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Message: <blockquote data-quote="InVinoVeritas" data-source="post: 3377313" data-attributes="member: 41485">Perrin helps unload the carriage and brings out a pair of enforcers to escort the bird-man to a cell. Everyone else down a separate flight of stairs into a general purpose room within the headquarters."Where are we going?" Templeton wonders aloud. Darian responds by squeezing Temp's shoulder tighter, memories of what he had done there stinging him.<img src="http://www.laurenroyal.com/3.0/images/places/amber/borthwick/borthwick-dungeon-large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> The general room underground. Torhan digs into his pack and removes Edditomas' journal. "This is our victim's journal...it is about the only thing of interest I could find in his abode..." He offers the book to Abass, figuring the wizard to be most able to make sense out of anything it might contain.Torhan turns his gaze on Sasha. "I am not familiar with the gnomish culture...is there significance to the locking masks?"Sasha sighs. "No, unless you consider Alek of cultural significance. He's the only person I know to use them." She returns the gaze into Torhan's eyes. "Thank you for saving me. I wish I could pay you back.""Alek's a great artist," Templeton adds. "He really works hard on his performances."Abass accepts the journal and examines it carefully, even going so far as to cast Detect Magic to check for magical auras. When he is convinced that there are no nasty surprises in store, he opens the journal, noting size, distribution of text on the page, number of pages written, any obvious formatting features, and so on. The journal is written in common, and describes a number of his alchemical experiments, and contains notes on his patients and customers, each one represented by a symbol of some kind. In particular, it appears he had deep involvements with someone represented by brass, and one represented by vitriol.<img src="http://www.geocities.com/izzarne/current/info/asym/brass1.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> <img src="http://www.geocities.com/izzarne/current/info/asym/vitriol3.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> The symbols of important customers. Having gleaned an overall sense of the structure of the entries, he then skims the pages."The boy," Darian teases as he clasps him on the shoulder, "is Templeton Combledorn, and he seems to have a certain fondness of our friend Ada. He was with her last night.""Boy or man, that remains to be seen, son" Father Berman addresses Templeton. "A man shouldn't keep silent while his sweetheart's life is in danger."Ru crosses his arm and raises an eyebrow. "Of course, if she's not a sweetheart, but a conquest, then it's hardly worth the trouble, is it, Temp?"Abass pauses in his perusal of the journal, waiting on Templeton's reply.The jester's leer turns to face Fr. Berman and Ru. "Is that a threat? She's not a conquest! She's a real person, very talented, and not interested in the sort of person who just want to... ugh, I don't want to think about it! Where is Ada? What do you want from us? We'll tell you everything about the body... just don't hurt her."</blockquote>

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