I guess the idea is to do all the things one has been promising to get around to “someday” but I didn’t do anything at all useful.
Played: Librarians Errant. After Shia was disintegrated into a pile of pages and then eaten by a shoggoth in the form of a book last session, the team wraps up their visit with Professor Demigod Wick and returns home without being further assaulted by bibliospace fauna. Martin gets the shoggoth to disgorge a person, but it’s not Shia, it’s somebody who claims that Grim Abyss is his real name, despite sounding like something Thaïs would called herself when she was fourteen. He offers to join the team to repay them from freeing from death or whatever it was that befell him on his last adventure, and after they learn (but do not tell him) that he is a fictional character from a series of adventures novels dating back more than two hundred years, they decide they need to keep an eye on him after all. Since their goal seems to require the text of The Magical Education of Beatrix Fogtower, but not the volumes themselves, tasty a magic item set as they are, the new plan is to try to get the third volume, copy it, and then trade it to Gladys for a copy of the first volume. Divination magic (4th-level spells, baby!) points to Tokda Snir, their kobold acquaintance and crime lord of the freshman class, but before they can track her down, things with the appearance of Grim’s fellow book characters show up and try to steal him, then blast everybody with extremely meta antibackstory powers before being reduced to ink and inscriptions. This will need to be investigated, but first they finish meeting up with Tokda Snir, who upon hearing that volume 3 may have once been given to a Masked Lord of Waterdeep, mentions that her grand-relative, the kindly kobold priest, is a Masked Lord. Talk about a cliffhanger!
Read: The Masquerades of Spring (Ben Aaronovitch): Another non-Peter story from the Folly, set in 1920s New York where a young gentleman who would be perfectly at home in the Drones Club is trying to live his fabulous life abroad in the land of jazz but his old school chum the Nightingale shows up asking for his help.
Written: 174.