7/15/23 Calum, DS5, Naybree Concerns.

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(07/15 18:04:03) Chat.log started...
(07/15 18:04:47) Dni_seeker 5: hello
(07/15 18:04:50) Calum Traveler: hi.
(07/15 18:05:00) Calum Traveler sets up some mild surveying equipment
(07/15 18:05:28) Calum Traveler: survey reports from while i was away indicated tremors haven't abated much.
(07/15 18:05:34) Calum Traveler: wanted to see it for myself...
(07/15 18:06:26) Calum Traveler pokes at the equipment...
(07/15 18:07:02) [BUDDIES] To Buddies: has anyone been noticing any abatement in the quaking in Naybree the last week? (trying to confirm reports that it hasn't started stabilizing yet)
(07/15 18:08:06) Calum Traveler mumbles a 'probably not...'
(07/15 18:08:21) Dni_seeker 5: I hope these things stop before somebody gets really hurt
(07/15 18:08:35) Calum Traveler: same. but nothing much i can do about it
(07/15 18:08:41) Calum Traveler: i'd rather not pull the age from access.
(07/15 18:08:53) Calum Traveler: fortunately it seems the plant overgrowth is stabilizing the main garden area atleast
(07/15 18:09:05) Calum Traveler: atleast, that's how it was looking last i checked
(07/15 18:09:23) Calum Traveler peers at the plant walls...
(07/15 18:09:41) Calum Traveler: yeah, overgrowth seems to be sticking about the same.
(07/15 18:09:41) Dni_seeker 5: We've already had one person hurt here, maybe two if the lumberjack didn't get away in time.
(07/15 18:09:53) Calum Traveler: definitely getting stronger over time
(07/15 18:10:08) Calum Traveler: probably going to need to cut access points to get through the walls at some point
(07/15 18:10:10) Dni_seeker 5: I would rather not get to three.
(07/15 18:10:28) Calum Traveler prods at the vinage...
(07/15 18:10:35) Calum Traveler: yeah, this is starting to get impassible.
(07/15 18:10:56) Dni_seeker 5: do you know what those stone carvings are?
(07/15 18:10:58) Calum Traveler: definitely going to need to get bolt cutters if we're going to have any hope at maintaining access to the walls.
(07/15 18:11:11) Calum Traveler: something Athsheba left,
(07/15 18:11:13) Calum Traveler: no clue why
(07/15 18:11:24) Calum Traveler: Runa'mei hasn't been able to shed any light on the matter either.
(07/15 18:11:31) Dni_seeker 5: Well, better bolt cutters than a *chainsaw*.
(07/15 18:11:46) Dni_seeker 5: yeah, I heard that.
(07/15 18:11:56) Calum Traveler grumbles
(07/15 18:12:04) Calum Traveler: quakeing's definitely happening still.
(07/15 18:12:41) Calum Traveler sighs
(07/15 18:12:50) Dni_seeker 5: so... any news on that smuggling ring that Runa'mei's been investigating?
(07/15 18:12:58) Calum Traveler: she's left again to chase after Haru'sara
(07/15 18:13:02) Calum Traveler: just today actually
(07/15 18:13:11) Calum Traveler: she was getting nervous thinking about the whole Gahrohevtee thing
(07/15 18:13:39) Calum Traveler: we're pretty sure that even if just carving the symbols into pure rock or metal wont do anything that doesn't rule out the possibility of it having effects on Rei'schuian crystals
(07/15 18:13:40) Dni_seeker 5: Gahrohevtee? what happened with the Gahrohevtee?
(07/15 18:13:46) Calum Traveler grumbles with another quake
(07/15 18:13:55) Calum Traveler: did you not watch Rand's Mysterium QNA panel?
(07/15 18:13:59) Dni_seeker 5: no.
(07/15 18:14:03) Calum Traveler: okay well
(07/15 18:14:06) Calum Traveler: let me fill you in then
(07/15 18:14:23) Calum Traveler: Rand Miller, in the course of reviewing the whole story of Riven in prep for their remake?
(07/15 18:14:38) Calum Traveler: he and Richard V.W. went out into New Mexico's desert and dug around a bit
(07/15 18:14:44) Calum Traveler: they found another piece of Star Fissure plating.
(07/15 18:14:48) Calum Traveler: one engraved with a Gahrohevtee.
(07/15 18:15:08) Calum Traveler: and Rand, in all his infinite wisdom, *showed it live on stream*
(07/15 18:15:08) Dni_seeker 5: What did it mean?
