Hi, Uncle Mike, I really like the Strange Aeons rules, and after one thorough read-through, I'm confused about how scrolls and tomes actually work after their first use.
Let's say your team wins a game and your main character, in the treasure phase, is lucky enough to find an ancient tome. Your 'bookish' team member is also still on the board, has both of the skills (read languages, scholar) necessary to translate it, and has not yet searched. He instead decides to translate the ancient tome, rolls a D3 and gets a "2", for two random spells available. He rolls twice on the basic spell table to translate 'Bind Undead' and 'Bless Characteristic'. Both of these spells are then assigned to your Main Character, who has the 'speak languages' skill, so they are recorded in the LIBRARY section of his Threshold Log Sheet, available for use once each in the next game. After the spells are used they are erased from the log sheet.
The above is my understanding, please correct me for the things I have misunderstood.
BUT I don't understand what happens after the original translation of the Ancient Tome. I imagine that it is listed as "AT1" ancient tome in the library section of the log sheet? True? Or are the only Tomes listed there ones which have never been translated?
Let's assume all tomes, translated or untranslated, are listed in the Library.
Now let's jump to after the next game won by the same team. If the Scholarly Team Member (STM) is still on the board, can he, instead of searching, again translate 'AT1', the same 'used once' tome?
For the purposes of my question, let's assume the answer is yes.
If so, does he translate the same two spells ('Bind Undead' and 'Bless Characteristic') from AT1, or must he roll a D3 again and roll randomly that many times on the Basic Spells table?
Now lets say there is a new, never translated tome 'AT2' in the Library. If the STM survives on the board for another win, can he decide instead of searching to translate AT2 ? If so, does he need to announce in advance that he is carrying AT2, risking its loss if he leaves the table before the end of the game, or may he return to the safety of the Library to translate it?
Please advise.
Thanks in advance, Chick