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News site article screenshot of skeleton in grave with sheep ankle bones. 
Caption: archaeologists have an afted a Bronze Age grave of a teen girl in Kazakhstan, strangely containing 180 sheep ankle bones!

Reply 1: she's just doing normal girls stuff, mind your business. No one's saying s*** about your f****** pog collection. 

Reply 2: god forbid 5,000 year old girls do anything. 

Reply 3: y'all don't understand, ankle bones were the first dice. This girl was a gamer the likes of which we may never see again...

Reply 4: ok so here is a bit of a story. My mum lived in Kazakhstan as a child and Kids there still play with sheep one of the games involved the winner taking the losing player's sheep bones. And if the rules were similar enough and remained throughout the years this girl was not only a game or but like, tournament level good at sheep bone games. 

Reply 5: holy s*** Bronze Age pro sheep bone gamer girl. 

Reply 6: this is hilarious but also I'm gonna cry like this teenage gamer died and they buried her with her high score period no one took back the pot are divided it up because no one would play against her again, her family and friends buried her with her wins. I'm crying.
News site article screenshot of skeleton in grave with sheep ankle bones. Caption: archaeologists have an afted a Bronze Age grave of a teen girl in Kazakhstan, strangely containing 180 sheep ankle bones! Reply 1: she's just doing normal girls stuff, mind your business. No one's saying s*** about your f****** pog collection. Reply 2: god forbid 5,000 year old girls do anything. Reply 3: y'all don't understand, ankle bones were the first dice. This girl was a gamer the likes of which we may never see again... Reply 4: ok so here is a bit of a story. My mum lived in Kazakhstan as a child and Kids there still play with sheep one of the games involved the winner taking the losing player's sheep bones. And if the rules were similar enough and remained throughout the years this girl was not only a game or but like, tournament level good at sheep bone games. Reply 5: holy s*** Bronze Age pro sheep bone gamer girl. Reply 6: this is hilarious but also I'm gonna cry like this teenage gamer died and they buried her with her high score period no one took back the pot are divided it up because no one would play against her again, her family and friends buried her with her wins. I'm crying.

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The L.A. Public Library commissioned me and a writing team to adapt Octavia E. Butler's the Parable of the Sower into a Fate RPG. We're running portions of it at the Octavia Lab at the LAPL Central Branch in DTLA on 12/14! If you're a fan of the novel or Fate, sign up and roll dice with us!

Learn more at https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/journey-earthseed-tabletop-roleplay-campaign-octavia-e-butlers-parable-universe

RSVP to rsvpoctavialab@lapl.org

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