Awesomeness Summoned

"One correction Aodan. Cog didn't participate in the tied vote. Only Elo, Wyrm, and myself voted from the Halledren side. Everything else you said is true though and gives me much to think about."

Summon had spent the entire morning trying to make sense of the coded message he was supposed to have delivered to Vard before his unfortunate demise. The letter consisted of random quotes from various Hallendren children's stories. The quotes didn't seem to relate to each other at all. One sentence would be about a lifeless and his talking cricket and the next would reference an awakened snowman who dreamed of summer. There had to be some clue about who killed the man and why. Summon had met the original sender of the message on one of his past deliveries and was sure she'd provide answers under the circumstances but she was days travel away and, If the events of the last two nights were any indication, that was time they likely didn't have. After hours of rereading each line, it finally occurred to him that the answers weren't in the actual words. While an Idrian might have overhead some of those stories, no Hallendren would try and explain to an Idrian the themes and subtle morals each story was supposed to impart to the children they read them to. An Idrian wouldn't understand. The words for each sentence were meaningless. Each sentence represented an idea related to the story they were pulled from. Even after that realization though, the answers were long in coming. No story had one single message so figuring out how each sentence related to the next was a dizzying task but eventually he was able to piece together a logical set of ideas. He knew it wasn't the entire message yet but what it implied was disturbing. Someone from "outside" the peace talks didn't want them to succeed and intended to sow as much discord as possible between the delegations, including killing every member if they had to. It took Summon a few moments to realize someone was calling his name. He turned to find the cook from the local Idrian restuarant offering her hand. It took several seconds later for her words to make sense. Work with an Idrian? He glanced down at the letter in his hand. It was obvious that whoever was trying to destroy the peace talks killed Vard to prevent information passing between the two delegations. Their best chance of success was for the two sides to remain completely in the dark about each other. Summon hated the thought of working openly with an Idrian but the only way they were going to root out the dissidents was information. Summon suspected each and every one of the Idrians and that wouldn't get him anywhere. He would need one of their own people to tell him which were acting even more suspicious than usual. If that meant he'd have to provide the Idrians with the same information about his own people, so be it. Whoever these dissidents were, they were the first priority. He glanced back up at the cook's eyes and held them for a minute then did the same with the guardsmen who seemed to be accepting the offer as well. Decision made, Summon took a deep breath and clasped hands with Aili. "Lets get to work". Edit: grammatical error

I'm gonna have to reiterate what someone said before. Lets please not upvote and downvote anymore just to gain a specific rank or even to find where the cutoff is. That kinda defeats the whole purpose of the reputation system.

If Joe were PK (not saying he is just a scenario) and he was trying to spread misinformation, your correction would have messed with his plans (yes, its a flimsy example but just making a point). And saying that you didn't pass along any information from that pm group is DEFINITELY information about the game.

I'm not the GM or anything but I'm pretty sure you shouldn't be providing that kind of information after your character died, whether it is written OOC or not. Even if it's just to correct an error by someone, it's still providing information about the game.

On paper, that's how it reads but it's actually 15 Idrians remaing (one seeming to be a Hallendren) and 14 Hallendrens

