GS 32 Further Exploration of Mun's Informatory

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Summary

The party fights Dorvae, 2 Skinstitchs, 2 Hellwasp Swarms, and 2 Derros

In one of the alchemical rooms, they party finds an odd fish-human like creature, with the lable calling it Number 61. They open the jar and hear it talking. It says the following in common: Number 61 overheard Lowls and Mun plan here. It knows that Lowls and Mun were heading to the Mysterium in Katheer, and that they were concerned about the guards there. Lowls eventually decided that bribery would be the best method to get in. Their goal was to steal a book called the Necronomicon from a part of the library called the Soul. Lowls greatly desired the book and the secrets within, claiming it would restore his reputation in Ustalav and bring him unspeakable success and fame. He kept talking about the library and the dangerous wards in the Soul of the Mysterium. He also spoke fearfully of the Mysterium’s guardian, a being known only as the Keeper. Although he didn’t know what the guardian is, he was very worried that he might end up meeting it and not be able to complete his mission in the library. Lowls also spoke about contacting his old friend, the gnoll slaver Biting Lash, in Okeno to help organize a trip to find the hidden city and acquire slaves and hirelings to serve as porters and guards, but seemed to regard the slaver with some amount of fear and trepidation. The pair then gathered a number of objects here and from other places in the infirmary before leaving the hollow ones in charge of the place. Number 61 knows about the derros in the room above, and knows that they are terrified of the creature in the attic. Number 61 doesn’t know what the creature in the attic is, but knows that Mun calls it his “anomalous friend.”

The 3rd Mun construct drops a bunch of notes. Among the scrawls is a sentence fragment about the otherworldly protector of the library and the Soul within an iron puzzle box; a note reads, “Afterward, equip in Okeno—meet with Biting Lash. A ship has been arranged.” In the margins, there are a number of pictures of angels and the note, “Swivel heads in the right direction to delve deeper.”

And then as the party destroy the 3rd version of Mun, they hear a quiet voice in their heads and see images of a fungus rapidly growing and then collapsing in on itself before growing anew. The voice says, “It reaches its tendrils through the minds of those who know of it. It reaches beyond the veil of dreams. Hurry.”

The party continues to go up, into the attic, and they see the dark young, they receive a chaotic image of hundreds of faces all flickering between one another, and hear, “It sends its tendrils through their minds to gather its strength, but despite your knowledge you are clean. You can stop it. Don’t let it infect this world and serve it to Carcosa.”