Monday, June 20, 2011

Oathstone Contest

This month has been full of commuting kids, trying to get settled into our new home, and general family craziness. So, I'm a little late posting this month's contest.  Sorry!

Szeth. If you have his Oathstone he has to do whatever you say. What would you have him do for you if you only had 1 week to hold his Oathstone? Comment below and you'll be entered into a drawing for a free t-shirt! I think I'll give away 3 this month...

And do yourself a favor... check back in a week to see if you won.  Last month's winner didn't email me back so they didn't get their shirts.  I was very sad that I didn't get to send out any free shirts. Very sad!

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Good Luck!!
Kara

54 comments:

  1. I'd send him to see a psychologist so he could work out his issues. Self-imposed slavery has to mess with your head.

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  2. I would use him to get an advanced copy of Alloy of Law. That would be the best thing ever.

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  3. Two words and an emoticon:
    SPONGE BATH XD

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  4. I would have him find me a job. I don't think anyone would turn me down when they're Lashed to the ceiling. :)

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  5. I'll say it... bank heist.


    I'll even give him back his Oathstone early and be on my way to a tropical, non-extradition country. *nod*

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  6. I'd have him wash my car...and reattach all the parts that are falling off

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  7. I would have him walk down to the book store and pick up the copy of Hero of Ages that I ordered in since I'm to sick to walk down and pick it up myself. Then while I read he could; give me a shoulder massage, clean my fire dancing equipment, wrangle down a publisher for my book, find my circus guild a new and improved home that can accommodate bigger audiences and give all the idiots around my hometown a good scare by lashing them all to the side of a fairy boat out in the middle of the bay!

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  8. I would have him go to the Tor.com headquarters to "encourage" them to send me the Song of Ice and Fire series I supposedly won in their giveaway but still haven't seen months later.

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  9. Hire out his services (and his use of his Shard Blade) to contractors for use in demolition projects. Think of how fast he could gut a house. I could make a ton in a week!

    And one evening I would have him lash my boss' computer keyboard to the 12' ceiling in the office so he couldn't spend the day on Youtube.

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  10. Simple: I'd tell him, "Be free of your Oathstone."

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  11. After I asked him to help me clean up my house and do the other bits of chores I have to do (lugging my pregnant body around has greatly slowed how much housework gets done), I'd hand the Oathstone to him and say "Thanks for the help, but this is yours, you are the master of your own destiny now".

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  12. My wife's 7 months pregnant with our first child. I'm thinking... babysitter.

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  13. I'd ask how many wishes I got, and then I'd be really disappointed when he told me he wasn't a jinni.

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  14. Day One: "Szeth lash me to the sky safely!"
    Day Two: "Szeth cut down that mountain."
    Day Three: "Szeth, what do you want to do today?"
    Day Four: Make him clean off the blood. (yes it takes a whole day cuz you clean it off the walls too)
    Day Five: Plan Top Secret Bank Heist project.
    Day Six: Implement Top Secret Bank Heist Project.
    Day Seven: Watch out for justice spren.

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  15. Well, I would tell Szeth to hide. To hide so well and never let anyone find him, so he wouldn't be forced to kill anymore. Let him wander the wilderness so he wouldnt have to walk on stone, or be an assassin. Let him simply, be.

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  16. Would probably have him help out with all sorts of around the house projects with that Shardblade of his. Very handy to be able to cut anything inanimate.

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  17. I'd have him train me in martial arts.

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  18. I'd start with a question: "If I were to give the Oathstone to you, could you keep it, or would your oath require you to give it to someone else?"

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  19. I could really use a Peanut Butter and Honey sandwich...

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  20. Find him some truth. "The truth shall set you free."

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  21. I would tell him to swallow that stone! Freedom!

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  22. I wouldn't do too much... if I pissed him off afterall, I'd have only a week to live!

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  23. I would use him to push Brandon Sanderson to finish his 2nd book of Stormlight Archive early and send me the first copy.

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  24. I liked the "get me a job" options :D

    But I think I will also drain him dry of all the knowledge he has. Or perhaps even see if could do Surgebinding!

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  25. Is this even a question? I'd make him give me his Shardblade! Wouldn't he be happier without it anyway? X)

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  26. punker_rocker that is one of the few things he wouldn't do. If you took his shardblade, the others would just come and kill you and take it back.

    I would do whatever he wanted to do for that week. He rarely gets to do what he wants.

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  27. I'd order him to make me a millionaire. No, a billionaire... and whatever time is left, he can spend digging a trench between the USA and canada, to keep us safe.

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  28. I'd get a really fast ride to work on his back every day.

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  29. have him clean my room and do the dishes for me everyday. And cook.

    I'd let him play The Sims 2 for a while just to see what he'd do.

    hire him out to people trying to get into hard-to-open plastic packages.

    have him make me weightless for a while, cause that would be fun.

    Have him stick my annoying brother to the ceiling for a bit. Then take pictures and use them as blackmail later.

