Diplomacy if possible, Military approach when Diplomatic means fail/are unfeasable/impossible, and they are certain they can kill the threat. Or evacuating the region in which the Mystical threat is.
First a printer and bookbinder, so that we don't put the potentially priceless originals in there to be damaged by routine use. Or in some other way ensure we have copies.
I would assume such actions will be folded into the upkeep of the library itself. After all a library is more than a simple book storage.
Library - (Basic) added to the Tree of Knowledge.
Keeping Iced should provide a bonus to the Library's functionality, or at least an option for adding an improvement to the Library that does so. Climate controlled rooms are very important for archival work. Likewise, it should be improved by Light It Up!
They will decrease the libraries upkeep, since the main function of it will be by providing slots for literature artifacts to buff their effects.
Ahh, so achieving the same ends but more easily. No need for mirrors and lenses or waiting for the right weather, or such. Okay, that makes sense.
What does the diary contain that it give a +50 to psycology? The lost tech tab is kind of scary.
It is the diary of a broken man, detailing his descent into madness as the horror of his entire world dying weighs upon him. The first pages are about him detailing the group he survived with, the disgust at being with an 'Itan' in the same room. Then they shift to shock and terror as the writing details how half of their numbers were ripped apart or eaten alive by some unnamed horror. The writing become incoherent, as food and water become more scarce, paranoia rises, and one of the survivors ate a corpse, leading to a fight over the meat. After that, pictures of disturbing nature and repeating lines of text appear more frequently, with the latter part soaked in so much dried blood that it cannot be read anymore.
I assume that if it provides +50, then it was written by someone with an actual understanding of psychology who was documenting his own fraying sanity?
Yes, the whole thing has a dichotomy going on with one 'persona' commenting about the whole thing, and another just decaying further into madness. The whole thing is bizare to read, quite frightening, and has caused some nightmares already.
Yikes. The worst part is that I could see an author or a poet to make a best-seller out of it.
That is basically 60% of the Horror books that are going around. Re-written and sensationalized diaries and survivor accounts found in ruins and terminals/pc's.
Summer, Hot Summer, Summer, Cold Summer.
Yup. People eat up those shitty two-penny romance booklets like no tomorrow. And Broken Sword. (A massive literature spanning over three hundred years of real-time, with a new issue every month detailing the adventures of a Mercenary-Knight Squad, fighting on a fictional oceanic world for various nobles for money and in politics for generations. It has quite the comedy in it, with a banana being used at least once a year to defeat an enemy Knight.)
Sandwheat gives no shit about anything. You can grow it with lightbulbs. (It's not worth it, but you can!)
Yes. And the Core remembers all instances where it slipped, shouting "Not again!" every time, swearing revenge on all bananas....is it the same Knight?
Huh. In that case, Sandwheat is a remarkably good crop in terms of labor and hardware efficiency. You just need to space out your plantings so that your available labor can readily harvest that field within the 10-day window, which means that rather than having massive labor fluctuations around planting and harvest, and massive gluts in milling requirements followed by long periods of inactivity, Sandwheat agriculture has a steady investment of labor and capital.
I'm not sure if there were labor requirments for harvesting. I think we speculated earlier that Sandwheat was probably used as feedstock for cattle. Given the nature of pre-Collapse meat processing industry aka Butchers, there is a good chance they simply had a robot travling over the contintent, planting Sandwheat along the way, with herds of cattle following it and a Butcher following the herds.
I'm talking about now, not pre-fall.
Well, sandwheat has only been around since the late Empress propagated it massively among the populace after a scavenger found the initial seed-vaults.
Are the farmers who make those decisions primarily landowners or are they tenant-farmers?
Tenant, though much more lenient and legaly defined, because of Slatnans hatred/disgust of slavery and systems like it. Nobles either rent land for X years at Y price, or for Z% of the harvests.
