Synan draft - Chapter 4: BOOK

Originals/Books/1 - The Book of Synan.md

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 # The Book of Synan
 
+* [Chapter 1: LNR](#chapter-1-lnr)
+* [Chapter 2: JAMES](#chapter-2-james)
+* [Chapter 3: ICE](#chapter-3-ice)
+* [Chapter 4: BOOK](#chapter-4-book)
+
 # Chapter 1: LNR
 
 Synan sits in his back yard looking at the sky. He then sees a comet-like object fall into the atmosphere and stops in the clouds. He doesn't pay too much attention to it, though.
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 "Oh, I almost forgot to mention my name," said the monster, "my name is Prisem. Well, here's the Garden Key. You can have it if you promise to bring the Ice Key back with you."
 
 "We will," Synan says as he accepts the key. He and Zoe depart back down the magenta trail from which they came.
+
+# Chapter 4: BOOK
+
+Synan and Zoe travel onward with the Garden Key that the Prisem gave to them. A little further down the path, they come to a fork in the road: straight onward towards some rocky hills in the distance, jutting out from the edge of the volcano and reaching towards the edge of the island; or the path to the left, which leads to a large, circular building. It has an outer wall made of dark yellow stone, a couple feet thick and with an arch over the entryway. Along the top edge of the circular wall, it is lined with repeated archways, and a music pedestal sits in each one holding a closed book on each. The pair decide to check out the strange yellow building first.
+
+Walking through the arched doorway into the empty center of the structure, they see a blonde girl, about twelve years old, sitting at a desk, writing. The girl notices them come in, and slides a book to the end of her desk closest to Synan and Zoe. Zoe picks up the book, which has a cover made of brown leather and a gold title written across its front: "Book Temple." Zoe opens it.
+
+"Here is where the second victim of The Land of No Return, after James, writes books of power for use by Lord Wizeman. This book temple was created as a studio for Sarah, a twelve-year-old bookwriter. These books of power vary from books that transport you from place to place, or world to world. They can also summon demons from the other world to wreak descruption among the Earth which we are so powerfully taking over."
+
+Zoe turns the page.
+
+"If anyone whosoever uses any of these books for their own purposes, their misdeeds will not go unpunished."
+
+That's the end of the book. Zoe closes it and places it back on the desk. She looks around for Synan but he's no longer in the book temple.
+
+Zoe asks of Sarah, "Can you make us a book that could teleport us to the Monk Garden?"
+
+"No." Sarah responds, matter-of-factly.
+
+"Why not?"
+
+"You read the book: you cannot use these books for your own purposes," Sarah says.
+
+"Please?" Zoe pleads.
+
+"No."
+
+Synan enters the book temple. "All right, girly," Synan says to Sarah, "Get us a book to Monk Garden."
+
+"Like I just told your girlfriend, no," Sarah insists.
+
+"My _girlfriend!?_" Synan shouts, almost too quickly.
+
+Sarah continues, "Either way. I don't want you two to get into trouble with Lord Wizeman."
+
+"But," Synan explains, "we're stuck in this small quarter of the island. The bridge I crossed over the lava broke, so we can't go back that way."
+
+"We're stuck?" Zoe asks.
+
+"Yeah," Sarah says, "the only other way to go is the Earth Barrier further up the trail, which is locked. Okay, I'll give you the book that will teleport you to Monk Garden."
+
+Sarah opens a drawer in her desk and pulls out a book with a purple leather cover. In gold writing across the front it reads "Monk Garden." Sarah hands the book to Synan.
+
+"How does it work?" Synan asks.
+
+"All of the books in this temple act like portals," Sarah explains, "some of them come _out_ and some of them pull _in_. Books which summon monsters, the monsters come _out_ of the book. Teleport Books, they pull you _in_ and you come out some other place in the world.
+
+"This book, when opened, will pull you through and you'll pop in to Monk Garden on the far side of the island."
+
+Synan opens the front cover of the book. On the first page is a _really_ good drawing sketched of the island. The artwork is so well done, that Synan can't tell whether or not it's moving, or somehow animated, or if it's just his imagination. But sure enough, the drawing seemed animated: while it showed a color pencil drawing of The Land of No Return, it slowly rotated the view focused on the forest on the far side of the island. The forest that Syrus headed off to in the beginning.
+
+Flipping to the next page, the book began to vibrate, and what the next page _looked_ like can't even be described. It seemed to reveal a deep tunnel, extending towards infinity (_way_ deeper than the book is thick, anyway) and it warped his perception as he looked at it. The appearance of _whatever it was_ that was going on with that page expanded to take Synan's full visual perception.
+
+And then, like *pop!*, Synan finds himself alone, no longer in the Book Temple, but standing in a small clearing in a dense forest, with grass beneath their feet. Grass! A nice break from the dead purple dirt that covers the rest of the island.
+
+Synan looks around, and then looks around again and suddenly Zoe is present, as if she popped out of thin air while he wasn't looking.
+
+"Sarah also gave us this," Zoe says, as she hands Synan a purple leather book which reads, in a golden title, "Book Temple." It is a teleport book which can return them to the temple.
+
+They went clear across the island, and are now in the forest where Syrus had went. Surrounding the forest clearing that Synan and Zoe find themselves in, out from the woodwork approaches a whole lot of small, brown monkey-like creatures. Synan recognizes them as being the same creature he met down on Earth, which he kicked in the face as an instinctual fear reaction. Monks, were they called?
+
+Zoe reaches into her pocket and pulls out the Warp Marble containing her pet monster, Clawz, and lets him out to fight with the Monks.
+
+One of the Monks shouts, in perfect English, "Hey! That's an Ideya Marble you had there! How did you get it?"
+
+Overcoming her surprise that this monster can _speak_, Zoe replies "Some old guy on Earth, just before I arrived here."
+
+"Same for me," Synan adds. "Ideya marbles?"
+
+The same Monk also notices the handle of the Flower Key sticking out of Zoe's pocket. "Oh!" it shouts, excitedly, "you brought the Flower Key!
+
+"Hey, guys!", the Monk shouts to the others, "the Flower Key is back!"
+
+"It's not for you!" Synan interjects. "Not unless you give us the Ice Key which you stole."
+
+"Oh," the Monk responds, "well, give us your key and we'll get you the Ice Key."
+
+"I don't trust you guys," Zoe interrupts, "come on, Synan, let's see what this key opens ourselves."
+
+On one side of the clearing, Zoe sees a pathway that leads to the edge of the island's volcano, and what looks to be a doorway into it, and she heads in that direction with Synan following behind her.
+
+They walk down the pathway and into another clearing right by the rocky edge of the volcano. Sure enough, there is a door bolted onto the side which resembled the red door Synan saw when he first arrived on the island. This door though is painted black.
+
+Zoe pulls out the Flower Key and tries it on the door. The door unlocks, and as Zoe pulls it open, a few terrified Monks run out. "Oh, thank you for releasing me, humans!" one of them says. "We couldn't get out with the door locked!"
+
+Synan and Zoe step inside. The doors close behind them, but it's not dark inside. There is a faint red glow lighting up a beatiful underground garden. There is a pathway through it and a few paths that branch out into the flower beds. The pair walk to the opposite side of the room, about 40 feet, and down a short staircase that leads to a small, square room with a window on the far wall looking out upon the lava in the volcano's crater.
+
+Sitting here is a Monk which is sweating like a dog, fanning itself using the Ice Key to cool itself off.
+
+"Give us the key!" Synan yells.
+
+"No way!" the Monk replies.
+
+"Why, you --"
+
+Zoe interrupts, "Hold on."
+
+"What?" Synan says.
+
+"Nothing."
+
+"Anyway," Synan continues to the Monk, "give us the key or suffer!"
+
+"By who, you?" the Monk laughs.
+
+"Yes!" Synan shouts as he picks the Monk up by its tail. It scratches Synan across the face. In pain, Synan whips it out the window towards the red glow of the lava. Zoe picks up the Ice Key which the Monk left behind.
+
+"Synan," she says, "it's time to return to the Book Temple."
+
+"Right."
+
+Zoe holds out the book, facing it towards Synan. Opening it so that Synan can see the portal, he appears to stare at it for a while, unmoving, before blinking out of existence and he pops back to the Book Temple. Zoe closes the book as she turns it towards herself, preparing for her turn.
+
+Syrus appears behind Zoe. "Zoe," Syrus says, "can I warp back with you, too?"
+
+"No way!"
+
+"Well, too bad," Syrus replies, "you'll drop the book here when you warp. Then I can pulverize Synan!"
+
+Zoe walks towards the window and holds the book outside it, over the lava. She flips the book open and looks through the window at it. As she _pops_ out of existence, the book she was holding falls into the lava.
+
+"Damn you!" Syrus laments.

