The Book of All Tales

By Kai Londenberg (k.londenberg@on-line.leine.de)

Description

Humans reading this book will be under the effect of the Mists to explain the unexplainable. Everytime the book is read it will show another tale, always creating a story that will totally fascinate the reader and inspire him to great heights of creativity or imagination. For Kithain, this book is a source of Glamour. Once a day it is able to inspire a human reader to a level, where Kithain can gain a reverie out of him. They can even gain rapture if they read it by themselves. The bad or good side effect is, that somewhere the story will manifest itself. If it is somehow possible, coincidental magic will try to reproduce the story in reality, otherwise Chimera will be created. Note, that the stories told are not always beautiful fairy-tales (In the childish meaning). All the book does is to tell a tale it receives directly from the dreaming, eventually opening a trod for the creatures that live there, may they be nightmarish Horrors or the most beautiful of the fae. In every case, the Book will create a story that somehow has something to do with the reader's personality. It is unpredictable, which side of the personality will be taken for a story. Often readers discover that there are uncomfortable thruths about themselves to be found in the tales. Only the most innocent can read this book without having to fear anything. It would really be a big problem, if this book ever got in the wrong hands. On the other hand, there are stories about Dauntain being rescued after having read the book.

This book, if ever let alone in a public library, will produce problems over problems. The biggest problem would be to locate the source of all these Chimera. It should be kept well hidden by some Seelie Kithain with respectable power. A story idea would be to let someone steal the book: perhaps a Grump searching for a possibilty to regain his imagination or perhaps someone who thinks it would give him power. Another tale would be to let the players discover this book. It can be a great source and force for Glamour and good in the world, if in the right hands. If the players want to keep the book, make clear it just causes problems. It can even be the source for a Chronicle. Imagine this book really is in the public library. Someone discovered it recently and told all his friends how great the book was. You`ll have to seed some hints that the book is the source of all the Chimera and coincidences leading to really intersting times in the City, though...

It is a big book in blue leather, size: ca. 35x17x2 cm. On the front page are big golden letters telling: "THE BOOK OF ALL TALES" In whatever language the reader is most familiar with. There are no pictures inside, just plain text, so the imagination can (and will) fly free. Once the reader reads, he has to make a Willpower+Banality roll against a difficulty of 10 to stop reading, two successes needed. (If he really wants to). If someone steals the book before he's finished, he will do everything to regain the book. Once he reads the book again after completing a story, he will be subject to the Mists concerning the old story. If he knows what will happen, he can try to resist with a Glamour roll against banality. The Chimera created by the book will likely slowly fade away once a new story is read; it will remain if the reader is not subject to the Mists.