The Archivist

Hunt 5: One Honest Question

PeopleTomen

LensHeist

LeadNym

RegionThe Goom

RunOpening Run

Hunt 5 · Heist

One Honest Question

The Archivist · Tomen

The Tomen of Quen ask a price for every question, one memory of your own, and Nym has come to ask the Archivist the single thing that matters. Collectors are pumping steam down the Silent Stair to swell open his scroll-pods, and the memory Nym must hand over is one he can't afford.

On the boardA living library who remembers every secret of every crook alive, plus the Apples'. Nobody has ever asked him a question that wasn't a threat.

WhereQuen (street name: the Quiet Stacks), The Goom. A moon of living libraries holding every crook's secrets.

How it feelsDim shelves, old paper, no echo.

House ruleTo ask a question you must give up a memory of your own, which the Tomen keep on a shelf.

Leads the huntNym Selum

PeopleTomen, from Nemfol

Abigail's notebookQuen. Dark, no echo. I checked.

Quen. No date. It doesn't feel like it would be polite.

Hunt five, the moon of living libraries. The Tomen stand in rows, you see, plum bark and hanging pages and scroll pods dangling off these antlers, and they are the shelves, and when they walk the pods click together. It's dark and there isn't any echo, and it smells like old sap. And there's a rule. Want to ask a question here? You give up a memory of your own, and the Tomen keep it. They put it on a shelf.

I asked one. I needed to know something and there wasn't any other way, and I'd rather not write down what I asked.

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The people

Tomen

Living libraries. They remember everything and forget nothing, and their bodies hold stories as scrolls.

Wise, tired, and rarely asked a kind question.

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