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  30. Monday, I'd have him come to work with me and amuse me by lashing unruly customers to walls and/or ceilings cause, ya know, Mondays suck.
    Tuesday, I'd use the four vacation days I have left and take him to Vegas with me. I'd have him summon his shardblade in front of a hotel clerk to convince them we were some kind of magic act and get a room for free. Maybe the Presidential Suite.
    Wednesday, I'd take him around to casinos playing roulette and have him occasionally lash the ball to the number I just put 500 dollars on. Should be able to get up to 100 grand pretty quick then call it a day.
    Thursday, I would hire an agent to get him into a high profile MMA fight. ASAP.
    Friday, I would take him to the fight and tell him to bring the other guy down within the first minute of the first round. I figure the odds on that would have to be like 100:1 or so. Then I'd put all the money we won from roulette
    on that outcome.
    Saturday, after I'd collected my winnings I would throw him a party. Get him some pretty girls. Buy him a few drinks. Neat, cause you know he wouldn't drink anything "on the rocks".
    Sunday would just be a chill day. I mean, I'm a millionaire now. Be kinda mean to keep him as a slave for another day just cause I can right? So, there ya go Szeth. Oathstone is yours now.

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  31. I would make a list of every moronic, self-centered, greedy politician (almost all of them) and send him with specific orders not to kill but to put the fear of God into all of them.

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  32. At first I thought I would ask him to destroy his Oathstone and be free... but then I thought, since this is fictional, why can't I be fictitiously evil/greedy?

    He would be cleaning my house. And I mean thoroughly. Then, I would have him scare the banks where I have loans into forgiving me of all my debts. I might have him scare someone else with a lot of wealth into putting me in their Will as the sole receive of everything they possess. Then I would probably let him go free :)

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  33. I'm not a fan of slavery. Even if it's a "day fantasy". I would let Szeth chose what he wanted. From the way I imagine his character he would either spend time to emotionally heal or atone for what he had been forced to do.

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  34. Six days: yard work, weeding, home repairs/maintenance, car repairs/maintenance. On day seven? Raid Brandon's house for all notes on Stormlight and AMoL.

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  35. I would order him to kill Chuck Norris. The resulting collision of two forces of pure awesomeness would likely result in a rip in the spacetime continuum, forcing him to leap from life to life, putting right what once went wrong, each time hoping the next leap would be the leap home.

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  36. I would have him help me break into the power ball administration building and have him secure me the winning numbers :)

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  37. I'd have him fix my fence post, mow my lawn and weed my yard. I must be old that this is all I want right now.

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  38. I would have him rob a bunch of banks and bring me the money. I'd be set and he'd never get caught.

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  39. This would've come in handy when I was packing/moving/unpacking a couple weeks ago...though I feel it's wasteful to use such amazing talents on something so mundane.
    So I would want to send Szeth to Japan, Haiti, and other places where major catastrophes have happened recently, and have him do some serious work helping out. I can't think of much else more valuable to have him do...

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  40. I'd throw his Oathstone into the Cracks of Doom.

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  41. I'd remind him every day to forgive himself. Maybe have him tell me about his homeland.

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  42. I would have him use his power with gravity to create a wormhole through which he could go into the future and bring me back all the Stormlight Archive books.

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  43. We'd watch Inception. Then we'd have a beer and try and figure out how he could wiggle out of his crappy situation.

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  44. Alas, one week is way too short for him to teach you much martial art stuff. Maybe if you were at it until you dropped every day, you could learn how to stand and punch properly :P

    How about I command him to prevent the stone from passing from me, and in exchange I agree not to force him to do anything else, ever? XD

    That is if I can't just smash the stone to atoms and tell him he's his own man. If I could set him free, I would.

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  45. I think I'd have him track down Hoid (after all if Szeth is here, there's a pretty good chance our very own Waldo is around as well). And then? Well, we'll see if we can get some answers...

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  46. I would have him teach me some self defense and attack moves. Can't learn much in one week but every little bit could help!

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  47. I would have him steal me a free t-shirt from InkWing.com just in case I didn't win this contest

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  48. Set him free. Perhaps make him tell me how to set him free first, and then set him free.

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  49. Dan -
    Well first we would do some tests to make sure we have Stormlight here.
    Once we did that, I would go buy a ninja costume and follow him around the worst parts of town at night as he kicked bad guys' butts. (No killing - just putting them on top of lampposts or something to scare them and hold them till police came.)
    Once we did our public service, I would take him to Disney World. If you thought that place was magical before....let's just say the rides would be faster, kids would be flying all over the place, and we would "cut" in line (but then make the ride better afterwards).
    Then we would go skydiving (I have always been too scared to do that but no fear now). Finally, I would have him tell me his life story and see if there was anything I could to help him out.

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  50. Send him to torment my mother-in-law!

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  51. I would have him get me a set of shard plate and a sword, and have him intimidate sanderson into writing faster and get me the first copy :) Would free him at the end of the week :)

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  52. Family vacation! With Szeth watching the kids we can rest assured that they are as safe as they can be. I love my kids and want to spend time with them but a little adult time is always welcome. Szeth playing princess.... he might welcome a return to his old life.

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  53. I'd tell him not to do anything and then executed have for all the murders hes committed. Because saying my Religion tells my i have to murder isn't and excuse.

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