Minor- Internet as a book updated outline



Outline of story:
- Simon is asked to write an essay about Merlin while Mary is out.
- Mary leaves a ‘book of knowledge’ on Simon's desk.
- Simon opens the book and attempts to find everything he can on Merlin
- The book's audio assistant, Ribb, helps Simon search for things.
- Slowly, Simon goes off topic, looking up things he sees in the articles.
- Soon he is enjoying looking up more and more fun things. Opening an increasing amount of ‘tabs’ (duplicate books) and spreading them over his desk/the floor.
- Simon is far off-track now, his searches becoming increasingly more dubious. ‘Popups’ (paper shoots out of the book with the ad on, or ads pop up like a pop up book) start flying into the air shouting/asking for all sorts of things.
- Simon tries to close the pop up’s, they duplicate and spread to more ads (like a computer virus), one closes, two more appear.
- Ads start to open their own tabs, those tabs open more tabs. Simon can’t control the situation.
- The ads start to fight for Simon's attention, climbing over each other in order to get to him. Some ads "call for backup" pulling more of themselves from the book
- Cut to Mary. She is happily buying things at the market, blissfully unaware of the chaos in her classroom.
- The ads that can't get to Simon start to write what they're advertising all over his work, as well as any other pieces of paper they can get to.
- Running out of space, the ads start to write on each other and the desk. Simon gets a couple of ads drawn on his arm.
- Just when the room couldn’t be any fuller, Simon is cowering under his desk overwhelmed, the Book 'crashes' (a blue screen). Ad papers and books freeze in midair.
- Simon gingerly emerges from under his desk, moving frozen ads and 'tabs' out of the way.
- Mary enters the room. She reviews what has happened
- Mary looks at Simon. He slumps back in his chair in shame.
- Mary uses the ‘reset spell’ (a magical equivalent of CTRL+ALT+DELETE) and 'reboots' the book. The ad paper gets sucked back inside the book.
- Mary shows Simon the ‘page’ on Merlin, that contains all the relevant and correct information.
- Simon sits down at his desk and starts reading/writing.
- Mary turns to put her purchases away.
- Simon pulls a miniature book (phone) from his pocket and flick through the pages. He starts searching for info. A pop-up pokes out the side of the book. Here we go again, Simon didn’t learn. Phone book has iPhone style fingerprint scanner to unlock, as opposed to book needing a password.
- An angry ‘pop up’ flies towards the screen. The story ends.

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