Sugarcane

<<if $tomecolour is "qre">><<addtag "qre">><<else if $tomecolour is "rtaneb">><<addtag "rtaneb">><<else if $tomecolour is "jbyyrl">><<addtag "jbyyrl">><<else if $tomecolour is "arret">><<addtag "arret">><<else if $tomecolour is "rhyo">><<addtag "rhyo">><<else if $tomecolour is "grybvi">><<addtag "grybvi">><<else if $tomecolour is "xpnyo">><<addtag "xpnyo">><<endif>>\s\n\s\nKnowledge twists itself into your mind, but it is confused, shadowed, distorted: it leaves you doubting whatever you thought you knew before, and gives you nothing to cling to. Through it all the voices have picked up in strength. You listen:\n\n//@@text-shadow: #9400D3 -1px 0px 1px, #9B30FF 1px 0px 1px, #696969 0px -1px 1px, #777777 0px 1px 1px;<<print either("...spake the words: qre...", "...rtaneb...", "...jbyyrl...", "...arret...", "...rhyo...", "...grybvi...", "...the final word...", "...''you'' were the one...", "...great ritual, at last...", "...cemetary filled with sacrifices...", "...the graves of those who came before...", "...killed them, killed them all...", "...the ritual, finally...", "...deaths not in vain...", "...the Tome of All...", "...opened the tome...", "...cast the circle...", "...made the sacrifice...", "...you were there...", "...you did this...", "...summoned the demon...", "...brought it into this world...", "...for power...", "...the power of the tome...", "...the power of the words...", "...for the power of the tome...", "...released the power...", "...released the demon...", "...released our doom...", "...released the words...", "...write them into the tome...", "...gain the power...", "...the power of the words...", "...write the words into the tome...", "...write the words...", "...you made this deal...", "...you released them...", "...you released it...", "...you summoned it from the tome...", "...you gave it life...", "...for the words...", "...for the power...", "...all the sacrifices...", "...all the years...", "...took the talisman...", "...broke it...", "...broke the talisman...", "...took the spokes...", "...took the words...", "...hid the words...", "...hid ourselves...", "...to keep you from the words...", "...to keep you from the power...", "...to keep us safe...", "...ran from the demon...", "...ran and hid...", "...took shelter where we could...", "...thought we were safe...", "...thought we could hide...", "...thought it might not find us...", "...thought maybe we could undo it...", "...overpower you...", "...kill you...", "...take the tome...", "...use the words...", "...banish the demon...", "...back into the tome...", "...back whence it came...", "...came after us...", "...took our life...", "...devoured our life...", "...to feed itself...", "...to grow strong...", "...into the forest...", "...feeds on flesh and bone...", "...feeds on life...", "...tore the life from our bodies...", "...left us lifeless...", "...left us hopeless...", "...keep the talisman safe...", "...keep it from your hands...", "...could do no more...", "...feed on your life...", "...kill you now...", "...you killed us...", "...you did this...", "...you gave it life...", "...you made the deal...", "...in the forest...", "...it waits and feeds...", "...corrupted the life that was there...", "...will kill you...", "...will take back the words...", "...will take back the tome...", "...last threat...", "...last hope...", "...must keep them safe...", "...it was ''your'' idea...", "...you did this...")>>@@//\n\nBut the words haven't sounded from the corpse's mouth, and it is [[still coming|can't help]].

It feasts upon your flesh. You are glad to serve.\n\nIt builds dams from your bones. You are glad to serve.\n\nIt devours your soul. [[You are glad to serve.|credits]]

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You become one with darkness.<<else if $tomecolour is "rphc sb rqnuf lrfhregenup n">>Nobody's eldritch sorceries are a chartreusey shade of puce, T-Rex.<<else if $tomecolour is "ravengpb">>Nice idea, but this isn't the Discworld, and this colour doesn't exist.<<else if $tomecolour is "fehbybp yyn" or $tomecolour is "febybp yyn">>The tome flares up with a mighty anti-piracy warning.<<else if $tomecolour is "jboavne">>Awesome as that would be, nothing happens.<<else if $tomecolour is "btvqav">>I suppose the six-spoked eldritch artefact wasn't enough to tip you off that this thing runs on modern colour theory, wherein indigo is no longer considered a separate colour?<<else if $tomecolour is "xavc">>Really? I mean, //really//?<<else if $tomecolour is "lret" or $tomecolour is "lnet" or $tomecolour is "ajbeo">>You think you've figured this thing out, sort of, but apparently you haven't quite got it yet. 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A hand reaches around your neck, strangely warm and dry as bone. The skin is so brittle that it crumbles against your throat<<if $tomecolour is "rtaneb">>, and dry enough to burn<<endif>>, but there is strength behind it: enough to choke off your last desperate breaths. Stars burst behind your eyelids.\n\n[[Death comes for you swiftly.|credits]]

You brace yourself for an onslaught of light, but it doesn't come. Even with your eyes open, all you can see is black noise and the pressure of your own pulse against your optic nerve. Or something. It's astounding how //bright// pure blackness can be.\n\nThere's got to be a light switch or something somewhere: you'll just have to [[fumble around]] for it. Though perhaps [[remaining in utter silent darkness]] wouldn't be so bad: really, this is the ideal environment for a person as hung over as you feel.

