AonEne

Welcome to the Shard! What are you most hyped for in ROW?

Hi right back

Welcome to the Shard! You look like you’ll fit in awesomely.

She doesn’t. Honorspren are higher in the list.

Like now!

Hey, you’re not stupid. Everyone gets stuff wrong sometimes - it’s just human. I mean, I was wrong just now in guessing why you hid them. Don’t worry about it

A whole new wooooooooooooooooooorld

SHINING, SHIMMERING, SPLENDID

Shouldn’t boredom be making you guys want entertainment and things to do and say, not the opposite?

I think the other person hid their posts because they were losing an argument...

First, welcome to the Alleyverse, and the Shard! We’re happy to have you. If you ever want Tyrian to have a chat with my Voidmaker character, we can arrange that. Your characters look cool. (And I’ll forever love the name Cassie. High five?) As for savants, in most cases they fit into the point limit if that’s the only Investiture you’re giving them, and it isn’t required that your weaknesses directly relate to your powers, it can just lead to some good writing if so. I think you’re probably fine, though I can’t judge their score in the end, not being a mod myself. @Ashbringer

Deteca was about to quietly agree with his statement when Deveraux attacked a vase and screamed at her, and she jumped back a little like a startled songling. His eyes were rabid, his breathing hard, and she could only stare as he insisted all that they’d done was nothing, wasted effort. At first there was only shock and taking it in, but anger rose hot and swift as Taldain’s first sun, with a weight to match. “Nothing?” she repeated near-silently. “Nothing has changed? All the good we’ve done, the people we’ve saved, those who find another day to live or the food to live it with because of us, the armies we’ve helped fight off, and all while keeping it together inside, not being accused by the government like some, not attacking other guilds unprovoked like some, not warring internally like some - all of that, and you call it wasted?” She hissed her words now, choking on the distinct feeling of betrayal from someone she looked up to. The man who’d founded the cause that became her life’s purpose, her family, and her home all in one...and he thought everything she had put her life toward meant nothing, because they were still in the DA’s shadow. We’ll always be in their shadow. They aren’t leaving, and there’s no changing the fact that they were the first, inextricably threading through almost every event in history. If he was still looking to bring down the Dark Alley, then Deveraux needed to wake up. It wasn’t happening. It hurt, that an organization which hurt people in the name of learning would never go away, that this wasn’t like a story where the heroes defeated the evil in the end. It had taken her a long time to accept that, at first. But she had. This evil was staying, because this wasn’t a story. It was simply life, messy and coded in grays, and in real life the bad guys didn’t just conveniently lose. Or lose at all, sometimes. Despite that, TUBA was doing good. They were saving lives. They were making things better. Not all things, but some. That was worth it. “Were we supposed to just ignore the rest of the world? Go off and kill ourselves denting the DA just for the sake of making an impact, when we’d barely be doing that? Let’s not make a Ferring out of a Fullborn here - they’re more powerful than we are. There are other ways to help the worlds we live on.” She realized her hand was flat against the table that ran the length of the wall and consciously relaxed it. “So, no, I don’t understand what you’re saying. I apologize if I have sounded heated,” Deteca closed with, trying to deescalate by retreating into her more formal tone.

The stone soldiers - Deteca knew about them, but she hadn’t ever seen one. The few times TUBA had used them, she’d been off the Alleyplanet on other business. They’d always sounded impressive to her, though. “I know,” she said quietly, joining Sto - Deveraux in recalling days spent undercover. He’d gotten further than she had into their ranks, back before she had even been a member of the guild, when they still paraded around the name Light Alley to hide behind. He was a phenomenal spy. “The things they do, well. There’s a reason why we’re both in this guild and not that one. I don’t have to be reminded of that.”

Barely remember? You’d think your experiences as the leader of a guild would stick with you, she mused. She had no doubt that she would be remembering the oddest, most unexpected things from this time late into old age. But then, everyone was different. “Well, we can’t exactly spy on the DA anymore, of course, since we’re not underground. And some time after you left, we decided that opposing them violently...to the point where everything we did was meant to bring them down...was not the wisest course of action if we wanted to stay able to help the people of Alleycity.” She chose her words carefully. “We’re still against people being harmed, and that’s the most important part. Sometimes you have to work with the lesser of two evils - we’ve had to face worse things than the DA. I don’t like it either, but it’s let TUBA do a lot of good.”

By the way, was it Deveraux who IC decided to focus the guild away from fighting the DA directly? I remember you saying it OOC but don’t know when it occurred IC.

It’ll never stop

Lol

TRAMS

Thank you so much! Your drawings are fantastic. I will continue saying that until the day I die. RUTABAGA

Thank you! I’m just really glad people think what I say is cool enough to upvote.

Friendly reminder that all opinions are valid. There is no singular “this was awesome, and this sucked”. You can be both whiny and depressed at the same time. Goodness knows I’ve managed it before. And...yeah, I do think that? That is a bigoted view, if Google’s not wrong about the definition of that word. It’s a completely understandable one and I don’t begrudge them it, I’d probably think the same in that position, but the view itself is intolerant by definition. I’m on their side, but that doesn’t change what bigotry is. In the same way, it makes sense why Kaladin had the opinion he does, but that doesn’t make it not bigoted, or not wrong.

Like, looking at it again, then scrolling up to check my rank. I hadn’t noticed yet.

I wonder which Unmade I am...

I read this and did a double take. Cool