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  • They were pitiless, powerful avatars from another world.   (source)
    avatars = earthly manifestations of gods in human form
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  • Even as we got older, Miranda always made sure to try to include August in our conversations, ask him how he was doing, talk to him about Avatar or Star Wars or Bone or something she knew he liked.†   (source)
  • In the city of Sakiel-Norn, a single bronze bell tolls to mark the moment when the Broken God, nightly avatar of the God of Three Suns, reaches the lowermost point of his descent into the darkness and after a ferocious combat is torn apart by the Lord of the Underworld and his band of dead warriors who live down there.†   (source)
  • Avatar content filters.†   (source)
  • It was wrong of this Christian God to let His avatar die.†   (source)
  • Your daughter has been chosen by the Avatar to atone in a way which all sinners and nonbelievers must someday suffer.†   (source)
  • Yes, I used a nice avatar.†   (source)
  • My avatar collapsed.†   (source)
  • An Oxford avatar of the old zamindar mentality—a landlord forcing his attentions on women who depended on him for their livelihood.†   (source)
  • Nadia frequently explored the terrain of social media, though she left little trace of her passing, not posting much herself, and employing opaque usernames and avatars, the online equivalents of her black robes.†   (source)
  • It wouldn't be all that hard to create avatars-computerized personas.†   (source)
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  • She studied my face, my reflection, just like a village girl who is surprised in the act of drawing water at the well, and who must now read the intentions of the tall, smiling avatar whom she sees standing behind her.†   (source)
  • The Faith will tell you he no longer has any need of a man's name, for he has become the avatar of the gods."†   (source)
  • Or the names of his incarnations—his avatars, if you want to get technical.†   (source)
  • I am …. the avatar of hunger!†   (source)
  • Oh, ten-eleven avatars back.†   (source)
  • Our systems allow multiple operators to control any one of our oologist's avatars.†   (source)
  • If these avatars were real people in a real street, Hiro wouldn't be able to reach the entrance.†   (source)
  • The people are pieces of software called avatars.†   (source)
  • There are eighteen Sixer avatars right behind you.†   (source)
  • On the Street, avatars just walk right through each other.†   (source)
  • By the time I'd finished, their avatars all wore looks of stunned disbelief.†   (source)
  • The avatars milling around the entrance don't seem to care.†   (source)
  • That should be enough time for everyone to gear up and get their avatars to Chthonia."†   (source)
  • If avatars could turn pale and woozy and have to sit down on the sidewalk, Hiro's would.†   (source)
  • I did a quick search of the rest of the house and made sure no other avatars were present.†   (source)
  • Their avatars froze and glowed bright red for a few seconds, then simply vanished.†   (source)
  • And in that instant he becomes solid and visible to all the avatars milling outside.†   (source)
  • I've never seen so many ships or avatars in one place."†   (source)
  • And that way all attention can be focused on the avatars, which is the way people like it.†   (source)
  • On the Street, you can pass through other people's avatars.†   (source)
  • The chattering of the avatars around us grew in volume.†   (source)
  • This sort of thing doesn't happen with avatars.†   (source)
  • No giant two-headed hermaphrodite demon unicorn avatars were allowed.†   (source)
  • You used to design avatars for rock stars, right?†   (source)
  • Within a few days, the list of avatars on the Scoreboard was over a hundred names long.†   (source)
  • At the time, both of them were working on avatars.†   (source)
  • Only seven more of their avatars managed to obtain the Jade Key that day.†   (source)
  • They've got it set up so that different users can control the actions of every one of their avatars.†   (source)
  • Rock star avatars have the hairdos that rock stars can only wear in their dreams.†   (source)
  • In The Black Sun, avatars are not allowed to collide.†   (source)
  • Before long, twenty avatars were listed on the Scoreboard.†   (source)
  • "Maybe their avatars were killed," Shoto said.†   (source)
  • She was the one who figured out a way to make avatars show something close to real emotion.†   (source)
  • But avatars are equally strong, unless you hack them up in just the right way.†   (source)
  • "But the Sixers have a dozen avatars with copies of the Crystal Key," Aech said.†   (source)
  • In other places, invisible avatars are illegal.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of avatars milled around like ants crawling around the inside of a giant balloon.†   (source)
  • As the day progressed, the Sixers continued to walk additional avatars through the Second Gate.†   (source)
  • A concentrated, pulsing mass of ships and avatars covered the ground and filled the air.†   (source)
  • Even a party of six or seven high-level avatars would have had a difficult time defeating him.†   (source)
  • Over the next twenty-four hours, over sixty Sixer avatars cleared the First Gate.†   (source)
