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While House Andrews is away (hopefully somewhere gorgeous, where the only monsters are overloaded breakfast waffles), you’re left with me. Mwahahaha.

As always, the result is chaos! Fluffy, nerdy, deeply chalant chaos. Some of you are still trying to marry London though sheer force of headcanon – because would a guy with such good jawline really be capable of betrayal? And who among us hasn’t at one time suggested impromptu post-mortem thumb fingerprint extraction surgery in a toxic monster-infested cave trap? Long live Team Facts Be Damned, you’ve taught me all I know!

The comments have also been busy trying to figure out which Talent would serve us best beyond the gate.

I see you. I hear you. I have made you a thing: The Inheritance Talent Sorting Quiz.

Tried to write it as a ‘choose your own adventure’ story. That’s technically the tank-repairing grandma of LitRPG, so it should work. There are 6 possible results: assessor, tank, blade warden, scout, healer and mining foreman. Sorry chat, you can’t aim for the InBearitance. If we can’t all be Bear, no one can be Bear. It’s only fair.

Gentle note:

This is just for fun. Every Talent plays a vital part in helping humanity survive. If you think getting a particular result might ruin your afternoon, it’s perfectly fine to skip the quiz. Bear still loves you.

Also: the newsletter doesn’t like the quiz plugin and sends it out in code. If you read this in email form and want to take the test, click here to come directly to the website.

Long may you survive the breach, BDH! Preferably with all your thumbs.

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The Inheritance Talent Quiz

When the first gate tore and monsters came out, everything went sideways. Humans freaked out. A few—not me, I’m a dog—woke up with powers no one could explain. Talents. Some became walking shields. Some turned into stabby-happy blade machines. Some just got very good at finding shinies.
The war is still going. It's time to find your place in the breach. Take the quiz. Get sorted. Don’t die. And bring dog biscuits.

— Bear, Winner of the "Best Girl" Guild Award, 3 years running

 

1 / 10

You step through the gate. The mist clings to your boots and the air smells like copper and rain. Ahead, alien darkness stretches, waiting.

Before you challenge it, you reach for your talisman. Every diver has one. Something to hold, remember, and ward off the worst. What do you carry?

2 / 10

The first thing you encounter is a grove of bioluminescent fungi, stretching as far as the eye can see. Some pulse with variegated light; others twitch when the air moves. Do you…

3 / 10

At the other end of the mushroom field, the ground starts to shake underfoot. Debris cascades down the cave walls. Ahead, a narrow tunnel splits left, and a spindly stone bridge stretches right across a deep chasm. Neither path looks safe. Make your choice.

4 / 10

Good news: your whole team made it across the narrow stone bridge. Bad news: the air here crackles with static. Something hums in your teeth. Only one step into the eerie cold and your comm unit sputters and dies. HQ is gone. Radio silence. What do you do?

5 / 10

You hear a faint tapping behind a collapsed wall in the new cavern. Comms are still down, so it could be someone from the assault team, trapped. How do you handle it?

6 / 10

An ambush! There's monster fire as soon as you clear the suspicious tapping wall. Your instincts scream. You react with:

7 / 10

You've escaped the monster ambush, but one of your teammates is down—bad leg wound, bleeding fast. What do you do?

8 / 10

You've been in the breach for a day now and it's taking its toll. You find a mostly intact supply crate dropped by the assault team. What's the first thing you grab?

9 / 10

You’ve reached the anchor chamber. It’s pulsing at critical mass. Once it ruptures, monsters will flood Earth. But this is also the first chamber you've come across any high-value ore. You have minutes. What do you do?

10 / 10

As you stumble through the collapsing gate, bloodied and exhausted, one thought burns brightest in your mind. What was most important to you inside the breach?

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  4. Oh BALLS! Horde Alone 2 – Lost in the Breach!!

    Always the perfect title, right *after* I press publish 😭. Someone remind me when Inheritance gets released, pls.

    • 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

      I’m laughing so hard I have tears running down my face.

    • Is BDH Steve in the your horde alone 2 too?

      I wonder what he would be singing? LOL.

