16.2 BOOKS
PERSONAL BOOKS AND BASIC SYNTAX ------------------------------- Books are created by bookbinders. If you own a book, you may write whatever you like, including records of your journeys in the land, notes about the flora and fauna you discover, poetry, or whatever you please. A personal book may only be written in by the owner of it. TITLE <book> <title> o Gives your book a title. BOOKMARK <book> PAGE <whatever> o Place the book's bookmark on whatever page you wish. Doing so will cause the READ and WRITE commands to operate on that page, if no specific page number is specified. READ <book> PAGE <whatever> o Read page <whatever> in <book>. If you omit the PAGE <whatever>, then it will read, by default, the page that the bookmark is on. SEAL/UNSEAL <book> o Sealing a book will prevent it from being copied or translated. WRITE <book> AT <desk> ON PAGE <page #> o You must be sitting on a chair in a room with a desk to write. If you omit the ON PAGE <whatever>, then it will write, by default, the page that the bookmark is on. NOTEPADS AND BASIC SYNTAX ------------------------------- WRITE NOTE [ON <notepad>] [ON PAGE <page>] <text> o Write on one of the 10 pages in a notepad without a desk. TEAR SHEET <page> FROM <notepad> o Remove one of the 10 pages from a notepad to give others. ORGANIZATIONAL BOOKS -------------------- Bookbinders may also also create organizational books, which only certain members of organizations can write upon, as follows: GUILDS - Guild members with Archivist privileges received via rank promotions or through a position appointed by the Leader. CITIES/COMMUNES - The Librarian or Assistant Librarians. CLANS - The clan leader or those who have been appointed a position that has 'Clan Recorder' rights. ORDERS - Those whom the patron god or goddess has invested the position of Chronicler of the Order. FAMILIES - All members of a family. TRANSLATED WRITINGS ------------------- Highly trained Bookbinders are also schooled to be the Scribes of the Basin. A professional scribe can translate books into various racial language (readable only by certain races), rewrite a book in enchanted script so that only members of a specific organization may read it, or even (at the highest level) translate a book into divine script which is only readable by the gods or those few Scribes who have mastered such a complex script. EDITORS AND EDITING ------------------- Syntax: EDITOR <book> <editor|NONE> As it is always hard to spot mistakes in your own work, writers can have an editor. An editor is someone assigned by a writer to go over their book and correct any mistakes the writer might have left. When you assign someone to be an editor for one of your written works, he or she will have the ability to write in your books. Assigning "none" will remove the editor. See HELP GREAT LIBRARIES, HELP CULTURE.
