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Yet to approach the pair of them at a convention to threaten a lawsuit seemed so excessively aggressive. Why would the CEO of a multimillion dollar company do that?
Weis said, “You had to know Lorraine.”
The break between TSR and Weis and Hickman seemed complete. Why would the pair ever come back while she was casually threatening frivolous lawsuits against them?
It is worth pausing for a moment to measure the caliber of disaster that the departure of Weis and Hickman represented. You couldn’t swing a vorpal sword in the company offices without beheading a genius. Every department was thick with them, women and men whose minds sparkled like obsidian in firelight. Given the success of Dragonlance, Weis and Hickman were certainly geniuses. But I believe I have interviewed dozens of company alumni that I would rank as creative geniuses for this book. So curiously, the quality that might make Weis and Hickman standout against the general populace was not what made them standout at the company.
They were, there is no other word for it, stars. Perhaps the first the company produced after Gygax himself. They had fanatical devotees who knew their names, even if in confusion they misgendered Tracy Hickman. The company sold 14 million copies of Dragonlance novels, settings, and adventures by 1997. At conventions, people would crowd their table for autographs. For years at Gen Con, Tracy Hickman hosted two hour sessions of what he called, “Killer Breakfast.” Fans came up on stage with D&D characters, and Hickman killed them as amusingly as possible, sometimes dispatching up to 200 in a go. Other fans have taken their books to war with them. One wounded veteran returned from Afghanistan and gifted the pair his Bronze Star and Purple Heart, saying they deserved them because the Dragonlance novels helped him earn those medals.
To call the people faithful to the works of Weis and Hickman a fanbase is to damn with faint praise. The pair reached out with their words and touched something elemental and profound within their readers.
Yet TSR seemed to believe that sort of allegiance from an audience could be replaced. It acted on a theory of interchangeable creativity, as though a novel or adventure would sell equally well irrespective of who produced it. Writers were machines that made words to sell. Other machines would make words if they would not.
Acting on this theory set a pattern that would recur again and again during the Williams era: the company would discover and support talent. That talent would mature, make amazing products, then leave, often due to low pay or perceived disrespect.
Once Weis and Hickman were gone, along came a crisis: What fantasy setting would replace Dragonlance, and what author would replace them?
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The profile, they say, has signs of Iranian-related ancestry but no evidence of pastoralists who lived in the grasslands of Asia and Europe. “We say ‘Iranian-related’ because we don’t know where they lived,” Reich says. They could have lived in the Iranian plateau, but the team’s data point to them having lived in South Asia for many thousands of years before the Indus Valley Civilisation, he adds.
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From the DNA, researchers can start to piece together some of the ancient woman’s physical traits and make some inferences about the world she lived in. “We determined that she had this striking combination of dark skin, dark hair, and blue eyes,” Schroeder says. “It’s interesting because it’s the same combination of physical traits that apparently was very common in Mesolithic Europe. So all these other ancient [European] genomes that we know about, like La Braña in Spain, they all have this combination of physical traits that of course today in Europe is not so common. Indigenous Europeans have lighter skin color now but that was apparently not the case 5,000 to 10,000 years ago.”
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The profile, they say, has signs of Iranian-related ancestry but no evidence of pastoralists who lived in the grasslands of Asia and Europe. “We say ‘Iranian-related’ because we don’t know where they lived,” Reich says. They could have lived in the Iranian plateau, but the team’s data point to them having lived in South Asia for many thousands of years before the Indus Valley Civilisation, he adds.
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From the DNA, researchers can start to piece together some of the ancient woman’s physical traits and make some inferences about the world she lived in. “We determined that she had this striking combination of dark skin, dark hair, and blue eyes,” Schroeder says. “It’s interesting because it’s the same combination of physical traits that apparently was very common in Mesolithic Europe. So all these other ancient [European] genomes that we know about, like La Braña in Spain, they all have this combination of physical traits that of course today in Europe is not so common. Indigenous Europeans have lighter skin color now but that was apparently not the case 5,000 to 10,000 years ago.”
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Myrkul
I'm replying to you right now on Atrium! Keep going soldier. Come and check it out https://indieagora.com/
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I'm using the new site. I read what you wrote, and thank you so much for taking the time to make all this as well as to take the time to write all that to explain it to me, that is incredibly kind of you and I appreciate it a lot, especially that you were attentive to my concerns and may have adjusted to make things easy and comfortable for me.
