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Discworld Hints

What happened to the book on dragon summoning?

  • 1 of 12: There's only one library where the book might have come from.
  • 2 of 12: Go ask the librarian in the Unseen University library for help.
  • 3 of 12: As usual, you need to bribe him for the help.
  • 4 of 12: Give him a banana (out of the kitchen) and he'll tell you that the book was stolen.
  • 5 of 12: You're going to need to travel through time to find out what happened.
  • 6 of 12: L-space will let you travel through time.
  • 7 of 12: Then go into L-space and see what happens.
  • 8 of 12: Wait around the library for a while, and you should see that someone comes to steal the book on dragon summoning.
  • 9 of 12: Take a look at how he gets out of the library.
  • 10 of 12: You should be able to pull the book on the bookshelf to open up a secret passage to the outside.
  • 11 of 12: The guy who stole the book will run around the street.  Watch him for a while, and you'll find out where he's going.
  • 12 of 12: He's in that hideout near the dragon's barn.  That's where you'll find the book.