(A Book Writ in Darkness)
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From: Visit the Incandescent Bookseller
Description summary:
This action's title and description vary based on the 
.
| Airs | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0 - ? | Admiralty Codebook for 1896 | Possession of this is fantastically illegal. Is that why you must have it? |
| ? - ?? | Gentle Soul of Modesty | A small, unassuming black book. Surely an edifying read. |
| ?? - ??? | The Midnighter's Hymnal | Bound in cloth dyed irrigo – the colour of forgetting. |
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Game Instructions: This will increase your Shadowy.
Unlocked with 
4
Locked with 
Base Shadowy 111
Success
Delivered
Description summary:
The success description varies based on the .
| Airs | Description |
|---|---|
| 0 - ? | It's a dry read – pages filled with tables correlating words ('Aviary') to phrases ('Advise necessary caution'). And the codes have changed since then. But it is still extremely useful to see the structure of such a code. |
| ? - ?? | [...] chapter after chapter of dull observations on how to live a life in virtuous service [...] But hold the pages up to the light and it reveals an extensive manual on how to enrich oneself while working in service: from stealing [...] to murder for hire. |
| ?? - ??? | The hymns are instructions, confessions, secret codes, regrets. Written to be whispered rather than sung. Written to be forgotten. The book's final gathering is all blank pages – or perhaps their contents are just hard to remember. |
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Success Instructions: Another visit to the bookshop will be possible in a week's time.
A living story will begin soon. (Activates the Living story Another Volume for the Library; this message is not displayed.)
You now have 1 x A Book Writ in Darkness
