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[oiorpata]

Archaeology is neat. Apparently art theft and art dealing is the way to go on this planet. Shaun and I teamed up with Xichen and Huaisang to dig around ourselves. [ pun a little intended. ]

Most antique trading here ends up with the objects at the Museum in Vrefesea, and Hortensia seems to have found something significant on her pre-death last dig, an artifact Jove was attempting to sell to a higher bidder than what the Museum was offering. The deal fell through.

The Museum is missing an artifact in the form of a fancy book, with a reward out for its safe return, and Huaisang and I were able to confirm it as the same object Jove was looking to sell. It's an antique book about the early days and people of Novis Nox. The Museum hired a certain Detective Val Pinot to track it down, but no one we spoke to seemed to think he had it in his possession yet.

It looks like there's a good chance this book is the orb. A book orb. The Borb, according to Shaun. [ yes of course andy is going to roll with that, it's fucking funny. ]

[ she attaches a picture of the borb from the newspaper. shaun helped her figure out how because he's a champ. ]

Viveca said the Borb was in Vrefesea, and Hortensia looks like the last person who physically had it, with the Day family on their way to her funeral. And now Jove is dead, but it's hard to imagine none of the other siblings don't know where the book might be.

[ and that's it, well thought out conclusions are for squares. ]

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[deaddrop]

I wonder if anyone's got a line on who Jove's potential buyer is.

[oiorpata]

We looked for more on them, but our leads were all dead ends. Maybe someone else will have better luck. Seems like the other party is the one who bailed on it though.

[deaddrop]

So probably not showing up late to murder Jove for it.

[Not that it's completely out of the question, but not a first lead to explore.]

But it could indicate Jove was still interested in selling if he could.

[oiorpata]

Unless they thought they were getting a shitty deal but wanted the Borb anyway.

The book's a hot commodity, and Jove's a businessman. Some of the merchants wondered if other buyers might attempt to get it too.

[deaddrop]

That's possible. Kill him, frame the siblings, then the.

[She can't believe she's typing this.]

Borb is remarkably less expensive.

It's a lot of moving parts for something you could have bought, though.

[aurable]

Crap, you don't think the Borb is with Hortensia, do you? I hope to god this isn't about to turn into a jaunt into grave robbery. I'd rather not participate in the first 'funeral heist.'

[oiorpata]

No idea. But it's not like she's using it, so a funeral heist would probably be one of the easiest options here.

At least we wouldn't be killing anyone for it.

[aurable]

Well

Just thought I'd voice at least the pretense of being disturbed by the idea if that's what this turns into.

Orbs can't possess corpses, right?

[oiorpata]

Half of archeology is grave robbing. It'll be on theme.

I think deals break when the person who made it dies. But let's not breathe orb reanimation into the world.

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[spacedisaster]

[ Clara and Peter have a little bit of a crisis at the interrogation, so he can only send a quick message to Andy. ]

Thank you guys for the info. 👍👍👍 Love borb as a name. Cops and detective are bastards.
BRB asap with news.

[oiorpata]

Thank Shaun for it.

Cops generally are. You good? Do you need help?

[ she has no qualms about beating a motherfucker if need be! ]

[spacedisaster]

[ A few hours later. ]

I will!

And sorry for the delay, we were havign some issues with Captian Morrow. Pinot is going to allow us to come back to the train, but unless we find the real maundered, we might end in jail again once we reach the city.

[oiorpata]

Well, we've apparently got lots of jailbreaking experts on board, so you won't be stuck there forever.

But we seem to be getting closer to the whole picture.

[spacedisaster]

That's true, I have some experience myself. I'm more worried about Clara.

[ He's been in prison before, it doesn't even stress him. ]

That's great. I trust you guy to get to the bottom of this mystery.

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[coordination]

Has it become a norm, here? To use these weird names for things? [ First was the scoopy hoop, and now this?? ]

I have to concur with Drift. I do hope this doesn't end in looting a corpse. Although I could think of much worse, and at least many of us would be up to doing as much with little problem if we have no other choice.

[oiorpata]

It's funny. C'mon, Yzak. Borb.

Hortensia probably did some grave robbing herself in her line of work. It'd honestly be easy if that was all we had to do, which is why it probably won't happen, but I'll take one for the team if it does.

[ andy would unfortunately loot from a corpse. kanyeshrug!! ]

[coordination]

[ He is not typing borb.

Yzak would also, if it came down to it, loot a corpse if he had to. He'd prefer NOT to since this isn't war-related, but, eh. ]

In that case, it's probably a good idea to get the proper information from the Day family. Where, exactly, her funeral service is going to be held.

[oiorpata]

[ he will eventually, just accept the borb. ]

[ hi5 for being willing grave robbers! ]

Hortensia was pretty renowned in her field. That info's gotta be out there, even if we can't shake it out of a Day.

[coordination]

[ He probably will. But he will fight it every god damned step of the way. ]

Then, once this little trip of ours comes to an end, we'll have our next destination set.

Of course, it'll be nice to clear our allies of wrongdoing by the time we get there.

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[legalcy]

"Borb" is not a real word. Use something descriptive instead.

[Yes, this is what he's fixated on.]

[oiorpata]

New words get invented all the time. They're all made up and now we have a new one to suit our book orb needs.

[legalcy]

It's just a "book orb", then. "Borb" would make no sense outside of this one specific conversation.

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[karaoqi]

it's definitely a 'book orb' but 'borb' is just for fun man

way easier to say too

[ get 👏 on 👏 their 👏 level ]

[legalcy]

This is a serious matter. "Ease" is not an excuse for jokes.

[oiorpata]

It doesn't have to make sense outside of specific conversations. Even in the future, when we're looking back fondly on this train ride, we'll know deep in our hearts that the Borb was the orb in the shape of a book.