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Portius · Likes big books, cannot lie

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  • Chi-own

    Reasoning: Xyl turned into the lucidians, so I'm assuming that anything he made and named will follow the same pronunciation as the lucidian language. Since as far as I can tell Lucidian is basically Greek,  I say it like I would …
  • I always took all of those to be attached articles, such that the correct form would be "is n'Kylbar." My mind is blown.
  • Do the snowmen/icelords on Frostician and the peeps/gingerbread dudes on Crumkindivia count as fae for the purposes of design commodities?
  • I'd like to throw some congratulations @Salome and Glom in general for their bumper crop of books. Keep it up.
  • I have turned the mass production of marginally over 1k word long narrative poems into an art form, and I would really like for that skill to become obsolete. Please switch over to a formula from the brackets.

    EDIT: I want to make it clea…
  • You people should recommend your favorite downloadable campaigns for Shadowrun Returns.
  • I do feel like flexing into foreign monk guilds for Hallifax and Gaudiguch is a special case and less objectionable than other cross-org flexing, since we can't natively access that otherwise universal archetype. This position would change as soon a…
  • That awkward moment when they make you culture minister just to have someone to submit prestige for the year, leading you to believe that you need one now, you produce one as fast as you can....

    and only when you go to submit do you learn…
  • You could do a bulk discount for buying multiple cuttlefish. I probably wouldn't get one this time around, but next time there's a goop with credit conversion promo I'd be all over it.

    Flask of something clever-CHUG FLASK X to get your ch…
  • I just want gun kata and a compelling colonization system of some kind. Give me those things and no mud in the world will ever be able to compete with it for my attention.
  • I'm wondering if @Kalnid or @Nymerya got one too, since it looks like their …
  • Dear unknown administrator:

    Prestige comments that involve dropping actual lore context on me are the best.

    Also you write entertaining letter intros. And having a name to put to a divine scholar is the nice.
  • (The Bureau of Library Affairs): Zitto says, "Really, my ideal role in foreign policy is to stand around in the Glomdoring, winking at shadowskanks."

  • (Quote) Sort of. You could write a book about doing it and put it through the library system, or record a lecture about doing it on the stage. It's not strictly canonical at that point, but as long as you don't contradict things that are canonical…
  • Alright, serious answer time:

    I'm going to say that we don't, or at least not robots that are useful for manual labor. I cannot think of any canonical references to robots of any kind, and I figure if we did have them they'd make the serv…
  • This clipboard might be the greatest artifact ever made.
  • On the customization thing: Customizing aethership modules would be cool.

    I like customizations.
  • @Lavinya, when in doubt, issue it. I do that liberally for library things that seem questionable. My intuition is that it would be fine, but that is something tha…
  • If @Estarra is open to looking into new customizations, then custom ikons would make me very happy. Make them eternals that have to copy a statline from an existi…
  • I'm not the only one! I'd be shocked if I didn't get the most out of it, but there are other beneficiaries who can can reveal themselves or not as they please.

    EDIT: I do feel like I should point out that the supplemental guild credits a…
  • For the sake of full information in this surprisingly long discussions, I present a brief history of Hallifax's library credits, from the point where I became librarian onward:

    This is what it was when I started.

    1,000-2,499 wo…
  • (Quote)
    I am skeptical of this claim. I see it bounced around a lot, but I'm not convinced that it holds up. I have had people in Hallifax admit to me that they write primarily for the credits and cityfavor. I have put out 80 something books…
  • I was fiddling with getting quotes to work and addressing different parts of posts to different people and derping all the while. I just kinda of threw up my arms and deleted all of my fancy formatting and direction.

    I also note that the …
  • I do feel the need to clarify that I'm only referring to Gaudi's library rewards when I say that they're awful. Their stage rewards are competitive with everywhere else that I've seen.
  • Write more, @Annick.

    Now, I'm going to through out advice based on my personal experience alting in Gaudi and trying to be a culture person. Library stu…
  • (Quote) You know, Hallifax recently doubled its library rewards purely because Magnagora paid more than us in one wordcount bracket. If you're going to make a habit of doing culture things (you should) then you should consider a move to Hallifax. …
  • (Quote) True fact: Gaudiguch's terrible culture payments are the reason my alt there withered and died. Portius gots to buy his artifact vials and lessons somehow.

    Come to Hallifax, the librarian wrote the library's payment system to se…
  • You started it, @Zitto

    (You know the place): Zitto (from the Prime Material Plane) says, "Portius, you're rich, right?"

    (It's the same clan as…
  • Gnomish Urchin:

    Adds a person to your family for the purpose of determining great house. This helps make up for the low population compared to the number of people required to be a great house. Does not contribute any honor, does contribu…