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* ''If you haven't accepted a quest:''
:An old-timey looking man with a vest and pince-nez glasses looks up as you approach. "Got three telegrams waiting for you, <Sir/Madam>!"
: 
: '''NOTE''': Reading one of these telegrams will begin a quest to help the person who sent the telegram.

* ''If you're currently on a quest:''
:You're already in the middle of investigating a telegram, and anyway the clerk's window is shuttered. Looks like telegraph operator's hours are even shorter than banker's hours!

* ''If you've already accepted a telegram today:''
:The clerk's window is still shuttered. You dig through the filing cabinet and read the fine print on the clerk's contract -- apparently LT&T only pays him enough to deliver one telegram a day!

:You'll have to pay his overtime if you want another telegram today.

* ''If you've completed a quest using an inflatable office today:''
:The clerk's window is still shuttered, and... sagging a little. The whole office looks kinda deflated.

*''On first visit in an ascension, if you used a real telegraph deed and not an inflatable one:''
:The clerk says "Ah, <Madam/Sir>, you left your boots here." He gestures to a pair of boots next to the door. Apparently you had some cowboy boots that you forgot about!
{{acquire|item=Your cowboy boots}}
*''Upon acquiring the boots in an [[Avatar of West of Loathing]] ascension:''
:You find some loose change in one of the boots.
{{acquire|item=buffalo dime|num=3}}

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''1 of the following 3'':
{{button|RE: Missing: Fancy Man|post= (Easy)}}
{{button|RE: Help! Desperados!|post= (Easy)}}
{{button|RE: Missing: Pioneer Daughter|post= (Easy)}}
''1 of the following 3'':
{{button|RE: Big Gambling Tournament Announced|post= (Moderate)}}
{{button|RE: Haunted Boneyard|post= (Moderate)}}
{{button|RE: Sherriff Wanted|post= (Moderate)}}
''1 of the following 3'':
{{button|RE: Madness at the Mine|post= (Hard)}}
{{button|RE: Missing: Many Children|post= (Hard)}}
{{button|RE: Wagon Train Escort Wanted|post= (Hard)}}
The clerk hands you the telegram.
{{acquire|item=plaintive telegram}}
You can [[The Investigation Begins|read it now]] or read it later from <u>your inventory</u>.
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''After you have already completed the daily free quest'':
{{button|Pay overtime (1,000 meat)}}
You pay the clerk overtime and unlock a new set of quests.
{{meat|amount=some order of magnitude of 1000|type=lose}}
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'If you currently have a telegram quest in progress'':
{{button|Abandon your current telegram}}
''No text, reloads encounter.''
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{{button|[[LT&T Gift Shop|Check out the Gift Shop]]}}

{{button|Leave}}

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Occurs at [[Right Side of the Tracks]], after using a [[LT&T telegraph office deed]].

==Notes==
*The LT&T Office offers a choice of three quests sending you to [[Investigating a Plaintive Telegram|investigate the Wild West]]. One quest of each difficulty level is offered at a time.
*If you complete or abandon a quest you'll be given a new quest of the same difficulty level to replace it. As of an update on February 7, 2016, you will not be given the same quest twice in a row. Ascension will re-roll all 3 quests with possible duplicates.
*If you have access to this place via the [[inflatable LT&T telegraph office]] and abandon your quest, then you won't be able to re-select.  You'll have effectively wasted your item.
*The first quest taken per day is free, but you must pay meat to accept additional quests per day. Once you pay overtime, the clerk will again offer a selection of three quests. If you complete a quest opened from a previous rollover, it will not count towards the daily free quest nor increment overtime fee. 
**The first overtime fee is 1,000 meat, the next at 10,000 meat, and so on, with each subsequent fee increasing by a factor of 10. This resets on rollover or ascension. Since meat on hand is capped at 4,294,967,295 due to [[Black Sunday]], this effectively caps the maximum number of overtime quests per day at 7 (the 8th would cost 10 billion).
**You can keep a quest past rollover. In such a case it will not count against the next day's allotment.
*While overdrunk, you can still get telegrams to unlock quests, but they cannot be used because you will just end up spending an adventure in a [[Drunken Stupor|drunken stupor]].
*The following day after you use an inflatable office, attempting to accept the quest destroys the building:
:You reach for the telegram, but accidentally pop the building and are left staring at a puddle of deflated canvas where your temporary telegraph office once was.