The Ornate one presumably is; Shabby and Common, not so much. (There's probably a tier above Ornate, too—Elite or some such. :)

--G.
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Pretty paintings and embroidings and forgot the name, imprintings? Usage of chisel to make patterns on leather. Yes, that, on Ornate is presumed to be in place, Elite obviously adds gold and even more floor padding.

And now I found the source of confusion. Is Yui's Mom and Dad's yurt an Ornate Tent?

Aha.

>Pretty paintings and embroidings and forgot the name, imprintings?
>Usage of chisel to make patterns on leather.

Embossing? (Or possibly tooling?)

>And now I found the source of confusion. Is Yui's Mom and Dad's yurt
>an Ornate Tent?

It's probably pretty spartan—Air Nomads are into the whole Simplicity thing—but elegant.

--G.
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It's going to be a shock on both sides, although I suspect New Avalon will be slightly better prepared, having had an Avatar visit a few years back.

Peter Eng
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Insert humorous comment here.

That is not entirely coincidental.

Also,

Elder Days Story Time

INT. NIGHT. An apartment in Worcester, one evening in the summer of 1997. GRYPHON has just moved back east from the shambles that was his California experiment and is camped out in the spare room at JER and ANDREW'S place for a while. This particular evening, he's in there gweeping when JER walks in.

JER
Hey Gryph. You want some cheesy poufs?

GRYPHON
(puzzled)
Uh... yes, Jer. I would love some cheesy poufs.

JER
Here you go.

JER hands GRYPHON a CD copy of Welcome to the Pleasuredome, then slopes back out without another word.

--G.
shit me, that was 20 years ago
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But alas, my attempts to Google 'Bellesarius' Law' have come to naught, with or without the spelling change Google thinks I need.

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Fearless creatures, we all learn to fight the Reaper
Can't defeat Her, so instead I'll have to be Her

Don't feel too bad, V. It comes from Quantum Leap and can best be paraphrased as:
DON"T INVESTIGATE THIS TO CLOSELY

It's "Bellisario's Law," named after Donald Bellisario, creator of "Quantum Leap" - as mentioned - and other TV shows. "Bellisarius" was/is the name of his production company. I believe the "law" was born when he answered a wide variety of nitpicky questions about "Quantum Leap" with something like: "Don't think about it too hard. It's just a TV show."

Ebony the Black Dragon

"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."

"So repeat to yourself, 'It's just a show', and sit back and relax!"

Oh hey, I was hoping someone would notice that. Yes, it appears to be.

>If so, is that normal for people with spirits for recent
>ancestors?

It's not universal, but not unheard-of either. The spirit-kin phenomenon takes a lot of different forms (much like the spirits themselves).

--G.
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--G.
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Yeah. what you just said Ben.