Hi, I had fun chronicling the last site event we had so I’m back at it again to detail out the goings on, happenings, images, descriptions, and encounters of Once Upon A Magical Library!

• This event runs from April 30rd at 12:00 noon ST through May 14th at 12:00 noon ST.
• This is a word-building event, similar to previous years’ spring events:
  • Every 15 minutes, players are able to collect a letter.
  • Players earn event points by using the letters they’ve collected to build words to other players.
• There are four Genre Anthologies, which have their own special word lists:
  • The Genre Anthologies’ word-lists are a community goal, quelling the magics loose in the library.
  • Instead of sending a word to another player, players may send words from Anthologies’ word lists to the Anthologies.
• Each Genre Anthologies will grant an extra prize when their word-list has been completed:
  • Genre Anthology prizes do not cost any event points, and can be collected once per player.
  • A player must send at least one word to a Genre Anthology to collect its prize.
  • When all four Genre Anthologies have been completed, a third event coat will be unlocked:
    • This coat will not cost any event points to collect
    • A player must send at least one word to each Genre Anthology to collect this coat.
  • Words may still be sent to the Anthologies after their word-lists have been completed
• As in our previous events, there will be a number of Random Encounters added to the site. Some of these will be just for flavor, but there are a few which will award items.

Every 15 minutes, you can gather 3 letters from the The Magical Library. Once you have enough letters to spell a word, you can either send it to a Mycenian of your choice, or, if it’s one of the specific words that will help quell the Spirit Anthology, you can send it to them instead. Points are awarded based on the value of the letters that make up your word. Each word you send and receive will reduce the remaining time before you can collect your next rune.

A few things to note:

• to send a word to a Mycenian, its companion account must be participating in this event
• you can have a maximum of 15 letters at a time
• you can move your letters around by dragging them, or click them to send them to the wordsmithing bench

To discard letters, place them on your wordsmithing bench and click “Discard”: you will receive one point per discarded letter. If you receive a word that you wish to remove from view, you can do so by clicking its red “x” button in your list of received words. Doing so causes the word to vanish from your list of received words, and also from your pet’s profile.

You can send and receive words for up to 24 hours after the end of the event, after which your remaining letters turn into a single point each. The event shop will remain open one week after the end of the event.

This event involves four Genre Anthologies which need to be quelled. To help quell a Genre Anthology, it must receive 7 of each of the words listed on its page. This is a community-goal, with words sent by all players counting towards it. Once a Genre Anthology is quelled, one copy of the Anthology’s prize is made available to players.

If all four Genre Anthologies are quelled, a special prize is also made available, and a shop will opened where players can buy more of the Anthology prizes for gems.

Important note: To be eligible to collect a Anthology’s prize, you must send it at least one word from its list. To be eligible to collect the special prize, you must send at least one word to each of the Anthologys. This doesn’t need to happen before a Anthology is quelled — you can continue to send words to them throughout the event.

If you’re having trouble getting a specific vowel that you need, you can visit Professor Sprocket’s (totally legitimate) Bones Trading Post to trade him for it. There, you can exchange any two tiles that you have for a single vowel of your choice. These letters act exactly like ordinary letters, with the exception that they cannot be sent to the Genre Anthologies.

Letter trading is an experimental feature. It won’t change during this event, but may be removed, replaced, or tweaked in future instances.

Visit the Letter Trading Post

Well, howdy-do!

You spot the familiar form of Professor Sprocket waving you over. He’s standing in front of some new contraption, but before you can ask him what exactly he’s scrapped together, he’s hitting you with a sales pitch:

Couldn’t help but notice that y’seem t’be hurtin’ mighty hard for some vowels. Same story every year; too many consonants, not enough vowels. Sad, sordid tale, that. Thankfully, bein’ the enterprisin’ gentleman I am, I’ve come up with a simple solution! Trade me just two of your letters, any two at all, an’ I’ll provide you with any vowel of your choice. A hundred percent, bonafide, real vowel – or, y’know, close enough that the typical Mycenian couldn’t tell it apart from one.

He winks,

Just maybe don’t test ‘em out on any Genre Anthologies. Don’t think they’d mix well with whatever magic makes up those things.

Important: traded letters cannot be sent to the Genre Anthologies
You could select any two letters to trade them for the vowel of your choice (A, E, I, O, U)
No Refunds!

Visit the Library Gift Shop
The shop will open on May 7th, 2023.
The shop will close one week after the event (probably on May 21, 2023, maybe by 12pm Mycena ST)

Welcome!
The pink-furred Kelph is still in the library, although this time, she’s standing behind a desk with a stack of books at her elbow. A name tag around her neck reads: Paige T. She glances up from her work and beams at you, though she keeps her voice quiet when she speaks. “Hello again. Please, feel free to browse.” She puts her quill down and gestures at the cart beside her desk, which is filled with books and an assortment of scrolls. “These are some extra copies of titles we found while cleaning. You’re welcome to take some to keep as a thank you for your assistance.”

