<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Using the wand of cure light wounds (with use magic device) to heal</div><div class="spoiler_body">First use: 4 HP healed (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=61352)<br/>Second use: 5 HP healed, back to full HP! (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=61353)<br/>48 charges remaining.<br/></div></div><br/><br/>Menya let Hanifa take care of the introductions as she took out her wand to heal herself of the bruises she had sustained while executing her "bolt of Nethys" maneuver. "Oh, you're welcome!" the catgirl beamed when the goblin scholar got around to shaking her hand. She had seen enough strange things that the idea of a learned goblin didn't faze her in the least, even if most goblins viewed the written word as soul-stealing evil. "A pleasure to meet you, Ragrump! Like my friend said, we're here to research the legend of the Forgotten Crown on behalf of the Pathfinder Society." And with that, it was time to put on her reading glasses and do her research! "Oops, I think I left my readinya glasses back in Absalom!" Menya announced, as she felt around her pockets in vain for them. "Oh well, I didn't really need them anyways!"<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Research rolls</div><div class="spoiler_body">34 on the perception check! (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=61354)<br/>Taking 10 on the remaining knowledge checks. With a base +7 modifier, the +4 circumstance bonus, and the +5 bonus from succeeding on the perception check, the result is 26 which beats all of the DCs.<br/></div></div><br/><br/>With Hanifa's and the mage-priests' help, Menya stripped many a bookshelf bare as she made a stack - then two, then three - of all the books that were relevant to the task at hand. When she finally finished, the resulting pile of texts and tomes was large enough to sleep on like a dragon's hoard. "A good haul!" she announced, not intimidated in the least by the size of the reading list. "We'll get through it all, never fear!" That was said mostly for Hanifa's benefits to assauge any fears she might have had, as Menya began methodically going through each book, jotting down notes on sheets of papyrus as she went.<br/><br/>Throughout the night, Hanifa would soon discover that, as efficient and experienced as Menya was in sifting through the contents of a dusty library, she was still a pain in sensitive regions to do scholarly work with.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Menya's antics while researching!</div><div class="spoiler_body"><ul class="bbc_list"><li>She got distracted right away by the erotic book, and returned to proper work only after Hanifa found out!</li><li>Her tail can't be still when she's sitting still. Swish, swish, swish, it swings back and forth, brushing against Hanifa's bottom as often as not!</li><li>Getting entranced by a pretty picture book! Wait, what do you mean it's a treatise on planar theory?</li><li>Taking a catnap and drooling over the cookbook, turned to a page with a fish recipe!</li><li>Disappearing for fifteen minutes with the erotic book, then reappearing nonchalantly. Nope, nothing happened at all!</li><li>Gotta check the Tome of Horrors, it might have something useful on mummies or other Osirionite undead, which might come in handy if they end up pyramid delving... ooh, is that a sparkly vampire?</li><li>Suddenly Menya clutched her head and started shaking violently and speaking in tongues! The sound of thunder echoed throughout the room as miniature storm clouds appeared around her head, forked lightning flashing between them. Menya's eyes glowed bright blue. "The knowledge! I have... the power!" she cried out, as her head expanded in size until it was twice as large as it normally was!</li><li>It turned out to be merely a playful illusion, courtesy of the spells of ghost sound and minor image, an outlet for the feeling that her head really did grow twice as large, what with all the new information she was absorbing.</li><li>Looking up Ulunat in The Many Blasphemies of Rovagug!</li></ul></div></div><br/><br/>Come the next morning, Menya massaged her temples and stretched out after flipping the final book shut. From her readings and her notes, she condensed all the information into a series of leads to figure out what to do next.<br/><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Magical hieroglyphs in the pyramids might be related to the making of the Forgotten Crown.</li><li>The first blueprints for the Forgotten Crown might have been fashioned right here, in Azghaad's Spire! There might be some hints left from that time.</li><li>The Crown itself might have been buried with the Pharaoh. Probably too good to be true, since if it was that simple, some band of tomb robbers calling themselves adventurers should have recovered and hocked it by now. (Menya was of a completely different breed, as she called herself an archaeologist.)</li><li>Fizza, the beloved of the High Priest of Nethys. Surely there had to be some (more) records of her here in the temple of Nethys.</li></ul><br/>The next step was obvious - Azghaad's Spire still had more tales to tell about the Forgotten Crown. For a start, Menya would begin inquiring the priests and artisans as to whether they knew anything about Fizza, and while she was at it she would also inquire after the blueprints of the Forgotten Crown.