WIP! More details to follow
Scrolls, Parchment, Feather, and You!
To begin writing or taking notes for your superiors, you must use a quill (feather) on either a parchment or scroll. There are differences between the two, but for the purposes of taking notes either are sufficient. Be aware that after finalizing your writing, there is no way to erase what has been written! Ink is final, after all.
Max character capacity for scrolls and letters is 1953
Making more scrolls is a simple matter, and only requires the following:
1 Small Log + 50u Water, Drying Rack, and Knife
Drying rack itself can be made from 3 sticks
Note: If you lack feather, a thorn can be used to write as well!
Tomes of the Archivist
If you are an archivist, you have access to every tome and book written that has been placed into the bookshelves by archivists prior. Should you wish to write a piece of knowledge or record history in the making yourself, you can find a "Book Crafting Kit" randomly within the bookshelves. Once finished with your masterpiece, simply place it back in the shelf to leave it for future knowledge seekers!
So You're a Fastidious Gate Guard...
Congratulations, travelers coming and going hate you! In all seriousness, a gate guard taking proper notes and issuing passports can be a great RP hook and cause entertainment for an otherwise boring shift. Be sure to issue scrolls to important dignitaries who pass often, and parchment for the less esteemed. If someone is entering without a passport, then they either have someone to vouch for entry and are made one or should be denied (or extorted for coin!)
This is doubly true for the bog gates, as remembering faces for tolling purposes can be dubious at best. Issuing some form or receipt at the very least, while time consuming, can make things more interesting.
But I Can't Read!
I'm going to give you forbidden knowledge the royalty doesn't want you to know.
You can learn to read, quite easily at that. Here's how:
- Gather and build a training dummy
- Acquire a book of some kind
- Smack the dummy with the book
- You'll get a message saying you understand reading more!
Note: May need to sleep to skill it up, not tested...
Don't let the nobility hold literacy over your head, you poor wretched thing, read and write to your hearts content!
Misc. section.
Lacking space where to put the quill?; Don't worry, for the non-combat worried writer, it is as simple as putting it behind the ear (onto the headslot) if that isn't ones thing, putting it on the mouth might work just fine, (will gag speech and muffle noises fully while getting spat out during movement in most cases)
The max a scroll and parchment can take is 1953 symbols. (write it all at once to get the maximum effect and avoid using shift + enter if you want all those symbols, letters, numbers rammed in)
Scrolls can be opened by right-clicking them, with the main hand holding them, the one not holding them, or just on melee range in general.
Rolled/folded scrolls can be held on either hip. (slot)
Books, scrolls and parchments can be read by examining and pressing read in the chatbox to the right.
The following are all the commands in the realm of writing.
You can use backslash (\) to escape special characters.
# text: Defines a header.
|text|: Centers the text.
**text**: Makes the text bold.
*text*: Makes the text italic.
^text^: Increases the size of the text.
%s: Inserts a signature of your name in a foolproof way.
%f: Inserts an invisible field which lets you start type from there. Useful for forms.
((text)): Decreases the size of the text.
* item: An unordered list item.
* item: An unordered list child item.
---: Adds a horizontal rule.