The Rooms of Antiquities, the pleasant female voice can be heard from the earbuds of the electronic tour guide, contain a number of peculiar objects, many of which are not, in fact, ancient. Several of them were in fact thought to be ancient until they were discovered to be forgeries, or merely more modern pieces confused for older ones.
"I liked the Keys to the Kingdom series when I read it, but that was a few years ago now; it's a bit more childish than the Abhorsen books."
"Basically, a kid named Arthur sees a weird building on the way back from school one day. It's huge, and it seems to have replaced a residential estate.... that was there just the day before. He goes exploring, finds that it's a weird separate world, with each of the seven sections controlled by a different person, named after the days of the week, and they have a sort of magic by ruling over the different areas. He disagrees with the management, and takes over."
"Yeah, he definitely improved the place. The people in the other world, 'denizens' were different from humans; they had blue blood, literally, and I think they lacked proper creativity. It was a bit weird, and it's definitely aimed at kids younger than us, but the series was good."
"Sounds cute. If I could take over the world I prooobably would, and these cards look like a good way to do it."
"I'd want to make sure that a better system was implemented than whatever was there before, but I'm not sure I'd be the best person for it."
"I'm not the best person to decide what's best, but I think I'm able to discard ideas that are really bad. I'm not just gonna do it off-hand; I'd want to actually get your reasoning."
"I told you, I'm a Pratchett girl," she laughs. "I really like Stephen King's The Dark Tower series."
"Oh right, yeah, but other than Pratchett is what I meant. I haven't actually read any Stephen King."
"Other than Dark Tower I read this and that, but it doesn't really compare. And it's weird, and breaks the fourth wall a bit, but so my thing. And the ending is frustrating, but good frustrating."
"Hah, okay. I don't like unhappy endings, so if it's that kind of frustrating, I wouldn't like it."
"Hmmm, not exactly unhappy? Kinda unhappy. But I don't wanna spoil. The story is about this Earth—at least I think—in the far future where reality's falling apart at the seams, and society has changed a bunch, and this gunslinger called Roland needs to find The Dark Tower to make the world stop falling apart. And then there are these magical doors that take him to other Earths and he gets companions from those Earths and there's a boy and a drug addict and a paraplegic lady and they all become gunslingers and it's great."
"Yeah I suppose. It's really surreal, fantasy meets sci fi meets unspeakable horrors meets time travel."