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You step through the door into a shop like no other, on the outside it seemed so normal but on the inside it was much more. You first notice the shape it is like a circle with one edge chopped off, the wall which is the glass fronted display which fronts the street. The bookshelves all reach only chest height and contain books both extremely old and quite new, the old books are leather-bound and some appear to have chains on them. The newer books have odd names better suited to fictional works but something tells you they are not in any way fictional. On top of the shelves sit items, some appear to be crystal balls, in sizes ranging from marble to beachball, some are ornate some simple, some are cloudy, some coloured, some clear almost to the point of being invisible. Wands and staffs also lie on the tops of shelves also widely varying in ornateness, and there is more, so many items you could not even guess a use for and all are priced.

From the centre of the room rises a spiraling staircase you climb its steps hesitantly as it seems to sway drunkenly underneath you as an unexplainable wind tries to throw you off it, always trying to push you away from the centre and there is no outer railing to halt your almost inevitable fall. The centre is a cylindrical metal latticework filled with smoke and shaped into depictions of creatures and scenes both beautiful and horrifying. You reach the top and step off it, the staircase is still once more, its smoke gone and latticework innocently shaped like vines and even though your journey seemed long you are only on the second floor.

Here you see books which seem more ominous. You open one, its black leather creaking and drop it as you see the unmistakable bloodstains on its first page. These are darker, more dangerous books, and their shelves reach up until the walls become a great dome. They line the edge of this perfectly round room which is merely ring around open air down to the room below, with the staircase linked only by a thin plank. on the inside edge of the upper level are display cases containing swords and shields and armor. In some of them though are things which do not bear looking at again, yet never leave your mind. You hurry back down to the nicer level below, barely noticing that this time the staircase is steady, normal.

This place holds many secrets, will you uncover them?

Description
You step through the door into a shop like no other, on the outside it seemed so normal but on the inside it was much more. You first notice the shape it is like a circle with one edge chopped off, the wall which is the glass fronted display which fronts the street. The bookshelves all reach only chest height and contain books both extremely old and quite new, the old books are leather-bound and some appear to have chains on them. The newer books have odd names better suited to fictional works but something tells you they are not in any way fictional. On top of the shelves sit items, some appear to be crystal balls, in sizes ranging from marble to beachball, some are ornate some simple, some are cloudy, some coloured, some clear almost to the point of being invisible. Wands and staffs also lie on the tops of shelves also widely varying in ornateness, and there is more, so many items you could not even guess a use for and all are priced.

From the centre of the room rises a spiraling staircase you climb its steps hesitantly as it seems to sway drunkenly underneath you as an unexplainable wind tries to throw you off it, always trying to push you away from the centre and there is no outer railing to halt your almost inevitable fall. The centre is a cylindrical metal latticework filled with smoke and shaped into depictions of creatures and scenes both beautiful and horrifying. You reach the top and step off it, the staircase is still once more, its smoke gone and latticework innocently shaped like vines and even though your journey seemed long you are only on the second floor.

Here you see books which seem more ominous. You open one, its black leather creaking and drop it as you see the unmistakable bloodstains on its first page. These are darker, more dangerous books, and their shelves reach up until the walls become a great dome. They line the edge of this perfectly round room which is merely ring around open air down to the room below, with the staircase linked only by a thin plank. on the inside edge of the upper level are display cases containing swords and shields and armor. In some of them though are things which do not bear looking at again, yet never leave your mind. You hurry back down to the nicer level below, barely noticing that this time the staircase is steady, normal.

This place holds many secrets, will you uncover them?