Gloumerrick book

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Gloumerrick books were first introduced by GM Jharra's merchant, Gloumerrick, as a way to bring books with pre-written text into the game. All of the original run Gloumerrick books included short stories, poetry, essays, or reference texts submitted by players, as written by their characters. Since then, GM Valyrka has taken over ownership of the Gloumerrick book script, re-releasing some of the original run books and also bringing new books into the game. In 2019, Wyil Rvaln's the traveling book wagon, A Likely Story, started to make periodic visits to various towns in the game with both old and new books available for purchase. In addition, The Last Chapter at Rings of Lumnis' Agora Promenade had a variety of Gloumerrick books for sale starting in 2022. Books built on this script have also been featured at Ebon Gate and associated with various quests, and they can be found in various libraries of Elanthia.

The current Gloumerrick book script is the third iteration of the book concept. The original release books were actually containers with physical page objects inside of them, each with its own read and look description, to form a cohesive book. The script was created approximately a year after the first books were released, with second generation Gloumerrick books being reduced to a single item with scripted capability to turn and read individual pages. Current third generation Gloumerrick books are built on an updated script.

Gloumerrick Book

Usage

Verb First Third
OPEN You open the rolaren tome. This section has not been added yet; please add to it now!
TURN You turn to the next page of your rolaren tome. This section has not been added yet; please add to it now!
FLIP You flip back to the PREVIOUS page of your tome. This section has not been added yet; please add to it now!
READ Displays selected page text. This section has not been added yet; please add to it now!
CLOSE You gently close the rolaren tome, taking care with its pages. This section has not been added yet; please add to it now!

Released Books

Original Release Books

The original books were released in approximately 2003-2004, with some re-released starting in 2018.

New Released Books

New books were added in 2018.

Other Books

Several books using this script have appeared in libraries, festivals, and in quests.

Gloumerrick book Information
Type Fluff
Item Classification Miscellaneous
Item(s) Applied to Book
Alterable Yes
Light/Deep
Original Release Merchant Gloumerrick
Eligible to be Added No
Item Verbs
CLOSE FLIP OPEN READ
TURN