November 29th, 2017

Sul I have named it, my fourth Age. Named after Sulis a Roman Goddess of the baths in Bath England. It seemed an appropriate name for the Age given the motive behind it. Furthermore Sul is the first Age I have Written with a Korteenea and ink I have created myself.
The Age will serve as place to conduct my studies on the D’ni lake water, I have some ideas I would like to explore in regards to helping the algae recuperate.

My initial tests with the fabrication of new Korteenea had met with negative results. I could not figure out what was causing the problem at first until I realized I had got one of the processes in the wrong order. Having corrected my mistake the following tests yielded positive results, the Books were good to go.
The logical next step would be to Write another Age, with all the materials needed for manufacturing ink and Korteenea within it and indeed I have been toying with several Age ideas that didn’t make the cut as it were whilst I was Writing Sul…perhaps one of those will make for a good fifth Age.

I am getting ahead of myself, there is still a lot of work to be done on Sul first…

November 19th, 2017

The D’ni guarded their secrets well, despite them being gone and us having free reign of the cavern itself it has still proven difficult to find the information I have been seeking. It is only a matter of time before the supplies of Korteenea and ink run out, as I have mentioned numerous times. If we are to rebuild D’ni, if we are to Write new Ages we are going to need a supply of both. It has taken me years of researching of searching through any snippets of information I could find. Thankfully with the DRC releasing their backlog of Age projects to us my research took a huge leap forward. Finally after all this time, after the last few months of test after test I have succeeded in manufacturing my own supply of ink. But not only that but one of the Ages from the DRC archives has allowed me to take a good look at the formation of blank Books and I am convinced that I will be able to duplicate the process.

I have more tests to run with the Korteenea but it shouldn’t be much longer now. Now the question is, what do I do with this information?