The Finneus J. Scrollbottom Auxiliary Surplus Archives
The Finneus J. Scrollbottom Auxiliary Surplus Archives is a library in Brightvale. It is named after Finneus, the Lenny who runs the Altadorian Archives, and presumably holds the books that do not fit in Altador's branch.
Plot summary[edit]
The Faeries' Ruin[edit]
- Main article: The Faeries' Ruin
Brynn visited the Brightvale library in order to find out more about the artefact Hanso had stolen.
The player could find the library by refreshing at the Brightvale map. The Librarian mistook the player for the intern he had requested, and put them to work organising the library so that Brynn could find her book.
The player was sent to an unorganised bookcase. Each bookcase had four shelves, each shelf labelled with a different topic. The books were labelled with one of thirty symbols that corresponded to the thirty different topics, as well as a number, a coloured geometric shape, and a coloured spine. The books had to be put in a different order depending on which topic they were.
| Book categories | ||
|---|---|---|
| Symbol | Subject | Order |
| Saxaphone | History of Jazzmosis | Ascending order by number. |
| π | π | |
| Mountain | Terror Mountain Vacation Journals | |
| Battleaxe | Theory of Warfare | |
| Bread | Things a Skeith Won't Eat | |
| Wand | Ineffective Teleportation Spells | Ascending order by reversed number (123 becomes 321). |
| ? | Miscellaneous | |
| Test tube | Potent Potables | |
| Orange goo | Rhymes with 'Jurple' | |
| Diagonal sword | 'S' words | |
| @#!$ | Ancient Shenkuuvian Curses | Ascending order by sum of digits (123 = 1 + 2 + 3 = 5). |
| Orange Meowclops | Forbidden Lasagna Recipes | |
| Horizontal dagger | Implausible Revenge Scenarios | |
| Tooth | Korbat Psychology | |
| Orange leaf | Potpourri | |
| Fountain pen | Incorrectly Labeled Books | Ascending order by number of sides of the polygons. |
| Pea pod | Inedible Legumes of Brightvale | |
| Skull | Mortog Toxicology Reports | |
| Shard of Glass | Stained Glass | |
| Potion | Transmogrification | |
| Bomb | Doomsday Weapons | Rainbow order of spines. |
| Xandra's mirror | Harmful Faerie Artefacts | |
| ! | Help! I'm Trapped in a Bookshelf Factory | |
| Eye | Look Behind You! | |
| Spatula | Things You Find in the Kitchen | |
| Cake | Cakes and Pastries | Rainbow order of geometric shapes. |
| ☺ | Harmless Faerie Artefacts | |
| Mynci pointing left | Histories | |
| Mynci pointing right | Prophecies | |
| Pincers | Unnecessarily Slow-Moving Dipping Mechanisms | |
At each book shelf, there was also a set of books that didn't belong on any of the shelves. These belonged to the room either to the left or to the right, and the player had to throw them there. They only belonged in one of the two rooms, if there were thrown to the wrong one, or if one of the books that belonged on the player's bookcase was thrown by mistake, they'd be thrown back.
Behind the scenes[edit]
The angry Librarian is a reference to the angry Yurble stock character from previous plots. The foyer of the Brightvale Archives has Roman numerals hidden in the design, including an 'X' on the floor. This may be a reference to the similar scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
The Brightvale archives reappeared in an Advent Calendar animation on 14 December 2014.