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The Staff was really just a big stick…Anyway, it was capped by an elaborate headpiece with a carving of the sun at the top. What you had to do was take the Staff to a special map room in Tanis--it had the whole city laid out in miniature on the floor. When you placed the Staff in a certain spot in this room, at a certain time of day, the sun would shine through a hole here in the headpiece and then send a beam of light down here—to the map--giving you the location of the Well of the Souls...
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I'm Jerry Pournelle, whom I've never heard of. Interestingly, "The real Jerry Pournelle once took this quiz, and it told him he was Robert Heinlen."
Interesting factoid, this quiz's results are almost exclusively white men:
Men: 18 (white), 1(black)
Women: 2 (white), 1(black)
In addition to Ayn Rand there were James Triptree, Jr., and Octavia Butler.
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