all sorts of people.
people don't just exist for the reason of plot.

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No, but right now non-plot items would have to be on the back burner.

There's probably plenty of excerpts t obe found, sicne the book is quite... old .

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excerpts? how about the entire book?
copy and paste.
http://www.kimsoft.com/polwar.htm

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Well, I thought no one would be interested in reading it completely

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I figure we could have each of the chapters as separate "books" ingame, like the 36 lessons in Morrowind. The whole thing isn't that long.

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Actually, now that we're mentioning stuff that's out of copyright, I'll suggest a li'l something. A lot of his themes really seem to fit into the game, as far as I can tell (particularly that of "forbidden knowledge").

I wouldn't be opposed to scratching off that text thingy I wrote for the beginning of the game and switched it to something not unlike this:

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."

H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

Wow! That's pretty sweet and fits nicely. I could see the game starting with that scrolling up into view.

Agreed.

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I didn't know which thread to post this in:
oh btw, secret messages and subliminal stuff is fun, feel free to sprinkle that sort of stuff all throughout the game. Anytime there's a number or something, make it mean something. If you've seen the 1st season of the new doctor who, you notice the "Bad Wolf" spread all throughout on graffiti and names of things and everything throughout. We should do the same thing, just don't give an explanation like Doctor Who did.

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The explanation was rubbish! Doctor who always has awesome stories but then they ruin it with crap endings. Good idea having something like that in the game though.

yeah, that was pretty bad, however, we can just never give an explanation.

mystery is good too.

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