(A Book Signed With a Flourish)

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From: Visit the Incandescent Bookseller


Description summary:
This action's title and description vary based on the Placeholder Bookseller Airs.

AirsTitleDescription
0 - ?The Little Book of Hearts It draws attention by its nonstandard format – tall and narrow, a little smaller than an octavo.
? - ??The Seducer's Almanac 'LEARN THE ANCIENT SECRETS OF LOVE', the back cover screams, 'FROM COURTLY ROMANCE TO THE BEDROOM PRACTICES OF THE PHARAOHS'.
?? - ???Inanna This sextodecimo has gilt edges, but has been cheaply rebound in cloth – perhaps the original cover was too scandalous.

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Game Instructions: This will increase your Persuasive.

Unlocked with A Name Signed with a Flourish 4

Locked with Base Persuasive 111


Success

Delivered

Description summary:
The success description varies based on the Placeholder Bookseller Airs.

AirsDescription
0 - ?[...] diary entries, poems, love letters with the names blacked out. The anonymous author seems to be the lady-in-waiting of a princess [...] she writes very little about said princess – scattered notes about 'mirrored feathers' and 'the sound of grinding glass'.
? - ??Most of the 'practical romantic advice' contained within is bunk, but it is instructive to identify how and why exactly it is bunk. Plus it comes with several very detailed and very artistic colour lithographs.
?? - ???The contents are a collection of short poems of anonymous authorship [...] They seem to be ordered by intensity – starting with gentle poems about longing and courting, and ending with material that would make the most seasoned sybarite blush.

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Success Instructions: Another visit to the bookshop will be possible in a week's time.