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| {{NeedsConfirm|comment=Can all recipes be found with in the cooking/cocktailcrafting recipe books?<br>What is the damage range from the evil books?}}
| | [[Take a Look, it's in a Book!]] may refer to either of two choice adventures in [[The Haunted Library]]: |
| | *[[Take a Look, it's in a Book! (Rise)]], which includes "The Rise of the House of Spookyraven" and "Ancient Forbidden Unspeakable Evil, a Love Story". |
| | *[[Take a Look, it's in a Book! (Fall)]], which includes "The Fall of the House of Spookyraven". |
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| {{adventuretop|name=Take a Look, it's in a Book!|image=bookshelf.gif}} | | {{disambig}} |
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| As you're wandering through the Spookyraven Library, you notice a shelf full of particularly interesting books.
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| Which one would you like to peruse?
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| {{button|Read "The Rise of the House of Spookyraven"}}<br />
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| {{button|Read "The Better Haunted Homes and Conservatories Cookbook"}}<br />
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| {{button|Read "Ancient Forbidden Unspeakable Evil, a Love Story"}}<br />
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| {{button|Reading is for losers. I'm outta here.}}
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| <div style="text-align: center; margin: 1em">''or''</div>
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| {{button|Read "The Fall of the House of Spookyraven"}}<br />
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| {{button|Read "To Serve Man... Delicious Cocktails"}}<br />
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| {{button|Read "Ancient Forbidden Unspeakable Yoga, a Beginner's Guide"}}<br />
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| {{button|Reading is for losers. I'm outta here.}}
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| '''Read "The Rise of the House of Spookyraven":'''
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| {{adventuretop|name=History is Fun!|image=openbook.gif}}
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| Man, this book is long! Which part do you want to read?
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| {{button|Read Chapter 1: The Arrival}}<br />
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| {{button|Read Chapter 2: The Manor}}<br />
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| {{button|Read Chapter 3: Things Get Weird}}
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| '''Chapter 1: The Arrival'''
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| This chapter tells the story of young Lord Spookyraven's arrival, by boat, in Seaside Town. Some sources say he came from Distant Lands, while others claim he hailed from Parts Unknown.
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| All of the sources agree on one thing, however: He was really, really creepy, and his creepiness was eclipsed only by his eccentricity.
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| He spent the first few years of his time in Seaside Town living in a series of squalid apartments, attempting (unsuccessfully) to make his fortune.
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| He eventually discovered that he had a knack both for dealing in rare books and for grooming animals, and he consequently opened Spookyraven's Hard-to-Find Bookstore and Hard-to-Wash Pet Salon on the Right Side of the Tracks.
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| '''Chapter 2: The Manor'''
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| Elevated by the success of his bookstore and pet salon, Lord Spookyraven became a pillar of the Seaside Town community. A pillar that was composed mostly of huge piles of Meat. Having achieved both popularity and wealth, he began to cast about for the one thing missing from his life -- love.
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| In a nightclub on the Wrong Side of the Tracks, he met Lady Spookyraven. They took the astonishing coincidence of their names to be an unmistakable sign that they should marry, which they did almost immediately.
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| Lord Spookyraven then leveraged his considerable fortunes to build the finest mansion Seaside Town had ever seen, a sprawling 8-room edifice he named "Spookyraven Manor."
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| The pitter-patter of little feet was soon to follow, as Lord Spookyraven sired twin children, Stephen and Elizabeth.
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| '''Chapter 3: Things Get Weird'''
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| As the earnings from Lord Spookyraven's bookstore and pet salon increased, so did the size and depth of his personal collection of books. Historians believe that Lord Spookyraven stumbled upon his first text of Ancient Forbidden Unspeakable Evil by accident, but are all agreed that once he got a taste for it, it fit him like a glove. Historians then apologized for mixing food and clothing metaphors.
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| By the time Stephen and Elizabeth were five years old, Lord Spookyraven had become more and more reclusive and distant from his family, spending nearly all of his time in his library, poring over ancient tomes.
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| '''Read "The Fall of the House of Spookyraven":'''
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| {{adventuretop|name=History is Fun!|image=openbook.gif}}
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| Man, this book is long! Which part do you want to read?
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| {{button|Read Chapter 1: Things Get Weirder}}<br />
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| {{button|Read Chapter 2: Stephen and Elizabeth}}<br />
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| {{button|Read Chapter 3: Last Days}}
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| '''Chapter 1: Things Get Weirder'''
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| As Lord Spookyraven retreated further and further into his study of Ancient Forbidden Unspeakable Evil, his business fell into disrepair and soon closed down. Having completely alienated himself from his wife, he is at this time reported to have taken several hundred mistresses.
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| Some scholars believe this infidelity was the result of the Ancient Forbidden Unspeakable Evil slowly corrupting his sanity, others believe he was simply left directionless and bored after the dissolution of his business. Most of them just want to know how he managed to pull it off, because most scholars are actually really tired of hanging out alone in libraries.
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| His wife's response to his transgressions was unexpected. She didn't confront him, spiral into depression, or move back in with her mother -- instead she began to collect nightstands. Her collection grew so large that it was said to have displaced every bit of furniture in the Manor's enormous bedroom, including the bed.
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| '''Chapter 2: Stephen and Elizabeth'''
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| Lord Spookyraven's children Stephen and Elizabeth, like their mother, had some difficulty dealing with their father's descent into madness and philandering. Stephen had inherited his father's love of rare animals, and began to collect pets compulsively.
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| Though a handful of historians believe he was unusually cruel to them, it is more commonly believed that he simply had a knack for adopting incredibly unlucky animals. Whatever the reason, Spookyraven Manor soon had one of the finest pet cemeteries Seaside Town had ever seen.
