The Bookwyrm

Haven't we already started?

DRAGONS! Barring that, Orcas, then after that Peregrine Falcons. What's your favorite kind of Dragon?

This is a game I've played in real life, and I thought it would work well here. (Sorry if this was some forum game that had already been made, and I just didn't see it.) Basically, the goal is to have a conversation where every sentence is a question. It's more difficult to play in real life, because here on the Shard, you can't accidentally answer a question with a statement unless you want to. Which would mean you would lose. A few rules: Try to avoid using one word questions, like "what?" or "why?" too much. You can use them, just be careful not to let the thread become boring. This is a Question CONVERSATION, after all, not a Let's-Throw-Words-With-Question-Marks-At-The-End-At-Each-Other. Also, don't just type a normal sentence and then put a question mark at the end instead of a period. That's not a question. Try to avoid rhetoric. So, we'll see how this goes. It will probably end up fading in a few days, especially if the mechanics of it don't work out the way that I thought they would. If I find any new things I need to add to the rules, I'll do so. So, to start: Shall we play the Question Conversation Game? (Edit: A weird pdf appeared in my post for some reason, and I have no idea why. Sorry if you saw that.)

Welcome to the Shard! We are always happy to meet someone new that has been enveloped in Cosmere lore. I'd say your reading order looks pretty solid. No matter what order you read things in, you kind of just piece things together as you go, and get the big picture once you've read it all. But, if you have extra questions, this site is a great place to go.

Hm. It is a little unclear on how advanced this Space Opera will be, or if it will span from about a time in the present-near future to a galactic civilization. .......(There is some advanced technology in Skyward Sword, though....)

What if it wasn't for the heck of it, but because it was being annoying when you were trying to eat lunch? Also, what does this have to do with a space opera?

In response to your Biology section, @Channelknight Fadran, I would like to talk to you about hypothetical types of biochemistry on exoplanets sometime. I will wait and see until you make the biology blog post.

Thanks, @The Wandering Wizard. As a tried and true SPACE NERD, I would like to thank you, @Channelknight Fadran, for teaching me some things that I did not know. I had no idea that NASA was coming up with ideas for space-railguns, or skyhooks that would launch your payload to your destination faster. This is a well written...(what is this? Blog post?)...thing....that explains space travel in ways that I did not know were possible. (You did use the word "yeet" a little to much, though...) Sadly, I am more interested in the scientific areas of space than the engineering aspects. I probably know more about space travel than the average human, but you obviously know more than me. I tend to get more into the hypothetical forms of FTL (And also forms of FTL that could never really exist in the real world) and things like interstellar arks and planetary colonization. A few thoughts: If you were trying to launch humans into space with the railgun, wouldn't the g-forces of that super-fast acceleration smoosh them? Or am I vastly overestimating the railgun's capabilities and vastly underestimating the "human squishiness quotient" as M-Bot calls it? I think, to answer your "How do we make sure things don't go wrong" question, it's just that as a civilization advances in their technology, it will generally become safer. I mean, people drive in cars or fly in airplanes all the time, but if you sit down and think about it, you're in a steel projectile hurtling through three dimensions and high velocities with so so so many things that could go wrong and kill you. But no one actually sits down and think about it. So how long would it take for space travel to get safe enough that, for the most part, you don't have to worry about how terrifying it is? (You kind of talked about this, I just wanted to elaborate.) What about gravity slingshots? Hydrogen, at least for our time and level of technology, is a very efficient fuel. While it's true that compared to some kinds of propulsion that can be achieved in the future it's basically redundant, I don't think we should put that handy chemical reaction of H2+O2=H2O out of the picture yet. At the poles of the Moon, there are large stores of ice that have been untouched for eons. If someone were to go and mine that solid water, melt it, and do electrolysis on it, you have all of the Hydrogen and Oxygen that you need to burn for fuel. And because the Moon has much less gravity than the Earth, if we turn the north and south poles of the Moon into fuel mines and spaceports, the solar system could quite easily open up for us. You're completely right that we need to move on to a more advanced method of propulsion in the future. But I think Hydrogen fuel could be helpful in other ways, at least in the early eras of expansion. So yeah, there's my random rant. Sorry it's so big. If you want to talk about big galactic-scale space opera or FTL sometime, just ping me, and I can rant some more. Edit: A quick internet search made me realize we should actually be building the railgun on the moon.

As a tourist? Hm.... Based on my religion (see my signature) probably Heaven. Maybe. Would you rather be a full Mistborn or a Knight Radiant? (Whichever Order you get on the Official Knights Radiant quiz.)

"Oh no, is the universe being destroyed again?" Bookwyrm asked. "It's already happened too many times."

Butt Venture decided to be friends with Stephen in order to make him less evil.

Granted, but you don't get to decide where the transportation is to. I wish to have skin of the normal sensitivity again.

This let Butt regain control of himself again.

Bookwyrm, now that the anti-cheat was dead, narrated himself through the portal and returned to the real world.

It was at this moment that Butt Venture decided to come back, as he always does.

Bookwyrm remarked that the Wardens would probably hear that.

Bookwyrm, who now knew how to sneak better, decided to join the elite team of scholars. Bookwyrm was a very scholarly narrator.

Bookwyrm froze and hovered in midair silently. He slowly drifted away from the location where he had been making noise and over to the portal. He then tried to enter the portal silently.

Bookwyrm, who was not well versed in most things Minecraft related, replied in the chat with, "No, I didn't know that. Can you please tell me how to get in the portal, then?"

Bookwyrm noticed Nameless's army and asked for some help.

Bookwyrm attempted to dodge the soundwaves. He failed and was sent flying backwards, ears throbbing painfully.

Bookwyrm flared Steel and Pushed a handful of coins at the Wardens. He then Lashed himself upward slightly and jumped over their heads, then landed behind the horde and summoned his Narrationblade and Shardblade. (Bookwyrm had done some narrator stuff to make Cosmere magic work in Minecraft.)

Bookwyrm was unable to tell if his intense conversation with the Wardens was going well.

Bookwyrm, who was unexperienced in the world of Minecraft and therefore didn't know what these Wardens were, tried to talk things through with the Wardens so that they would let him through. "You let Nameless through, so why not me?" he reasoned.

Bookwyrm went to the deep dark and activated the portal at the center.