  • There are still twenty Sixer avatars listed there, below Parzival.†   (source)
  • A cheer went up from the thousands of avatars watching from the chaotic battlefield around us.†   (source)
  • They've got an endless supply of money, weapons, vehicles, and avatars.†   (source)
  • Shoulderto-shoulder avatars stretched to the horizon in all directions.†   (source)
  • And D&D characters were just like avatars.†   (source)
  • Something different might happen if there are two avatars here at midnight.†   (source)
  • "So they must have taken the precaution of moving some of their avatars outside of Sector Ten.†   (source)
  • I took a long look at the sea of avatars around us, then shifted my attention to the castle.†   (source)
  • In Art class we toured the Louvre while all of our avatars wore silly berets.†   (source)
  • Their avatars all sat motionless, with their eyes closed.†   (source)
  • But what do you think happens when multiple avatars enter the burial chamber at the same time?†   (source)
  • Transport terminals all over the planet were jammed with incoming avatars.†   (source)
  • The Sixer armada remained on Frobozz, and their avatars were still farming copies of the Jade Key.†   (source)
  • All eighteen Sixer avatars instantly dropped dead.†   (source)
  • High-level avatars bragging about some new magic item or artifact they'd obtained.†   (source)
  • "That went well," Art3mis said, once their avatars had vanished.†   (source)
  • I did the same, positioning myself so that our avatars faced each other.†   (source)
  • It was worth wasting a hundred or so of their highest-level avatars.†   (source)
  • All around us, avatars began to pair up.†   (source)
  • Dozens of avatars were locked in fierce combat on a multitiered playing field behind him.†   (source)
  • Three avatars, if I am not mistaken. lie behind you.†   (source)
  • Even Rama, that most human of avatars, who had to be reminded of his divinity when he grew long-faced over the struggle to get Sita, his wife, back from Ravana, evil king of Lanka, was no slouch.†   (source)
  • Hiro's good with avatars, so he writes himself an invisible avatar-just because, in the new and more dangerous Metaverse, it might come in handy.†   (source)
  • It doesn't pay to have a nice avatar on the Street, where it's so crowded and all the avatars merge and flow into one another.†   (source)
  • They are all done up in their wildest and fanciest avatars, hoping that Da5id-The Black Sun's owner and hacker-in-chief——wffl invite them inside.†   (source)
  • They put the bitmap onto scrolls and gave the scrolls to avatars who went around the Metaverse looking for victims.†   (source)
  • People are moving out of the way; something big and inexDrable is plunging through the crowd, shoving avatars this way rnd that.†   (source)
  • She was the face department, because nobody thought that faces were all that important-they were just flesh-toned busts on top of the avatars.†   (source)
  • Disposal of hacked-up avatars is taken care of by Graveyard Daemons, a new Metaverse feature that Hiro had to invent.†   (source)
  • There are haifa dozen of them, all big sturdy avatars in blue coveralls, sort of quasi-military looking, but without rank.†   (source)
  • They have to buy off-the-shelf avatars.†   (source)
  • Most of it is occupied by a deep-dish amphitheater that is capable of seating close to a mfflion avatars at once.†   (source)
  • A couple of curious patrons try to follow them, try to pry open the trapdoors, but their avatars' fingers find nothing but smooth matte black.†   (source)
  • And when hackers are hacking, they don't mess around with the superficial world of Metaverses and avatars.†   (source)
  • Above the heads of the milling avatars, Hiro can see a fan of orange beams radiating outward from some point in the middle of the crowd.†   (source)
  • That is the whole purpose of a wall in the Metaverse; it is a structure that does not allow avatars to penetrate it.†   (source)
  • The couples coming off the monorail can't afford to have custom avatars made and don't know how to write their own.†   (source)
  • It is an open plaza about a mile wide, a park of sorts where avatars can gather for concerts and conventions and festivals.†   (source)
  • Every few steps, he passes by a reception area where avatars from all over the world sit in chairs, passing the time.†   (source)
  • Avatars are not supposed to die.†   (source)
  • When things get this jammed together, the computer simplifies things by drawing all of the avatars ghostly and translucent so you can see where you're going.†   (source)
  • The avatars look like real people.†   (source)
  • Hiro looks up into the circle of applauding, whistling, and cheering avatars and notes that they are fading out The entire Black Sun now looks like it is being projected on gauze.†   (source)
  • There are no guards, no signs, nothing to bar people from going in, yet thousands of avatars mifi around, peering inside, looking for a glimpse of something.†   (source)
  • The fancy avatars all turn around to watch her as she goes past them; the movie stars give her drop-dead looks, and the hackers purse their lips and stare reverently.†   (source)
  • So Hiro had to kludge something together, in order that the Metaverse would not, over time, become littered with inert, dismembered avatars that raever decayed.†   (source)