I was able to navigate somewhat closely to how I have been on the forum site, but I haven't tested that out too much yet. On the forum site I can see the topics listed out in smaller text so that I can see more titles and find things easier, but here I saw each was larger with writing underneath, but there may be a way to view the titles so I can see the themes and find them again and monitor which are moving up or catching my attention.
I am also wondering if you might be able to implement this current color scheme as the dark or nighttime mode and also to have a light color scheme option I can turn on as an alternative, though I think that this dark color scheme looks nice, I tend to sommetimes like a light color scheme aldo for how it works on my mind but also for reading for some reason.
The text appears in somewhat narrow columns that look a little different from the forum site on my phone and make my already very lengthy collections of text seem even longer and I wonder if there might be anything that could expand them or make typing and reading larger amounts of text easier, though I like that no side scrolling should be necessary and that the eyes stay relatively fixed without too much moving off to the sides as that can become straining.
I'm going to explore a little more briefly to see if I might add anything else for now, some things I'm worried about are if the text I'm writing will disappear when I go to another video, how nuch text it will allow per post, how quickly it saves my writing as I'm writing and how well it retains it and returns it, like if it will return all my text to the text box if I shut the window entirely and return to the page or navigate back to the page from elsewhere or outside, will the text I had been typing in the box be saved and appear again? If so, that would make me feel very secure and comfortable about wroting and collecting large amounts of text as I have been, since losing my writing before clicking enter really frustrates me and sometimes occurs if a page refreshes or I navigate away or click something accidentally. I often go away from the writing, sometimes for a while, when finding links to add and reading through them before posting them or adding them to the writing.
The links I have recently posted and which appear throughout all threads prior to the update are not appearing as working hyperlinks, they just appear as text currently and would require me or anyone to copy paste them into the address bar to view them currently. They still appear to function as they did for the most part on the forum site, except for links put up before the forum site was created, those appear to be just text.
If I type in a link here, I am guessing it will function like a normal link, lets see: www.amazon.ca, www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk
Ok, maybe not that one, forum.indieagora.com
I don't know many more sites, all I travel to now is the forum site, www.gmail.com very rarely, Amazon, I check www bigbadtoystore.com, I've been seeing how long I can avoid seeing what hell has been unleashed upon the Earth by not going to www.youtube.ca or www.youtube.com. www.google.com has increasingly disappointing search results. Sometimes I check www.hasbropulse.com but I hope to cut down spending on toys and entertainment type expenses drastically this year and to enjoy my humungous library and collection of things.
Alright, that was a link test once I post this.
I don't know if it is because I am logged in or not, but one of the other pages showed me a log in screen and when I tried to log in, it seemed to do nothing, the button appeared darkened or didn't do anything, underneath it said "Forgot password?" in blue and underneath that it said Ok in green. That was in the Connect section. I don't know if that means I am already logged in or not.
I clicked something, the thread where you imagined me hovering over your car windshield and smashed it, and it says "Topic failed: Bad nonce"
Now I'm editing my Bio, mainly to see if I can put up a display picture.
So with that, if I accidentally swipe in a certain way, the box for selecting a picture disappears or becomes unreachable but acts like it is still opened, so then I have to refresh the page and click the picture to bring up the edit box again.
It took me a long time to find the picture, so I was away from this text box for a while, and it kept my text, but I haven't dared to refresh the page yet.
There is an attach button, so I'll test that.
That didn't seem to do anything yet.
It moves the text box or scrolls me down but there doesn't seem to be anything that I can see or which is accessible that pops up when I click the blue paperclip.
This concludes my first test, now I'll see how it posts from the forum site.
Do you think it might be possible to make an option where I can view the threads as titles listed out to help me navigate them?
Currently I can only see them as big chunks each, and that obscures things further down or which have not had activity in a while, but on the forum site I have been able to see many more titles and to scroll through them and find older ones to bump again.
I tried to press "Reply" and it didn't seem to do anything.
So I copied the text, brought it to the nice, bright, forum site, and pasted it in here to get the text to you.
Was the reply button supposed to work or is it just in a testing phase for me to explore what it looks like currently? I think you may have said it might not be up yet for posting purposes, but I just wanted to note everything that I checked and did.
The Add Attachment button also doesn't do anything yet, but I was able to successfully upload a picture as far as I can tell, and it seems to have retained the selection and remembered it when I went back to that page somehow, though I'm not sure how I navigated back there.