      By the way, I am a healer which is ironic because I am a nurse in real life… HAHAHAHA

      • Yup, I got healer and I’m a physical therapist. Guess we can’t escape our destiny. 😉

      • What? Steve’s wearing a tutu? Again? Tell him to stop singing while he sneaks it back to Saimon! (I hear the Pink Panther. Mostly because Mr.Mechcat is learning to play it on the piano so I hear parts of it every day. Usually more than once. Although he tends to stop in the middle and restart, frequently. Da-dun da-dun da-dun-da-dun-da-dun da-dun-da-duuuunnn-da-da-da-dun. But it IS good sneaking music…)

        Oh, and tell Steve that we know he just wrote those words on himself w a sharpie, and no we don’t need him to dance wearing only the tutu so we can see them. For any value of ‘them’…

        Thanks Mod. R! You’re our favorite Horde-sitter! (Scampers off to try different answers…)

      • Aaaand I got healer, too—retired MD!

        Guess the reflexes never go away…

    • Congratulations, you are an Assessor!

      Or your official title, Dimension Breach Resource Assessor. Your Talent scans and evaluates, detecting all the resources in your environment, be they organic or inorganic.
      Without you, the breach would just create danger and withhold its wealth. Humanity’s resources and chances would be diminished.
      You’re so valuable to Earth’s survival, the Guilds can’t hire you for all the adamantite in the world. And boy, have they tried!

      Bear says: “Smart human. Sniff first.”

      • Assessor here too. Also a scientist. And a 40+ mom of two, although mine are young ‘uns 😁. I’m totally loving Ada 🙌🏽.

        Thanks Mod R, your quizzes are the best!

    • Assessor for me too … former tech services librarian with strong pattern recognition.

    • Same here!

      I’m not a teacher, but I’ve been told I have big teacher energy. I wonder if that’s why.

  9. Healer!

    And ModR, I believe Ilona mentioned you would be publishing a new snippet daily.

    😉

    • 😀 Look, *something* happened, and the character of this aggrieved, Eastern European pragmatic miner just came out of me as I was writing the answers. He thinks everyone else has the survival instinct of a biscuit, and the higher-ups will come and harangue him for ore no matter what he goes through, so he might as well make buck. Basically Makarov the murena shock-installer from Burn for Me, but give him a pick axe.

      I tried to control him, because none of that appears in the story, but he still shines through. And he is apparently your inner voice as well 😀 (jk, results don’t mean anything. THEY DON’T! FUN! It’s ALL silly!)

      • Great backstory! Now I have to go back and look again (I know I was tempted by at least one of those answers).

        Now we know for a fact, if we had somehow missed it before, that you’re a fiction writer. They have characters in their heads.

      • Reading this I am very, very surprised I didn’t get this outcome 😂😂😂

  11. I got Tank
    That was fun but oddly true, not physically but I know Im the emotional and mental loadstone of my family… I love Bears words :
    “Big. Brave. Carries all, even dog biscuit.”

    • It’s a myth that sailors love the sea and miners love the dark cavern. They hate and fear it, and that’s why they’re careful.

      The only exception are dwarves, who famously don’t love gold. They just say that to get it into bed. (Happy belated Terry Pratchett day!)

      • This reminds me a a passage in a non HA novel. The character states that vegetarian persons should join him in eating beef. If not for his reasons ( he hates cows having grown up ranching) then because the cows are in competition for the vegetarian’s preferred foods!

      • GNU Sir Terry!

        That being said I got blade master, tho I am not a London type. I just like to sort things out really and nobody gets left behind. Well, at least not Bear

  13. Healer! Woo Hoo!

    ModR GOT ME A QUIZ FOR MY BIRTHDAY!!!

    Ahem. Totally chill and fluffily chalant here.

  14. Mining foreman. I guess that is an inheritance. My Granpa was a coal miner in Pennsylvania

  18. Mod-R you truly ROCK! Thank you for taking the time and creativity to share this fun shiny with the Horde! Turns out I would make a good Scout – which does indeed ring true for my general personality….

    Sending peace, health and safety to all!

  19. Thank you! I am marvelling at how much extra world-building and work this took to create – thank you!

  20. Heartfelt thanks, beautiful Mod R. I’ve been answering the “if you could have any superpower…” question with “Healer, dammit” for 30+ years, and I finally got it!

