used to confusing things in Wonderland, so you should fit right in. Welcome to the forum.

Upvotes get handed out for anything from serious contributions to "this made me laugh". When I was reading through my reputation(I'm an egomaniac, what can I say?) I was surprised to realise that this post had more reputation attached to it than anything else I'd written, serious or comedic. It made me wonder if anyone else has anything similar, where they are surprised or proud at the amount of reputation they've received for anything.

All right, so we now have two Inquisitors to deal with; while losing someone to Ironeyes is bad, it's still far from a hopeless situation. So I'm going to repeat what I suggested before; since we have 36 hours, we need to make the most of it. I'm going to hold my vote off until as late as possible, so I can read all the debates regarding everyone before making a sensible decision, rather than locking myself down early on. So, maybe not starters, but... Peng. Care to tell us why you thought Wes should have died, and what you think of the new situation? (And by 'discuss everyone, yes, I'm including me, and yes, I'll defend myself when I'm called out. I just think that, if there's a chance we could start losing two guys a night minimum, we're going to have to start being more deliberate and thorough for our daylight assassinations.) I have a suspicion regarding Roban, since he mentioned voting for the terrisman in the night phase... but that might not be completely fair, so don't take that as a vote(or as my pointing at anyone- I'm just voicing a grievance so Roban can defend himself from it. If anyone wants to do the same to me then... do it. The sooner we can lock down as many "good" team members as possible, the better.)

Desolation kind of fits the etymology of Preservation or Cultivation. I suppose it could be possible; Hoid described Odium as the most terrifying of the shards, but we know he isn't the most powerful of them. He might be a more insidious character, directing Desolation where to strike like a dog. I suppose, as well, that Desolation could be considered the opposite of Adonalsium, so if it isn't a Shard, it might be the force responsible for the Shattering to begin with. That said, I don't really buy into this. At the moment, while having a walking personification of an apocalypse might be cool, Aimar is right; Brandon kinda already did that with Ruin. There are ways to twist it, of course, since this would be a case of another shard directing someone's intent, but right now, unless you could find some quotes that refer to the Desolation in that regard, it seems unlikely. (Unlikely, but interesting, so have an upvote.)

I don't think so. We know events in each book series, such as how long Alloy of Law takes place after after Mistborn, or that the previous desolation was 4,500 years before the current timeline in Stormlight Archive. We also have a very rough outline of where books fit together- Way of Kings is sometime after Elantris- and Brandon has mentioned that the books published so far have been-roughly- in a chronological order. Even so, I think there are far too many gaps to be constructing a detailed timeline yet. For instance, we don't know how long Honour and Cultivation were invested on Roshar before Odium appeared, how many Desolations there were until the Heralds or how much time passed between them. Then we'd have to dial backwards from there towards whenever Adonalsium shattered. At the moment there are too many blank spaces I think, though some sort of a rough timeline might be applicable.

Maybe it isn't connected to Odium, but music does seem to be a big part of the background of Roshar. There were the dawnsingers, besides the whole music song thing that the Parshendi practice. Actually... I wonder if this will have any kind of reference to the Silmarillion? The central image of creation in that was fantastic, of the gods singing the world into existence, and one of them did end up being the Dark Lord mark I. Maybe this could be Brandon's version of it.

Welcome! From your interest in the Weiring Excuses podcast, I, guessing you're a writer. In that case, I hope that you'll take the time to post some of your work online here; I love reading new pieces. In the meanwhile... Welcome! Again! Repetition!

Give a skaa a knife, and he'll try to stab his betters with it. That was something Quillion's father had always told him, but the reality of it didn't quite sink in until now, until he saw a group of thieves decide who should live and who should die, and heard his name- his!- put forward for the block. There was some debate amongst them, as to whether they should kill him or Lord Ollivier, but that wasn't much consolation. Neither was their decision, in the end, to turn on Shimble. Quillion didn't like the man- his nose was still bent from the first night in the bar- but... he was nobility. Minor, perhaps, a bastard almost certainly... but a noble. The sight of skaa crawling over him with knives, stabbing, and piercing, and cutting... He shivered. His only consolation was that the Mistborn, Peng, hadn't advocated it. He hadn't acted to stop it, but even so... Quillion thought he heard something about "knowing his place' echo in his mind faintly, but that didn't seem to be it. He frowned, biting his lip. He didn't want to spend the rest of the night thinking about the Mistborn, and he certainly didn't want to spend it under the same roof as a group that had voiced killing him. He wasn't sure he wanted to go outside, either, but what choice did he have? Before he left, however, he sidled up alongside Cessie. "A word of caution my lady," he whispered. He nodded towards the stains of Shimble's blood on the floor. "Do not become comfortable here. That's what they always do to people like us in the end." He picked up his two duelling canes, slid them under his coat, and left. The night was cold and dark. He couldn't see the stars overhead for the mist, or the buildings to either side. It was cold. Quillion shifted in his cloak, raising his duelling canes and hoping he wouldn't have to use them. Professionally, a small part of his mind was trying to record the days events, but he knew enough to realise that was just a distraction from his real concern. That after how the day had gone, he wasn't sure he was going to survive the night.