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| mtn'man goes to Cyan in Mead, WA
During a WA state vacation on June 23, 2005, I took time to stop in at the headquarters for Cyan Worlds, unannounced. I cold call for a living, so I figured why not. What a treat it was. Staff was thin obviously, but they all treated me like family. I knew I was in the right place when I saw the front entrance. I had seen photos before. It is rather... unique.
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| As you walk in you go to the left and there are several pictures on the wall. This is one of the Riven dwellings.
It was signed in gold pen. |
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| Then there were a series of illustrations from the Riven game. This one shows the throne that Ghen sat on when he tormented the whark. | 
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| The second illustration shows the evolution of the fire marble power machine.
This was one of my favorite parts of the game. |
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Next were some of the whark drawing ideas. Don't make them mad! Sorry the pictures are blurry. I was trying not to use the flash so they would not be washed out. |
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| The Telescope.
Lots of idea floating around on this one. This linked photo is extra large so you can see more detail. |
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| A little more detail on one of the islands of Riven. The shading and detail of the island is pretty amazing for concept art. | 
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| The clay model of D'ni.
I was quite shocked to see this. I snapped a photo to have a high resolution version of this object. I had seen it in the book also and loved seeing it in person. I don't think that there are very many pictures of this in existence. |
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| Ghen's overcoat and cloak.
The D'ni wore some thick clothing didn't they? I guess it is cool in the caves. |
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| Ghen's Boots and his Fire Marble Gun.
This is a great shot of his gun. I took some close-up photos of the gun site too. |
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| The gun site on Ghen's gun.
It was cool to see the five pointed star used as the site for his gun. There is so much great attention to detail, as you would expect from the folks at Cyan. |
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| Catherine's Outfit
Complete with the wig and all. Nicely done as always. |
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| The Catherine Barbie Doll
I just had to take a photo of this thing. I wonder how many sold (and how many of those people know who Catherine really is). |
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| The Moiety Rebel Costume.
This was really cool to see up close. Great detail to make it look so ethnic. Another outstanding job by Cyan. |
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| Cho. You know, "The Dead Guy"
Remember right at the beginning of Riven when the guy takes the book from you while you are in the cage. Then he gets shot by a Moiety Rebel with a dart and falls dead. He gets dragged away and if you are observant you see he has been thrown over the cliff when you get out of the cage. Yep. That's his outfit. Too bad he was slow with the knife, right. You can see Ghen's symbol on the knife, but you don't know it is his symbol until you figure that out later. |
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| The fish tank from the Teledahn Office no less!
I fell out when I saw this thing. How funny is that. It was so tempting to see if there was a book under there. (Bet they have heard that one a thousand times.) What's that on the lower right side of the tank? |
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| A fuzzy close-up of Atrus inside the fish tank. Poor guy.
I should have taken a flash photo of Atrus in the fish tank. I still get a chuckle. 2021 Note: I used to link to a Cyan picture on their site of Diver Rand. While the old Diver Rand picture I used to link to is gone, at least a fish tank is still there! Construction Time at Cyan! |
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| Right as I was leaving I took a self portrait at the front archway. What a fun trip is was. I had no idea what would happen and everyone made me feel at home.
Thanks Cyan. |
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| I did buy an awesome Riven book about the creation of that game. I also got RAWA to sign my Myst Reader book. It was really nice of him to take some time to chat with me and sign my book. | 
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| This last photo is a close up of RAWA's signature. It is not clickable since this is blown up to the maximum size possible. |  |
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