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GMShan: >When we last had seen Cambio he had experienced his cafe/bakery being vandalized though it had been a separate attack from the various robberies perpetrated by a group of masked ponies.  He'd found a rather menacing and threatening note tied to a stone used to smash one of the windows
[6:11pm] Cambio: ...
[6:11pm] GMShan: >this had been caused by a group of three, that he'd been able to see, striped, hooded equines with bands of gold around their foreheads
[6:11pm] • Cambio has been arguing with the insurance company lately on rates and payouts.
[6:13pm] GMShan: "No mister Cambio your insurance doesn't cover the cost of magiglass, you'll have to be satisfied with regular glass for your windows"
[6:13pm] Cambio: “YOu guys lowered my rates because of that glass because it’s safer.  You guys should replace it or i’m going straight to the CEO. “
[6:14pm] • Cambio posts a note on his window in the same language that translates to “To Whomever it may concern.  My wife is out of the country at the moment.  Whatever grievances you have with her please take up with me in a civilized manner.”
[6:15pm] GMShan: "We're sorry sir, but it's in the contract"
[6:15pm] GMShan: There had been a flower drawn on the bit of parchment that he'd sworn he could recognize though he wasn't completely sure of where he'd seen it before
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[6:16pm] Cambio: “No, it’s in the outdated contract.  Contract revision 7.3b is the contract I signed when I added this to my policy.  Check my file again."
[6:16pm] GMShan: "Perhaps we could come to an agreement though, you have been a faithful customer to us here at CanterSure Insurance Co I'll try to work something out"
[6:17pm] GMShan: There had been a flower drawn on the bit of parchment under the threatening message that he'd sworn he could recognize though he wasn't completely sure of where he'd seen it before, perhaps on a book at home, on a picture his wife had spoken of.. or elsewhere
[6:18pm] • Cambio decides to check through shan’s old books
[6:18pm] GMShan: (Derp accidentally sent it before the last bit was added ^^;
[6:18pm] Cambio: >ah, okay
[6:18pm] GMShan: (Nah I noticed I sent the same message before without it added anyway stupid phone
[6:21pm] GMShan: >As for Shan's old books there were a few, some looked.. a lot older than her and truth be told looked less like books and more like sewn together parchment, she had told him that those were the scriptures she had recieved from her mother. The older ones were written in a language she hadn't taught him, some lines gave him shortness of breath, others made his eyes sting.
[6:23pm] • Cambio puts the books in a stasis bubble and takes them to his lab, using one of his DragonCanvas readers to upload images of the books’ contents and start looking through them
[6:23pm] GMShan: The ones looking closer to her age though included story books, picture books, on top of books about totems and the properties of various rituals and herbs. The front of one of the picture books did carry that flower on it, as did one titled "the flower of the desert"
[6:24pm] • Cambio opens the flower of the desert book
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[6:24pm] GMShan: >may I get an update on what a DrayonCanvas reader is?
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[6:26pm] Cambio: >basically it’s an ebook reader for giant dudes. DragonCanvas is a heavy, tough, flexible material that the text is projected and integrated onto
[6:27pm] Cambio: >has four main modules.  Canvas, processor, scanner, and projector.
[6:28pm] • Cambio is looking at a very big, high-res version of the text.  Fun fact, onyx actually has a couple.  One is just a picture book reader to entertain the bastions.  Thanks to the rugged design, it hasn’t broken yet!
[6:28pm] GMShan: The Flower of the Desert had a picture of an oasis on the first page inside the cover with text written in south zebrican. It was similar enough to what was written in roam in that they could probably read and understand it with some minor difficulties if they tried.
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[6:31pm] Cambio: I should really learn roaman some time...
[6:31pm] • Cambio turns the page.
[6:31pm] GMShan: }The prophecy of the desert rose{
[6:32pm] GMShan: >Actually,  does he look up the name of the flower? Jus checking
[6:32pm] • Cambio does
[6:34pm] nap is now known as Keet.
[6:34pm] • Cambio ’s reading lab would make umbra go into a seizure from all the technology.
[6:35pm] GMShan: He finds that the flower is a Datura flower, native to the desert south of Dja'kar in a region in the southern parts of zebrica known as Calaestra
[6:35pm] • Cambio puts the page containing that info in another window
[6:35pm] • Cambio keeps reading
[6:42pm] GMShan: }Prophecy of the Desert Rose{ {During the drought of the fourth moon a child shall be born to the settlement.} It starts, imagery of a settlement with no name fill most of the page. It continues, mentioning a female and an approaching conflict, supposedly the female would play a great role in it. {The mare bearing the desert rose shall bring balance to this conflict}
[6:42pm] GMShan: .. he read through it and found.. part way through there was missing text, not just a few lines but entire blanl pages
[6:42pm] GMShan: Blank*
[6:43pm] • Cambio scans it in various lights. Infrared, UV, and a few more spectrums
[6:43pm] GMShan: Partway through the book* not text ^^;
[6:45pm] • Cambio takes note of the missing pages and swears sulfuriously. He can’t do much about missing pages. He does know a book master though. Or, should I say, a book horse
[6:45pm] • Cambio starts doing his own research first.  He starts by calling the grand library in roam about the book.
