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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 | Written on January 1st, 2003 at 05:57 PM |
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 | Written on January 3rd, 2003 at 10:06 PM |
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 | Written on January 4th, 2003 at 04:34 PM |
... well, if you can't get it out of your hands, you might as well see if it makes any sense.
For the first chunk of glyphs you can't makes heads or tails out of, so your eye skips it over. But then, even though you don't recognize any of the letters, it appears to be written in general Neopian tongue -
As the clock spins three times hence,
The web of wonders wraps round and round
Deeper and deeper, till one is so far down
Within the words one is...
You can't take your eyes off the words, but you strain to not read the last one - you have a sinking feeling it says something which means "bound", and that there is something magical about the script that is dangerous.
Maybe you should walk with the book until you run into a fire or something so you can burn it. Perhaps you should consult the librarian. You've also heard that if you read different chunks of magical text in random order you can break it's spell. Or all of the above may be trash and you should just keep reading...
| by Sara | Written on January 13th, 2003 at 09:39 PM |