SingingMosaic

If I update the post I have above and tag them there, will they get notified or would I have to make a new one for that? Just to be sure, what's the current list? I've seen a bunch of them mentioned but I want to make sure I know who I'm looking for. Thanks.

Nice! What do you think? Are they ready--once inspiration strikes for a name--for the creation thread?

It's OK, it happens in headphones, also they're good, don't worry. I used to read everything in Braille. I'm reading Stormlight in Braille again in anticipation of book 4 and I forgot how much I'd missed actually reading. Now that I have something that I can connect to the computer for that, I might start again. It's a fairly monotone voice, sadly. I got used to it eventually, trying to fill in the gaps with my imagination.

Disclaimer: This is me trying to see if the reply/quote thing is actually accessible now behave, website. Mine are ze/zir, though a lot of people use they and I don't mind that. That's fantastic, I definitely foresee myself making use of that. Someone once gave me a piece of advice that rescued my roleplay back when I was doing it on games, they told me to take what couldn't be put into a game format and take it to a word processor, develop their voice, put them in situations and see how they might react to them. I developed my love of trying to make characters that don't necessarily fit the nature of a setting perfectly, like people, from that. It's a balance though, then they need to change like we do, adapt and confront things that don't work or that they didn't know, which has been interesting, painful and sometimes very cathartic. I'm not sure what the general idea is here or if everyone does it differently, but on games there was a lot of this idea of separate from your character going on. It probably works for some, and if you punch my character in the face I'm not going to take it personally, but isolating them entirely like some host teams recommended disconnected me too much from their voice. Sorry, I digressed a lot, don't mind me. I was having a really interesting conversation before I looked at this and am in that mental place full of detail and connections now.

Hi, welcome, I'm pretty new here too and having fun so far. Good to see more musicians. I'm not a great one, something happened some years back that knocked my developing skill down and I'm slowly regaining it, but never stopped loving it. Anyway I hope you have as much fun as I've been having swimming through all these ideas and conversations.

Clicked on something in into the Dark as I was reading it, I accidentally hit space on something the screenreader doesn't read a proper label for. Hopefully it was harmless and it was upvote. Not sure if the system has anything like downvote. Hopefully not. Anyway if any oddness happens my bad, point any people going huh what at this. If not and it was an upvote, then good, I know where that is now, and also good, I like most of what I've been reading everywhere. Edit: Thanks guys, thanks. I will never be able to sarcastically ask, "Want a cookie?" the same way again. lol