<<if $tomecolour is "qre">><<addtag "qre">><<else if $tomecolour is "rtaneb">><<addtag "rtaneb">><<else if $tomecolour is "jbyyrl">><<addtag "jbyyrl">><<else if $tomecolour is "arret">><<addtag "arret">><<else if $tomecolour is "rhyo">><<addtag "rhyo">><<else if $tomecolour is "grybvi">><<addtag "grybvi">><<else if $tomecolour is "xpnyo">><<addtag "xpnyo">><<endif>>\s\n\s\n>//<<print either("Alice", "Bob", "Theresa", "Charlie", "Martha", "Rose", "Donna", "Gwen", "Clara", "Amelia", "Amy", "Kim", "Jack", "Joe", "Damien", "Olga", "Johann", "Bruce", "Lisa", "Allison", "Harriet", "Victoria", "Joseph", "Lee", "Rupert", "Victor", "Viktor", "John", "Jon", "Jonathon", "Rory", "Martin", "Owen", "Bernard", "Tyler", "Annwyn", "Adrienne", "Agnes", "Alyssa", "Thomas", "Keith", "Gareth", "Adrian", "Andy", "Ann", "Walter", "Michael", "Gabriel", "Ottfried", "Karl", "Charlotte", "Elyssa", "May", "Ronald", "George", "Fred", "Robert", "Meredith", "Alex", "Will")>> <<print either("Roswald", "Slater", "Habibi", "Rossman", "Jenkins", "Willis", "Sirtis", "Reynolds", "Petterson", "Jones", "Smith", "Clayton", "Eberst", "Endress", "Nonnenmacher", "Mosely", "Baker", "Cooper", "Potter", "Nakamura", "Huskins", "Takahashi", "Walters", "Summers", "Weaver", "Sanders", "Hastings", "Williams", "Frines", "Cumberbatch", "Able", "Cunningham", "Rochenko", "Gates", "Roberts", "Eastwood", "Brown", "Conner", "the Last of That Name", "Freeman", "Agyebar", "Barrowman", "Lloyd", "Yamato", "Young", "Lu", "Dorn", "Frakes", "Spiner", "the Third", "Bates", "Watson")>>\n<<if $tomecolour is "qre">><<print either("Victim of Murder", "Killed by a Blow to the Back of the Neck", "Robbed First of Livelihood; then of Life", "Had One Fight Too Many", "Drank One Beer Too Many", "The Killer Was Never Found", "Head Cracked Open", "Slipped Up on the Stairs – Never Slipped Up Again", "Victim of Violence", "Gave Good; Got Better", "Knife in Eye", "Left Blood all over the Street", "Broke Ten Hearts; Lost Own to Stabbing", "Scissors", "Suicide", "First Lost Temper; Then Lost Life", "Eaten by Giant Carnivorous Beaver", "Mauled by Bats", "Died Screaming")>><<else if $tomecolour is "rtaneb">><<print either("Died in Fire", "Burned to Death", "Arson", "Played With Matches", "Left a Candle Burning", "Smoked in Bed", "Charred to a Crisp", "Too Many Candles", "Tried to Leap Over a Bonfire – Didn't", "Died Screaming", "Suicide", "Smoke Inhalation", "Left the gas on", "Burnt")>><<else if $tomecolour is "jbyyrl">><<print either("Died Doing What Was Right", "Believed Until the End", "Never Faltered, Never Failed", "Suicide", "Died Screaming", "Always Stood Firm", "A Beacon to Others", "Light of My Life", "A Blessing to Kith and Kin", "Never Relented", "Stalwart and Strong", "Always Remembered")>><<else if $tomecolour is "arret">><<print either("Dead at Last", "Rest in Peace", "Requiescat in Pace", "May the Earth Hold the Dead", "Remain Buried Forever", "Forever Hold Your Peace", "Sleep Now", "Suicide", "Died Screaming", "We Mourn the Loss of You", "Be Silent in Sleep", "Be Peaceful in Death", "We Pray You do not Wake", "Peace be with You")>><<else if $tomecolour is "rhyo">><<print either("Froze", "Drowned", "Suicide", "Died Screaming", "Couldn't Last Through the Winter", "Died in the Cold", "Eaten by Frostbite", "Winter's Tribute", "Winter's Victim", "Buried in Snow", "Died Wanting Warmth", "Frozen", "Born in Winter – Died the Same", "Went Out in the Storm", "Didn't Dress for the Weather")>><<else if $tomecolour is "grybvi">><<print either("Still Haunting", "Spoke of Fleshless Voices; Then Became One", "Mad", "Died Raving", "Died Weeping", "Forgot What Was Real", "Driven Mad by Things Unseen", "Saw What We Could Not", "Knew Things That Were Never Said", "Still Waiting", "Suicide", "Died Screaming", "Left a Chill in Our Hearts", "Died Weeping; Weeps Still", "Dead, but not Sleeping", "Found no Peace in Life; Found no Peace in Death", "Dead and Lonely", "Still Up For a Chat", "Always Wanted to be a Vampire")>><<else if $tomecolour is "xpnyo">>Dead<<else>><<print either("Lived and Died Unremarkably", "Died Without Fanfare", "Parent, Sibling, Child", "Suicide", "Died Screaming")>><<endif>>//\n*[[Read another|gravestones]]\n*[[Return|graveyard]]

<<if visited("book") and not visited("cave mummy death") and not visited("chant") and not visited("hill mummy death") and not visited("death in fire") and not visited("demon water death") and not visited("demon worship death") and not visited("demon barrier death") and not visited("secret ending") and not visited("credits")>><<if $qre is "y">><<print "@@text-shadow: #CD0000 -1px -1px 1px, #FF0000 1px 1px 1px;[[qre|Tomelink][$tomecolour = 'qre']]@@ ">><<endif>><<if $rtaneb is "y">><<print "@@text-shadow: #FF6103 -1px -1px 1px, #FF8000 1px 1px 1px;[[rtaneb|Tomelink][$tomecolour = 'rtaneb']]@@ ">><<endif>><<if $jbyyrl is "y">><<print "@@text-shadow: #FFD700 -1px -1px 1px, #FFEC8B 1px 1px 1px;[[jbyyrl|Tomelink][$tomecolour = 'jbyyrl']]@@ ">><<endif>><<if $arret is "y">><<print "@@text-shadow: #006400 -1px -1px 1px, #7FFF00 1px 1px 1px;[[arret|Tomelink][$tomecolour = 'arret']]@@ ">><<endif>><<if $rhyo is "y">><<print "@@text-shadow: #4F94CD -1px -1px 1px, #00BFFF 1px 1px 1px;[[rhyo|Tomelink][$tomecolour = 'rhyo']]@@ ">><<endif>><<if $grybvi is "y">><<print "@@text-shadow: #9400D3 -1px -1px 1px, #9B30FF 1px 1px 1px;[[grybvi|Tomelink][$tomecolour = 'grybvi']]@@ ">><<endif>><<if $xpnyo is "y">><<print "@@text-shadow: #777777 -1px -1px 1px, #555555 1px 1px 1px;[[xpnyo|Tomelink][$tomecolour = 'xpnyo']]@@ ">><<endif>><<endif>>\n<<if visited("book") and not visited("cave mummy death") and not visited("chant") and not visited("hill mummy death") and not visited("death in fire") and not visited("demon water death") and not visited("demon worship death") and not visited("demon barrier death") and not visited("secret ending") and not visited("credits")>>[img[Tome small][The Tome of All]]<<endif>>

