the fish of Matthew 17:27
Matthew, an eyewitness at Capernaum
Ordinary in every way except the one time it mattered.
Every stat is a checkable fact about the actual book, not a designer's mood. Bars are drawn against the highest value any book reaches.
The game's own explanation, as a reader sees it in the backpack.
Low. It is only a small fish, though it carried a coin in its mouth until Peter found it.
A tax collector came to Peter asking whether his teacher paid the temple tax. Jesus sent Peter fishing instead of arguing, and the first fish he caught had exactly the coin they needed sitting in its mouth. It is why this dream calls its own money staters.
By levelling up. A book that develops keeps what it knew and learns the rest on its new schedule.
| Lv | Move | Type | Cat. | Pwr | Acc | PP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Stater in Its Mouth | Bible | Argument | 20 | 100% | 15 |
How to read these. In Scholar’s Dream, books argue with each other. Each thing a book can do in a debate is a move, and most moves carry a real quotation — the words the book puts on the table when it uses that move.
Strong against lists the opposing books and arguments a move was written to answer. Used against one of them, it hits much harder than usual: ×2 means twice the normal force, ×4 four times. It is the game’s way of saying: this is the sentence that answers that argument. Open an entry to read why.
“Go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin.”
Matthew 17:27 (WEB).
In the gamePeter found a coin, a stater, in the mouth of a fish, enough to pay the temple tax. The staters in your purse are named after it. God provided from a direction nobody was watching.