(07/15 18:15:14) Calum Traveler: "stability" theoretically
(07/15 18:15:48) Calum Traveler: the hypotheses Rand proposed was that Gehn carved Gahrohevtee onto the Fissure plates to try to 'lock down' the Fissure
(07/15 18:15:58) Calum Traveler: to add stability to the age
(07/15 18:16:06) Dni_seeker 5: Huh. Maybe somebody should put that symbol on the wall back in the area with the big rocks
(07/15 18:16:11) Calum Traveler: needless to say he also said it might not be a legit Gahrohevtee either,
(07/15 18:16:20) Calum Traveler: Gehn might have misremembered it
(07/15 18:16:40) Calum Traveler: it certainly doesn't look like any of the glyphics I've seen while studying the Art, so either it's not real
(07/15 18:16:46) Calum Traveler: or it's a rare one I've not encountered
(07/15 18:16:56) Calum Traveler: folks are trying to translate out its meaning and have been since that weekend.
(07/15 18:17:12) Calum Traveler: we're still not sure if merely *carving* the Gahrohevtee provides power
(07/15 18:17:18) Calum Traveler: or if it was its proximity to the Fissure that did anything
(07/15 18:17:22) Calum Traveler: or heck, that it did anything at all.
(07/15 18:17:32) Calum Traveler: we're all sort of in the dark on this one.
(07/15 18:17:41) Calum Traveler: but Tweek did note that he's experimented with the idea in the past
(07/15 18:18:02) Calum Traveler: the base material did seem to have *some* kind of effect... he said, at least.
(07/15 18:18:10) Dni_seeker 5: Hang on a second. I read the Lumberjack Journal and it seems to suggest that these guys are scientists. Research stations, chemical experiments...
(07/15 18:18:19) Calum Traveler: yeah, noticed that,
(07/15 18:18:23) Calum Traveler: hence Runa'mei's concerns
(07/15 18:18:29) Calum Traveler: if these chuckleheads heard about it
(07/15 18:18:38) Calum Traveler: what's to stop them from trying experiments with the Art?
(07/15 18:18:45) Dni_seeker 5: Exactly.
(07/15 18:18:53) Calum Traveler: I've advised our writers to *please* keep a lid on the known symbolsets
(07/15 18:19:02) Calum Traveler: we dont want folks carving in a volcano into an otherwise stable age.
(07/15 18:19:27) Calum Traveler: we still don't know if the symbols alone have the power, or if it's Fissure proximity, material based or...
(07/15 18:19:29) Calum Traveler: but theoretically,
(07/15 18:19:51) Calum Traveler: a Rei'schuian crystal, which is of the same composition as the Veritgo Crystals I wrote trying to combine Rime Crystals and Tay agates
(07/15 18:19:58) Calum Traveler: if you carved a Gahrohevtee onto one of those...
(07/15 18:20:04) Calum Traveler: it'd probably do *something*
(07/15 18:20:42) Calum Traveler: as it is, Runa'mei wants to retrieve the stolen materials before something goes wrong.
(07/15 18:20:56) Calum Traveler: those crystals can be explosive when mishandled.
(07/15 18:21:09) Calum Traveler rubs the back of his neck, wincing at a memory of a sharp pitched squeal.
(07/15 18:21:17) Dni_seeker 5: Yeah, the Writing would probably - wait, EXPLOSIVE?
(07/15 18:21:33) Calum Traveler: oh, you should see the mess I made of my Payiferen instance.
(07/15 18:21:45) Calum Traveler: tiny crystal fragments from Vertigo covered the entire pod
(07/15 18:21:47) Dni_seeker 5: (Just heard one of those beastly earthquakes)
(07/15 18:21:51) Dni_seeker 5: Oh man.
(07/15 18:21:56) Calum Traveler: bottom floor is basically entirely consumed...
(07/15 18:22:03) Dni_seeker 5: That doesn't sound good...
(07/15 18:22:08) Calum Traveler: biiig giant tree in the middle of the pod too
(07/15 18:22:14) Calum Traveler: crystalline growth everywhere.
(07/15 18:22:25) Calum Traveler: yeah, it wasn't one of my finer moments.
(07/15 18:22:26) Dni_seeker 5: Not a real tree, I assume.
