You consider setting the torch on fire again. You don't see how this would work, it is mounted in the torch rack next to the door.
You walk over to the door so you can get some better lighting to read the book with. You sit down and open the book to a random page.
..You can't understand Any of this. It's all scribbles to you! You flip through pages randomly. Something catches your eye just as you flip to another page. You go back several pages and find what it was that caught your eye...
You can't find it.. Maybe you should look through it later?
You then decide to search the room for anything else...
You find a note inside the coffin. You can actually understand what it says.
If you are reading this and I am not present, something has gone horribly horribly wrong. If I am alive, I may not be for much longer and if I am dead then I am dead. You are the failsafe. I have no idea what race you are, all I know is that I found your corpse frozen in crystalized Mana all those years ago. If you have been reanimated without me, one or several of the failsafe spells activated to ensure all was not lost. There may have been a delay and there may not have. It could be thousands of years from when I am writing this and it could be minutes, I do not know and likely will never know. The book I left you with details a rather advanced series of spells from a specific school of magic called Necromancy. I decided that school would give you the greatest chance at returning magic to the world. Do not expect to be able to read it instantly, the book was written in truescript and will become clearer and easier to understand the longer you interact with magic.
Your mind has been seeded with the roots of knowledge, take care of that which sprouts from it, you won't have access to anything beyond basic things early on, the more you experience the more you will remember.
Beware the Usurping Gods, their priests will kill you if they find out you are Mageborn. Throw off their shackles and bring the gift that nature gave us back to the world.
Be careful, there may be constructs still active in the catacombs, and even if I am still alive, they will have instructions to terminate intruders, don't die, knowledge must be preserved.
I know not what you are or who you will become. Treat this second life you have been given well. The Knowledge Must Be Preserved. Guard it well. You are the last failsafe. You are the last hope of the Scholars. You Must Survive.
~Zivak Nelvun. The Last Scholar of Magic.The note unsettles you, you feel like there was much more to it then just words.
Lightly bruised butt.
Lightly bruised forehead.
Confused and slightly perturbed.
Unsettled.
Extremely Hungry.
Extremely Thirsty.
Black Robe 2/10 Inventory Slots Used. Layer 1, Covering Torso, Arms, and Legs. Has hood, hood is not being used.
Pouch 3/3 Slots taken.
Piece of Metal (Stone with Metal = Sparks)
Piece of Stone (Metal with Stone = Sparks)
Unsettling Note.
Held in hands: Black Leatherbound Book
Torch, in torch rack next to door.
Closed door, it is barred on this side.
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