TAKE X (6-5-17: The End)

Bonus scene unlocked!



You get to work on the day's tasks - at the top of the list is checking in returned books. The first book on the stack is "Magical Creatures of Ennen" by Makram Amjad. It's the second edition of Amjad's magnum opus - you have no idea what sets it apart from the first edition, since no known copies of the first edition exist, at least not to your knowledge. You always thought that was a little weird.



The book has a bookmark in it, so you flip open to that page to take the bookmark out. Huh - you've never heard of these creatures before.

"The Miracle Men are rumored to be impossible to represent via picture, which is why no such picture accompanies this entry. Legend has it that the Miracle Men are related somehow to the One Goddess. Whether they do her bidding, they were a failed experiment of hers, or something else entirely is unknown - nobody knows for certain whether these enigmatic creatures exist at all."

Weird.

> Escape.



You made it over here none too soon - the guards have made it up to that first structure. You make to escape through the exit, but you stop in your tracks. A brilliant idea occurs to you.

"de Soren. Hold on a moment," you say. When he turns back towards you, you whisper your plan in his ear.

He smiles.













The plan works perfectly. You slip through the exit while the guards are incapacitated.



Dammit. This hallway's not as much of an exit as you thought. All there is here is some weird shining rock on a pedestal. "Okay guys, looks like we might have to swim for it," you say. "Let's get a move on."





"Uh, Mack?" Gio asks, his voice dropping into the wavering timbre he tends to use around strangers, "We, er, might have a problem..."