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| When updating existing book/note pages to the new <code>| book spoiler</code> parameter, remove the "yes" as well in most cases. Spoilers on books should be sparse. See [[Template_talk:MiscItemPage]] for more information. [[User:Addela|Addela]] ([[User talk:Addela|talk]]) 07:48, 6 December 2023 (CET) | | When updating existing book/note pages to the new <code>| book spoiler</code> parameter, remove the "yes" as well in most cases. Spoilers on books should be sparse. See [[Template_talk:MiscItemPage]] for more information. [[User:Addela|Addela]] ([[User talk:Addela|talk]]) 07:48, 6 December 2023 (CET) |
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| == book missing: Art Appraisal ==
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| [Art Appraisal by Gonner Maude begins with this:]
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| My mother took me aside one morning and told me my
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| father had gone crazy. I was seven at the time. In her
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| defense she was pretty gentle about it. 'Your Dad's
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| okay. He's just gone crazy is all.' When I asked her if
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| crazy meant he'd locked himself in his study again to
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| paint for three days, she told me no, he'd attacked her
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| with a sharpened paintbrush. She said it just like that.
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| Matter of fact. No tears in sight.
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| They had been married six years, tying the knot one
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| year after Mum pushed me out between her legs in a
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| garden shed in the boonies outside Waterdeep.
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| Art is a funny thing.
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| Mitcher and Webson tell us in their excellent
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| breakdown of the craft that good art replicates life
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| whilst great art overcomes life. That morning, at seven
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| years old with unlaced shoes and a friction burn on my
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| butt from scooting too fast across the floor, I learned
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| the truth of that, and its corollary: that while
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| overcoming that strange thing called life, great art can
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| gobble it up just as easily
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| This book can be found in Jannath's mansion when the artist wasn't rescued in act 1
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| == Book missing: Secrets of the Talis ==
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| Found in Jannath's estate, it reads:
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| The best way to begin to interpret your talis deck is by getting to know it as you would a person - one exceptionally long-lived and wise. The more time you spend in close observation of your deck, the more its arcana will philter in and and out you like air.
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| it's not for the deck to reveal itself for you; it's for you to reveal to yourself through the powerful symbols and ancient wisdom portrayed in these seventy-eight cards.
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| == Missing book: The Book of Suitors ==
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| Found in Jannath's estate, it reads:
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| [Within this plain diary are glued letters from suitors seeking Jannath's affection]
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| Madam,
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| Please, you mustn't leave me in suspense. Tell me you'll be mine, or tell me all is lost. One or the other, or I'll not sleep another tenday.
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| Jonah.
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| Milady,
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| I was dreadfully sorry to hear about your husband's demise and hoped you'd come calling sometime this tenday that I might convey my condolences to you in person. I've just received a lovely shipment of red from the south and thought it might be some consolation to you.
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| Lord Haventh
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| Dearest Madame,
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| Might I come visit you on the morrow and pay my respects to your great house? It's been so long since I've had the privilege to sup tea at your side.
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| Horatius
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| == Missing book: When Love Fumbles ==
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| Found in Jannath's room, it reads:
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| [The book falls open to a page in the middle of this spine-broken print.]
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