"And what is...?" Artie turns the page; the next plate is a simple line drawing of a bearded man pressing his hand to another man's back, both figures outlined in jagged white lines. "That's electrocution, right?"
"Yeah." Not much else it could be, with an illustration like that. "What was that writing?" It looked kinda... proto-Arabic, maybe? Or proto-Persian? Something Middle Eastern or Oriental, anyway.
Artie flips back and scrutinizes the script under the illustration. "Okay, see, this, this writing, is very..." He deflates. "... old. I have no idea what that writing is."
"Okay, can you see this?" Artie holds up the open book to the Farnsworth's camera. "This is what you're looking for. It's called the Spine of the Saracen."
"Uh, okay, great. So it has a name," says Pete, nonplussed. "What is a 'Saracen'?"
"A Saracen's a Turk. Now, listen, there's a legend that during the first Crusade, the Turks had this elite warrior cult. Now, these warriors were rumored to be unstoppable, for some reason, in the field of battle, and what I'm thinking is that this Spine--can you see this?" Artie holds up the second drawing, pointing to the barely-visible shape on the bearded man's back. "The Spine was specifically designed as a weapon for these warriors."
"Eleventh century is the same as the museum exhibit," remarks Myka from somewhere off-camera.
"What exhibit?"
"Well, we found pictures too." Pete holds up an illustration of his own--another Turk, with the Spine on his back, being hit by a stylized bolt of lightning. "Uh, something happened at a museum exhibit that Jack
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It looked kinda... proto-Arabic, maybe? Or proto-Persian? Something Middle Eastern or Oriental, anyway.
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"Okay, can you see this?" Artie holds up the open book to the Farnsworth's camera. "This is what you're looking for. It's called the Spine of the Saracen."
"Uh, okay, great. So it has a name," says Pete, nonplussed. "What is a 'Saracen'?"
"A Saracen's a Turk. Now, listen, there's a legend that during the first Crusade, the Turks had this elite warrior cult. Now, these warriors were rumored to be unstoppable, for some reason, in the field of battle, and what I'm thinking is that this Spine--can you see this?" Artie holds up the second drawing, pointing to the barely-visible shape on the bearded man's back. "The Spine was specifically designed as a weapon for these warriors."
"Eleventh century is the same as the museum exhibit," remarks Myka from somewhere off-camera.
"What exhibit?"
"Well, we found pictures too." Pete holds up an illustration of his own--another Turk, with the Spine on his back, being hit by a stylized bolt of lightning. "Uh, something happened at a museum exhibit that Jack ( ... )
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