The Literary Boom - Ruinscraft/mcatlas-history GitHub Wiki

• Started: c.1st July 2021 or mid-June 2021
• Notable Players: Arbiter404, cuerny, Xpants64, DARK_VOIDD, PastelAnt387850, DinoDenizDE, Maystar, Uranium N_92

The Literary Boom is an event that is still ongoing.

Because of the lack of wars during the start of the Flatline era, there was more focus towards the literary arts. For Vod Krushnov, and Grand Siberia, the fall of Magadan inspired more books as they -and quills from newly farmed chickens imported from Imakane- became more common. This was also significant for Dutch Africa, and eventually Alexandria, as DinoDeniz (the Ruler of Magadan/Thicc Turk Melike) moved to be with Arbiter. Arbiter, always having a taste for history, began writing a large volume on history.

July

After the fall of the young Dutch Africa to griefers, both and a few others moved to the Nile Delta to establish Alexandria and the Byzantine Empire (now the New New New New Roman Empire). Arbiter therefore established the Library of Alexandria, and with haste began hunting down book donations. The demand was certainly low, so several active players began producing many books to attempt to fill the library's several-thousand book capacity. A significant amount of manuscripts were also published in Krushnovian, including a variety of songs in a primitive neume system- the first known music notation in McAtlas.

A significant event that brought the literary boom to greater significance was the publication of cuerny's infamous Manifesto that was a hit and sold a relatively large amount of copies for 10 gold each. Xpants published a similar manifesto, but it was never as popular. But it still earned a valuable Lectern space in the Library of Alexandria and is held with higher acclaim from customers and critics, compared to the hazily-written Cuerny's manifesto. A player known as Maystar claimed he has also, likewise to Cuerny and Xpants, written a manifesto. But it was so expensive, no copies were ever sold.

August

After Arbiter went into inactivity, the stalled Library of Alexandria was surpassed by the Library of Pogtopia in the amount of readable books. Uranium began collecting every single new manifesto and holy book in Krushnovian and English alike. A new language called Raleigh Creole also developed in Raleigh and signs and books were beginning to be published in it too.

The literacy boom lifted prices of leather to twice as much as they used to be as the need for books where increasing rapidly. Back in Raleigh Xpants64 celebrates as he finds out he sold 50 copies of his manifesto. Many people still travel through europe looking for books that have been lost in time or were never completed. When town raids happen after they are deleted many people search for books in the hundreds of chest. With the start of schools in many places server activity has gone down drastically what it means for book production is unknown.