In any case, the following describes the box and its contents to whomever finds them in whatever circumstances.
The front of the box has a series of what appear to be symbols carved onto the front. They may even appear to be letters if one looks close enough, but it is clear that these were copied incredibly crudely and painstakingly by someone who did not understand what they were carving. The symbols appear to be "sTEvE + sIr G", followed by a single gash stained by blood when the engraver slipped before getting their tool confiscated and giving up on their project.
Opening the box, the first thing one notices are a series of many colored cylinders rolling around inside. Most of them seem to be made of a waxy substance of a solid color, though some appear to be made of strange materials possessing strange colors and even stranger properties.
There are also hundreds of pieces of paper piled in the box, conveniently both in chronological order and separated into arbitrary sections. One lies above all others at the very top of the pile.
It is a plain sheet covered in a simple waxy black scrawl raised off the page. There also appears to have stains from small droplets of salty water mixed with meth-amphetamine littering the page. It reads as follows:
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- New object made from candle wax, pigments, and solvents, melted into stylus
- Useful for marking on hard surfaces
- Poor for detailed notes, too cheap for magical writing, unless......
(The next line appears to be a glossy black with sparkling flecks of gold instead of the previous plain matte)
- Can be easily combined with other magical? materials
- Useful for marking warnings and labels on lab equipment
- Perhaps useful for marking insults and phalluses on sleeping persons
- Could be used to teach to write without need for ink
- Maybe could teach a family
- With a nice Gnomish wife and child in their nice gnomish yar--~~
- Oh God, why did they have to go
(After the previous line trails off the notes start up again in a more manic and twitchy handwriting)
- Notes are resistant to liquid precipitation
- New name after resistance to tears: Cryons
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Next are a number of pages which all littered with markings of the Cryons of all different colors. Some of them appear to depict shapes, animals, and people, but often they are just chaotic swirls and scribbles.
Next is a page written in a beautiful ornate cursive with ink. Each word has jutting branches giving the impression that the text is a number of strange multi-legged creature skittering around the page. It says the following:
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The Diary of
the Member of Josephine Walshe's Manshire Miscreants:
Steve
the Sloth Shaman
Title Page Design, Writing Lessons, and Creative Ownership property of
Josephine Walshe, Vitruoso Entrepreneur
(There is also the artist's signature in the bottom right of page and a smiley face in blue Cryon which was added after.)
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The rest of the contents seem to be arranged in roughly chronological order, and the first section of papers will be described below.
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A page which shows a smiling stick figure with long dreadlocks accompanied by a happy sloth drawn using a Cryon the color of inner peace. They are outside a stone house talking with a frowning women. Inside the house is a frowning man and a smiling 25 year old boy.
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A page which shows the dreadlocked person with a bushy brown mustache sitting with the sloth who is now wearing lipstick and the boy. Above their heads is a speech bubble with a wolfman the color of puberty who smells like anxiety along with a pointy shoe-ed sorcerer drawn with a Cryon which quite frankly has rude and unkind disposition. Neither the mustachioed figure, the boy, nor the sloth are smiling.
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The next few pages shows the person with dreadlocks and the sloth along with a few others. There are an assortment of Bayrian children along with three identical looking men. There is also an androgynous figure with one arm longer than the other and a woman with her hair back in pony tail. In the pictures the ensemble are often giving each other hugs with one standing in front while the others sit. The woman looks very, very tiered.
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There is a page with an ensemble of people standing under a cool sun with sunglasses. They include:
The dreadlocked person with the sloth the color on inner peace.
The person with one arm longer than the other.
A woman drawn with Cryons the color of vanity and pride. She has an inky shadow behind her painted with watercolors.
Another woman who appears to be wearing flames. The projection of a three dimensional cube drawn using a three and a half dimensional Cryon appears to float off the page in front of her.
A pair of armored figures who it is unclear if they are arm wrestling or holding hands. The long haired one is holding onto a book in their other hand, while the short haired one has a fish.
An armored figure holding a large pick and a potato. The starchy smell of french fries wafts up from the page.
A masked figure drawn the color mystery.
A leather armored person holding a page with squiggles on it and a wooden T.
A short gnome with no nose drawn the color of insecurity.
A slightly less short slightly bearded dwarf who seems to smell slightly of singed hair.
A helmed person holding with them a large and kinda gross book. They are far away from the figure with the fish.
A short, snarling figure with no shoes. He holds a very large stick with a very large rock at the end.
A cloaked figure with pointy ears and a bow as large as her.
A number of dogs running around at everyone feet.
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A page showing a large open area shaded in darkness. The ceiling appears to be speckled with star like motes of light drawn using a glow in the dark Cryon. The floor is shaded in with green fluffy lines.
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This page smells rancid as its taken out, and is wrapped around what is either a cylinder of rotten cheese or a Cryon. The image shows a room covered in disguising greenish grey full of rats, rat men, and some of the ensemble members. Everyone is making a gross face, and the figure wreathed in frames has a thought bubble going up showing an image of the whole room on fire.
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There is a page which shows a wizard with a goatee, blue robes, and a hole in his chest. He is drawn using only translucent colors. He is pictures next to the ensemble and has a speech bubble with pictures of a dagger, crystals, a ladle, a bug, a large man, 9 copies of himself all smiling together (fully opaque), himself wearing a cowboy hat, ghosts, angry faces with horns on their heads, the Helmeted ensemble member with a frowny face, and a mountain.
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There is a page which has the woman previously drawn with the shadow now only drawn with normal colors. She appears to be painting a smiley face while holding hands with the sloth who is holding hands with the dreadlocked figure. A large ladle is moving away from the woman full of an angry swirl of the shadow and colors of pride and vanity which were used to draw her before. This page appears to be speculative.
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