"2 silver. I want to treat myself tonight."

To Kirby121

[11 silver. I meant to say 1 gold and a silver.]

Up on the 3rd floor is dark oak rather than mahogany, where the books are all bound with thin chains that can be slipped off easily. No one is up here, and a sign says "Forbidden Section." Engraved under it with a knife is written "But nobody cares."

Clapper will cautiously open the door. Just in case, I'll make a stealth check. 18
I'd also like to make a [Tooltip Not Found] check to try and open the door quietly. 19
Dang it. Just realised that it is going to change my stealth check. Originally it was a 20, (15+5) but makes sense if you'd want to use the new one.

To RippedRhinoVikings

The dwarf nods and hands you a key. "Room... D6. D means it's on the 4th floor. You'll love the view of the city."

The room is fairly luxurious. It's actually a few connected rooms; the first has 2 plush beds, a fine alder wood table and dresser lined with silver. The walls have fine paintings of something unusual: It looks like the grass of the farmlands, and with rolling hills, but the cave ceiling is smooth and light blue with foggy white on it. You have never seen something like this before. There is also a closet, a bathroom, and another room containing a beautiful table with shelves along the walls, which have fine perfumes, food, and other luxuries. That room has a window with a stunning view of the city.

Morgot smiles as he takes off his armor, collapsing on the bed with a sigh and stretching his sore muscles. He tries some of the food, and then falls right to sleep. (I'd like to take a long rest.)

To Kirby121

[Both are stealthy enough.]

You sneakily enter the room, and no one notices you have entered. There are only half as many books here, and many of them are unusual; crimson in color with teeth on the front cover, others black and hot to the touch, and some have pages of white metal. There is one you see near the entrance on the floor, as if it was coming toward you, titled "Zernia's Melodies." The book is not bound like the others, and has a tattered cover made of white fur. It has a single open eye in the front center, the size of a human eye but yellow with a red pupil, and the eye is looking at you.

To RippedRhinoVikings

You take a long rest. It's now morning, and a warm light is coming through the window from the other room.

To Every Player

Just a note that it can be night for some players and day for others, so you can take short and long rests normally. If you meet each other though, you'll have to make your characters there at the same time, and we'll assume it's the same day.

Thank you for listening.

Clapper will cautiously pick up the book. if he sense that he shouldn't he won't.
investigation: 18  perception: 7

To Kirby121

The book is clearly sentient, and it seems friendly. It wants you to pick it up. When you do, it flips through its pages, all of which are blank, and stops around the middle. Red begins bleeding through the pages, making the phrase I hold the secrets to the greatest musician. It's not about the music, but the bending of the mind. Some may call this corrupt, but the greatest players must put an illusion of greatness into their music. Enter their mind and control their emotions. I can teach you how. But tell no one you have me, smuggle me out of this library and I will feed you my secrets. Persuasion 21.

Whisper's sharp eyes scan the cultists as they unknowingly pass her, noting that they seem like ordinary people, not the monstrous beings she feared. But something about this place feels off—unnaturally quiet, like the air itself is holding its breath. She edges carefully toward the round room. As she slips inside, she keeps to the shadows, her hand instinctively hovering near her longbow, ready for anything. Her eyes fall on the shrine and she studies it carefully. Perception: 7, Religion: 14

To EmileTherese

The round room has 1 cultist praying, plus 2 more working on a statuesque structure in the center. On a large flat pedestal raised up by 6 foot tall iron rods is a Dao's body, but not a real one. They are trying to create one out of clay and rock. The room is empty other than that pedestal, and something below it; A sacrificial altar burning with hot amber flames. It's so hot that the cultists are getting sweaty being near it, and the one praying is surrounding himself with a magical cold while he prays. The 2 crafting the body are adorning every inch of it in gems that seem to be enchanted.

Waking up with a yawn, Morgot heads to the tavern, ordering a coffee and sitting at an empty table. He scans the tavern for suspicious activity and shady customers, always on the lookout for trouble. Perception: 8. Insight: 18

'Trying to create a Dao...' Whisper thinks to herself. 'They’re afraid, but ...this is wrong. Something—or someone—must be pushing them to do this.' She needs to destroy the statue, but wants to avoid killing the cultists of possible. She steps out of the room for a moment, quickly casting disguise self to look like one of the many she's seen milling about. Stepping back into the room, she coughs politely to get the others' attention.

"We have a problem. One of the farmers stumbled upon the entrance and ran off before we could stop him. If he brings others here, the dao...We need every able hand to find him!" Performance (With Luck point): 6

To RippedRhinoVikings

There is a shady costumer drinking a glass of liquor. He's a middle-aged human in a farmers outfit, and with your sharp insight you can see a look of cruel plotting on his face. Other than that, the only evil around seems to be people angry about losing bets at the gambling table in the corner.

To EmileTherese

Everyone looks at you. And the one praying stops and stands up. "No one could know about us..." Insight 17 to see if something is suspicious about you. "14! Check at once!" The praying one yells, and another from outside the room shouts "On it, 3!"

To EmileTherese

Roll deception and match or beat 17. On a 14-16, they know something is off, and 12-13 they think you're suspicious, and 0-11 they know you aren't one of them.

Clapper swiftly sticks the book into his bag of holding and heads back to thee first floor, not waiting to see what else is up here.
He approaches the halfling.
"Well, I don't see anything else of interest. But I'm sure I'll be back. This place is wonderful!"
He heads back to wherever he is staying. (Up to you I guess.)
When he has enough privacy, he carefully pulls out the book.
He tries to contact it several ways. With thought, with voice, and he even tries to talk to it with emotions, if it comes to that.

Morgot approaches the shady customer, saying, "Hello there, sir! What are your plans for the day?"

Deception: 16