<strong>The Gauntlet of Winnowing - Library</strong><br/><em>Laura, Aetherana, Setta, Kimiko, Syra<br/>The door was open. The room beyond was filled with shelves laden with books and scrolls, and to a lesser extent writing supplies (inks, quills, parchment, and such), as well as a reading table and chairs, all dusty from unknown ages of unuse. A chandelier hung from the ceiling above the table, but instead of candles it held crystals (which did not give off light).</em><br/><br/>The library - for that was what it most likely was - contained two sets of shelves. A large section laden with books in many languages and writing supplies, and a separate section partitioned off that contained mostly scrolls. A few more books were scattered on the table as though they had been suddenly abandoned.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Bookshelves</span><br/><br/>The major section of the bookshelves were filled with books in many languages, many of them unrecognizable. Finding a book that one could read meant either opening the books one by one and seeing what language lay within, a slow task, or trying to discern the language from the titles written on the spines of the books, which was a tricky task in its own right. And without knowing what they were looking for, the books were essentially random.<br/><br/><em>(DC 20 Perception check to find a readable book, with a competence bonus to the roll equal to the number of extra languages beyond Common known.)</em><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Scroll-shelves</span><br/><br/>The other section of the shelves was separated from the rest and marked all over with a curious symbol: a pair of arrows crossed in the shape of an "X". These shelves carried scrolls, each of which was contained within a protective tube further marked with arcane runes.<br/><br/><em>(DC 20 Knowledge (Arcana) check to figure out what the runes mean.)</em><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Table</span><br/><br/>The table held a few books with pages still lying open, most of them in Draconic save for a book of blueprints in Dwarven of all languages and a leather-bound journal in Common that looked out of place among the rest of the books. The chandelier above practically hummed with long-unactivated magic, but activating it was a different problem entirely.<br/><br/><em>(DC 25 Use Magic Device check for the chandelier.)</em>