    (Seriously, I even played a cleric for years of DnD. I want!)

  21. Healer. That’s definitely on-brand, since I’m a neurologist IRL. Goodness knows I’m too old and in too poor physical shape to head into a breach, but a gal can dream, right?

  24. Fun quiz as always! I am an Assessor.
    You are so talented in creating these quizzes for us, Mod R! 😊

  27. Ok, Mod R but remember Hugh. We hated him and then House Andrews wrote his backstory and viola…..Hugh love fest. You don’t know London could be calling!

    • My ex was good looking, smart, socially adept, and almost universally considered a good guy. That smooth surface prevented most of the world, including me, from recognizing the full depth of his sleaze for decades. He was addicted to getting away with a$$holery undetected, and was extraordinarily successful at it *because of* his smooth surface and his intelligence.

      London might not have decades of a$$holery behind him, but he has at least one significant episode of it now. And before that, he was behaving in a way that potentially jeopardized Ada’s job, which she could ill afford to lose. So there’s that.

  28. Assessor, but I think I used most if not all of the options by the end. Thanks as always for a fun quiz!

    • I took it again, changing a couple of answers that had other almost equally tempting options, and still got Assessor.

  29. Mod R, you crack me up!! Your quizzes are always amazing, the amount of time and effort you put into them is just awesome!

    ….question 8/10 is a doozy though, GRAB IT ALL. Bear would agree I think.

  31. Woot woot! Assessor! I am DeBRA. Pronounced Debra like the name. Or The Bra like the garment? Which is it, Mod R?

  33. Healer! Goes with the name! Bea, Bee, we live to help the population!

    Omg, Sasso, every time I think, “ ModR out did herself with this one!” You do it again, love the quiz. Going for round two, thank you so much for the fun.🥰

  36. I got Healer, which comes as a surprise to… well, no one who knows me even slightly, lol. I’m the perpetual Healer and Support in any RPG game I play, and that’s just the way I like it.

    • Same!
      I was in a game a while back where you randomly rolled up your character, and I ended up being a damage dealer – and it felt weird AF 😂

  37. blade warden!! don’t see any yet scroling through, here i am and won’t do evil like London!

  39. Healer, not so bad. I am not a material girl ^ ^).

    However, Ada should find a rope because a standard cave system is rarely over the same level. There are vertical chimney, crevices. The poor Bear would have difficulties climbing that. Water erosion obeys gravity and rock solubility.

  41. Nailed the quiz truly–came up Scout,which is what I play every time I can in RPG video games for the last 30 years.

    Hey team, I’ll always look to keep us safe and come back with loot.

  42. Thanks for the bit of fun today!
    Bear is the bestest – I’m being patient and waiting for Friday.
    Good rest to HA and good mischief to you!

  43. That was fun, Mod R! I’m a healer. That’s not surprising since I work fir a healthcare company. 😁

    • I did the quiz a second time just for fun. This time I got blade warden. Hmm…I sense a pattern here. 😀

  44. The quiz was great fun. Thank you.
    I’m a healer, too — which for me is saying something about how I think of teaching. I’m appreciating the connection.

  49. I got Healer.
    Congratulations, you are a Healer!

    You are the reason the heroes walk away alive. If they get to you in time, there’s nothing you can’t fix except death.
    You don’t head out into the breach with every team, because you’re too valuable to endanger. But when you do, you bring hope in the midst of death and madness.
    And when the other Talents come out of the gate, a mass of blood and pain, carrying their casualties, your work is merely beginning.
    Every scar tells a story—and because of you, those stories keep going.

    Bear says: “Fix. Then fix again. Ouchies never stop.”
    which is about right for me with my job. ☺️

    • I’m a Healer with an actual Bear. He’s a 112 pound Chesapeake Bay Retriever who’s peacefully snoozing by my chair.

  52. Scout! Interesting! It does fit me. I’m always keeping an eye out for what is ahead!

    Thanks ModR! You are awesome! And a great writer!

  55. I got Assessor.

    I giggled at the “ROCKS FALL EVERYONE DIES” picture with Kate and Curran stick figures.

