Sergiusz Piasecki’s Grammar Book

Origin
Sergiusz Piasecki was a popular Polish writer before and during World War Two. He began working undercover in Belarus and branched out into smuggling, since it carried a lighter sentence than espionage. Piasecki used his criminal connections to attain a fortune, much of which he spent bribing Soviet prison guards. However, all changed when the intelligence agency ousted him and Piasecki committed a robbery.

Found guilty, he was handed 15 years of imprisonment - at least when he wasn’t causing various prison riots. Solitary confinement and tuberculosis quickly became his friends, as did the desire to write. His works became one of the nation’s best-sellers, hand written from a prison cell. When he was released, he stayed behind with resistance forces and wrote satire on the communist government after the war ended.

Most of his escapades cannot be confirmed. Life details such as his birthdate and address were either falsified, contradictory or non-existent. Piasecki even boasted to have his own “Tower of Babel”, a large stack of forged documents that likely contained some of the covers he made of his life story.

Effects
Reading the text aloud will make the writing coalesce into a detailed record of every lie the user has ever told. Small, inconsequential fibs will appear to flutter around the pages, with a description of the subject, date and outcome beneath. Momentous deceptions appear bold and stained, an indication of how importantly it affected the wielder’s life. All personal records will become altered afterwards, some of which try to maintain a shared narrative based on recurrent lies, while others appear without any provenance. Personal accounts will also be conflated with the user’s imagination, forming a personal history that seems at best murky and worst unbelievable.