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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gorice" data-source="post: 9220752" data-attributes="member: 7032863">8: Librarian’s Bureau<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lair of the Librarian, many-limbed, eldritch, levitating mummy within flowing robes.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Mien: whispering, severe</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wants: new books & specimens; return of stolen materials</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Needs: order, silence</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fears: the Emperor</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Knows: the location of any object within the archive (index is in the holographer on its desk)</li> </ul></li> </ul>Sublevel: Xerocrux<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The xerocrux is a cylindrical chamber within an outer room wrapped around it; four hallways lead into the outer room.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(!) Gravity within the xerocux flows perpendicularly, in the direction of the crux (i.e. each hall does ‘down’). The chamber itself has no gravity.</li> </ul>9: Xerocrux: South Hall<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(!) ‘Bottom’ of the hall is a pool of clear liquid (acid).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lined with shelves of archival papers.</li> </ul>10: Xerocrux: West Hall<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(!?) ‘Bottom’ of the hall is a forest of long pyramidal obelisks of obsidian, inscribed with commemorative inscriptions. These are razor-sharp and function exactly like deadly blades.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lined with shelves of oddities; locks of hair, pinned insects, seeds, tissue samples in glass.</li> </ul>11: Xerocrux: North Hall<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(!) Midway down the hall is webbed with golden filaments of cutting light.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bottom of the hall is the adamant doors of the crux chamber.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lined with shelves of records on clay tablets.</li> </ul>12: Xerocrux: East Hall<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(!?) ‘Bottom’ of the hall is a forest of long pyramidal obelisks of obsidian, inscribed with commemorative inscriptions. These are razor-sharp and function exactly like deadly blades.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lined with shelves of records on holographic lead glyph tablets.</li> </ul>13: Xerocrux: Chamber<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A cylindrical bookcase.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(??) The rarest books and treasures are here. Imperial seal; genealogical records; the dynastic sword, Sunburst, adamant blade in golden scabbard; the Librarian’s spellbook.</li> </ul>14: Secret Staircase<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Marble nymph proffering a golden apple.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(??) Twist the apple to open the secret door to the spiral stair down to the Emperor’s solar on level 10.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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