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[Geen]

My Necros seem to write philosophy books on death, like:

The Sun Sets on The Dwarf
The Mortality Problem
Death Explained
At one with Death
The Wizard's Guide to Dieing
And some odd ones such as
Give Me Geno Clashransacks
The Dwarf and The Ruined Wines

And the impossible,

Common Sense Dwarf

[acetech09]

I just killed a necromancer. In his hand, the book he brought into battle was his autobiography, "The Fruity Human."

The kind of fruit is open to interpretation.

[Detonate]

First The Book, Then The World! was a legendary horse-leather bound book. The written portion consists of a 40 page essay entitled First The Book, Then The World!, authored by Sabu Rhyminggleam. It concerns the pineapple opal-bound book We See Sabu Rhyminggleam. The writing is quite florid. (We See Sabu Rhyminggleam was a 6 page poem about himself)


The Dwarf Is The Way was a legendary llama-leather bound book. The written portion consists of a 18 page essay entitled The Dwarf Is The Way, authored by Ezum Orbscradle. It concerns the dwarf necromancer Zasit Sunkpaddled. The writing is clear evidence of a compassionate being.

Other classics include The Dwarf When It Counts, the guide More Tower, the legendary magnetite slab "The Lustful Fruit", Give Me Immortality, and Can Dying Save The World?

[Kilroy the Grand]

Using just embark on a necromancer tower, I discovered that it contained about 30 books, written by a single necromancer. Nothing else living was in the tower. so ronery... so ronery.

[drkpaladin]

I just gotta say, these books are awesome and add a hint of flavor to the history of the world and really leave a lot to the imagination in a good way.  I love all the book titles.

It Must Have Been the Dwarf
The Sun Sets on the Giant Dingo (A melancholy book regarding a famous giant dingo)
Start Your Day with the Dwarf  (Concerning a scuffle between a dwarf and a giant dingo, in which the dwarf emerged victorious. Its apparently a sad book too)

[Jibba Jabba]

The titles of two books make me smile a little more than I should:

Annihilation For Everyone, which is written completely serious and drives forward relentlessly.
&
The End, Abridged, which is a completely serious book based on the secrets of life and death.

I can't help but laugh at the second one because I'm imagining it a cliff notes version of the Apocalypse.

Oh and there's also a 164 page guide called Death, The Definitive Guide, it concerns, erm...death,

[Jacob/Lee]

A necromancer wrote a book about a book about himself. Look at this:

And the name!

Here's the book it was written about:

[YetAnotherStupidDorf]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[ADJ] was [NAME]
[NAME] the [NOUN]
'[PHRASE]'
Hear the [PHRASE] of [NAME]
The Death of [NAME]
The Life of [NAME]
A Biography of [NAME]
In the Time of [NAME]
[ANY_PRONOUN] Found [NAME]
One [NAME]
[NAME]!
[ANY_PRONOUN] Saw [NOUN]
Histories of [ADJ] and [ADJ]

And to book_instructional:
[NAME]: The Musical
[NAME]: The Absolute Knaves' Guide
[NAME]: Why and Why Not
[NAME] Forgotten
[NAME] Revealed
To Bring Forth [NAME]

Stolen form one sig:
[BODYPART] for [BODYPART][FURNITURE]!
Shame it cannot be done (there is probably no way to more specifically constrain what goes in tags).

[PTTG??]

I've added a few more. I'm going to test them and maybe put out a mod...

I added one to the Instructional book section- "My [NOUN]". "My Death" would be a great name for an undead necromancer to write, right? I just hope nobody adds "struggle" as a secret_death word...

On related news, I'm toying with Alchemist figures who really won't have any special powers (unless I can figure out an iron into gold effect, so you could transform swords or jewelry), but will write books, like The Elements: The Definitive Guide, or The Wizards' Guide to Transformation.

It's a wealth sphere effect, which unless I'm greatly mistaken, will mean that DF will even have dwarf gods with that sphere give out the secrets!

[Starver]

No chance of "My Booky Wook"?

(Hmm, what we need is tags that aim towards the confluence of something that rhymes and/or has assonance, alliteration, consonance... with or without Nadsat-like mutations...  Probably mostly beyond the current state of play in DF's tag interpretation, but could probably be put in there, at least in a simple manner, if there's deemed to be good reason.  But "in order to get 'My Booky Wook' out of the game, if you're lucky" is not in and of itself a good-enough reason...)

[MagmaMan54]

Some gems from my first 04.01 world:

Could It Be The Book? - A 72-page guide by the dwarf necromancer Adil Rampartsummit concerning the maple-bound book 'Could It Be The Human?'. The writing is an awe-inspiring wild rant.

Could It Be The Human? - the book that 'Could It Be The Book?' writes about. A 15-page essay by the same author, concerning the human necromancer Suque Slidflickered. The writing is utterly disjointed and it gets off of track from time to time.

Why Mr. Rampartsummit would be ranting about his own book is beyond me. Why he would be writing a guide to his own book is also beyond me. The titles are a stroke of genius, however.

The Dwarf Is My Life - A 34-page essay by the dwarf necromancer Kogsak Boreseals concerning himself. 'Nuff said.

Titles that need no explanation:

The People: The Definitive Guide
We See The Humans
Give Me The Book
And It Sang 'The Dwarf!'
My Thoughts On Death
Surely The Dirt Foretells In The End
Musings On The Human And Nothing More
The Tower And A Problematic Myth
Pathways To Dying
The Book In The Modern Era
Choose Parting
Uncanny Mirthful Cult
The Dwarf: My Only Mistake
Common Sense Mortality
The Dwarves And The Hot Intensity
Give Me The Human (two of these, both by the same necromancer concerning himself. Perhaps they're different editions?)
Rigoth Drunkenseals And Nothing More: Natural Or Supernatural?
It Must Have Been The Human
Traditional Book (sort of like Scary Movie, I presume)
Nourishing Human
The Vegetable And The Dwarf
It Can Say In The Beginning
Muck: The Sands Mourn In The End

And many, many more.

[Dr. Melon]

"Can the Hills save the World?"

Gee, I sure hope so. I hope those hills take action soon.

[Ubiq]

Best self-help book I ever read.

It sounds like an advertising campaign.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Peacefulfoot the Bloody]

Mine favorites are "Book: Fact or Fiction?" and "Mortality: Fact or Fiction?"

[The Dog Delusion]

"The Afterlife: Before and After"

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