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If you haven’t already, check out the new prize that was added to the top of the Participation Raffle! There may be a few more items joining the pool by the end of the week since we have so many people playing.
We’re having a blast seeing you post your reactions! Thank you all for being so responsive.
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The best thing to do if you want to figure out what’s going on is research, so you head towards the Astrolodome Library as quickly as you can.
It’s not easy going. The festivities have clearly begun and you find yourself struggling through crowds of dragons, all chattering and having fun as they move between the stalls. You wish you could join them, but you can’t relax until you’ve figured out what is happening. Eventually, you get tired of squeezing along the streets and decide to take flight. Even the airways are bustling with activity, and the journey to the Library takes much longer than it ought to.
You swoop down to the door and hurry inside. Everything is the same as it was last time you were here. You avoid Master Azodeus at his reading bench—you definitely don’t want to get tangled up in conversation with him again!—and walk past the Tundra student poring over their study table. You don’t have time to risk talking to other patrons who may or may not be able to help. Briefly, you consider inquiring to the Nocturne librarian at the front desk, but after your conversation with Erasmus, you’re wary of involving anyone else until you have at least semi-believable proof.
You decide to head to the Astronomy section, since from what you have seen, the time loop is definitely connected to the comet. You wonder as you climb up the stairs if anything like this has ever happened before. If so, then when...? Where?
In the Astronomy section, you’re relieved to discover that there’s no one else around. You scan over the shelves and pull out a few books, searching for anything about three-tailed comets and comets with a magical charge. This comet is supposed to be an entirely new discovery, but after some determined snooping, you find a description in a very old scientific treatise that you believe matches exactly. You keep reading, struggling to find meaning through the dense, old-fashioned language.
It seems the old scholars noticed that when a three-tailed comet entered the skies above Sornieth, dragons in the Starfall Isles suddenly started feeling as if they had already completed tasks that were not yet done, or felt that they had done things in the past when an experience should’ve been entirely new to them. The scholars conducted experiments, and throughout their trials, they discovered that areas with more Arcane crystals were the most affected by this phenomenon!
The scholars theorised that magical emissions from the comet’s third tail interacted with the crystals that make up the Starfall Isles, causing temporal disturbances for the dragons located there. The scholars don’t mention the Astrolodome at all, which seems like a terrible omission, until you realise: the comet’s last passage and all of their research probably happened before the dome was even built. The dome of crystalline arcglass. The effect they observed must now be amplified by the Astrolodome’s shield!
You grin to yourself as you look up from the pages. You know what’s going on and what’s causing it. Now it’s just a matter of figuring out how to escape the cycle.
You’re about to read the rest of the book when a Wildclaw in librarian attire trots into the room and jumps when he sees you. “Oh! I didn’t know there was anyone up here, I just came to turn off the lights. We’re closing for the Festival, I’m afraid.”
You groan disappointedly but allow the Wildclaw to lead the way out, hauling your stack of books with you to borrow. Even if you only get a few more minutes of reading in before the comet, you’ll take it!
You bring the books out onto the Library steps and sit down underneath a shiny pink lamp. When you open them up again, some researcher’s notes fall out from between the pages. You grab them swiftly before they blow away under the feet of the crowd. Cheers ring out from some festivity-celebrating dragons, but you try to ignore them and peer at the notes. One of them has a library reference number and a title scribbled on it: ‘The Prophecies of something-something’. One of the sheets, you realise with surprise, is a page ripped directly from a book! It shows a diagram of the Astrolodome with several labels that are presumably explained overleaf. The bottom of the page reads: ‘The Spellbook of Charn’.
You flip it over, but before you can start to read, there’s a burst of light. You glance up and see that the dome is already filling with a bright pinkish hue, swirling with purple and blue as it spreads and grows. You turn back to the notes. Before you can even begin to understand the page behind the spellbook, there’s a blinding flash—
—and when you blink open your eyes, you’re sitting in your ward circle, back in your room, Erasmus scribbling at his desk.
You take a deep breath. At least now you know a bit more—namely that the comet is definitely to blame. There’s no point in trying to talk to Erasmus right now, since he’s back to work on his paper, so you pick up your pearl and head downstairs. The Festival is once again being set up around you; all the same dragons that you have seen before are back in position. It’s almost comforting in its familiarity at this point, but now you feel a tinge of excitement.
How are you going to proceed?
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