Lucksmith Paper Merchants

The nautical chart, created with paper from Lucksmith Paper Merchants.

****L******ucksmith Paper Merchants** was a paper maker located in the Printer's Quarter. They created the paper with the gate watermark for the original family who lived in Greenglass House, specifically Lucy Bluecrowne.

## History

### *Bluecrowne*

After waking from an unpleasant dream about the battle that had gotten Lucy banished to land for her own safety, Lucy opened the gift package from the crew of the *Left-Handed Fate*, whom she missed. It contained fancy watermarked paper, with a note inviting her to write to the crew. Lucy went to write to them, but stopped when she began to cry.

### *Greenglass House*

Milo Pine found a nautical chart on the ground, presumably dropped by one of the guests. It was later stolen from his room where he'd put it, and a decoy paper was left behind. Milo noticed that, although the decoy paper was blank, it was the same paper, and they both had the same watermark on them, a wrought-iron gate that was slightly warped. Meddy inquired whether he'd seen the gate anywhere before, and he realized he had. Milo then led her to the window on the fourth floor, where the metal that held together the glass had the gate hidden in it.

While exploring the attic, Meddy discovered a scrap of the same paper. Milo could not see the watermark on it, but he could feel that the paper scrap and the decoy paper in his pocket were the same. Milo looked in the wrapping where Meddy had found the paper, and saw the words "Lucksmith Paper Merchants", in the Printer's Quarter in Nagspeake.

Georgie told how she had made a decoy map to throw off Clem, and had gone to all the trouble of tracking down the antique stock to make it. However, Clem had followed the watermark to Greenglass House. Georgie later gave Milo back the nautical chart and apologized for taking it. He asked what she knew about it, and Georgie said that perhaps the paper dated back to the original family Mrs. Hereward had mentioned, the Bluecrownes. Georgie said that while the paper was a couple hundred years old, the ship icon and albatross had been painted onto it much more recently. Milo and Meddy checked the chart against Mr. Vinge's book, a history of the Skidwrack River, but did not find a match.

Mr. Vinge told of how an agent (later revealed to have been himself), after the customs agency confiscated a map from a smuggler of Doc Holystone's crew, had found Doc Holystone. He had theorized that there must be a way for Doc Holystone to signal which messages came from him, and tracked the paper through its watermark to Doc Holystone, who had found the paper in his attic.

Milo Pine later discovered the true meaning of the nautical chart. The albatross on the chart was not a compass pointing north, but rather pointing to the ship icon. The ship icon, he theorized, was meant to represent the ship chandelier in the dining room of Greenglass House, made by Lowell Skellansen. There in the chandelier, Milo found Doc Holystone's final cargo, and later, a cartoon for Skellansen's story window telling what had happened to Doc Holystone.

### *Ghosts of Greenglass House*

Milo thought about the nautical chart, noting that he kept it in its leather folder between the bookends on his desk. He commented on how much the old paper had been able to take.