Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Entry 38 - Jalak

Back home again, so I got to spend some more time in cavern yesterday. What has really helped this week has been Tayma's Bevin's message board. It's been great to keep in touch even when I don't have the ability to be in Uru.

Anyway, played a little catch-up. Went to Teledahn to pick up a tie dye t-shirt that I seemed to have missed when it appeared over a month ago. A number of people were on-line, so I also spent some time hanging out and catching up, which was nice.

The new Age that has come in since last time has been Jalak. There's no puzzle here really. It consists of a grid of pillars that you have the ability to raise and lower. You can also create a number of different, geometric shapes that you can then push around. A journal book in the Ae'gura Library, beside where the linking book is found, gives a couple of simple games that you can play here, but in reality, this is more of a sandbox age, allowing players to mess around and create their own games.

Jalak

Though, to be honest, if they wanted to make me happy with a game, just put a chess set in every Bevin. Not very D'ni, I know, but it sure would be something I would enjoy. Quite frankly, If the Relto really was my home, one of the first things I would bring there from the surface was a chess set, so perhaps the idea isn't that far fetched after all.

An interesting thing did happen on the story front last week a couple of days after I left. Phil Henderson returned. He disappeared a few years ago, the story can be read in Sharper's journal. I read the chat log of him in the city and he was very cryptic about things. The most interesting thing that happened was Sharper showing up, much humbler now, admitting that it appears he shot a good Bahro by mistake when it jumped in front of him shooting at one of the evil Bahro.

It will be interesting to see where this goes.

HC

No comments: