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Welcome to A Wiki in the Desert, a wiki for the online game A Tale in the Desert.
If you are a new player, welcome to Egypt! See the Introduction and Rules of Conduct and for basic information about the game and its objective. You may want to review the article on citizenship and solutions in the How To article for a quick overview of how to get started in the game.
This wiki exists to document the game and to provide a community scratchpad for the players. You can find guides on things such as growing Flax, an Atlas of interesting places, and various personal pages created by the Users. If you're looking to buy and sell, try Trading.
Anyone with an ATITD account can edit any page on this site. However, please read the Style Guide and information on Formatting first. If you want to contribute but don't know where, take a look at the Spotlight page, or just browse around and look for pages where your input would be beneficial. Politics are not welcome (exception: Users pages, but no personal attacks please) -- if you want to discuss laws, please use the forums. We do have a library of passed laws.
If you have a suggestion for how to improve the wiki, please add it to the Suggestions page.
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When you are preparing Tale 3 pages, please don't copy tons of may bes and what ifs. Simply include a back reference to the related Tale 2 pages.
The syntax for an interwiki reference is [[Tale2:Buildings/Compound]] for example.
News, Current and Upcoming Events
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Upcoming events (nearest events at the top)
Please move past events to the News and Recent Events section below
| Date and Time | Events (click refresh if you only see UTC times, check your time zone in Preferences) |
| April 2006 | The Calendar!: Did you know that the forums had a calendar? Go put your events on the calendar as well as here. The more it is used, the more it is useful! |
| 2006/05/21 14:00 UTC | Pre-Amnesty Party to hopefully get the remaining people to apply at the conflict monument and build the monument! |
| 2006/05/21 18:00 UTC | Gharib slated to die - This is the last chance for the monuments to be built. |
| 2006/05/21 18:00 UTC | End of Tale Amnesty (and Party) starts |
| Future Events | Events more than 2 weeks away should go here to keep the wiki's front page a reasonable size. |
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News and Recent Events
Please vote for the Art of Last Resort that still needs votes to get in the running. This list includes thought puzzles that need players.
- 2006/05/17 Monument of Leadership completed!
- 2006/05/14 The shock of two more monuments completing was too much for Gharib - the Stranger has 7 days left to live..
- 2006/05/14 Monument of Worship completed! (RSO 2380 3210) Pictures of the Monument and party
- 2006/05/14 Monument of Architecture completed!
- 2006/05/13 The Tale End Bash was a smashing success. Thanks to everyone who attended. I've uploaded a couple of screen shots of the bonfire.
- 2006/05/12 Monument Of Leadership is now taking applications/confirmations.
- 2006/05/11 Monument of Worship is now full and seeking the last confirmations - build party aimed at the 14th (see above).
- 2006/05/05 Monument Of Conflict is now taking applications/confirmations.
- 2006/05/04 Monument of Worship is now taking applications/confirmations.
- 2006/05/01 Leadership and Worship Test polls completed - winners were The Test of True Leadership and The Test Of The Leavened Bread.
- 2006/04/30 Monument of Architecture is now taking confirmations.
- 2006/04/26 Options for ATITD 3 Preorders are released under Utilities>Billing.
- 2006/04/25 Monument of Worship completes the resource requirements - please come apply to the site at 2380, 3210 (RSO) and "/info poll" ingame to vote on the test.
- 2006/04/23 Headed by JemGirl, the Monument of Body is erected. The monument has sealed a new challenge, The Test of the Oyster Catcher, for the next generation.
- 2006/04/23 Monument Discussion & T3 Announcement Transcript Monument And T3.
- 2006/04/18 The discussions about the Monument of Leadership ended. See the summary here. The new site is located in 2600 1970 RSO, and is opening for applying !
NewsArchive - all news older than 2 weeks should be moved here. Also move old events announcements earlier if space is tight.
Starting Points
Use one of the search boxes to jump to the page or topic you're interested in, or pick one of these pages and start browsing.
- Information (tech tree)
- Buildings - Building information, including construction costs
- Resources - Item information
- Skills and Techs - Skills, learnable with tuition from Schools, and technologies, learnable free from Universities
- Research - Research status, by region
- Tests and Challenges - The Stranger's challenge
- Guides - How-tos and strategy guides, including the Foraging reference
- Laws - Law library
- Misc - Miscellaneous stuff (including key/command reference)
- ATITD French dictionary - translations of English game terms into French
- Locations
- Atlas - Locations of interest around Egypt
- Guilds - Guild locations and links to guild pages - also see private guild wikis
- Public Facilities - Locations of freely-usable buildings
- About Egypt
- Avatars - A pic of all the available avatars in T2 and their names
- Backstory - A brief story of main events before tale 2
- Disciplines - Homepages for the various disciplines
- History - A brief running history of Egypt
- Regions - Regions of Egypt
- Trading (general info on trading) and Trade Lists (lists of goods and services for sale, esp. Raeli Tiles and Flax Ginning Services)
- Meta level
Other Resources - also see Links
- The official website
- http://www.atitd.net (Fansite which hosts official forums, System & Mic logs, general news, Chat client, as well as host of the wiki and .info)
- Official French site, French forums
- Official German Website, German Forums
- irc://irc.sorcery.net/atitd (Official ATITD IRC channel)
- Key trade sites:
- The Goods General Trade
- DEA trading in herbs and mushrooms
- Gem Exchange trading in watermine gems
- KaBoom! Pyrotechnics resources, facilities and lessons.
- The Swap Shop - Come and swap your stuff! No tellers needed!
- The wiki, forums and atitd.net are also available as RSS feeds.
- What time is it now some where else in the world? World Times, Deutsche Site für Weltzeiten
- PayPal Payments - How to Pay Without a CreditCard
About Wikis
- UseMod:WhatIsAWiki (What the heck is this wiki thing, anyway?)
- UseMod:TextFormattingRules (How to format pages on the wiki.)
- UseMod:UseModWiki (UseModWiki, the software running this site.)