As you visit the Pied Piper Literary World, you will see many notes that contain stories and historical facts. You will know the difference when you see this:

Suma
by Katrina Slater -- this is a fictional story that Katrina made up. She also drew the image of Suma.

Red Wine Cake
Researched by Jackie Simon -- this is a piece of information Jackie found online. When you see the words "researched by" you can be relatively sure that this is historical fact. The website where the information comes from should be at the bottom of each of these notes.

Sometimes, you will see websites within a fictional story. This is the website where the student author found support or ideas for the fiction.

The Pied Piper Literary World is not meant to be an encylopedia. Most of what is inside the literary world is made up by students like yourself. When the Pied Piper was first started, college students provided fictional stories, character descriptions, and researched materials for the Literary World. You can follow their examples to write your own creative pieces including skits, 3 minute plays, poetry, short stories and even song lyrics. You can draw pictures of what you think the Pied Piper's world looks like. You can create new characters who you think might help tell the story better.

There is no right or wrong way to interact with the Pied Piper Literary World.

Because the Pied Piper story is about the disappearance of 130 children, you will find pictures of children hidden in boxes and baskets throughout the Literary World. Working in teams, you can have a race to see who can collect the most pictures before time is up. Sometimes the boxes are locked, and you have to find out who has the key. Only the person with the key can open the box. But once the box is open, anyone can pick up the note inside the box.

There are 54 children's pictures hidden throughout the Literary World, and there are the children of the Baker, Bergen, Stout families who are not hidden but reside at their respective homes. When you pick up an object, it goes into your "pocket" and stays there until you "drop" it again. You can check to see how many objects you have in your pocket by typing @inventory in the chat space. Your list of items will show up in the dialogue box above.