So I had written this out right after clancy's post but got called away by something at work before I could finish and post it. The other posts have made it kind of void now but I put some effort in to it so will go ahead and just post it in blue. As the sun was just cresting the horizon, bathing the morning sky in a vibrant mix of orange and pink hues, Summon arrived at the smithy to deliver a message to Vard, the Idrian who owned it. He expected a rather large tip for such speedy service. Granted, the letter had been given to him for delivery the previous evening but Vard couldn't know that and it's not like the contents of the message were a life or death matter. Summon was disappointed to find the shop empty and could feel his tip dwindling the longer he waited for the lazy smith to arrive and start his work for the day. He noticed a newly made coffin and stepped closer to admire the craftsmanship. "A metal coffin?" It was a little strange but what else could you expect from a smith. Metal was all they thought about. Why wouldn't they want to enter the after life encased in it? Summon was curious how the inside would be furnished and decided a quick peek couldn't hurt. As expected, the lid was quite heavy but after a little effort he managed to crack it open a little. He wasn't sure what he was seeing at first but suddenly jumped back in surprise when his brain finally resolved the picture into the image of a hand, dripping with bright red blood. With a yelp, he stumbled backwards right into a rack of armor and weapons and dove to the side as it began to topple. Everything seemed to be moving in slow motion and Summon watched, enthralled, as the shelves teetered then fell straight into the coffin, knocking it off its supports and spilling the limp form onto the ground. He scrambled to his feet and dashed out of the shop as quickly as he could. Summon had no intention of being anywhere near the body when the Idrians found it. When he was safely away and his mind started working again, he remembered the letter. Proper protocol would have been to return the message but summon had no desire to connect himself to the murder any further than he already had. After a few minutes of debate, he cracked the seal and scanned it's contents. Summon wasn't exactly a scholar but he had basic reading skills and the letter made absolutely no sense to him. He eventually came to the conclusion that the letter was in code. "Typical. The Idrians are so paranoid that they talk in code. Like we even care what they talk about?" He checked his ledger for the name of the person who had sent the message and was surprised to discover the name of a fellow Hallendren. Why would a Hallendren be sending a coded message to the Idrian smith? "Do we have a spy in our midst?" Better yet, "Was the smith actually one of us?" Summon had a lot to think about, not least of which was who he should entrust with what he'd learned. He headed towards his favorite inn. Breakfast always helped him think.

As Brandon always says, there is no "right" way. Pronounce them however feels most right to you.

I'm gonna add some additional bipartisan agreement and backup what Hero and Gamma said. Yes, it makes sense to not have breaths on hand for the PK to steel if they kill you but giving them away at this point is extremely risky. How anyone thinks after one day they have enough information to trust someone with their breath I can't imagine. One of the biggest mistakes we could do is give the PK enough breaths to make nightblood on one of the first nights. That would potentially allow them to kill three people in one cycle (if they successful sway the votes) which could completely turn the tide of the game. To me, it seems like them taking one breath through a kill is far less dangerous to us than if they trick 4-5 people into just handing them a breath and then still also potentially steel a breath through a kill. Lets not do their job for them please. If you have multiple breaths, make a strawman or a rope to keep your breath sequestered. If you only have one breath, hold on to it until you can be absolutely sure its not being given to a PK. If you are dead set on giving your breath away, please don't announce it to the whole group. As Hero said, all that does is help the PK narrow down targets. Edit: color error Edit: I'd also like to agree with Hero that scanning people seems much less helpful if it only tells you information about them before their actions that night.

Here is the quote: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/6803-who-is-khriss/?p=118100

I pronounce everything the same as you except the "al" I pronounce with more of an "uhl" sound such as in partial, artificial, immaterial, primordial, etc.

@aonar, I fail to see how not lynching someone benefits the PK the most. It's all relat Edit: stupid phone ... It's all relative. If Thomas or Ben were PK than a no vote benefits them greatly. If they weren't, then it's a major loss for them because they don't have a body to try and grab and they don't get to reduce the number of people against them. The fact that the vote numbers were so low for both made me believe neither were PK which is why I tried to tie it and make a no vote. From what I've seen previous games, the bad guys are most certainly going to ensure their team doesn't get lynched. With how close the vote was, they would have jumped in to make sure the non PK were lynched. That wasn't the case. It just took one vote at the last minute so unlikely either were PK. It was also very enlightening that as soon as Thomas started getting voted for, two people suddenly switched their votes to counteract it. It could just be the hellendren/Idrian thing but it's definitely going on my list of suspicious behavior.

It was happening just as Summon expected. Those conniving Idrians were using the death of their own ambassador as an excuse to kill a random Hellendren. Poor Ben might die just because of the country he was born in. Well, two can play at that game. Summon held nothing against Thomas but so far he hadn't even attempted to defend the accusations that had been thrown his way. That seemed far more suspicious than anything Ben had done. "Unless someone can give a good reason why Thomas has been suspiciously silent in all this, I also nominate him as suspect for the ambassadors death".

Completely agree. It'll take a few more viewings to be sure, but I'm pretty close to putting it ahead of the first Iron Man (avengers still tops the list) I especially thought they did an outstanding job of making Cap look like the hand to hand badass he's supposed to be. He just devastated people in some of those action scenes and it felt believable how they portrayed it.

