![]() Although he survived, the assailant is likely to make another effort. Story Hook #13 The Holding of Grandfathers’ HandsĪfter returning triumphantly to town from their latest adventure, the party finds everyone in the area is completely still, as if frozen in time.Ī young child has begun to manifest unusual abilities and is causing havoc.Īn assassination attempt has been made on the vassal King of the local municipality. The river running into the city has all but dried up save for a trickle of red. What did he do to garner such unwanted attention from the heavens?Įveryone in a city has had the same dream every night for weeks, except for one child. The mystery is, its hundreds of miles from the sea or any river large enough to carry it.Ī storm has been over the village for a while, lightning seems to be attracted to one person. Was it something I drank or something else?Ī nearby lake has suddenly drained revealing a wrecked ship, mostly intact. How did it get there and why can’t anyone see it?Īfter a night in the inn - a few too many ales to boot - the party wake up to find themselves in the body of another party member. The blackened shapes crawl back into the shadow when exposed to firelight.Ī huge, black monolith appears outside of town but none of the townspeople can see it. Mysterious glyphs and ancient writings start appearing as tattoos all over the bodies of the entire party. Would you create a conspiracy or coincidence? ![]() There have been rumours circulating about a violent criminal on the loose, the description perfectly matches one of your party. On entering a new village, everyone is terrified of your party, except for one man with a wide grin on his face who appears very pleased to see you.Ī burning airship is losing altitude and heading towards a nearby village. Your party receives a letter that is completely blank except for a signature. What was written and how did it get there? The really strange thing: each one is written in their own handwriting. Your party discover writing in scar tissue on the palms of all of their hands. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.Story Hook #1 A Scar appears on the palms of the entire party Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. ![]() We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition.
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