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[mispy]

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My chief medical dwarf wrote an essay about himself. "The writing is stunningly self-indulgent."

[paleohayduke]

Combustion might help

[Broseph Stalin]

My new favorite book is "Good" only because when I tried to pick it up in adventure mode the prompt was "Get Good." 

[rico196534]

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The part about "artfully indulging the author's fancies" makes me think the first ever furry creation was made in my fortress

[Admiral Obvious]

I found another one.

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Cheerful book about dealing with traumatic injuries. The icing on the cake is that the author tried to make it funny, and failed.

[Insert_Gnome_Here]

I wonder who wrote that trauma book, making humour in inappropriate situations.

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[MobRules]

Multi-chaptered books are a thing:

This is a microline-bound codex.
The written portion consists of a 242 page chronicle entitled The Book of the Dwarves, authored by Mafol Scholarboard. It concerns The Pure Bodices. Overall, the information is not compiled very well. The work has three chapters. The first chapter covers the rise of the sasquatch Kanzud Blinddrills the Helpful Beast-Shade as an ememy of The Pure Bodices in the early autumn of 115. The second chapter covers the devouring of a alpaca of The Pure Bodices by the sasquatch Kanzud Blinddrills the Helpful Beast-Shade in Driveroofs in the early autumn of 115. The third chapter covers the election of the dwarf Lorbam Helmedcrow to the position of mayor of The Pure Bodices in 212.

(note on dates: My worldgen ended in 250)

[Broseph Stalin]

Using legends to track down necromancer books is pretty entertaining.

Death
New Death
More Death
Useful Death
Start your day with death
Maybe Death Will Help
First Death, then the world

The Eternal Dwarf: A 166 Page autobiography of an unknown creature. Apparently it left out some significant details.

[MobRules]

Oh my.

This is a finely-crafted pig tail scroll. It is made from pig tail cloth. The rollers are made from cassiterite. The rollers are made from exceptionally worked dolomite.

Written on the item is a manual entities Unknown Healing, authored by Lolor Domainpaddle. It concerns medical ethics. The writing is quite cruel. Overall, the prose is passable.

Edit: And at the opposite end of the personality spectrum (or so it would seem), we have:

This is a cryolite-bound codex.
The written portion consists of a 23 page essay entitled Common Sense Sasquatches, authored by Tosid Entrypainted. It concerns the sasquach "Lateoils the Tactics of Abatement"'s attack on the dwarf Tosid Entrypainted. The writing is clear evidence of a compassionate being. Overal, the prose is not awful, but not very good either.

So, we've got one guy writing a cruel book about medical ethics, and another writing a compassionate book about the sasquatch that attacked him.


Edited again: Is there a way to kick someone out after having granted them long-term residency? The Lolar Domainpaddle guy from above has written several medical books, including one on "the surgical method of probing", all of them with writing that is "quite cruel". He's not even a doctor (thank Armok), he's a chemist. So why does he write so many cruel books about invasive surgical procedures?

Edited again: this same chemist also has several books on engineering with writing that is 'quite cruel'. Who is this guy, jigsaw?

Edited again: the Cruel Chemist does have at least one book on chemistry. It's a book about acids and alkalies, and the writing is "as vicious as can be".

[SaD-82]

and another writing a compassionate book about the sasquatch that attacked him.

Sounds like Stockholm-Syndrome.

The Eternal Dwarf: A 166 Page autobiography of an unknown creature. Apparently it left out some significant details.

This rings some connotation to the real world.
I guess, it was written by an elf...

[Admiral Obvious]

Edited again: Is there a way to kick someone out after having granted them long-term residency? The Lolar Domainpaddle guy from above has written several medical books, including one on "the surgical method of probing", all of them with writing that is "quite cruel". He's not even a doctor (thank Armok), he's a chemist. So why does he write so many cruel books about invasive surgical procedures?

Edited again: this same chemist also has several books on engineering with writing that is 'quite cruel'. Who is this guy, jigsaw?

Edited again: the Cruel Chemist does have at least one book on chemistry. It's a book about acids and alkalies, and the writing is "as vicious as can be".

Many edits later...

Have you looked at the personality of the guy? Sadists tent to write books in that... fashion. Books are supposed to represent the ethics of the author I think. As far as i'm aware, if he's a permanent resident the only way to "remove" him would be to arrange an unfortunate accident. Make it as painful as possible, he'll die happy.

[Bouchart]

Circles and Nothing More

A masterful poem written about nothing in particular, by Ur Circleboard.

[10terrapin01]

Plot twist! Your chemist isn't normally sadistic, but is trying to brown nose himself into the overseer's graces. He just doesn't know how you run a fort.

How am I supposed to make books? I have two scribes, a library, sheets of paper, scroll rollers, and I've attached the sheets to the scroll rollers. One of my scholars has written a book, but I don't know how that actually went down. Am I supposed to let sheets be written on first or what?

[Sirbug]

writing a compassionate book about the sasquatch that attacked him.

Urist "Steve" Irving

[Sirbug]

Plot twist! Your chemist isn't normally sadistic, but is trying to brown nose himself into the overseer's graces. He just doesn't know how you run a fort.

How am I supposed to make books? I have two scribes, a library, sheets of paper, scroll rollers, and I've attached the sheets to the scroll rollers. One of my scholars has written a book, but I don't know how that actually went down. Am I supposed to let sheets be written on first or what?

Press L (As in shift-L) to check your artefacts and writing. I don't think scrolls need furter processing.