I'll see if I can get back to the chat box and send you inages, but that might be unavailable currently since the link now takes me to this new site.
I sent a message through chat and clicked every button and option everywhere except the deactivate account types which appeared red.
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This may not be relevant, but this appears when I click on the second page of the thread where you mention an update, it is currently highlighted for me on the forum site but I can't access what was written:
https://i.postimg.cc/xC8fh6c3/1000142663.png
I was able to navigate somewhat closely to how I have been on the forum site, but I haven't tested that out too much yet. On the forum site I can see the topics listed out in smaller text so that I can see more titles and find things easier, but here I saw each was larger with writing underneath, but there may be a way to view the titles so I can see the themes and find them again and monitor which are moving up or catching my attention.
I am also wondering if you might be able to implement this current color scheme as the dark or nighttime mode and also to have a light color scheme option I can turn on as an alternative, though I think that this dark color scheme looks nice, I tend to sommetimes like a light color scheme aldo for how it works on my mind but also for reading for some reason.
The text appears in somewhat narrow columns that look a little different from the forum site on my phone and make my already very lengthy collections of text seem even longer and I wonder if there might be anything that could expand them or make typing and reading larger amounts of text easier, though I like that no side scrolling should be necessary and that the eyes stay relatively fixed without too much moving off to the sides as that can become straining.
I'm going to explore a little more briefly to see if I might add anything else for now, some things I'm worried about are if the text I'm writing will disappear when I go to another video, how nuch text it will allow per post, how quickly it saves my writing as I'm writing and how well it retains it and returns it, like if it will return all my text to the text box if I shut the window entirely and return to the page or navigate back to the page from elsewhere or outside, will the text I had been typing in the box be saved and appear again? If so, that would make me feel very secure and comfortable about wroting and collecting large amounts of text as I have been, since losing my writing before clicking enter really frustrates me and sometimes occurs if a page refreshes or I navigate away or click something accidentally. I often go away from the writing, sometimes for a while, when finding links to add and reading through them before posting them or adding them to the writing.
The links I have recently posted and which appear throughout all threads prior to the update are not appearing as working hyperlinks, they just appear as text currently and would require me or anyone to copy paste them into the address bar to view them currently. They still appear to function as they did for the most part on the forum site, except for links put up before the forum site was created, those appear to be just text.
If I type in a link here, I am guessing it will function like a normal link, lets see: www.amazon.ca, www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk
Ok, maybe not that one, forum.indieagora.com
I don't know many more sites, all I travel to now is the forum site, www.gmail.com very rarely, Amazon, I check www bigbadtoystore.com, I've been seeing how long I can avoid seeing what hell has been unleashed upon the Earth by not going to www.youtube.ca or www.youtube.com. www.google.com has increasingly disappointing search results. Sometimes I check www.hasbropulse.com but I hope to cut down spending on toys and entertainment type expenses drastically this year and to enjoy my humungous library and collection of things.
Alright, that was a link test once I post this.
I don't know if it is because I am logged in or not, but one of the other pages showed me a log in screen and when I tried to log in, it seemed to do nothing, the button appeared darkened or didn't do anything, underneath it said "Forgot password?" in blue and underneath that it said Ok in green. That was in the Connect section. I don't know if that means I am already logged in or not.
I clicked something, the thread where you imagined me hovering over your car windshield and smashed it, and it says "Topic failed: Bad nonce"
Now I'm editing my Bio, mainly to see if I can put up a display picture.
So with that, if I accidentally swipe in a certain way, the box for selecting a picture disappears or becomes unreachable but acts like it is still opened, so then I have to refresh the page and click the picture to bring up the edit box again.
It took me a long time to find the picture, so I was away from this text box for a while, and it kept my text, but I haven't dared to refresh the page yet.
There is an attach button, so I'll test that.
That didn't seem to do anything yet.
It moves the text box or scrolls me down but there doesn't seem to be anything that I can see or which is accessible that pops up when I click the blue paperclip.
This concludes my first test, now I'll see how it posts from the forum site.
Do you think it might be possible to make an option where I can view the threads as titles listed out to help me navigate them?
Currently I can only see them as big chunks each, and that obscures things further down or which have not had activity in a while, but on the forum site I have been able to see many more titles and to scroll through them and find older ones to bump again.
I tried to press "Reply" and it didn't seem to do anything.
So I copied the text, brought it to the nice, bright, forum site, and pasted it in here to get the text to you.
