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A bespectacled, book-loving Mole Man shopkeeper at station 83 who trades Earth novels with Carl.
Limp Richard runs "Limp Richard's Sundries," a general store at the transfer station above The Iron Tangle's red line. A Mole Man — a squat, anthropomorphic mole in glasses who spends his days reading — he sells the party a padded mallet and shows off a coveted Battery Fabricator he won't discount. Carl, recognizing a bored man starved for entertainment, trades him five Louis L'Amour westerns for five science-fiction novels, correctly betting the mole men's book hunger will make him a reliable future contact.
He warns Carl not to give books to rival mole men, who are "all book hogs."
A short, squat, anthropomorphized mole with a velvety snout, small dark eyes behind round glasses, and stubby clawed hands, usually hunched over a tattered paperback.
NPC general-store shopkeeper and book-trading contact.
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