Parable Myst On Line, ¿El misterio resuelto? Outline · [ Standard ] · Linear+

[cosmodelia]

Este es el mensaje rescatado que se perdió en el ciberespacio al tratar de introducirlo anteriormente en esta sección, que por fortuna parece reparada gracias al ingeniero Coolwind.

Se trata de un aparentemente inocente post del DRC site, interceptado por estos observadores el día 5 de octubre, y que sirve de bienvenida a los nuevos exploradores.
Sostenemos que en clave están incluidas las características y estadio de desarrollo de Parable, más conocido como Myst On Line.

Proponemos que en este topic el Consejo de Exploradores, Ingenieros e Historiadores de esD'ni den comienzo a descifrar este texto:

SYNOPSIS FOR NEW MEMBERS

D’ni Restoration Council (DRC) [formed in 1997]:
* Dr. Richard A. Watson – Chair (Member #38)

Known also as RAWA (Member #36 – Restoration Engineer) at Cyan
First trip to D’ni in 1990
Joined Cyan in 1992
* Dr. Marie Sutherland – DRC Member (Member #72)

Director of Field Work
* Dr. Ikuro Kodama – DRC Member (Member #73)

Dr. in Geology & Bachelor in M.E. Technology
Oversees Phase Two approval of all new areas & structures
* Victor Laxman – DRC Member (Member #71)

KI consumes most of his time
* Michael Engberg – DRC Member (Member #74)

Worked on Teledahn with Douglas Sharper
Now overseeing two "newer ages" (6/17/02)
Phases of Exploration:
* Phase 1 – Initial Mapping
* Phase 2 – Structural Analysis
* Phase 3 – Detailed Analysis
* Phase 4 – Restoration

"I foresee this splitting into two phases at some point": Dr. Watson, May 7, 2002
* Phase 5 – Final pass before approval for Explorers to visit

Key people we have met:
* All members of the DRC and:
* Nikto/”reseng0205” – Restoration Engineer (#11)
* D'gr – Board Admin. (#15) [she]
* IMForeman - Authorized Explorer (#140)

Places of interest:
* Ae'Gura Island :

Referred to as "the city."
The City on the cavern wall is then referred to as "the City Proper."
In 1999, a major expedition brought needed machinery and tools to City.
Restoration is started in 2000 on The Island (Ae’Gura).
Dr. Watson (#38) is working on Ae’Gura Island.
On 3/12/02, a courtyard structure fell, resulting in indefinite restricted access.
A large portion of Ae’gura will be opened to authorized explorers in the near future even though many areas are damaged and being repaired. (8/27/02)
* D’ni neighborhoods :

Were small self-contained community areas on the fringe of the City Proper.
Many of these were fairly well preserved during the destruction.
These were some of the first areas restored and made available to authorized explorers.
In August 2001, D’ni neighborhoods are discovered.
Neighborhood restoration is started in October of 2001.
In January 2002, the DRC celebrated 5 year anniversary with opening of neighborhood.
See also Bevin neighborhood , and Seret neighborhood .
* Bevin neighborhood :

Bevin neighborhood received final approval from the DRC and was the first neighborhood opened to a group from the surface (3/19/02).
Robyn Miller was given tour of Bevin on 3/25/02.
Ahyoheek gaming board is located in Bevin.
Restoration of Bevin neighborhood continued (3/29/02).
KI snapshot of Bevin released (taken 5/3/02).
Attendees at the Mysterium gathering in Philadelphia were given tour of Bevin via remote live feed on 7/20/02.
* Seret neighborhood :

A KI snapshot of the Seret neighborhood balcony (with Dr. Watson and Rand?) was released (taken on 8/14/02).
* The Cove :

Cove restoration efforts mentioned by DRC (4/25/02).
Approved for Phase 2 status (passed Phase 1 review) (5/20/02).
* Eder Kemo [Also known as the Bevin Garden Age] :

Book was previously found in the Bevin Neighborhood.
Completed Phase 5 (5/29/02)
This small area was the first Age available to authorized explorers (5/29/02).
Attendees at the Mysterium gathering in Philadelphia were given tour of the Garden Age via remote live feed on 7/20/02.
Phil Henderson, one of the people working for Dr. Sutherland, found a way to get through a door in Eder Kemo which the DRC had never been able to open. Phil indicated (in a KI message) that he had “found a way” and that he was not coming back.
* Industrial Complex :

Found (about 4/5/02) on the south side of the cavern.
Will undergo Phase 1 shortly (as of 4/29/02).
Three interiors received Phase 1 approval on 5/13/02
Industrial Complex is still under Phase 2 status (6/17/02)
* KI Annex :

Referred to by Victor Laxman as “ KI host sight annex area” (4/17/02).
Received approval to begin Phase 3 (5/29/02).
* Teledahn :