Was going to edit what i'd written before, but my computer is full of molasses (not literally... I hope) and I don't trust it. So here's the sheet. I had this done a while ago, but was waiting on a name. However the language brain having human (humanity debatable) that I asked to help come up with one has disappeared. So I'll go ahead and stick it here. I usually come up with names last anyway. Name: still to come Gender: genderwhat (their answer, probably also mine if you asked me) Physical Characteristics: Varies. Their coloration is red on black. Several trails of red cascade over their shoulders, drops and streaks of it drifting over the rest of their frame. Also varies. One thing that stays semi consistent are the distinctive red markings bracketing their eyes, though their specifics vary from form to form. Investiture: Singer born disconnected, picked up some knowledge of their existence after the Everstorm but the information is full of gaps. Skills: Good survival skill, not going to lead you unerringly through a blinding dust storm somewhere, but can find food and water, sleep safely, and navigate over unknown terrain. Experience as part of an information gathering network, which equates to spying experience. Intelligent, but this varies, not sure how we should handle that. Skilled hand to hand. Equipment: two hemalurgic spikes, one stealing ferruchemical mental speed, and one stealing allomantic tin. Zinc metalminds and vials of tin. Weaknesses: is afraid of fire, will have debilitating flashbacks if reminded of it in the context in which their trauma happened. Isn't too afraid of candles, and isn't impaired by the presence of average firepit/fireplace sized fires. Has issues with emotional attachment. An emotional allomancer could take advantage of their spikes. Is overly magically sensitive compared to others of their kind, and has greater issues not blending with forms. Family: A father, missing, presumed dead. A mother, missing since infancy, also presumed dead. There are probably half siblings given the circumstances. Home Planet: Roshar Backstory: to spare the screens of everyone: Guild: unaffiliated Psyche: somewhat emotionally unstable, but this isn't as apparent sometimes as it would be in a human. Friendly on the surface, but doesn't open up easily. Cynical, but not often dangerously or bitterly so. Personality: Gentle and generous, slow to anger but once angry they are the slow, cold, implacable kind of angry. Too stubborn for their own good--more dig your heels in and reinforce the perimeter stubborn than shout and puff up stubborn. Discreet and attentive. Could sometimes be perceived as callous due to their lack of experience with emotional connection. Theme Song: I had a Spotify playlist I built while I was thinking about them, but not a specific theme song yet. Fighting Style: They can defend themself if they need to, using a hand to hand method that utilizes quick, disabling strikes so they can get away. The fact that they're a little faster and a fair bit stronger than humans has helped, but not much in environments full of magical people. Edit: I just had a look back at guidelines and realized skilled anything is going to take longer than I think has passed in current time since the Everstorm. So may need to change those. I started second guessing everything, fell asleep, woke up, looked back at everything, what I'd written, all my original text, and realized I could feel this person, sort of, as in the outline of what their existence would be like in the back of my head, but I'm missing something. Some fundamental chunk of being a person that I must have known I was missing because I kept generating more text. ... Maybe I should write fic, even if only for me... And it occurs to me that I haven't written anything in which they have a voice. And they do have one. It's conflicted, it's confused. It's the voice of a person whose brain doesn't stop running, the voice of someone who knows how to do one thing well--handle and process information--and who understands, on some level, that they don't know the world. But they don't realize you can't just look at something until you figure it out. You have to interact with it. You have to experience it. But what if there's no way in? What if it seems like it and you're a pretty smart person who's been trained to read the world, within one's capacity to do so anyway, so you know there's something and you know it seems simple and you can't get how you're not figuring it out... OK story time be back.

Ah thanks will do. I hammered out a sort of brainstormed outline version of skills, weaknesses, and personality earlier, I'm just chewing on some finer details before I start dragging all my text into a (more refined) version of a character sheet. I thought about the potential issue of them becoming overpowered, I know generally where I want them to have been and how I want them to have reacted to it, but the finer details are still floating, partially because of that. This was a vague character concept which mainly appeared in my mind in the presence of certain music, and when I initially thought of them in context with the Alleyverse, my initial reaction was oh no they wouldn't make it. They're not devious enough. Though the more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea of someone who, at least in part, hadn't been made for the universe. It felt more real, it felt like it could be more the day you wake up and find that, inexplicably, your world has changed. There's no going back, there's nothing to do but figure out how to adapt to your circumstances enough to be able to change them. I didn't figure that, if I went with the spiked branch, they'd have a ton of them. I was thinking about what this might do to a creature who exists in magical symbiosis with another. But, if no one knew this, if no one knew the dangers of artificially cracking a soul like that, it could wind down some strange roads. One of the potential futures I bounced around in my head involved them eventually being like a magical antenna, with all the drawbacks that might have. A creature with no defense against the emanations of their environment, more heavily effected by forms and their associated spren. I also played with the idea of just dropping modification based experimentation entirely, or it having failed. The DA definitely fed the way I characterized that person. I figured that an organization interested in hemalurgic experiments could have come from a couple different places outside the Alleyverse as well, so I wanted to leave that open ended, but I'll see where that goes as I put the sheet together. I'll edit this when I get that set up.

