Cloaked Mystery

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]

@whalekeeper

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@everyone

Update: thanks for your prayers, everyone! Mom is feeling better now, and we’re thinking that she was feeling bad for some reason other than getting sick. (She’s been under some stress preparing for Christmas, and that’s the short answer. She has some other health problems that are related, but kind of compl…[Read more]

Kate

Aa Kate looked up at the Snake and the other dragon, thinking about how to get the dragons close enough, the green stone dropped.

Kate ran towards it as it fell, both dragons diving for it. As it neared the ground, she swung the Arclash. It whipped the stone out of the way of the dragon’s snatching claws. The stone glimmered as it flew a…[Read more]

Messing with physics is fun.

So to go back to the punch example, basically it’s going to feel like punching someone twice as heavy. It will be a little different, because every part of them will feel like it has more inertia. So if you punch them in the stomach, it’s going to feel twice as stiff. You will be delivering twice as much force, however, so they will still rea…[Read more]

Let me think through a simpler example.

Two identical balls collide in the air with equal kinetic energy. One is affected by Negative Dilation, and is moving twice as slow. It still has equal kinetic energy. If neither was dilated, and the collision was elastic, they would essentially reverse direction. So the time dilation will cause no d…[Read more]

Actually, thinking about the physics of collisions, perhaps the fist would experience extra recoil? Maybe I can think about this in terms of everything having twice as much inertia compared to the user.

@trailblazer

My mom is always up before me, and my dad slightly after. Usually it’s my younger brother that needs to be woken up.

@highscribeofaetherium @thearcaneaxiom

The time dilation powers include a physics problem that I need to solve.

The question is one of energy. Normally when something is moving faster, it has more energy, and when it’s slower, it has less energy. But what about when you’re messing with time speed? If someone is slow and they throw a punch, is…[Read more]

Ooh, I should also add that we have a tradition of cinnamon rolls for breakfast on Christmas.

1. We have a Christmas Eve service.
2. No
3. Home Alone
4. Cookies
5. Mom and dad get all of us kids gifts. We kids do a gift exchange where each of us buys for a different person each year.
6. Christmas morning as soon as everyone is up…and if someone takes too long, everyone starts singing Joy to the World. (I’ve never needed to be woken up. Exc…

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@trailblazer

Yep. Mom is still up and about and she isn’t sure if she is getting sick yet, so we’re going ahead with preparations. If she is sick that will almost definitely mean cancellation, but we’re not sure yet.