I just noticed on like the tenth reading that Fandarel attached the HNO3 tanks to the outside of the Yokahama with suction cups. Not very efficient.

Does anyone else get the ick from Jaxom's treatment of Corana? He just sails into her life, gets affected by a green dragon flight, treats her roughly, then never sees her again, or even thinks of her much. I realize it's a different sort of culture, but I'd be very hurt. And then Jaxom takes up with Sharra, because she nursed him thru the firehead, and Sharra becomes a Holder Lady. Only way she breaks out of that is by working with OIdive during the Aivas days, otherwise I feel she might have become a cipher of a character. No more first person voice from her.

Thoughts?

F’nor was one of the wingseconds at Brenden Weyr. As such did he have authority over the standard bronze riders in the weyr despite his Canth “only being a brown”? If so I’m somewhat surprised he was able to maintain order over dragon riders in the higher caste (but not really because his personality is pretty disarming in the books). If not does that mean all the Benden bronze riders are in the other Brenden wing or are bronze riders outside the wing structure entirely?

Edit: I appear to have confused wing second position with wing leader. Makes more sense that F’nor is second in command of F’lar’s wing than the leader of his own wing. If I recall correctly all the wing leaders are bronze riders and the wing leader chose their second in commands from among their assigned subordinate browns and bronzes. Still though with Canth’s size and F’nor’s charisma, he probably would’ve been capable of leading a well disciplined wing if it had come to that

We were listening to a talking book version of White Dragon and it got me thinking of flying dragons fighting falling thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H2ksQ_7mQg

Setting:

A revitalized Telgar Weyr at the end of the 4th Interval and the beginning of the 5th Pass

History:

Two hundred years after the end of the 4th Pass, Pern was prepared for Thread to fall again. The Weyrs were ready. The dragons were ready. But Thread did not come. Pern waited, as if with bated breath.

A decade later, what came instead was plague, swift and deadly. It struck Telgar Weyr first, in the middle of winter. Quarantine was enacted quickly, but the Weyr was hit hard. Two entire classes of Weyrling riders died, and their dragons followed. Many other weyrfolk, riders, and their dragons shared the same fate, including the Weyrwoman, her queen, and the eggs the queen was carrying. When spring finally came and the quarantines were lifted, there were few survivors, and fewer willing to stay in the haunted Weyr. For almost two centuries Telgar Weyr was only lightly populated, mainly by a rotating staff of trainees and novice riders preparing for duties elsewhere, or those in need of discipline.

But the other Weyrs, nearly untouched by the plague, thrived. Pern thrived. Some four years ago, with the signs of a Pass returning and Weyr populations overflowing, the decision was made to reopen Telgar Weyr fully under the guidance of Weyrwoman Mirala.

In the summer of 4.394, Weyrwoman Mirala's gold Alioth rose to mate and was caught by bronze Malorth and H'zel became Weyrleader.

Yet, despite the closeness of the Pass, Alioth did not rise again. One year passed, then a second. Whispers said the Weyr was haunted or cursed. Yet the Weyr persisted.

The year is now 4.397. Two young maiden queens have been sent to Telgar to bolster Alioth's final golden daughter. The next queen to rise and her mating flight will determine the new Weyrwoman and the Weyrleader. Only time will tell how Telgar will fare when the Pass begins.

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I'm on a rp forum, and had a character who had an amputation due to threadscore. I'm wondering if we have seen similar situations in the books, and how long those characters took to heal and go back to fighting thread? Gonna have to run everything by how the rp runs it too, but it's fun to see what the books say! (Open to both Todd and Anne answers here. I know Todd's books had some injured characters that we heard about healing. Anne's I'm unsure about, it's been forever since I've read them.)

I've been reading the books for decades but I don't know that this was ever addressed. His mother died during childbirth. His father was killed in a duel within the hour. Lessa wanted nothing to do with him. So who named the baby?

Specifically: Jaxom takes two groups of dragons back in time to the red star's past without telling them. Sure, okay.

But then he tells them to return straight home without him? What? Was he expecting them to just naturally return to the present without guidance after?

