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You are a bibliomancer; in short, you can summon objects from fiction.
Here are the instructions/rules
If you managed to read all those rules, what three books will you bind, and how will you exploit this power?
Here are the instructions/rules
1. You can bind 3 fictional novels.
2. Novels have to be a physical book as a medium to summon items from; if a book is destroyed, you can’t bind new books. You can become a bibliomancer in name only if all your books are lost.
3. Things that can be summoned are no bigger than 2m x 2m x 2m.
4. Summoned things are as they are in the story; you can't summon a disassembled item if it's not already disassembled. If it does not fit, it will not be summoned.
5. You can summon once per book, and there will be a cooldown until you can summon again. However, you can summon grouped objects; your power activates once, not one item. A swarm of bats and a single bat are the same.
6. Summoned items will exist in the real world for 24 hours, and can be returned to the fictional world prematurely. Once an item is returned to the fictional world, there is a cooldown of 24 hours before another item from that novel can be summoned again.
7. People and animals can be summoned, but their memories and behaviour will be as they were in the place they were taken from in the story. They will have no loyalty or knowledge about the summoner.
8. Properties of items remain when summoned. A magic potion or a cursed sword summoned will still be effective in the real world; however, a magic wand from Harry Potter will not work since you are not a wizard. A magic potion that affects anyone will affect you.
9. Consumables. Things that are used up will not be returned to the fictional world. For example, if you eat a fictional apple, you will gain the effect of eating an apple, permanently. If you eat half an apple, the half-uneaten apple will return to fiction. The question of what is returned depends on the definition of “is that thing still that thing”. A living chicken summoned and killed, the corpse of the chicken will be returned to fiction, since a dead chicken is still in some sense a chicken. A metal sword smelted down to metal ingots, may or may not return to fiction. Did you summon metal? Or did you summon a sword? It is a philosophical question that may change day to day.
10. Understanding of narrative space. You can only summon things that exist in a scene in the story, not something that exists in the story world. A potion of immortality may exist in a world; it may even be described in the narrator’s info dump. But if they are not with the characters in the same room, or if there are no flashbacks of someone with the item, you can’t summon it. Knowing dogs exist and having a dog in a story are different things. You can only summon things from a scene in the story.
11. Can you summon things from a flashback in the story? It depends on the author. Do you, as a reader, feel like you are placed in the room? Or is it just an offhand phone-it-in a narrative insert? It's a bit of a roll of the dice this one.
If you managed to read all those rules, what three books will you bind, and how will you exploit this power?