  • In addition to being immortal and invincible, our avatars could go pretty much anywhere and do pretty much anything.†   (source)
  • Along the back wall of the bar is a row of private rooms, ranging from little tate-ã-tates to big conference rooms where a bunch of avatars can gather and have a meeting.†   (source)
  • Most avatars nowadays are anatomically correct, and naked as a babe when they are first created, so in any case, you have to make yourself decent before you emerge onto the Street.†   (source)
  • The area around Castle Anorak, which had been crowded with warring avatars a split second before, was now a desolate and barren wasteland.†   (source)
  • Avatars do not have that power.†   (source)
  • I'm talking about five thousand highly trained combat-ready avatars, all taking orders directly from you."†   (source)
  • There are about a hundred little tricks like this that Hiro wouldn't know about if he hadn't been programming avatars for people like Vitaly Chernobyl for the last couple of years.†   (source)
  • They might kill a few of us, but they were going to lose some or all of their own avatars in the process.†   (source)
  • So the Sixers gave up on their barricade, but they continued to send avatars into the Tomb of Horrors to farm copies of the Copper Key.†   (source)
  • Now that he's all by himself in the entryway, no longer immersed in a flood of avatars, he can see all of the people in the front row of the crowd with perfect clarity.†   (source)
  • It even has bouncer daemons that get rid of undesirables— grab their avatars and throw them out the door, applying certain basic principles of avatar physics.†   (source)
  • But then I looked up and saw the large chunks of rubble tumbling at high speed onto the dance floor as avatars scattered to get out of the way.†   (source)
  • Even when our avatars were doing other things, we were sending e-mails and instant messages to each other.†   (source)
  • He can ride his bike straight through the avatars as usual, but the Street is also cluttered with vehicles, animercials, commercial displays, public plazas, and other bits of solid-looking software that get in his way.†   (source)
  • It is not so much an organized body as it is a centrifugal cloud of lines and polygons whose center cannot hold, throwing bright bits of body shrapnel all over the room, interfering with people's avatars, flickering and disappearing.†   (source)
  • They all work together to help each of our avatars overcome any challenge and solve every puzzle they encounter.†   (source)
  • Thereare would-be rock stars done up in laser light, as though they just stepped off the concert stage, and the avatars of Nipponese businessmen, exquisitely rendered by their fancy equipment, but utterly reserved and boring in their suits.†   (source)
  • Recently, she'd also launched her own wildly successful clothing line for full-figured female avatars, under the label Art3Miss.†   (source)
  • Hiro chases him down by following a series of educated guesses-he knows this territory like Raven knows the currents of the Aleutians-and then they are blasting through the narrow streets of the Metaverse's financial district, waving long knives at each other, slicing and dicing hundreds of pinstriped avatars who happen to get in their way.†   (source)
  • A cloud of smaller ships quickly formed around me, piloted by curious avatars zooming in for a closer look at Leopardon.†   (source)
  • The log-out sequence was designed this way to prevent avatars from using it as an easy way to escape a fight.†   (source)
  • "Prior to the original launch of the OASIS, when Jim and I created our avatars, we gave ourselves superuser access to the entire simulation.†   (source)
  • Thousands of avatars were packed up against the velvet rope force fields that kept everyone without an invitation at bay.†   (source)
  • It was impossible for helpdesk avatars to leave their cubicles, but I found other ways to pass the time.†   (source)
  • As I made my way to the nearest bar, the avatars I passed all stopped to stare and point in my direction.†   (source)
  • When a gunter was surrounded by avatars she didn't like, she would claim to have the Cataclyst in her inventory and threaten to detonate it.†   (source)
  • Thousands of avatars came to every show, to sit in the stands and revel in the audience participation.†   (source)
  • The avatars who were already on the dance floor moved aside to clear a path for us, a tunnel leading to the center of the dance floor.†   (source)
  • If three avatars enter the Third Gate at the exact same moment, then it becomes a race to see who can clear the gate and reach the egg first."†   (source)
  • Chat rooms were stand-alone simulations—temporary virtual spaces that avatars could access from anywhere in OASIS.†   (source)
  • As we stepped out of the quest gate, our avatars were each awarded a huge amount of experience points and several thousand credits.†   (source)
  • Only avatars who possessed a copy of the Crystal Key could cross the threshold of the castle's front entrance.†   (source)
  • Once I did, the system asked me if, in addition to resurrecting their avatars, I wanted to restore all of their lost items, too.†   (source)
  • The school's strictly enforced dress code required that all student avatars be human, and of the same gender and age as the student.†   (source)
