User blog:Tokenas/Voyage to the Hidden Temple

Ava, following an eventful morning, decided to perform a few errands to prepare for her new mission to the Crystalflow Coast. She first stopped at the quartermaster's office, where she met the garrulous Colm, an injured Talon soldier riding the desk. She picked up a bag of holding and replaced her supply of arrows but was sadly unable to acquire her much-desired boots of elvenkind (due to apaprently supply shortages and attendant price increases), then proceeded to the library to do a bit of research before the trip.

Entering the library, she was greeted by Sira Taymas, an aasimar archivist working (as all library staff do) for the High Archon. She assisted Ava in locating works contemporary to the War of the Draconic Divinities. Most texts from that period, other than clearly pro-Bahamut ones, were destroyed as sacreligious, though some few remain. Ava, browsing, located a few interesting accounts: one book, On the Perfidy of the Chromeria, was essentially a screed against Tiamat and her worshipers, describing them as "horned beasts"; a few scattered documents seemed to imply that the western forests were a major front in the war (with perhaps some elves on the other side?); and a parchment-maker's journal describing how the worship of Tiamat was apparently conducted in the open before the War. A few other items looked promising, but having gotten little sleep the night before, Ava asked Sira to choose a few significant-seeming items from the restricted area and send them to Dragonfall for duplication by the Bookbinder's Guild, and then retired to prepare for the meeting with Anabran Cane.

After a nap, Ava and the rest of the Seventh Eye met with Anabran regarding their new mission. Apparently, the Twelfth Eye has vanished, along with a master surveyor from the Cartographer's Guild, after they were dispatched to investigate and begin excavation of an archaeological site dating to the War of the Draconic Divinities - possible a Chromerian temple. They were given a report to review (see 7/21/18 email, Mini-Bang, from A to B) and prepared to set out for the town of Victor's Hollow, on the way to the site, the next day.