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You <span class="mu-i">do</span> recognize most of the seals at least; the Eagle, the Whole, the Principalities, the Mount and the Port Authority. For the ones that you don't recognize, you would like to explain away your ignorance as these seals belonging to persons instead of institutions But again, you really are out of your depth on this. The content of the writ however ... when you laid eyes upon the word 'Controlled' your first thought was of Mysteries and goods and tools useful in the delving of them, but much much more than just Mysteries and the Mystery-Adjacent is considered Controlled. Quite honestly, it sounds like there is picking and cracking equipment kept on the premises - under lock and key, though, judging by the bit about 'reasonable precautions against malfeasance'. Well ... it will certainly be something to think about as you eat, won't it? With nothing else holding you in the room at the moment - and hunger urging you on - you briskly quit the room, pass through the first floor hallway and make your way to the table in the corner of the rear vestibule that is away from the doors.
Perched on top of the table is an opened bottle of red wine, and two sets of cups - though only one cast iron dish, and a steel fork very presumptuously done up to look like it was wrought silver. Even so, the leavings on the dish - you had no idea Guards ate so well! Drowned grain, cooked carrots and three other vegetables besides, and meat! Beef! Nearly as much as there is greens, all done up in some sauce that manages to still smell savory even having long gone cold. You ease yourself down onto the bench in front of the dish, your mouth watering and your brain churning. How much of this can you get away with eating? Hmm. Well, that depends on if the Guards who left were going to come back, or they are going to be replaced by others. Mustering what you can of your focus and faculties, you think back to what you overheard the Guards say - or at least, what you understood them to say. They were going to go to the Belly, then someplace called the Leeward. The last thing you heard was one of them ask the other if then they were going to go to their barracks, but there was no reply - presumably, the answer was in the form of a nod yes or no. So you don't know ... but can you guess?
You look down at the meal-carrion before you. If you knew or had a very good reason to guess that new Guards were coming in, you'd eat and drink everything that remains on this table. If you knew that the same Guards were going to return, or weren't certain one way or another, you would dull your stake and satisfy yourself with a few sips of wine and fewer nibbles of beef.
> Please choose ONE of the following:
> You will eat and drink everything that remains on this table.
> You will satisfy yourself with a few sips and fewer nibbles.
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