Rosetta Stone

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Renown: 1

Description

Tucked snugly along a side street, just upstairs from a restaurant and insulated from all its chaos and bustle, is Rosetta Stone. The sheer quantity of books is overwhelming, and the heavy musty scent of the dim old bookstore can be virtually suffocating to mortals: every wall, every shelf is stacked high and deep with weathered, yellowed volumes, ranging from the merely old to the first-edition, valuable texts. Occasional brass or iron-wrought statues or candelabras (devoid of candles, since the place is such a monumental fire hazard) decorate the shelves in the few spots where there aren't books.

It's owned and run by Doris, a tired, thin, graying, bespectacled packrat of a woman. She's read every book in the place, or at least, that's the rumor. She's been shepherding her little used bookstore along since its inception in the '70s: buying books from needy college students and collectors both, appraising them and pricing them, storing them in her horde of books on the shelves, and--eventually--selling them back to the public.

There are many chairs and a few tables set up for casual reading and perusal of the plethora of tomes in the place, and Doris is usually toward the back of the maze of shelves, sipping at some tea and looking over her newest acquisition.

Size, Location, and Security

Size 2, Location 0, Security 1

Benefits

Minor

Doris is beginning to warm up to you. You can stay in the shop and peruse the books, and she won't harass you until it's closing time.

+1 Academics

Sizable

Doris has some books she doesn't stick out in the open; people might run off with them. If you ask her nicely, though, she'll let you have a peek.

+1 Academics, +1 Occult, Extensive Reference Library

Uncontested

Now she's willing to sit and chat with you over what's in the books, too. She gets talkative, and tries to force tea on you, but it's well-meaning, and her expertise in some more esoteric fields makes it all worthwhile.

+2 Academics, +1 Occult, Extensive Reference Library, Encyclopedic Knowledge merit