Crimson Sands of Time

"I'm not sure where everyone is running off to, first Piccolo, and now Sam but I'm sure they'll be right back if we just wait here for them."

Trisk looks around at the others wondering what they must think of all this.

The tiny disheveled girl, wearing her dirty beige dress returns. She looks at Trisk and shakes her head, having not found what she was looking for.

"Oh well, I guess we'll keep looking, once Sam returns we can explore further."

Not knowing for sure where Sam went or how long he might take Trisk tries to bring Piccolo up to speed.

"Sam went off to do something about the flooding, I think."

@Sam. A creature can wade through the water safely, but any creature that completely submerges itself must succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or become trapped under the water’s surface. Unless the creature can breathe underwater, it begins to suffocate when it runs out of air.

*there was a boat 🚢 

There are two doors on your keft just as you enter, but the thied door is all the way at the far wnd of the hallway.

Also, im not sure about sams current size. Before he was resurrected, he was large, so that would obviate the need for a save. Not sure though

<in any case, pixk a door: 1,2,3>

<Sigh...>

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Sam follows the directions given and proceeds fheough the water to the end of the hall.  When he opens the door, he steps into the hidden library. A dozen floating candles cast dim, flickering lights over this sepulchral, windowless library. Ebony bookshelves are filled with volumes bound in jet-black fabric. The books have no titles on their spines. In the middle of the room, a black quill pen rests on a writing desk next to a jar of black ink.

If Sam remove a book from the shelves, he see that the cover, like the spine, has no title. Opening any of the books reveals that its pages are blank apart from the first page, on which a thin line has been scribed. 

<if the rest of you want to go there, too, you certainly can join Sam>

Trisk will join Sam in the library, "C'mon everybody, let's all go to the library."

Piccolo stays with Trisk, then, fey steps to the library to bypass most of the water. She takes a book to the desk, dips a quill in ink, and puts it near the book.
Then she plays a few notes on her tiny instrument, Her music forming the image of Illwig.

 Among the titles found here are the following: (see above)

As Sam sees the vast collection of books he grabs and stashes the book of prophecy and the book of thingizzars’s

Meta note 

 You dexide to check the otber doors in flooded hallway as you pass.

One room contains eight wooden mannequins in tall glass cases. Each mannequin wears a different outfit. a child’s witchy dress with a cape, a flamboyant, off-the-shoulder black dress, a dark, alluring gown and more.

Someone make a history check and anyone can make any other checks they'd like or do anything else you'd care to.

Piccolo checks the book by Iggwilv, the faceless lord for a signature of the author, beginning and end of the book.

(history check:17)

Re: hostory check. Picollo recognizes one of Iggwilv’s costumes from a woodcut of her that she saw once in a book, where she was identified as “Iggwilv, the Witch Queen of Perrenland.”

The book is also credited to Iggwilv

In the course of her thorough investigations, Piccolo also noticed a name stitched into the collar of the child-sized cape whoxh reads "Natasha"

Also, there is a third door in the hallway do you want to try it?

Piccolo point to the stitching, showing her friends.

She seems very excited and starts doing a jig. 
she also points to the third floor and raises her hands in question

"Look everyone, I think Piccolo may have found out what the name is... Natasha." Trisk will read the name on the collar out loud while pointing it out to anyone nearby who may be interested.

"Let's check what lies beyond this door before returning to try and free Iggwilv... or Natasha, whatever her real name is."

Trisk will try the third door.

Flies buzz throughout this chamber, and the grimy marble floor is crawling with maggots. Eight wicker cradles stand upright in the filth. Lashed to each cradle is a three-foot-long, curved wooden pole with a mobile consisting of three ornaments dangling at the top of it. Each ornament appears to be a triangular piece of white wood with an Elvish letter carved into it. Small, misshapen creatures nesting in the cradles reach toward the symbols with their claws but can’t quite grab them. (See image below)

Someone roll an insight check

<does anyone speak Elvish?>

Trisk's Insight: 14

And Trisk can speak elvish.