(A Book in a Secret Alphabet)

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

Airs	Title	Description
0 - ?	De Rerum Re	Enormous, and set alone in its shelf – perhaps it doesn't care for company.
? - ??	Principia Mathematica	A very extensively revised and updated version, published by Benthic College Press.
?? - ???	Records of the Overzee Chess Society	Utilitarian, inexpensive binding – just the kind liable to hide little-known information.

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

Airs	Description
0 - ?	The deliberately uninformative title hides a comprehensive treatise on the Treacheries of the Neath. Why do maps seem to change their minds when one isn't looking? […] its premises are inventive […] but sifting truth from fiction is half the enjoyment […].
? - ??	Newton probably wouldn't recognise this version of his tome; Benthic's marginalia on his work has fully staged a coup and overtaken the main body of the text [...] There are pages missing [...] But what remains is terribly informative.
?? - ???	The [...] Society plays on the Principles of Coral, and occasionally other [...] islands. [...] there are a few annotated matches and even a brief chapter on opening theory: 'The main object of the first few turns is to properly develop your Nights and Paws...'

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

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