Cold Truths (part 1: The Missing Duke)

[D20Dazza]

Gerard starts picking books off the shelves and examining their covers, "Nope that's not it", he throws each unwanted book onto the floor in the centre of the room continuing his search for the book that the group seeks.

 

[Lazlow]

"Gerard, have a care, won't you? Some of those books could be quite valuable," Swipe admonishes as he picks them up off the floor.

 

[taitzu52]

Books.... thinks Uri, no use for him in there. He moves to the right of the room and begins sysetmatically opening the roors on the side, one by one, and then returning to inspect them.

 

[mps42]

Tyler: The chair seems to be just that. A very comfortable looking chair, probably used for reading. It is well stuffed and well-worn in the usual places. It rocks and swivels easily.

Gerard: The books don't appear to be in any type of order, fiction mixed with non, tratises on polictics mixed with religion (never a good thing) and you haven't even gotten to the scrolls yet.

Swipe: "Gerard, have a care, won't you? Some of those books could be quite valuable," Looking at the covers of the books that are on the shelves, as well as the ones that Gerard is tossing about, you see all manner of subjects in several languages. Either the Duke was quite the scholar or he just like collecting books. Most likely the Latter. It's going to take a dedicated search to find anthing in here.

Uri: Seeing a room full of books does nothig for you and you wander off towards the side of the room to inspect the doors. Each is very thin wood with a grating at the top to let a bit of light in. Opening each in turn reveals a small space, just barely big enought for you to fit in, and another grate or mesh between each pair. This would appear to be a small closet of some sort...

Aleran: There is little else in this sparsly furnished room other than the small bookshelf, bed and amoir. There is a small lantern on the top of the low bookshelf that looks like it might be worth something and the comforter on the bed looks undisturbed.


OOC: Uri, these are the confessionals, I don't know if your character would recognize them or what they would be used for

 

[Lazlow]

"Wow... There are a lot of books here. It's going to take a dedicated search to find what we're looking for," Swipe states flatly. He starts doing just that.

 

[Mimic]

Aleran shrugs slightly as he grabs the small lantern and leaves the room, no sense on just leaving it there, he highly doubted that its owner was in any position to use it.

He will go help Swipe and the others search through the books and once there is some free time he will examine the lantern closer then.

 

[D20Dazza]

With a tired look at Swipe Gerard continues to search and throw books "They're just books man, only useful for priests and mages, unless you are going to use them to wipe your rear end, admittedly they probably are a little more comfortable than grass and leaves"

OOC: Take 20 on the search.

 

[Krug]

"I must try that sometime. But people wipe their rear end?" says Woden.

 

[Argent Silvermage]

OOC: Hi guys I have really loved this game but I finally found work and just don't have the time to devote tro all of my gaming. I was great fun but Tyler has to get home to kill his undead baby sister now. I'll miss the game but for now I have to focus on my studies and my fabulous new job.

 

[mps42]

"Wow... There are a lot of books here. It's going to take a dedicated search to find what we're looking for," Swipe states flatly. He starts doing just that.

With a previously unseen determination, swip begins systematically going through the numerous books and scrolls.

Aleran shrugs slightly as he grabs the small lantern and leaves the room, no sense on just leaving it there, he highly doubted that its owner was in any position to use it.
He will go help Swipe and the others search through the books and once there is some free time he will examine the lantern closer then.

Aleran picks up the latern and exits the sparsely furnished room. Across the large bower of the chapel he can see Uri looking into the doors across the way, looking puzzeled. He passes by Tyler who is quietly checking the dais, boxes and heavy wooden lectern. As he gets close to the other door, he can see Swipe methodically going throught the numverous books on a large number of shelves. he can also see Gerard casually perusing through the tomes and tossing them about.

Gerard says "They're just books man, only useful for priests and mages, unless you are going to use them to wipe your rear end, admittedly they probably are a little more comfortable than grass and leaves" as he slows his pace and begins to actually look at the books and scrolls he was so casual with a moment before.

"I must try that sometime. But people wipe their rear end?" says woden, feeling terribly out of place in this stuffy, formal place.

After several minutes of determined searching, Gerard happens across a battered old manual that looks promising "I think this might be the 'plagues of the antiquities' that Lenric told us to find."
Swipe, busily looking through the books as well, has found several scrolls that look interesting, being in a language he's never seen before.

It would be a very interesting feat to get more than about one more person into this room comfortably.