Douglas Sharper (not a DRC member) was responsible for cleanup.
The linking book for Teledahn was found by Douglas Sharper.
As of 4/22, hoping for Phase 4 completion approval (& thus enter Phase 5).
Did not receive Phase 4 approval on 4/29.
Michael Engberg and Douglas Sharper worked to get ready for another Phase 4 review.
Teledahn approved for Phase 5 status (5/20/02).
Officially completed Phase 5 on 6/14/02 (Douglas Sharper and restoration engineers worked hard to get Teledahn to this point).
Age is now (6/17/02) open to authorized explorers.
* Tokotah Building :

All weekly meetings of the DRC are held in the Tokotah Building.
Looking for Phase 2 approval in about 3 weeks (5/22/02).
Second floor will have Phase 2 review June 8/9 weekend.
Headquarters will move to second floor after Phase 5 completion.
Second floor received Phase 2 approval (6/17/02), now in Phase three.
* Other Ages:
+ Two "new Ages":

They have received Phase 3 approval, so are now in Phase 4 (6/17/02).
The two "newer Ages" are now being overseen by Michael Engberg (#74) (6/17/02).
+ A "new Age":

Book recently discovered in the industrial area (6/21/02).
It has been added to the restoration schedule (6/21/02).
The initial "maintainer trip" to the newest Age on 7/22/02 showed that it will have much to offer.
+ Two Books:

Two Book were found in one of the neighborhoods and have been added to the list of Books scheduled for preliminary evaluation (8/15/02).
+ Rebek:

Scheduled for a Phase 2 review on 7/9/02.
It did not pass the Phase 2 review because of environmental hazards (7/11/02).
The DRC voted to discontinue restoration for now in order to focus effort on ages with less risk to the restoration teams (7/11/02).
“The environment is a large space with some unusual gravitational/magnetic anomalies. We don’t consider it a safe place to be spending a lot of time at the moment. . . . ..”: Dr. Watson – 8/9/02 11:23 AM.

Concepts/Observations:
* How D’ni is reached from the Earth surface is a DRC secret.
* No Myst linking books have yet been found.
* Insects have been seen in D’ni (currently).
* Fish have been seen in D'ni (currently).
* No D’ni natives have been found.
* Intra-age linking is not "possible".

Key words, acronyms, etc.:
* Ahyoheek = A gaming board (currently in Bevin)
* BoA = Book of Atrus
* BoD = Book of D’ni
* BoT = Book of Tiana
* D’ni Desk Reference = D’ni Reference Desk = www.dnidesk.com .
* Dougm = Doug McBride
* DRF = (Only conjecture on what this acronym stands for)
* Firemarbles = D'ni light source
* IMF = IMForeman Authorized Explorer (#140)
* Kerath’s Arch = A huge arch made of stone which forms the entrance to the harbor (of the City Proper?).

Atrus described it as made of undecorated blocks, each the size of a great mansion, the whole thing was ten blocks tall, and its entrance so big that you could quite easily have passed even the largest of the islands through it.
"All the D'ni kings sailed through the arch," Gehn said. "They would be sent to the southlands to be tutored in the arts of kingship, . . ..” (BoA 103)
A sketch of the Arch appears on page 104 of BoA.
It was undamaged in the Fall of D’ni per Atrus’ observations (BoA 103).
The DRC logo is believed to be based on a stylized representation of the Arch of Kerath.
* KI = Inter-age & intra-age communications system

The device is called a “KI” because of the D’ni numeral for “3” on the device which looks like the English letters “K” “I”.
Pronounced “key” or “kee”. Plural: “keys”.
The D’ni name for Arabic number 3 is Sehn (per Dr KI Lord)
First found on Feb. 6, 2002
Contains brilliant display technology – small hand-worn device projects full-field display when held toward eyes.
Maintainers made regular use of the KI technology, but it was evidently on the verge of being available to the D’ni elite.
Victor Laxman is developing KI technology.
As of June 7: Inter-Age functionality, as well as photo capabilities, are being finalized (C-Class KI with software version 0.89).
Numerous updates have been made to the C-Class KIs, including instant communication between maintainer defined age zones (8/27/02).
Sound capture tests are scheduled (8/27/02).
* Maintainers = Members of the D'ni Guild of Maintainers

They regularly inspected the Ages for stability and safety as part of their duties.
* MT Book system
Cavern MT links were adapted to be used in conjunction with the KI.
Used to get around efficiently.
A KI must be registered at a particular MT link in order to have it show up as a destination in the Nexus.
* Nexus: Used in conjunction with MT Book system.

