Ciphered notebooks

The Ciphered notebooks were found by Idril in the cellar of The Slaughtered Goat Inn in Brannion.

### Code.

The Books are filled with pages of notes, sometimes tables of information, all coded with some kind of cipher.

It seems to be a shifting Vignere cipher. The key-phrase needed to translate it back into common is 15 characters long, and there seems to be a clue scribbled among one of the pages in a different hand. "What's in a name?"

[If you think you know the code, try deciphering it here; http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/vigenere.php]

### Item History

These notebooks were found in the cellar of The Slaughtered Goat Inn in Brannion. The party were searching for a secret tunnel in the cellar that Goldmaker may have used to escape from the town. No such passage was identified but these books were found.
At this point the party knew that Goldmaker was involved in the smuggling of children and had masterminded the torture and murder of the Vetra people, Valdis' community.
Idril took these books with the aim of studying them to try and decode the information within.

After a great deal of effort, Idril managed to determine the key to the cypher was ‘AllThatGlitters’

### Description

These notebooks appear to be written in code and carry the wax seal of Goldmaker.

### Properties

Apart from being written in code there appear to be no magical properties.

## Contents

See Goldmaker's Books

The First entry of the Notebooks reads as follows;

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