Abrimel'sPrimer

You see a deep blue cloth-bound journal.  Bound into the journal are some pages of pure white parchment.

The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 The Common Tongue:
 a reading primer
 Penned by Nobody In Particular


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 2.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

[A geometric glyph has been sketched in slightly splattered black ink across the center of the page.  Spidery runes are scratched along the sides of an equilateral triangle that just barely overflows the boundaries of two concentric circles, also rune-scribed.  The points of the triangle each anchor an asymmetrical array of wavering curlicues that terminate in speckles of shed ink.  Reminiscent of cracks in glass, a cluster of lightly smudged, branching lines cleaves the triangle into three unequal sections.]


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 3.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= A =-  -= a =-
 'A' is for the aivren, which flies on leathern wings. Also for acantha, which soothes the smallest stings.
 air, apple, aishan, abyran, ambrominas, aloeas, alyssum


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 4.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= B =-  -= b =-
 'B' is for bur-clover, an herb to treat blindness. Without it, you might stumble face-first into banshees, bears and barghests!
 bat, bale, bell, berry, branch, blue, begonia


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 5.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= C =-  -= c =-
 'C' has a hard sound, as with crocus or caribou. 'C' also has a soft sound, as with centaur. Cockatrices circle in continuous confusion.
 cat, cowl, columbine, carceris, calculate, condemn


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 6.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= D =-  -= d =-
 'D' is for demon and also for daisy. One is a danger, the other a delight.
 dog, deal, dash, damage, dobrem, dybbuk, daffodil


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 7.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= E =-  -= e =-
 'E' is for element. One of these is earth, wherein the eggplants and ephlox moss grow.
 eat, ear, evil, eaves, ethereal, eiderflower


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 8.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= F =-  -= f =-
 'F' is for fire, forest and frost. Friendly fireflies frolic far afield.
 fel, fate, fly, fang, freezing, flamestalk


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 9.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= G =-  -= g =-
 'G' is for golem and goldenrod, where the sound is hard and gutteral. 'G' spoken gently is for giant and geranium. Growing, going, gangling, glowing, all start and end with 'G'.
 gills, green, growl, gander, goblin, gesture, gentry, ginger, gremlock, grantris


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 10.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= H =-  -= h =-
 'H' spoken harshly can be clearly heard, as in hail from on high. In all honesty, some 'H's are mute.
 hag, house, honeysuckle, heir, hour, hospitality, horror


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 11.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= I =-  -= i =-
 'I' rhymes with 'eye' except when it doesn't. That's you and not I, but that it's I, and not you.
 ice, ivy, isle, indigo, Imaera, igaesha, invigorate


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 12.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= J =-  -= j =-
 'J' is for the joy of the jaybird and the jealousy of jackals. Jeering jests jiggle the jowls of jaded janitors. (Jerks.)
 jam, join, justice, jasper, jungle, jasmine, jocularity


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 13.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= K =-  -= k =-
 'K' is for kobolds and kidnapping krolvin, but its sharp click is silenced where knaves kneel to knights.
 kin, key, kelp, ki-lin, kindling, know, knock, knuckle


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 14.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= L =-  -= l =-
 'L' is for love and laughter, light and lively, lingering long.
 lily, lava, land, lich, lunatic, languish, lightning


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 15.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= M =-  -= m =-
 'M' is for the moons over misty mountains, their magic and their majesty.
 mad, monkey, master, modwir, memory, manticore


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 16.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= N =-  -= n =-
 'N' is for nothing, nothing at all. Not nightmares, not nastiness, and certainly not necromancy.
 new, nine, nail, noise, nacre, nymph, nettle, nobility


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 17.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= O =-  -= o =-
 'O' is for owl, the wisest of birds, or so some tales would have you believe. Obliging owners observe otherwise.
 oak, ocean, orchid, orange, oculoth, outspoken, ordinary, obscenity


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 18.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= P =-  -= p =-
 'P' is for pansy, peony, and primrose. Some pink, others purple.
 page, plum, peach, pattern, panther, pra'eda, phantom, pothinir, patience


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 19.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= Q =-  -= q =-
 'Q' is a queer letter, quirky and not used in quantity. Quick, look over there!
 quay, quiet, quake, queen, quaver, quarrel


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 20.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= R =-  -= r =-
 'R' is a rumble and a purr, the croak of a frog and the growl of a dog.
 red, rose, rain, rolton, roa'ter, rhythm, reality, romance


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 21.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= S =-  -= s =-
 'S' is for snow and storm, the sun and the seasons. Shadows, silence and suffering... but also squirrels, and silliness.
 soul, shan, spirit, sanity, skeleton, sunflower, strawberry


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 22.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= T =-  -= t =-
 'T' is for tall trees, and also for tea. A safe haven for you, a hot drink for me.
 tap, tail, troll, tiger, thrak, talneo, tulip, tundra, trillium


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 23.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= U =-  -= u =-
 'U' is for understanding, for the unabashedly ugly and utterly unique.
 up, use, urgh, umber, usurp, undead, ubiquitous


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 24.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= V =-  -= v =-
 'V' is for violets and violence, vanity and virtue, and all the variations between.
 vile, vain, vathor, verlock, verbena, velnalin, vesperti


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 25.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= W =-  -= w =-
 'W' is for the watcher in the wood, waiting warily while wondering where weasels wander.
 war, wine, wind, water, witch, willow, warrior, wolifrew


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 26.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= X =-  -= x =-
 'X' sounds of sharp clicks, trailed by a hiss. Excitable foxes excel at exertion.
 box, toxic, annex, fixate, sextant, phoenix


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 27.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= Y =-  -= y =-
 'Y' is for youth, and for myth, and for day. It clings to the tongue in a peculiar way.
 yes, yew, yeti, year, yield, yellow, layer, calyx, mercy, privacy, bay, convoy, sky



You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 28.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

 -= Z =-  -= z =-
 'Z' has a buzz, like the string on a zither. It zips like a bee between drops in a drizzle.
 zap, zoo, zero, zircon, zombie, ziggurat, size, frizz, squeeze, lazuli


You turn to the next page of your journal.  You're now on page 29.
The page, written in Common, reads as follows:

[Enclosing this page is a thick border of runes scribed in black ink.  Unevenly spaced, the individual glyphs often run together and many are so smudged or speckled with spattered ink as to be rendered illegible.  The irregular pattern of lines continues in a rectangular spiral, marching inward in bands three deep from the edges of the page before curving sharply inward toward a central point.  The runes grow smaller, spaced further and sketched more lightly, then disappear entirely before ever reaching the blank center of the white parchment page.]