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Sharp teeth sink into your leg and drag you down, pulling your feet out from under you. Water floods into your nose and mouth: it tastes of blood.\n\nYou thrash and flail in vain. The beaver is huge and bloodthirsty and possessed of a demonic strength, [[and it has already begun to devour you.|credits]]

<<if previous() is "secret ending">>Thank you for playing (and congratulations on finding the secret ending)!\n\n//Within Blank Pages// was written and conceived by [[G. Deyke|https://gdeyke.wordpress.com/]]. If you've enjoyed this experience, you may also be interested in their other interactive fiction, which can be found [[here|https://gdeyke.wordpress.com/interactive-fiction/]].\n\nIf you've enjoyed this game, please consider donating whatever you think it's worth. Of course you're under no obligation to do so, but a donation of any amount would be much appreciated.<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">\n<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">\n<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="WHBLWJCPUDG4Y">\n<input type="image" src="http://orig02.deviantart.net/1c04/f/2016/335/8/c/wbp_donate_button_by_gdeyke-daq6rhy.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">\n<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/de_DE/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">\n</form><<else if previous() is "semi-secret end">>Thank you for playing (and congratulations on finding the semi-secret ending)!\n\n//Within Blank Pages// was written and conceived by [[G. Deyke|https://gdeyke.wordpress.com/]]. If you've enjoyed this experience, you may also be interested in their other interactive fiction, which can be found [[here|https://gdeyke.wordpress.com/interactive-fiction/]].\n\nIf you've enjoyed this game, please consider donating whatever you think it's worth. Of course you're under no obligation to do so, but a donation of any amount would be much appreciated.<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">\n<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">\n<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="WHBLWJCPUDG4Y">\n<input type="image" src="http://orig02.deviantart.net/1c04/f/2016/335/8/c/wbp_donate_button_by_gdeyke-daq6rhy.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">\n<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/de_DE/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">\n</form><<else if previous() is "ritual end">>Thank you for playing.\n\n//Within Blank Pages// was written and conceived by [[G. Deyke|https://gdeyke.wordpress.com/]]. If you've enjoyed this experience, you may also be interested in their other interactive fiction, which can be found [[here|https://gdeyke.wordpress.com/interactive-fiction/]].\n\nIf you've enjoyed this game, please consider donating whatever you think it's worth. Of course you're under no obligation to do so, but a donation of any amount would be much appreciated.<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">\n<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">\n<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="WHBLWJCPUDG4Y">\n<input type="image" src="http://orig02.deviantart.net/1c04/f/2016/335/8/c/wbp_donate_button_by_gdeyke-daq6rhy.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">\n<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/de_DE/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">\n</form><<else>>Thank you for playing!\n\nIf you'd like to try again, you can restart or use your browser's back button. (Fair warning: the back button does interact a bit oddly with the //Tome of All//. This is nothing to be concerned about.)<<endif>>

