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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deuce Traveler" data-source="post: 3906986" data-attributes="member: 34958">The 25th of Yearsend Month, 8:44 AMLoraine returns the hug awkwardly as she blushes, then decides to give you a light punch on the shoulder instead of maintaining the embrace.  "Just be careful out there, and if it gets too dangerous maybe we should go to the authorities.  Hey, your friends turned themselves in and for all you know they're having the time of their lives right now."OOC: Sorry, couldn't resist. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />IC: It doesn't take too long to find Blackstock Printings, and the shy elf who readily answers your questions while nervously glancing at the hilts of your sheathed weapons.  Aelian is a light-skinned, anxious man who seems both intelligent and a little odd.  The printing shop itself is a medium-sized, free standing building with a number of clerks working on orders in the front office.  Once you explained your intentions and explained that you have several ancient elven books you were admitted to see the proprietor in his smaller office behind the main equipment.  It seems he is a lover of old books, and especially of ancient knowledge."Yes, yes, yes.  These books are quite similar in both the old elven dialect and Common when it comes to the same geographical area.  Most of these are referencing the lands around this city before it was what we now know Ptolus to be.  Quite amazing, yes?  But it is their cultural viewpoints which are enlightening, such as the humans seem to have focused on landmarks such as hills and bodies of water while the elves focused on ancient groves and forests.  Both also reference the positions of stars, but the elves more so although my knowledge of astronomy is admittedly lacking.  Still, I think this book on ancient elven poetry is also interesting, especially this one page that's dog-eared and mentions several geographical and astronomical reference points.  It could be that the person you got these books from was comparing these points to this one poem, yes?   The title of this one poem is the Tomb of the Dead Goddess.  So where did you get these books again?  Oh... I see it's not important.  It's interesting that the final line is clear enough and reads: 'So tiptoe my love, through poisoned blooms, where rests eternal the Dead Goddess of the Moons'.  Hmph.  Never heard of her.  Well I can either translate these for you into Common or try to figure out where these landmarks are that are referenced, but either job could take until tomorrow.  Oh, and I should ask for payment I am thinking.  Ummm... how about 50 thrones?"</blockquote>

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