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Into the Deep Catacombs...

Ah, hello there young neopet! I see you have come for a story. We have many stories here, many tales to be told and read. Look around at these shelves, and delve into as many books as you want. I guarantee there will always be more than you could possibly imagine.

Go on, don't be shy! Look, they're even divided by type of story. Over here, I have adventure stories. If you're looking for romance, try that shelf. Oh, and don't forget the biographies.

If you're looking for history, we have that, too. I'm afraid that much of our source material is in storage, but you can enter that through the side door over there.

by Administrator
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 Written on January 1st, 2003 at 05:57 PM

Chosen Option: Check out the side door

What a load of dust!

The side door creaks open and you step inside, trading the rather dimly lit library for an even darker chamber. It takes a minute to find the light switch, and the single bulb sheds only a small glow into a vast corridor crammed with junk.

After coughing on the dust, you poke around a bit. Source material, indeed! Here are shelves with ancient scrolls ready to tear at the slightest excuse. And here are boxes filled with musty old books that are bound in leather. The writing is worn mostly off of the covers.

Stepping back into the center of the room, you try not to pay any attention to the wavering shadows in the corners. Finally, you reach a decision.

by Administrator
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 Written on January 3rd, 2003 at 10:06 PM

Chosen Option: You pick up a brown leather book from the musty pile....

Leather and Lace

You take a moment to examine the book that you've chosen.

The pages are so brittle that you must turn them with a careful hand to avoid crumbling them to dust. The occasional bookworm scurries quickly away from the light as you carefully examine this tome which must certainly predate Neopia itself. The language is archaic, and not something you can translate. You continue to flip, however, in a vain hope that illustrations will somehow illuminate the meaning of the strange glyphs within.

Two pages of the book, about halfway in, are distinctly stuck together. Using the edge of your nail, you carefully separate- and have a moment of retrospect in which you realize this may not have been the best of ideas. A greenish glow eminates from the pages, which seem to be torn in a partially claw-like pattern. Gasping, you try to thrust the book away from you, but find that some unknown force binds it to your hand. A face begins to form fom the green mist... and you have the distinct feeling that it is watching you... hungrily. A scream dies in your throat as it reaches outward from the book with a claw, delicately veined like a tatting of antique lace, and draws you in.....



by L
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 Written on January 4th, 2003 at 04:34 PM