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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ThirdWizard" data-source="post: 6040391" data-attributes="member: 12037"><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/playing-game/325998-burned-circle-thirdwizards-dresden-files-game-8.html#post6040135" target="_blank">Check Results</a> by [MENTION=6694788]Bluedevil[/MENTION] for Malcom in the room.Books Lore Check (3) + Investigation Check (6)It's hard to get much off the books, since there's so much to go through. Most of what you can glean is from titles. There are a hugely wide variety of books on the shelves. You can tell a few things from a cursory observation.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There are many books on faeries and their ecology, hierarchies, and so forth</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There are lots of books on supernatural societies, especially the various Faerie Courts and White Council</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Most of the books on magic have to do with Faerie magic: glamours, veils, and personal protection abilities. There isn't much on the other side of Faerie magics like charms, transformations, or the like. You can be thankful for that at least.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The books are carefully arranged by subject. She was very organized with her collection.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The books must have cost at least fifty grand. Probably more.</li> </ul>If you spent some more time and looked into the books, you could learn more. But, you aren't sure how long you would have to spend with them to get any useful information about Sandra.Chalk Board Lore Check (5) + Investigation Check (6)The formulas are complicated. You're basically speed reading through them to try to glean what they're about. Fully taking in everything could take hours - you can't read magic formulas like a page of a book, it involves interpretation, calculations, and instincts.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This looks like evocation magic, whereas what you read in the journal was mostly thaumaturgy. It makes relating the two more difficult.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This is stream-of-consciousness. The handwriting is more scratchy, making it look hastily written. It isn't something laboriously written over a long period of time. It's rough around the edges. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The magical energies are different from what she was writing in the journals. It's offensive. From the looks of it, it looks like some kind of counter or disruptive spell aimed as others' magic (shields, wards, and other protective types).</li> </ul>Room Investigation Check (6)there are a few things you can glean looking around.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The setup is expensive. Not counting the books, the cost probably comes out to ten thousand or so. There's a lot of precious metals in those circles.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It was time consuming to put all this together. The circle is chiseled into the concrete and fixed there. The hand crafted bookshelves. Each books must have been hunted down individuality. But she's managed to put this together in roughly two years on her own. That takes dedication.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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