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[Andres]

You misspelt 'tragedy'.

[StrawBarrel]

To the submerged library!

Sure! Why not!

Dive! Dive!

[StrawBarrel]

Unless I'm missing some cultural reference, isn't "Dive! Dive!" what people imagine submariners shouting.

[NJW2000]

You wander towards the outskirts of Mossholm, not daring to enter the thronged streets in your vulnerable, sap-bound state. After a while, you enter a very large clearing, though despite the sun high in the sky and the wide expanse, it is empty of holidaymakers, satyrs, children, or anyone at all. You quickly determine that it has been left empty out of deference to one of the more abandoned ancient underground libraries, the entrance to which lies here.
  A plan takes shape in your mind, and you resolve to enter the library, bring back some sort of magical or valuable book or tome, or at least one which will prove that you are a useful member of the community, then take it to the alchemist bureaucrats to be unbound, as you current condition makes you resemble a criminal or slave. Carrying the book will be awkward, but you have a backpack, and you may even recieve some sort of financial reward if the book is valuable enough, upon presenting it to the city rulers! Hope swells within you as you realise you could even take a few extra books to sell anyway!

  From a small inscription on one of the rather weird nearby baobabs (must be the semi-magical brine and ink) you find out that it is the ancient and infamous library of Bonereef.

  Far below the ground, with no rare or precious or magical books, Bonereef is famed for one thing only: the monsters that inhabit it. The precious and incredible bones and corpses of these fantastic beasts lie around it, ready to be picked up by anyone who can scamper in without provoking the ire of the terrible and very much alive inhabitants. The ground is strewn with corpses, weapons and armour in places, where many heroes have competed with beasts or each other to obtain one of the Mossholm artifacts, of which Bonereef is the main source. But you are small, not noticeable, and above all, resolved to enter, irrespective of the danger.

Spoiler: OOC (click to show/hide)

Sorry, not really a turn as no choice, but my tablet decided that I was putting my fingers several inches to the left of where I wanted to draw, and I really couldn't manage two pictures. Suggestions will be ok hopefully by tomorrow.

Oh, and did my first roll as a GM EVER to pick which type of library! Got quite excited, it was a 2.

[NJW2000]

Shoving aside the dangling fronds of mulchweed that block the entrance, you descend the flight of short stone stairs to the library proper, and, with a seabreathing cantrip ready, clamber into the pool doorway and allow yourself to float down between the submerged shelves to a walled area, enclosed but for four passages. For now, nothing moves, and you can see no creatures, adventurers or treasures. Of course, you are barely in the library, and will have to venture deeper to find anything of note.

  There is a strange rift in the wall you are left facing, part of an oddly lit, natural underwater crevasse, next to the jagged mouth of a hole leading off in the other direction, seemingly made aeons ago by some sort of burrowing creature. A low door leads into the shelves the conventional way, while a rusted and mildewed service ladder of some sort descends rapidly into the unknown, murky depths of the library.



Which way will you go?

[StrawBarrel]

The service ladder.

[Detoxicated]

Take the conventional way, we need to get to know the ground first.-

[NJW2000]

...you struggle to decide...

[Tomcost]

Strange rift!

[ATHATH]

Strange rift!

+1

[StrawBarrel]

Strange rift!

+1

+1 Does this achieve consensus?

[NJW2000]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Strange rift!

+1

+1 Does this achieve consensus?

You don't fancy going down a murky ladder or into an animal burrow, and when it comes to bookhunting, this dungeon is better for getting killed in. So you decide to investigate the weird, luminescent rift, with aquatic flora of a sort you've never seen before. Of course, a couple of foolhardy and violent adventurers have already gone down this route, as you can see from the skeletons, though oddly, the walls seem to be absorbing them, as if made at least partially from living substance. Your feet don't sink in much though, so you're fine for now.

  Oh, and is that a spotted burrowing lungserpent skeleton? You're unsure, not having spent much time with books or underwater compared to other children. You wonder what to look for, or pick up, or if you should go deeper into the rift.

[ATHATH]

Use one of the blades stuck into the adventurers to cut away the sap. Go deeper into the rift.

[StrawBarrel]

That's some pretty wicked art.

Use one of the blades stuck into the adventurers to cut away the sap. Go deeper into the rift.

+1

[NJW2000]

...you consider going deeper... but which direction? You could go further in, down or up...

...and any idea which weapon?