Clover Calling

[wooliefrand]

WHO: Clover
WHERE: ????
WHEN: ?????

[ready to make some elicit DEALS?

Do so here!!]

Comments

[eonsadrift]

[ ...........he almost forgot about that thing. ]

Oh..? Did you get anything?

[jerkalope]

[ shakes his head a little and blinks at Zenith like someone who just got a faceful of glitter ]

Uh... [clears throat! ]

There's a password or something on the book. Even Ceo doesn't know about it.

[failsaver]

[ with a headtilt ]

Were you Haze-skimming?

[ ... ]

Heh, guess there's no Haze here. Just Skimming.

[jerkalope]

I don't know about skimming. I was observing, a one time only ability.

[failsaver]

[ considers trying to explain.


nah ]

Close enough. A password, huh... okay, let's crack it.

[jerkalope]

Hmm, you have a safecracker's ear as well as a pickpocket's fingers?

[failsaver]

Nah, puzzles ain't my thing.

I just don't think he's very smart.

[jerkalope]

All the attention went into haircare.

But that doesn't mean the person who put safeguards on this book is an idiot. Especially if the crow means what I think it means...

[failsaver]

What's that?

[jerkalope]

That looks a lot like the thing that sprang up from the paper flower in the last ritual. The last one where a lot of unnecessary violence took place.

[ he wiggles a bit like he's checking his back foot ]

[eonsadrift]

A password..? That's a strange way to describe a lock.

I suppose that explains why he didn't whine too much about trading it to us.

[jerkalope]

He can't open it, but that probably means we can't either. Whoever's got the muscles and isn't afraid of papercuts should try to force it open.

[eonsadrift]

Oh, great idea. Let's try to break into the book protected with what is clearly some kind of magic password by using brute force. That surely won't damage anything.

[jerkalope]

Hey, say the same thing over again but replace book with "crypt" and see where I'm coming from.

[eonsadrift]

Ah ah~. That was a snap decision made in the moment. This is pre-meditated. It's entirely different.

[jerkalope]

It is. Damaging a book would get an angry librarian after us. Damaging a corpse has an 8-13 jail sentence.

But fine, if you can't brute force it can you at least try to examine that crow engraving?

[eonsadrift]

Oh yeah? And what does damaging a magical book guarded by a mysterious rune get us? You have no idea what kind of creature put the password on this thing. That "librarian" could be stronger than a thousand wolves.

...I'll take a look at it, anyway.

[jerkalope]

[ note to self: if you ever want Zenith to act cautiously, just advocate for the most reckless option possible and see if his contrary nature kicks in. ]

Hmm, we have books back in my prison that cannot be opened except by a certain person and at a certain time. But usually we leave clues about it on the cover. Makes shelving easier~

[psynchroneyes]

A password...?

I'll bet we definitely don't have it.

[jerkalope]

And how did you know about this book in the first place?

[psynchroneyes]

Ohhh, you know, finding these things out comes with being a detective.

[jerkalope]

No, really. So who told you about it?

[psynchroneyes]

Aw, not convincing enough, huh... From Red—it was part of the IOU we owed him.

[jerkalope]

You're telling me as part of the debt he gave you this information? So he wants the book then?

[psynchroneyes]

Nah, I don't think he wants the book. Seems to me he wanted to get a certain reaction out of Ceo, instead.