  • A fierce battle cry rose from the sea of avatars around us and they all surged forward, converging on the Sixer army from every direction.†   (source)
  • Using my avatar's new superuser interface, I made a sweeping gesture with my hand, selecting all of the Sixer avatars on my display.†   (source)
  • These users simply avoided entering any gaming or PvP zones where their defenseless first-level avatars could be attacked by NPCs or by other players.†   (source)
  • Both avatars looked Japanese, and they bore a striking resemblance to one another, like snapshots of the same young man taken five years apart.†   (source)
  • When the Cataclyst went off, the Sixers had a group of avatars in reserve, waiting just outside the sector.†   (source)
  • Ten other Sixer avatars emerged from the castle and positioned themselves behind Sorrento, each of them standing a good distance apart.†   (source)
  • No one had ever heard of these avatars before, but their names seemed to indicate they were working together, either as a duo or as part of a clan.†   (source)
  • At first, I was worried the Sixers would also try to use the tablet to hunt down each of our avatars and kill us one at a time.†   (source)
  • On cue, the ten Sixer avatars standing behind Sorrento pulled out their toy robots and activated them, too.†   (source)
  • Everything about our online personas is filtered through our avatars, which allows us to control how we look and sound to others.†   (source)
  • School had only been out for a few minutes now, so there was a steady stream of avatars filing into the terminal.†   (source)
  • For a brief moment, I saw our avatars' skeletons suspended inside the transparent outlines of our motionless bodies.†   (source)
  • Inside the sphere, thousands of power-armored Sixer avatars stood in silent formation, completely encircling the castle.†   (source)
  • At this point, SD-03 may have drawn a few curious looks from the squadron of elite Sixer avatars guarding the platform.†   (source)
  • After five years, how is it that two avatars accomplished this feat on the same day, within just a few hours of each other?†   (source)
  • Your avatar wasn't actually there, and so it appeared to other avatars as a slightly transparent apparition.†   (source)
  • The remaining avatars (the ones who hadn't fled the club in terror or been killed in the brief battle) let out a victorious cheer.†   (source)
  • She just looked at me in shock as our avatars continued to drift in orbit around each other, moving on autopilot.†   (source)
  • When I'd cleared the Third Gate, the eighteen Sixer avatars who were still inside had been ejected from the gate and deposited in front of the castle.†   (source)
  • As I descended the staircase, I saw a few dozen other gunters milling around, with avatars that varied wildly in appearance.†   (source)
  • Akihide and 'Foshiro's mutual love of samurai movies served as the inspiration for their avatars' names and appearances.†   (source)
  • The cockpit canopy popped off, and I jumped free of the falling mech a split second before it impacted on the castle steps, killing several dozen of the avatars crowded there.†   (source)
  • Chatlinks were primarily used for business purposes, when a company wanted to host a meeting in a specific OASIS location without spending the time and money to transport everyone's avatars to it.†   (source)
  • He crushed several dozen avatars (including a few of his own troops) under his mech's titanic feet as he lumbered toward us, each of his footfalls creating a small crater in the rocky surface.†   (source)
  • We passed several other Sixer avatars as we walked, and the moment they saw Sorrento, they each snapped to rigid attention and saluted him, as if he were some high-ranking general.†   (source)
  • From my vantage point in the sky above, I could see that the Sixer forces surrounding the castle were already being overrun by the endless mob of enemy avatars.†   (source)
  • The smoking, bloodied bodies of over a dozen recently slain Sixer avatars lay scattered on the stone floor around them, slowly fading out of existence.†   (source)
  • But locating our avatars wouldn't do them any good unless we happened to be in a PvP zone at the time and were stupid enough to stay put until the Sixers could reach us.†   (source)
  • Og set the dance floor's gravity on a counterclockwise spin, making all of our avatars slowly rotate around the club's invisible central axis, like motes of dust floating inside a snow globe.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, but in the meantime, Sixer avatars will be farming the Copper Key and then filing their avatars through the First Gate, one after another, in a freakin' conga line."†   (source)
  • The popular theory on the message boards was that Halliday had created multiple copies of his hometown so that several avatars could search it at the same time without fighting over a single location.†   (source)
  • A split second after we heard the thunderous boom, my perspective shifted, and I found myself looking at our three avatars, standing there frozen in front of the open gate.†   (source)
  • If too many people were logged in at the same time, the simulation would slow to a crawl and avatars would freeze in midstride as the system struggled to keep up.†   (source)
  • "Every transport terminal on the planet has been spitting out avatars since last night," he said, motioning to the scene around us with his Gundam's massive hand.†   (source)
