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Talking more with Francois Viete, you come to realize that many other artists, scientists, and mathematicians struggle against a dark ignorance in Europe. They have started to make links, some even calling themselves part of "The Invisible College."
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(set: $locations to (shuffled: "Petit Pont", "Place de Grève", "Port of Seine", "St. Germain Meadows", "Hotel de Ville","Louvre Palace", "Palais de la Cité", "The Bastille", "Tuileries Palace", "Central Market", "Dolphin and Anchor Books", "Soleil d’Or Press", "Collège d'Harcourt", "Collège de Navarre", "College de Sorbonne", "Royal Library"))
(set: $characters to (shuffled: "Diane de France", "Catherine de Parthenay", "Jacques Auguste de Thou", "Isaac Casaubon", "Sir James Melville","Pierre Dumonstier", "Mary Herbert", "Baron of Rosny", "Mathieu da Costa", "Blaise de Vigenère"))"The scholastics and the Aristotleans want to hold back progress and change. They want to control the narrative," Viete tells you. "We need your help right here, in Paris."
You're unsure how you can help these embattled scholars. "We know that Spanish agents are here in paris, seeking the manuscripts that tell the real history of mathematics. They want to find them and burn them," says Viete. "You've shown yourself to be resourceful and perceptive. We need your help to find the Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Indian, and Mayan books that we know have been hidden here in Paris."
[[next|next2]]Viete explains what needs to be done. "The scholar and printer, Henri Estienne, was collecting these books in the various forms: scrolls, codices, manuscripts, with the ultimate aim of translating and printing them. We need to show the knowledge that existed before and alongside the stifling Latin texts. But when the League and their inquisitors took over Paris, Estienne had to disperse and hide the 'pagan books.' We have to follow the clues left by Estienne and find as many of these books as we can before the Spanish agents do."
You agree to help.
[[next|next3]]Viete explains that there are three courses of action.
[[One]] is to follow up on the cryptic notes left by Estienne
[[Two]] is to contact others and recruit help
[[Three]] is to gather intelligence on the Spanish and head them offViete shows you a Paris directory that Estienne was working on.
$locationsViete shows you a list of possible collaborators.
$charactersViete sends you to talk to the diplomat, Blaise de Vigenere.