Beneath

Headed into Ae’gura on Monday, I have been doing some simple studies on D’ni architecture for future Age restoration & development projects. As we were routing through the museum we discovered a portrait of King Ri’neref.
We couldn’t locate any documentation on who it was painted by, it had some minor damage to the frame and canvas, and some of the paint hadn’t Aged as well as later paintings we have found (perhaps paint mixtures improved as time went on).
I had it moved over to the room above the D’ni Jazz Club Pub that I have been using as a makeshift office for now so that I could work on improving the quality of it somewhat.

Finished up the work late lastnight, took a while for it to dry out (some area’s still need drying), but for the most part it’s almost ready to hang, not sure whether to put it up in the museum to replace the broken painting there or store it for hanging elsewhere.

It’s a shame the DRC didn’t release more information about D’ni art.

Delayed my trip back down by a day seeming we had a lot of stuff to move on the surface.

First thing I did upon arriving in Tehren was to stop by Tochoortahv and see how the work was progressing. I must admit I was astonished in what had happened in a few days, the room is completely finished. We still have a few things to bring in, all the documentation we have is being assembled and is almost ready to go, Sophie’s had some issues with the imager which has delayed it slightly. But the 3 Ages; Tailehn, Orth and Artas are ready and waiting for the Book pedestals to be brought into the Age so they can be placed upon them.

Finally got around to adding a project page for the Age yesterday which can be found here: Tochoortahv Project Page

I think the Age is almost ready for Phase 5, might hand out a few links to some folks in the Cavern like Whil and all, before initiating a wider release.

Will have to have a meeting with the others before doing that, see if they’d rather everything be in place before limited release or to hand out books as it is currently.

Returned to the surface earlier this week, we’ve been working on moving house and after things being dragged out we finally got the house and have been working at moving in whilst the kids are away.

Will be taking a quick trip back down to the Cavern tomorrow to just check over some of the projects that are in the works.

Hopefully by the weekend most of the moving will be done and I can return to the cavern for an extended time period.

More and more explorers are turning to The Art, hoping to craft their own Linking Books, others are looking for the resources to learn how to Write.

It’s a long process, even more so for those who had to scour the ruins of D’ni looking for information, piecing together fragments of documents and, at times, just guessing what certain Garohevtee do.

It’s a topic that comes up frequently in the TTP meetings. It was in one of these meetings that Keira raised an interesting concept, a location with documentation and help for learning how to Write. She suggested a place where people could come and find documents on how to start out with Age writing, guiding them through what we know (sketchy at best) about the Garohevtee, there they could see examples or lesson Ages.
Sophie suggested perhaps having recordings there that people could watch and listen to that could also help explain the concepts listed in the documents.

An excellent idea.

We spent the afternoon discussing it, it would only need to be a small location. It was an unamanous vote, all 5 of us wanted to go ahead with it so Keira and Sophie have set up preparations for the project to go ahead.