OK, so gonna try out this text way of implementing spoilers I found in tech support, because the editor isn't screenreader accessible as far as I've found. *crosses fingers* If this doesn't work, this post is going to be eight miles long. Maybe literally. Edit: Oh no help, I'm sorry, I either did it wrong or it doesn't work. Prepare your poor eyeballs... unless this isn't as bad as I think it is. Second edit: Trying something... Here's a bit of story so you can get an idea of my writing style and where I'm coming from, and backstory ideas for the character. I am terrible at names, they still don't have a name, poor thing, look at me being a typical human. It's not necessary to read the story bit to get most of where I'm going if you don't want to/don't have the time. Any of that can be changed to fit more in line with story. I'm not sure what all exists in the Alleyverse, so descriptions of abilities etc. are flavor text for the time being. And here's the potential backstory with variations. Also, I know that Roshar's current time is in the middle of fighting Odium, but do we have a set number of years since the Everstorm started rolling around the planet messing everything up for everyone? I could make them a touch older. Or not. Not doing so might make it interesting. Definitely open to suggestion on that one. Brandon says they grow up a little faster but die a little earlier than humans, but everyone's version of not much is different so I'm not sure what equivalent age this would make the character. Any resemblance to persons or organizations already existing in the Alleyverse is (kind of) unintentional. By this I mean I definitely drew inspiration from things I'd read, but as I don't have a complete picture of anything, that's where the resemblance stops. It can either be left mysterious, or left open for people to interact with/know about them past or present, given some conversation and chewing over ideas. The figure in the story bit wasn't inspired by anyone specific but more by ideas that percolated through my brain as I read. And any and all of this may be torn down and reworked depending on what happens in the creation process. I've been fleshing out their personality, skills and weaknesses too, doing little what would you do if mental exercises and stuff, but not going into that yet... We don't need another century of text! lol I think this has been longer than most of, if not all of, the essays I have ever written. To anyone who stuck with me this long, I might find at least a bit of a kindred spirit in you. To anyone who didn't, who skipped the story exercise, it's all good. Short and sweet is often better than holy why all of this text, I've just never quite gotten the hang of that. Though I promise I don't drop this much text on someone in an interaction. That'd break the flow in most cases.

Bruno Sanfilippo - Pianette And I like going through this and looking at what everyone's listening to. When Chrome isn't trying to lag out until time has no more momentum, anyway. There's so much music in the world. We are ridiculously rich in music.

It does my sad heart good to see how many people also want to see more Rlain. Also, thanks guys. I hadn't thought of him bonding the Sibling and now I can't unthink it. It would be brilliant. Also shut some people up... Or make them worse... (edit: in the books, my brain would not shut up about the fact I didn't clarify that lol) Anyway, it would have interesting ramifications as well. More nonhumans in general please Brandon I know you can do it. Rysn and more Bridge Four, me too.

The idea of them doing it with sound alone makes me think of the people who I've seen insist that there were things like chants for rain, and if you sang them exactly right, rain would actually come. Sometimes I wonder about stuff like that. Sound is a powerful thing and I wouldn't be surprised if Brandon knows that. Not making the rain come, necessarily, but all the interesting uses found for it--in hospitals and in weapons and in navigation, the way dolphins use it, how if you project just the right frequency you can destroy everything made of the material that resonates to it and leave most everything else relatively intact. So you can stretch this into your fantasy world and boom. People who can build with it, break with it, change landscapes with it. The way some of those cities are described makes me think that their science and not just their abilities was pretty advanced. Oooo I can't wait until we hear more about this.

Hi. I'm new to the site, was looking through roleplay stuff and stumbled on this. I looked over the guides and part of the character thread so I could figure out generally how the creation process went and what I was looking at. It was there that I read someone directing another new person to here, so hopefully I'm in the right spot. Started looking at other threads, to get an idea of how stories generally happened, I hope no one minds that. I'm not sure what your policy is on people reading just to read. I got sucked in quickly, my roommate's had to ask me everything twice for like two days now. So I was wondering, a couple things. I saw the character creation guide most recently posted to the character creation thread, and saw a later mention of it that said it was meant to be updated. Would it still be fine to use that to build with or has it been updated? My second question: What time period is it in all the worlds that cross this one, or does it matter? Could you come from either Mistborn era, for example or is there a such thing as "current time"? My third question: Is there anything that happens that acts similar to a highstorm? I ask because one of the character ideas bouncing around in my head is a Singer (ah, is? was? Questions!) and knowing if they're stuck in one form will heavily influence how I build their backstory and play them, if I go with that one. A bit of backstory on me and my RP experience. I've been doing it for almost ten years, but almost entirely on MUDs/MOOs etc. so there were game mechanics, shorter emotes, quicker response times, very strict rules about the IC/OOC divide and what kind of information you could have that your character was allowed to know, so I'm used to partitioning off information, creating a set of knowledge the character has as well as their personality and history. I've never done a more storylike RP before, but I feel like they'd be a good fit for me. I was always incredibly slow at writing emotes because I was writing little bits of book.

