Hey, I just got my Hook Mountain Massacre, and there's some odd markings on it.
On page 53, there's that weird mini-creases thing you sometimes see when a page gets almost-jammed during printing.
On the front and back there's these weird scratches. These really throw me off. The scratches are mostly vertical, and on both sides they're almost exactly one and three-quarters of an inch away from the spine. On the front, they're very light, almost pockmarks more than real continuous lines; at first I thought it was adhesive residue.
On the back, though, it's really weird. It's perfectly vertical and continuous, up until about the top half of the back blurb paragraph, and then it gets all wiggly for a bit, and goes straight again. What's strange is that these are on the inside back cover too. It's perfectly straight, but not quite vertical, although at the bottom it's still 1 3/4" away from the binding; it goes on a straight line right through the tip of the Wrath triangle of the Sihedron rune, goes a bit farther, and then turns maybe 45 degrees to the right and proceeds straight off the page. In addition, these marks are mirrored on the facing (last) page, and in fact the pages were stuck together upon this line when I first got it.
I'm sure I've gone into entirely too much detail on this.
In any case, I'm not saying I need a replacement; god knows I've done worse to gaming books in a month of use than this. Mostly I'm curious what the cause of this was; printer error, I would assume (unless somebody in inventory was looking for a surface to cut something on with an X-Acto), but they're just so odd I couldn't help but wonder if anybody knows enough about the printing process to maybe know what could cause this.
