(A Book Scrawled in Blood)

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Description summary:
This action's title and description vary based on the Placeholder Bookseller Airs.

Airs	Title	Description
0 - ?	Fighting Techniques of the Elder Continent	It juts out from a shelf at an angle, challenging all comers.
? - ??	An Accounting of the Life & Death of Mr Herod Paine of Hartford	The printer's mark is unfamiliar – American, perhaps.
?? - ???	McCannon's Primer on Naval Tactics	The revised second edition, of course, not the first printing with the dangerously flawed instruction on loading cannon.

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Game Instructions: This will increase your Dangerous.

Locked with Base Dangerous 111

Success

Delivered

Description summary:
The success description varies based on the Placeholder Bookseller Airs.

Airs	Description
0 - ?	Much [...] is spent on the warriors of Caution, but there are many more chapters, as varied as the Elder Continent itself: the organization [...] of the Presbyter's army. A detailed account of a glacially slow duel in Cline. [...] the killing methods of tigers.
? - ??	The narrative within is [...] an expedition to the Arctic. There, Mr Herod Paine and his valet [...] find a cavern that leads to [...] the 'Below' – a cavity beneath the Earth ruled by the survivors of a long-lost civilizations, complete with fanciful talking animals [...]
?? - ???	McCannon is antiquated, and still trapped in nostalgic dreams of Surface blue-water naval action. But his chapter on discipline – advice on keeping a crew together in the face of mortal danger – is a timeless classic.

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Success Instructions: Another visit to the bookshop will be possible in a week's time.

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