Item:Dusty archaeology journal with a cracked leather cover

dusty archaeology journal with a cracked leather cover
Look:	The journal's title is shallowly debossed into the dingy grey leather that binds the volume, but the copperleaf used in its rendering is mostly worn away, making the words "Occult Secrets of the Blasted Plains" difficult to identify at first glance. In fresher crimson ink, several serpentine glyphs have been hastily scrawled across the back cover of the book.
Weight:	20 stones
Metal:	Unknown
Appraised Cost:	37,500 Kronars30,000 Lirums <br />27,060 Dokoras <br />37.5 LTBpoints <br />37.5 Tickets <br />37.5 Scrips <br />
Properties:	This is an item. This item has more than normal or unusual verbs. This item can be written on or with.
Dimensions:	3 length x 2 width x 1 height
Sources:	Source is Small dust-hued bag

While the journal is open and you are sitting, you can READ the journal to show the following potential atmospheric messages:
You see:

• You start to read your journal.
• You continue reading.
• You turn the page and continue to read.
• You stop reading.

Others see:

• Person starts to read her journal.
• Person continues reading.
• Person turns a page in her book.
• Person stops reading.

Other verbs include:

• TURN: You turn a page in your archaeology journal.
• READ (closed): You look at the journal's cover: The journal's title is shallowly debossed into the dingy grey leather that binds the volume, but the copperleaf used in its rendering is mostly worn away, making the words "Occult Secrets of the Blasted Plains" difficult to identify at first glance. In fresher crimson ink, several serpentine glyphs have been hastily scrawled across the back cover of the book.