Research Notes

Questor Offer

As the premier research institution in the Empire of Tamriel, the Mages Guild employs a number of mystics and scholars all over the land. If we can get a representative of the Guild over to a place within a reasonable distance of here, the eminent scholar, [scholar], has agreed to share [his/her] research. Would you be available for this?

The Mages Guild of [quest giver's place] has an exciting opportunity to benefit from the work of the renowned researcher and scholar, [scholar]. [He/she] has agreed to donate some of [his/her] research to the Guild if we send someone to [scholar's place] to pick it up. Not surprisingly, [he/she] fears Necromancer intervention. I take it that you're as excited about this possibility as I am, [your title]?

Refuse Quest

That's rather disappointing, [your title]. If I were in better condition, I'd jump at the chance to meet the great [scholar]. You're wasting your youth, [your title].

Accept Quest

Grand, just grand. Now, [scholar] is staying in [scholar's place] in a place called [scholar's town] for just a few days. The danger is the Necromancers. Those reprobate spellslingers are interested in getting to [scholar] and [his/her] research. I will give you [quest time] days to get to [scholar] and back before I send someone else. Good luck.

Quest Complete

Oh, this is brilliant stuff. I guess those damned Necromancers were not too difficult to handle, at least, not for you. Spiffing job, [your title].

Rumors During Quest

Maybe that [scholar] is a celebrity to scholar types, but [he/she]'s just a [scholar].

It's an honor for [scholar's place] to host the renowned [scholar]'s visit to [the region].

Rumors Postfailure

The Necromancers will be the dominant magical power in Tamriel in a few years.

The Mages Guild is unable to defend itself against the Necromancers.

Rumors Postsuccess

[scholar]'s research will help the Mages Guild in a number of ways.

The Necromancers didn't seem to get their hands on [scholar] ... or did they?

Questor Postsuccess

Well, if it isn't the [your race] who brought us that manuscript. How are you?

Questor Postfailure

As you haven't got the manuscript you swore you would retrieve, I see little point in conversing with you. Take your business elsewhere.

Quest Log Entry

[the quest date]: The Mages Guild of [quest giver's place] has sent me to [scholar's place] where [scholar], a renowned scholar, is staying at a place called [scholar's town]. I am to avoid the agents of the Necromancers, get [scholar]'s research from [him/her] and return to the Mages Guild in no more than [quest time] days.

Message 1011

[db's town] [db's place] Dear Old [your first name], Well done, [your first name]. [scholar] was characteristically pigheaded about giving us [his/her] research notes, but [he/she]'d be pleased as a pumpkin to give it to a "representative" of the right-minded Mages Guild. You'll have a lovely bit of gold waiting for you here in [db's place] when you get here with the notes. Yours, [db]

Message 1012

[your name], Do not make an enemy of the Dark Brotherhood. We can be great help to one another, but you could not wish for a worse enemy. When you have [scholar]'s research paper, bring it to me here at [db's town] in [db's place]. Fail not, or the wrath of Mephala, Queen of Oblivion be on you. [db]

Message 1013

You're the [your race] the Mages Guild sent over to protect my work, yes? Marvelous to meet you, my child. Here's the bally thing. Good luck getting past those infernal Necromancers with it. I certainly couldn't.

Message 1014

Do you give [scholar]'s work to [db] of the Dark Brotherhood?

Message 1015

The manner by which the diastolic pressure of any two scarce commodities (creating a type of propulsion with no moving parts and virtual silence) has been postulated by thyrionic mathematicians for many years. In conventional thinking, the default parameters of any formula (objectively speaking, it is essential to remember that objectivity is indeed subjective) will always return to what Mornthaur called the "back medium." However, starting with a grid of complex numbers that more than covers the unit circle and three cube roots of one, we can backtrace, by uptracking the negative "half numbers," and create an infinite basin with dual natures of blackness and whiteness. The rate of adiabatic cooling or warming in unsaturated air can thus be made directly proportional to the fourth power of its absolute temperature.

Message 1016

When white light is passed through a gas under a medium dense gas at a high temperature, a dynamic thermal instability occurs. Since magicka is usually a very faint source of illumination, gases, under much greater pressure, are forced to combine with degenerated matter, creating dual forces, beyond and beneath. The end result is a quasi-horizontal chonolith composed of anastomosing ductoliths, whose distal ends curl like a harpolith, thin like a sphenolith, or bulge discordantly like an akmolith or ethmolith. There are thus five elements that must be contributed towards a universal confederation of what Galerion Vanus called "gray matter" -- perception, evidence, essense, morality, and extraction.

Message 1017

[scholar] is only one of the most-respected scholars in Tamriel.

[scholar] is a [scholar], a very well-respected scholar.

[scholar] is only going to be visiting [the region] for a short time.

One of the finest minds of the third era, so they say.

[scholar] would definitely agree that [he/she]'s a genius.

[scholar] is a typical intellectual: no idea of what's going on.

[scholar]'s very clever, but [his/her] brains sometimes go to [his/her] head.

Talk to [db] over in [db's place] -- [he/she]'s been asking about [scholar] too.

A [db] in [db's town] was asking about [scholar] as well.

Message 1018

What a thoughtful gift. I hope your Mages Guild pals aren't too upset about losing it. What would they know about practical application of dry research anyhow? Here, take [dbgold] gold for your trouble. Buy yourself something nice.

Message 1019

How kind. The Dark Brotherhood would gratefully offer you [dbgold] gold pieces for your service. In addition, here's a little something I whipped together that should keep you from getting in trouble with [quest giver] and the other Mages Guild members. All research notes look alike anyhow. When they don't yield results, the Guild will just throw more assistants at it or give up the project in embarrassment. The Mages Guild is simply a tedious pack of researchers who don't have to worry about gold and thus are never happier than when they are doing pointless work.

Message 1020

[the quest date]: I received a threatening letter from [db] of the Dark Brotherhood, telling me to bring [scholar]'s research paper to [db's town] in [db's place] instead of the Mages Guild.

Message 1021

[the quest date]: [db] of the Dark Brotherhood sent me a letter, congratulating me on my guile, and telling me that [he/she] would be at a place called [db's town] in [db's place] with a gold reward for bringing the research paper to [him/her] instead of the Mages Guild.

Message 1022

A young lad with fierce eyes hands you a letter and runs away into the alleys. -- Symbols used in the QRC file: -- -- [he/she] occurs 7 times. -- [him/her] occurs 4 times. -- [his/her] occurs 8 times. -- [your first name] occurs 3 times. -- [your name] occurs 1 time. -- [your title] occurs 7 times. -- [the quest date] occurs 3 times. -- [your race] occurs 2 times. -- [the region] occurs 2 times. -- [db] occurs 1 time. -- [quest time] occurs 4 times. -- [scholar] occurs 2 times. -- [db's place] occurs 13 times. -- [quest giver's place] occurs 2 times. -- [scholar's place] occurs 4 times. -- [db's town] occurs 6 times. -- [scholar's town] occurs 2 times. -- [db] occurs 11 times. -- [dbgold] occurs 2 times. -- [quest giver] occurs 1 time. -- [scholar] occurs 69 times.