It was still svrakiss at 698 so I would say yes. 699 seems an unlikely change point

OOC = Out of Character, so the same as non-RP.

Not saying you are being duplicitous Meta but I'm gonna have to say that claiming to be willing to give up your single breath at this point would be a good way for Pahn Kahl to select early targets. "All you awakened and other people with a heightening go ahead and announce it to me so I know who we can steel breaths from". I also think its detrimental to the group as a whole to start announcing what your role is and the number of breaths you have. It's likely only people without many breaths would do that (since having a lot of breaths would make you a target for the Pahn Kahl). All that announcement does is slightly protect yourself from dying early while making the job easier for the Pahn Kahl by narrowing the list of people for them to target.

I seriously doubt Brandon will use hemalurgy in such an open way in the series. He does want stormlight to be self contained and have the cosmere info be more background stuff. Nightblood can be explained away as just a strange shardblade. A metal spike giving someone knowledge when jammed through the body would require quite a bit more info dumping about the cosmere than I'd expect Brandon plans to do for stormlight.

Summon felt bad for the Idrian ambassador. At least, that was the expression he was trying to represent while looking at the body but he wasn't quite sure he was achieving it. More likely his face was showing frustration at the amount of work this was going to cause him that day. No doubt those devious Idrians will blame the murder on the Hallendrens (Those sneaky lifeless probably murdered the man themselves just to gain bargaining advantage at the peace talks). As messenger, it would be Summon's job to scour the town for all the Hallendren representatives and upraise them of the situation so they could be ready for any maneuvering the Idrians tried. Summon hoped they'd all taken the evening to relax and prepare for the peace talks but knew it was more likely they'd gotten up to all kinds of debauchery last night and would be scattered all over town this morning. He'd have to start searching immediately. Well, first he'd get some breakfast because he'd need the energy. He would probably have to wait an hour or so for the food to digest. Running on a full stomach just wasn't healthy. He'd also probably need to go buy some new shoes. These ones were just too worn out for a day full of running. After that, though, he'd get right into delivering the news. No time for delays.

The Malazan books were hard to start but well worth pushing through until the world starts clicking together. I'd recommend giving them a second try. I've never felt the urge to reread them like I do a lot of my other favorite series but definitely happy to have read them at least once. If nothing else, they are well worth it just to experience Tehol and Bugg. By far, the funniest comedy duo in fantasy literature.

Just take the png's I linked to a fedex printers. I'm pretty sure they make decals.

during one of his discussions with the Stormfather, Dalinar asks him why he sends the visions if he doesn't care about humanity surviving anymore and the Stormfather responds that he has no choice, Honor made it a requirement before he died. That statement coupled with him pretty easily rolling over for Dalinar when he gets forceful about making a bond, makes me think the Stormfather doesn't have freedom in making bonds like some of the other spren do. I think Honor set it up so the Stormfather would have to start a bond with someone worthy (First it was Gavilar, then Dalinar) and start sending the visions when the time was right. He was hoping to bond just enough for the visions but Dalinar is forcing him to complete the process and form a full bond.

Here you go (Clicking the image is the large png and the hyperlink is the svg vector): Bridge 4 Tattoo Freedom Bridge 4 Kholin Tanat Year 1173 My original work on Kaladin's slave glyphs was pulled from the pictures of the hat from the apparel website which wasn't the best source for them. The artwork from inside the book is much cleaner so I remade those traces. Kaladin's Slave Brand Sas Nahn Shash

Here are all the steel alphabet symbols from Alloy of Law. Nothing special, just the simple glyphs for if anyone wants to use them for something: Iron -- Steel Tin -- Pewter Zinc -- Brass Copper -- Bronze Cadmium -- Bendalloy Gold -- Electrum Chromium -- Nicrosil Aluminum -- Duralumin Atium -- Malatium Lerasium

Yeah, after reading the epigraphs from WoR I changed it to that because it's what they called themselves. It also sounds like they dislike the name Dustbringers. Argent's arguments in favor of keeping it as Dustbingers has actually swayed me back to that name but I haven't taken the effort to rename them again. They are both names for the same group so doesn't matter too much.