Meeting with the Keeper of Tomes

• Keeper Janussi summons me to his office.
• He has a writ of permission for myself and the group to go down into the Undercroft in search of information on mythals.
• He tells me that the magics down there respond to those who come, and rise to challenge them.
• He cautions that we must be mindful of Miirym and play into their beliefs.
• He warns that while we should not be able to get close to the Library’s mythal, that should it happen anyway, we should be very careful.
• He asks I give him a full report when we return, and should it be good enough, he might be able to get me access to nearby mythals of slightly less power.

The Basement of Doors

• We gather up in the morning and head to the Restricted Section of the Library.
• The guard there inspect our writ, and advise me to give one tassel to each party member, who must stay within 120 feet of me at all times.
• We head down into the catacombs and first come upon a high vaulted room filled with shelves, crates, case, tables and chairs.
• An altar to Oghma is at the far end, I offer a prayer to guide our quest for knowledge.
• The rogue crew begins checking the doors for our path further down.
• The first is full of pots and pans, the next door reveals a ratman bathing, the third door leads to stacks of books.
• We find a path leading east and down, to a glass-domed laboratory.
• Here, the doors lead to falling wine racks, an impossible decrepit tavern, and people who try to pull Questdrone in until he slams the door.
• Shohei objects and disappears into this room for a short while, returning unhurt, but very tired.
• Ms. Lendiel finds us a passage going further down to a room with statues eerily resembling golems.
• The doors here lead to a narrow hatch going upward and a room full of buttons, and a passage further down.
• Heading down we find a room full of mist, with several doors.
• One to a room with a spying coin on a table, and one with a small dark floating sphere of annihilation in it. Mr. Darkfoot must be convinced to leave it be, and I fear he may try to come back for it another time.
• There is also a stairway up, but it leads us to an airvent overlooking the Court of Air, but is magically protected from being used as an exit.
• Having to backtrack at this point, we search more carefully, and Ms. Lendiel finds a moving bookcase with a downward chute behind it.
• We all feather fall down together, a total of thee hundred feet to the bottom, into a room full of socks.
• This room has but one door with a stone carving of a dragon attacking a keep, perhaps this is the greath Miirym’s battle against Candlekeep.
• Mr. Darkfoot disarms and unlocks this door, and we head further on.
• There are several passages and a door beyond, this doorway revealing a vast chasm with a singular bridge guarded by a minotaur, who appears to be feasting on part of a horse.
• Questdrone speaks to him and discovers he his guarding the bookcase on the far side and will not be moved from his task.
• Mr. Darkfoot and Questdrone begin to cross, but the minotaur shakes the bridge so badly, that Mr. Darkfoot must enter his book.
• Questdrone is able to duck and dodge his way past the minotaur to the far side, though I worry they are getting outside the protective range of the writ.
• They take all of the books they discover on the far side, including a Tome of Clear Thought, and make their way back, quite injured by the minotaur, but he stays his post on the bridge and does not pursue them.
• I fear we are taking things that would rather stay in their places, but the others assure me that locked away is no place for such a powerful Tome.
• We head down again, and the air grow hot and dry, and there is the sound of breathing.
• Perhaps we have found Miirym at last.