Link Persuasion

You've found it.

You toiled day and night, digging holes, scraping through bramble bushes, buying maps with an X marks the spot, trekking into the depths of the desert… and now you've found it.

The perfect site to get a link from.

You reach out your hand to take your link – and BAM!

Hit a forcefield.

Hmm… apparently these sites don't give up their links so easily.  Try a different direction – BAM!

Your hand is starting to hurt.

I might have to ask for this link.  But how? How am I going to convince the Master of the Site to give me a precious link?

You pull out a piece of parchment and dip your quill in your handy portable inkwell.

Dear Master of the Site,

You are the perfect site for me to get a link from. I looked long and hard until I found a site like you.  My link would fit on this page of your site. Please put it there.  Thank you.

You read it over. While you admire your penmanship, something about that letter just doesn't seem right to you.  Maybe you need to offer something in return. You pull out another piece of parchment.

Dear Master of the Site,

You are the perfect site for me to get a link from. And I probably have the perfect site for you to get a link from to. If you give me a link, I'd be happy to give you one too. Thank you.

Also – something just isn't right. And parchment is expensive.  This next one had better be good.

Your mind stays blank.  Your parchment does too.

And then a piece of parchment falls out of the sky and hits you on the head.

Your first thought is: Great! A spare piece of parchment! Then you open it up and see writing on it. Oh, drat. A used piece of parchment.  I'll have to spend two hours scraping off all the ink if I want to use it.  But then you begin to read the writing, and you realize that in no way do you want to scrape this writing off:

You lay the scroll down thoughtfully on the sand, pick up your quill, and begin to write…

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