At present the book "Cooking With Albatross" is useless. Worse than useless, in fact - it gives you -1 "Sneak". The description hints that a dead albatross may improve your crew's boarding ability, though if this is true then I can't see where it's implemented. So the only use for the albatross is to be traded for leeches by the apothecary, and the book has no use at all - once you've figured this out, you won't want to touch it.
So I suggest making the book readable, perhaps with a fake recipe, signed by the apothecary and giving his location. Then at least there's a clue within the game about what to do with the albatross itself. (The apothecary's dialog says that he's rather fond of them, though he claims it's by way of studying them as a naturalist, but after he's done studying he still needs some way of disposing of them. Possibly with onions.
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So I suggest making the book readable, perhaps with a fake recipe, signed by the apothecary and giving his location. Then at least there's a clue within the game about what to do with the albatross itself. (The apothecary's dialog says that he's rather fond of them, though he claims it's by way of studying them as a naturalist, but after he's done studying he still needs some way of disposing of them. Possibly with onions.
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