Remarkable books in the library

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With the latest patch, have the book in the Mansion Mansion library been rearranged?
I couldn’t find the " 13: " books in the place they were originally (bottom-center of the library).

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In section 1.7, there’s a book called “Grog ;)” written by c5n. c5n is an argentinian news program that made a story about kids drinking “Grog XD”, thinking it was a real thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HeSCBAy4p4. They found out about this and the people that made Tales of Monkey Island even added a Grog XD option in the soda machine.
When I was going through the library and found the book I started laughing my ass off. As an argie, I needed to say thank you for remembering us to Ron and the team. Also ask him where he got the idea to mention La Mole Moli (a famous argentinian boxer). Anyway, thank you guys. Loved the game.

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This is mine :slight_smile:

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Nope. This is mine too :smile:

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That’s nice! :slight_smile:

The “deactivation” part made me think that the writer of the book had some insight that the players hadn’t.

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I’m seriously thinking that the devs were inspired by Arto’s book for the man eating plant gag… or was it possible also in maniac mansion and the gag is just a quote? I remember making the plant grow in MM, but I don’t remember the fizzy water

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It is a quote. :slight_smile: You can grow the plant with the water from the pool and then make the plant burping with the Peps… ehrm… Poopsi (from the fridge).

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Oh, now I remember… I should play it again.

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…but now you spoiled me one puzzle!

As a punishment, I will send you a private message spoiling the secret of Monkey Island! :grinning:

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Please, send that message to me as well. Thanks.

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Sure. No problem.

Anyone else? :slightly_smiling_face:

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I found there is a music group called EL-TRON, and also some neon LED glasses.

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meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :smiley:

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Here is a second book in the library written in binary representation of 7-bits ASCII chars and, below, the tool to convert its contents. :slight_smile:

Title: A Message from the Future
Author: Averius
Bookshelf: 2.1

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If you are curious of what’s the text about, I’ve extracted it and you can put it yourself into this binary-to-ASCII online tool to discover its contents.

Here are the contents to be converted:

01001000 01001001 00100000 01001000 01010101 01001101 01000001 01001110 00101110 00100000 01010000 01001100 01000101 01000001 01010011 01000101 00100000 01001000 01000101 01001100 01010000 00100000 01001001 00100000 01000001 01001101 00100000 01010100 01010010 01000001 01010000 01010000 01000101 01000100 00100000 01001001 01001110 00100000 01010100 01001000 01001001 01010011 00100000 01000010 01001111 01001111 01001011 00101110 00100000

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Hi

Is there a list somewhere of the books that were NOT written by backers (not including the two books which are part of puzzles)?

For now I know of three:
“The True Secret of Monkey Island”
“Plants: Organic & Nuclear”
Jen’s book (I think it’s called “AI Personality Generation”)

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Are we sure Jen isn’t a backer? :wink:

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I have two books and was no backer. Submissions were open for everyone, so I guess there might be lots more non-backer books (and titles in the shop). I also contributed some drinking dialog :grin:
Only the phone book was backer only territory.