ANNOUNCE NEWS #1693
Date: 12/30/2010 at 19:29
From: Estarra the Eternal
To : Everyone
Subj: Big Bookbinding Release!

A number of new Bookbinding skills have been released. See your local
bookbinder for details. Notable changes:

o Letters can no longer be requested from post offices. Buy them from
your local bookbinder, or from shops stocked by bookbinders. Letters can
only hold one item (but see below about a new skill for larger
packages). You also can no longer preserve letters.

o Bookbinders can now create stationery, which work just like letters,
but can be customized to any appearance desired. They also last longer
than letters.

o Artisan desks now halve the decay on letters and stationery stored
within them.

o Bookbinders can now create stamps, also called seals or chops, which
can be used to add an unforgeable signature to documents. Stamps can be
registered for either individuals or organizations (including cities,
communes, guilds, orders, clans, families, and cults), but note that
each one will require the purchase of an expensive Chop Certificate
(available for sale at the Hall of Records) to produce, so you will
probably only want to have one. Unlike other designed items, stamps
cannot be cartel-specific; instead, at the time of design, they are
linked to a sealholder, and that sealholder must be present when the
stamp is made. Documents can be stamped by up to six parties. Check with
your local bookbinder for the full details.

o Bookbinders now have four new Origami skills:

ActionOrigami: Can be used to deliver a single message and a single
object to someone; can be mailed.

ModularOrigami: A package that holds up to 25 items and preserves
them against decay when closed. Once closed, nothing
more can be added or removed. Perfect for the novice
starter kit, or mailing packages to people.

WetFoldOrigami: Offers an "origami charm" which benefits influencing
for one game day, then refreshes you.

Kirigami: Offers an "origami charm" which increases damage,
damage resistance, and criticals for one game day,
then refreshes you. You can only have one origami
charm at a time.

Note that all of these items (except Stamps) can be sold in shops.

Penned by My hand on the 14th of Kiani, in the year 285 CE.

question: seeing as chops are costly, do only bookbinders buy these or does anyone?

It may not be clear, but you buy the certificate and the bookbinder makes the seal. Note that the bookbinder will receive part of the cost of the certificate back from the Hall of Records!

So are chops artifacts (like a family seal) for a person, where they always have them to seal letters?

So are chops artifacts (like a family seal) for a person, where they always have them to seal letters?

Stationery doesn't have a help file, origamis besides action ones don't even have design patterns. Can't see to make any of it work.

BOOKBINDING - STAMP

Syntax: DESIGN SEALHOLDER PERSON
DESIGN SEALHOLDER ORG
DESIGN SEAL_TEXT

Stamps, also called chops or seals, are used to imprint a distinctive symbol on documents that uniquely identifies the sealholder. A chop cannot be easily forged, and thus, is traditionally used on contracts, treaties, and other sensitive documents. Stamps can be associated with an individual or an organization such as a guild, city, commune, order, cult, clan, or family. Stamps associated with an organization can be used by the organization's leaders. Family seals are traditional passed on from parent to child when they become the family head.

Creating Stamp Designs:

Stamp designs are created by trademasters the same way as other designs. However, stamp designs cannot be limited to cartels and must only be public. Every stamp design has to be associated with a particular sealholder as follows:

DESIGN SEALHOLDER PERSON
DESIGN SEALHOLDER ORG

Stamp designs have an additional field called Seal_Text:

DESIGN SEAL_TEXT

This describes the appearance of the seal, or chop, which the stamp will imprint. The seal does not need to describe the person or organization directly (this will automatically be displayed).

Finally, submitting a stamp design requires a Chop Certificate, which can be purchased at the Hall of Records. There are separate Chop Certificates for personal and organizational stamps. Chop Certificates are quite expensive, because a single person or organization should not have many stamps (usually only one). The bookbinder will get part of the cost of the certificate back when the design is submitted.

Creating The Stamp:

Syntax: BOOKBIND STAMP

Bookbinders can only create a stamp in the presence of the sealholder (in the case of an organization, one of its leaders). The stamp will be delivered directly into the sealholder's hand.

Using The Stamp:

Syntax: STAMP WITH
Cost: 1 redtint

Only a sealholder may use a stamp. Only letters, stationery, and scrolls may be stamped, and each document can have up to six stamps. The document will reveal the chop when read or probed.