[6:46pm] GMShan: He doesn't find much by scanning it like that, in fact they look truly empty and void of content, that is.. until he saw text seemingly getting written onto it from nothing. }The conflict never ending, the mare's will unbending. Travelling far and wide, the rest been forced to hide{
[6:47pm] GMShan: >Sorry for taking time sometimes, phone is being iffy atm
[6:47pm] • Cambio checks the book itself now
[6:48pm] Cambio: Datura
[6:48pm] GMShan: >Firstly, checking with the library in roam they mention no records of a book like that. Aside from with that written language it would seem to be from Calaestra
[6:50pm] • Cambio requests books of prophecy coming from that area that talk about “Datura”, the desert rose
[6:53pm] • Cambio moves back to the book, trying to read further
[6:53pm] GMShan: The book as he mentions the name of the flower flutters some and even raises itself from the table. The scripture shifting itself just a tad changing from speaking of a mare but in her stead referencing the desert rose
[6:57pm] GMShan: He found it to be difficult, many books of prophecy from that area seldom left their land of origin, though he was able to find one, it went more in depth, telling of journeys to come and battles she would face in her homeland, though it too seemed to be blank partway through the pages. Seems like this prophecy was ever changing
[6:58pm] GMShan: Cambio, even if he didn't know much about prophecies would easily find out that this seemed to be an ever shifting one, extending itself until it would finally become fulfilled
[6:59pm] Cambio: Prophecy, show me this mare, the desert rose
[6:59pm] • Cambio says this in Shan’s native tongue
[7:00pm] Cambio: And show me the one she marries. What role does he play?
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[7:00pm] GMShan: }Born with the mark of the Desert Rose a journey she must take for the spirits to awake.{
[7:00pm] Cambio: [So requests the changing leaf]
[7:02pm] GMShan: The book shuts by itself before opening up on a different page. A picture of a featureless filly aside from one thing, a mark of the flower on her flank. She seemed too young for having gotten her glyph in the picture despite the lack of fearures.
[7:03pm] GMShan: Roll me.. a perception, TN of 6
[7:03pm] Cambio: !roll 2d6+2
[7:03pm] GameServ: Cambio rolled 2d6: 3 2  <Total: 5(+2) = 7>
[7:04pm] GMShan: It takes the stallion a short while to recognize all the lines with how the shading had been done but soon it dawned on him.
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[7:06pm] Cambio: [I declare myself husband to the desert rose. I request full access to these pages of prophecy.
[7:06pm] GMShan: The mare spoken of was none other than his wife, however, the book didn't show him as the one she would marry in fact it had little mention of him aside from the thief leading her astray
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[7:08pm] GMShan: }The prophecy shall reveal itself at the coming of the second moon of the seventh month{
[7:09pm] Cambio: Am I the thief?
[7:09pm] Cambio: *an I the thief, prophecy?
[7:10pm] Cheesecake is now known as DinnerMorf.
[7:11pm] GMShan: }The Rose lost in her journey will return accompanied by the thief{ another sentence is added.
[7:12pm] GMShan: >The book doesn't seem to react too much to his demands or requests
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[7:14pm] GMShan: Though it does show him one final thing. A drawing of a wooden statue, with various markins on it, a pattern of blue, red, green and white tracing various  dimples and lines in it
[7:14pm] Cambio: The thief
[7:15pm] Cambio: The Thief
[7:15pm] Keet is now known as pupkeet.
[7:17pm] • Cambio makes sure the scanner gets that
[7:17pm] GMShan: >it does
[7:18pm] Cambio: Show the thief
[7:20pm] GMShan: }.........{ the book does nothing for a good few minutes before a distorted image shows, it was difficult to tell whether it was supposed to be a zebra or a unicorn or any other pony kind for that matter.
[7:21pm] • Cambio posts a picture of a desert rose on his bakery window and sets a trap spell.  One that won’t catch keet or jack by accident again
[7:22pm] GMShan: >Actually.. it doesn't show him as the true thief.. seemes he had translated a sentence wrong heart thief.. it shows some zebra
[7:22pm] GMShan: "Heart thief"*
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[7:23pm] • Cambio goes through shansai’s pictures, searching for a pic of her mother
[7:24pm] GMShan: He finds that her pictures contain no pictures from before she came here
[7:25pm] GMShan: Now that he thought about it,  most if not all of what he knew of where she came from he had heard from her
[7:25pm] GMShan: From and her family*
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[7:26pm] GMShan: But no actual pictures to show it. She had told him that she was just a regular filly at home, helping with the farms and being lucky to be allowed her training
[7:26pm] • Cambio is getting the feeling that was a lie
[7:29pm] • GMShan , for now, is unsure of where to go, mostly because it depends on what the stallion is going to do currently though I also feel like now might be a good place to call... >Scene<