The processes and mechanisms in the Nexus are definitely KI related.
As of Oct. 3, Dr. Watson expressed concerns over the “oddities of the Nexus”.
* OOC = Out of Cavern = Out of Character
* OT = Off Topic
* Powermarbles = D’ni power source

Seem to be related to firemarbles, but release energy faster and burn out quicker.
The D'ni powered some remarkable equipment with them.
* Shorah = peace (used for hello and goodbye)

Time keeping in D’ni:
* April 21, 2002 coincided with the start of D’ni year 9658
* Hahr: Roughly equivalent to one earth year
* Vai-lee: Similar to Earth "month". There are 10 vai-lee-tee per hahr.
* Yahr: Similar to "day".

There are 290 yahr-tee per hahr.
A yahr therefore lasts ~30 hours and 14 minutes
A yahr lasts ~1.26 Earth surface days
Before the fall of D'ni, the light producing lake algae had an on-off-on cycle of one yahr.
* Gahr-tah-vo: ~6 hours and 3 minutes of Earth surface time.
* Tah-vo: ~14.5 minutes of Earth surface time.
* Gor-ahn: ~36 seconds of Earth surface time.
* Pro-rahn: ~1.5 seconds of Earth surface time.
* "-tee" is added at the end of a word in the D'ni language to denote the plural.
* See D'ni Essentials for more detail.
* Go to http://sirrus.cyan.com/Online/D%27ni/Time for more complete discussion of D'ni timekeeping.

Much thanks to D'gr (#15), Scraper (#364), phgreer (#133), Dr KI Lord (#214), and Odysseus (#664) for their help in upgrading content of the original post.
DrJ (#626) (October 5, 2002)

Texto interceptado en:

http://cho.cyan.com/cgi-bin/pubdrc-cgi/ult...c;f=10;t=000001

[CoolWind]

Desde luego... si así pretenden conseguir nuevos fans... Mirad aquí, mirad allá... qué les costaría -redactar- algún tipo de introducción para nuevos miembros ?
Espero que para Parable esto mejore, porqué si no... no conseguirán sus objetivos (CW versión crítico )

Nota a cosmodelia : he trasladado este post al foro correcto, ahora ya funciona perfectamente, no tengáis miedo de postear aquí, de verdad.

[cosmodelia]

Más pistas...
Por si alguien tiene todavía dudas de nuestra propuesta de interpretación de los posts del DRC site, en estos mensajes de abajo es bastante evidente que hablan de la salida al público de Parable.

Son noticias frescas, de hace sólo 5 días:

Author Topic: Preparation for Arrivals
Marie Sutherland
DRC Member
Member # 72

posted October 14, 2002 12:03 PM
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We are probably less than a year away from allowing a much larger number of people down here. With this fact in mind, I have begun to shift the direction of my work to focus on how we will begin to accomodate the influx of people.

Just want to be thinking ahead.

Marie
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Michael Engberg
DRC Member
Member # 74

posted October 14, 2002 03:44 PM
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Along those same lines, Victor and I have begun initial preperations for the mass KI distribution we've agreed on. With the numbers the Council is projecting, we're thinking it would be more effecient to direct explorers to the KI caches in the Maintainers' Age, rather than transport all the KIs to a more public area.

Comments?
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Dr. Watson
DRC Member
Member # 38

posted October 15, 2002 05:15 PM
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That's great news. We do need to start planning for this now.

My only concern is that posting this on the public boards might give unrealistic expectations about how far along the restoration effort is to those reading them. So let me re-emphasize (and slightly rephrase) what Marie said in her post: it may be up to a year (or more) before we're actually ready to start bringing people down here. This is another important step, but there are many more that need to be taken.

Dr. Watson

[cosmodelia]

Dado que aquí está correctamente el texto, y las noticias frescas, y para que no haya duplicidad del mismo topic, pasamos aquí el texto de Leo'Ri antes de eliminar el antiguo:

Leo'Ri
Publicado: 18 Oct 2002, 00:23


Grupo: Miembro
Mensajes: 105
Miembro nº: 66
Registrado: 14-June 02


Para mí está claro: Todo eso es la estructura del entorno en el cual se moverá Mudpie (ó como se llame). Todo ese entorno se ha complicado tanto que se necesita estructurarlo todo, y lo han hecho en forma de una expedición que bajó a la Gran Caverna y encontró todo eso.
Desde luego, SABEMOS MUY BIEN que tal expedición no tuvo lugar, que la Gran Caverna existe sólo en algún lugar de la superficie, y que sus paredes no son de roca sino probablemente de poliestireno expandido, cartón, yeso y pintura. Probablemente, no tiene millas de extensión, y sus barrios están instalados en estudios, uno por uno.
No deja de tener sentido el que las reuniones semanales del "Concejo" tengan lugar en una de esas salas; el espacio está, los muebles también, ¿por qué no usarlos también en forma práctica para esas reuniones nada históricas pero absolutamente necesarias?