Need More Points?
You can buy points at a price of 100 points per gem here (max 30 gems).

Click one of the containers above to see what’s inside it, or to buy the individual items instead.

Additional prizes are anticipated as the Anthologies are quelled, so get spelling!

https://mycenacave.com/images/audio/bell.mp3

For these library images, I downloaded it from the HTML canvas and uploaded it to imgur, so they’re not a Mycena-hosted images here. There might be a way to get the Mycena image but I couldn’t find it.

The library is suspiciously quiet… perhaps it’s best to give the letters a bit more time to come out of hiding again.

Ended up finding some interested images and spoiler text in the source code, not sure how/if they tie into this particular event. View at your own risk of real spoilers. Also possible this is from something unrelated that I’m not familiar with. Just thought it seemed related due to theming and mention of a certain character who is in this event.

They’re not actually related to this event.

Event Spoilers

The drawer appears to be locked, needing a 5-digit code.	A couple of well-read books are stacked along the edge of his desk. Notably, a history of the Cave (written by Ambrose, no less!) and a locked tome titled “Plans, volume 2” apparently written by Sprocket himself. Suspicious, but could also just be a day planner.
Several blueprints, barely discernible due to their complexity. One appears to show some enormous machine with measurements, materials, and other unrecognizable symbols. Another shows a diagram of several caverns with machinery winding its way through many of them. Strange symbols are scrawled along the margins and within the drawings themselves. Weird, but not incriminating	Go figure a guy who calls himself “Sprocket” would keep an actual sprocket on his desk. You’re surprised it’s not a diploma both bearing his name and signed by him. What an egomaniac.
	Sprocket must do a lot of writing, because he keeps a spare pen close at paw.
A quill pen tucked into a bottle of dark ink. Everyone keeps one of these on their desk. Not exactly evidence.

