by Elmitsu » Sat Feb 10, 2024 1:03 pm
Elmitsu Makes a New Friend V: Poisonous Mushrooms of the Haddon Mirk
Characters: Elmitsu, Zeo
Summary: Accepted Elmitsu intercepts a visitor to the White Tower library and offers her assistance.
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Zeo says 'I am looking for a book on... '
Zeo says 'Perhaps something to do with poisonus plants?'
Elmitsu beckons Zeo to follow her.
Zeo starts following Elmitsu.
Elmitsu says 'I am happy to show you the correct depository.'
[To the Fourth Depository!]
The Fourth Depository
A prodigious collection of low, wheeled book carts nearly block one of the
passages between the bookcases which stand in the center of this long, oval
chamber. The carts seem to stocked with titles that pertain to the subject
of botany. The books that line the shelves nearby are studies and drawings
of herbs, trees, and other plants. A few open books on stands have both
sketches of plants, as well as an assortment of pressed flowers and leaves.
A Brown Sister is here, frowning pensively.
Zeo has arrived from the south.
Elmitsu runs her hands along the spines of several dusty volumes as she continues speaking to Zeo, "I think this would be a great place to start. You might ask a librarian if you need additional help."
Elmitsu gestures demurely to the pensive Brown Sister.
Zeo nods regally.
Elmitsu indicates herself with a spindly finger, "I'm Elmitsu. Are you visiting Tar Valon long?"
Zeo begins to browse the books, tapping the spines with her fingers.
Zeo says 'Well...'
Zeo says 'It rather depends on how my research goes, I suppose.'
A Brown Sister leaves north. ^^
Elmitsu lights up as if she were a lantern, "Are you Saldaean by chance?"
Zeo says 'I am Lady Zeo ti'nela Sandorin Paendrag Paeron'
Zeo says 'You may call me Zeo, as you appear to be an initiate here'
Elmitsu chews on her lip, "Your name sounds familiar to me, but I am not as cultured as an Aes Sedai. I hope you will forgive me if I am being imprudent."
Zeo smiles happily.
Zeo says 'I am from Mayene'
Elmitsu 's face blossoms with recognition, rather like an astute flower.
Elmitsu says 'I -knew- your name sounded familiar!'
Zeo says 'I am related to Berry... that is the First, though somewhat distantly.'
Elmitsu says 'Well, you are very welcome here.'
Elmitsu says 'Would you like to speak to Chloro Sedai during your visit? I believe she has been handling the Tower's recent negotiations with Mayene.'
Zeo smiles as she withdraws a book entiled Deadly Mushrooms of Hadon Mirk.
Zeo says 'I would not wish to trouble an Aes Sedai, partiularly if it might make negoations more difficulty'
Elmitsu confides to Zeo as if the pair were in fact old friends, "I have a special memory of this depository because this is where I first bonded with Aelrena Seadi."
Zeo says 'There is some trouble between the Tower and Mayene then? When I left home we were firm allies.'
Elmitsu elaborates, "I do not presume to understand the finer points, but I am certain it will be resolved soon!"
Zeo presses her lips together slightly at such over familiarity but apparently decides to let it go.
Zeo says 'Let us hope'
Elmitsu says 'Even old friends disagree sometimes.'
Zeo says 'It is not good for Mayene to be at odds with the Tower'
Zeo says 'Unless of course it is a blind of some sort'
Zeo pauses in her consideration of mushrooms to ponder the political implications.
Elmitsu says 'I think the opposite must be true too! The White Tower should be a source of strength to the world.'
Elmitsu cranes her neck to see if she can identify the book in Zeo's care.
Elmitsu says 'May I ask why you are studying poisonous plants?'
Zeo smiles grimly.
Zeo says 'Perhaps I'm just curious?'
Zeo's eyes flick over a passage on decocting death cap toxin.
Elmitsu splits the difference between a giggle and a grin, "I'm curious about -everything-, but only rarely does it drive me to the library. Unless I am on penance."
Zeo says 'Is that were you were coming from when you ran across me?'
Zeo says 'A penance?'
Elmitsu says 'Not today!'
Elmitsu smiles sweetly.
