BOOKSTORE PARANORMAL - 999
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: This bookstore is not *strictly* about crime, romance, and biographies of famous people -- there's also a wide range of paranatural literature.
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You: How does that work?
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: It serves platitudes, while also telling everyone that traditional medicine (the kind people don't have access to, and which costs more than this book) is garbage, and would only give you cancer anyway, without even curing your cold or anything.
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You: What's the pale?
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: The book contains very little explanation on the matter -- this knowledge seems to be taken for granted.
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: It is, and good for the circulation, too.
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You: I think I've heard enough.
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You: What else?
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Logic: That seems... improbable.
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Untitled hub
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Inland Empire: This is exactly what you need!
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: Variable["tc.pale"]
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You: Look through the shelf.
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: Amidst the various books you find one written by someone named Matthias W. Dundas. It's about "Wholeness, Unity, Balance".
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Half Light: I don't know... I don't want to be the party-pooper, but this *pale territory* sounds sort of dangerous. Maybe you *shouldn't* walk in it naked.
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You: Huh. Anything else of note?
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You: "All right. I want to buy *Medicinal Purposes of the Pale*."
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You: Find something truly otherworldly.
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You: "Storekeep, what books are these?"
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You: [Leave.]
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: Various paranatural books still litter the shelf.
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Jump to: [paranaturalbooks]
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Plaisance: "Indeed..." She mumbles, staring at the book for a moment. "Something about that book does seem to have spoken to you..."
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Plaisance: "Well, I hope it contains what you're looking for."
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Inland Empire: You sense something ominous emanating from the shelf... but it lacks form and substance, and soon enough you lose track of it.
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Jump to: [paranaturalbooks]
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: It is supposedly invigorating and good for the circulation.
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You: Fair enough. What else is in there?
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: For general health and well-being, readers are encouraged to take regular strolls through the pale, though a sidebar cautions readers to limit each stroll to less than an hour...
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You: Sounds painful.
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: Among other benefits, it is alleged to restore a damaged liver to perfect health.
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: These strolls promise to "cleanse the mind of worries and the body of toxins," especially if the perambulator performs this ritual in the nude. (Nudity figures prominently in a number of these prescriptions.)
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Jump to: [paranaturalbooks]
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You: That's all I need to know.
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You: What's this book about?
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: The point of the book, and many others on this shelf, is to give people medicinal advice in situations where they don't have access to paid health services.
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You: Uh huh, interesting.
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: ...there's even a chapter on the ancient Seraise tradition of using duck gall bladder (preservatives) to treat and prevent sexually transmitted diseases. Pre- and post-factum apply. Nothing worth buying.
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Inland Empire: This is just mundane garbage. What's even para-natural about this?
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Plaisance: "Excuse me, sir! I believe you've been *perusing* that particular volume long enough. If you'd like to continue reading I must insist you buy it."
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You: Variable["doomed.book_wc_what_is_actually_paranatural"]
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Variable["doomed.book_wc_what_is_actually_paranatural"]
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!(Variable["doomed.book_wc_what_is_actually_paranatural"])
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: Variable["doomed.book_wc_what_is_actually_paranatural"]
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: It also recommends consuming distilled spirits like vodka or whiskey that have been aged in the pale. Readers are instructed to cover these jars in a shallow hole just inside the pale, and leave them there for 30-60 days, depending on the potency desired.
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You: And what does this pale-aged liquor do?
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You: I should probably get my hands on some of that. What else is in there?
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You: I think I've heard enough.
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Jump to: [paranaturalbooks]
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Plaisance: "Hum... sir, please, no browsing in that shelf." She narrows her eyes. "That wisdom is not for free."
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Plaisance: "I can't have you end up... like... opening a police store next door and stealing my customers, oh no."
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Rhetoric: These three things are very important to the working-class mind.
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: "Wholeness, Unity, Balance" on the other hand, can basically take care of anything. Though it is important to note...
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: "When it's up to your mind to heal yourself, then it's because of your mind that you're *ill* in the first place."
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Jump to: [Shelf of Paranormal Books: "Various paranatural books still lit..."]
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: The book features chapters on topics such as: how to find magnesium (it even lists plants you can harvest magnesium from); how to continue drinking if you're an alcoholic who has destroyed his liver; and...
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Variable["tc.pale"]
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Logic: Entroponetic nudism? That's insane. That's beyond dangerous.
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You: How is that possible?
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Pain Threshold: Even better if you can find someone else, preferably a large man dressed in nothing but a towel, to thrash you while you're spread naked and helpless on a cool slab.
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You: Sounds invigorating.
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Endurance: It's your own fault if you're ill, got it.
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: The book contains descriptions of various pseudo-scientific therapies, alternative medicines, and folk remedies involving *the pale* -- also known as *le territoire*.
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: For example, it recommends vigorously swatting one's naked body with a venik, or hand broom, made from "the leafy twigs of a young birch tree from the near-pale."
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: Variable["tc.turn_off_tutorial_node"] or Variable["character.interactable_tutorial_seen"]
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Variable["tc.turn_off_tutorial_node"] or Variable["character.interactable_tutorial_seen"]
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Tutorial Agent: You've acquired an interactable item. Investigate this item further by going to the INTERACT tab in your INVENTORY.
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: You close the book and return it to its place on the shelf.
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: Suddenly, as if out of nowhere, a small green book becomes apparent. The title of it reads: "Medicinal Purposes of the Pale."
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You: Does the book say anything else?
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You: I probably need that.
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Inland Empire: The throbbing in your head increases with every passing moment you gaze at this shelf...
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: There's an entire section devoted to cures for men who are struggling to perform their "marital obligations."
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Shelf of Paranormal Books: Is it any more improbable than anything else that human beings put their faith in?
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Variable["doomed.book_wc_what_is_actually_paranatural"]
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You: Well, I certainly don't need that.
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