On a cool, Wednesday evening on a typical day on a typical week on a typical month in Sim City, Suzy Kent took a trip downtown to the Willow Creek Archive to do some research. She was angling for a promotion at "Hey, Wow" magazine and the way to do that was make sure her articles were better written, with a snappier style and eye-catching prose. She also needed the money as she wanted to renovate her drab little house into something more fab and with-it.
She asked the librarian whether they had any good books on writing.
"Well...." he began. "There's some basic writing books I could recommend but do you just want to improve your skills or do you want to excel at them? How good do you want to be?"
"Oh....well I guess I want to stand out. Be great at it" she replied.
"Then you'll need to check upstairs....that's where we keep the really good stuff!"
"Are you talking about books?"
"Of course I'm talking about books! What else could I be talking about? This is a library...not a hashish den!"
"Yes, sorry....upstairs. Any particular book?"
"How good do you want to be?" He peered into Suzy's eyes.
"The BEST!"
"Then you'll want Kenton Fabricant: The Best"
Suzy went upstairs to the library and looked up the book in the index cards. Walking over to the shelf where it was kept, she couldn't help but notice a book lying on the floor with a couple of pages lying loose and sticking out in it. She picked it up...it was called "The Wonderful World of Gardening" but it was the two loose pages that took her interest. She sat down and began to read them.
It has been observed... the pages began …that these beings live and walk among us. What their purpose is; unknown. Where do they come from; unknown. What do they want...also unknown. They form part of the Triangle of Power that exists with Sim City: The Visitors, The Fengs and The Landgraabs. The connection between The Visitors and the Landgraabs goes back at least a century, when Gregory Landgraab came into his mysterious fortune. The rumours that Nancy Landgraab controls all the criminal networks in Sim City still persist. She is opposed by Lily Feng, whose wealth comes from legitimate sources but her ambitions know no bounds. She is interested in making contact with the Visitors in order to....
And that's where the text on the pages ended. The rest of the book was about gardening. Who wrote those pages? What book were they originally from? Who left them here to be found...seemingly at random...by Suzy?
Shocked and stunned, Suzy left the library and mulled over what she had discovered. Was it all just nonsense, someone's idea of a joke? Or was it written by a crazy person; one of those who made a lot of noise about "government conspiracies" and who believed that the President had been shot by his own people?
As she got ready to head home, she bumped into Cassandra Goth. The Goths! They were an old, established family in Sim City. Maybe they knew what it all meant?
"Hi, Cassandra" said Suzy.
"Do I know you?" replied the rather gloomy girl.
"Suzy Kent...I interviewed you last week about your liking of black and grey as a fashion statement"
"That sounds like something I would say."
"Your family's been around here for a long time, haven't they?"
"Since the 19th century, when the city was founded although I can trace my family tree back to the early 18th."
"Does the name, The Visitors, mean anything to you?"
"I have heard it...I don't know who they are though"
"Or the Triangle of Power?"
"I heard someone mention that once....let me think....oh, it was Malcolm Landgraab"
"The son?"
"Yes...hmmm, don't you think he's dreamy?" Cassandra suddenly went weak at the knees thinking about him.
"I wouldn't know. Thank you, Cassandra, you've been a help"
Suzy began to think there may be something to these writings....
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