I have several questions. I'm using a screenreader, NVDA to be specific, and I'm on Chrome, and I'm on Windows 10. First one: Is there a keystroke to get to all the formatting options? I can see the application box, and beneath that an area for attachments, beneath that the notify of replies option and beneath that cancel and submit. Screenreaders don't have easy ways to show you how things are organized on a screen, they just lay it all out vertically. A feature called object nav in this one will let you move through all the content of whatever window you're in as sets of trees, using keystrokes involving the arrows, but even that doesn't give you a good understanding of visual layout. All this to say that, when looking around and reading information on how to do certain things, location related instructions have been sadly not usable for me. This is relevant again in a minute. Going back to the question I wandered from, if there isn't a keystroke or a section of the screen I can get to using the keyboard that I haven't found, would all my formatting hold if I wrote everything in Word first and pasted it over? I've seen a couple things, particularly in roleplaying, that rely a lot on colored text, for example. Thankfully there are no barriers to knowing when different colors are being used using NVDA anymore, because I can get it to announce color changes to me, and up until recently you couldn't do that. This isn't something I've found an area to implement in my own text, along with the rest of the formatting, on the site that I can get to yet. I can get it to happen if I can format in Word, though. Second: I found a post about spoilers which indicated that there was a way to implement them using text. Please please tell me this is still the case *crosses fingers* because I may have a hard time depending on what the answer to the first question is. And third, last one I can think of for now: I can't find any way to give reputation. I might just be so new that this hasn't opened up to me yet, since I don't have much of it. At the bottom of the content of someone's post I can see a link, labeled with what looks like part of the text of the link to the post itself, and sometimes but not always a second link which looks the same. These two may be separated by a number. And beneath that, quote buttons, and beneath that, signature stuff. Oof. Sorry for my giant and complicated post. I wish I were one of those blind people who knew tons about technical accessibility, because then I could give whoever puts the mechanics of the thing together some good info. One of said blind people might be coming around soon, but their life is chaotic, so not sure when that will happen. For the most part though, this is all very accessible, sometimes in a quirky way I've had to get used to. Using Firefox, I can't get to any of my user stuff. I spent ages bashing my head against it until I decided to try it in Chrome and found that I could get to the notifications/messages/profile links at the top of the page. They don't even appear to NVDA in Firefox.

Very true. They were a part of the process, but how much of one, we don't know. What I'm curious about here is just what role the sound itself played in the process, it had a strange effect on them. I seem to remember them being so dazed, dragged along by it, that humans could just cut them down. Could killing any of them have potentially made any difference, or was it all over the first time someone's mouth opened and the right sound came out? Is the music just a side effect and not directly involved in the mechanism? The things we don't know... Sorry, I don't want to hijack your thread, it's just got my brain chewing on all the mechanics of things that we don't know yet.

Train by Younger Brother. I can't even explain exactly who, or what, there's a lot of HoA in it, there's a lot of Stormlight in it, there's just. Everything that does a certain thing to a person's context has a Train. Maybe someone else will be able to describe the connection I'm failing to put a finger on. Anyway I'd have to chew on this more. I know there are more, that song just always leaps to mind first. I'll have to come back to this. I never thought of Zombie in this context, and now I can't unthink it.

Manu Delago - Uplifted From the album Made in Silence 2, which I highly recommend to anyone who is as ridiculously in love with melodic percussion as I am. To anyone, really, because you might find a love for it.

