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I do believe it means "I sort of am?" But who knows? I don't know for sure...

Commslugs seem like the easiest for me to take care of. I might name it Eclectus? It's a type of parrot.

A Pineapple... is... a pineapple? It's strange how easily a single question can tear reality apart for somebody. *Whimpers*

Are you mocking me? I do that a lot, after all.

Hold up. What is this? Is this something I need to know about? Sounds amazing... Never mind. I replied to the complete wrong thing. Oops. Still applies, actually.

I didn't find my way there until act 2. Guess that makes sense though. I've already collected them, just can't beat Lost Lace yet.

I'm gonna fully trust him for that. I like to be contradictory.

After much struggle, I finally hit Act 3. This is actually a bit outdated of an update, seeing as that was over a month ago, and now I'm working on the final boss of act 3. Ya know, and goofing off in various places throughout Pharloom. Can anybody join me in saying (Potential spoilers for act two, but kinda minor ones):

Granted. You now have more than enough willpower to get out of bed earlier. However, you lose the ability to physically get up earlier, so you can't get up anyway. I wish to be able to consistently be able to draw good pictures.

Welcome to the Shard! My favorite is The Way of Kings, definitely. Followed up by The Final Empire. Just to be clear, you've read Oathbringer and so forth?

I don't know how to really introduce this story. IDK, It's really weird compared to the other ones I'm writing. This is the Nameless Hero! It's a short story that I literally came up with at 3:00 a.m. (It should be noted that though I called it Math class Boredom, it was only the same type of boredom. Not actually caused by math class, unfortunately...) This is only part (Chapter) 1.

I have gym, and then seminary. They are my first two classes, therefore both are too early... I think.

Being so annoyingly indecisive. I'm not sure how I'd use it to my advantage, though it may help with stalling?

I want to try and create a single piece of art that represents as much of the cosmere as possible. I have NOT read Isles of the Emberdark and Warbreaker. So for those books, I'd like some recommendations for how I could represent them in the drawing, which characters I should use, etc. Stay as spoiler free as possible, please. Additional ideas for how I could structure or organize the drawing are welcome.

These are the first 2 chapters to one of my story ideas. (For those who may know, the one with the falling stars magic system.) I'm unsure about the opening in general. I particularly want to highlight chapter 2. There's something I tried to do with foreshadowing. I want to know if it works, or not. I'm very unsure. In addition, general critique is welcome. Chapters 1 and 2: Chapter 2 foreshadowing attempt: (Note: if you don't want (somewhat) minor spoilers about the story, looking through this isn't recommended.)

I dunno what to say here, but I like the game idea!

Read through this some more to understand it better... So we basically have an account dedicated to year round April Fools Pranks now? I can't believe I didn't think of that. I approve, honestly.

Mine would be Skyward Sword, BotW, and TotK, though that last one is a difficult opinion, as I don't own the game myself, but rather have played it at my friend's place. Windwaker is also pretty great... So basically every Zelda game I've played much of, I have now listed as one of my favorites... Completed Master Mode for BotW and Hero mode for both WW and SS. Also working on 100% Skyward Sword on Hero Mode. Getting close, just need to get a bunch of Goddess Cubes cleared. Also, I just discovered that this exists too.

It's great to find people who have read this much Cosmere. That is literally one of my hobbies. I've read through most of the Cosmere, but I haven't read Warbreaker and Isles of the Emberdark. I have no clue how one ends up on the Shard without reading any of Brandon's books, but... Welcome anyway... I dunno. You should read the books.

My writing style has been through a lot. I have a story, (Which I have not before mentioned on the Shard,) that I am working on, and have been working on since 5th grade. Because of this, there is a drastic shift in the same character. In order to get myself a better idea of the world and character, I decided to create a snippet of writing designed as an account of the main character's journey, written as if it was by the hand of that character, following the events of the story. By the way, in this land there are 9 tribes, each inhabiting a different layer of a cavernous planet. People travel through rifts in the ground up or down toward other layers. It's kind of a tradition, thanks to the fact that I really enjoyed writing short stories for that book back in 5th grade. Now, I want to compare the same character from the first version and the newest version, and see what you think! Starting with the single paragraph short story I wrote in fifth grade. (To think that my grammar improved so much only a year later...) I'm... Not proud of that... But that is how my writing started nevertheless. Anyway! Here's the next part, that Test snippet I mentioned earlier, from Gideon's POV Worldbuilding and magic in this story is a bit complicated, (I'm working on it). I think there's a drastic change, and it's very clear that the character has evolved, not just my writing style.

Short answer? The story does not take place directly next to the big central pool. However, there is a small amount of travel between the main setting and other areas. Another thing I failed to mention is that the antagonist is intentionally blocking trade routes to the kingdom, and they are beginning to struggle with resources. So a large decision is whether or not I want to make the starlight a limited resource as well. If I do want to make it limited, then combining the ideas or using option two would work well. The Shattered Skies and this story are separate worlds. I also slightly lean toward Idea 1 for the same reasons, but I feel like it could be a small loss, (Due to reasons I mentioned in the last reply,) and as I realize that and put story ideas together with the magic system I am realizing more and more that I'm even less sure of which one I want to go with. I suppose the only way to figure out is to choose one and see if the story is better because of it. As for how hard the magic system is... I'm hoping to go for a mix of both. Basically, some techniques with the starlight will be understood more than others, and so it seems like a hard magic system that is simply half understood. Some things will work in more detailed ways than others that will intentionally be left a bit more mysterious. That kind of also ties in to the next question, which is that there very much are properties about the Starlight can do other than give powers to objects or people. (As for what these powers are, I still don't have very many definite ideas.) The entire magic system is relatively new, so I haven't thought about it on a full story scale until posting it here, and a lot of things are still undecided. A quick thank you to everybody who has asked about this, and helped me to blend the newer magic system with the older plot. I still haven't decided which version of the system to go with, but it has still been helpful to get feedback.

Ooh! I hadn't even thought of that. As for context of the story... it's hard to explain, so something a bit more specific about the story would be helpful. As a general explanation (without going too much into story details,) I will say this, as it is most relevant to the whole star related element of the story:

First off, Thank you! It's always nice to hear people that are interested in a story idea. I'm not 100% sure if I'll share a snippet or sneak peek yet. I haven't actually gotten to writing any of the story quite yet, I'm still preparing, and have a planned plot for it, but currently there isn't much of the story to share. I may share the first few chapters if I'm happy with them. With my other stories, I'm not quite so happy with their openings, so I haven't shared them on here. Basically, it's all a big "We'll see", but it's a possibility. First I have to figure out the lore, because the main character is a storyteller (In addition to other roles, namely the Princess of one of the Seven Kingdoms, but Storytelling is a Side hobby.) The stories she tells are all fictional, even to that world, or legends that aren't 100% accurate. (Mainly the second one) and therefore it requires a lot of preparation.