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8: Librarian’s Bureau
Lair of the Librarian, many-limbed, eldritch, levitating mummy within flowing robes.
Mien: whispering, severe
Wants: new books & specimens; return of stolen materials
Needs: order, silence
Fears: the Emperor
Knows: the location of any object within the archive (index is in the holographer on its desk)
Sublevel: Xerocrux
The xerocrux is a cylindrical chamber within an outer room wrapped around it; four hallways lead into the outer room.
(!) Gravity within the xerocux flows perpendicularly, in the direction of the crux (i.e. each hall does ‘down’). The chamber itself has no gravity.
9: Xerocrux: South Hall
(!) ‘Bottom’ of the hall is a pool of clear liquid (acid).
Lined with shelves of archival papers.
10: Xerocrux: West Hall
(!?) ‘Bottom’ of the hall is a forest of long pyramidal obelisks of obsidian, inscribed with commemorative inscriptions. These are razor-sharp and function exactly like deadly blades.
Lined with shelves of oddities; locks of hair, pinned insects, seeds, tissue samples in glass.
11: Xerocrux: North Hall
(!) Midway down the hall is webbed with golden filaments of cutting light.
Bottom of the hall is the adamant doors of the crux chamber.
Lined with shelves of records on clay tablets.
12: Xerocrux: East Hall
(!?) ‘Bottom’ of the hall is a forest of long pyramidal obelisks of obsidian, inscribed with commemorative inscriptions. These are razor-sharp and function exactly like deadly blades.
Lined with shelves of records on holographic lead glyph tablets.
13: Xerocrux: Chamber
A cylindrical bookcase.
(??) The rarest books and treasures are here. Imperial seal; genealogical records; the dynastic sword, Sunburst, adamant blade in golden scabbard; the Librarian’s spellbook.
14: Secret Staircase
Marble nymph proffering a golden apple.
(??) Twist the apple to open the secret door to the spiral stair down to the Emperor’s solar on level 10.
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