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OOC:
Nearly forgot -- when he mentions his name, you get a Reputation Roll to see if you've heard of him. Unclear how Order of Hermes Lore would work into that. Success means that you've heard of him, obviously. Example things you might have heard suggested below. Feel free to make up something similar.
Reputation 5 + Stress Roll vs Ease Factor 9 , OR
"Oh, hey, I think I read a lab text you copied once."
Or more gossipy might be, "Weren't you the one who spent 2/5/10/20 years at Durenmar getting paid minimum wage to copy a book? And it took you, like, forever, to finish?"
I suppose the book default one is "I heard you passed your Gauntlet and it took 2/5/10/20 years for you to realize you didn't have to do apprentice jobs anymore."
I try to use the "Order of Hermes as a Small Community stuff from the main forums. Haven't had a chance to really work it out yet, but it seems like it might fit for the purposes.