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[thestoopgallants]

[rapidpixeladventure]

Ask: What are these weapons doing on the wall? Do they have a story?

{[INQUIRE]: [Weapons]}

You look up at the three [Weapon Cases] on the wall behind you and ask a question to no one in particular.

Yean responds and you look up to see them towering above you, holding a large tray of food in one hand. For someone so big they move silently. Paige stands to the side, holding additional food, waiting for Yean to serve first.

As they set down the plates of aromatic stew, they begin to share the stories behind the various weapons.

You are shocked to hear Yean talk about such brutal battles so casually. But the tone in their voice is mostly wistful, not as regretful as you’d assume.

Yean was a bounty hunter before they were a tavern keeper. You file this information away as you enjoy the smell of the delicious looking dinner in front of you.

Yean walks away, heading to the front of the tavern again, while Paige lingers in the shadows keeping an eye on your group.

[STATUS]

[QUESTS]

[MAP]

(discord server)

What Should We Do Now?

[shadowswhatwedo-blog]

Film Festivals

“The major festivals are crucially important in marketing movies made outside Hollywood, throwing the media spotlight, however briefly, on small-budget films. If critics speak favorably of the film, or if it wins a prize, it can get special attention.” 

[pwnthesat]

Could you please explain two reading problems in Practice test 6 section 3 (#9 & 13) ?

9: The author of passage 1 makes a point of distinguishing between Linnaeus, whose classification system was a huge deal, and his followers, who made classification the only game in town for the next hundred years.  See line 5, where he says "Linnaeus himself would probably have been the first to admit" that the goal of biology should be broader than simply classifying all living things. 

Passage 2's opening statement seems to blame classification in biology for changing humans' relationship with the world. The only choice to question 9 that sounds like something Passage 1's author would say based on what we know he HAS said is (D), which basically says that the author of passage 2 is blaming Linnaeus for what his followers did. 

13: The last paragraph of the passage is where the citizens of Macondo discover the telephone. Its last sentence says that, as a result of the telephone, "no one knew for certain where the limits of reality lay." 

Choice (D) is almost a direct paraphrase of that. 

You can also get this one by elimination. 

Eliminate (A) because the passage doesn't say they didn't know where it came from. 

Eliminate (B) because there's no mention of their expectations other than the fact that they expected it to be like a phonograph. The phonograph is cool and all, but it's not a more socially beneficial invention than a telephone.

Eliminate (C) because they couldn't tell up from down after the telephone, according to the passage. So in no way could they envision, right away, what changes the phone would bring to their daily lives. They had no idea what to make of it.

Eliminate (E) because there's no mention of their continued employment.