How convenient, this seems like a suitable thread to write about this. Maybe one of you can help explain a few things.
I inherited a box from my late grandfather. It contained two books, titled The Warper's Handbook and Timewalking: the Future, Past and Present of Transportation, a pair of spectacles, a circlet made out of silver and an ebony cane.
The first book is weird and difficult to read. Some pages have three sides, some only one. A few times, even though I kept browsing forward, I kept seeing the same pages. One page seemed empty, but actually projected itself on my wall. What I can read, however, is very interesting. It describes many "spells" to translocate and otherwise warp things around. I haven't tried any of them yet, but something tells me they're going to work. When I put the book down and looked away for a moment, it disappeared, and I found it a while later in my bookshelf. Handy, though annoying.
The second book was much easier. The text was easy, interesting and fun, and it seemed like time flew as I read. This one describes "spells" to control time in various forms (mostly ones for "the road"), though many of them require obscure...ingredients? What is a clockroach anyway and where do I get its mandibles? I might try one in a while, though the risks explained in a chapter are rather dire. Apparently, becoming my own grandpa would be a best-case scenario for a "miscast".
The spectacles show strange angles on everything I look through them, probably an extra spatial dimension or something. Wouldn't be weird with what the books tell me. The circlet, I have no idea. It looks nice, though The cane, apparently, is a sort of focus for magic and required for many of the "spells."
...Now that I think about it, maybe they weren't kidding when they said grandpa went to a better place... We never had a funeral, after all.
The question is, should I try any of this stuff? It doesn't make much sense and seems dangerous, but lucrative.