The Unknown Character

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Worst case scenario, you can just check at six pm MT on Thursdays, since I believe that's when the streams happen.

I might join for individual parts, but we'll see about chapter by chapter. Also, everyone will get the ebook at the same time, so discussion should really begin within the day or so. Unless you want to wait for the hardcover for those who are getting it, in which case it could take up to a month or even longer.

I made this game with only knowledge of about up to book 3 or 4, and tried to keep it as Spoiler free as possible.

My only complaint is the titles in the series aren't conducive to people thinking highly of your sanity.

I'm simply going to bow out before this turns into an argument with no hope of either side changing. Your beliefs are simply very different from mine. I will however address this one point: This question is very relevant, and which hypothetical? The one where all the skilled people are one group? I agree with you on that, that's why I posed the question, and that hypothetical was only for the purpose of saying skill takes precedent over all else, or at least it should. The one where there are more white Brandon fans than there are people of color? Which there’s no way to confirm or deny, and the little evidence there is points to it being true. And if the hypothetical you're talking about is different backgrounds/races having different interests, then I don't know what to tell you.

For example, hey, by the path there's a rock, so it likely started out as informing people about traveling conditions, then turned out as informing people of any additional information. The actual typical response is nothing much, which is a way to say, not a lot, but it got shortened to nothin'. People say how's your day/night/whatever going as well, so they just generalized it to it.

Black faces look different from white faces. That's simple fact, although you can have whitelike black faces and blacklike white faces, they still tend to be different. It tracks that an algorithm designed to recognize white faces would have trouble recognizing black faces. Same would happen the other way around. Behavior is what matters, people of different backgrounds behave differently. If a certain group of people isn't inclined to moderate for whatever reason, they shouldn't be made to moderate (I'm aware this isn't what's happening). Having an all white staff isn't a result of you not looking. The only way for you to know for certain that a person is black or otherwise, is for them to tell you or have their profile picture show them. We except that a large portion of Brandon's audience is LDS, and it’s likely a large portion is white as well for numerous reasons. Argent mentioned that it was likely that you don’t have more diverse moderators because you simply haven't looked, but you (I really hope) haven't been looking for white moderators either. If it's a ratio of 70/30 blue vs green skittles, and you pull out one, it's probably blue. If you pull out ten, it's not unlikely that you'll get nine blues and a green, or even ten blues. It is unlikely for you to get ten greens. I'm not saying it is. Also, we regularly read things that are far more unlikely than only a single group of people being skilled at something. It's imaginable, although not true in our current situation. Do you disagree that certain groups (racial or otherwise) are more likely to have certain skills? Or certain interests? As that is what I personally think is the case.

Your phone has a cursor? Here's how I do it: I go to the one below the spoiler: then I backspace: then I backspace again: and it deletes.

I do it on mobile all the time. Look: I deleted it. On mobile

Lots of backspacing. If you backspace on the line after them, it should highlight them in blue, then backspace again to delete. I did just that in the quote. I did need to go down one then click on the original line to do it. If you just mess around with it a little it will probably go away.

Is walked towards the gangplank to get off the ship. She walked oddly, almost slower than she should have. Rith followed anyways, soon catching up to her. "Where are we going?" Her voice was soft. Meek even. Where were they going? "I don’t know Is." He didn't even know where the main campus was. "I suppose we'll have to ask around. Father always went to the tavern when he wanted to talk, I think. Maybe we could start there." She nodded. "You do that. I just want to walk around. I can ask around the streets, you can go to your tavern." A little bit of her old light came back when she said that. "Where should we meet up?" They had used to have a spot, that was just understood, now, there was nothing. "Here, I suppose. It's the only place in the city we both know. Meet back an hour after nightfall?" "Done." Rith walked off in search of a tavern, never even thinking that alone in the city might not be the best place for her. She had always exuded an aura of maturity. Sometimes it even seemed she was the older of the two.

Pretty much anything from the Key and Peele Mr. Garvey sketches, but specifically: "Fake announcement!" And: "mischievous, and deceitful. chicanerous, and deplorable!"

"I'm more a fan of Celosia myself. And my father had these beautiful Enchanted carnations, they weren't useful magically or anything, but they had to be the prettiest flowers I've ever seen. And they smelled amazing too."

A combination of reading it to much and outgrowing it.

Can't even read the original series anymore, love Heroes though. Edit: @Dunkum, I personally find the back and forth very nice since it allows things to be explained in interesting ways. it also allows for meta stories. LoLL is my favorite book though, so I probably see it through different eyes.

Napollo walked over to the cornucopia. It was more of a strut actually, no-one here scared him. His searched the table. They slid right past his own stuff. He had no interest. Eventually they fell on some memoirs of another tribute. That will do. He grabbed them and strode away.

I'm very conflicted about this. On one hand, I understand why you want diversity, and how it may appear to some people, but also recruiting for diversity is never good. Best case scenario it's the same as it would have been, worst case you're getting people who shouldn’t be getting positions. I think this would probably end up best case, but also, this is the internet, diversity shouldn’t matter, skill should, if the only skilled people are of one group, only take from that group. I don’t have a problem with this because I trust the moderation here to pick good people, but decisions like this have the opportunity to go off the deep end.

I would recommend not varying your character based on alignment, since that isn't public and you don't want people to know if you are of the Black Ajah.

Rith moved over to his sister and shook her shoulder gently. "Is, we're almost there, you need to get up." At just the light touch of his hand, her eyes opened without a touch of sleep in them. She swung herself off the bed and stretched. "Hey." Her smile was weak. "Hey, Is." She paced to the door and threw it open. Immediately, her talent was obvious. The light warped and changed brightness around her. But Rith saddened at the sight of it. It always reflected her emotions, and now it made her appear almost greyscale. She walked out into the light and Rith followed. @SymphonianBookworm

Rith sat there, bored out of his mind. The captain had yelled at him when he caught Rith using the little fire magic he could control. Told him if he ever used fire magic on his ship again he'd be sorry. His sister was asleep so the wasn't even that to occupy him. He wasn't sea sick, but that flaming rocking never ceased, so he couldn't sleep. All in all it was misery. But still, they couldn't stay. He wouldn't leave them to mining Firestone day after day. He couldn't do it. He grabbed the Firestone necklace he always kept. A reminder.