  • Thousands of flying avatars and ships continued to buzz around the shield, occasionally firing bullets, lasers, missiles, and other projectiles at it, all of which impacted harmlessly on the surface.†   (source)
  • The explosion vaporized the supply droid, along with all the avatars stationed on the platform, including the Sixer wizard who was operating the Orb of Osuvox.†   (source)
  • We still disguised our avatars before we went out, because we knew there would be tabloid headlines galore if Parzival and Art3mis started showing up in public together on a regular basis.†   (source)
  • The blast wave arrived a second later, disintegrating everything in its path—our avatars, the floor, the walls, the castle itself, and the thousands of avatars gathered around it.†   (source)
  • Prior to my transfer, my OASIS avatar had never left Incipio, the planet at the center of Sector One where new avatars were spawned at the time of their creation.†   (source)
  • Half of the avatars in the club swarmed toward the exit, while the other half drew weapons or began to cast spells, firing laser bolts, bullets, and fireballs back at the invading Sixers.†   (source)
  • Now that the Sixers knew exactly where and how to obtain the Jade Key, I expected to see their other avatars' scores begin to jump as Sorrento's underlings followed his lead.†   (source)
  • I felt a brief surge of exhilaration, even though I knew Art3mis's warning might still prove true—there was a chance most of these avatars were here only to watch the show and had no intention of actually risking their lives to fight the Sixers.†   (source)
  • The crowd around them was continuously surging inward and then receding as avatars pushed back against each other to try to keep a respectful distance from Aech, Art3mis, and Shoto, who each sat inside their own gleaming giant robot.†   (source)
  • They were really just giant spaceship-sized teleporters, but since they charged by the mass of your ship and the distance you wanted to travel, they were normally used only by corporations or extremely wealthy avatars with credits to burn.†   (source)
  • The OASIS became such an integral part of people's day-to-day social lives that users were more than willing to shell out real money to buy accessories for their avatars: clothing, furniture, houses, flying cars, magic swords and machine guns.†   (source)
  • Now that the Sixers could operate undisturbed, they basically formed ten lines of avatars outside each white house and began to run them through the process of obtaining the Jade Key, one after another.†   (source)
  • Scrolling down, I saw that the Scoreboard was now over five thousand names long, with more being added every hour as new avatars finally managed to defeat Acererak at Joust and collect their own instance of the Copper Key.†   (source)
  • In the OASIS, you usually saw one of two body shapes on female avatars: the absurdly thin yet wildly popular supermodel frame, or the top-heavy, wasp-waisted porn starlet physique (which looked even less natural in the OASIS than it did in the real world).†   (source)
  • AVATARS RESTORED.†   (source)
  • All the avatars of death were there as I had prefigured them: ambulances, fire engines, emergency vans, police cars with pulsing red lights—these in gross excess of need, as if the poor ramshackle house had harbored some terrible massacre instead of two people who had willed themselves into an almost decorous ending, going off silently to sleep.†   (source)
  • Perched on a silo, I concentrated all my power and turned straight from falcon to avatar.†   (source)
  • Carter's avatar shimmered, then disappeared.†   (source)
  • Her face went pale with strain, and her cat warrior avatar appeared around her one more time.†   (source)
  • I tried to rise, but my avatar form was sluggish.†   (source)
  • This time when she hit the ground, her avatar flickered off completely.†   (source)
  • My combat avatar formed around me, lifting me off the floor and encasing me with golden energy.†   (source)
  • And at Luxor I'd summoned an avatar with the head of a falcon.†   (source)
  • To start with, the guy was twenty feet tall—and I don't mean with a glowing avatar.†   (source)
  • My avatar was only mildly damaged, my attacks still swift and strong.†   (source)
  • The Babel/Infocalypse card is still in his avatar's pocket.†   (source)
  • When your avatar has just lost its legs, all that skill goes out the window.†   (source)
  • When her partner is off doing something in Reality, his avatar goes kind of slack.†   (source)
  • The Street protocol states that your avatar can't be any taller than you are.†   (source)
  • It takes a lot of practice to make your avatar move through the Metaverse like a real person.†   (source)
  • Juanita is right behind him, standing out in her black4nd-white avatar, looking good anyway.†   (source)
  • It's a really trite effect, Hiro and Da5id are already laughing, The avatar is a stark naked Brandy.†   (source)
  • Hiro can see the Clint, way over near the exit, trying to get his avatar aimed out through the door.†   (source)
  • Your avatar can look any way you want it to, up to the limitations of your equipment.†   (source)
  • He has switched over to his small, invisible avatar.†   (source)
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