<<if visited("Worship")>><<addtag "xpnyo">>Once again, you enlist the aid of your undead army: the chant goes from your heart through your mind through all their throats and your own.\n\n''//@@text-shadow: #CD0000 -2px -1px 2px, #FF0000 2px 1px 2px;QRE@@//''\n\n''//@@text-shadow: #FF6103 -2px -1px 2px, #FF8000 2px 1px 2px;RTANEB@@//''\n\n''//@@text-shadow: #FFD700 -2px -1px 2px, #FFEC8B 2px 1px 2px;JBYYRL@@//''\n\n''//@@text-shadow: #006400 -2px -1px 2px, #7FFF00 2px 1px 2px;ARRET@@//''\n\n''//@@text-shadow: #4F94CD -2px -1px 2px, #00BFFF 2px 1px 2px;RHYO@@//''\n\n''//@@text-shadow: #9400D3 -2px -1px 2px, #9B30FF 2px 1px 2px;GRYBVI@@//''\n\n<font color=#000000>''//@@text-shadow: #777777 -2px -1px 2px, #FFFFFF 2px 1px 2px;XPNYO@@//''</font>\n\nThe seventh word wells out of your throat like blood. You take the //Tome of All// from your pocket: there is the chill of it, seeping the warmth from your <<if $tomecolour is "grybvi">>fingers<<else>>mouldering fingers<<endif>>, and there is its ponderous weight against your palm. It falls open to empty pages: but no. Blank pages, brittle pages, but not empty, never empty. You freed the demon, but something of its power is still tied to this cold black book.\n\n''//@@text-shadow: #CD0000 -2px -1px 2px, #FF0000 2px 1px 2px;QRE@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #FF6103 -2px -1px 2px, #FF8000 2px 1px 2px;RTANEB@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #FFD700 -2px -1px 2px, #FFEC8B 2px 1px 2px;JBYYRL@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #006400 -2px -1px 2px, #7FFF00 2px 1px 2px;ARRET@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #4F94CD -2px -1px 2px, #00BFFF 2px 1px 2px;RHYO@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #9400D3 -2px -1px 2px, #9B30FF 2px 1px 2px;GRYBVI@@//'' <font color=#000000>''//@@text-shadow: #777777 -2px -1px 2px, #FFFFFF 2px 1px 2px;XPNYO@@//''</font>\n\nThe chant grows louder, faster, pulling at you from within. You are a wellspring of power, unstoppable. You can feel the demon inside of you.\n\n''//@@text-shadow: #CD0000 -2px -1px 2px, #FF0000 2px 1px 2px;QRE@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #FF6103 -2px -1px 2px, #FF8000 2px 1px 2px;RTANEB@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #FFD700 -2px -1px 2px, #FFEC8B 2px 1px 2px;JBYYRL@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #006400 -2px -1px 2px, #7FFF00 2px 1px 2px;ARRET@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #4F94CD -2px -1px 2px, #00BFFF 2px 1px 2px;RHYO@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #9400D3 -2px -1px 2px, #9B30FF 2px 1px 2px;GRYBVI@@//'' <font color=#000000>''//@@text-shadow: #777777 -2px -1px 2px, #FFFFFF 2px 1px 2px;XPNYO@@//''</font>\n\nYou will not bind it. You will not write it back into the //Tome of All//. You are the servant and saviour of the beast, and by your will you will raise it back to strength.\n\nBlack power wells up inside of you like a storm.\n\n''//@@text-shadow: #CD0000 -2px -1px 2px, #FF0000 2px 1px 2px;QRE@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #FF6103 -2px -1px 2px, #FF8000 2px 1px 2px;RTANEB@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #FFD700 -2px -1px 2px, #FFEC8B 2px 1px 2px;JBYYRL@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #006400 -2px -1px 2px, #7FFF00 2px 1px 2px;ARRET@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #4F94CD -2px -1px 2px, #00BFFF 2px 1px 2px;RHYO@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #9400D3 -2px -1px 2px, #9B30FF 2px 1px 2px;GRYBVI@@//'' <font color=#000000>''//@@text-shadow: #777777 -2px -1px 2px, #FFFFFF 2px 1px 2px;XPNYO@@//''</font>\n\nThe power is rising. [[You can't hold it.|semi-secret end]]<<else>>Once again, you enlist the aid of your undead army.\n\n''//@@text-shadow: #CD0000 -2px -1px 2px, #FF0000 2px 1px 2px;QRE@@//''\n\n''//@@text-shadow: #FF6103 -2px -1px 2px, #FF8000 2px 1px 2px;RTANEB@@//''\n\n''//@@text-shadow: #FFD700 -2px -1px 2px, #FFEC8B 2px 1px 2px;JBYYRL@@//''\n\n''//@@text-shadow: #006400 -2px -1px 2px, #7FFF00 2px 1px 2px;ARRET@@//''\n\n''//@@text-shadow: #4F94CD -2px -1px 2px, #00BFFF 2px 1px 2px;RHYO@@//''\n\n''//@@text-shadow: #9400D3 -2px -1px 2px, #9B30FF 2px 1px 2px;GRYBVI@@//''\n\nThe chant wells out of your throat and flies out into the throng of hoarse wet undead voices, growing louder as it goes, pulling at something inside of you. You find yourself taking out the //Tome of All//: there is the chill of it, seeping the warmth from your <<if $tomecolour is "grybvi">>fingers<<else>>mouldering fingers<<endif>>, and there is its ponderous weight in your palm. You let it fall open. Blank pages, brittle pages – words alone can't fill this tome.\n\n''//@@text-shadow: #CD0000 -2px -1px 2px, #FF0000 2px 1px 2px;QRE@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #FF6103 -2px -1px 2px, #FF8000 2px 1px 2px;RTANEB@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #FFD700 -2px -1px 2px, #FFEC8B 2px 1px 2px;JBYYRL@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #006400 -2px -1px 2px, #7FFF00 2px 1px 2px;ARRET@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #4F94CD -2px -1px 2px, #00BFFF 2px 1px 2px;RHYO@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #9400D3 -2px -1px 2px, #9B30FF 2px 1px 2px;GRYBVI@@//''\n\nThe chant grows louder, faster. You can feel the power flowing through you, the words ripping out of your heart and your mind.\n\n''//@@text-shadow: #CD0000 -2px -1px 2px, #FF0000 2px 1px 2px;QRE@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #FF6103 -2px -1px 2px, #FF8000 2px 1px 2px;RTANEB@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #FFD700 -2px -1px 2px, #FFEC8B 2px 1px 2px;JBYYRL@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #006400 -2px -1px 2px, #7FFF00 2px 1px 2px;ARRET@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #4F94CD -2px -1px 2px, #00BFFF 2px 1px 2px;RHYO@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #9400D3 -2px -1px 2px, #9B30FF 2px 1px 2px;GRYBVI@@//''\n\nYou're holding the pen to the paper, but words aren't what you need to write. You need to write the demon – the giant carnivorous beaver whose fiery gaze holds your memory – the monstrous evil you've unleashed upon the world. You need to bind it back into the tome. You need to give up the power you've gained from it.\n\nSomething flows from your pen, to be swallowed by the blank pages of the //Tome of All//. 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<<addtag "xpnyo">>You are one with the the darkness. The darkness becomes you.\n\nYou are one with the silence. The silence becomes you.\n\nYou are one with everything. You are one with nothing.\n\nIn darkness, in silence, you speak the words of power. You speak them in silence. No tongue, no lips, no tremor of the cords in your throat: no voice to bind these words to the air. You speak them with your blood, your bones, your shadow. You speak them in silence, and you set them free.\n\n<font color=#000000>''//@@text-shadow: #CD0000 -2px -1px 2px, #FF0000 2px 1px 2px;...qre...@@//''</font>\n\nIn darkness, in silence, you think of blood: of rage and of passion, of the rush of your heart within you. Strength. Hunger. Flesh.\n\nIn darkness, in silence, you give these things to the demon.\n\n<font color=#000000>''//@@text-shadow: #FF6103 -2px -1px 2px, #FF8000 2px 1px 2px;...rtaneb...@@//''</font>\n\nIn darkness, in silence, you think of fire: of dancing flames and crumbling ash, of quick sharp sparks and swirling smoke. Power. Whimsy. Destruction.\n\nIn darkness, in silence, you give these things to the demon.\n\n<font color=#000000>''//@@text-shadow: #FFD700 -2px -1px 2px, #FFEC8B 2px 1px 2px;...jbyyrl...@@//''</font>\n\nIn darkness, in silence, you think of light: sunlight, firelight, the stabbing white light that conquers darkness, that fights against darkness, that is swallowed by darkness. Pride. Courage. Honour.\n\nIn darkness, in silence, you give these things to the demon.\n\n<font color=#000000>''//@@text-shadow: #006400 -2px -1px 2px, #7FFF00 2px 1px 2px;...arret...@@//''</font>\n\nIn darkness, in silence, you think of the dead: of bones and of tombs and of rotting flesh, of mould and decay, of forgotten memories and silent voices and stories left untold. Fear. Sorrow. Loss.\n\nIn darkness, in silence, you give these things to the demon.\n\n<font color=#000000>''//@@text-shadow: #4F94CD -2px -1px 2px, #00BFFF 2px 1px 2px;...rhyo...@@//''</font>\n\nIn darkness, in silence, you think of winter: of ice and snow and biting wind, of frostbite and hunger. Need. Loneliness. Cold.\n\nIn darkness, in silence, you give these things to the demon.\n\n<font color=#000000>''//@@text-shadow: #9400D3 -2px -1px 2px, #9B30FF 2px 1px 2px;...grybvi...@@//''</font>\n\nIn darkness, in silence, you think of madness: of helpless fear and empty certainty, of sorrow unceasing, of whispering voices that never were. Hope. Illusion. Despair.\n\nIn darkness, in silence, you give these things to the demon.\n\n<font color=#000000>''//@@text-shadow: #777777 -2px -1px 2px, #555555 2px 1px 2px;...xpnyo...@@//''</font>\n\nIn darkness, in silence, you think of darkness: of caves and cellars and nighttime, of comfort and silence and shelter, of the threat and the promise of the unknown. Depth. Mystery. Shadows.\n\nIn darkness, in silence, you give these things to the demon.\n\n<font color=#000000>''//@@text-shadow: #CD0000 -2px -1px 2px, #FF0000 2px 1px 2px;...qre...@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #FF6103 -2px -1px 2px, #FF8000 2px 1px 2px;...rtaneb...@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #FFD700 -2px -1px 2px, #FFEC8B 2px 1px 2px;...jbyyrl...@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #006400 -2px -1px 2px, #7FFF00 2px 1px 2px;...arret...@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #4F94CD -2px -1px 2px, #00BFFF 2px 1px 2px;...rhyo...@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #9400D3 -2px -1px 2px, #9B30FF 2px 1px 2px;...grybvi...@@//'' ''//@@text-shadow: #777777 -2px -1px 2px, #555555 2px 1px 2px;...xpnyo...@@//''</font>\n\nYou are one with the darkness. You are one with the silence. You are one with the demon.\n\nYou cast aside your flesh. [[You don't need it anymore.|credits]]

