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[ZBridges]

A

[Prophet]

A

[Maximum Spin]

Personally, I would find it funnier if we don't actually care about necromancy all that much, so I'd vote for A or C.

[TurboDwarf]

A

[Haspen]

You climb up the cold, granite stairs and march into the library.

The eight bookshelves arranged in the shape of letter H are filled with books and scrolls. Most of the books have leather covers, but, as you found out on the day 1, majority of them are in such a bad shape that you're afraid that turning a page in some of them would cause them to tear.

Nonetheless, quite a few of them have titles (sometimes even authors) written on the backs or covers of the books.

You circle the arrangement of shelves, reading some titles in your mother tongue, while unable to make sort of titles covered in squiggly script, rectangular script, and long-flowing swirly script. The squiggly script might be one of the elven languages, but you can only guess.

You decide to...

A) Read some books on actual necromancy.
B) Read some books on corpse preparation and binding.
C) Read some books on alchemical equipment and ingredients.
D) Read some books that might or might not be related to necromantic topics.
E) Check out pictures in the books with squiggly script.
F) Check out pictures in the books with rectangular script.
G) Check out pictures in the books with long-flowing swirly script.

[TurboDwarf]

A

[brewer bob]

E

[Shadowclaw777]

A

[Megam0nkey]

A

[Haspen]

You pull out a book that reads on its binding, quite plainly, 'Animation of the Flesh'. You peek back at the stairs leading up, but no sound comes.

You sit in the corner of the library, so that the sunlight peeking through the closed window could lit up the pages better, and begin to read.

7!*

It is really quite confusing. Page by page, the thin letters speak of crystals and spires, of combinations of sulphur and tar and dragonblood and saffron. Of the need to place them according to lunar calendar of phases so that the 'conduit' for the 'wayward souls' is the strongest 'in the nadir of the celestial'.

You find some ritual circles with sketchings of disfigured corpse on them. Strange runes dot the edges of the circles as the corpse is placed upon it, legs together but arms splayed outwards. Head to toes, left hand to right hand, the corpse is arrayed like a cross. The ritual book warns to not make error of the runes and keep voice soft and steady, never to yell - to not scare away the souls - and never to mispronounce - lest the souls take offense and lash out at the necromancer.

This particular ritual seems to involve raising of recently departed dead of whom you know their name and plead them to return on behalf of their family. Further diagrams on further pages are for partial animations of a head, throat and arms, and there's even images of bound men in front of corpses pointing or rising in their direction. You wonder - could this be one way for the dead to communicate the names of their murderers, wrongdoers, enemies?

Closing the book, the sun is past zenith and it's mid-afternoon, you wager, and your grumbling stomach does notify you of passing of time too. The shape of the circle stays with you, and so do the warnings and ritual images, and names of ingredients, at least, you hope that's all of them.

You think you understand the ritual.

You could study the ritual further.

You could, perhaps, even master it without Yorick's help.

A) Pilfer the book to the storage for further reading.
B) Put the book back where it belongs, and ask Yorick about it later.
C) Put the book back where it belongs, and come back to it another day, clandestinely.

[Shadowclaw777]

B, like to imagine us as a goody two-shoes apprentice, however we might be too nosy or inquisitive for our uncaring mentor!

[crazyabe]

B.

[Kashyyk]

B - He probably won't care about us reading by ourselves, so long as it does not have a direct negative impact on him, so it might be worth making sure he doesn't have any frightful warnings

[BlackPaladin99]

C

[Maximum Spin]

B