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43 lines
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*BOOKSTORE*
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This old-fashioned tan brick building has a sign showing an open book with a quill over the door, and a broken glass storefront window with a metal pipe sticking out of it.
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The inside also has some damage here and there, but nothing a simple wipedown couldn't fix. You see racks of fiction, nonfiction, romance, sci-fi, comics, children's books, all the normal stuff you'd expect to see.
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(INVESTIGATE ROLL) You find multiple history textbooks, but they couldn't be more than a few years old. You DO recognize alot of these titles on the shelves. In fact, some of these books you know were released VERY recently.
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- Fiction: The Girl On The Train
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- Nonfiction: Between The World and Me
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- Romance: Tremaine's True Love
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- Sci-Fi: Golden Son
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- Comics: Paper Girls
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- Children's Books: Hard Luck
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"Hello there, can I help ya find anything??" The voice comes from an older bulldog man with thick glasses, a metal cane, and a blue apron over a red tee shirt & black slacks, his gold nametag reading WARTON.
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ASK ABOUT THE HISTORY BOOK
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He will laugh a bit and reply "Oh, you'd want the OLD history book then. The schools get to those quick, but I think we have one or two copies left."
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He guides you to walk through one of the aisles toward the farther back part of the store. "So if ye don't mind me asking, what do ya need it fer? Old book like that, gotta be something special."
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*AFTER ANY RESPONSE*
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"Then this book'll give you some insight fer sure. You'll hafta excuse the mess though, those rassafrassin' Marauders have been makin' a mess outta everything lately. 'Speaking fer the unhappy people of Diadem' my ass."
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He reaches the shelf where the book SHOULD be, but the book and several others on the shelf have been burned to ash. "Oh dear, those were my last copies, and my next shipment isn't for another week..." He seems downright downtrodden.
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He perks up suddenly, turning to your group with renewed vigor. "But I know where ya can look fer another one, The Grand Library!"
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He laughs heartily as he walks back back to the front of the store. "It's a magical place, an amazing library of infinite knowledge and wisdom! I first went there when I was five, and the librarian there was so nice, he inspired me to open my bookstore."
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He points to a larger version of the map you are all carrying plastered on the wall of the store, currently singed in one corner, and points out an orange spot on the westernmost side of the rock wall around Diadem.
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"Er, wait! Before you head there, could you do an old man a kindness?" He steps behind the counter to start digging around for something.
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He pops back up holding an old children's book titled The Phantom Tollbooth. "Here it is! Could you please return this to the library? I borrowed it as a tot, but I think it's time for the next generation to be inspired by it."
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(Go to ORANGE DEMENSE)
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