It sees the indicator that it had been looking for for
all these centuries....but it's
from a realm that it had only been recording from (but
not found a suitable
candidate for abduction). The potentials were right this
second in route
(somehow) to another realm. Why it didn't notice this
final piece before is
puzzling, but the book isn't going to ask needless
questions and let this
opportunity wait longer than need be. There was
something....odd...about the
mode of transport, but the opportunity was too great to
resist for the book. It
reaches out to snare them....and suddenly finds out that
it proves to be a mistake!
You see, while the book is perfectly capable at snatching
people traveling by
magic or by this strange, eldritch process called
"science", this is different. It could
have perhaps send out cohorts to herd the potentials to
teleports once they
arrived at their destination, but the book didn't want to
wait. It proves to be a
mistake, since the party it was trying to grab onto is
being teleported by Doctor
Vincent hybrid magic/science teleporter! The book's powers go wild as it's intended target slips out of it's grasp, and several things happen. The power goes wild and drags forth several several unintended victims (depositing them in various locations on the world that the book's intended target was heading). The other thing is that what passes for the books mind gets majorly scrambled (causing it to sing dirty little limericks for the next few days aloud). It'll recover eventually, but not for a while....and while it's recovering it's left a trail of sorts......back to the pyramid...... It also deflected it's intended target's flight path so they land somewhere else...
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