Making the Best, continued
Oct. 12th, 2005 01:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avevale_intelligencerNot too bad a haul from Mechanical Age. Various useful bits and bobs--it's nice to drink rainwater out of a glass instead of a two-foot-long wooden ship. No food, though. Well, if I'm right, there wouldn't be. But I think I'm getting the hang of cooking the fish-beasties; I was only sick once last night. And it's nice to know I have somewhere to go where it isn't raining.
My theory does rather cast a doubt on Atrus's other writings, though. How much of the rest of it was made-up stories? Perhaps he wrote them to amuse himself as well. Maybe he Wrote the Age and then made up a story about it. I'm unlikely to find out at this late stage, of course.
Stoneship has to be the next one. The Selenitic Book is virtual in some way and needs power, and the Channelwood Book is going to be physically the hardest to get to.
There are a lot more D'ni secrets here than just the Art. How did those pictures in the Library control the outer door and the bookcase? How did the map control the tower rotation? I checked it out this morning. It's just a map. No connections, no electronics at all, but the locations glow, and turning the tower on the map turns the tower in reality (or would if it was there). Doubtless there are those who would maintain that it simply links you into a succession of almost-identical Ages where the tower is a little further round, but I tend to think not. Call me bigoted if you like.
Tired. Schlepping stuff backwards and forwards. More tomorrow.
My theory does rather cast a doubt on Atrus's other writings, though. How much of the rest of it was made-up stories? Perhaps he wrote them to amuse himself as well. Maybe he Wrote the Age and then made up a story about it. I'm unlikely to find out at this late stage, of course.
Stoneship has to be the next one. The Selenitic Book is virtual in some way and needs power, and the Channelwood Book is going to be physically the hardest to get to.
There are a lot more D'ni secrets here than just the Art. How did those pictures in the Library control the outer door and the bookcase? How did the map control the tower rotation? I checked it out this morning. It's just a map. No connections, no electronics at all, but the locations glow, and turning the tower on the map turns the tower in reality (or would if it was there). Doubtless there are those who would maintain that it simply links you into a succession of almost-identical Ages where the tower is a little further round, but I tend to think not. Call me bigoted if you like.
Tired. Schlepping stuff backwards and forwards. More tomorrow.