The Danger Gang mills about Phillipi

After a pleasant evening at Phillipi's finest inn, the Danger Gang decides to track down this Norro person they've been hearing so much about. Well, half the party decides to track him down, the other half decide to crash out at the inn for a little while and enjoy the luxuries that a major metropolitan center like Phillipi has to offer. So Martialis, Ramble, and Arben hit the town in search of the reportedly learned scholar.

They find Norro crying in front of a burned down building. After lending a sympathetic ear, he opens up. It seems the Bulgars burnt down his library and destroyed everything in it. Well, almost everything. It seems about two months ago a man named Gershon was was here doing research when he found a Page from Plutarch's Life of Demetrius that got him really excited. He tore the page out and jumped up and down and made himself a copy. The page he tore out fell behind Norro's couch, where it lay safe from the predations of the Bulgars. Norro shows the page to the boys, but no one can make head nor tails of it. They copy down a copy for themselves just in case. Ramble keeps offering wine to the unfortunate scholar, who keeps gladly accepting it. He talks about the Diodache, the successors of Alexander the Great; Antigonus had only one eye, Ptolemy got to rule Egypt after Alexander's death, etc.

He also tells them about a the tomb of Stratoniche in Thessalonika. She was buried in an Egyptian tomb, and a riddle was carved on it in Alexander's time (read the riddle here). Should anyone make a write a copy of this riddle, they'll be cursed, so Norro's depiction may not be entirely accurate. Norro soon passes out in a drunken stupor. Arben writes a letter of recommendation for Norro to Leo, hoping to find work for this helpful and learned scholar at the library of Constantinople.