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| text = <p>Atrus felt the skin on his palm tingle as though a faint electrical current had passed through it. His hand seemed drawn to the image on the page, ''attracted'' to it. For a moment that was all. Then, with a sudden, sickening lurch, he felt himself sucked into the page. Or rather, it was as if the page grew suddenly huge, enveloping him in the weave of its fibers. At that same instant he felt a curious shifting sensation. It felt as though he were melting, the fragile shell of him imploding, collapsing back in upon himself, and then the blackness seeped through.</p><p>And as he finally surrendered to that blackness, so he found himself back in his body, standing on the grass just in front of the mound, a fresh breeze blowing into his face, the stream below him, the waterfall and the valley just beyond.</p> | | text = <p>Atrus felt the skin on his palm tingle as though a faint electrical current had passed through it. His hand seemed drawn to the image on the page, ''attracted'' to it. For a moment that was all. Then, with a sudden, sickening lurch, he felt himself sucked into the page. Or rather, it was as if the page grew suddenly huge, enveloping him in the weave of its fibers. At that same instant he felt a curious shifting sensation. It felt as though he were melting, the fragile shell of him imploding, collapsing back in upon himself, and then the blackness seeped through.</p><p>And as he finally surrendered to that blackness, so he found himself back in his body, standing on the grass just in front of the mound, a fresh breeze blowing into his face, the stream below him, the waterfall and the valley just beyond.</p> | ||
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=== Trap Books === | === Trap Books === | ||
The games ''[[Myst (game)|Myst]]'' and ''[[Riven (game)|Riven]]'' depict a special type of Book called a '''Trap Book'''. [[Atrus]] describes these Books as ones where the link is partially severed, causing the user to become trapped in limbo between Ages. If another person uses the Book, the original user is displaced back into the originating Age, and the new user becomes trapped. The Red and Blue Books ([[Spire]] and [[Haven]]) in ''Myst'' and the Book used to capture [[Gehn]] in ''Riven'' are all Trap Books. However, this kind of Book does not actually exist. | The games ''[[Myst (game)|Myst]]'' and ''[[Riven (game)|Riven]]'' depict a special type of Book called a '''Trap Book'''. [[Atrus]] describes these Books as ones where the link is partially severed, causing the user to become trapped in limbo between Ages. If another person uses the Book, the original user is displaced back into the originating Age, and the new user becomes trapped. The Red and Blue Books ([[Spire]] and [[Haven]]) in ''Myst'' and the Book used to capture [[Gehn]] in ''Riven'' are all Trap Books. However, this kind of Book does not actually exist. | ||
In a 2000 email to the [[Riven Lyst]] community email listgroup, [[Reference:RAWA/2000 Lyst posts#Assorted ramblings... Very Long...|RAWA explains]] that Trap Books were an invention that [[Cyan]] developed in order to simplify the gameplay of the first two games in the series. Historically, these would all have been [[prison Age]]s—Ages with no Linking Books in them—and the [[Stranger]] would have needed to rely on other kinds of information to successfully complete the tasks of freeing Atrus from his prison on [[K'veer]] in ''Myst'', and trapping Gehn in a similar prison in ''Riven''. Indeed, ''[[Myst IV: Revelation]]'' abandons the Trap Book notion entirely, and fully fleshes out the appearance of the Ages in which [[Sirrus]] and [[Achenar]] were imprisoned for almost 20 years. | In a 2000 email to the [[Riven Lyst]] community email listgroup, [[Reference:RAWA/2000 Lyst posts#Assorted ramblings... Very Long...|RAWA explains]] that Trap Books were an invention that [[Cyan]] developed in order to simplify the gameplay of the first two games in the series. Historically, these would all have been [[prison Age]]s—Ages with no Linking Books in them—and the [[Stranger]] would have needed to rely on other kinds of information to successfully complete the tasks of freeing Atrus from his prison on [[K'veer]] in ''Myst'', and trapping Gehn in a similar prison in ''Riven''. Indeed, ''[[Myst IV: Revelation]]'' abandons the Trap Book notion entirely, and fully fleshes out the appearance of the Ages in which [[Sirrus]] and [[Achenar]] were imprisoned for almost 20 years. |