Kyra, Dawnflower's follower wrote:
"I will check this Lore symposium. Anyone wanna come with me? Knowledge is always welcome...
"The lore the merrier..." Quinn smiles.
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At the symposium he applauds Cirri's lecture on mechanics and buoyancy.
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Once his turn arrives Quinn strides into the center circle of the assembled, and with a theatrical flourish of his cape, bows to everyone.
"Greetings fellow Pathfinders! My name is Quinn Mulari, at your service.
In honor of this festive occasion, I bring a translation I have devised a translation (in verse) of part of a newly discovered ancient Osiriani table. It is uniquely appropriate for this occasion, and hopefully will entertain and inform.
I call it,
'The Boast of the Orphan Lore-keeper General'
I am the very model of a modern Keeper-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of Azlant, and I quote the fights historical
From Burning Child to Nagisa, in order categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Keeper-General.
I know our mythic history, Cyclopes and all Thassilon;
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;
I can tell undoubted Erastil from Lamashtu and Rovagug,
I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes!
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
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For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Keeper-General."
Quinn bows.
Lore History: 1d20 + 8 + 1d6 ⇒ (11) + 8 + (5) = 24