Askip
10-03-2009, 01:07 PM
>glance
You glance down to see an amethyst-set rolaren tome in your right hand and nothing in your left hand.
>open tome
You open the rolaren tome.
>l tome
A wide circle has been carved from the engraved black rolaren in the center of the cover, and that space is filled by dark-hued amethysts that combine with obsidian to form the Dhe'nar crest. The rolaren, obsidian, and amethyst have been joined together so skillfully that the crest is as flat as a mirror, with no cracks or ridges between pieces. Lettering on the first page may be dimly seen through the translucent crest, though the amethyst and obsidian cast too many shadows for it to be legible.
>l in tome
Velvet-soft pages of fine violet silk paper fill the tome. Slim black lines border each of the pages, connecting with small rune-inset silver triangles at each corner. Silvery ink has also been used for the writing flowing over each page, but the composition of that silvery pigment apparently involves powdered black diamond, because black flecks sprinkled across every letter glitter with a glassy sheen whenever light strikes the page.
>r tome
Power is Everything.
A tear. A rock. The air we breathe. The cry of a broken heart and the scream of a young sylph finding release in death. There is untapped, innate power in all that is around us. One need only to hold the key to unlock the great potential in the world in order to fully understand what it is to be power itself.
>turn tome
You turn to the next page of your rolaren tome.
>r tome
One need only to tap into this vast reserve to achieve the unthinkable, the unimaginable. . . the unexplainable acts of greatness that shape and define the world, or tear all that is known down around its inhabitants.
Those who hold these keys are known as the Magi.
>turn tome
You turn to the next page of your rolaren tome.
>r tome
While there are many who dabble in the arcane, be they wizards, conjurors, or magicians, it is only the Magi who fully understand power. It is only the Magi who have embraced knowledge so completely that they have, in essence, become Power.
The Mantra of the magi has been chanted throughout the eons, but it is only a beginning. It is but the first of many tools one must master in order to unlock the Way, the true Way. The Way of Power.
>turn tome
You turn to the next page of your rolaren tome.
>r tome
Power is Everything. Emotion betrays Truth. Truth is Knowledge. Knowledge is Power. Power creates Magic. Magic creates Truth. Truth is Knowledge. Knowledge is Power. Power is Everything.
No words are more true. No words are more false. In the Mantra lies the secret of creation. In the Mantra lies the fallacy of existence. It is everything, and it is nothing. It is what every Mage must become, and what every Mage must forget.
>turn tome
You turn to the next page of your rolaren tome.
>r tome
Power is in all things; therefore power is also in all that is not. Because there is Truth in all things, there is no Truth in anything. There is no IS, only what is willed to be. A Mage must understand this. A Mage must live this. A Mage must be all that is, and all that is not. Because Power is in all things, then in Nothing lies even greater Power. This is what a Mage must come to learn.
>turn tome
You turn to the next page of your rolaren tome.
>r tome
A Mage must ascend from the mundane and escape that which is known as normality. A Mage must live not in what is, but what is not. A Mage must exist in the space between.
To be Magi is to be Nothing. To be Magi is to be everything that is willed by the Mage... If one comprehends and assimilates this knowledge, then one has become Power... One has become Magi.
>turn tome
You turn to the next page of your rolaren tome.
>r tome
When this is accomplished, one no longer exists, but has instead become existence. When one has ceased to live by action or reaction and has transcended the mundane world to instead live by sheer act of will, then one has achieved the first step towards becoming a mage.
Power is Nothing. Emotion defines Truth. Deception is Knowledge. Knowledge is Nothing. Nothing creates Magic. Magic creates Deception. Deception is Knowledge. Knowledge is Nothing. Nothing is Everything.
>turn tome
You turn to the next page of your rolaren tome.
>r tome
Every student who understands the Mantra must learn to understand the inverse. In this understanding is where the strong falter and the arrogant become humbled. In this reckoning lies the beauty and power of ignorance, emotion, and deceit. While the Mantra defines the world, the inverse defines those who exist in it.
>turn tome
You turn to the next page of your rolaren tome.
>r tome
Know the earth you stand upon. Know what it is to be the wind sweeping over mountains, plains, and seas. Understand what fire knows as it burns through forests, within homes, and consumes the empty vessels of the fallen. Know these things, but know too what want, hope, pain, love, suffering, happiness, regret, and euphoria are.
>turn tome
You turn to the next page of your rolaren tome.
>r tome
Know these things not only by definition, but by experience and feeling. Feel all emotion, yet feel nothing. Know and create Truth, but understand that it is all a fallacy. Seek Knowledge and understand that nothing is known. Learn all that there is to learn, then forget all. Experience all that there is to experience, and then transcend beyond it.
>turn tome
You turn to the next page of your rolaren tome.
>r tome
To be Magi is to adhere to the Mantra. To be Magi is to betray the Mantra.
One must fall before one can stand. One must be nothing in order to be everything. Everything is Power.
Power is Nothing.
Power is Everything.
-Ta'la'hai Starsnuffer Sunslayer
>turn tome
You flip back to the first page of your tome.
>close tome
You gently close the rolaren tome, taking care with its pages.
=================
Tome has been sold (to a Dhe'nar) for a massive BO offer.
