back in the trenches
Or is that trenchers? Awesome, Kip. That's fantastic. I'm calling dibs on Laying the Foundations. Rollin. Yum, yum.

Stupid Tersa.
I’m totally bagging Spectral Flight A Simple Cup of Melos for my next move

fare well
Wow, didn't expect you to take her out. Wonder what becomes of my good old nemesis.

And, better late than never, I hope.

Tersa’s still kicking.
I was just referring to the fact that I&38217;d already written about her book which is on the same shelf as Spectral Flight and we&38217;re only supposed to do one book per shelf each.

As for Milos, well, he’s still kicking, too, so not “taken out” so much. Just—resting. In an undisclosed (for now) location.

literally I suppose?
I meant taken out of the picture here, not the more colorful use of that term, I suppose. Good, I'm glad Tersa isn't swimming with the fishes somewhere.

And, Laying the Foundations has now been written. Doesn't show up as new since it had already been created. Sorry for the shortness of the entry. But I'm glad to at least have something down.

Did somebody fix it so that L
Did somebody fix it so that LtF shows up? Is that what "edit as new" does? I thank you.

Well, better late than never
I finally settled on a book. I should have it written in a day or two.

Totally unreferenced, Conversations with Old Women, compiled by Circumsessor of Manu Tenere, with contributions by several of the mages of Manu Tenere and the students thereof. I'm not sure whether my reviewer is more interested in the frontice piece, or the actual text, we'll see.

Authored on.
I tweaked the “authored on” field to date it as the most recent. “Edit as new” creates a copy of the current node and lets you save it as a new node. You just have to adjust the path and title.

yay charles
Looking forward to it.

I'm dibsing ab esse for next week. My little scribe seems to be feeling ambitious.

Shelf 17.
I’ll take a blank book from one of Perdix’ shelves for my next.

ab esse is up. I'll just upda
ab esse is up. I'll just update the library listing & new phantoms tomorrow.

3b
I'm doing another brand newish book for next week. And I'll make up for not making any new phantoms by doing an extra new one or so.

The Unread Book.
I⁏d like to claim this one for my next.

L&T
I threw something up for Lucerna et Tintinnabulum. I think I know what you were angling for, Kip, so I of course totally ignored it.

I also probably did everything the wrong way, so feel free to fix whatever I've goofed.

3c.
That would be the next slot I’ve got my eye on.

next one
I'm in for 8e.

ack & question
I'm late this week. I'll get there.

By the way--was the picture of books just too much for the library node? Or did I nix that & just forget?

Pix nixed.
I think, since I don’t really have any idea which picture of books where, so I don’t think I ever saw it.

i think I know why
I needed to crop out a bit of it. so perhaps I just lost track.

5c.
Which, yes, might have a little something in it about dreamstuff.

4a
Looks like I'll just skip this week & start afresh.

Oh, cool!
He said, finally checking the slot number. I want to see how Jotham’s folly comes out.

following folly
That was a great one to work with. And it made for our first complete shelf! Woot!

I have a question about the one I want to do next. Is it conceivable that the Prince would have given the covenant an elaborately be-jeweled text with a religious bent? If so, would it makes sense for it to be First Year, or should I create a different one?

(yes, I'm tipping my hand, but I'd rather know than have to back up.)

phantoms
Some of the phantoms had gotten piled about in the library, which are now re-shelved.

The Prince and the Annus Unus
I could definitely see that happening.

Would you like me to finish writing up the calendrical cycle?

if you have time.
Thank you, Charles. Do you have any more to say about what the precis of the book means? Is it religious interpretations of writings from the books of lem?

Chains.
I suppose Jenn has the final say, since Gi is the librarian, but I don’t think we have to chain our books to the shelves. Though it might not hurt...

Book of Lem
Which books of Lem still haven't been written about and from what perspective is this Lexicon game? In other words who are the PoV characters?

Yay! he said, prematurely.
The library can be seen here. Every quick fact known about the books is entered in the table, and by noting the shelf location and searching for it (5c, for the third book on the fifth shelf, say), you can find all the other entries that reference that particular book for further details. Examining the shelves, you can see that the Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Red Book of Westmarch have not yet been written, and that the Orange Book isn’t even placed on the shelves yet, though there’s plenty of empty slots left to fit it in. (Sonata almost certainly brought a copy. Right?) —In addition, there’s the Blank Book With Commentary, Annus Unus (which Emily’s claimed), Lost in the Woods (a Lemmish text on muto), Circli et nimbi (Lemmish theory for non-Lemmites), a Lemmish text on ignem, and a Lemmish text on herbam.

The POV characters are clerks at other libraries, usually, noting down facts about individual manuscripts in their collections which happen to match books in the Nemus Animæ library, and providing some greater context here and there. So I’m writing as Antrum’s Censor, Charles is a Purpurean scholar, and Emily’s at Annalum’s central library. We don’t have anyone at Bethelion (which it’s been established has multiple specialty libraries), Lapidis (which would have a big if square library), nor do we have anyone representing whatever passes for the central Lemmish covenant(s) these days, which doubtless try to maintain definitive libraries of their own. Not to throw suggestions at you or anything. (Yay!)

Not a purpurean
Actually, I am playing (or would be if I were writing anything) a Circulan, not a Purpurean.

Are we past half-way yet?
Are we past half-way yet?

please do some lem
I think I've been hoping Charles would have some time to get to the books of Lem. If you were inspired to write some Matt, that would be great. I find them intimidating.

Lem the Lexicon
I find them intimidating too!

I think the best way to do the books of Lem satisfyingly would be to do them as a second lexicon game (after we finish Nimus Animae), doing excerpts from the books of Lem. The excerpts I've done so far were a lot of fun, but trying to do an entry for an entire book seems daunting.

Which in no way is intended to discourage Matt from doing one!

Ooh!
I like this idea.

great idea!
That would be neat.

I was just thinking today, too, that I'll be sad when I finish this lexicon game, 'cause I'll be less involved in your games.

any suggestions?
I've been debating who at Annalum is my scholar. It's not Caleth or Yva. Perhaps Victoria? (That would explain her rabid anti-diabolism etc. Or C122 or C128?

Or a Procopian.
And so not listed at all. I was assuming my first Censor was a Procopian, replaced by a junior mage when they went all, y’know, enthusiastic.

The current score.
Assuming 4 full players and 18 books each, we were to write up 72 books out of 90 slots; we’ve written up 32. So almost but not quite.

That’s me and Emily with 12, Charles with 5, Dylan with 2, and Barry with 1.

dibs on 8d
for next week.

back to the books?
I'm ready to resume the lexicon game now that our technical difficulties have been cured. (Thanks Sarah!) But perhaps we should wait until after the holidays?

I'll probably do another book
I'll probably do another book before the holidays, just to kill late-shift time at work.

I'm in then.
Glad to hear it, Dylan. May I just say how much you rock? Lots! Diggin' your monkey mojo.

Kip & Jenn, are you traveling?

No, just sleepy.
I’m tinkering with Notes on Triggers, myself.

Glad you like it. :) Anythi
Glad you like it. :) Anything in the name of making imaginary people miserable.

oh, crumbs---my dear, have yo
oh, crumbs---my dear, have you done any work on Mare Argentum? Because I forgot you had dibs on it, and wrote the damn thing.

:)
Actually, I mainly wanted to do it because I found the perfect picture of the text. Mind if I add that?

go crazy!
go crazy!