Scholarly Directories - FAE Week 8
Introduction For Scholarly Directories
Quick, grab the legs and let's throw him down the trash chute." Nothing as large as a
black hole, but something far larger than Earth.
In the many hours you have spent tossing
things in the trash, you have found an array of different treasures, but none as interesting as
the old wooden box in the attic.
Whether it was that one time you fell into the chicken coop
and got covered in feathers or that other time you lost an arm-wrestling match with a sprite,
you always end up as the butt of a joke.
It begins to slowly wind backwards until the hands
point to 7:02.
Instead, the king begins to rot, his immortal youth giving way to decay.
Before
you know it, he is chanting, bringing the frogs back from the dead one by one, sending the
classroom into chaos.
You are shocked to find that the inside of the cottage looks much
larger than it did from the outside, and it contains a massive spread of technology.
Aasha is
a new student who is drop-dead gorgeous and instantly popular.
You are a knight on the
way to save a princess, which is something you do on a weekly basis.
At a fair, you win one
of the games and receive a wooden unicorn as your prize.
It rises out of the water and you
realize that this horse is a Nix, a beautiful but dangerous creature of Nordic myth that lures
people to their doom by enticing them to ride it and subsequently drowning them.
The
structures and surroundings at specific points in time are digitally stored, and they can
easily be recreated in museum domes and then recycled.
But when a tall, winged creature
wearing a baseball cap climbs out of the delivery truck to get you to sign for the shipment,
you realize your parents have been hiding something from you.
Having come of age, you are
now expected to ascend the throne as demon Queen of the Underworld, but you want him
by your side.
You take it inside hesitantly and open it to find an odd array of items inside: a pink
elixir, a rose, and some chalk.
After the spacecraft reaches its destination 1,200 years later,
you are responsible for controlling this ancient technology to gather information about that
planet, which does indeed contain life forms.
You've been in the business for twenty years
and have earned a name for yourself around the nation, building your success on creativity,
flare, and implicit trust among your crew—as well as a complete refusal to tell your secrets.
The man looks like he is running for his life.
Although your aunt raised you, you do not
speak to her much.
You helped your master with a wide variety of tasks, from mixing
potions to fertilizing crops to curing the sick of their ailments.
You do not know the duke's
daughter personally and have only spoken to her in passing, but this thought does not leave
your mind.
To what, the letter doesn't state, only that you have to appear for the reading of
the will in person.
And when you discover she's building a robot army in her personal
palace, you fear for the fate of your planet.
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