(07/15 18:22:30) Calum Traveler: no,
(07/15 18:22:33) Calum Traveler: just looks like one
(07/15 18:22:58) Calum Traveler: anyways, yeah
(07/15 18:23:04) Calum Traveler: my experiments were all energy and sound based
(07/15 18:23:16) Calum Traveler: i never even *thought* about what the actual Gahrohevtee could do on one of those things
(07/15 18:23:49) Dni_seeker 5: Combining Gahrohevtee with these crystals... yeah, I'd be concerned about that, too.
(07/15 18:24:06) Calum Traveler: on the bright side, i guess we know it can be *safely* done to some degree
(07/15 18:24:13) Calum Traveler: given the Rei'schuian linking stones
(07/15 18:24:19) Calum Traveler: but the same thing can be said about any linking book
(07/15 18:24:30) Calum Traveler: just because the writing's solid doesn't mean you might not accidentally get dropped into a super nova.
(07/15 18:24:55) Calum Traveler grimaces
(07/15 18:25:01) Calum Traveler: and people still debate about trap books...
(07/15 18:25:08) Calum Traveler winces at another tremor.
(07/15 18:25:17) Calum Traveler: anyways, yeah, so.
(07/15 18:25:20) Dni_seeker 5: Or have asteroids knock the moons into your planet.
(07/15 18:25:27) Calum Traveler: asteroids huh?
(07/15 18:25:29) Calum Traveler: i wonder...
(07/15 18:25:31) Calum Traveler glances upwards
(07/15 18:25:38) Calum Traveler: now that's an idea.
(07/15 18:25:43) Calum Traveler: reminds me of a story i wrote once.
(07/15 18:25:46) Calum Traveler frowns
(07/15 18:25:51) Dni_seeker 5: Really?
(07/15 18:26:02) Calum Traveler: yeaah. it was a scifi thing,
(07/15 18:26:10) Calum Traveler: moons got exploded off of orbit, and rapidly decayed
(07/15 18:26:14) Calum Traveler: whole planet had to evacuate...
(07/15 18:26:23) Calum Traveler: Naybree atleast doesn't have a living population on it that we're aware of.
(07/15 18:26:36) Calum Traveler: unless you count animals.
(07/15 18:27:09) Calum Traveler: still... hopefully we're looking at a centuries time limit rather than weeks.
(07/15 18:27:36) Calum Traveler: let's just hope whatever knocked the moons out of orbit doesn't happen again,
(07/15 18:27:40) Dni_seeker 5: We are on a tiny island, Calum. There are *mountains* over there
(07/15 18:27:53) Calum Traveler: true,
(07/15 18:28:36) Dni_seeker 5: Just because there aren't intelligent beings on this island doesn't mean that there's nobody living in those mountains.
(07/15 18:28:43) Dni_seeker 5: Or elsewhere on the planet
(07/15 18:28:47) Calum Traveler: ...
(07/15 18:28:49) Calum Traveler frowns
(07/15 18:29:00) Calum Traveler: i was trying not to think about that.
(07/15 18:29:12) Calum Traveler: Rei'schu is already one inhabited age too many for my liking.
(07/15 18:29:20) Calum Traveler: and I LIKE Rei'schu.
(07/15 18:29:50) Calum Traveler: atleast it's stable, even if it has an oversized monster problem
(07/15 18:29:55) Calum Traveler: the moons here...
(07/15 18:30:00) Calum Traveler: i don't even know what to do about it,
(07/15 18:30:08) Calum Traveler: and then there's all the prime directive thoughts about it
(07/15 18:31:19) Dni_seeker 5: Hang on. I wonder... Maybe that symbol, the Gahrohevtee that "stabilized" Riven, might be in the REI'SCHU BOOK?
(07/15 18:31:57) Calum Traveler: i checked when i got back
(07/15 18:32:06) Calum Traveler: it's not in the book.
(07/15 18:32:26) Calum Traveler: leans more towards the possibility Gehn bootleg'd his way into something functional
(07/15 18:32:32) Calum Traveler: if it even worked at all.
(07/15 18:32:53) Calum Traveler: Cyan hasn't given us access to their research yet,
(07/15 18:33:02) Dni_seeker 5: Okay, then we REALLY have to be careful of those scientists/smugglers experimenting with that symbol.
(07/15 18:33:11) Calum Traveler: you're telling me?
(07/15 18:33:25) Calum Traveler: and what if they already know more of the Art than just that?
(07/15 18:33:30) Calum Traveler: if they start carving symbols willy nilly...
(07/15 18:33:36) Calum Traveler shakes his head abruptly
(07/15 18:33:45) Dni_seeker 5: Oh, Yahvo...