Zeo says 'I dont suppose they lend these out do they.'
Zeo nods at the horrfied look on the face of the nearby Brown Sister.
Elmitsu says 'We can go to the reading room if you like.'
Zeo says 'I guess not...'
Zeo nods in agreement.
Elmitsu says 'You may be allowed to take materials with you if you file a formal petition.'
Zeo says 'That would be welcome '
[To the Reading Room!]
A Large Reading Room
The large, ovular reading room of the library extends to the south, dotted
with scroll-covered and book-covered desks. The desks are a dark wood,
which matches the furnishings of the walls and shelves. Rows of pictures
hang in dusty frames along the walls. The entirity of the northern wall is
a large, heavily-leaded arched window that overlooks the Tower grounds, one
of the few windows in the building, as light degrades the quality of ink.
Zeo has arrived from the south.
Zeo says 'I dont think that will be necessary. '
Elmitsu gestures around the reading room's various features, "-This- chair is my favorite, but you can use it today."
Zeo takes a seat with the poise of a monarch mounting a throne.
Elmitsu does not, perhaps, demonstrate as much poise as Zeo as she flanks the woman in another chair, but her attempt at such is admirable.
Zeo says 'Have you been here long... Elmitsu was it?'
Zeo takes a sheet of paper and begins to copy various passages in a neat copperplate hand.
Elmitsu nods with enough force that her teeth nearly clack, "I have been here for a number of years. I think the Aes Sedai found me willful when I was younger."
Elmitsu continues with a smile that teeters between sly and sweet, "But they know how to break one of such bad habits."
The master of scouts narrates 'Wukong was spotted Road to Tarwins Gap'
Zeo cuts her eyes to the nearby Aes Sedai.
Zeo's small mouth curves up slightly.
Zeo says 'I get the impression they have not entirely succeeded.'
Zeo sprinkles fine sand over her copywork to dry it and takes another page from the stack.
Elmitsu considers this as one might a particularly obscure piece of art.
Elmitsu admits, finally, "Not entirely. It's part of my . . . charm."
Elmitsu says this last a little baldly.
Zeo smiles in spite of herself.
Zeo turns to a page about snow morel.
Zeo says 'In Haddon Mirk?'
Zeo says 'Maybe... ah yes in the foothills of the Spine I suppose'
Elmitsu says 'Lots of nasty and exciting things grow down there!'
Zeo produces a credible copy of the charcoal illustraion.
Zeo says 'Exciting?'
Zeo says 'I've never been up that far myself'
Elmitsu watches Zeo produce the facsimiles with measured interest, "You are very good at that."
Zeo says 'My tutors say it is overrun with scorpions and giant ants.'
Zeo holds the drawing up to the light.
Elmitsu says 'Giant ants are exciting -if- you can run fast enough.'
Zeo says 'It is important for a young Lady to be able to draw and paint'
Zeo says 'Who'd have thought there were practical applications'
Elmitsu agrees appreciatively, "You are very mannered. I hope I am not too coarse. I came from a farm in the borderlands, but I like that everyone is the same here."
Zeo says 'I had heard that Aes Sedai come from all walks of life.'
Zeo says 'I cannot say I really believed it'
Zeo says 'I have seen several at court and they all have such poise'
Elmitsu says 'It's a required class. You should see how many books I can balance on my head!'
Elmitsu smiles so gamely that it may be impossible to tell whether she is joking or not.
Zeo glances at the stern faced Librarian.
Zeo says 'Perhaps some other time'
Zeo's lips quirk slightly.
Elmitsu says 'Have you made arrangements for your stay while you're here? I bet I could get you a nice suite in the visitors' quarters.'
Zeo says 'I have rooms at the Woman of Tanchico, they are very fine, even if the rest of the inn is thronged with merchants and the like.'
Zeo's voice has a touch of aristocratic disdain.
Elmitsu says 'That is a very suitable inn, though I am sure our accommodations are finer.'
Elmitsu says, with a touch more insight than she has previously demonstrated, "But I understand you may not wish to owe the White Tower a favor."
Zeo says 'They do say never to fall into an Aes Sedai's debt'
Zeo says 'One never knows when it might come back to haunt you'
Zeo grins evilly.
