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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sir Brennen" data-source="post: 2033626" data-attributes="member: 553">April 19th 998 (morning)On the way to breakfast, we had a brief talk about Bernardino's sword, which was still in the possession of Marcus.  Even though Brother Bernardino won't have any further use for it, we agreed it best not to just assume we could simply claim it, and decided to discuss it with the Abbott at an appropriate time.In the dining hall, we sat with the brothers, and asked about the monastery's plans for the spot revealed in Able's vision.  Brother Anselm said they were going to start digging the well right away.  We told him we would be glad to assist, especially Barrik and I, as our experience would be valuable for a digging operation.  In an overseer capacity, Barrick emphasized.  The Abbott graciously accepted.  There were a few other things to take care of first that day, notably the burials of Able and the victims of his revenant.  I observed from a distance, saying a few prayers of my own for them on their journey through Shadow.Meanwhile, Marcus had returned to the scriptorium, looking for any information on the structure that once stood on the spot the well was to be dug.  He found a simple map, indicating a few out buildings that once existed around the compound, but no indication as to their function.Once we had everyone at the dig site, we tried to decide what to do with the rose bush, since it did seem significant.  Transplanting it to Brother Able's former grave down by the road seemed to be the most appropriate solution.The excavation of the well started a little before noon, but after a few feet, the diggers encountered a wood structure, perhaps the planks of a floor.  Barrick jumped down and pried up the wood.  Peering down, he saw a high ceiling room, filled with boxes and crates.  Setting up a tripod over the hole, we attached a rope and all went down to investigate.  The boxes were full of books.  After flipping through a few of the titles, Marcus commented that almost all of these were important works of one kind or another.  Nothing of any real value was in the scriptorium, so we surmised that the members of the order who had stayed behind before the brigand attack twenty years before must have hidden the most prized books here.We spent the rest of the day hauling up the tomes with the monks and moving them back to the scriptorium.  Once we had most of them there, we began searching through the boxes for Vittorio Matteao's journals.  Charlotte came across them, including one which had information on the clocks and who he had given them too.  The first clock had been sent to someone named Navarro, head master of the wizard's academy at the time.  This was the clock that we had delivered for Handel.The second clock was given to a wizard called Treben, living in the town of Harta, and the third timepiece was sent to a Lord Griffin Maltus.  The name was unfamiliar to us, but one of the monks said he knew of a Viscount Stephen Maltus, living here in the Barony of Streibech, in a town called Elmvale.Nowhere in the journal was there any indication that the clocks did anything more than tell time.At dinner we asked the Abbott if we could borrow the journal with the information on the clocks.  We explained our current situation, and that forces of Shadow might be seeking information as well, so it might be best that he keep the discovery of the books quiet, at least for a while.  Brother Anselm agreed to loan us the book.Marcus finally brought up the return of Bernardino's sword, using that human subtlety again to imply we wouldn't mind keeping it.  Abbott Anselm kindly offered it to us, acting as if it were his idea, as a token of the monastery's appreciation for our efforts.  In addition, he went to his office and retrieved several magical elixirs, mostly of a healing nature, which he generously made part of our payment.For the morning, we made plans to return to Stonehearth and talk to our new friends at the Boar's Tusk.  Hopefully they would have a better idea which of the two locations would be our best bet to find the remaining clock.</blockquote>

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