Sin querer en absoluto comparar con MYST ó Mudpie: Hace tiempo había empezado a escribir una serie de ciencia ficción. El primer libro se llama "Astroveleros". El segundo, "Perdidos en el pasado". Comencé el tercero "El puente galáctico", y tuve que parar, porque ya no me acordada de cómo se escriben los nombres de ciertos personajes, ó sus datos personales, rangos, etc.. Además, sentí la necesidad de tener ciertos datos astronómicos a mano. O los datos técnicos de los astroveleros. Mapas, planos, etc.
Dediqué dos años (bueno, nada de full time) a escribir una "enciclopedia cósmica", compilando todo tipo de datos reales y ficticios. Hay mapas reales de Venus y de Marte, pero también de Nem y Iakko (éstos dos, por cierto, ficticios). Incluso tuve que definir el "némico", un lenguaje de gestos.

Pues yo veo todo ese entramado del DRC como un esquema para una "Enciclopedia Mystica", obra que probablemente no se publicará, pero que será de primordial importancia para los guionistas y todo el equipo.
Aparte de esto, es un plan de trabajo que refleja, al menos entre las líneas, cómo y/ó hasta donde ha progresado la (re)construcción de los diversos ambientes.

Modificado por Leo'Ri - 18 Oct 2002, 13:02

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- Leo'Ri -
La Realidad es una daga sin hoja y carente de mango.

[Leo'Ri]

Es más: El hecho de que se mencione tanto la admisión de "people", "explorers" y demás visitantes (ficticios), deja claro que el juego será interactivo, y que el participante (real) puede influír en el desarrollo del juego. Pero esa influencia debe ser controlada y limitada, para que no se venga todo abajo. Nada más parecido a una restricción de visitantes, tal como lo tienen las cuevas con pinturas ruprestres, los palacios de la Alhambra, etc. Hay que limitar el número de visitantes (en el juego: el alcance de siu influencia) para que la cosa funcione.

[CoolWind]

Completamente de acuerdo en lo de limitar la influencia.
Lo que yo no veo tan claro es el objetivo en sí del juego. Reconstruir una civilización online ? Cómo ?
Solucionar Eras ? No estando sólo ?

Son muchas preguntas a contestar... quién pudiera ser beta-tester... perdón!! explorador XD

[cosmodelia]

Pues tampoco sabemos por aqui, y si leeis atentamente los mensajes interceptados en DRC, parece que tampoco ellos muy bien

Y parece que va a ir para largo, eso de antes de un año ya lo empiezan a retrasar...

Y es que plantea los problemas que habeis destacado, y más que no se nos habrán ocurrido.

Si quieren cobrar 20 $ al mes, eso es muy barato en EEUU donde una entrada de cine casi vale eso.
Imaginamos que muchos pagarán y el día del estreno la caverna parecerá el metro en hora punta!!

Y si te están cobrando ¿cómo limitarte y darte cita dentro de 15 días a las cuatro de la tarde?

La idea es muy atractiva, pero plantea demasiados interrogantes.

Más que eso de encontrarte con otros jugadores, lo que por cierto rompe con esa interesante sensación de "soledad" de los 3 primeros juegos, lo que nos atrae más es que vaya a ir creciendo, que con el paso del tiempo vayan habiendo Eras nuevas, nuevos libros conectores que descubrir, etc.

[CoolWind]

20$ al mes ? Me parece un poco excesivo.

Alguien de The Lyst propuso la idea de pagar por el tiempo que estuvieras... hasta un límite. De ese modo podrías entrar 1 día a la semana y no tener que pagar todo el mes entero.

Además, según una encuesta, el principal motivo por el que la gente no pone banda ancha es el precio... vamos sumando.

El juego en sí, en mi opinión, debería respetar algo propio de las grandes sagas : el jugador elige el grado de profundidad. Dicho de otra forma, que no sea necesario saber demasiadas cosas para seguir adelante, pero sabiendo que es posible conocer más a fondo algo para comprenderlo mejor...

Ejemplo gráfico : en Riven no es necesario entender las inscripciones en los edificios ni tampoco es necesario entender los "murales" que cuentan la historia de Gehn en la cúpula giratoria; pero, si alguien quiere detenerse y profundizar en ello, puede obtener una mayor riqueza en la historia.

(No sé si me he liado un poco XDD)

[cosmodelia]

Si recuerdas, ya dijeron que incluso con conexión lenta podrías jugar, aunque sólo podrías "pasear", sin interactuar con otros jugadores o poder resolver ciertos puzzles...

osea que al parecer tienen previsto que el simple hecho de pasear ya sea lo suficientemente atractivo