You wake up slowly. Your head is pounding, and even the complete darkness behind your closed eyelids seems to stab into your brain with every pulse. //Man// have you got a hangover. Whatever you got up to last night, you sure hope it was worth this.\n\nYou fumble around a bit without opening your eyes, hoping to find something – anything – that might make you feel better: ideally a glass of water. Instead, you determine the following:\n* You are lying on the floor. Said floor is cold, rough, hard: stone. Maybe concrete. Not comfortable. No blankets or anything, either.\n* Every part of you hurts. Badly. Your entire body is one giant bruise, and man oh //man// does your head ache. You sort of wish someone were nearby making some sort of noise, just so that you could yell at them to shut up.\n* There's no noise anywhere, except your own breathing (also: groaning). There's no light, either: at least, none strong enough to penetrate your eyelids. You're still keeping them shut, though, just in case.\n* There's something wet, sticky, on the floor beneath you. Your sense of smell hasn't really kicked in yet: you're tentatively glad of that, since the chance that it //isn't// some sort of body fluid seems vanishingly small given the circumstances.\n* Wait: here comes your sense of smell. You can definitely smell //something//. You can't place it, though.\n* Your mouth tastes sour and stale. It might have contained either blood or vomit at some point, hours ago, but at this point all that's left is an urgent feeling of disgust.\n* You would //really// like some water right about now.\n\nThere's no water (nor anything else) in your reach. You're going to have to [[open your eyes]].

Long claws tear into your throat, and brittle teeth sink into your shoulder. An artery is opened, spurting blood in quick pulses. You gasp for breath, fighting against the feeling of lungs filling with thick liquid.\n\nPain envelops you, writhes through your heart and mind and all your limbs, swallows the entirety of your world.\n\n[[Your death is swift, but you wish it were swifter.|credits]]

Stars wash over your vision, and you lose yourself in the roaring that fills your ears. Oblivion calls to you, sweet and silent.\n\nWhen you come to yourself you wish for a moment that you hadn't. Your head threatens to split open with every pulse, and your entire body feels like one giant bruise<<if visited("Attack") or visited("tear the thing apart")>>. Your arm hurts, badly<<endif>>.\n\n//Man// have you got a hangover.\n\nYou can feel grass beneath your face, and there's a putrid stench of rotting flesh in the air, along with another scent you can't quite place. Your mouth tastes sour and stale. You would //really// like some water right about now.\n\nWhen you eventually manage to cajole your eyelids open, you find yourself lying face-down between gravestones and what looks like the fallout from a zombie apocalypse: rotting corpses are strewn across freshly disturbed graves, and a ritual circle has been cast across the grass in their own putrid juices.\n\nWhat the //hell// did you get up to last night?\n\nThere's a book lying open beside the circle, bound in black leather. Some kind of journal, evidently: small enough to fit into a pocket, with blank pages and a pen tucked into the front cover.\n\n[[You pick it up and slide it into your pocket.|credits]]

You're burning alive<<if $tomecolour is "rhyo">>. You're almost //melting//<<endif>>. It's agony.\n\n[[Nothing remains of you but ashes.|credits]]

