SingingMosaic

*takes deep breath* I'll be here posting for a year if I do these one at a time. I will make this easier on all of us. lol Things heard on my TeamTalk server, some of which are quotes and some of which are exchanges, spoilered for length and with most names changed. Long and comedic. And now on a serious note, one of the things that probably saved my life before I realized it needed saving. Infinity's Shore, David Brin Nymyyrriq: All serious. Some things I've said, both humorous and serious:

Thanks! I ended up verifying that one but it took a bit of fiddling, and now for this file I want to create on this subject, that adds some clarification.

Hi!

Mystery cookies! I've got a sense of adventure. Wait, that's not what I'm trading-- I have a tiny decorative birdcage that emanates random sounds even though it's empty. Or is it?

OK. Thanks for responding. I wanted to let you know my updates on this, after having used this for a while. The editor is accessible with my screenreader, because of the object nav feature I mentioned before. I wasn't using it inside the application section itself, and I eventually found the formatting options there. It may not be accessible to others, I haven't used another screenreader since 2014, so I can only give real feedback for this one. Based on your response I can understand why that would be difficult to change, but I wanted to make sure you found out that it is accessible for some. I also found the rate button, it just isn't labeled. So it's usable, but giving it alt text could be useful for other new members. Now, the one thing that remains somewhat problematic for me is tagging people. I can do it, but it's quirky. I would try to go into describing that here, but I'm thinking of writing a 17th Shard accessibility tips for NVDA file. I haven't messed with any of the visual elements of the site, because no one in my environment can see enough for me to experiment with it. When I get that finished, where do you recommend I put it? Should I just go ahead and post it in the 17S forum and update it as I find out more? I don't want it to disappear in case we get more NVDA using Sharders, or in case we get a JAWS user who wants to contribute to it.

Good to know I'm not sure if I will but was entertaining the idea. I'm surprised those aren't in the index. Huh.

OK the first episode of this just about killed me, so I'm definitely in for this version if there's room. Didn't know there was a second one, thanks guys, I'm off to die now.

I forgot I needed to ask the question I asked in the character thread here, so oops, respond here I'll see it.

I upvoted that for the simple fact that your choices of music are amazing, I thought you should know. Anyway. On relevant subjects lol. I know I'm going to keep Nnimm and I'll post their sheet if I update it, can I create a new character for this era though? And can that character survive it?

I'm looking forward to hearing this. If I had a good mic, I would record drum tracks for you possibly? I have a djembe and I'm just starting to learn, so they'd be simple at first unless I waited and did them later. Guess I could do them on the iPhone mic if you're interested in collaborating but I'm not confident enough to do that yet.

Lol this is great, I can't wait to see what you do for the other ones.

You missed Y. I'm sleep deprived at the moment so a Y isn't coming to mind, though. Edit: I thought of a Y but don't remember how to spell it.

Hmmm. I feel something simmering on one of the shadowy back burners of my brain, I'll sleep on it and music on it for a couple of days. It's to do with how the character senses the world but as it falls into place I'll put it forward and see if any ideas spawn off of it. Does it have to be ready by the time the plot starts?

I think the conversation Nnimm is in at the moment is probably flexible and then I'm just going to have them wander over to the Scholar's Guild. That won't take long if everyone's still around over there, like a couple days, but they're not involved in anything yet so I'm just kind of winging it. I don't know what's coming up, is there anywhere to read about it or is the buildup spread through the recent threads?

I read somewhere that the Alleyverse translation effect doesn't extend to text, and I'm not sure what languages he has his menu written in, so hopefully I didn't break something. If it was one they probably would know, oops? It's been a long day maybe they're still disoriented. Sorry, I'm not getting the block quote to work at the moment. Nnimm hummed contemplatively, looking down at their cup. They picked it up and curiously breathed in the steam curling from the top. "That's all right," they said. "I can't read your menu, so it both helps your case and saves me having to figure out how to broach the subject. Though," and they glanced up curiously, "what do you have? For future reference?" They were going to have to figure out what trade and currency and potential work looked like in this place. And a million other things... @Elend Venture Looking back toward Aderet, they said, "It is recent, within the last couple years, so depending on how long ago you knew her, she may not have been ... from another point in time," they finished slowly, puzzling out words. Another point in time! I might just pop from the sheer pressure of built up questions. "Where would I find this guild?" they asked curiously. @Silva

That's kind of what made me uncomfortable with some of them. I was like I want it to be possible for people to be overall more aware, but I don't like the idea of just changing someone's ability to make decisions based on an arbitrary idea that, even if for some reason you couldn't poke a single hole in, would still lock people's context. If someone had the ability to lock people's context in some way and did so, they would doom them. In a lot of ways.It's interesting reading what other people would like to see happen to the world. I liked the poke holes in our own/each other's wishes idea but I didn't end up doing one, because I'm better at those conversations verbally.

So question because I've become somewhat lost, are we starting 4 or 5 soon?

