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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 6294989" data-attributes="member: 21938">It perhaps speaks to the mentality of the strange snake-y merchants that any protection that they may have put on the strongboxes doesn't seem to be designed to stand up to brute force. Between them, Hang and Mal jemmy open the other two boxes without much trouble, although the decorative wood casings are ruined by the attempt. Nobody dies from poison.One box contains paperwork - a couple of small books and some scrolls, all covered with ornate glyphs - they recall the pictograms of High Imperial but are far more elaborately and sinuous. The books contain neat colums - maybe accounts ledgers, maybe a logbook, could be a form of poetry for all anyone can tell. The papers are mostly in the same writing, with a few in Low Imperial that mention sales of innocuous-sounding cargo: spices, ingots, chickens and so on. They bear the mark of House Turif.The second contains some small glass phials of various liquids all carefully packed in an padded box. Unfortunately a couple have been broken but that still leaves twelve intact, of various different colours and consistencies.</blockquote>