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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eltab" data-source="post: 7076247" data-attributes="member: 6803337">Darn it, I think of the best stuff when I am far away from computer:- An aaracockra tribe can fly overhead and see something the ground-sloggers cannot: this area of ground has something like the Nazca Lines carved into it.  The pictures draw attention to an otherwise-unremarkable spot.  If the PCs find this out and dig around a bit, they find an old buried ruin.  (Maybe like Pompeii?)  Inside is a book written in Dethek (ancient Dwarven alphabet), which is no longer used on Athas.The PCs have to find a translator (this probably means 'kidnap a servant with technical knowledge from a Sorcerer-King') -or- purchase a scroll of Read Languages -or- find the equivalent to the Rosetta Stone (message carved into rock in multiple languages, including one you know and one you want to learn).When all that is taken care of, the book holds a bunch of gossip about long-dead people, study notes, and written-out directions to find one of the Parts of the Rod.  Even the numbers are written out, as 'one hundred twenty-three and a half' not '123.5'.For fun (and incidental educational value), make Dethek do something that Roman letters do not.  For instance: .tfel-ot-thgir morf nettirw si kehteD</blockquote>