Was the reply button supposed to work or is it just in a testing phase for me to explore what it looks like currently? I think you may have said it might not be up yet for posting purposes, but I just wanted to note everything that I checked and did.
The Add Attachment button also doesn't do anything yet, but I was able to successfully upload a picture as far as I can tell, and it seems to have retained the selection and remembered it when I went back to that page somehow, though I'm not sure how I navigated back there.
I'll see if I can get back to the chat box and send you inages, but that might be unavailable currently since the link now takes me to this new site.
I sent a message through chat and clicked every button and option everywhere except the deactivate account types which appeared red.
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This may not be relevant, but this appears when I click on the second page of the thread where you mention an update, it is currently highlighted for me on the forum site but I can't access what was written:
https://i.postimg.cc/xC8fh6c3/1000142663.png
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Re: Myrkul
Glad that you had a go of the new site.
I will make a note of these display style snags and will sort them out soon but I am currently building the user registration and password reset system which is proving to be a bit of a bugger.
I will add a lightmode/darkmode toggle.
I will realign the columns so that they scale better.
That fatal error was clash over authority - I replied to a thread that normally merges the posts if it's the same user with a plugin - Atrium does that automatically - phpbb is massively strict and it caused a fatal error. This is why i don't think Atrium will be a good bedfellow with the forum software.
I'll keep it going as long as I can.
There was nothing in that reply you hadn't already read.
The chat system has not got the function to send images BUT you can create an Agora called 'Atrium Problems' and you can upload screenshots and problem there by opening a new topic! Try it out!
The new forums/agoras will not apopear in phpbb (the forum) because of permissions (as I said it's VERY strict).
I will make a note of these display style snags and will sort them out soon but I am currently building the user registration and password reset system which is proving to be a bit of a bugger.
I will add a lightmode/darkmode toggle.
I will realign the columns so that they scale better.
That fatal error was clash over authority - I replied to a thread that normally merges the posts if it's the same user with a plugin - Atrium does that automatically - phpbb is massively strict and it caused a fatal error. This is why i don't think Atrium will be a good bedfellow with the forum software.
I'll keep it going as long as I can.
There was nothing in that reply you hadn't already read.
The chat system has not got the function to send images BUT you can create an Agora called 'Atrium Problems' and you can upload screenshots and problem there by opening a new topic! Try it out!
The new forums/agoras will not apopear in phpbb (the forum) because of permissions (as I said it's VERY strict).
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kFoyauextlH
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Re: Myrkul
I'm not entirely sure but I think maybe somehow the forum site has slightly changed to narrower than it was before.
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atreestump
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Re: Myrkul
I'm fixing the snags right now. There are multiple issues I have identified. Hopefully I can get Discuss running perfectly by the end of the day.
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kFoyauextlH
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Re: Myrkul
You're doing an amazing job, I'm extremely impressed as always!
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That is a video featuring a "Death Whistle", fratured in an upcoming film and its title, and this video supposedly shows fear, though it is very possibly wholly staged as it makes little sense overall.
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Re: Myrkul
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzompantli
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Tzompantli is known chiefly for their depiction in Late Postclassic (13th to 16th centuries) and post-Conquest (mid-16th to 17th centuries) codices, contemporary accounts of the conquistadores, and several other inscriptions. However, a tzompantli-like structure, thought to be the first instance of such structures, has been excavated from the Proto-Classic Zapotec civilization at the La Coyotera, Oaxaca site, dating from around the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century CE.[6] The Zapotecs called this structure a yàgabetoo, and it displayed 61 skulls.[7]
Tzompantli are also noted in other Mesoamerican pre-Columbian cultures, such as the Toltec and Mixtec.[8][9]
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https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/ask ... skullracks
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Tzompantli is known chiefly for their depiction in Late Postclassic (13th to 16th centuries) and post-Conquest (mid-16th to 17th centuries) codices, contemporary accounts of the conquistadores, and several other inscriptions. However, a tzompantli-like structure, thought to be the first instance of such structures, has been excavated from the Proto-Classic Zapotec civilization at the La Coyotera, Oaxaca site, dating from around the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century CE.[6] The Zapotecs called this structure a yàgabetoo, and it displayed 61 skulls.[7]
Tzompantli are also noted in other Mesoamerican pre-Columbian cultures, such as the Toltec and Mixtec.[8][9]
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https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/ask ... skullracks
https://archaeologymag.com/2025/08/huei ... -insights/