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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4360125" data-attributes="member: 3285">Cold Visitor: Part 5 – Apprentice’s RoomKham entered a lavishly decorated room with rugs on the walls and blankets piled high on the beds.  There were two desks, two beds, a table, four chairs, and a long table covered in books and glassware.  It seemed like a cross between a library, laboratory and domicile.  Also near one of the beds there were several piles of books and ledgers all neatly arranged in stacks.Invisible, Kham crept over to the books. It didn’t take long for him to locate Elise’s journal.  It detailed six months of drudgery, brightened over the last two months by…“Hello, Sergeant Messer!” whispered Kham to himself.Messer and Elise occasionally rendezvoused in the attic of the wizard storage area. “I support Silas’ actions,” wrote Elise, “in getting the Hastur Shard.”Kham slammed the book closed.  “Hastur Shard.  Great.”He looked around and spotted the door to the south.Kham tried the knob.  It didn’t budge. Kham reached into his overcoat and pulled out his trusty dagger.  With a snap, the lock picks embedded in the hilt of the dagger sprung out in a fan.  He inserted one of the picks into the lock and twisted.Nothing happened.Kham flipped out a different pick and tried the lock again.  No luck.“Damn it, what kind of lock is this?”He was still fiddling with the lock when Elise Parthil entered the room.“I see you’re already on guard duty,” she said matter-of-factly. “They need you outside.”Kham whipped around with his hands behind his back.  Obviously, the invisibility potion had worn off. “Err, yes. I was just testing the integrity of this lock.  What happened?”“The Captain is missing.”</blockquote>

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