I have completed the changes finally, I would have been finished yesterday had I not taken time out to work on that small side project, but it was worth it.
We’ve been going over the Book making sure all is in order, from what I can tell it should be right.
We will soon be getting ready to return to see if things have worked out as I hope.
Giles has been posting his journal entries recently regarding an Age he is writing called Luminesce. The other day he posted a map he had drawn out for what he hopes the Age will look like when it is finished, in my experience the Ages never quite work out the way you expect them too, but I enjoy the surprise in that, it takes on a life of its own.
The map however inspired me, more specifically the symbol for the Age inspired me, so today I took a break from Kehrahn and Sul and worked upon a small project which I have now finished.
Using the left over glass from previous stained glass window projects I constructed a new one based on Luminesce’s symbol.
I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out, given that it was rushed, there are some changes I’d like to make, some of the weld spots, some of the glass I used, I think the colours could be tweaked (the blue in the sky is a little too vibrant for my liking). I’m debating hanging this in the gallery on Cass with other works although I am tempted to see what Giles makes of it.
It has been just over a week now, and still I am sat at my desk making the modifications to Sul. So far it seems to be going well, but the true test will be when we return to the Age to see for ourselves.
I am working slowly and surely, making sure not to make any mistakes, I estimate that it will probably take me another week to complete my work.
Meanwhile work has been progressing on Kehrahn nicely, I myself have been stepping in and helping out when taking breaks from the Sul changes, I’m hoping that the Age can be completed by the 24th of January, but given how the work on Winterbloom went, I remain skeptical.
This morning I finally had the chance to return to Sul after the recent upheaval there. The damage to the area is vast and much of the work we had done in the past has been undone.
I continue to research the notion of rewriting some of the lines in the Descriptive Book in order to facilitate stability in the Age. The entire Age was an experiment in crafting a concept, as such some of the terms used in the Ages Descriptive Book were copied out of D’ni Books (Gehnism).
I thought I had managed to Write in such a way that this wouldn’t happen but clearly I was wrong, my knowledge of the Art is still growing, I simply do not have the skills the D’ni had.
But for every disaster there is a lesson learned, if one is willing to learn, and I believe I am.
The afternoon was spent up in the city, hunting down any documentation I may be able to find that could help with my endeavor. The D’ni, however, didn’t exactly keep a book that tells one how to Write an Age and how to fix things when they go wrong as such I have had to hunt for examples of re-writes in existing Descriptive Books. If only I had access to Books Atrus had dealt with, like Riven, then a lot of problems would be solved as I could study what he had done.
True to her plans, my wife returned to the Cavern lastnight after 6 long years of being away.
We wondered through most of the old places, Gira, Kemo, Teledahn, Ae’gura and so on. It was nice to see her remaining upbeat through the experience, if not excitable at times, I’ve not seen her feel this way about the cavern in a long time.
Overall we spent several hours exploring again, like old times, although she wished not to visit some of the newer area’s released by the DRC’s last stint in the cavern, nor did she want to visit any of the explorer restored/developed Ages.
Perhaps in time she will change her mind on that, who knows.
