Claim the book
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From: (Apocrypha Found)
You can just pick it up off the shelf; some crimes happen without fanfare.
Success
Taken
Description summary:
The success description varies based on the 
Apocrypha Sought and who you are 
Wandering the Stacks with.
| Apocrypha | Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | […] heraldry of many great houses of Europe […] Creatures dance and […] threatening the shining city […] medieval landscapes, transplanted to the Neath: a shepherd lays his crook amidst fields of mushrooms; labourers perform the seasons of the year beneath gloom […] |
| 2 | This is a book that has been much damaged, the pages stuck together with spillages and wax. It feels as fragile as the heartbeat of a dying bird held futilely to the breast. |
| 3 | This is vast volume, bound with chains and clasps. Seals hang from its bottom like a brace of dead rats. Each displays a cosmic symbol: a star, a sun, a moon. |
| 4 | This book is handsome, black and gold. The pages smell rose-scented and brass clasps bind the folios and additional pages in place. Something rattles inside it as you walk. |
| 5 | The volumes are white as lambskin […] There are marks of the Discordance, which are not there. There are marks of fire and flame, excisions performed with pen and scalpel and saw. A great deal has gone into attempting to render these texts null and void. […] |
| 6 | The book resembles an accounting ledger, ink-spattered and damaged with oil and smoke. The pages open and close: it leaks itself in ugly spills. |
| 99 | The book's covers are glass, clear as crystal and thin as knives, as though the book […] is bottled like so many souls. The pages within crowd with dense handwriting, warped by imperfections in the cover. It is alarmingly heavy, and obscenely fragile. |
| 101 | The book is midnight blue, its pages water-damaged. […] it hurts to look at. As though it came from a place far from here, a parallel where the light is brighter and perhaps kinder. |
| 201 | The book is the size of a large folio […] it resists being opened. […] lists of names, categories, authors, dates; commentary from Special Constables and Ministry bureaucrats. But it's hard to keep the words in focus; the letters seem to jump and sway. |
| 202 | The book is bound in […] Living human skin – it's warm, and the hairs stand […] as you handle it. "A work of a Citadel-Archivist," says the Shepherd, not explaining whether he means an archivist that lives in a citadel or a citadel that is also an archivist. |
| 203 | The book has an unassuming blue cover. Some agent used in the binding makes the eyes water. It's much heavier than it looks. |
| 204 | FATE |
| 205 | The red leather is cracked, and smells of goat. The print is minuscule, the illuminations vivid and fierce. The whole book is barely larger than your palm. |
| 206 | The leather is black, the fittings brass. There are jewels – motes of brilliant light – studding the covers. It is a book that insists upon its own importance. "It is, like the rest of the story, a performance." The Apostate's face is turned away. |
| Wandering the Stacks with: | Final Paragraph |
|---|---|
| 1 - The Last Duchess | "Let us find the reading room, then," says the Duchess. |
| 2 - Tatterdemalion 10 - Several Officers of your Crew | "Not here," Tatterdemalion points out. "The reading room." |
| 3 - The Forlorn Shepherd | The Forlorn Shepherd is already paging through his notes, looking for the best route to the reading room. |
| 4 - The Illuminated Shepherd | The Illuminated Shepherd is already paging through his notes, looking for the best route to the reading room. |
| 5 - Summer | Summer is already looking for an exit to the reading room. |
| 11 - Several Officers of your Crew | The book won't reveal its secrets here, in the open. You need to find the reading room. |
| 101 - The Clamorous Cartographer | FATE |
| 102 - The Graven Apostate | "Time to find the reading room," says the Apostate. "Bureaucracy; you know how it is." |
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