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DEAD LANGUAGES ROOM. This spacious room appears inviting. It is
well-lit with torches which are kept always burning magically. There
is a heavy wooden table holding a large stack of white paper. Most
of the walls are lined with round holes or slots, except for the
center of the west wall, which holds a huge scroll on a special
holder.
When
the party enters, the stack of paper will swirl up as if in a
min-whirlwind and form an aggressive monster made of paper, looking
much like a great hump-backed dog.
Paper
Guardian (AC 10; MV 15”; HD 5+3; hp 27; #AT 1 bite; D 3-12; SD
Immune to charm, sleep, and hold spells; XP 387)
The
paper monster is vulnerable to fire attacks, automatically failing
its saving throw and taking an additional 1-4 points of damage on top
of normal damage dealt by fire.
The
slots in the walls hold scrolls written in ancient languages. Use of
a comprehend languages spell will allow one to read the
scrolls, but they deal only with mundane matters such as inventories,
bills of sale, works of fiction, mythologies, scientific treatises,
histories of war, banking records, and list of financial
transactions.
The
large scroll in the special holder is a special magic cipher scroll.
If a scroll in an unknown language is placed on the left side and a
empty scroll is placed on the right, the cipher scroll will translate
message onto the empty scroll in the common language. This valuable
item might be worth 5,000 gold crescents or more to the right buyer,
if it could somehow be smuggled away from the librarian.
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