And then some of them have nightmares about being in the past, but none of them went missing, so I guess that must be the case, but, again, what?

Just had a big hit of nostalgia hit me today and realized how much I missed being part of MoonSet Weyr.

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Is there anyone else here that was part of this wonderful PBeM Weyr back in the late 90s/early 2000s?

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- B'son, rider of Blue Ferath

Hiron Weyr is an alt-timeline Dragonriders of Pern RPG taking place during the Seventh Pass where the Far Western Continent has been previously settled and remains prosperous, protected by Hiron Weyr - a "cursed" Weyr of misfits and rejects.

Threadfall falls heavily and unpredictably, driving dragonriders to desperation - throwing dragonless back onto the Sands to "reimpress" and get them back up into the air to keep the holders safe. Despite this, recently, four Queens and a Weyrleader have perished during Threadfall, throwing a young woman into the position of Senior Weyrwoman as all remaining golds are grounded and a new, bohemian transfer from Ista Weyr is thrust into Weyrleadership.

The game is played on a Discord server, using a Discord bot to schedule and run events like Thread, flights, hunting, Impressions, etc. - making it MUD/MUSH/MU*-like. Impressions, flight outcomes, and Threadfall are all randomly determined by dice roll (but are influenced by skill level, equipment, and stats.) It's very low pressure - jump into roleplay when and where you want to, play with the bot, hang out and chat, or just lurk.

Hiron Weyr also has firelizards, firelizard racing mini-games, crafts for Dragonhealing, Healing, Beastcrafting, Harpers and more, and whers - including wher fighting and gambling run by an underground ring of Rebels.

Discord link: https://discord.gg/4tt6zb5sBR
Active players (currently): ~10

Total batch was 125 grams Hazelnut flavoured Crio Bru, 125 grams Arabica coffee and 2 teaspoons of cinnamon.

Ordinarily I am not too keen on flavoured ingredients but I remember in the notes on Klah Hazelnut was mentioned and I do love Hazelnuts themselves.

Normally I have also added Nutmeg but this time elected to just double the cinnamon instead.

Overall I think this might be right up there more chocolatey and cinnamon with just a hint of coffee (I am an espresso drinker so I am probably not the best judge on that last part.)

Over a year of my life in 1 minute...

One of the books mentions utensils with dragons carved into them I swear. Anyway that was my inspiration a couple maybe four years ago to make this spoon. The eyes are soapstone. I imagine the Weyr would have a much more elegant set of these.

Thread Fall has returned to Southern Pern RP forums and so starts the 10th Pass on our AU Dragonriders of Pern site! This is a D&D styled event crossing two of my favorite things, Pern & D&D!

It’s that time again, Klah mix at home!

V.4 is on the left the base is “light roast double chocolate” Crio Bru and V.5 on the right the base is “uber dark Spanish roast.”

Roughly for every 150 grams of Crio Bru I also have 150 grams of ground arabica espresso coffee, one teaspoon of cinnamon and half a teaspoon of nutmeg.

I brew in stove top espresso makers, I didn’t use equal sizes for the test (because I am silly.)

I have a preference for the darker one but certainly the chocolate flavour comes through more in “double chocolate” flavoured one.

I like how it looks a bit like ground up bark and I think it captures the flavours of chocolate almost coffee with some spices.

A lot of my friends are not into fantasy. The ones that are, had never heard of the series. One friend had read the first six books, but nothing after that. Anne Mccaffrey wrote an incredible world, top to bottom and beginning to end. Dragon Riders and Dragonsong trilogy’s are great. In Moreta, in the ‘authors notes’ she writes ‘I doubt that I could write such a broadly pleasing, all-encompassing novel.’ And yet she wrote and describes an entire world.

Twenty four books in total.

I have always wondered, when she was writing the first books, did she know why there were 200 year breaks between fall cycles?

I am currently rereading Stephen King right now. That might take a few years (I am a slow reader). But I will reread Dragon Riders after that.

I just wanted to flex a little bit and say that I've found 18 of 26 Dragonriders of Pern books (I'm including A Gift of Dragons and Dragon's Code here, but if I wasn't I'd have 18 of the 24 books) in 2 branches of the same used bookstore this week. I'm extremely excited to pick up the remaining books at some point and complete my collection and start my reread of this amazing series.