"A pleasure to meet you too, Aderet," Nnimm replied. The hard consonants were pronounced like taps, accentuating the rhythmic, lyrical quality to their speech. "I come from Roshar. There are... That is complicated, too, actually. There is terrible conflict there. After the things I've seen, I didn't think anything could surprise me. And then this," they gestured to the surrounding room and beyond, "happened." Spiking, they thought. Somehow I knew I hadn't seen the last of that. The wider universe touches you and after that you can never get away from it. Their thought was interrupted by the accidental exchange and they looked up again, eyes landing on the conversing pair of humans, one of them looking out of their element, the other one who worked here based on the gist of their conversation, just as he spat on their table. They gave him a brief, level look as he came over to wipe it off and remarked dryly, "Some things never change. Careful where you aim, you wouldn't want to hit someone's soup." Turning back to Aderet, they remarked, "So wandering around asking for them is a bad idea, this is good to know." Malfunction, they thought. Curious phrasing. They mentally filed it away for future reference, it could have been simple wording, but they'd learned not to dismiss a turn of phrase, just in case. "Is there perhaps an... official way to pass on the information? And on the topic of information, where is a good source to learn about this place? Admittedly I have questions about pretty much everything I've seen, and I don't want to overwhelm you with them unless you wouldn't mind. My curiosity has been piqued pretty much since I got reoriented, falling out of the air will do that to you..." @Silva @Silva @Elend Venture

Hi! Based on that, sounds like this will be fun for you. There are heaps of questions, speculations, incredibly in depth theories, and off the wall ideas here, so you're in the right place.

Nnimm's eyes, which had been busy with the room at large again--no shortage of things to look at, listen to, or smell in this odd place--came to rest on the woman who approached and sat down at their table. "I am," they said. "New, that is." Their voice bore the characteristic deep, faintly crackly harmonic set of their kind, though it was on the smoky end of that spectrum. "Does everyone fall through..." They paused, searching for words, "...tears, rips in the world like threadbare spots in a fabric to get here, or is there someone I should find and let know something is wrong?" After a beat the corners of their mouth turned up slightly. "My apologies. I try not to make a habit of starting conversations with complicated questions right off, this has been a very strange day. I'm Nnimm." The consonants bore a humming quality, a little like the sound one might make to find the note a space best echoes back. "What can I call you?" @Silva

Apparently it rattles your bed. Haven't done much research yet, one of my friends told me about it two or three days ago.

There's a tavern and general city thread, both were recommended to me as spots to appear in. Mine doesn't have guild ideas though so I didn't ask about that. Poor thing knows next to nothing about the place they've just found themselves in.

Nnimm stepped into the tavern and glanced around, eyes quickly and smoothly taking stock of their surroundings. A few sights briefly caught their attention, the split second pauses in their scan the only outward sign of their surprise. They were a sturdy, quiet, careful figure in tough, nondescript clothing. Darkness broken by splashes of red just a couple shades lighter than good garnet. Twin half-loops of it bracketed their steady dark eyes. They found a spot with a good view of the door and paused there, reflecting briefly on this newest turn of events, falling utterly still for that moment--some things never changed. This certainly was a strange city. Loud metal deathtraps hurtling around in every direction, strangely bright, washed out lights, faces and languages and abilities and food and of course the way it sounded. There was nothing like the way this place sounded. On Roshar they had learned, eventually, not to leave their range wide open, their focus taken over by the ambient "noise." But this place... the building had a quiet, thrumming watchfulness in it, perhaps something persistent, perhaps from something here now, and flashes of emotion, bright snatches of cadence stripped of context. Nothing too unfamiliar there, though even some of what was familiar seemed... different. The city, or what they'd seen of it so far though, it was strange. Strange... Not wanting to become preoccupied in an environment like this, or tap mental speed until they needed to, they blinked back to the present before more than a moment could pass, looking toward the bar and those coming to and from it curiously. Surely someone was going to know where to find information about this unusual place. In their initial explorations, they hadn't thought to find anyone to ask about the way it resonated, but now from the looks of some of those coming and going, they wondered if they might after all.

You sound so much like me that I had to scroll up to check the username and make sure I hadn't posted that in my sleep. No seriously, I've managed to have entire conversations with people in my sleep. When I lived at my mother's, she would come in and ask me to do stuff and I apparently responded completely coherently, even she thought I was awake. I used to set multiple alarms and when that didn't work, I set multiple different alarms and when that didn't work, I set them on several different devices and when that didn't work, I set them on devices I had to talk to and when that didn't work, I set them on devices in different parts of my environment. I'm pretty sure my roommate has had enough of alarms going off for hours that I didn't even wake up to, or me just turning them off and coming out hours later wondering why I hadn't gotten up earlier. I'm honestly at a loss now. Someone told me to try alarms made for deaf people.

I like the Kaladin soundtrack but I feel like the nonhuman bits aren't nonhuman enough. When I picture Singer/Listener music I picture something like a breathtaking cross between James Horner's Avatar soundtrack and the album Fly, Fly, My Sadness. And while I think we all have different ideas in our heads of what it sounds like, so I knew it wasn't going to be that, it didn't quite do it. Anyway there's a thread where someone's written a bunch of mistborn music. I can go look for it if anyone wants.