<<if $tomecolour is "qre">><<addtag "qre">><<else if $tomecolour is "rtaneb">><<addtag "rtaneb">><<else if $tomecolour is "jbyyrl">><<addtag "jbyyrl">><<else if $tomecolour is "arret">><<addtag "arret">><<else if $tomecolour is "rhyo">><<addtag "rhyo">><<else if $tomecolour is "grybvi">><<addtag "grybvi">><<else if $tomecolour is "xpnyo">><<addtag "xpnyo">><<endif>>\s\n\s\n<<if visited() is 1>><<if visited("Search the rest of the cave")>>You already know there's no back way out of the cave.<<else if visited("cave")>>You doubt the cave will help you now.<<else>>You can see the entrance to a cave, but you don't want to take your chances in there knowing that you're being pursued by this thing.<<endif>> Instead you stand on the overgrown bank, watching the mummy's progress.\n\n<<endif>><<if visited() + visited("get across") is 1>> Already, you can see the shambling silhouette of the mummy [[on the horizon|run over the ice]].<<else if visited() + visited("get across") is 2>>It's getting [[nearer|run over the ice]]. You can hear its dusty groaning on the wind.<<else if visited() + visited("get across") is 3>>It's reached the other bank. You can see its withered face now, its empty eyes. It's still [[coming for you|run over the ice]].<<else if (visited() + visited("get across") > 3) and $tomecolour is "rhyo">>Step by step, the dessicated corpse [[crosses the ice|hill mummy death]].<<else if visited() + visited("get across") > 3>>The mummy [[paces the bank|run over the ice]], trying to get at you. You're trapped here, <<if visited("Search the rest of the cave")>>unable<<else>>unwilling<<endif>> to move until this threat has been dealt with.<<endif>><<if $tomecolour is "grybvi">>\n\nVoices drift towards you across the river, whispers that run through your mind more than your ears.\n\n<<if visited() % 13 is 0>>//@@text-shadow: #9400D3 -1px 0px 1px, #9B30FF 1px 0px 1px, #696969 0px -1px 1px, #777777 0px 1px 1px;...rtaneb...@@//<<else>>//@@text-shadow: #9400D3 -1px 0px 1px, #9B30FF 1px 0px 1px, #696969 0px -1px 1px, #777777 0px 1px 1px;<<print either("...spake the words: qre...", "...rtaneb...", "...jbyyrl...", "...arret...", "...rhyo...", "...grybvi...", "...the final word...", "...''you'' were the one...", "...great ritual, at last...", "...cemetary filled with sacrifices...", "...the graves of those who came before...", "...killed them, killed them all...", "...the ritual, finally...", "...deaths not in vain...", "...the Tome of All...", "...opened the tome...", "...cast the circle...", "...made the sacrifice...", "...you were there...", "...you did this...", "...summoned the demon...", "...brought it into this world...", "...for power...", "...the power of the tome...", "...the power of the words...", "...for the power of the tome...", "...released the power...", "...released the demon...", "...released our doom...", "...released the words...", "...write them into the tome...", "...gain the power...", "...the power of the words...", "...write the words into the tome...", "...write the words...", "...you made this deal...", "...you released them...", "...you released it...", "...you summoned it from the tome...", "...you gave it life...", "...for the words...", "...for the power...", "...all the sacrifices...", "...all the years...", "...took the talisman...", "...broke it...", "...broke the talisman...", "...took the spokes...", "...took the words...", "...hid the words...", "...hid ourselves...", "...to keep you from the words...", "...to keep you from the power...", "...to keep us safe...", "...ran from the demon...", "...ran and hid...", "...took shelter where we could...", "...thought we were safe...", "...thought we could hide...", "...thought it might not find us...", "...thought maybe we could undo it...", "...overpower you...", "...kill you...", "...take the tome...", "...use the words...", "...banish the demon...", "...back into the tome...", "...back whence it came...", "...came after us...", "...took our life...", "...devoured our life...", "...to feed itself...", "...to grow strong...", "...into the forest...", "...feeds on flesh and bone...", "...feeds on life...", "...tore the life from our bodies...", "...left us lifeless...", "...left us hopeless...", "...keep the talisman safe...", "...keep it from your hands...", "...could do no more...", "...feed on your life...", "...kill you now...", "...you killed us...", "...you did this...", "...you gave it life...", "...you made the deal...", "...in the forest...", "...it waits and feeds...", "...corrupted the life that was there...", "...will kill you...", "...will take back the words...", "...will take back the tome...", "...last threat...", "...last hope...", "...must keep them safe...", "...it was ''your'' idea...", "...you did this...")>>@@//<<endif>><<endif>>

<<if not (previous() is "The Tome of All")>><<set $previous to previous()>><<endif>><<if $tomecolour is "qre">><<addtag "qre">><<set $qre to "y">>Your heart starts beating faster. A red mist rises up before your eyes.<<else if $tomecolour is "rtaneb">><<addtag "rtaneb">><<set $rtaneb to "y">>Your skin is cracking, burning, charring to ash. A fiery glow shines through the cracks.<<else if $tomecolour is "jbyyrl">><<addtag "jbyyrl">><<set $jbyyrl to "y">>Light bursts out of your hands, your arms, your face. Your skin is a shadow over the blinding light you bear within.<<else if $tomecolour is "arret">><<addtag "arret">><<set $arret to "y">>Your flesh is rotting, mouldering, withering away. The stench of decay rises around you like perfume.<<else if $tomecolour is "rhyo">><<addtag "rhyo">><<set $rhyo to "y">>Rime spreads over your skin, cold and crackling. Your extremities blacken with frostbite.<<else if $tomecolour is "grybvi" or $tomecolour is "rycehc">><<set $tomecolour to "grybvi">><<addtag "grybvi">><<set $grybvi to "y">>Your mind is filling with whispers. Your eyes are filling with ghosts.<<else if $tomecolour is "xpnyo">><<addtag "xpnyo">><<set $xpnyo to "y">>Shadows spread over your skin. You become one with darkness.<<else if $tomecolour is "rphc sb rqnuf lrfhregenup n">>Nobody's eldritch sorceries are a chartreusey shade of puce, T-Rex.<<else if $tomecolour is "ravengpb">>Nice idea, but this isn't the Discworld, and this colour doesn't exist.<<else if $tomecolour is "fehbybp yyn" or $tomecolour is "febybp yyn">>The tome flares up with a mighty anti-piracy warning.<<else if $tomecolour is "jboavne">>Awesome as that would be, nothing happens.<<else if $tomecolour is "btvqav">>I suppose the six-spoked eldritch artefact wasn't enough to tip you off that this thing runs on modern colour theory, wherein indigo is no longer considered a separate colour?<<else if $tomecolour is "xavc">>Really? I mean, //really//?<<else if $tomecolour is "lret" or $tomecolour is "lnet" or $tomecolour is "ajbeo">>You think you've figured this thing out, sort of, but apparently you haven't quite got it yet. 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<<if $tomecolour is "qre">><<addtag "qre">><<else if $tomecolour is "rtaneb">><<addtag "rtaneb">><<else if $tomecolour is "jbyyrl">><<addtag "jbyyrl">><<else if $tomecolour is "arret">><<addtag "arret">><<else if $tomecolour is "rhyo">><<addtag "rhyo">><<else if $tomecolour is "grybvi">><<addtag "grybvi">><<else if $tomecolour is "xpnyo">><<addtag "xpnyo">><<endif>>\s\n\s\n<<if $tomecolour is "grybvi">>The voices call to you, twisting around the mummy's pacing form.\n\n<<if visited() % 13 is 0>>//@@text-shadow: #9400D3 -1px 0px 1px, #9B30FF 1px 0px 1px, #696969 0px -1px 1px, #777777 0px 1px 1px;...rtaneb...@@//<<else>>//@@text-shadow: #9400D3 -1px 0px 1px, #9B30FF 1px 0px 1px, #696969 0px -1px 1px, #777777 0px 1px 1px;<<print either("...spake the words: qre...", "...rtaneb...", "...jbyyrl...", "...arret...", "...rhyo...", "...grybvi...", "...the final word...", "...''you'' were the one...", "...great ritual, at last...", "...cemetary filled with sacrifices...", "...the graves of those who came before...", "...killed them, killed them all...", "...the ritual, finally...", "...deaths not in vain...", "...the Tome of All...", "...opened the tome...", "...cast the circle...", "...made the sacrifice...", "...you were there...", "...you did this...", "...summoned the demon...", "...brought it into this world...", "...for power...", "...the power of the tome...", "...the power of the words...", "...for the power of the tome...", "...released the power...", "...released the demon...", "...released our doom...", "...released the words...", "...write them into the tome...", "...gain the power...", "...the power of the words...", "...write the words into the tome...", "...write the words...", "...you made this deal...", "...you released them...", "...you released it...", "...you summoned it from the tome...", "...you gave it life...", "...for the words...", "...for the power...", "...all the sacrifices...", "...all the years...", "...took the talisman...", "...broke it...", "...broke the talisman...", "...took the spokes...", "...took the words...", "...hid the words...", "...hid ourselves...", "...to keep you from the words...", "...to keep you from the power...", "...to keep us safe...", "...ran from the demon...", "...ran and hid...", "...took shelter where we could...", "...thought we were safe...", "...thought we could hide...", "...thought it might not find us...", "...thought maybe we could undo it...", "...overpower you...", "...kill you...", "...take the tome...", "...use the words...", "...banish the demon...", "...back into the tome...", "...back whence it came...", "...came after us...", "...took our life...", "...devoured our life...", "...to feed itself...", "...to grow strong...", "...into the forest...", "...feeds on flesh and bone...", "...feeds on life...", "...tore the life from our bodies...", "...left us lifeless...", "...left us hopeless...", "...keep the talisman safe...", "...keep it from your hands...", "...could do no more...", "...feed on your life...", "...kill you now...", "...you killed us...", "...you did this...", "...you gave it life...", "...you made the deal...", "...in the forest...", "...it waits and feeds...", "...corrupted the life that was there...", "...will kill you...", "...will take back the words...", "...will take back the tome...", "...last threat...", "...last hope...", "...must keep them safe...", "...it was ''your'' idea...", "...you did this...")>>@@//<<endif>><<if visited("Listen")>>\n* [[Ask about how to bind the demon]]\n* [[Keep listening|Regard trapped mummy]]\n* [[Return|river]]<<else>>\n* [[Keep listening|Regard trapped mummy]]\n* [[Return|river]]<<endif>><<else>>Yup, that mummy sure is trapped there.\n\nYou're not crossing that river again<<if $tomecolour is "rhyo">>, and you're certainly not going to freeze it while the thing's still waiting<<endif>>. <<if visited("Worship")>>Hopefully you didn't, you know, need to go there or anything.<<else>>Presumably the cave has been tapped of its usefulness anyway.<<endif>>\n* [[Return|river]]<<endif>>

