The Black Tower

So...I like movies. I thought it would be fun to have a thread discussing favorites. If you have favorite scenes you would like to post...do so as well. Favorite movie: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Favorite TV Shows: Hogan's Heroes and the Big Bang Theory

Asha'Man, KILL!! direct, to the point. My favorite. What is yours?

NO practice rolls NO True Power 5 rounds or to 50 damage whichever comes first. All use Asha'Man rank link to Rollers previous stats plus 10 more levels to spread around. Add on your new stats and commence to battling Feyd-Rautha (John Snow) F 30 E 10 A 10 W 10 S 10 Vin ( TinaHel) F 17 E 15 A 12 W 11 S 15

NO practice rolls NO True Power 5 rounds or to 50 damage whichever comes first. All use Asha'Man rank link to Rollers previous stats plus 10 more levels to spread around. Add on your new stats and commence to battling Cyndane (Canukistani) F 10 E 16 A 12 W 16 S 16 M'Hael (Smiley) F 12 E 12 A 12 W 22 S 12

NO practice rolls NO True Power 5 rounds or to 50 damage whichever comes first. All use Asha'Man rank link to Rollers previous stats plus 10 more levels to spread around. Add on your new stats and commence to battling Raistlin (lenlo) F 14 E 16 A 12 W 12 S 16 Hermione (Time) F 13 E 15 A 16 W 14 S 12

Why is everyone trying to earn easy points by making threads?

NO practice rolls NO True Power 5 rounds or to 50 damage whichever comes first. All use Asha'Man rank link to Rollers previous stats plus 10 more levels to spread around Sauron(Rand) F 16 E 16 A 13 W 12 S 13 Moriarty (Basel) F 16 E 15 A 13 W 12 S 14

Despo (The Vampire Lestat) v. Nyanna (Alice Cullen) - from the Anne Rice and Twilight novels Lestat Lestat is a vampire who comes into immortality towards the end of the eighteenth century. He is a twenty-year-old male when he is taken from his mortal life and made a vampire. By the standards of his day, Lestat is tall at six feet. He has thick blond hair that goes to his shoulders and his eyes are gray. He is impetuous by nature, and is never content unless he is creating havoc somewhere. As a new vampire, his first offense to the vampire coven in Paris comes when they discover that he lives among mortals. Never one to live by any rules, he has a natural abil…

It might be that it's wrong because I don't see all the sub-boards, but I am quite sure that the Black Tower is the largest board of DM, except General Discussion and General Wheel of Time Discussion. And YAY for that. We're the biggest Social Group for sure by now.

Tress (Viola) v. Kate (the shrew) Viola Viola is a gentlewoman from a country called Messaline and also the twin sister of Sebastian. Whether disguised as the young man Cesario or in her true identity as Sebastian's sister, Viola is the central character of the play. Not only does the main plot dilemma hinge upon Viola, she is the only one of the characters (or at least the first) who knows its kinks. In this sense, Viola has greater wisdom than the others do, for she is able to objectively evaluate (most) of the events that take place while others remain in the dark. Resourceful, loving and loyal, Viola is an attractive young woman who is able to do what must be …

It just fully registered to me that I've now passed the 30,000 post mark. I'll be at 31 in the next month probably. But I'd've never done it without the BT.

Hello everyone, i am going to be starting an apples to apples game soon. For those of you that don't know the rules, and for those who do know as well, please read the following. 1. The game shall start by me giving 7 cards to every person. 2. I shall play a green card in the main game board and every person shall send in a red card that best matches the green card. The green card shall be an adjective, and the 7 red cards shall be a noun. 3. The red cards can either be related funnily or jokingly. 4. When everyone has either sent in their red cards, or 2 days have passed since I put the green card in the main board, I shall post all the possible choices…

Where's the signup thread for the 100 questions? Because I think I have not done it yet, but I can't find the signup thread on any of the boards.

WolfbrotherKronos has heard the call of the tainty Tower... Let's welcome him with our customary brownies and spam! Mmmmmmm.... extra tainty! So, Kronos... tell us about you! What has drawn you to the Black Tower? Who's your favorite Asha'man? And is there anyone who can verify your whereabouts last Friday night at approximately 10:27 PM Eastern time? *jingles handcuffs behind her back* I'm Tress, not only co-mod of your first mafia game, but Faction Leader of the Light here at the Black Tower - a.k.a. Logain. If you have any questions about the insanity that is the Light faction, or the Black Tower in general, feel free to ask. Our Lady Dragon…

Missed it last year, missed it this year again...

I'M BACK!!!!! (and for real this time)

i wrie this beucse gusss I shuold put eplanatin' i don expc pity or upoort o r undrstnding frm anyoen becuse dont thnk I has many frind here, im jt explainng. staurday I had subrhcnoi d hamorrhage frm get att ck and on th head by my fahter, taht brin haemorrghe. i huoght ws ok so didnt gon hospitl untl nxt moerning and so have sty in the hospitl since surgry, i hav phoen thrugh laptp for intrenet. im don oretty ok becuse lest I cn stll write, a nthnk i get out wednsdau but thy think now I shol stay ntil saturday. Shuldnt hve hppen if not for pressue alredy i had from brain swellng from anasplstc astrcytom a, cancer ive been fightng, guss it was enough to pop somthing then…

I'm traveling for work next week: San Diego mon and tues, LA wed thurs, and ending up in San Fran till I fly home Friday. Anything you BTers recommend I do while there in my down time?