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| Elizabeth cared for neither animals nor books, and instead focused her obsession on the collection of works of fine art. She built up an impressive collection in the Manor's gallery, but that collection was lost to her when one of Stephen's pet alligators swallowed the gallery's key.
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| ''Reading this book unlocks the [[Polo Tombstone]] one-time adventure in [[The Haunted Conservatory]].''
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| '''Chapter 3: Last Days'''
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| Little is known about the last days of the Spookyraven family. The folk of Seaside Town noticed that Lord Spookyraven hadn't been seen in public for several years, which led them to realize that they hadn't seen the rest of the family lately, either, for that matter.
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| No sign of any of the family members was ever seen again, and Spookyraven Manor gradually became completely dilapidated.
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| Rumors that the family was sucked into some sort of otherdimensional portal accidentally opened by Lord Spookyraven are usually dismissed as either poppycock or balderdash, though some more modern scholars have begun to believe that they might, in fact, be either hogwash or tommyrot.
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| '''Read "The Better Haunted Homes and Conservatories Cookbook":'''
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| You flip through the cookbook. Interesting....
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| It says here that if you cook
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| :''an item''
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| with
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| :''another item''
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| that you'll get
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| :''yet another item''
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| Huh. You'll have to try that one sometime.
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| '''Read "To Serve Man... Delicious Cocktails":'''
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| You flip through the bartending guide. Interesting....
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| It says here that if you mix
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| :''an item''
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| with
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| :''another item''
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| that you'll get
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| :''yet another item''
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| Huh. You'll have to try that one sometime.
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| '''Read "Ancient Forbidden Unspeakable Evil, a Love Story:'''
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| {{adventuretop|name=Naughty, Naughty...|image=openbook.gif}}
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| You crack open the tome of Ancient Forbidden Unspeakable Evil. Which particular flavor of Ancient Forbidden Unspeakable Evil were you looking for?
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| {{button|Read Chapter 1: Tuesdays with Abhorrent Fiends}}<br />
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| {{button|Read Chapter 2: The Nether Planes on 350 Meat a Day}}<br />
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| {{button|Read Chapter 3: Twisted, Curdled, Corrupt Energy and You}}
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| '''Chapter 1: Tuesdays with Abhorrent Fiends'''
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| Apparently the author of this book used to spend his Tuesday afternoons talking to retired nether fiends. Turns out he was onto something -- if you want to know forbidden secrets of the dark and sinister nature of the Universe, those guys are the guys you want to talk to.
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| {{stat|mys=gain 14-75}}
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| '''Chapter 2: The Nether Planes on 350 Meat a Day'''
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| This chapter teaches you how to open portals into the Nether Planes, which it claims are a great vacation spot if you're completely tainted by evil.
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| Unfortunately, you accidentally open such a portal by absent-mindedly reading one of the passages out loud.
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| Fortunately, this particular portal opens into the middle of a dance party. You have a few hors d'ouevres, make some small talk, and pick up some killer dance moves from a some drunk demons before stepping back through the portal into the Library
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| {{stat|mox=gain 50-75}}
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| '''Chapter 3: Twisted, Curdled, Corrupt Energy and You'''
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| This part of the book is written in language so Ancient, so Forbidden, so Unspeakable, and so Evil that you can't make heads or tails of it. When you try, it just sort of hurts your brain.
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| {{HP|type=lose|amount=10-15|element=spooky}}
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| '''Read "Ancient Forbidden Unspeakable Yoga, a Beginner's Guide":'''
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| You read the book of Ancient Forbidden Unspeakable Yoga, and try out a few of the positions. They provide a surprisingly good workout, but a few of them put your head places man was not meant to see.
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| {{stat|mus=gain 50-75}}
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| {{HP|type=lose|amount=10-15|element=spooky}}
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| '''Reading is for losers. I'm outta here:'''
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| You're afraid of literature, apparently, so you bail.
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| ==Notes==
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| * Clicking the third book from the left on the top of the book shelf opens a [[replacement staircase|Stairs Up]] which allows you to go up to the top floor of the manor.
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| :Upon clicking the book it gives this message:
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| ::''unknown''
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| :Clicking the book a second time will give this message:
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| ::''You're very clever and all, but that trick only works once. The secret staircase has already been revealed.''
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| * The cookbook and cocktail book show the ingredients and result of a random [[cooking]]/[[cocktailcrafting]] recipe.
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| * Reading The Fall of the House of Spookyraven, Chapter 2, Stephen and Elizabeth unlocks the non-combat one-time adventure, [[Polo Tombstone]].
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| ==References==
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| * The adventure title comes from the theme song to the long-running [[Wikipedia:PBS|PBS]] children's series ''[[Wikipedia:Reading Rainbow|Reading Rainbow]]''.
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| * The name "The Fall of the House of Spookyraven" is likely a reference to the short story [[wikipedia:The Fall of the House of Usher|The Fall of the House of Usher]], by [[wikipedia:Edgar Allan Poe|Edgar Allan Poe]].
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| * "Better Haunted Homes and Conservatories" is a reference to ''[[Wikipedia:Better Homes and Gardens (magazine)|Better Homes and Gardens]]''.
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| * [[Wikipedia:To Serve Man (The Twilight Zone)|To Serve Man]] is a famous ''[[Wikipedia:The Twilight Zone|The Twilight Zone]]'' episode, which featured a cookbook with that title.
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| *"Tuesdays with Abhorrent Fiends" is a takeoff on [[Wikipedia:Mitch Albom|Mitch Albom's]] book [[Wikipedia:Tuesdays with Morrie|Tuesdays with Morrie]].
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