Originals/Books/Notes.md

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 Names that definitely need changing:
 
 * Vatican City (note: the Book of Veronica called it "Vatica City" which is better)
+* Vatican City
+* Ideya Marble: the monster's word for Warp Marble.
 
 Names that maybe need changing for clarity:
 
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 * The elemental barriers part needs some work.
 
+## Chapter 4
+
+* The "Book Temple" description book makes LNR sound hostile like they're taking over the world. Might not be compatible with Veronica's story.
+* Avoiding the word "link" for the teleport books.
+* Teleport books are always bound in purple leather with a golden title on the front.
+
+New description of teleport books:
+
+* All of the books in the Book Temple act as portals. Some of them come _out_, and some of them pull _in_.
+* The books that summon monsters when opened, pull monsters *out*.
+* Teleport books pull you *in* (and pop you out where the book points)
+* The first page of the Teleport Book is a remarkable well-done piece of artwork showing the destination of the book. The drawing seems to slowly animate, encircling the destination from different angles.
+* The second page is basically a wormhole, a deep tunnel that plays with light and looks trippy af, and its visual appearance gradually overtakes the full visual of the user, and then _pop!_ you're where the book teleported you all at once.
+
 # General Notes/Future Ideas
 
 ## Jackal and Universe B
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 * Veronicus is the Veronica counterpart of Universe B.
 * Her shadow form is equal in power to Jackal (new: while Jackal has a mask on that limits his power). After breaking the portal, Veronicus continued (in shadow form) to try and defeat Jackal, but it's always a draw, and she's the last survivor on Earth in that universe.
-* Maybe, when our Veronica meets Veronicus, Veronica wasn't even aware she could have a shadow form yet.
+* Maybe, when our Veronica meets Veronicus, Veronica wasn't even aware she could have a shadow form yet.
+