Hey,
I really enjoyed Drizzle. However there is one thing which annoys me. Why can't we go to the Descent before we have a Relto book? it's really annoying, cause once I take a relto book I have to go through the whole journey in order to return to the desert and go to the descent!
I know there is the problem of panic linking, but I don't think many people would mind just panic linking to the desert. It's the same when you panic link in the cleft- you return to the desert (you can panic link in the cleft only through bugs and glitches, though).
I think descent is always open. Even before you have a Relto book. And if you don't have it, you will panic link to the desert.
I also have another cool idea: going through the door in the last eder tomahn (it will be closed but you can walk through it) will link you to the 'hood. If you don't have a relto book yet, the linking books there won't work. I wonder if you can make such a thing work.
I bet many people would like that because going through the descent into d'ni is the original concept of Uru, which was sadly scraped.