Elmitsu 's smile is nearly wolfish now, "Luckily, I am only Accepted."
Zeo says 'You aren't going to demand my first born son for showing me this book are you?'
Elmitsu says 'No, but . . .'
Elmitsu says 'Can we be friends?'
Elmitsu tries not to look too hopeful.
Zeo giggles slightly inspite of herself.
Zeo extends a soft manicured hand.
Zeo says 'It is a deal'
Elmitsu takes Zeo's hand in her own; the Accepted's manicure is not nearly so fine, but her nails are neat and trim.
Elmitsu says 'Oh, I just -knew- there was a reason I came to the library today!'
Zeo says 'Perhaps it is a penance you didn't know you were begining'
Zeo winks suggestively at Elmitsu.
Elmitsu says 'I only get in trouble because I have so much fun
getting out of it.'
A tactician's clerk narrates 'Tarel has slain a fierce trolloc!'
Elmitsu wags her eyebrows, but only when the librarian isn't looking.
Elmitsu says 'Do you need anything to eat? I can show you the kitchens.'
Zeo says 'I'm afraid I must return to my lodging for a few minutes, pehaps some other time though'
Zeo smiles happily.
Zeo tucks her notes on mushrooms into a engraved letter case and carefully closes the book.
Elmitsu says 'I am really glad I met you, Lady Zeo ti'nela Sandorin Paendrag Paeron.'
Zeo says 'And I am glad to meet you Accepted Elmitsu from a Farm in The Borderlands'
Elmitsu says 'We are already fast friends, I think.'
Zeo smiles happily.
Elmitsu rises from the chair next to Zeo.
Zeo says 'Then my trip has been doubly productive'
Zeo stands, gently smoothing her skirts as she does so.
Elmitsu says 'If you require anything else during your stay in Tar Valon, you need only ask for Elmitsu.'
Elmitsu squeezes Zeo's hand impulsively again before departing.
Zeo says 'Thank you for your help, as well as your friendship'
Zeo waves.
Elmitsu says 'The Light keep you.'
Elmitsu Makes a New Friend V: Poisonous Mushrooms of the Haddon Mirk
Characters: Elmitsu, Zeo
Summary: Accepted Elmitsu intercepts a visitor to the White Tower library and offers her assistance.
==-+=--+--+--=
Zeo says 'I am looking for a book on... '
Zeo says 'Perhaps something to do with poisonus plants?'
Elmitsu beckons Zeo to follow her.
Zeo starts following Elmitsu.
Elmitsu says 'I am happy to show you the correct depository.'
[To the Fourth Depository!]
The Fourth Depository
A prodigious collection of low, wheeled book carts nearly block one of the
passages between the bookcases which stand in the center of this long, oval
chamber. The carts seem to stocked with titles that pertain to the subject
of botany. The books that line the shelves nearby are studies and drawings
of herbs, trees, and other plants. A few open books on stands have both
sketches of plants, as well as an assortment of pressed flowers and leaves.
A Brown Sister is here, frowning pensively.
Zeo has arrived from the south.
Elmitsu runs her hands along the spines of several dusty volumes as she continues speaking to Zeo, "I think this would be a great place to start. You might ask a librarian if you need additional help."
Elmitsu gestures demurely to the pensive Brown Sister.
Zeo nods regally.
Elmitsu indicates herself with a spindly finger, "I'm Elmitsu. Are you visiting Tar Valon long?"
Zeo begins to browse the books, tapping the spines with her fingers.
Zeo says 'Well...'
Zeo says 'It rather depends on how my research goes, I suppose.'
A Brown Sister leaves north. ^^
Elmitsu lights up as if she were a lantern, "Are you Saldaean by chance?"
Zeo says 'I am Lady Zeo ti'nela Sandorin Paendrag Paeron'
Zeo says 'You may call me Zeo, as you appear to be an initiate here'
Elmitsu chews on her lip, "Your name sounds familiar to me, but I am not as cultured as an Aes Sedai. I hope you will forgive me if I am being imprudent."
Zeo smiles happily.
