LUTE127

PROBE

An old lute weighs fifteen pounds. It has a basic merchant value of 0 pieces of gold. An old lute was last set to a value of 5 gold coins. It cannot be owned. You discern that it originates from Chamber of song.

EXAMINE

the instrument is of a light brown wood. The rounded back is ribbed but otherwise unadorned. The front is inlaid with mother-of-pearl around the carved circle of ivory that covers the hole under the strings. The twelve strings run over ivory frets on the long, dark wooden neck to pegs set at a right-angle to the neck.

QUEST

The Minstrel Quest