Burnt at Both Ends

* Eyup
* Lysander
* Googar

## Synopsis

### Thieves Guild & Shopping

Googar and Eyup decide to explore the thieves guild headquarters a little after the fight. Eyup found two blue gems in the pocket of Mooney as well as a ring in the communal bedroom. They also found a huge sack of gold and taking advantage of Eyup's weakness with mathematics, Googar tricked him into accepting an unequal split. Lysander, after leaving Amber Griswold a note, left through the window and joined his friends in the guild. In the storage area, they came across a painting of a duck and a golden music box as well as a Cockatrice. It was then that they heard some people enter the cave and decided to hide. Wesley, another thief and a urchin named Jack Toast had entered the cave and confronted Lysander about what had gone on. Lysander failed to convince them that Mooney deserved to die and that he should rightfully rule the guild and so they left. Toast, a huge fan of Lysander since childhood, stayed and asked to be Lysander's apprentice. Lysander gave him the special job of "head chef" of the thieves guild after Googar disliked cooking sausages of all of the urchins.

During his subsequent slumber, Eyup was scalded by Vrede for his incompetence the previous day and the fact that he nearly got himself stupidly killed by a cup of tea. She told Eyup that his next task is to burn The New World Boat in order to stop the apparent misinformation from the Cyrenians. She promised that if he disobey her again, there would be dire consequences.

In preparation for the heist, Eyup, Lysander and Googar travelled to Alberich Common to purchase some items. Googar entered The White Swan pharmacy and after seeing the extortionate price of health potions, slept the cashier and Lysander picked the lock of the cabinet, stealing several potions. Eyup and Lysander also purchased new suits from The Heritage Wardrobe in an effort to boost their charisma. Lysander purchased a black-on-black suit while Eyup had a sky blue effort.

### Entering the Bibliodome

It was now time to enter The Bibliodome. Lysander put on his mask, transforming his face into that of Ayon Loom while Eyup and Googar acted as his security. Eyup and Googar were immediately recognised by Toutious on reception but he was able to be convinced that they were recent hires from Ayon, whose voice was apparently different because he was feeling ill. Lysander told Toutious to have some cough drops and tea sent up to his office. At this point they were slightly lost, not really knowing where to go, so they ended up climbing up some stairs to the Cartography Wing. There they came across a spare office where a note on the table detailed that a new detective had been hired after the disappearance of Hibernius Caldwell. It also revealed that the only piece of evidence from the recent attempted burglars was an enclosed red and yellow robe which the party recognised as that of the Robed Builders. This note also revealed the Necronomicon's location - a vault beneath the forbidden archives.

On their way back downstairs, they bumped into a halfling carrying a tray of cough drops and tea for Ayon. Lysander told the halfling to take the tray to the forbidden archives, however after his terrified reaction he conceded for him to place the tray outside it. They followed the halting through the museum where he placed the tray just outside a gate leading to a staircase. When the coast was clear, Lysander managed to pick the lock and the three snuck down. Through a corridor they entered the warehouse of artefacts not on display. They came across the sarcophagus they had planted the previous day which, upon opening, was full of magical shadow and had been kicked in from the inside. Eyup also found the New World Boat but thought it was a better idea to come back later to destroy it, not realising just how big the labyrinthian library was.

### Circular Room

Off the warehouse was a circular room with six identical doors, including an exit. When they entered, the door shut behind them and the room spun, shuffling the doors. Immediately, they decided to carve symbols into the doors so that they could keep track. The first door they entered was an aquarium where Gerry Smithington was. He explained that after he had been stood up in the Shoemaker's Boulevard masked ball, he decided to come here and take matters into his own hands. He attempted to fight the party but Googar successfully slept him and they tied him up.

The next room was a miniature auditorium where the Bibliodome In-House 700 Piece Orchestra sat on stage, floating and tuning themselves. The door locked behind them and the orchestra began to play intense music as they began attacking the party. Googar managed to enchant some of them by conducting with his quarterstaff, but when his trick started to wear off he turned into an octopus, smashed his staff and used all eight of his arms to conduct which calmed them all down. He then conducted them into the floor, smashing all of the instruments up. Eyup successfully charged the door and they all made it back into the circular room.

After the next spin, they found the exit door but continued on. They entered and promptly exited a room full of chimps attempting to "write literature" and a room containing nothing but a yellow globule pulsating in a tank. Finally, they came to the last door where a staircase downward led, presumably into the Forbidden Archives.

### Forbidden Archives

After walking downstairs for at least three minutes, they came to the completely pitch black Forbidden Archives - a labyrinth of books. The first book Lysander found was a book explaining the origins of the Candlemasters. He also found a spellbook for Geas which he gave to Googar. They lit a torch and began traversing the case when the torch began flickering and went out. behind them, a candlemaster had confronted them by touching Eyup on the shoulder. When the candlemaster brandished a dagger they all immediately ran away towards "The Shadow Archive"

The Shadow Archive was a completely black room using shadow magic. Once all three of them entered they had no idea where they were so they pulled books off of one shelf in order to keep track of where they were. They found a large, thick leather bound book on a tome and also came across Gaston Bootblack who revealed himself to actually be Oliver Blackley and revealed his shadow teleportation powers. He also explained that he had been broken out of prison on the order of Chapter Master Andras so that he could retrieve the necronomicon and enlisted the help of the party since they shared a goal.

He directed them toward The Scriptorium which apparently would contain the key to the vault where the book was being kept. On their way, they came across a rug of smothering which took hold of Lysander and then, after Lysander escaped, Googar. The rug did an immense amount of damage to Googar, nearly killing him. Eyup had the fantastically stupid idea of setting the rug on fire but Lysander, with immense strength, managed to tear the rug apart. They managed to shred the rug and continue on.

The scriptorium was guarded by a large metal gate and the inside was well-lit. Eyup, Lysander and Googar used the items around the room to solve the gate's puzzle, placing a hourglass, a rose, a human doll, a turtle shell and a picture of an oak tree in order of their lifespan. To fill the remaining empty spot, Googar sat on a pillar but, once it was clear that Googar could not leave this pillar without the door closing, they used a sausage to represent a pig.

It was then that they realised the scriptorium was full of candlemasters who were instantly aggroed when Eyup entered the room. They began clawing at the gate. Lysander and Googar both decided to rest here before continuing further, while Eyup controversially decided to head backwards so that he could destroy the the New World Boat as he realised that this library was larger than he initially thought and doubted that he'd otherwise get a chance...

## Featured Characters

### The Team

* Eyup
* Lysander
* Googar

### New

* Jack Toast
* Yellow Globule

### Returning

* Amber Griswold
* Wesley
* Toutious
* Gerry Smithington
* Oliver Blackley / Gaston Bootblack