Image	Text	Item
	A piece of paper brushes up against your ankle. You reach down to fetch the page, only for it to leap onto your paw of its own accord. You startle backwards, but the page has a firm grip on you and scampers easily up your arm. It stops to rest somewhere around your elbow, and you look to see that you’ve actually picked up a bookwyrm. The little paper wyrm rustles its wings at you before climbing the rest of the way, not stopping until it’s settled comfortably on your shoulder.	Bookwyrm
	You’ve just about finished clearing out a bookcase when you see a tuft of white stuck to the back of the shelf. Carefully, you wiggle it free and soon find yourself holding a feather quill. It’s in surprisingly decent condition and looks like it might still be good for writing a book or three.	Feather Quill
	A faint, otherworldly golden glow lekas from between two tall bookshelves. Curious, you wnader towards it only to see a set of double doors with the light coming through the cracks. When you open them, you’re greeted with several musty coats hanging in the closet and a blast of chilly air. Beyond the coats, howeever, is a beautiful golden landscape - and a single lamp post. Not exactly what you expected, but a wondrous sight nonetheless!	Magical Lamp-post Background
	You’ve been wandering around with an old, delicate book of fairy tales for a while now, trying to find its proper place. It should be a glass case due to the age of the book, but you just can’t find it. Then - aha! The glass case you were looking for is right there, in front of a … door? Odd. As soon as you finish placing the book in the case, you hear a rumbling from the door. “Little librarian, little librarian …” An ominous voice echoes through the stacks and the door rattles dangerously. As soon as you back up, a scroll falls on your head, startling you into bolting out of the shelves. At least you got something for the scare!	Scroll of Straw
	The book you need to grab and shelve elsewhere is just at the end of a row of bookshelves, but it’s dark down there. An odd wooden door at the far end of the row is giving you a weird feeling, but you push through your trepidation and walk into the gloom. Just as you’re grabbing the book you need, the door rattles - slowly at first, then like someone is tugging hard at it. “Let me in, let me in …” A muffled voice comes from the other side, and you turn and hurry out of the row. As you’re catching your breath, you find a squashed scroll in the book. What a nice surprise!	Scroll of Sticks
	You’ve heard some rumors of odd doors throughout the library, and this must be one of them. The door looks strudy - it looks like it’s made of stone and you aren’t sure you could even open it on your own. Suddenly, something bangs on the door from the other side and a growling voice comes through faintly: “Little librarian, let me in, let me in ... ” You take a step back, but a bookwyrm zips by and gently nudges you back a few steps. The banging continues for a moment before whoever’s on the other side gives up. The bookwyrm pats your head and hands you a scroll before nudging you away again.	Scroll of Bricks
	You head towards one of the eastern halls, a stack of cookbooks in paw. As you near the doorway, you hear raised voices. You hesitate, and after a moment, you realize that what you’re listening to is a heated discussion about whether a treatise on breadmaking belongs in the history section (“It’s about the rediscovery of baking!”) or with the rest of the cookbooks (“There are recipes!”). You turn on a heel and decide your books can wait to be shelved.	n/a
	As you pick a book off a table to re-shelve, you catch a glimpse of an illustration on its pages. You pause to flip through the book, admiring the richly-drawn images that adorn each chapter, all wildly imaginative and vividly colored. When you reach the end, you close the book with a satisfied sigh–and suddenly realize that the room is much darker than it had been when you started. Where did the whole afternoon go?	n/a
	The book you need to shelve elsewhere is at the very top of the bookshelf in front of you - its colorful spine is teasing you just out of reach. The ladders and step stools are all being used right now, so - “Do you need help?” A little ineki kit loks at you shyly, oversized glasses nearly falling off her nose, then looks up. “The red one?” When you nod, she sets her book down carefully then scampers up the bookshelf in no time flat, grabbing the book and scampering back own and handing it to you. She picks up her own book again and smiles sheepishly at you. “D-don’t tell anyone I did that!”	n/a
	A group of Mycenians have found some armchairs and are lounging comfortably with books open in their laps. One of them looks up and says, “We’re doing research.” Then, with a wink, he returns to his reading.	n/a
	The shelves are quiet - almost. You hear some whispering and giggling from a hidden spot behind some tall bookcases, and when you poke your head around the corner, two young kelph freeze and stare at you. “W-we weren’t doing anything!” one says before you have a chance to ask. The other quickly gathers up some papers strewn on the ground and nudges their friend, and both bolt away, papers clutched tightly to their chests. But you swore you saw drawings of two familiar ineki … and flowers and sparkles. A lot of sparkles.	n/a
	You look left. You look right. No one else is here. You’re on a break. What better time to try opening Petals of Passion again? You carefully lift the cover - odd, it’s slightly warm - and … whoosh! The book flips open on its own, pages flipping quickly from a sudden sweet-smelling wind carrying red rose petals that fly around you. “Another one, huh?” An ineki sighs, rounding the corner and shoving a broom and dustpan into your arms. He doesn’t wait for you to speak, instead turning around and mumbling, “that’s the fourth one today,” before disappearing again. Better get sweeping!	n/a
	This section of the library is overly warm. You’re not quite sure what’s causing the temperature change, and a trio of ineki shelving books nearby have to stop every few books to wipe their brows. “Why is it so warm?!” One of them says, slumping against the shelf. “The books are all magical, right? What if we got the Prince of Ice? Do you think that would help?” The three all look at each other, considering it seriously, then sigh and continue shelving. If the Prince of Ice goes missing, you know where to look!	n/a
	You hear someone speaking softly nearby as you wander through the bookshelves. When you follow the sound, you see the back of a drasillis sitting in front of the Prince of Ice, gesturing animatedly. They seem to be telling the ineki on the cover a story. The Prince seems to be listening intently, and when he sees you, he gives you a nod of acknowledgement. Perhaps it’s best to leave them to it.	n/a

Thanks to Hoax, Purr, Nobo, Nonnavlis, and Dracogryph for some of the encounter texts!

Four raging Genre Anthologies

These are really cool finds, Umbra!

The images you put in a spoiler tag are from a previous event some time ago — I’ve looked around though and I’m endlessly curious where you stumbled across these image links still lurking around :D

glitch Makes sense! They seemed a bit out of place but kinda cool. They were in the compiled javascript (included at the bottom of the site layout) along with somne other bits. But the compiled javascript includes a lot of things for various games and things so it was hard for me to be sure what it was for, haha. Thanks for confirming it’s not relevant.

It was compiled down to this:

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Hahahahaha amazing :D

I wondered if this was the case so i did a quick search for thing_02.png but came up with zero results… but there you are decoding things like /desk/thing_0"+z+".png manually.

Sorry, I caught this screenshot before I realized you were documenting the event. If I come across another undocumented one, I’ll copy paste the text!

glitch Haha, yeah. I was looking for images/ in the javascript code and came across them. I was actually mainly trying to see if there was any image URL available for the canvas image that shows the library on the collect letters page.
I did not manage to find it but thought the other images and text was kinda a neat find. I guess being a canvas that uses encoded image data, the library image it doesn’t really need a URL somewhere, but I was just being hopeful I could find something anyway. Anyway, for now I just did a save as on the canvas element and uploaded it separately

Hoax Thanks for the text! That’s helpful. :D

Umbra

Encounter for you!

I actually captured the one of the Magical Lamp-Post yesterday for you and then forgot to bring it over here until now aha ^^;;

Thanks for contributions, everyone!

Also updated some info on the anthologies, 3rd round word lists, some minor corrections, and added a quick spoiler preview of the anthology prizes we’ve seen so far.