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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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  2. Hmmm…. Scout. Not sure how I ended up with that.

    Maybe something to do with my answering one question by picking “drop a hand grenade on them by stealth while their backs are turned”?

    It just seemed more sensible than “charge in blindly with your sword” or whatever the other options were…

    Is Scout maybe the equivalent of Thief in the old D&D games?

      • Ahhh, thanks for that. As another with ‘Scout’, I find the Skulduggery suggestion interesting … heh, heh, heh …

      • Oh. well, as I say, Paranoia … its not paranoia when they really ARE out to get you, ROFL. Saving lives (especially mine, but maybe everyone else’s too? by bringing back the news of possible dangers ahead).

        • Or as the one Medieval Monarch said: “I KNOW I’m paranoid … but am I paranoid ENOUGH???”

          So we are grouped along with Gaston in the Gentleperson of Skullduggery class… Sounds like fun…

  3. Can we see all the Bear comments for the classes that we didn’t get. They are adorable

  6. Hunh! I got Scout – and was surprised to find I really liked the idea!!! Go Mod R!!!

  7. Heads up, Mod! This nifty little thing landed in my email as 3000 lines of HTML code. It wasn’t even clear where the link was. I blindly hit a picture and it took me here. (Part of the problem is I’m 64 and reading anything on my phone is a challenge, so people with better vision probably were fine.)

    Of course, I’m not sure how you could avoid that problem — maybe just link to the quiz? I dunno. But I also want to say you do a terrific job herding the BDH, which is like herding carnivores gray aliens…

  8. Please ignore my earlier dumb post about the code. As I said, I’m half blind. Great writing on the quiz — you did a terrific job, and I enjoyed taking it.

  10. I got Scout!… My favorite class in Deep Rock Galactic, a video game where you and your team of dwarf miners explore space caves, mine minerals, and fight off alien bugs. (Rock and Stone!)

    The story is giving me pleasant DRG vibes.

  11. Bahaha, this was fun. Thanks for putting in the effort and using your skills. Looking forward to the next exciting episode!

  12. Huh..Quiz ran true..😆😆…Healer…
    No surprise there since I’ve been an ICU nurse for 37years.

  13. I also got Blade Warden. Wish I were that cool IRL 😀

    Congratulations, you are a Blade Warden!

    Precision, protection, lethal grace—you hold all the cards! You can dish out lethal damage with your weapon AND make yourself invulnerable in your own protective forcefield. No that anyone’s counting, but if they were, you’d be a winner in the Talent lottery.
    That usually means you’re given the important roles, and that no one dies while you still stand. People follow you into danger because they trust you to carve the way out. Even the government tasks you to protect their own.

    Bear says: “Strong. Bite back harder.”

  14. I think it’s amusing that people think it’s “weird/ironic” that their result mimics their preferences/career. Who you are always shines through BDH, especially when you are a healer apparently, lol.
    I’m completely unsurprised to find after 27 years of military service I sort as a Blade Warden.
    Still a very fun quiz with lots of lovely easter eggs.

  16. Scout!
    It fits with a 5 year old I‘m always scanning the surroundings.
    It is also part of my Job doing maps of the Environment (soil, water, plants).
    Double joy here, because I shortly finished the Broken Lands Series.
    Who does Not want to be a Shea.
    By the way thank you for the Book Tip.

  18. Love love these quizzes !!
    I’m a healer, how did you guess?? As a veterinarian in real life my priority would be to bring. back. Bear. alive! The rest of my team? Meh, if it’s a good day.
    Rah rah Team InBearitance and all the BDH, we are mighty!

    ModR, thanks for making my Thursday morning, you are awesome!

    • Always good to have your priorities clear (and correct, according to Bear). And remember: saving the dog biscuits comes before saving the rest of the team too!

      My cat approves your message and deems you worthy to be a Feline / Canine Staff Person.

        • Nice to see that you Know Your Place in the grand scheme of things.

          Incidentally, I have a T-shirt printed with the ultimate unanswerable argument to any Flat Earthers:

          “If the Earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now.”

  20. Scout, but I kept slipping into the headspace of taking my girls (I’m a volunteer with a girl’s youth organization) out for a camping trip. I really enjoyed the quiz!

  22. How cool is this…I’m an Assessor or your official title, Dimension Breach Resource Assessor.

  25. ha. ha. Assessor. I think that is scary! I will run and hide behind Bear.

  27. Tank. Yes please. I played either a healer or a tank in my gaming days on LOTRO. Always a good time.

  28. Hmmmmm.
    Just this morning, I was thinking about how Assesors got screwed in this world. They are ‘so valuable’ they can only work for the government; but as government workers they don’t get a share of the bonuses from the profit off the stuff that _they_ find. And to add insult to injury, they are apparently not paid very well if they can’t afford a house and decent schooling for their kids.

    So when the quiz popped up I thought ‘…..well, I know I don’t want to be an assesor’

    Of course, I’m an assesor! Can’t say Im too surprised though!

    Thanks for the fun ModR

  29. I got scout! Which makes total sense since I… stay home almost all the time and am super slow and deliberate when engaging in physical activity… pretty risk averse, if I’m honest… But deep inside, I must be intrepid!

    • Either that or else, being slow and deliberate and risk averse, you maintain good awareness of your surroundings at all times. Probably an excellent quality for a Scout.

  30. I am a scout, and probably as good a one as Kronk, lol. You no see me! Thanks for the fun, ModR. Your efforts are entertaining and greatly appreciated! The Horde wouldn’t be the same without you.

  31. Thanks for the quiz, it was fun!
    I’m a Scout and that feels perfect.

  35. Unfortunately the London character’s betrayal, real or imagined, just feels way to real to me, and Not, an oh no, it can’t be true. Just makes me sad, the same day different selfish jerk feeling.

  37. Healer – which is accurate as I sit here waiting to see my next patient lol.

  39. Woot, got Assessor.

    Now I’m going to hunt down London’s and Melissa’s butts and make them wish they’d never been born.

  46. The quiz was fun! Thank you mod R. I am a scout, but I’m definitely not fast.

  47. I’m an Assessor! Thank you for the quiz!
    What a cool powerset. I love understanding complex systems and now materials work together. I’m certainly not a combat role. I’ve got weak carpal tunnel ridden wrists.

  48. That was fun! Thank Mod R!

    I got assessor, which seems fitting because I’m a government employee. lol ^_^

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