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Dear All,

Have you heard the good word of C0DA? Here to continue the story of Morrowind, the Love Letter, and Elder Scrolls in general? 64 pages of answers and questions (not to mention wonderful characters, exciting plot, and never-before-seen locations!), all coming to you in 10 brief hours!

But that's not all! C0DA aims to truly bring the concept of Open Source to the Elder Scrolls, and encourages any artist, writer, or thinker to expand, explore, and rework it to their heart's content. 

If you'd like to know more, check out this wonderful writeup by Jeroic. Also be sure to check out the previews of some of the excellent art we've gotten for the piece. 

Keep an eye out on c0da.es, the official launch site, tomorrow at 8AM Eastern (2PM GTM). Afterwards (or before hand!) post your own C0DAs at tomorrowindtoday.com

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First time I've ever been excited for February 14th, honestly. 

I am a free associate. I'm ready. Let's all have fun together in our world.

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It's live. I love it.

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...The site is just a black screen with nothing popping up....hmmm.

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Make sure you got javascript turned on.

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Chrome lets me view it, IE won't even though I have Java enabled.

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Try this?

http://aurbis.c0da.es/c0da/c0da.pdf

I have also display problems with Firefox; the site displays but the text is full of things that shouldn't display, like "text upper left", "text center", "double page splash with inset" etc. and there apparently should be images but they are not there.

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That was incredible. 

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So, are we actually able to contribute to canon lore (or, at least, Kirbribe's lore) or is this something we can take and make it our own (like reworking a pen and paper rpg to suite your game style?)? Either way, I'm pissin' me pants.

On another  note; is it just me, or did anyone else get kind of reminded of Exalted a little bit? (in a good way)

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It's like a choose your own adventure book. Its your adventure. You can rip the pages out you don't like and insert some new ones. Why should anything else matter?

http://www.reddit.com/r/teslore/comments/1xwa0s/c0da/cffkccr

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Both. This Many Goblins and Boethiah's Summoning Day (Though I wasn't too jazzed about it myself) are good examples of how something fan-made that the general community would gladly except, and at the same time there's nothing stopping you from creating you're own little pocket of Mundus and calling it your own.

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An event first known as the Warp of the West.

We've been the gods walking Mundus all along.

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"REPRODUCTION, REVELATION, REDEMPTION, and RESUMPTION"

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Tauryon wrote:

So, are we actually able to contribute to canon lore (or, at least, Kirbribe's lore) or is this something we can take and make it our own (like reworking a pen and paper rpg to suite your game style?)? Either way, I'm pissin' me pants.

It's funny, for the last week or so I've been toying with the idea of writing a TES pen and paper system based on the Morrowind or Daggerfall systems (somewhat simplified due to the lack of computer aid).

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Dagoth Relnav wrote:

Tauryon wrote:

So, are we actually able to contribute to canon lore (or, at least, Kirbribe's lore) or is this something we can take and make it our own (like reworking a pen and paper rpg to suite your game style?)? Either way, I'm pissin' me pants.

It's funny, for the last week or so I've been toying with the idea of writing a TES pen and paper system based on the Morrowind or Daggerfall systems (somewhat simplified due to the lack of computer aid).

I've considered this off and on for some time now, and even got to the point of getting a basic mechanic working... But there were a lot of stylistic decisions that kept me from making anything that was largely coherent... Magic being the big question. I've seen it done well so many different ways, it was hard for me to settle down with just one... So I moved on to other, less difficult projects, lol.

That being said, C0da has definitely inspired a transition back to sleepless nights jam-packed with creative fun...

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Sounds great then! I can't wait to see some abstract, 'weird lore' lore for the Altmer, which I fully expect to be 'weird lore'.

I totally expect to see some weird, homo-erotic, at-once-confusing-and-not  mythology of their ancestors as it was in Morrowind. 

Just a though: what if Auri-El and Trinimac were actually lovers and the reason Auri-El kicked him out of generally rejoining the Aldmer was because he couldn't bear to see him violated to his inviolate nature? (piss might have to be taken, for sure).

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Piss always has to be taken. 

Tomorrow I hope to make my firs real contibution to the C0DA. Might even be today, depending on my schedule.

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I suggest a new quote for the Imperial Library:

"No. No. No. No. No." - Dwemeri Proverb

So, I'm unsure as to why Hlaalu Hir decided to assassinate Jubar-Lun-Sul. Jealous of his marriage? His friendship humiliated by Jubar's refusal to relate what Nirn/Memory had said to him?

Also:

It was ugly, anyway. It's always been the crest of compliance.

Wow, that really stung. I feel House Hlaalu needs a retort. Betta be registered by C0DA.

 

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Quote:
"No. No. No. No. No." - Dwemeri Proverb

To what, exactly?

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Everything.

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Everything...?

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I agree with Count Vodkula. The Socratic "I know that I know nothing," is a boring cop out.

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Yes. Everything.

http://www.imperial-library.info/content/definitive-guide-dwemer

Read the bit at:

From The Dwemer, Noumena And Phenomena topic in Elder Scrolls Official Forum

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Xarnac The Conqueror wrote:
I agree with Count Vodkula. The Socratic "I know that I know nothing," is a boring cop out.

That is where the dream starts.

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Proweler wrote:

Yes. Everything.

http://www.imperial-library.info/content/definitive-guide-dwemer

Read the bit at:

From The Dwemer, Noumena And Phenomena topic in Elder Scrolls Official Forum

Oh, I thought someone was just getting too serious about that whole Auri-El/Trinimac thing.

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The death of canon will always signal the death of lore will always signal the death of discussion.

 

No. No. No. No. No.

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Proweler wrote:

Xarnac The Conqueror wrote:
I agree with Count Vodkula. The Socratic "I know that I know nothing," is a boring cop out.

That is where the dream starts.

It's where the dream ends, to me. And according to MK now, we'd both be right and wrong.

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I've never dreamt of a world where everything I say is true. Without order there is no truth. Without truth, there is no reason. Without reason there is nothing at all to say.

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This new... Age/idea doesn't even need reason apparently. What you say simply is. Or at least will be to you.

 

Which as far as I can tell will result in us all devouring each other until there's only one writer left. Sound familiar?

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Xarnac,

less flippant then. Knowing that you know nothing is the start of all philosophy. Rather then taking things for granted, you start with nothing, define your axioms, and then deduce on from there using only the results of your deductions and your axioms. This processes is foundation of all logical reasoning.

I can't invalidate the experience or thoughts of someone else. Assuming they are consistent it all comes down to the selected axioms. Now if they don't want to include something or can't stand to exclude something, that is fine but it also ends the conversation.

But that is not what I was trying to say: The Dreamer, the one that dreams the Aurbis, knows nothing and perceives nothing and from that nothing came everything. This thing has been burned into the lore for ages.

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You didn't get what I said... at all. Plato attributes Socrates with saying "I know that I know nothing," which means I can only know what I observe. Coda goes one step further and says everything you've observed is nothing, then goes even further and says you need no reason or logic for anything. That's a boring cop out to me.