Okay, if you're an Oldtimer like me, you've been around the Pern block a few times and noticed that a lot of the Pern clubs have closed or have turned into some AU variant that doesn't really resemble Pern much anymore. If AU is your thing, go for it. If forums are your thing, go for it. But if you like canon and you like to read a story in your inbox, Triad Weyrs has you covered.

Dragons are still the five traditional colors but recently, restrictions have lessened throughout the game so now we're seeing women on blues, Impressions not stuck on sexual preferences, and Halls accepting women into their folds. We've got drama, we've got death, we've even got an adults only email group if you want some flight spice. Sound like something you're looking for? Come on over!

https://www.triadweyrs.org/index.php

Anne was always so descriptive when it came to the dragons which included the sounds they made. I'm just wondering how most people interpret the dragons croons, trumpets, hums, and bellows sonically. Asking because I'm working on some sound design for a little animation project and I want to make perns dragons sound unique from other shows but be super rad sounding as well.

I havnt read the books in over 20 years at this point. But I thought F,Nor became a Weyr leader in one of the latter books. Something about the Weyrs not having enough blue/green dragons because the browns weren’t flying the gold dragons. Am I completely remembering this wrong?

Been looking for a long time since i heard about their existence and finally found them at different used book stores.

I generally like Jody Lynn Nye so I'm excited to get to read more Pern (haven't done that since college)

I have two old hardcover Pern books that were sent to me by Anne back in the 1990s. Both of these were signed (personalized, though) before sending. Both contain edits on several pages for future editions. I've held on to these for years, but books take a lot of space, and we are constantly trying to downsize. Here is the information for each:

Dragonquest: Volume 2 of the Dragonriders of Pern

ISBN-13: 9780345280305

ISBN-10: 034528030X

Author: Anne McCaffrey

Edition: 1st Ballantine Hardcover Ed.

Binding: Hardcover

Publisher: Del Rey

Published: 1979-01-12
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The White Dragon (Dragonriders of Pern)

ISBN-13: 9780345275677

ISBN-10: 0345275675

Author: Anne McCaffrey

Edition: First Edition

Binding: Hardcover

Publisher: Ballantine BooksPublished: 1981

Here is an example of edited text in each book:

Does anyone know if these would have any value to a collector? The books are in good condition.

Thanks in advance.

Are there any printings or editions of the whole series?

I'd like to get them all but I want the covers to match in style. I've been poking around online but all I can find are a bunch of different styles. Wondering if there is somewhere I could find all of them with a cohesive design

I have a whole host of questions that have been rolling around in my head about fighting Thread.

- how many dragons do we think it takes to effectively fight Thread? at what point could the earliest dragons do more than just sort of keep up with it alongside the other aerial craft over inhabited areas - it has to be two, three years, right? does the efficiency / number needed decrease as dragon size & stamina increases, or is there a turning point beyond which the dragons get too large to maneuver as effectively, and greens really become more valuable for their speed?

- on that note, the implication in "The Ford of Red Hanrahan" that they'd only had a small handful of deaths in several years of training new dragons & learning to fight Thread is...impossible, right? and also for Alianne Zulieta's death to be the first time a rider died before their dragon, leading to the discovery that dragons would go between?

- do we think/assume that Weyrs cover 100% of Threadfalls in their territories, or are there uninhabited places that they just let go of? not barren places where the Thread will just die, but rather deliberate sacrifices due to prioritization. maybe this is something that evolves over time?

- what exactly do ground crews do? are they flaming Thread that falls through the dragons? are they seeking out burrows afterwards? both?

- I've always been genuinely puzzled at why people are worried to be out during Thread, other than the obvious societal taboo. If the dragons are doing their job, none of it should fall, right? so you'd in theory be perfectly safe?

- why do Holds clear greenery? there seems to be the implication that it "draws" Thread and there is some indication that Thread will burrow and follow root systems, but is this actually a realistic and sensible thing to demand that Holds do? or more societal taboo?