You close your eyes again and try to return to sleep, or at least to a lack of consciousness. It doesn't work: you're actually sort of restless, and the pounding in your head is keeping you awake. Each moment that you fail to fall asleep you grow more aware of the discomfort in one part of your body or another, and more desirous of a drink.\n\nA drink of water, you should specify. The way you feel right now, you'd be happy if you never even //saw// any alcohol ever again. And you can't even remember what you drank.\n\nAfter a bit of tossing and turning about, becoming more and more uncomfortable and cold, you [[give up|fumble around]] and try to find a light.

<<addtag "xpnyo">>\s\nBlack sorcery fountains from your flesh. Your mind is awash with agony: ear-splitting pressure between your temples, violent nausea, needles beneath your fingernails. You can't withstand this pain.\n\nYou collapse into darkness.\n\nIn silence, in darkness, you rest. Darkness smooths away the agony, the fears and sorrows and woes of the living. In darkness, in silence, you find peace.\n\nYou become aware, in a quiet way, of the earth around your body: dark and silent, sheltering you like a blanket, like a coccoon. You become one with the darkness, one with the earth. You feed the grass that grows above you with your flesh.\n\nYou rest in peace.\n\nAnd all the while, there in the silent darkness beneath the earth, as you while away the years in slumber and forget who you are and all you've done and what you died for – all the while, [[you are waiting.|credits]]

You push yourself into a kneeling position and start feeling around the floor – including the sticky wet spot, which you can't really avoid – trying to find a wall or something. You hope the lighting in this place isn't operated by pull switches. You might be in here for hours before finding something like that.\n\nLuck is with you, though. Your searching fingers run across a familiar shape in the darkness: long, cylindrical, with a flattened knob on one end and a switch below it. A torch.\n\nYou [[flick it on]] and allow its weak beam to sweep over your surroundings.

The demon slams into you from behind, ramming your face into the brambles. It hurts, //badly//, but it's nothing compared to the feel of your flesh being ripped from your bones: as you struggle to extricate yourself, the beaver is already devouring you.\n\n[[You'll soon be nothing more than another set of bones for its lodge.|credits]]