(07/15 18:33:46) Calum Traveler: You can see why Runa'mei went off already.
(07/15 18:34:12) Calum Traveler: this has... potentially drastic implications for everything.
(07/15 18:34:30) Calum Traveler: the Book of Atrus also mentioned there was a Gahrohevtee of some sort carved into one of the walls in Descent
(07/15 18:34:42) Dni_seeker 5: Okaaaay...
(07/15 18:34:44) Calum Traveler: we haven't come across it yet...
(07/15 18:35:00) Calum Traveler: but if the D'ni DID make a habit of carving Gahrohevtee in important places, that's...
(07/15 18:35:06) Calum Traveler: it's a concerning trend.
(07/15 18:35:16) Calum Traveler: and if it's a thing that actually does something-
(07/15 18:35:22) Calum Traveler: i know im just being paranoid
(07/15 18:35:23) Dni_seeker 5: IDEA: We can tell Doobes to find the Gahrohevtee and destroy it before these guys find them.
(07/15 18:35:45) Calum Traveler: that'd involve destroying every book ever
(07/15 18:35:52) Dni_seeker 5: No, the one on the Wall
(07/15 18:35:58) Dni_seeker 5: the Descent wall
(07/15 18:35:59) Calum Traveler: and if it's structurally important?
(07/15 18:36:09) Calum Traveler: who knows if it's even survived all these years
(07/15 18:36:14) Calum Traveler: there IS a wall that is basically... Gone.
(07/15 18:36:21) Dni_seeker 5: What happened to it?
(07/15 18:36:26) Calum Traveler: no clue
(07/15 18:37:01) Calum Traveler: frankly, I'm hoping Cyan will be polite and send us some documentation soon regarding this. anything they've discovered...
(07/15 18:37:06) Calum Traveler: but knowing them?
(07/15 18:37:12) Calum Traveler: we'll be in the dark until the new Riven releases
(07/15 18:37:16) Calum Traveler: if not the new Book of Atrus.
(07/15 18:37:28) Calum Traveler mumbles and hopes the pre-order he placed will actually ship sooner than later.
(07/15 18:37:48) Dni_seeker 5: I seriously hope that they don't include that symbol in the Riven remake.
(07/15 18:37:58) Calum Traveler: you'd be sorely disappointed already
(07/15 18:38:16) Calum Traveler: one of the screenshots Rand showed of the fissure area showed the plates stamped with the symbol.
(07/15 18:38:24) Calum Traveler: a bit excessively, imho,
(07/15 18:38:35) Calum Traveler: the plates we have by the telescope don't have them, at all.
(07/15 18:38:42) Calum Traveler: but it was a WIP shot, so who knows for sure.
(07/15 18:39:01) Calum Traveler: game dev is a tricky business even without real world implications
(07/15 18:39:21) Dni_seeker 5: I hope we don't find a huge crystal structure growing in the Cavern or in some Age or somewhere else
(07/15 18:39:48) Calum Traveler: atleast one that I didn't place, lol
(07/15 18:39:52) Dni_seeker 5: We don't know what these guys are up to.
(07/15 18:40:00) Dni_seeker 5: We don't even know who they ARE.
(07/15 18:40:03) Calum Traveler: mhm
(07/15 18:40:14) Calum Traveler: honestly, i'm more worried about people we do know.
(07/15 18:40:30) Calum Traveler: if some trolls decide to start carving Gahrohevtee at random...
(07/15 18:40:43) Calum Traveler: ...man, it's such a good thing those True Seeders disbanded before this happened.
(07/15 18:40:51) Calum Traveler: i don't wanna *think* about what could have happened there.
(07/15 18:41:10) Calum Traveler retrieves equipment...
(07/15 18:41:12) Dni_seeker 5: And we STILL don't know what happened to Tati or Tally...
(07/15 18:41:25) Calum Traveler: im sure we'll find out at the worst possible moment.
(07/15 18:41:35) Calum Traveler: alright, i gotta get going,
(07/15 18:41:39) Calum Traveler: dinner will be ready soon.
(07/15 18:41:50) Dni_seeker 5: Worst case scenario, they're working with the smugglers.
(07/15 18:41:58) Calum Traveler: i hope not.
(07/15 18:42:02) Calum Traveler: but knowing our luck...
(07/15 18:42:13) Calum Traveler shakes his head, then opens his relto book
(07/15 18:42:17) Calum Traveler: have a good night, DS5
(07/15 18:42:20) Dni_seeker 5: bye