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Betwixt and Between (Magical Curio Shop Quest)

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[X] What makes this shop so important. More so than an apprenticeship?
[X] Who or what was bleeding on the floor?
 
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[] Who was the last proprietor of the B&B?

Wouldn't this question just give us a name, at best a title without any context? We will probably learn more from any of the regulars. Like Allison - as far as I remember, the author promised to add characters that did not win in the first vote.

[X] How can I get my ability to cast unlocked with the resources available in the shop?
[X] What makes this shop so important. More so than an apprenticeship?
 
[X] What makes this shop so important. More so than an apprenticeship?
[X] How can I get my ability to cast unlocked with the resources available in the shop?
 
[X] Who was the last proprietor of the B&B
[X] What makes this shop so important. More so than an apprenticeship?
 
[] How can I get my ability to cast unlocked with the resources available in the shop?

Someone may have a question comparable to this but I can't find it, so...

[] What happened to the previous shopkeeper? (INVALID)
 
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[X] Who was the last proprietor of the B&B
[X] How can I get my ability to cast unlocked with the resources available in the shop?
 
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[X] How can I get my ability to cast unlocked with the resources available in the shop?

Wistways said:
You are currently on a task to find this exact thing out. So I'm not allowing this one.
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A fair point. My apologies; I had forgotten that the book presumably either does not know or can't/won't provide the answer to that question.

With that said,

[X] Who or what was bleeding on the floor?

then becomes a considerably more pressing question.

If the answer is "I don't know," or a description of a customer or a stranger uninvolved in the shop's normal operations, then that shapes our investigation of the previous shopkeeper's whereabouts.

If the previous shopkeeper was the person bleeding on the floor, that tells us a lot of important information we need rather pressingly, such as "the shop or its keeper has an enemy willing to resort to lethal violence" and "try to be sure that enemy doesn't come back" and "if you leave the shop to go looking for your predecessor or their mortal remains, you'd better go loaded for bear."

Is the "who or what" question permissible, @Wistways ?
 
Simon_Jester said:
[X] How can I get my ability to cast unlocked with the resources available in the shop?

A fair point. My apologies; I had forgotten that the book presumably either does not know or can't/won't provide the answer to that question.

With that said,

[X] Who or what was bleeding on the floor?

then becomes a considerably more pressing question.

If the answer is "I don't know," or a description of a customer or a stranger uninvolved in the shop's normal operations, then that shapes our investigation of the previous shopkeeper's whereabouts.

If the previous shopkeeper was the person bleeding on the floor, that tells us a lot of important information we need rather pressingly, such as "the shop or its keeper has an enemy willing to resort to lethal violence" and "try to be sure that enemy doesn't come back" and "if you leave the shop to go looking for your predecessor or their mortal remains, you'd better go loaded for bear."

Is the "who or what" question permissible, @Wistways ?
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This question is permissible, and in fact, encouraged.
 
Okay. Compacting my votes in a single post:

[X] How can I get my ability to cast unlocked with the resources available in the shop?
[X] Who or what was bleeding on the floor?

I really think we need to know that second question rather pressingly.
 
[X] How can I get my ability to cast unlocked with the resources available in the shop?
[X] What makes this shop so important. More so than an apprenticeship?
 
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[X] How can I get my ability to cast unlocked with the resources available in the shop?
[X] Who or what was bleeding on the floor?
 
[X] How can I get my ability to cast unlocked with the resources available in the shop?
[X] What makes this shop so important. More so than an apprenticeship?
 
So there is currently a tie for the second question. If there is a tie I will pick which one I want to answer. Last chance if you want a say!!!
 
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    • Scheduled vote count started by Wistways on Aug 21, 2022 at 8:30 AM, finished with 34 posts and 24 votes.
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    • And we have….. a three way tie!!

    …. Doing so is not getting three questions for the price of 2.

    I will be answering
    [X] What makes this shop so important. More so than an apprenticeship?
    [X] How can I get my ability to cast unlocked with the resources available in the shop?

    Maybe if you are nice I'll tell you the previous shopkeepers name.
    Update will happen in the next day.

    ❤️ Wistways
     
    I think we may have missed an opportunity by not taking steps to learn who was bleeding all over our floor and why.

    Especially since the two questions we did choose are very preoccupied with personal status and power, at the expense of practical concerns like security and figuring out what happened to our predecessor. Admittedly, unlocking our own ability to cast magic would straddle the line between the two categories because we'd be a lot more effective at securing the shop and investigating in the face of real opposition as an actual mage.
     
    Simon_Jester said:
    I think we may have missed an opportunity by not taking steps to learn who was bleeding all over our floor and why.

    Especially since the two questions we did choose are very preoccupied with personal status and power, at the expense of practical concerns like security and figuring out what happened to our predecessor. Admittedly, unlocking our own ability to cast magic would straddle the line between the two categories because we'd be a lot more effective at securing the shop and investigating in the face of real opposition as an actual mage.
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    I agree that learning the name would be good but she doesn't even know what the shop is about other than the name. I think its a good idea for her to know to start looking for things like the feather or even a full item in character.
     
    Ls Shadow said:
    I agree that learning the name would be good but she doesn't even know what the shop is about other than the name.
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    I'm not so concerned with learning names as with getting yes/no confirmation to a very simple question I wish we'd asked:

    "Was the previous shopkeeper bloodily assaulted on the floor and dragged out of the shop just now?"

    Because in a real sense, knowing that might, as a crudely practical matter, be more relevant than knowing meta stuff about the shop. After all, anything that was willing to assault them is probably willing to assault us, and our capacity to defend ourselves is probably lower than their was.
     
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