Zeo says 'I am from Mayene'
Elmitsu 's face blossoms with recognition, rather like an astute flower.
Elmitsu says 'I -knew- your name sounded familiar!'
Zeo says 'I am related to Berry... that is the First, though somewhat distantly.'
Elmitsu says 'Well, you are very welcome here.'
Elmitsu says 'Would you like to speak to Chloro Sedai during your visit? I believe she has been handling the Tower's recent negotiations with Mayene.'
Zeo smiles as she withdraws a book entiled Deadly Mushrooms of Hadon Mirk.
Zeo says 'I would not wish to trouble an Aes Sedai, partiularly if it might make negoations more difficulty'
Elmitsu confides to Zeo as if the pair were in fact old friends, "I have a special memory of this depository because this is where I first bonded with Aelrena Seadi."
Zeo says 'There is some trouble between the Tower and Mayene then? When I left home we were firm allies.'
Elmitsu elaborates, "I do not presume to understand the finer points, but I am certain it will be resolved soon!"
Zeo presses her lips together slightly at such over familiarity but apparently decides to let it go.
Zeo says 'Let us hope'
Elmitsu says 'Even old friends disagree sometimes.'
Zeo says 'It is not good for Mayene to be at odds with the Tower'
Zeo says 'Unless of course it is a blind of some sort'
Zeo pauses in her consideration of mushrooms to ponder the political implications.
Elmitsu says 'I think the opposite must be true too! The White Tower should be a source of strength to the world.'
Elmitsu cranes her neck to see if she can identify the book in Zeo's care.
Elmitsu says 'May I ask why you are studying poisonous plants?'
Zeo smiles grimly.
Zeo says 'Perhaps I'm just curious?'
Zeo's eyes flick over a passage on decocting death cap toxin.
Elmitsu splits the difference between a giggle and a grin, "I'm curious about -everything-, but only rarely does it drive me to the library. Unless I am on penance."
Zeo says 'Is that were you were coming from when you ran across me?'
Zeo says 'A penance?'
Elmitsu says 'Not today!'
Elmitsu smiles sweetly.
Zeo says 'I dont suppose they lend these out do they.'
Zeo nods at the horrfied look on the face of the nearby Brown Sister.
Elmitsu says 'We can go to the reading room if you like.'
Zeo says 'I guess not...'
Zeo nods in agreement.
Elmitsu says 'You may be allowed to take materials with you if you file a formal petition.'
Zeo says 'That would be welcome '
[To the Reading Room!]
A Large Reading Room
The large, ovular reading room of the library extends to the south, dotted
with scroll-covered and book-covered desks. The desks are a dark wood,
which matches the furnishings of the walls and shelves. Rows of pictures
hang in dusty frames along the walls. The entirity of the northern wall is
a large, heavily-leaded arched window that overlooks the Tower grounds, one
of the few windows in the building, as light degrades the quality of ink.
Zeo has arrived from the south.
Zeo says 'I dont think that will be necessary. '
Elmitsu gestures around the reading room's various features, "-This- chair is my favorite, but you can use it today."
Zeo takes a seat with the poise of a monarch mounting a throne.
Elmitsu does not, perhaps, demonstrate as much poise as Zeo as she flanks the woman in another chair, but her attempt at such is admirable.
Zeo says 'Have you been here long... Elmitsu was it?'
Zeo takes a sheet of paper and begins to copy various passages in a neat copperplate hand.
Elmitsu nods with enough force that her teeth nearly clack, "I have been here for a number of years. I think the Aes Sedai found me willful when I was younger."
Elmitsu continues with a smile that teeters between sly and sweet, "But they know how to break one of such bad habits."
The master of scouts narrates 'Wukong was spotted Road to Tarwins Gap'
Zeo cuts her eyes to the nearby Aes Sedai.
Zeo's small mouth curves up slightly.
Zeo says 'I get the impression they have not entirely succeeded.'
Zeo sprinkles fine sand over her copywork to dry it and takes another page from the stack.
Elmitsu considers this as one might a particularly obscure piece of art.
Elmitsu admits, finally, "Not entirely. It's part of my . . . charm."
Elmitsu says this last a little baldly.
