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So, I got an echo yesterday! And... seriously I think I just found a game manual from another world!

[He holds up a travel battered old journal. Sheets of parchment are sticking out. Just barely the title can be read: Manual of Justice.]

I mean seriously, listen to this:

"Every ally hurt within a hundred paces adds a power multiplier. At +5, a special move is unlocked that can fell the enemy boss in one hit."

But look at the pages, these aren't modern paper at ALL... and with the splotches I think this was written with a quill and ink, not a pen. This is such a trip!

Apparently it was written by someone named Owain Dark- and he was an artist.

[he turns a few pages and shows... a almost childish doodle of a man with a sword riding a dragon. Said man has spiky blonde hair. Owen... is apparently missing the connection. Damn picky Echos. For now he just finds this all horribly amusing]

What's that word in English... An---anachronism! It's just a huge book of crazy anachronisms!

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Wait.

[Killian actually puts his hand up]

You got a what?

It's a book! Or maybe a diary. It's got stories and drawings in it.

...oh and like, 50 pages of names for weapons.

So...you think your past self was as much of a geek as you? I mean, it's gotta be his book, right? Belonged to him, at least?

[he looks a little insulted]

I mean, I *guess* so... I mean, that this is his book. But you don't know he was a geek!

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Nice. What dice does it use and is it cursed or can we play it?

I've read most of it so I don't THINK it's cursed. But if it's supposed to be a game it's some... unfinished homebrew or something, cuz there's stats all over but no real *rules*.

So like an expansion or something, then?

Maybe? It's full of stories and like, actual journal entries too. So I really don't know.

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I'm sure he could make a fortune with his masterpieces.

ikr? Real front of the fridge work here. I can't judge though, I can't really draw either- guess I can't hope for that skill in a pulse anymore!

But did he know?

Is that like how they found that ancient D20 in Egypt?

Whoa, this is the first I've heard about this!

This one. Destina Morbid told me about it in Bio.

...Oh, her real name's Madison Smith. She just goes by her goth name because it sounds better. I need a goth name.

Duuuude, I want one.

...names? Hmm, the book has a lot of names but none sounded really goth-y. If you're going to change your name it needs to be... be from somewhere deep in your soul!

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Or: perhaps "game manuals" were meant to imitate things of this sort.

...Whatever that - "sort" is.

[Her voice has a bit of cheerful sauce to it, but her body language is more neutral. Peering at that manual of his - she's unsure if she has nearly enough of an opinion to even be speaking non-seriously like that, not the least bit on the subject of actual game manuals, but sure enough it does look a bit older than she expects anything game-related is.]

...huh, dude maybe. I never thought of it that way.

[A "hrmm" sound. It's a chuckle.]

Your other guy came from a world that played Ancient Dungeons & Dragons, huh?

[he huffs slightly]

I guess so! I mean, even if I could take the rest of this with a grain of salt and assume it's real, the stats kinda kill that.

[His tone's still a joking one - not facetious, but light.] Who's to say it can't be both? Pulling stuff for a game from real life, for all you know.

Not your own, obviously.

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So... You found an ancient pen and paper game?

Looks like it! I mean, people don't talk about stats like that if it's real.

The art almost looks like it was drawn by a kid, too. Bit of a weird echo.

Yeah... but the sword and skills I got don't seem like something a kid would have... Man I dunno.

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That's totally a jrpg of some sort! ....... But why would you write down all of your buffs in a book? I guess some players are more "hardcore." aka, not hardcore and full of free time.

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