I guess I'd like to ask them what drew them to their character? Why'd they pick the person they did, if they seem themselves in the character, that sort of thing.

On 7/30/2021 at 7:25 PM, Asha'man Shar'aman said:

Thanks! I don’t know about the first though. 

Any ideas? Take a guess! ?

4 hours ago, Asha'man Shar'aman said:

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Here, right?

You got it! Good job! ?

Clearly overwhelmed by my dazzling intelligence, no one has taken up the challenge.

That doesn't mean it stops though...I have two more for you! Try your luck.

1) Show me where Moiraine was first revealed to the world.
2) Tell me where the books are kept in the white tower.

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to put your Eyes and Ears to the test and sleuth out posts from across the White Tower's history.

For the next several days, I'll be giving out hints, and you have to tell me what post I'm talking about. Credit will be given if you find something that's close, but not what I originally intended.

When you reply, please make sure you use the Spoiler option to hide your answer from everyone else, that way no one has it ruined.

You can turn this on with the little Eye icon in the formatting bar

An example of how this might work is, I will ask

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Show me the game where you pretend to be Moiraine

To which you might reply with the link like so

With this in mind, lets start out easy. All of these are pretty recent and should be simple to find.

1) Show me the most recent Thead of Information woven for Moiraine Month

2) Find me the first time we opened Mother's Skirts
3) We all know Moiraine's Ajah, so show me her Ajah's Fantasy

Okay I love the first piece you shared. The art style is kind of unique and it captures the badass-ness of Moraine. I love it ?

What art have you seen that you like?

I know what you mean though. The more I get into something the pickier I get about the art that's produced ?

Look at any fandom, and people's creativity will shortly follow. Whether through music, art, videos, stories, you name it, people find all sorts of ways to express their love.

Today we want to focus on art.

What are your favourite pieces of art of Moiraine? We've seen what she looks like thanks to the Amazon previews, but what art best captured the image of her in your head?

Or if you're the artistic type (so entirely the opposite of me), have you ever made art of Moiraine? What inspired you to make it? I'd love to hear the creative process behind your creation.

If you're feeling brave...take a shot at making and posting some art here!

Dang, Elgee is really working on that search engine optimization...I think you've discovered a new career ?

I think that sounds awesome Sable, cheese + garlic is always a win in my books ?

I made a pretty awesome spice paste the other night using this as a base

https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/grilled-moroccan-chicken.html

I've made it before, but this time I changed out the sugar for honey and it was really nice. In the future I'd up the cumin, cayenne (double it), and slightly increase the ginger since the honey kind over overpowered these flavours. Would try again!

It seems we're out of cards...I'm interested in the results ?

Congrats on surviving the audit season (prep), I know that's always a biggie ?

Oh wow, Jaydena, now that's a blast from the past.

I'll definitely get this filled out :)

15 hours ago, JamesBrown said:

Welcome, Azshaya. I'm a cloud administrator myself. I enjoy scripting, but my skills aren't enough to call myself a software engineer by any means.

 

I've been in IT for over twenty years, and I've looked at cybersecurity as a career path off an d on. But I always get depressed at how vulnerable our networks are that I just want to turn off my computer and hide under the bedcovers. So my props to anyone who can maintain that vigilance. (Same reason I could never be a police officer.)

Oh that's awesome! Cloud Security is actually the focus of my Certs right now. I'm still pretty new to the industry so I'm working on the Azure Security Engineer course right now, eventually going towards their Administrative and Architecture courses. I'd love to be a security engineer or architect some day :)

Cybersecurity can definitely be like that sometimes, no matter what you do there will always be a fault that people will exploit...but that's also what keeps me motivated.  I can't stop everything but I can do my best to make it harder on those who want to hack me :D

17 hours ago, Ryrin said:

Cyber Security! Awesome! My son is a software engineer/developer.  
 

Would we recognize your previous identity? 
 

I’m a retired social worker, married with two adult sons. The other son is a Fire Lt.  age 23! 

 

I love animals especially dogs, birds, and cats.

 

Hobbies include reading, swimming, and painting.

 

Do you have any hobbies?

Software Engineers always amaze me. Believe it or not you don't need to be amazing at coding to be in cybersecurity, and coding has never been my strong suit, so people who can do it well are like magicians to me. Something I tell my boyfriend pretty often.

My hobbies these days are mostly focused around learning for my certification courses, but I also play computer games...started that when I was 12 and never really looked back :D

And that's awesome for your other some, really impressive! :)

14 hours ago, LadyWordsmith said:

Welcome, Azshaya! 

That's cool! My sibling is in cyber-security. My mother wrote systems and system analysis software for telecommunications companies from 1972 until she retired a couple of years ago, so different field, but we all come by our tech savvy from family. Of course she tells me lately she's been coding some new projects of her own just for the fun of it because she enjoys it. 

I'm a high school English teacher (virtual for over 6 years now because the school I'm teaching for is virtual, and loving not having a commute, or having to discipline kids in the classroom. It's all one-on-one and small group online and so much easier to focus on the actual material). 

Thank you!

Your mother is pretty amazing. I always love hearing about the early days of computer systems programming because so much of it was still being figured out back there, it was all new! It's even more amazing that your mother was doing it. Tech to this day is still very male dominated, and was even more so in the 1970's, so it's always inspiring to see the women who laid the foundation for the rest of us :)

So I guess teaching virtually for years before didn't really cause things to change much for you when the world locked down huh?

Well hi, welcome back! I think I actually remember your name "Cadsuane" from back then as well which is pretty cool. Glad to hear life has stabilized for you :) 

Awwwww, this is really unexpected, thank you! :)

What about me...I've never been good at this stuff...lets see. I'm a returning face with a brand new identity, which is fitting because of how much has changed since I was last here (for the better).

I work in Cybersecurity which is really interesting because it's always changing and you get to learn something new every week. In my spare time I mostly like to keep up with what's going on in my field, and I'm doing some extra learning so I can get certifications that will help me get to where I wanna go! I don't read as much as I used to, but I'm currently reading Adam Savage's book Every Tool's a Hammer. It's pretty interesting, he talks about things he's learn over the years and how you can apply this to building stuff, as well as life in general.

Those drinks and snacks look delightful, thank you again!

Apparently I'm being volunteered now! 

Might as well keep this going, rollroll

I'm only one woman! I can't burn all my luck on this!

Oh well, let's go!

Only one way to find out, let's roll!

Sure, bring it!

Well I got them sorted....it wasn't easy but I got there. I'll try again, maybe the dice will be nice to me this time.

...If I was normally this lucky I'd have bought a lottery ticket. 

I'm up for trying again!

Well I can't let Arie go without a challenge, lets go! :)

10 hours ago, Cross said:

yes. organized by title and genre not author, semi color coordinated. 

Fine fine, a bet is a bet...

*starts sorting*

...so where should I put The Longing: An Orgier Love Story, Bonded In Time, and Two Towers: A Forbidden Love ?