It takes an hour, but you work out the gist of the message. Something about gods, words, choices and Libraries-with-a-capital-L. And to escape, you need to… follow the stars? Look at the stars? Find the stars? You should probably go look at some stars…
A line of candles that really shouldn’t be floating around this close to this much paper flare into life, illuminating your way to a door that you didn’t see when you first entered, but has *probably* been there all along. The door swings open to reveal what is, frankly, a stone spiral staircase death trap leading up, up, up…
| OPTION 1 | OPTION 2 | OPTION 3 | |||
| If you… | Then… | If you… | Then… | If you… | Then… |
| Go up to try and unlock the secrets in the stars (astronomy, 520) | Do a 10 minute word war. Then have a midnight snack, and walk up and down 1 flight of stairs or just move around somehow (if physically possible) | Stay downstairs and try to figure it out with PHYSICS (530), because you don’t believe in all this nonsense about ghosts and libraries with a capital L | do a 15 minute word war, then break out the snacks. Stretch for that book on the high shelf (seriously, do some stretches) | Try to Physics it out, and then give up and go mark down the position of the bloody stars, anything to stop this getting in the way of your precious writing time | Do a 15 minute word war, eat, and then come back and do another 10 minutes at :45. make sure that you HYDRATE. |