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Message: <blockquote data-quote="alsih2o" data-source="post: 1252652" data-attributes="member: 4790">stick with me, the contest rules are below <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> i am currently trying to read a terrible book called "the gnostics". as i was slogging through the nearly unreadable text, full of names i couldn't pronounce and filled with references i didn't get(oh, to be a bear of very little brain) i came upon the following bit. i am quoting straight form the book here- "  Beneath the sand the jar was a kind of still womb. inside the jar a small moment of history was silently hidden-unknown to the whole world. Empires will arise and decline, kings and queens will come and go, fashions will change, earth is plowed and seeds are sown a thousand, thousand times. Blood is spilt, the sun shines, hopes appear and die again, an advance here, a retreat there. The texts lie silent in the unmoved air. Visions and prophets and sweat and toil. Struggles ensue: gunpowder, printing, voyages of discovery, genocide, inflation and fire; ages of reason, ages of faith, ages of magic, ages of war and ages of peace. The grains of sand are transplaced a million times. Far, far away: steam engines, electricity, blood and glory, monarchy and republic, riches and poverty, penicillin and gas; a million joys, a trillion tears; the telephone, the aeroplane and then, in August 1945 two atomic bombs fall on two cities in japan.  How many times was it said that year that the 'sea shall give up her dead'? She does not always surrender to archeologists, assorted salvage teams and bounty hunters. Sometime in the December of 1945, three sons of Ali and Umm-Ahmad of the al-samman clan, Muhammad, Khalifa and Abu al-Majd were out diggin for sabakh with four camel-drivers not far from their home in al-Qasr, a village six kilometers from the town of Nag Hammadi on the main line to cairo. Sabakh is bird-lime and a good place to find it is beneath the high cliffs of the Jabal al-Tarif, a kilometer away from the village of Hamra Dum. It was near a large boulder, long since fallen from the cliff that the youngest brother, Abu, unearthed the jar. Muhammad, who was ten years older, assumed the responsibility for dealing with the discovery.   Just over forty years later, Border Television's filmcrew were in the neighborhood with Gilles Quispel, Professor of New Testament studies at the University of Utrecht, in order to film the location fo the discovery. Our production manager, Valerie Kaye, ws walking down the main street of al-Qasr with a copy of Biblical Archeologist (Fall 1979) which featured a color photograph of Muhamma Ali al-Samman on its cover. A rather serene-looking man in his mid-soixties walked up to her and, seeing the picture, pointed to it and then himself. He was the man responsible for discovering the Nag Hammadi Library.   This is how he tells the story......" it goes on, but this part struck me as being a fantastic intro to an adventure. SO- here is my challenge. find a bit of real world writing (non-fiction) that is not game oriented but which makes for a great adventure intro. there is no minimum or maximum length, except what bores folks <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> post it here. cite the book like you would for a paper in school. best adventure lead in wins a die roller from me and bragging rights forever, as well as the gratitude of many dm's <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> i will find 1 or 2 other people to help me judge, any genre or time period is o.k. the contest will run till december 19. any takers?</blockquote>

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