Thanks to Doobes for taking the time to answer questions and help troubleshoot!
Thanks to Theo for the Rope Ladder Knot Model!
Thanks to Ehren, Hazado, and Adam for helping with the Sun-at-Night issue!
Thanks to the Open Uru and Minkata Testers for helping get this over the line!
(Seriously, thank you for putting up with my insanity in this place.)
Thanks to Cyan for the Various Textures and Sounds used and modified from the asset repositories given to us under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
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I was doing some more Calutac translation work for Patrick when I heard a series of heavy footsteps behind me at my desk.
I was doing some more Caltauc translation work for Patrick when I heard a series of heavy footsteps behind me at my desk.
I hear heavy breathing and someone moaning like a ghost and I whirl around and splash my coffee on them!
@ -548,7 +530,7 @@ But if you're reading this, please don't. I suspect that if I bring it up to him
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It's a shame my vacation week is over now. I still never managed that meeting with Patrick. If I can't arrange one, we can't get Chiso stocked with the Naybree book, nevermind these Calutac documents I need to hand off in person rather than using our usual dropoff system. I suppose that'll answer that question in the end. I mean, I could just drop it off somewhere, but even so.
It's a shame my vacation week is over now. I still never managed that meeting with Patrick. If I can't arrange one, we can't get Chiso stocked with the Naybree book, nevermind these Caltauc documents I need to hand off in person rather than using our usual dropoff system. I suppose that'll answer that question in the end. I mean, I could just drop it off somewhere, but even so.
I added another post to the dniexplorer.com forums. Hopefully Patrick just missed seeing my last one due to how busy his schedule is these days. I know he's not brushing me off because I know HE knows how important these specific documents are. Still, a girl can only wait so long before getting a tad impatient.
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The conversation with Patrick this afternoon was a good reminder to remind Calum that we need to deal with the inhabited Ages carefully. If we're going to be visiting it, it needs to be a full survey group, rather than just a few explorers- or just me and Calum like it was with Naybree.
Inhabited Ages are a different risk compared to uninhabited- or possibly uninhabited- ones. The Calutac in Chiso Preniv are a similar matter that I'm worrying over at the moment. Those documents I handed over to Patrick today...
Inhabited Ages are a different risk compared to uninhabited- or possibly uninhabited- ones. The Caltuac in Chiso Preniv are a similar matter that I'm worrying over at the moment. Those documents I handed over to Patrick today...
If the natives in that age become Hostile to our presence once they notice it, much as they did with the D'ni back in the day, I don't know what to think of our future chances of using that Age. We'd need to try to engage in a peaceful first contact scenario- pray the locals have grown as a civilization since the D'ni abandoned Chiso.
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I'm thinking I'll likely start up a new journal- this one is getting pretty full, and the likelihood of my needing to add to it after Naybree is released, while negligable, is still high enough I ought to reserve some room for those updates should they happen.
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5/23/22
More delays to Naybree- concerns over the sturctural issues in the walls that the tree branches have burst through. If Calum's tired texts are anything to go by, he's not pleased by the amount of botanical questions being thrown his way. "Trees don't work like that!" Well, Surface trees don't, but with the Art, anything is possible- from water-borne bacteria that's heatphobic to a giant, all consuming tree.
And so I sit here on the cliff, watching the sunset, and pondering recent events.
I feel it doesn't need repeating, but it always strikes me as sad that Athsheba spent so many years of her life here. It's clear as day to see that she spent a long amount of time carving out the bedroom cave, and setting up her book podiums in the back...
It's clear she spent a lot of time working and refining shapes out of things. And then later transfering her younger carvings- the images of the girl, and the animals, and placing them on the walls. The most obvious one in the back cave and clearly held some kind of significance to her. I can only imagine what message she was trying to convey, though.
The bird, and the deer like creatures, plus a goat like beast? She hid these on purpose for some reason, though I can't fathom why. Something to do with Chezahcen's religion?
How long did she live here for? 50 years? 100? How long before she moved back to the Exten-col age?
I can't see the multitude of statues, so pain-stakingly carved and so similar to eachother, to have gone by very quickly. It's hard not to think of Athsheba as just a scared little girl, but she was only that for a small portion of her overall lifespan. She's a grown old woman now, if she's even alive still.
What kind of person was she, when she decided to move? It's a damned shame she left her journal in the Cathedral, and didn't even write in it very often. Didn't date it when she did. I can't blame her, not wanting to mark the passage of time, but she spent an unknown amount of time here and it's-- it's so sad that she was alone for so much of it.
If I ever meet her in person, I have so many questions.
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If you've read this far into this journal, thanks for giving my words some time. Oh, and the password is "Burning Sunsets are Amazing!"
;) Just to let me know you got this far. Hehe.
;) Just to let me know you got this far.
_Kelsei A. Taylor]]></translation>
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Ah, still. It's a nice mountain view from the clifftops though. ]]></translation>
Thanks to Doobes for taking the time to answer questions and help troubleshoot!
Thanks to Theo for the Rope Ladder Knot Model!
Thanks to Ehren, Hazado, and Adam for helping with the Sun-at-Night issue!
Thanks to Iwonk and Nosila for being camera region feedback suggesters!
Thanks to the Open Uru and Minkata Testers for helping get this over the line!
(Seriously, thank you for putting up with my insanity in this place.)
Thanks to Cyan for the Various Textures and Sounds used and modified from the asset repositories given to us under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
