Catacombs Pt3 Report

General Summary

Kiril though of the chains holding the books on the shelves and reached into the bag. Felt something metal and pulled on it. The item did not move but left Kiril’s hand got… cold-burned? It wouldn’t budge and he took some damage from the burn.   Kiril tells the librarians that they are looking for info on the cult of tharizdun. One of the librarians takes a book off of a shelf, conjures a statue of Tharizdun, and chains the book to the statue in front of Kiril before returning to it’s work.   Calvin jots down a quick copy of the (restored) paper that previously had the A on it. The paper has a partial schematic for a forge on it- not enough to construct a forge from, but enough to identify that it’s for a forge that would be used to make weapons or armor.   Kiril realizes that the librarians are summoned constructs of some sort, conjured by a spell for a purpose.   Kiril reads the history of Tharizdun in the black book, including the story of his banishment, the eyes being separated and given to the mortals for hiding, and the description of the eyes (red, self-illuminating rubies the size of a human head)   Drakar feels consumed by an obsession with the power of beings from other planes, and wants badly to summon one to aid him.   Calvin offers to trade his sword for one he found on display with one of the librarians. The librarian takes his sword and disappears for 45 seconds before reappearing with the sword, which now has smoke emanating from it. The librarian then demonstrates that when it exposes Calvin’s sword to some other plane through a portal, it just heats up. When it exposes the sword on display in the dark library to that space it violently reacts and emits a green flame/light.   Drakar asks Calvin & Kiril if they know how to summon something from another plane. He doesn’t offer a reason beyond having an “itch” to do so.   The group inspects a few smaller mausoleums. Kiril jots down the names of a few interred Albilet family members who died around the time the book said that the eyes were hidden away.   He notices that the Albilet family members all died in the late EUs to late EFs.   They found the crypt of House Patricia and a book that had a family lineage that ended in a William Eric, born 72EW. Calvin puts books found in the Patricia family crypt and a framed document granting perpetual exclusive rights to an overland trading route between Aendrim and Ironheim. Calvin recognizes the difference between this grant (exclusive ownership of a route and thus all trade on it) vs the one that he and Tristan had (right to operate on a route but pay 50% of profits to the company who owns the route). Calvin wonders if this House Patricia is the same as his family, which he’s always known as Patricius.   Calvin remembers the church telling him and his steward that they’d be granted a trading route and feels that it was some sort of divine intervention granting them what was rightfully theirs.   Calvin finds a ledger book from the Aendrim central bank that shows money being sent to William in Kellador up until his death.   The party backtracks through the catacombs, grabbing the war hammer from the first level and stopping at the dark library on the way out. They will pick up next session exiting the catacombs.