Help Finding An Ingame Book

[Dolurg 0]

Hello everyone,

 

I have a question that thought would be appropriate to ask here, as it deals with the creation of my first application. As part of my orcish character's backstory, the finding and keeping of a certain old book plays a significant role and is responsible indirecly for many changes in my characters behaviour. My problem is that I can't find it anywhere.

 

The book is called "The Memoirs of King Belin" or "The Memoirs of King Belin Irongut" as far as I remember. During the world of Aegis when Belin was stepping down from rule, I was a wandering soul and followed him around for a while as he passed out these books and formerly handed over rule of the dwarves. I thought it would be interesting to incude an older peice of Aegis history in my character's bio, but unfortunalty the work is nowhere to be found.

 

So far I have downloaded the Aegis map as well as Anthos and scoured the map for any OOC links posted in libraries to book caches. I found a couple, but none had the book I was looking for. Books also don't seem to be saved in the world download, so the easy way for me to find it was gone. I also looked at Belin's (skinner452) forum account in the hope of PMing him, but he seems to have stopped playing as the last time he logged in was around two years ago.

 

So I was wondering; does anyone happen to have a copy or know of where a copy of this book is? If I can't find one, I can always make it so my character 'loses' his ingame copy in his bio, but it would be neat if he could actually have a real book he carries that was one of the first things I remember from when I first found LOTC.

 

Thank you very much for any help!

[TavernLich 324]

First of all, I think all items including books are lost in map changes, however some keep copies of it through their computer or etc. Also you can try asking for the book(s) IC in the roleplay section, like putting an advertisement or something, though I doubt it's going to be easy, I mean there are people who have copies of books, but one from Aegis would be extremely hard to find, if not impossible. This is what I would do, hope this helps!

 

P.S. There are a few book stores/ libraries around the Thales, you might have some luck looking through there!

[monkeypoacher 8055]

I searched my personal LoTC library (the nolifing is real) and didn't find it. Good luck!

[Elindor 666]

Older maps used text based plugins to store books. That information is saved in a separate bookworm file. There are a few people that have these bookworm files that contain all the books written in text format.

[Lawrna 440]

Seeing that it's about Dwarves, I would suggest asking greener or maybe even AegisLima.

[Samson Option 9652]

HeeroZero possesses the bookworm file for Aegis.

[Dolurg 0]

Thanks alot everyone for the responses and help!

 

I sent a PM to HeeroZero on your advice Saracen, and If he does not have it, I will follow your suggestion Eenhoornheid. I will let you guys know if they are able to recover it.
 

[Katherine1 362]

I have access to the books that were in the Aegis Druid's Grove library and a file containing most/all of the books stored before leaving the Fringe. I can not find this book in that stuff. It is possible no one in game has the book anymore, and the Druids never got a copy in Aegis. If HeroZeero has the file containing all Aegis books, then he is the person to ask.

[Dolurg 0]

I found the book! HeroZeero had a copy and he sent it to me when I PM'ed him. Thanks again everyone for helping me out!

 

Now I am going to think a little on how to bring it into the game. The book was shorter than I expected (298 words) so I might treat it as if the book had some blank pages after the main memoirs, and the new owner added a little text of their own. Or maybe I will see if King Belin wrote any other books, then consolidate them into "The Writings of King Belin" or something. Whatever it is, I will try to make it interesting and lore-accurate so it becomes a good tool for creating rp in-game.