"Ah HA! Found one....." Mav will hold up the book "Pat, can I have a B please...."

Ozomun makes a bing sound.

Isa finally makes it down the stairs and in to the room with the others. "Oh hey, another book huh?  A B you say?"  She steps up a bit closer to the tables with the small winged almost lifelike creatures on it.  She leans in a bit closer to them - "I wonder what these are?" she says as she picks one up and inspects it.  

Investigation/Arcana check on small figurines: 19

Isa: These are figures used for creating homunculi.

As Isa inspects the intricacy of the almost lifelike figurine she murmurs "I believe these are used when creating homunculi..." she pauses for a moment "basically just an enchanted slave." she continues with a bit of disgust.  "I think I'll hang onto this one." indicating the winged one that appears very lifelike.  She tucks it carefully away into her pack.  She grabs another one and brings it over to Emporious "Did you see this?  It looks like these figurines are used to create homunculi..."  She hands the figurine to Emporious to have a look at "I wonder if any exist in this mansion."  

Emporious accepts the figure. As he turns it about in his hands he says  "Hmmm...interesting, yes I believe you are correct about these being for homoculi. Found a "B" you say. Hmm..  I,B..I,B..I,B."

Suddenly his eyes pop wide much like when he was at the gates. Spinning on his heals he heads down the hall and back up the stairs taking the figure with him. He passes through the book nook, past Mateeous and out onto the porch. Once there he fixes an image of Candlekeep solidly in his mind and firmly speaks "Library!" 

"Yes, Mav found a B much like the I book." she replies.

"Where are you going?!" she asks as he heads out the door.

Ignoring the flighty wizard, Orvok continues on down the corridor to M18 to explore further...

Emporious - As you trounce up the stairs, you return to the study, past a dead Matreous on the floor, and shout the command word. Nothing happens.

M18 - SUMMONING ROOM

This dark, stone-walled room contains only a few objects. A five-foot-diameter circle of intricate runes covers the floor. There’s an empty wooden bookstand opposite the door and bronze braziers at the other three cardinal points of the circle. Whatever material they contained has long ago burned to cinders, but the room still smells of charcoal and sulfur.

After a few uneventful moments Emporious slumps his shoulders dejectedly and gumbles "agrr...I was sure. It fit so well." 

Heading back towards the secret entrance he stops to inform a sleeping Matreous of their progress only to realize that his slumber is the kind that never ends. Aghast and horrified he cries out, "Noooooo!" The hope for his child hood home fading quickly. Running down the stairs he yells, "Hey! Hey! Matreous is dead! I just found Matreous dead!" When he reaches the others he leans dejectedly against the wall and laments, "Now we may never remove the curse."

Orvok moves faster than you’ve seen him move so far, sprinting up to check on the body of Matreus, axe out but his main focus on the body. He automatically casts Spare the Dying, then searches for evidence of what happened...

Medicine: 13

Hino follows closely behind Orvok, and while Orvok is on the ground next to Mattress, she circles the room with her sword out, looking for signs of whatever might have struck the old wizard down.

Perception: 9

Matreous has a massive single puncture hole stinger wound in his neck. He has bled out for enough time, unfortunately, where he is unsaveable. There is nothing in the room that you can tell that could of done this.

"Everyone be on guard...there is some sort of stinging animal inside this mansion!" Hino yells out, so everyone can hear.

Are there any windows or doors open to the outside?

There are windows, but they don't open, as the entire mansion is in a pocket dimension of swirling miasma. 

“What, how?!?” Isa responds as Emporious comes running back to the room with the awful news of Matreous’s death.

Isa moves over towards Emporious and puts a hand on his shoulder “Maybe there is another that will be able to help save Altus.” She says in an attempt to encourage him a bit. “Let’s not give up hope.”

”Right now we need to focus on finding the rest of these books so that we can get out of here! And we best stay together otherwise we may end up like Matreous.”

Emporious sighs, "At the very least I need to leave here and warn my parents. You could be right though. It is still possible that there could be an answer here or in his room at Candle keep." His face brightens a bit, " I could still bring home a solution and save them."

“That’s right, now let’s keep searching for clues.”  She suggests. “Like this room, what else is there to find in here that may helps us.”

”I’m going to check out these vials and chemicals, there might be something of use here.”  Isa turns her attention to the vials and chemicals on the tables checking to see if there is anything of use or of value. 

investigation/arcana: 12

It looks like the main goal of the research here was to transmute various materials into gold. Judging by the numerous scorch marks and acid burns on the furniture, the laboratory was the scene of several spectacular failures.

Orvok examines the wound to see if he can determine the specific cause..