Book 5 Chapter 6

The cracking noise intensifies, allowing the party to determine that it is coming from Venkra's bag. Curious, Venkra opens his bag and digs around for a minute, and finds that the egg he took from the T-Rex nest is beginning to hatch. As Venkra feeds the T-Rex hatchling, the rest of the party attends to Esiel. He's been badly hurt by the fall into the pit, one of the spikes has impaled his arm near the shoulder. Dorian attempts to free it, but he fails, and pulls Eisel's arm off. Eisel passes out, and the party lifts him out of the pit, and Dorian heals his stump.

Venkra takes everyone across the pit one at a time, until everyone is on the other side, and the party heads through the door. On the other side they find a bare room, with a door on the left wall. In the middle of the room, a key floats in the air. When anyone gets close to it, it floats up higher, out of their reach. In a bizarre maneuver involving a gnome toss, the party manages to get the key, and open the door.

They walk through the door, and find the next room filled to the brim with books, with an especially thick one laying closed on a podium. Mittlefink immediately goes over to the podium, and goes to open the book. As soon as he touches it, he gets a nasty blast of psychic energy. Dorian attempts to dispel the magic protecting the book, but fails, causing it to combust. The book is not salvageable.

The party sets off searching the rest of the library for anything useful. Dorian finds a book detailing a new healing method as well as a book titled Manual of the Planes, Drusilia finds a book detailing how to make poisons, Venkra finds a book detailing a new battle technique, and Mittlefink finds a book which explains how to cast a powerful evocation spell.

They all read their books, learning new information. Dorian open the Manual of the Planes to the section about the Feywild, and a bright flash of light transports the entire contents of the room to a beautiful forest. The party looks around, surprised at the sudden change in locale...