Book Buddies

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Book Buddies are magically altered sorcerer rune books or alchemy recipe tomes. Additionally, the script can be added to existing recipe and rune books via certificate.

Alchemy book

Analyze

You analyze your leather tome and sense that the creator has provided the following information:

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This tome is one of the Book Buddies!  It currently has FLAMINGO style messaging.

Your Book Buddy can be animated using TOUCH.  When it is animated, use SNAP to have it land on a bookstand alongside you.  (moves to inventory alongside).  SNAP again to animate it then TOUCH to return it to normal form.  When animated you can PROD it to toggle ambient messaging on or off.

Any merchant who is comfortable handling your Book Buddy is free to do regular base and long alterations. It can be a book, tome, grimoire, magnum opus, opus, volume, manual, textbook, booklet, codex, compendium, lexicon, folio, or enchiridion.

Only a special EG merchant can make changes to custom fields 1 - 5.  They must make sense for the style.  The current custom settings are:

  1 = "long legs"  -  Limbs. wings/legs/arms etc.
  2 = "marches"  -  Movement. moves/flies/walks etc.
  3 = "a bookstand"  -  Bookstand. Full 15/15/15.
  4 = "pages"  -  Pages. Can have an adjective. Must be some sort of paper, vellum, etc.
  5 = "marching"  -  Movement ending in -ing. moving/flying/running etc.

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You get no sense of whether or not the tome may be further lightened.

Usage

Verb Style First Third
Touch Animate As you touch the <book>, it unfurls <limbs> and <movement style> from your hand! As XXX touches the <book>, it unfurls <limbs> and <movement style> from her hand!
Touch Unanimate As you touch the <book>, its <limbs> curl back up into its spine after it <movement style> into your hand! As XXX touches the <book>, its <limbs> curl back up into its spine after it <movement style> into her hand!
Snap Onto bookstand As you snap your fingers, your <book> folds up its <limbs>, then sprouts a <bookstand> to rest on the floor alongside you. As XX snaps her fingers, her <book> folds up its <limbs>, then sprouts a <bookstand> to rest on the floor alongside her.
Snap Off bookstand As you snap your fingers, your <book> unfurls its <limbs> and marches from a <bookstand> on the ground alongside you, which then fades away into nothing. As XXX snaps her fingers, her <book> unfurls its long legs and marches from a <bookstand> on the ground alongside her, which then fades away into nothing.
Prod Ambient on The <book> shivers slightly. (Ambients On) N/A
Prod Ambient off The <book> grows still for a moment. (Ambients Off) N/A
Book Buddies Information
Type Fluff
Item Classification Miscellaneous
Item(s) Applied to Rune book
Alchemy book
Alterable Yes
Light/Deep
Customizable Yes
Custom Limbs
Movement
Bookstand
Pages
Movement
Original Release Venue Evermore Hollow
Original Release Year 2022
Eligible to be Added Yes
Item Verbs
PROD SNAP TOUCH


Illusion Styles

Currently, there are six available styles of illusion. These include:

  • Tentacles
  • Flamingo
  • Rolton
  • Avian
  • Insect
  • Fantasy

Ambient Messaging

Majestic in its movement, the tome uses its long legs to move across the room at a steady glide.  The leather tome fans its pages, creating a mesmerizing display of grandiose beauty.  The tome lifts one leg up, points it straight back, and with a graceful swoop of its leg does a backflip to land on a single leg.  Pleased with itself, it moves back to stand at your side, still fanning its pages leisurely.
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