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Re: Content Alert 2/7/07 - Now running joke/discussion!

Gary_Wolf — Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:50 pm

Author: Gary_Wolf

Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:50 pm

I think being able to take out a book from the library is a good idea assuming they have a good few thousand copies!
Imagine the waiting list for just one book

Re: Content Alert 2/7/07 - Now running joke/discussion!

MustardJeep — Sun Feb 11, 2007 3:22 am

Author: MustardJeep

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 3:22 am

jaburg,

I've always taken the books with a grain of salt authors just love their thesaurus's. One author I used to read talked about a funny argument he had once with his editors in Canada. He started out a chapter with someone maddly pulling miles and miles of scarves out of a drawer while in search of something hidden among the socks. His editor wanted it changed to kilometers and kilometers since Canada is metric, completly not getting the visual punch of the original wording for an american audience.

No pun but the D'ni turned books into an art form, I have no doubt the library will be filled.

And five minuits after the first book hits the shelves, I am going to be there sneeking it out to my relto in my jacket.

Re: Content Alert 2/7/07 - Now running joke/discussion!

uecasm — Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:06 pm

Author: uecasm

Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:06 pm

They probably have. IC, the books are based on journals found in the cavern, and since the book explains exactly where the tomb was then presumably the journal did too, so the DRC would know about it. (It's not guaranteed, though -- it could have been artistic license.)

Re: Content Alert 2/7/07 - Now running joke/discussion!

jaburg — Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:00 pm

Author: jaburg

Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:00 pm

BrettM wrote:

The D'ni had two different words for writing: "sehl" for Age writing and "gehl" for ordinary writing. What if they also had two different words for "library"? One for libraries devoted to the Art and one for libraries devoted to ordinary text?

That wouldn't surprise me at all. I wonder though, if anyone has been thinking about this as I have.
We really shouldn't be able to find many linking books at all since ...
IIRC, Veovis and his crew took or destroyed all they could find in the city.
Then Atrus and the folks from Averone spent months (years?) hunting down the rest and taking them home. A large number were found to have been infected by Veovis and Aegeris but I don't recall reading what Atrus did with those.

I have not finished the Book of D'ni yet. (Atrus and the rest have just watched most of Terahnee die and the relyimah have taken over.) I know there are a bunch of books in the tomb of the Great King where they found the Terahnee book, but we haven't any indication that the DRC have found the tomb, have we?

Re: Content Alert 2/7/07 - Now running joke/discussion!

BrettM — Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:18 am

Author: BrettM

Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:18 am

The D'ni had two different words for writing: "sehl" for Age writing and "gehl" for ordinary writing. What if they also had two different words for "library"? One for libraries devoted to the Art and one for libraries devoted to ordinary text?

Re: Content Alert 2/7/07 - Now running joke/discussion!

mszv — Sat Feb 10, 2007 2:51 am

Author: mszv

Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 2:51 am

Wow - the thought of being able to check out a linking book from the library. What a wonderful thing that would be!

Now, I wonder what sort of ID they would ask for, and how long would the check out period be!

Re: Content Alert 2/7/07 - Now running joke/discussion!

Ed Oscuro — Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:24 am

Author: Ed Oscuro

Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:24 am

Tayr wrote:

Now if only they could get the doors fixed. They have a nasty habit of getting stuck closed.

Yep, they also like to open once you get about 12 feet away, and shut just before you can get in them.

I once saw a guy run through the doors I had opened in this fashion, only to have it shut in my face again. Drat!

There's also an imaginative use of cones inside the Library. That was fun, falling out of the world that is.

Re: Content Alert 2/7/07 - Now running joke/discussion!

lego_addict — Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:28 pm

Author: lego_addict

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:28 pm

Remember that the Museum is the one with the books and the Library is the one with the history texts.

Re: Content Alert 2/7/07 - Now running joke/discussion!

Tayr — Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:24 pm

Author: Tayr

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:24 pm

I'm really enjoying the library, as small as it is. It's easily my favorite part of the city now - just walking around the top floor, enjoying the music, listening to the doors open and close, and watching people reading the notebooks and walking up and down the stairs - it's a very good atmosphere. I've made plans to spend a good deal of time hanging out there this afternoon.

Now if only they could get the doors fixed. They have a nasty habit of getting stuck closed.

Re: Content Alert 2/7/07 - Now running joke/discussion!

Ed Oscuro — Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:40 pm

Author: Ed Oscuro

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:40 pm

MustardJeep wrote:

You didn't read the fine print did you!

I had to delete it to quote you

Re: Content Alert 2/7/07 - Now running joke/discussion!

MustardJeep — Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:38 pm

Author: MustardJeep

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:38 pm

You didn't read the fine print did you!

I try to be as wide open on my obsessions as possible, and yes museums are good for that. It's just my local library gets updated way more often then my local museum.

Re: Content Alert 2/7/07 - Now running joke/discussion!

Ed Oscuro — Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:30 pm

Author: Ed Oscuro

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:30 pm

MustardJeep wrote:

All of our museums put together are only a pale comparison to a D'ni library.

Heh, they had a different focus. I like ours just fine. I might be wrong, but from here it looks like the D'ni were a bit myopic - short-sighted. Not always terribly interested in the world around them at times (which is not to say that we aren't the same way, but at least our museums have enough space for all the different obsessed types in the world).

Re: Content Alert 2/7/07 - Now running joke/discussion!

MustardJeep — Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:26 pm

Author: MustardJeep

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:26 pm

Will not

All of our museums put together are only a pale comparison to a D'ni library.

But yeah since it's all we have to get up close with usually they are nice to have.

Re: Content Alert 2/7/07 - Now running joke/discussion!

Islander — Thu Feb 08, 2007 3:55 pm

Author: Islander

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 3:55 pm

MustardJeep wrote:

Quote:
I want the museum to open up.

<faints> <again> <someone interested in a museum>

Gah, take that back - museums are amazing.

Re: Content Alert 2/7/07 - Now running joke/discussion!

MustardJeep — Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:59 pm

Author: MustardJeep

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:59 pm

Quote:

Who cares about the library!

Quote:

I want the museum to open up.

Quote:

I want that relto page!

Oh, ok feeling better now that I know your not really interested in a museum your just page obsessed like the rest of us. Remind me which one was it again it's been such a long time since I played CC.

While keeping SDKPhoenix company at the museum door I thumb thru the three age books I checked out, and link out every now and then. Oddly SDKPhoenix never stops pounding on the door long enough to notice I've been replaced by a stack of books.