Plus, I haven't started a thread here in QUITE a while. Who's gonna be watching? Anyone NOT loving the Lakers' struggles this early in the season? What in the world was OKC thinking trading Harden?!?!?!?!

I truly understand your pain. I mean, look what we do to this language! Does anyone have any funny stories that they'd like to share, involving them speaking a second language in which they said the wrong word and caused a bit of a mishap in understanding?

Welcome to the second Light vs Shadow week in the one and only Black Tower. Let the taint guide you to our different activities or check out this post. (If you really want to know what´s going on I suggest that you take a look at this post because the taint rarely take you were you want to go.) I will post links to our activities as soon as the threads are up. To those of you that have never visited the Black Tower before, please have a brownie or two. They will make you feel...ehm... Well, just try one. Enjoy yourself and may the taint be with you. BT Mafia Game - read along to see what will happen to the BT. Let me know if you want to be a back up. The u…

Ithillian walked into the Arena carrying a strange object. Actually, after trying to lift the ridiculously heavy thing, and finding no helpful Asha’man, Storm Leaders or even the Logain or M’Hael nearby to help, she decided to cheat and Channelled Air to lift and carry it to the centre of the Arena. Luckily the thing wasn’t active yet or who knows what would have happened. The thing itself was ancient looking and it had come from either very far away, or close by depending on how you looked at it. The Portal Stone that had taken her and the M’Hael to that other reality had been involved and she had had to do some serious negotiating to ‘borrow’ it. It was perhaps fou…

So it has come to my attention that i have 2 days to hand out... a lot of points. No really. I have a lot. You shiny happy points-mongers know what to do - figure out what makes Tress happy, and put it here! The original thread is here if you need help figuring out what makes me happy. Those who have the time and inclination, I'm still up for more sigs to spruce up my rotation... Sigs are worth 10 points if they're FTW and I snag them. Other random happy-making things will be awarded at 5 points each. On your mark... get set.... go!

So, as storm leader and paladin, I have 20 more points to give away, and today is the last day. No criteria, no theme, just do what you do best and ill award points arbitrarily

First, two announcements on changes for Hot Thread points: 1) Effective for October Hot Threads - each threshold of 50 replies gets 5 points no matter when it crosses the threshold - it has been calculated incorrectly in the past, but there are a maximum of 15 points available per thread. 2) Effective for November Hot Threads - "spam your own" threads in The Village will no longer be counted for Hot Thread points. Faction tasks to create solo spam threads will be awarded task points only. Other threads in The Village aside from official staff announcements and 100 Questions threads are still eligible for Hot Thread points. Things were a bit less spammy than …

Dice (Kalten) v. Maw ( Martel) from David Eddings' Elenium and Tamuli books Kalten Sir Kalten is a tall blonde-haired, blue-eyed man, a Pandion Knight and one of the principal companions of Sparhawk. Kalten was taken in by Sparhawk's family after his parents were killed. While growing up together, Kalten and Sparhawk became close friends and were more like brothers than anything else. Unlike Sparhawk, Kalten has a very care-free nature and prefers charging into battle rather than thinking things through. Kalten was the one who gave Sparhawk his broken nose when they were, as Kalten says, 'just playing around' as young boys (something Aphrael nearly disassembled hi…

WoT (Hermione Granger) v. Cyan ( Bellatrix Lestrange) Hermione Hermione's most prominent features include her prodigious intellect and cleverness. She is levelheaded, book-smart and is very good with logic. She is often bossy yet unfailingly dutiful and loyal to her friends—a person who can be counted on. Despite Hermione's intelligence and bossy attitude, she has quite a lot of vulnerability in her personality, as well as a sense of insecurity underneath, and to compensate, she tries to be the best at everything at school, projecting a false confidence that can irritate people. Hermione is an exceptionally talented young witch, and is a borderline genius. Sh…

Welcome to the Black Tower! Sit down, have a couple of tainted brownies and tell us all about yourself? For how long have you been reading WoT? Do you have a favourite asha´man? What is your credit card number? And most important, who is your brother? You will soon be added to our secrete boards.

Turin (Paul Atreides) v. John Snow ( Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen) Paul A primary theme of Dune and its sequels is Frank Herbert's warning about society's tendencies to "give over every decision-making capacity" to a charismatic leader. He said in 1979, "The bottom line of the Dune trilogy is: beware of heroes. Much better to rely on your own judgment, and your own mistakes." Paul rises to leadership through military strategy and political maneuvering, but his superhuman powers and ability to fit himself into pre-existing religious infrastructure allow him to force himself upon mankind as their messiah. As "Muad'Dib," Paul becomes the central figure of a new religion, an…

As usual - 5 points for signing in. This months theme is crafts. The Asha´mans focus is to build and form the landscape in and around the Black Tower. Have you built anything? Or do you like to create other things? 5 additional points for telling us about it. DO ONLY POST ONCE! When I was younger I loved to embroider and knit. I also used to write a lot. It´s a great feeling when you can look at something and say "I have done this". I don´t create much now days, if you don´t count my attempts at making siggies of course.