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<<if $tomecolour is "qre">><<addtag "qre">>Cellar. Blood on the floor. No light. Smeared remnants of eldritch circle. <<if visited("weird knickknacks") < 2>>[[Rubbish|weird knickknacks]]<<else>>Rubbish<<endif>>. [[Trapdoor|trapdoor]]. You're trapped in here.<<else if $tomecolour is "rtaneb">><<addtag "rtaneb">>You're burning. The thirst inside you is desperate, unceasing, and the pounding in your head threatens to overwhelm you.\n\nThe glow that shines from the cracks in your skin does something for the cellar's ambience, but it isn't enough to see by. You hold the torch between crumbling fingers, hoping not to melt it: it reveals the enclosed cellar, suffocatingly close; the toppled candles, the wax on the floor; the [[trapdoor]] in the upper corner; the feathers and incense and <<if visited("weird knickknacks") < 2>>[[rubbish|weird knickknacks]]<<else>>rubbish<<endif>>; the smeared circle – in short, all the signs of whatever you can't remember happening last night.<<else if $tomecolour is "jbyyrl">><<addtag "jbyyrl">>The cellar is cast into light, illuminated by your own shining form. This brightens your surroundings but not, unfortunately, your mood: your own light is a fire in your eyes and in your mind, elevating your headache from //pounding hangover// to //steady eye-watering pain//, and the cellar doesn't look any better in this light.\n\nYou're trapped in a small room, presumably underground, unfinished and unfurnished. The only escape is the slanted [[trapdoor]] in one corner. The floor is littered with rubbish: all the same rubbish you saw before, just better-lit now. Toppled candles, spilled wax, spilled blood, a smeared circle of eldritch symbols, <<if visited("weird knickknacks") < 2>>[[weird knickknacks]]<<else>>chicken feathers<<endif>>, shards of glass.<<else if $tomecolour is "arret">><<addtag "arret">>You can feel the death in this place. The blood: something died here last night. Something small, not human, but its life was enough to – what?\n\nSet something free, maybe. Make something happen. Change something.\n\nIt was a sacrifice. You suppose you should be glad you didn't suffer the same fate.\n\nThe [[trapdoor]] is the only escape from this place of death<<if visited("weird knickknacks") < 2>>. Scattered between the blood and feathers are some odd [[knickknacks|weird knickknacks]] and shards of glass<<endif>>.<<else if $tomecolour is "rhyo">><<addtag "rhyo">>The cellar is cold and empty. The floor is littered with a puddle of blood, an smeared circle of weird symbols, and a lot of <<if visited("weird knickknacks") < 2>>[[rubbish|weird knickknacks]]<<else>>rubbish<<endif>>. The only exit is the slanted [[trapdoor]] in the corner.<<else if $tomecolour is "grybvi">><<addtag "grybvi">>Something is crawling up and down your skin. You slap at it: there's nothing there.\n\nThere are whispers in your mind, pulling at you like the strings on a marionette. Not words: feelings, tugging at you to <<if visited("weird knickknacks") > 1>>escape this dark cellar<<else>>search the recesses of the cellar<<endif>>.<<else if $tomecolour is "xpnyo">><<addtag "xpnyo">>You have no need of the torch. You have no need of any light. You have no need of sight.\n\nThe remnants of a dark ritual surround you. A circle of opening, cast in blood and ash; black candles, incense stubs; chicken feathers and shards of glass. The easiest egress is a slanted [[trapdoor]] in the corner<<if visited("weird knickknacks") < 2>>. A broken [[talisman|weird knickknacks]] lies abandoned on the floor<<endif>>.<<else>>You piece together your surroundings bit by bit, limited by the torch's feeble beam:\n* You're in some sort of cellar. Rough stone, unfinished. No furniture to speak of. You try to avoid the word //dungeon//.\n* That sticky spot on the floor? Very dark, but suspiciously red-brown at the shiny edges of it. You were lying right on top of that stuff. Fortunately (probably?) you think it's not yours: you ache all over, but you're pretty sure you're not actually wounded.\n* You don't see a light switch (or pull, or bulb, or fixture) anywhere. You do find a mess of black wax on the floor, though, and several toppled candles. They probably lit this place better than your torch is doing.\n* There's a smeared pattern of strange markings on the floor, cast in blood and ash. You don't recognise the symbols.\n* <<if visited("book")>>You've taken the book already.<<else>>There's a [[book]] lying nearby the circle.<<endif>>\n* There's a slanted [[trapdoor]] set in the ceiling above one corner. No other exits. No windows.\n* Various rubbish is lying strewn about the floor, ranging from <<if visited("weird knickknacks") < 2>>[[weird knickknacks]]<<else>>weird knickknacks<<endif>> to chicken feathers, incense stubs, and shards of glass.\n\nWhat the //hell// did you get up to last night?<<endif>>

<<if $tomecolour is "qre">><<addtag "qre">><<else if $tomecolour is "rtaneb">><<addtag "rtaneb">><<else if $tomecolour is "jbyyrl">><<addtag "jbyyrl">><<else if $tomecolour is "arret">><<addtag "arret">><<else if $tomecolour is "rhyo">><<addtag "rhyo">><<else if $tomecolour is "grybvi">><<addtag "grybvi">><<else if $tomecolour is "xpnyo">><<addtag "xpnyo">><<endif>>\s\n\s\nYou open your mouth, but there's no real need for you to speak: the voices are already answering, weaving through the air and through your mind.\n\n//@@text-shadow: #9400D3 -1px 0px 1px, #9B30FF 1px 0px 1px, #696969 0px -1px 1px, #777777 0px 1px 1px;<<print either("...spake the words: qre...", "...rtaneb...", "...jbyyrl...", "...arret...", "...rhyo...", "...grybvi...", "...the final word...", "...''you'' were the one...", "...great ritual, at last...", "...cemetary filled with sacrifices...", "...the graves of those who came before...", "...killed them, killed them all...", "...the ritual, finally...", "...deaths not in vain...", "...the Tome of All...", "...opened the tome...", "...cast the circle...", "...made the sacrifice...", "...you were there...", "...you did this...", "...summoned the demon...", "...brought it into this world...", "...for power...", "...the power of the tome...", "...the power of the words...", "...for the power of the tome...", "...released the power...", "...released the demon...", "...released our doom...", "...released the words...", "...write them into the tome...", "...gain the power...", "...the power of the words...", "...write the words into the tome...", "...write the words...", "...you made this deal...", "...you released them...", "...you released it...", "...you summoned it from the tome...", "...you gave it life...", "...for the words...", "...for the power...", "...all the sacrifices...", "...all the years...", "...took the talisman...", "...broke it...", "...broke the talisman...", "...took the spokes...", "...took the words...", "...hid the words...", "...hid ourselves...", "...to keep you from the words...", "...to keep you from the power...", "...to keep us safe...", "...ran from the demon...", "...ran and hid...", "...took shelter where we could...", "...thought we were safe...", "...thought we could hide...", "...thought it might not find us...", "...thought maybe we could undo it...", "...overpower you...", "...kill you...", "...take the tome...", "...use the words...", "...banish the demon...", "...back into the tome...", "...back whence it came...", "...came after us...", "...took our life...", "...devoured our life...", "...to feed itself...", "...to grow strong...", "...into the forest...", "...feeds on flesh and bone...", "...feeds on life...", "...tore the life from our bodies...", "...left us lifeless...", "...left us hopeless...", "...keep the talisman safe...", "...keep it from your hands...", "...could do no more...", "...feed on your life...", "...kill you now...", "...you killed us...", "...you did this...", "...you gave it life...", "...you made the deal...", "...in the forest...", "...it waits and feeds...", "...corrupted the life that was there...", "...will kill you...", "...will take back the words...", "...will take back the tome...", "...last threat...", "...last hope...", "...must keep them safe...", "...it was ''your'' idea...", "...you did this...")>>@@//\n\nBut with your ears you can still hear the mummy moving, breathing, with dry raspy breaths. It hasn't stopped. It's still [[coming for you|something new]].