Hey Andi,<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=237174.msg11738687#msg11738687">Quote from: Andi on 19-10-2015, 04:19:34</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">The chest contained several tomes, some old, some newer, sitting padded in a velvet-clad interior. Scratched into the leather cover of the top book are the words 'Read me now!'. The other books, on visual inspection, appear to be the material the professor wanted returned to Lepidstadt. One of them, its leather cover dyed in rich purple, appeared particularly unusual; its edges qwre rimmed in steel, and it was held shut with a lock that seemed to take a strange key with a diagonal shaft. Tucked under the steel lock, easily removed, was a small note requesting this book to be returned - discreetly! - to Her Honour Judge Embreth Daramid, at her home address. The other three should go to Professor Montagnie Crowl of the Antiquities and Archaeology department, at his office at Lepidstadt University.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Sorry to be a bother, but how old is "old?" And is all the leather the usual cow-type stuff? I imagine that while Thaynatr may not have enough knowledge to identify anything really odd, she probably would recognize common things for what they were, and at least be able to point at something weird and go "Okay, that's weird."<br/><br/>And as the purple one is being singled out, is it "older" or "newer"? Any titles on any of them beyond "READ ME?" (I'd like to borrow an Alice...)<br/><br/>I guess I'm just asking for a bit more detail about the books in terms of what a quick visual inspection would net. Or should I assume that "No information means they're pretty normal, bog-standard stuff?"