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Librarian's Cravat

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An item of clothing designed to let librarians reach those books which everyone wants to borrow and are therefore left on the highest shelf.

Instead of buying a lot of stepladders or letting librarians have fun on sliding ladders attached to the bookcases, the Library of All Knowledge and Wisdom provides each of its librarians with a cravat.  This enchanted artifact allows them to float up to the highest bookshelves to retrieve books annoyingly left there.  In order to reduce the cost of the innumerable number of cravats that would need to be made they reduced the floating time to one minute a day.
Although no one outside the library is supposed to own one of these cravats some of the Roaming Librarians (who go into the world to seek for any knowledge that may have accidentaly not been included in the original library) have taken their cravats out of the building and then carelessly got themselves killed by beasties, releasing their cravats into the world.

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The person who wears the cravat in the correct fashion, that of the Library Knot, can float for (in total) one minute a day, on and off.  To activate the cravat, give the end a pull.  The same is true to de-activate it.



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CaptainPenguin
August 5, 2004, 14:50
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Interestingly humorous description, though overall it is uninspired. Better, at least, than the ring of absolutely nothing, though.

3/5.
Ylorea
August 23, 2004, 6:33
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The general idea is fun, but I do wonder why they say the thing would be less expensive if you can float only a minute a day.... That way most librarians would actualy need a couple of these Cravates, so in the end you would end up having to spend more money...

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Voted valadaar
March 4, 2014, 12:23
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A simple commodity item for a world likely rife with magic.

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To become a warrior in a tribe. -no food, drink, or sleep for 4 days and nights. -change into special clothes and painted enter hut -slices of skin carved from their chest and shoulders -wooden skewers through the bleeding flesh behind the chest muscles -stout thongs, secured to rafters were tied to skewers -hoisted from floor by these and weights were attached to their feet -twirled around till fell unconscious -when recovered from this, given a hatchet to cut off their little finger -ropes then tied to wrists and force to run in circle like a horse until he passed out -if survive all this he can return to his family in honor knowing he is now a warrior.

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