    Thanks for the fun!

  58. Blade Warden – I’m not entirely surprised though, as I served in the US military as a combat medic. So I’m trained to think that way. 🤷🏻‍♀️

    Guess some things just stick with you.

  64. Healer for me. Makes sense, since I was a nurse before my heath wouldnt allow me to work anymore.

    That was fun, Mod R!

  67. healer. I’ll take it. most time the healer gets a part of the money made, and they are protected, but not by London.lol

  68. Wow, I’m an Assessor! All those years working to keep steps ahead of various bosses and wrangling team members at work did give me skills. Thanks Mod R for a great game.

  71. I got scout which is hilarious because…I’m blind!! But no seriously, we are all making it out. Human lives matter way more than anything else.

  72. “Character quiz, character quiz, give me an answer, do…”

    Mining foreman! Thanks Mod R!!

  73. healer. Not what I expected but I’ll go with it, if I can heal myself and others and reverse heal the enemy (and London) ha ha ha.

    But seriously I do work with needles and my work I think brings joy to some, just doesn’t involve health except maybe mental. it certainly makes me feel less stress when doing it.

  74. I am apparently a scout. Which is weird because I usually play scout in just about every team based game. And of course as a scout you often have an animal companion. 🙂
    Good quiz.

  75. Mining Foreman. I would still rather be Bear; I want the fun job. Of course, that would mean in Horde Alone 2, we would likely have a giant pack of Bears. Smother those monsters with cuteness.

  79. Bear says: “Light paws. Smart paws. Ears up, eyes open!”

    Ahhhhhh…..Bear is SO smart.

  82. Thanks, ModR!

    You are always the most clever!

    I’m a healer and that totally tracks.

  83. Assessor. As a retired state employee that makes sense. That was a fun quiz!
    Thank youModR!

  84. I’m a Tank. It’s not realistic for me (you’d be laughing so hard if you knew me in real life). But, here we are.

  86. Fun, I never saw myself as a healer, but who can argue with a BDH quiz?

    But now that I think about it I was a volunteer firefighter back in the 1970s, yes, I’m that old.

  88. Ok Healer it makes sense. Every HP quiz I take I am a Hufflepuff and every LOTR romance quiz I take I get married to Samwise or if I fudge my answers Merry or Pippin

  90. Congratulations, you are an Assessor!

    Or your official title, Dimension Breach Resource Assessor. Your Talent scans and evaluates, detecting all the resources in your environment, be they organic or inorganic.
    Without you, the breach would just create danger and withhold its wealth. Humanity’s resources and chances would be diminished.
    You’re so valuable to Earth’s survival, the Guilds can’t hire you for all the adamantite in the world. And boy, have they tried!

    Bear says: “Smart human. Sniff first.”

    Yes!!

    Great quiz, Mod R, thank you!

  91. I hope the Andrewses have a wonderful, relaxing vacation far away from the grind of nonstop creativity and exhausting detail work. Sometimes the brain just has to rest.

  93. I’m a Healer! Love it! (And I love stories where the main characters are healers.)

    Also, Bear says: “Fix. Then fix again. Ouchies never stop.”

    Thanks for the fun quiz, Mod R!

  94. omg question 2 i so wanted one of the answers to be… poke it with a stick 🙂 🙂

    The first thing you encounter is a grove of bioluminescent fungi, stretching as far as the eye can see. Some pulse with variegated light; others twitch when the air moves. Do you…

  96. Healer! Congratulations, you are a Healer!

    You are the reason the heroes walk away alive. If they get to you in time, there’s nothing you can’t fix except death.
    You don’t head out into the breach with every team, because you’re too valuable to endanger. But when you do, you bring hope in the midst of death and madness.
    And when the other Talents come out of the gate, a mass of blood and pain, carrying their casualties, your work is merely beginning.
    Every scar tells a story—and because of you, those stories keep going.

    Bear says: “Fix. Then fix again. Ouchies never stop.”

  98. I’m a tank. no clue if that’s good or bad…cant wait to dive in and find out. 🙂

  100. I love the BDH. You know you have found your people when the comments give you almost as much joy as the post. Thanks Mod R!