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The rest of the room was fairly simple. Trash was removed, notes gathered. A box of yellow foul smelling sulfur crystals was located and set carefully aside. Four precious looking stones were gathered from across random shelves, an inky black jet stone, a green emerald, a black agate, and a rust red zircon. What purpose they held was unknown, but each had been carefully placed in a small felt box and labeled, unlike most of the trash across the room.
She hauled her treasures out of the tunnels into the daylight. There was probably something she had missed in all that junk, but she felt fairly confident there wasn’t much left in the workshop. The sulfur and the slab could probably wait, she could barely carry the one, and the other stank and wasn’t good for anything…Still might not hurt to bring a couple pieces. She tossed a few sulfur chunks and the gemstones in with the box of notes and set off for home.
<span class="mu-s"> Afternoon Day 2 </span>
Mel took a moment to sort the notes from the cave, flipping through the cipher, trying to piece together the chaotic writings in some sort of sensible order. Even with the cipher there were definite signs of stress in the writing, some sections were shakily written the looping script sprouting spikes and unpleasant twists and faces, while others seem to genuinely ponder the need for more chestnuts. Still, the cipher had saved her hours of work, there was definitely a pair of spells detailed somewhere in this mess. There were, roughly speaking, three missing sections of the notes, although the fragments she had seemed to indicate the part she wanted was the section at the end. Judging by the notes on syllable stress there was a description of a divine word.
> Study Rune Circles
> Study Ley Flows
> Study Imp Summoning (Joe’s Notes)
> Study Locate Object (Joe’s Notes)
> Meditate to expand mana reserves
> Explore Bird Valley
> Return to Joe’s Cave (Workshop/Lab 1 item remaining)
> Return to Joe’s Cave (Storage, mostly mundane supplies)
> Return to Joe’s Cave (Camp, Maybe food and more notes to be found)