[Bon]

I took the book from the library the thief was supposed to steal and now every time I try to go back to the present, a cut-scene featuring Death appears, telling me I was supposed to be dead eight minutes ago! And then Rincewind simply returns to the past.

What should I do? I tried reading through some walkthroughs, and, apart from one of them telling me not to take the book (wellthankyouverymuch), there doesn't seem to be another mention of it.

[rayvio]

I remember running into a similar issue a long, long time ago. as far as I remember it's a weird thing that happens for some unexplainable reason if you do too much in the past on one trip. I ended up having to break my trips up into focussing on one puzzle at a time instead of trying to do everything in as few trips and then it worked

this does of course require loading an earlier save though

[Ascovel]

Putting the book back on the shelf (after an attempt to go to back to the present) should suffice - the thief should appear again and steal it.

However, I have the Mac version of Discworld which from what I hear was released a bit later and was less buggy than the PC one. If the simple solution doesn't help, search for a patch to the game.

[Bon]

Yeah, a thief returns and steals the book but I still can't go back! Also, I don't think there is a patch...?

I'll probably restore an earlier save. Tnx anyway!

[Harald B]

I recall this happening too, and I've never had to reload over it. Did you substitute the book yet? If so, be sure to put the original book back to avoid a paradox. IIRC the descriptions can confusingly swap along when you swap the covers, so if so make sure you've swapped those back too.