Zeo smiles in spite of herself.
Zeo turns to a page about snow morel.
Zeo says 'In Haddon Mirk?'
Zeo says 'Maybe... ah yes in the foothills of the Spine I suppose'
Elmitsu says 'Lots of nasty and exciting things grow down there!'
Zeo produces a credible copy of the charcoal illustraion.
Zeo says 'Exciting?'
Zeo says 'I've never been up that far myself'
Elmitsu watches Zeo produce the facsimiles with measured interest, "You are very good at that."
Zeo says 'My tutors say it is overrun with scorpions and giant ants.'
Zeo holds the drawing up to the light.
Elmitsu says 'Giant ants are exciting -if- you can run fast enough.'
Zeo says 'It is important for a young Lady to be able to draw and paint'
Zeo says 'Who'd have thought there were practical applications'
Elmitsu agrees appreciatively, "You are very mannered. I hope I am not too coarse. I came from a farm in the borderlands, but I like that everyone is the same here."
Zeo says 'I had heard that Aes Sedai come from all walks of life.'
Zeo says 'I cannot say I really believed it'
Zeo says 'I have seen several at court and they all have such poise'
Elmitsu says 'It's a required class. You should see how many books I can balance on my head!'
Elmitsu smiles so gamely that it may be impossible to tell whether she is joking or not.
Zeo glances at the stern faced Librarian.
Zeo says 'Perhaps some other time'
Zeo's lips quirk slightly.
Elmitsu says 'Have you made arrangements for your stay while you're here? I bet I could get you a nice suite in the visitors' quarters.'
Zeo says 'I have rooms at the Woman of Tanchico, they are very fine, even if the rest of the inn is thronged with merchants and the like.'
Zeo's voice has a touch of aristocratic disdain.
Elmitsu says 'That is a very suitable inn, though I am sure our accommodations are finer.'
Elmitsu says, with a touch more insight than she has previously demonstrated, "But I understand you may not wish to owe the White Tower a favor."
Zeo says 'They do say never to fall into an Aes Sedai's debt'
Zeo says 'One never knows when it might come back to haunt you'
Zeo grins evilly.
Elmitsu 's smile is nearly wolfish now, "Luckily, I am only Accepted."
Zeo says 'You aren't going to demand my first born son for showing me this book are you?'
Elmitsu says 'No, but . . .'
Elmitsu says 'Can we be friends?'
Elmitsu tries not to look too hopeful.
Zeo giggles slightly inspite of herself.
Zeo extends a soft manicured hand.
Zeo says 'It is a deal'
Elmitsu takes Zeo's hand in her own; the Accepted's manicure is not nearly so fine, but her nails are neat and trim.
Elmitsu says 'Oh, I just -knew- there was a reason I came to the library today!'
Zeo says 'Perhaps it is a penance you didn't know you were begining'
Zeo winks suggestively at Elmitsu.
Elmitsu says 'I only get in trouble because I have so much fun
getting out of it.'
A tactician's clerk narrates 'Tarel has slain a fierce trolloc!'
Elmitsu wags her eyebrows, but only when the librarian isn't looking.
Elmitsu says 'Do you need anything to eat? I can show you the kitchens.'
Zeo says 'I'm afraid I must return to my lodging for a few minutes, pehaps some other time though'
Zeo smiles happily.
Zeo tucks her notes on mushrooms into a engraved letter case and carefully closes the book.
Elmitsu says 'I am really glad I met you, Lady Zeo ti'nela Sandorin Paendrag Paeron.'
Zeo says 'And I am glad to meet you Accepted Elmitsu from a Farm in The Borderlands'
Elmitsu says 'We are already fast friends, I think.'
Zeo smiles happily.
Elmitsu rises from the chair next to Zeo.
Zeo says 'Then my trip has been doubly productive'
Zeo stands, gently smoothing her skirts as she does so.
Elmitsu says 'If you require anything else during your stay in Tar Valon, you need only ask for Elmitsu.'
Elmitsu squeezes Zeo's hand impulsively again before departing.
Zeo says 'Thank you for your help, as well as your friendship'
Zeo waves.
Elmitsu says 'The Light keep you.'