Yes! We finally have confirmation on our theory.

A few weeks ago, Nadnerb and I were contemplating the similarity in day lengths between Negilahn and Dereno: their days are exactly the same length. The only thing that I could think of that would explain this would be if we were using Linking Books to link to different pods on the same planet.

Well, according to this map that Cate Alexander left in the city, that theory was right! :)

The Cavern Today has a copy of the; map loaded on their forum: link

I had signed up to view this from the GameBoomer’s Bevin, which I did. It was quite neat. The marchers lined up, Rand and Greydragon Linked in, led the route through the hood, and linked out again. At the top count, I think there were 75 people in one Bevin, possibly 85 in the finish line hood, “St Pat’s Day Parade Committe” :P It was surprisingly playable, and leaves me to wonder what’s wrong with the city and it’s darn lag… What follows is a large selection of images, which I took during the festivities.

The first set from Gameboomers. Don’t forget the alt text. ;)

The second set, from the parade Bevin.

I’ve recently been amusing myself by doing some weird things with my alternate avatars. I’m currently attempting to complete the journeys without going to the cleft with Nah’dneb, who eventually intends to join the not yet created Ahyoheek guild hood to fulfill his lifelong dream of playing heek a lot. :P The others are just parading through my hood for the hell of it.

Along the way, I’ve noticed a few things that escaped me the other 30 times I completed the journeys. (Understandable, as most of them, I was in a bit of a rush.. :P ) Mostly in Teledahn. The story depth of Teledahn makes it a great age, and you can see the threads of the original story that never got played out in uru, but got pushed to Myst 5 while Cyan was gasping for its last breath. For instance, how many people remember that the bahro are afraid of hanging rocks? That happens to be the reason that the Gahreesen prison stone is where it is. ;) On a more recent note, were there always a lot of bahro noises in Teledahn? That place seems to have acquired an invisible, yet very loud, bahro infestation…

Judging by the reports on the various forums, I would have to say that things between these two are less than chummy. I am, myself, unsure as to Sharper’s intentions towards the Cavern, but I am content to let time tell its own story there.

I do hope, however, that we don’t have too many more Vormaen’s around, ready to make a big scene about Sharper’s return. (If you give a mouse a cookie…)

Anyhow, it would appear that the heek tables are still broken. I do hope that they get this fixed soon.

I should have written this down the other day, but I was so excited that I completely forgot. I went on a trip to Negilahn with Nadnerb a few days back that was, surprisingly, eventful.

I think Nad’s been trying to guess a time when the wildlife happen on by the pod in that Age, though to what level of success he’s had, I could not guess; he spends a lot more time down in the Cavern than I can these days.

Well, as it turned out, he hit this one bang on. It wasn’t all that long before [an] Urwin happened by! I will print off the KI shot that I got of it out one of the other windows after the first pass, and add it to this entry later.

After it was all done, we took a trip back down to D’ni Ae’gura and the museum there to look up the thing on the wildlife chart. Let me just say that, that thing was huge!

I must run, but if I get a chance I will add more later.