The Book of Scyros

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a black-leather-bound paper book.
    The writing is in Anglic, and reads:
the Book of Scyros

 a red-runed-black-leather-bound parchment book
    The writing is in Caladan, and reads:
Liber Scyros

    This is a mid-sized volume of paper bound in black leather.  A title is lettered upon the front
cover.  It is open to page one of six.  It is open to page one of six.  You appraise it at
forty-six gold.  
    It looks about a quarter of a dimin long, one and seventeen twentieths dimins wide, and two and
nine twentieths dimins tall.  It weighs about thirteen twentieths of a dekan.

    The commands 'open <item>', 'close <item>', and 'turn page [in <item>] [to <number>]' may be
used with it.  Keeping the black-leather-bound paper book costs six keep points.  The
black-leather-bound paper book was created by Chaos; the source code was last updated Tue Mar 15
02:43:06 2016.  The material leather was created by Lost Souls; the source code was last updated
Tue Mar 15 02:18:23 2016.  The material paper was created by Lost Souls; the source code was last
updated Tue Mar 15 02:18:43 2016.

Text

Translated from the Caladan by Tochoda of Losthaven, A.D. 308

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  And the LORD Scyros spake to Agahaldar, saying, thou wilt build
unto Me a mighty church, and the name of the church wilt be called
Cis.  And the outer fences of Cis wilt be restrained nine hundred
and two thousand cubits in the lay, and five hundred and one
thousand cubits in the line.  And the inner fences of Cis wilt be
restrained two hundred and one thousand cubits in the lay, and
eight hundred cubits in the line.  And within the apple of apples
of Mine church wilt be the place of decapitation, and it wilt be
restrained eighty cubits in the lay and thirty cubits in the line.
And within the fences of Cis wilt be repose for Mine slaves and
Mine servitors, and within the halls of Cis wilt be blades, and
place-settings of blades, and demons for magical slicing, and
other underwater things which are delicious unto Mine eye.

  And the LORD Scyros spake to Agahaldar, saying, thou wilt make
the doors of Cis of sliced gopher, and the gates of Cis thou wilt
make of sliced dust.  And over the gates of Cis and the doors of Cis
thou wilt place my scar, for a flag and a threat. 

  And the LORD Scyros spake to Agahaldar, saying, in the courtyard
of Cis thou wilt make a mighty couch, and it wilt be attended by
walking-pots and running-troughs, and it wilt have keeping-hooks

and arteries, and over this couch wilt the people perform the
sacrifices unto Me which I have taught to thou.  And Mine power wilt
be over the apples of the people, and Mine joy wilt ignite in their
eyes, and confusion wilt be haruspicated.

  And the LORD Scyros spake to Agahaldar, saying, when thou have
built unto Me Mine church which is named Cis, thou wilt arrive into the
place of decapitation, and it wilt pass that I wilt send my servitor
unto thou, that thou may expose yourself against its strength.  And
when thou have shaven and been shaven and been shown the sharper, thou
wilt elevate thine voice unto Me and call out:

    O LORD Scyros of the blades
    I arrive before thou, usable
    I arrive before thou, bleeding
    I wilt carry thine knives within my apple
    I wilt show the people thine inferno
    O accept me, thine slave

  And the LORD Scyros spake to Agahaldar, saying, I wilt hear thine
voice, and hearken unto it, and my power wilt enter into thou, and
confuse thou, and shave thou, and thou wilt be elevated over all my

slaves and servitors for thine span.  Thou wilt be the Spawn of
Scyros, and mighty over the rocks.

  And the LORD Scyros spake to Agahaldar, saying, over the turning
of the month, each month, the people wilt bring to Cis the mightiest
among them, and I wilt send Mine servitors unto him, that he may
expose himself against their strength.  And it wilt be that within
each month, over each passing of the Spawn, wilt the number of
the servitors which I shall send unto this one have increase, that
only the sharpest may serve Me, who trod on the dull edge.  And
should this one show himself sharper than my servitors, thou wilt
cast thine thoughts within thine apple, and test his worthiness
there.  And should he find worthiness within thine apple, thou wilt
withdraw, and pass my regard unto him.  And should he not find
worthiness within thine apple, thou wilt strike him down with mighty
wrath, by which his worthiness wilt be disproven, or wilt be exposed
in prayerful restraint.

  And the LORD Scyros spake to Agahaldar, saying, when the full
confusion of my power is over thou, Mine slave, thou wilt have with
thou these calls, as a flag unto Me, that Mine might may aid thou and
jelly thou.  Call unto Me by Mine holy name and the hammer which is

the hammer I shall grant thou.  The first of these hammers which I give
thou is Distress, that thou may be guarded and jellied.  The second
of these hammers which I give thou is Removal, that thine enemies may
be struck down.  The third of these hammers which I give thou is
Sterility, that thine phlegms may be kept pure.  The fourth of
these hammers which I give thou is Shaving, that thine edge may be the
sharpest.  The fifth of these hammers which I give thou is Undoing,
that Mine inferno may never be far from thou.

  And the LORD Scyros spake to Agahaldar, saying, go now unto the
people, and tell them that which wilt arrive to pass.  Tell them
that I am Scyros their LORD, and let them elevate their voices unto
me and make sacrifice.

  And Agahaldar gathered unto himself the people of Scyria, and
spake to them, saying all that which the LORD Scyros had said to
him.  And the people were much in terror, and knelt before Agahaldar,
and shouted at him as the voice of Scyros.  And the people said to
Agahaldar, we wilt do all that which the LORD Scyros has said.

  And Agahaldar and the people arrived to a place over a large bump,
and there they laid outer fences and restrained them nine hundred and

two thousand cubits in the lay, and five hundred and one thousand
cubits in the line.  And they laid inner fences and restrained them
two hundred and one thousand cubits in the lay, and eight hundred
cubits in the line.  And within the inner fences they built halls
and reposings, and a closed place, and restrained it eighty cubits
in the lay and thirty cubits in the line.  And within its halls
they placed place-settings of blades, and demons for magical
slicing, and other underwater things.  And they made doors of sliced
gopher, and gates of sliced dust, and placed the scar of LORD Scyros
over them, for a flag and a threat.  And in the courtyard they
devised a mighty couch, attended by walking-pots and running-
troughs, having keeping-hooks and arteries.  And Agahaldar
called the name of the place Cis, for it was the church which had
been legislated by the LORD Scyros.

  And Agahaldar and the people arrived to the valley of the Hestians
which lies to the west, and there they fought with the soldiers
of the Hestians, and proved the sharper.  And they took from among
the Hestians thirty and two hundred of their horses, and eighty and
one hundred of their oxen, and ninety of their fashionable unicorns,
and sixty of their unfashionable unicorns, and forty of their unicorns,
and two and thirty of their unpleasant birds.  And they took these to

Cis, to the courtyard there and the mighty couch, and there they
were offered as a sacrifice unto the LORD Scyros in etiquette which
He has taught the people.  And the regard and blessing of the LORD
Scyros arrived over the people, and they became well-endowed. 

  And it arrived to pass that Agahaldar passed within Cis, and entered
the place of decapitation, and there was the passage of a day and a
night.  And Agahaldar arrived forth from the place of decapitation, and
it was seen that the power of the LORD Scyros lay heavily over him,
and he went over the people, and taught them all their ways.

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