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Kali said:

What commands do you type without really thinking about them?

Terentia said:

Reclaiming my Quizmaster crown as I remain away(ish) while continuing my exam preparations.

2.) What is one fact that few people have caught on about your character?
Probably that Uzriel likes his fumes a little bit -too- much. Since switching to Necro I haven't decided what to do once they run out or how to evolve on that, we'll see where that goes.
3.) What is your favorite IG literary book?
My ABC's book was so fun to write, glad to see all the 's for it.
4.) What is your favorite IG scholarly book? 
Aiakon's books on geomancy are amazing reads for any geomancers, that was definitely an early inspiration for Uzriel. His Geomantic Primer, the Libellus Geomancie, and Collection of Essays are all top notch for setting the geomancy roleplay, my cleanse enchantment book was pretty much based on taking everything he wrote as fact. For those wanting the TLDR, completely insane scholarly sums them up, read them without taking them too serious OOCly.
5.) How do you perceive scale in Lusternia? How do you imagine how big is the Inner Sea? How do you reconcile there being only 10 firefly squid in the ocean (this isn't true, but this is an example)? This is a theoretical kind of question, I think. 
Suspension of disbelief sums it up. Like Kailanna I just assume there's tons more that we don't see.
6.) Do you prefer longform emotes or predetermined/overridden emotes?
It depends on context and situation. I do tend to prefer shorter but quicker emotes over taking 10+ minutes to wall of text somebody. You can have a quick custom emote that's relevant to the situation/surrounding without needing 5 lines to do it.
8.) I know you all like Divine interaction, but I really wonder, what exactly constitutes that? Is me interacting with you in-person enough? Fulcrux? Through Order-related denizens? 
I'll take any crumbs thrown my way as others have said. If an admin feels more comfortable using a denizen over showing up as their role more power to them. I recently had an interaction of being sent messages through my order item without them necessarily showing up and I thought it gave a cool sense of being looked over and protected and responding by thinking or emote praying back feels fitting.
9.) How do you imagine how you relate to the Gods (especially those of you in Orders)? 
I mean it depends on where the God stands on the allegiance spectrum!
For the Order, it is very much a faith and Drocilla is not just a goddess but is the goddess. He sends her formalized prayers fairly regularly about things both important and mundane.
For non-Magnagoran Gods there's a bit of curiosity and suspicion. With his geomancer roots he considered Carakhan to basically be the devil and there may or may not have been prayers send to that effect.  Maybe now that I've switched to Nihilist its time to poke Lantra about the ultimate form of healing, necromancy.
10.) How do you best communicate to others (players, perhaps even Godmin) the story beats or plots that you want to engage or participate in? What do you think would be a good way if there is not a "best" way? 
With events involving admin, I've found the best way is despite what I'm saying aloud, send a tell to somebody or think something that gives a tell as to what I might be planning. During the Magnagoran ball in order to get rid of an NPC I "accidently" spilled a drink on them. Prior to that, I used think about it and conferred with Sapphira to make sure admin had more than enough time to see and decide how they wanted to run with it.
I probably still could do to use think more. 

Ayisdra said:

On an ooc level, I always feel like the gods don't like me but the admin are too polite to actually say it. I understand the need to separate the god from the admin role, but at the same time, I feel like it raises hopes of interactions that likely won't happen because the admin doesn't look forward to it.

Terentia said:

Reclaiming my Quizmaster crown as I remain away(ish) while continuing my exam preparations.

1.) Out of all the movies, books, and TV shows in the world, what character of figure in that wide world best matches or captures the essence of your character? 
50% Cruella de Vil, 50% Maleficent, with a dash of Six from Battlestar Galactica

2.) What is one fact that few people have caught on about your character?
Oh, there's way too much going on in there that no one knows about. Not giving anything away here. 

3.) What is your favorite IG literary book?
I have to copy Sapphira on this one, the d'Vanecu ABCs book is spectacular.

4.) What is your favorite IG scholarly book? 
Literally anything that touches on n'Kylbar and/or the noble Houses.

5.) How do you perceive scale in Lusternia? How do you imagine how big is the Inner Sea? How do you reconcile there being only 10 firefly squid in the ocean (this isn't true, but this is an example)? This is a theoretical kind of question, I think. 
I think of scale mostly when looking at the city from a player perspective. It's obviously much, much, much larger than just what we see, we just don't bother going to every slum or residence or spend our time wandering the 10 other banks or 40 small restaurants. It touches on the NPC question too. The players are (mostly) in the upper echelons of society, so it ends up looking like the entire city is populated by snooty undead nobility. The actual (in your head) reality is that the snooty undead nobility makes up a very very small percentage of the city population, the rest are the vast masses of serfs and laborers going about their day to day lives, who we pointedly ignore. We just only ever interact with a couple of them here and there. It's the same with the squid, there are probably actually hundreds or thousands, but we're not going to bother finding every last one, just a handful. 

6.) Do you prefer longform emotes or predetermined/overridden emotes?
It depends on the situation or conversation. I use small quick ones for small talk and hanging around when I'm only partially paying attention. I'll move into the longer more elaborate ones when it's a more extended conversation or there's something particularly interesting going on. 

7.) What are some of your questions about... mugwumps? (This is a @Mboagn bone of a question, but you can offer other questions about Lusternian peoples; NB, this does not mean I, or any admin, will necessarily answer them).
Do they taste better raw or cooked? Preparation recommendations?

8.) I know you all like Divine interaction, but I really wonder, what exactly constitutes that? Is me interacting with you in-person enough? Fulcrux? Through Order-related denizens? 
Echoing above, pretty much anything. A bit of flavor for the day is always good, regardless of whether its a snack or a full meal.

9.) How do you imagine how you relate to the Gods (especially those of you in Orders)? 
Kailanna has a particularly specific core view that makes her perception of Gods a little different (which came up in conversation recently). For survival, order has to be imposed on existence, which is done through hierarchy. Peasants serve nobles, lesser races serve the viscanti, and so on, with everyone neatly in their place. For her it's not about faith or worship or preaching, it's the simple fact that Elder Gods are greater beings than mortals, so mortals have to serve as a matter of hierarchy. 

10.) How do you best communicate to others (players, perhaps even Godmin) the story beats or plots that you want to engage or participate in? What do you think would be a good way if there is not a "best" way? 
 I think this fits into two categories, the topics you want to actively push and the ones you're interested in. If there's something I want to push or DO RIGHT NOW, I'll go bring up the topic to someone or actively try to move it forward. Aside from that, there are always a laundry list of topics I have an interest in, but don't see them as something my character would actively bring up, so I just keep an ear out for them coming up organically.