I'm definitely excited for book 4 because of this, really I'm excited for all of them, but I think of it this way. I feel like you're on to something but not quite in such a direct fashion. If they could sing to summon the Everstorm in stormform, and then of course there's Rlain talking about the song of Roshar as you mentioned, there's also the implications everywhere that they're like antennas, if they attune specific things it doesn't just happen inside their heads like human thought usually does. It has an effect on others in the environment. They can keep time over great distances and under duress. I've also been reading a lot of discussion lately on Odium corrupting the natural systems in existence on Roshar, and we know nothing about their old abilities (that I know of), but from the first bits we started to get from Eshonai, and later Rlain, I felt like the way they talked about music was the tip of an immense iceberg. I don't have enough evidence to pin this all together, but the quotes about powers that were forbidden them are floating around in the back of my mind, quietly resonating with all of this. I hadn't quite thought about it the way you had, but I've been chewing some of the same information over for a while. I don't have much yet with everything else that's been on my mind, but you've added fuel to the fire, I hope you don't mind.

Brandon is so good at that, honestly, I can't decide. Yes to ending of Mistborn era 1. All of that ending. Almost especially the silent bits. But I won't go into that here. So much in Stormlight, Dalinar's entire book three arc, the sequence where Pattern is pushing Shallan to confront everything, Kaladin and Rlain's last exchange in OB, Syl bringing Kaladin the leaves yes I know this isn't in order. Rlain surrounded by hostile humans, having to tell them his entire people is gone. And him again, in the first book when kaladin's armor idea goes off so spectacularly. This probably isn't all of it. But those are the ones that always get me, that I can feel like their own senses. The ones I can't even think of without tearing up, that I would write so much music for. I know there are more, but there's so much in Stormlight I'm going to need to read it several times before some of it properly sinks in, there are a couple half remembered scenes floating in the back of my mind that I want to mention but can't get enough detail out of.

I can map sound. I'm nowhere near as sensitive as a computer, but before I knew much about waves and the shapes they made when drawn by programs, people used to toss different noises at me to see if I could describe them. According to them I've been pretty accurate. I still don't know much about them, but I know some now. Used to listen to Orcasound's hydrophone streams all the time. Anyway I digress. Who knows how something like this comes about? Sadly the information is rusty, but the skill never seems to be, I use it to echolocate now, so it's not wholly useless.

I just don't like Harry Potter. I loved it when I started reading it, I was seven and everything up to book four came out. But I mean, I was seven. It definitely did not grow with me. I'm not a fan of J.K. Rowling, her writing is OK I suppose, and the way she treats people is ugg, Lumos is like the one good thing she did for the world and I have no idea how involved she actually is in it. I liked all of the Matrix. Cotton candy is gross, and marshmallows are not good unless they are in something/something is in them. I'm not sure if that's a controversial opinion, but so many people I've told that to look at me like I kicked a puppy when I say it.

I'm so glad, I love when that happens. Enjoy a good time of sitting with your windows open or whatever helps you expand into your space while you reabsorb October Project. I will do this. I also listen to chunks of these things, I don't have much Sufjan Stevens exposure but I will fix that too. I like Hosier, and I've never heard of Kodaline, thanks for the suggestion. I like Three Days Grace but their older stuff more, Breaking Benjamin is good, I like Skillet but I'm picky with their stuff. And thanks for mentioning Redd, I haven't listened to them very much in years, and I used to.

Listening to: Nik Bärtsch - Modul 29_14 The album this comes off of is amazing. It's on Spotify but I have no idea about Youtube.

I'm Elend, apparently. Unexpected but I can see where it gets it.

Heh sorry I have a stupid amount of information running through my brain at any given moment. It's not all it's cracked up to be, sadly. A bunch of it was song titles and little chunks of lyrics/explanation so basically people can check out once they get to the playlist bit, unless they're the soak up music type and want to keep going. As for Sigur Ros, not nearly as much as I should. I listened to some of their stuff and back when I was using a BrailleNote, which at the time was a very basic notetaker with old text adventure games and a media player and an FM radio running on 128mb of ram and a terrible version of Windows I don't remember I digress, anyway back when I was on that, I had what, if I remember correctly, is their first album, their self-titled one, and listened to it all the time.