I’ve been so caught up in work that I’ve been neglecting this blog. I finished a number of small improvements to Bimevi some time ago as well as finished a public space in Toroolbah for people to see the Ages I’ve released. Probably going to take a trip to the Warehouse soon and get some supplies.

Just finished doing a little research on the warning left in Tochoortahv. Tweek’s upset, obviously. The letters don’t seem to have been carved or painted, but instead “pressed” into the stone. Could be the work of a small reclaimer or a reverse fine-edged extruder. Either way, it needed to be something that took only a minute or two to use.

Tochoortahv’s got me worried about security. I think I’ll work on some designs for a vault for my own descriptive books. I’ve got a modified fusion compounder. If I feed it the right settings, I should be able to replicate nara.

Digging around in my archive of D’ni documents, I found a rather large collection of hard-bound books whose title loosely translates to “The Traveler’s Stories”. According to them, in the later years of the empire, a wealthy guildmaster of the Surveyor’s Guild funded a rather extensive project on the cultures sometimes found within Ages. Up until that point, the only descriptions of the Ages and the people or other sentient beings contained within came from the official Maintainer’s guild logs -which, as I can say as a first-hand reader of them, were about as exciting as watching mud dry. The stories seem to have been intended to be released to the general public and allow a friendly introduction into cultures usually only the elite got an opportunity to contact. Unfortunately, D’ni was a conservative culture, especially then, and the books were mostly a failure. However, the guildmaster’s exstensive resources allowed him to force the project through to its conclusion. Given the volume and numbering on them, I seem to have the whole set. Or at least very nearly.

I’ve been hearing strange animal calls in Fens lately. I’ll have to try and keep an eye out.

Finished a long-overdue update to the restoration projects page. Added a couple Ages and a story.

Put up some information on Tharel as it seems to be my latest project. The Age seems to have been a D’ni Writer’s show of love and does this quite well. Finding a few mentions of Soshiren (the Writer) elsewhere so history will be of interest, as always.

Added a page for Bimevi. Fascinating Age. I’d love to explore it more, maybe restore some of it like the statue and the stones.

Still figuring out just what happened. Got errors from a number of the D’ni devices I had set up to watch the holes in the cavern. Problem is, when I linked in, the holes were gone. The city looked normal again. Most of my equipment was gone as well. I’ll have to tour the City Proper sometime and see what has happened out there.

In restoration news, I’ve updated my projects to reflect what’s been going on the past few months. I’ll need to update that more often.

Well I think I’ve done as much as I can for now with Bimevi. One of the virtue stones still isn’t working. I’ll tinker with it in Tor’oolbah. Set up a welcome sign and put out a book on the Age’s history. Pretty bad stuff. Killings and such. Still, nice Age.

Also finished translating a couple Lara Documents. I’ll have to send them off sometime.

Found a D’ni book a few weeks ago. According to the histories I’ve seen, it was a D’ni rest age. Seems interesting. I’ll need to look into it more inthe coming weeks. I’ll take an initial mapping of it tomorrow and see what I’ll need to do work on.

I’ve been doing some work recently in getting some D’ni extruders online again. I’ve been working on refining my previous (rather crude) excavations in Tor’oolbah. So far I’ve smoothed over some of the tunnels and carved out a main office for myself. I’ll be putting in some additional mechanics in Tor’oolbah (I’d like to improve power generation and transport to the various areas on the island).