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Oh yeah, good question, I mean what DO you say to that? I don't think anybody knows, probably just say a normal thing that doesn't mention hiding in the woods. I'm not an expert on this, though.

Oh don't do that, he's probably already there, like ducks in water. Not me though, I don't even know what archive you're talking about.

I am not that easy to trick, you know. If I told you where it was, then you would tell him; and then he would definitely be there!

No, this is going to be my secret hiding place. There's a gnome that runs it, and gnomes are very good at hiding places. It's basically what they live for, I think.

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If this gnome is so good at hiding places, why do you know about it? Also, what's a gnome?

Because I was part of a secret expedition to the Archives to uncover a cure to a rare but serious illness that was plaguing the country. I am practically a hero. Which is why I can't reveal such important secrets. You understand, right?

Have you never seen a gnome before?

I understand completely, Klaudia-daxia, thank you for your heroic efforts 😔 But I am going to find this archive either way. 📘

Well why would I ask if I had? If I were going to prank you by pretending not to know something, I would make sure it was very funny to make up for it.

I think you would prank me regardless if it was very funny. Moderately funny would be good enough.

Gnomes are small humanoid creatures, but this one is exceptionally small. They're intelligent, secretive, and love making things. This one seemed particularly fond of mechanical inventions, and he wore a lot of metal bits on his clothing.

What have I ever done to warrant this level of suspicion? 😿😿😿

Maybe I'm just an outsized gnome then. Maybe I deserve to know about the archive.

You can't be a gnome. I just said gnomes were smart.

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Okay, fine. You can be a gnome if you want to be a gnome. I am not going to keep gnome-dom from you.

But that doesn't mean you get to know where the archive is. Why do you even want to know so badly?

I was just stating the possibility. Because I AM smart, and I like to make things, and whatever else you said.

Isn't the lure of forbidden knowledge enough? Can't I just want to know specifically because I'm not supposed to?

Hmm. You'll have to show me some of the things you make! Then I'll acknowledge that you are very smart and possibly a gnome. Does that sound fair?

And if it's forbidden knowledge, then it sounds like I'm right to be forbidding you from it.

And I will, as soon as I have a handle on making things properly. I'd like to start with the Compass of Evil, that would be more useful now than ever! But that seems like a challenge if even I don't know what it should be picking up exactly, which is also the reason for making it. But even if I could just tune it to undead things, it would still be way better than what we have now. Which for most people is nothing. So yes, that sounds fair.

How do I know if it's really forbidden or if you're just forbidding it out of general meanspiritedness?

You're not allowed to tell me in one breath that I am being fair, and in another breath that I would do something out of meanspiritedness. Not even if your potential invention sounds incredibly cool. You have to pick one or the other. That's the rule.

If you tell me why you really want to know, then maybe I will tell you where it is.

Is that going to be the next rule on your wall? Got a way to go before you catch up to 🆗⛰️.

I don't understand why I'd need to have more of a reason than just being told I'm not allowed to know, due to your great heroism and all. Why would I need an ulterior motive? How can I know if I need to know what's in it or not, if I don't know anything about it?

I can make four thousand easily, but most of them will be silly. You can't possibly get that many and not have silly rules.

I don't know. Are you always this insistent about things that you don't know? ...I guess that can be a reason, though it seems like a very arbitrary one. What do you plan to do once you know where it is?

You tell that to the 🆗⛰️, where I'm pretty sure several of the rules are specifically against the entire concept of silly. Probably the last thousand in particular, I can't imagine what moral stone was left unturned by the first three.

Well if I wasn't, how would I get to know things? I thought you'd understand, Klaudia-laoshi.

I don't "plan." But maybe I would go to it, obviously.

Maybe I *will* tell that to 🆗⛰️. Then I will show them my rule list, which will be far superior because it will have rules that acknowledge that they are silly, instead of being silly for no reason.

Hmmm. If I tell you where the archive is, you have to promise not to go alone! 🎣🤴🌳🌳🌳 is actually very dangerous. It's a two day trip to the northeast, on the other side of 🥩👻🏜️. Which is also very dangerous!

We went around the 🥩👻, along the 🤫🏖️. That was safer, but we got ambushed by a bunch of orcs in the middle of the night. They probably wait for travelers there, since everything is 🤫 and you can't hear them sneak up.

Good luck with that. But be ready to dodge.

Alright, I promise not to go alone, but you also can't go live there just because someone might apologize to you, as much as I understand the impulse.

Everything is 🤫???

Do they throw things at you on 🆗⛰️ for being correct? I feel like my life might be in danger if I ever visit. I'm not very good at dodging, but I'm very good at being correct. 😰

Fine, I won't go live there. 👿 It's probably for the best, since I don't know how to live in a 🌳🌳🌳 anyway. I have a spell that makes 🥔, but I will probably get tired of those very quickly.

And yes, everything is 🤫! But only at night--like really late at night. The sound came back when the sun came up. It was very disorienting to wake up to nothing. 🤫🤫🤫

...Except for the occasional screech from 🥩👻🏜️. We could still hear *that*, unfortunately. So I guess it's only people and things that are inside the 🤫 area? I would need more than one night spent there to test it.

Yes that's very traditional! Don't check with Lan Zhan on that.

Why do you have a 🥔 spell? Can you make any other vegetables?

🤫🤫🤫👎 I don't like this for so many reasons. Very unfair to musical cultivators. 👎👎👎👎

Would he throw something at you for being correct? 🤭

I have a 🥔 spell because I bought the instructions for a 🥔 spell! The Elphame Traders visit the city at the end of each month, and they have a lot of neat magical things. So now I can instantly make full-grown 🥔 anywhere there's soil. Isn't that cool?

Musical cultivators... like bards? Are you talking about bards?

Yes, that is definitely the reason. And then I'd die in one shot because my student days are so far behind me and I'm out of practice at dodging.

That is very cool and I'm actually very envious right now, despite my name.

Musical cultivators! 🆗⛰️! ☁️! 👻!

Maybe we should both practice our dodging, if we're going to be so unerringly correct at all times~

I'll point them out the next time they're in town! Then you do not need to be envious because you can also be the proud owner of a 🥔 spell. Problem solved~

Bards! ☁️🎼❗️ 🆗⛰️🎼❗️ 👻🎼❗️

Everyone is just bards apparently. Do you realize how strange that is? We don't have such a high concentration of bards where I'm from. Not unless you go to one of the bard colleges, but those are rare.

That seems prudent, we can take turns throwing things and being correct. Maybe lead a class.

🚫 bards. Lan Zhan doesn't talk enough to be a bard. Cultivation with music, not poetry or stories. Not strange at all!

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