Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Ancient Books in Bloodhelm

This small, out of the way place holds some great treasures.  The building is a single story wood structure, with shuttered windows, steep roof and some river rock to trim the bottom of the building.  The front steps are carved stone and there are carvings etched into the wooden door.  A little sign with a book hangs above the doorway, swaying in the breeze.  The owner, Jack Canard, spends very little time helping his customers, which are few, but lets his apprentice, Tracy, do all the talking.  Jack prefers to spend his time reading or copying tomes he found in his youth or others have found.  Ancient Books is a good place to find ancient, and not so ancient, history of Martapa, along with old maps, treaties, and other sorts of paperwork.  They are not cataloged well, and will add a good week to research if there is a certain amount of time a person has to spend to find their information in game play.  Jack charges 2 gold ducats a day to research and 100 ducats to have a book copied.  (Treaties and wills and the like cost 10 gold to be copied.)

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