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You can totally take 10. This comes to show that research is less dangerous as a team! I'm not asking you to roll for more knowledge, because your initial results were more than enough to get you this far.


Deftly but cautiously, Turi ascends the ladders. They are well constructed, but the height is impressive, leading to some unsettling oscillations when at the top. Turi, however, remains steady as he grabs books as indicated by Vershab, 60 feet in the air. Multiple ascensions later, a stack of books and scrolls piled between Vershab and Calathon provides ample material for the two scholars to peruse.

Calathon finds a papyrus scroll dating from Osirion’s Second Age, over 6000 years ago, referencing a "lost" pharaoh named Hakotep. The scroll ascribes the epithet of "Sky Pharaoh" to the forgotten ruler, and recounts his ability to "ride the stars by night." The scroll even contains a crude illustration of the Sky Pharaoh, a figure standing upon a dais surrounded by glass and crystal. Looking closer, he notes that the dais and crystals are floating, seemingly part of a vast temple that somehow sits in the night sky.

On a hunch, Vershab looks at a leftover stack of papyrus documents, to find an obscure index, compiled by a previous curator of the library. It lists the scroll referencing Hakotep as one of many that were copied from the personal library of the Sky Pharaoh. The index reveals this collection of scrolls is held in a part of the Great Library's Inner Sanctum called the Spiral Archive, described as a chamber resembling a vertical scroll tube crossed by a latticework of papyrus bridges.

While Turi gets busy replacing all the books in their elevated places, Vershab goes to ask the curator again.

"Indeed, your research is leading you to even more rare and restricted areas of the Library. I have to advise that you seek permission from the haty-a herself. The Inner Sanctum - he points to the enormous bronze door - contains such secrets that it comes under her personal purview to allow access."