>Check the Strange Unmarked Box



  Fern peeled the paper from the battered-looking box, finding a mysterious object inside, with an accompanying note.

ACQUIRED: AUDIOTAPE CASE

Originally found by Willis on Willis Layer 14. Don't worry about how the professor got his little tassel hand on it and passed it along, not important.

transcript: From the Desk of Professor Lexicovermis <br>I appear to have precious little sanity remaining, so I must wholeheartedly apologize for making this correspondence so disappointingly brief, a decision I must assure you is only out of the utmost necessity, rather than by personal preference on my part. Your adolescent compatriot - our dearest young friend Willis - and his strikingly Hhh E a L t h y companion (whose designation present escapes me) has graced our magnificent repository of knowledge with his ever-welcome presence to accomplish what was evidently an errand on your unconscious behalf, as was brought to our attention via digital alert from one Java 'Chip' Scriptington of conceptual zone AE29983-w82-DW299 (iteration 3o37e8, layer stream 3938, spiralation 2209209209^, cubicle 3). To make a lengthy and complicated explanation succinct, the precocious lad took it upon himself to tidy up a few of misplaced library records, and in doing so, alerted our conceptual algorithms to the nature of the object that should subsequently arrive attached to this message. Please see to it that this item is returned to its proper owner at your discretion, as the duration of my oncoming security protocols are difficult to ascertain. On a related note, it is imperative that you take the utmost caution in the event that you encounterrrrrrr BEG your pardon, Alice-Beatrice-Caroline, but could you please refrain from masticating daddy's stationary?? I promise to take you for your walkies as soon as I'm finished formulating this final, astronomically critical warning which I can undoubtedly trust you to deliver intact to the mail chute. Oh dear, is it still transcribing? Well, as I was saying, and I'll be making this quick for reasons I'm sure I have previously divulged, it is in the best interest of your ongoing survival that you remain on vigilant alert for the possibility that you may hypothetically suffer the misfortune to encounter

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