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== Re: Linking book problems ==
Date: Friday, December 08, 2000

H.P. wrote:
<blockquote>1. When you go into the D'ni prison book, and Gehn prepairs to go after you, he links with is gloves on! Am I correct in assuming that to establish a link you need to touch the panel with flesh? Can someone clarify?</blockquote>

The short answer - yes, living tissue is required to establish a link, but some dead organic material (like the outer layer of your skin, for example) will not interfere. Gehn's gloves, it would seem, fall into the category of dead organic materials that don't interfere.

<blockquote>2. I read Catherines journal and it reminded me that in BoA, it says that Catherine and Anna wrote the daggers and fissures into Age 5! This I don't understand. When you add things into the descriptive book of Riven, wouldnt it change the link to another age, one exactly like Riven but with daggers and fissures? According to the D'ni, the age isnt created, it is just linked to, so how could changes in the descriptive book, change riven?</blockquote>

Another short answer - not necessarily. It depends on the magnitude and type of changes made.

Better, longer, more complete answers to these questions (and many others that frequently appear on the lyst) are archived in several places. Here are two of the best that I know of, though I am sure there are many others as well:

[https://web.archive.org/web/20001119021200/http://www.rivenguild.com/kbahnsen/linkingfaq.html http://www.rivenguild.com/kbahnsen/linkingfaq.html]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20001003024804/http://www.fortunecity.com/underworld/riven/473/info.html http://www.fortunecity.com/underworld/riven/473/info.html]

Hope that helps,
RAWA