Re: Chapt 3. 'Oxford and Sir William'
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 12:25 pm
It is a long job looking through files in the hope of finding something relating to the priory. Before you know it wristwatches are telling you the time is ten past eight, and the gurgling noises from your stomachs are warning you of the need for food.
Almost ready to quit and call it a day, a wasted day, when Maurice suddenly holds aloft a sheet of paper in triumph. By the light of the single bulb you are able to make out the following.
The paper, possibly part of a journal, is written in a strong hand but the way the ink has faded slightly tells you that it was written several years ago. It seems to be a single sheet obviously meant to be part of a larger collection. Most of the page seems to deal with attempts to rationalise something, but as to what that something is there is no mention. The interesting part, little more than a couple of paragraphs mentions the Priory, the year 1922, and the finding of a book.
The similarities to the description in Stephen Daniels journal is instantly noticeable.
"… handwritten in a strange script composed of odd unmathematic angles and weird scratches of no discernible regularity of size or pattern, that book is an enigma for Sir William swears he has never seen its like in any museum or library.
We are both of the mind that within those pages, lie the answer to questions as yet unknown to history, both of these islands and the world beyond. Sadly the destruction carried out by the authorities has sealed the caverns below the priory forever, though Sir William is convinced that another opening must lie as yet unknown. He proposes that we, after a period, should return to that hill and begin a search.
Following my own studies into the strange, human-like bones that we had found strewn in abundance throughout the cavern. I must conclude that if the book dates to the time of those mysterious ape creatures, then its age must be incredible. Studying the book and the caverns further may result in a rewriting of history, with eternal fame going to those brave enough to return…"
Alas there is no more
Almost ready to quit and call it a day, a wasted day, when Maurice suddenly holds aloft a sheet of paper in triumph. By the light of the single bulb you are able to make out the following.
The paper, possibly part of a journal, is written in a strong hand but the way the ink has faded slightly tells you that it was written several years ago. It seems to be a single sheet obviously meant to be part of a larger collection. Most of the page seems to deal with attempts to rationalise something, but as to what that something is there is no mention. The interesting part, little more than a couple of paragraphs mentions the Priory, the year 1922, and the finding of a book.
The similarities to the description in Stephen Daniels journal is instantly noticeable.
"… handwritten in a strange script composed of odd unmathematic angles and weird scratches of no discernible regularity of size or pattern, that book is an enigma for Sir William swears he has never seen its like in any museum or library.
We are both of the mind that within those pages, lie the answer to questions as yet unknown to history, both of these islands and the world beyond. Sadly the destruction carried out by the authorities has sealed the caverns below the priory forever, though Sir William is convinced that another opening must lie as yet unknown. He proposes that we, after a period, should return to that hill and begin a search.
Following my own studies into the strange, human-like bones that we had found strewn in abundance throughout the cavern. I must conclude that if the book dates to the time of those mysterious ape creatures, then its age must be incredible. Studying the book and the caverns further may result in a rewriting of history, with eternal fame going to those brave enough to return…"
Alas there is no more