Take a Look, it's in a Book! (Fall)
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Take a Look, it's in a Book!
As you're wandering through the Spookyraven Library, you notice a shelf full of particularly interesting books.
Which one would you like to peruse?
| Read "The Fall of the House of Spookyraven" |
| History is Fun! (The Fall of the House of Spookyraven) | |
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| Read "To Serve Man... Delicious Cocktails" |
You flip through the bartending guide. Interesting....
It says here that if you mix
- first ingredient
with
- second ingredient
that you'll get
- resulting item
Huh. You'll have to try that one sometime.
| Read "Ancient Forbidden Unspeakable Yoga, a Beginner's Guide" |
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.
| You gain 50-75 Fortitude. |
 | You lose 10−15 hit points. (spooky damage) |
| Reading is for losers. I'm outta here. |
You're afraid of literature, apparently, so you bail.
Occurs in The Haunted Library.
References
- "The Fall of the House of Spookyraven" is a reference to Edgar Allen Poe's famous short story "The Fall of the House of Usher."
- "Take a Look, it's in a Book!" is a reference to the popular PBS kids show, Reading Rainbow. It is a line from the theme song.
- "Particularly interesting books" and the ability to learn a recipe is likely a reference to Dragon Quest VIII, in which you can sometimes learn alchemy recipes by reading from bookshelves you come across. (Some bookshelves weren't readable - the message when you examined one of these was "None of these books appear particularly interesting.")
- The book titled "To Serve Man... Delicious Cocktails" is a reference to the short story To Serve Man, in which a seemingly friendly alien race leaves behind a book titled "To Serve Man", only for it to be discovered that it is actually a cookbook.
