6.18.1 Journals, Manuscripts, and Parchment Scrolls
Personal journals, manuscripts, and parchment scrolls are book-like things in
which you may record whatever you like. They may be purchased at many markets
throughout the land.
** Manuscripts are far more expensive and differ from journals in ways to
be noted below.
** WARNING! Only the person who purchases a journal may write in it! **
Journals are designed for you to record your journeys in the land, keep notes
in, compose poetry, and generally write whatever you please. A journal may only
be written in by the owner of it, though it may be read by anyone.
Manuscripts
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Manuscripts fulfill a similar function, but have this added feature - anybody
may write in a manuscript.
It is also possible for the leaders of organisations to claim a manuscript
so that only members of that org may edit the manuscript.
Those with the ability to claim manuscripts for organisations are: city council
members, House leaders, Oakstone hierophants, OR10s in divine orders, and heads
of clans. You must have the manuscript in your inventory in
order to claim it.
Syntax: CLAIM MANUSCRIPT <manuscript#> FOR <org name>
Journals and manuscripts have 50 pages upon which to write. Each page
can hold a limited (though still fairly large) amount of text.
Commands: ('journal' also applies to 'manuscript' and 'parchment' as well)
TITLE <journal> <title> : Gives your journal/manuscript/parchment
a title.
BOOKMARK <journal> PAGE <#> : Place the journal's or manuscript's bookmark
(not parchment, which has only 1 page anyway)
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 <journal> PAGE <#> : Read page <#> in the journal, manuscript, or
parchment. If you omit the PAGE <#>, then it
will read the page that the bookmark is on.
WRITE <journal> PAGE <#> : Write page <#> in journal, manuscript, or
parchment. If you omit the PAGE <#>, then it
will write the page that the bookmark is on.
WRITE <document> PAGE <#> IN <language> : Write in a document in a specific
language.
TRANSLATE <document> TO <language> : Translate a document from one language
to another that you know.
CONFIG JOURNALDATE ON|OFF : Will enable or disable the automatic insertion
of the current date at the top of your journal
page. (Journals only)
(when editing, the way to finish is to use *save (or *quit). The various
editing commands are described by entering *help in the 'composer,' which
we copy down for you here:
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Main Help
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This is the main help screen. All commands are entered on the
beginning of a new line and are preceded by a '*'. (e.g. *quit on
a line by itself)
Currently, there are the following commands :
*help, *quit, *save, *more, *echo, *clear, *line,
*insertline, *deleteline, *overwrite, *insert, *replace
For more information on a particular command type *help <command>.
(e.g. *help *quit) on a line by itself.
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