>>6048812The daunting task before you, against the confidence you have in your own intuition - and the fact that you've brought along your crew plus Millie's to assist. With this many hands, you'll get that ledger in no time, right?
"Alright, everyone, we're looking for the latest Stuart Co. ledger, so grab a book and start reading!"
Some of these books have titles - most don't. Thankfully you could discern the dates and items written in these books, and figure out if it's the correct company or not from those. Still, it's grueling work.
Time passes, and you are no closer to the ledger you seek. These books are stored haphazardly, with no regard of date nor author. At times, newer covers hide old records, as if they've been rebound recently; other times, old books had new records on them, former surplus finally found their use. Nemo managed to find a recent ledger - but it's the mortician's. Once or twice you've found Stuart Co. ledgers, but they recorded a time before Chainsaw Inc. entered the scene, and thus before the incidents. But, your stubbornness persists.
Even later, and Clyde has already fashioned himself an armchair made of books that he had read; your own pile of books rivals his. You curse at the anonymous author who somehow dispersed their sixteen-volume fanfiction of the lumberjacks and lumberjanes in here; you half expect to find the fifth volume in the next book you pull out the shelves.
Exasperated, you took a break - trying to read and catalogue the entire records room is an exercise in futility. There must be something that you missed here, but what?
>CHOOSE ONE>□ Look into references to Stuart Co. from the other ledgers you find>□ Try to catalogue the books chronologically>□ Try to find a pattern on the distribution of books>□ Delve into that multi-volume fanfiction - could there be truth hidden in there?>□ Maybe it's best to ask the lumberworkers directly, instead of looking in dusty records>□ Other (fill in) 