The Clockmakers

The Mysterious Tome

You reread the title. Celestial Guidance. You need some guidance right about now, so you open up the barely crinkled and perfectly aligned book. The moment you begin to open the book, you hear a faint ticking sound. Immediately, you shut the book and look around. The atmosphere only grows more sinister. You try to calm yourself by thinking about what you did earlier that day, but oddly enough, you can barely recall anything more than your name and profession. You’ve spent hours pouring over dense texts as an archivist, so this library feels very familiar. Still, the longer you’ve been in this ancient library filled with traces of magic, you find any recollection of your life has become hazy. Taking a deep breath, you reach for the tome once again and ignore the chills running through your spine. When you open the book fully, a constellation you recognize as Horologium, the pendulum clock, begins to glow. All of a sudden, you are transported to a dark space. You hear the ticking sound from before only get louder. It seems you are surrounded by it, yet the sound is louder towards the right.

You can go left, away from the sound

Or you can go right, towards the ticking