Nose around in the Collection for Linguistic Antiquities

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From: A Survey of Missing Items


Something was filched from its back rooms not long ago, the culprit eschewing all the more valuable archaeological relics.


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 135

  • 93 - very chancy (41%)
  • 115 - chancy (51%)
  • 138 - modest (61%)
  • 160 - very modest (71%)
  • 183 - low-risk (81%)
  • 205 - straightforward (91%)
  • 225 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Unhelpful signage

The signs [...] written in [...] tongues of Caution. The Tight-Lipped Librarian [...] is busy conversing with a Senior Fellow in Secondary Ordinals [...]. They are [...] too close to be mere colleagues.

So, alone, you investigate. [...]

When you find the case [...] the label [...] just reads 'tablet'.


Failure

Among the pigeons

You ask […] questions […]. The researchers […] appear ignorant – have the librarians been keeping things quiet?

The […] Senior Fellow […] is more alarmed than most by the news. He stammers […] and vacates the collection before you can ask him what […] he's actually studying.

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