Askip
You glance down to see an amethyst-set rolaren tome in your right hand and nothing in your left hand.
>open tome
You open the rolaren tome.
>l tome
A wide circle has been carved from the engraved black rolaren in the center of the cover, and that space is filled by dark-hued amethysts that combine with obsidian to form the Dhe'nar crest. The rolaren, obsidian, and amethyst have been joined together so skillfully that the crest is as flat as a mirror, with no cracks or ridges between pieces. Lettering on the first page may be dimly seen through the translucent crest, though the amethyst and obsidian cast too many shadows for it to be legible.
>l in tome
Velvet-soft pages of fine violet silk paper fill the tome. Slim black lines border each of the pages, connecting with small rune-inset silver triangles at each corner. Silvery ink has also been used for the writing flowing over each page, but the composition of that silvery pigment apparently involves powdered black diamond, because black flecks sprinkled across every letter glitter with a glassy sheen whenever light strikes the page.
>r tome
Power is Everything.
A tear. A rock. The air we breathe. The cry of a broken heart and the scream of a young sylph finding release in death. There is untapped, innate power in all that is around us. One need only to hold the key to unlock the great potential in the world in order to fully understand what it is to be power itself.
>turn tome
You turn to the next page of your rolaren tome.
>r tome
One need only to tap into this vast reserve to achieve the unthinkable, the unimaginable. . . the unexplainable acts of greatness that shape and define the world, or tear all that is known down around its inhabitants.
Those who hold these keys are known as the Magi.
>turn tome
You turn to the next page of your rolaren tome.
>r tome
While there are many who dabble in the arcane, be they wizards, conjurors, or magicians, it is only the Magi who fully understand power. It is only the Magi who have embraced knowledge so completely that they have, in essence, become Power.
The Mantra of the magi has been chanted throughout the eons, but it is only a beginning. It is but the first of many tools one must master in order to unlock the Way, the true Way. The Way of Power.
>turn tome
You turn to the next page of your rolaren tome.
>r tome
Power is Everything. Emotion betrays Truth. Truth is Knowledge. Knowledge is Power. Power creates Magic. Magic creates Truth. Truth is Knowledge. Knowledge is Power. Power is Everything.
No words are more true. No words are more false. In the Mantra lies the secret of creation. In the Mantra lies the fallacy of existence. It is everything, and it is nothing. It is what every Mage must become, and what every Mage must forget.
>turn tome
You turn to the next page of your rolaren tome.
>r tome
Power is in all things; therefore power is also in all that is not. Because there is Truth in all things, there is no Truth in anything. There is no IS, only what is willed to be. A Mage must understand this. A Mage must live this. A Mage must be all that is, and all that is not. Because Power is in all things, then in Nothing lies even greater Power. This is what a Mage must come to learn.
>turn tome
You turn to the next page of your rolaren tome.
>r tome
A Mage must ascend from the mundane and escape that which is known as normality. A Mage must live not in what is, but what is not. A Mage must exist in the space between.
To be Magi is to be Nothing. To be Magi is to be everything that is willed by the Mage... If one comprehends and assimilates this knowledge, then one has become Power... One has become Magi.
>turn tome
You turn to the next page of your rolaren tome.
>r tome
When this is accomplished, one no longer exists, but has instead become existence. When one has ceased to live by action or reaction and has transcended the mundane world to instead live by sheer act of will, then one has achieved the first step towards becoming a mage.
Power is Nothing. Emotion defines Truth. Deception is Knowledge. Knowledge is Nothing. Nothing creates Magic. Magic creates Deception. Deception is Knowledge. Knowledge is Nothing. Nothing is Everything.
>turn tome
You turn to the next page of your rolaren tome.
>r tome
Every student who understands the Mantra must learn to understand the inverse. In this understanding is where the strong falter and the arrogant become humbled. In this reckoning lies the beauty and power of ignorance, emotion, and deceit. While the Mantra defines the world, the inverse defines those who exist in it.
>turn tome
You turn to the next page of your rolaren tome.
>r tome
Know the earth you stand upon. Know what it is to be the wind sweeping over mountains, plains, and seas. Understand what fire knows as it burns through forests, within homes, and consumes the empty vessels of the fallen. Know these things, but know too what want, hope, pain, love, suffering, happiness, regret, and euphoria are.
>turn tome
You turn to the next page of your rolaren tome.
>r tome
Know these things not only by definition, but by experience and feeling. Feel all emotion, yet feel nothing. Know and create Truth, but understand that it is all a fallacy. Seek Knowledge and understand that nothing is known. Learn all that there is to learn, then forget all. Experience all that there is to experience, and then transcend beyond it.
>turn tome
You turn to the next page of your rolaren tome.
>r tome
To be Magi is to adhere to the Mantra. To be Magi is to betray the Mantra.
One must fall before one can stand. One must be nothing in order to be everything. Everything is Power.
Power is Nothing.
Power is Everything.
-Ta'la'hai Starsnuffer Sunslayer
>turn tome
You flip back to the first page of your tome.
>close tome
You gently close the rolaren tome, taking care with its pages.
=================
Tome has been sold (to a Dhe'nar) for a massive BO offer.
Askip