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Hiding Selenitic and Stoneship MYST Books, How'd he do that?

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Teroglahn
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Oct 4 2004, 09:34 PM
Atrus hid his Books very well, but two have very strange hiding places:

1. In the Myst Spaceship, touching the screen will bring you to Selenitic, even though it is only an image of a Book.

2. In Stoneship, you make a Myst Book materialize out of a table.

My question: How in the Maker's name did Atrus do that?!


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Oct 5 2004, 12:00 AM
Well, the Selenitic Age was an example of one of Atrus' experiments with using Books. He was trying to see if it was possible to store the Book in a secure location but still be able to use it... a concept which he was apparently successful in achieving since it's possible to go visit Selenitic wink.gif.

I don't think anyone's offered an explaination for the book on Stoneship, though... might have to inquire about that one.


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Dec 8 2004, 10:59 AM
And remember, there's a lot of artistic license in Myst as it was just a 'game' then. I don't think they had gotten too far into the details of writing science.


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The explanation I've heard for the book out of Stoneship is that it's holography, the same technology behind a few of the brother's toys. I believe I heard somewhere that Atrus picked up the holography techique in an Age called Aspermere...

(Okay, picked it up or experimented with it, one of the two. I tend to go with picked it up myself, but that's my own interpretation.)


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QUOTE(M'lah Sihfay @ Dec 8 2004, 01:12 PM)
The explanation I've heard for the book out of Stoneship is that it's holography, the same technology behind a few of the brother's toys. I believe I heard somewhere that Atrus picked up the holography techique in an Age called Aspermere...

(Okay, picked it up or experimented with it, one of the two. I tend to go with picked it up myself, but that's my own interpretation.)
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Well, he might have been able to make a hologram of a linking book, but how would it actually work and send him to the real Myst, then? Maybe someone should ask RAWA about it?

I think I read somewhere (possibly by Alahmnat) that the Selenitic thing might have been a result from his expiriments on Rime....

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Feb 6 2006, 12:54 AM
I think I remember RAWA saying somewhere that the Selenetic linking book was used in some sort of mechanical device to link, and that Catherine's journals were no more specific than that.

What I find more interesting, though, is that he said the red and blue pages were not artistic license, and that there was some mechanism built into the books for the distribution.
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Apr 26 2006, 09:20 AM
How about this: the book was always sitting on the table, there was just a holograph projected over it which made it appear to not be there. Then, when you reached for it and touched it, the holograph would let you see the book with a cool transition effect. You think? oo.gif
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Nov 15 2006, 02:57 AM
Stoneship: He is part d'ni.. What? you need more?
Selantic: It says he experemented with crystals to view ages on rime, why not be able to use crystals to link?


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