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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rgoodbb" data-source="post: 7358645" data-attributes="member: 6801229">"About lunch time, you say? We've just got time to ...."….get to the town’s great library.”“Ooh. A library. Exciting.” Snored Nord.“Well, it may give us a clue about where to find this big ol’ diamond.” Od replied hopefully. They took the Francesco Orbiter to avoid luncheon rush-hour and made good time in their chariot and entered the dark, dry (and ripe for flame) bibliotheca. An old man sat at the entrance eating flatbread and red grapes. A clay cup of watered wine to his side. He was reading of course. Why wouldn’t you, when you work in a bibliotheca and have the whole of your life ahead of you…“Good sir. We have need of your services.”“Got a card?”“What?”“A library card. Send off for one. It’ll take about a week or two and then you can take out any book, tome, scroll or parchment you like.”“We don’t really have time for that sir. We need the information now.”“This place isn’t going anywhere. There’s always time.”“….It is an emergency.”“Don’t be rash. It’s not the end of the world.” Thud “Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…”“Sorry. We didn’t have time” Nord remembered to check off one sleep spell from his slots. He did this by removing a ring from his right little finger to his left. When all the rings were on his left hand, he was out. It would start to get annoying, he imagined, when he had to use toe rings for the higher level spells. The party rushed in and separated to speed up the search process. What books would hold worldly knowledge of the largest diamond?Od - searched songbooks and poems for legends of large diamonds.Herewulf - searched Military books to see who may have fought over this stone.Nord - searched the nautical scrolls and parchments to find hidden isles that might hold their prise.Jeli - (the druid) searched geological tomes for clues about rocksSam - searched everyone in the establishment (to see if they were hiding the stone)Snappy - came back exhausted and covered in cobwebs and dust.“I’ve found it.”“What really?” Jeli was surprised. (And as such could not react further in this round but seeing as they were not in combat the surprise was moot.) “Yep.”“I don’t believe it. That’s great. Let’s get out of here quick.”“No. you don’t understand. I’ve found the diamond.”“I know I heard you the first time. It’s fantastic. Let’s talk more on the Rider.”“It’s here.”“Wha….oh no.”“The diamond is under this building.”“Oh Snappy I love you but we only have fourteen hours to save the mirth.”“So, it’s deep down four levels, across a toxic underground aqueduct, through infested tunnels, passed a colony of exotic spiders, on the other side of a Mummy lair and around three trap rooms. We have to navigate another subterranean canal, some scolding steam vents and a badger.”“A badger?”“Maybe the deadliest encounter of them all.”“This is what adventuring is all about. 14 hours? We can do that surely.” Stated Herewulf stirred by the call to action.“Um Snappy?”“Umhum?”“You are not F%*$ing with us are you?”“No, no. It really is there.”“OK. Just checking.”So our six intrepid explorers set off through a false bookcase and down a long corridor to meet their first challenge which just happened to be…</blockquote>

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