Cloaked Mystery

@loopylin

I don’t think Vlydia would be carrying any contraband. She doesn’t carry any weapons, because she can generate crystals as weapons from her arms. She probably wouldn’t attend that class anyway, because she would already know how. If none of the characters are doing anything outside of that, I can wait, or just throw her in there anyway. Thanks!

Okay, I’ll also go ahead and say that Dimension and Conversion are also not my favorite powers, so it’s also possible I will change them. I can’t think of anything very interesting to do with the Resonance of Arcane Manipulation, so the result was Conversion. I’m not planning on having any of the Arcane powers being particularly important to the…[Read more]

I know I said I was done with this magic system. But there was one power I didn’t really like: Age. I have now replaced it. Introducing the Resonance of Destiny.

Destiny: The Resonance of Temporal Manipulation

Destiny is the Resonance of Temporal Manipulation. It allows the user to explore alternate pasts and futures, focused on one object.…[Read more]

@everyone

Okay, I’m going to introduce my character now, but I’ll wait to RP till I get a bit of a debriefing about what is happening.

Vlydiana Hsrinar

(Pronounced Vlid-ee-on-a Hsree-nar. The Hrinien people are very fond of mashing consonants together, as you can see. Luckily for everyone else’s characters, she goes by Vlydia (like the name…[Read more]

@hybridlore

I found it very interesting. I knew that man was the king literally the moment he appeared. Maybe I’m just good at that sort of guessing, because I don’t think it was super obvious, but just so you’re aware. I’m assuming you don’t want most readers to realize that right away? You might want to somehow make it a little less obv…[Read more]

@rae

I think I get it. I’m probably always going to read it in my head as “realm” with an n (nothing sounds wrong about that to me) just cause that’s how it looks. So it’s basically just that there’s a bit of separation between the vowels in the middle? Or do you actually pronounce a sharp “EE” sound in there? Is it more like the word “real”, but…[Read more]

@rae

I can’t think of anything right now, (although I do still have to introduce my new character), but I might later. If someone else wants to, go ahead.

I must correct something I said earlier. I got the schedule for the books off a bit.

Here is the schedule, copy-pasted from the source:

December 2024: Wind and Truth

Spring 2025: Skyward Legacy One(?)

December 2025: White Sand Novel/Dark One(?)

Spring 2026: Skyward Legacy Two(?)

December 2026: Skyward Legacy Three(?)

December 20…

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@rae

The story overall was good. I’m not sure the framing device you used was necessary. There are a few typos and awkward sentences, but I won’t bother pointing them out unless you would like me to. I feel like you were a bit heavy on getting the “moral” across. It might be better to let Nahim/the reader figure it out on his/their own. The act…[Read more]

I finished Dawnshard. It was pretty good, but since I don’t think anyone else on here has read it yet, I’ll hold my comments.

Here’s another thing I’m wondering about with time dilation: aging.

You might think the answer is simple: negative dilation makes you age slower, and positive dilation makes you age faster. But what causes aging? From my understanding, it’s largely caused by cosmic rays from outer space. Because of that, I think that Positive Dilation will …[Read more]

I also read the Eleventh Metal and Allomancer Jak. I’m not going to say much about them, because there isn’t much to say.

The Eleventh Metal is one scene long, and it doesn’t have anything particularly useful to say. It’s still fun, but nothing amazing.

Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Etania is even more useless. It’s supposed to be funny, bu…[Read more]

Here are my thoughts on Mistborn Secret History. I’ll note from the beginning that I had already been spoiled on most of the important things in this book, and that I’m sure it would have been far more enjoyable if I didn’t know anything beyond Mistborn Era 1 and 2.

There are two big issues that jump out at me. First is that it feels disjo…[Read more]

Okay, so, having read Edgedancer, here are some thoughts on it.

I would say that everything in it was just decent. Decent character development, decent plot, et. There isn’t too much to say. For me having already read OB and RoW, it wasn’t particularly enjoyable, because everything in it was stuff I could piece together pretty easily. You…[Read more]

For Christmas, I got Arcanum Unbounded, Dawnshard, and Elantris. So far I read the entire Scadrial section of Arcanum Unbounded, as well as Edgedancer. I am a few chapters into Dawnshard. I’ll post my thoughts on each of them as I finish them (but I’m not gonna start till tomorrow.)

@whalekeeper

Yes, I know mostly what to expect. I kind of feel like doing something different than the other RPs I’m in.

@highscribeofaetherium @rae @whalekeeper @beth-torres

Oh dear, it’s been so long since we RPd! I don’t have time right now, but I’m going to introduce a new character.

Kazriac

Kazriac is a dull dark gray colored suit of armor. He wears a black cloak, with a hood that can be pulled over the helmet. His voice is echoey and sounds distant. He can…[Read more]

Hey everyone, I’ve been considering jumping into this RP for a while, and I think I will. Does someone want to give me a bit of an intro into what’s going on? (Don’t worry about doing it until after the holidays.)

Note: I accidentally use the term Connection to refer to the Resonance of Conjunction, several times, which is a mistake. At the end, I also used the term A-Absorption instead of Absorption. This is leftover from when Reduction was called Energetic Absorption and had to be distinguished.

Alright, I have arrived at what I think is the final form of Crystal Binding, except the name (I still want to change that.)

My solution to the positive/negative/neutral naming scheme was to make that the generic type, but then use the terms “Connection”/”Amplification”, “Manipulation”, and “Separation”/”Detraction” as more specific name. The f…[Read more]