ADVENTURES ⟩ THE RUINS OF JERIBO
Two scribes once worked here, translating Mazrian bureaucratic scrolls into Kananite tablets and vica-versa, but they’ve fled.
The interior of the library is dimly lit by blue-green Mazrian magic lamps. The left (tablet) side is empty. On the right (scroll) side, heroes can the shadows cast by a large figure moving in front of the lampglows.
Lumbering through the stacks of scrolls is a kulu brute. It’s unarmed, with Guard 5 and none of its tree club attacks available. It stands with its mouth wide open, holding a delicate scroll with both of its giant webbed hands, as if it’s about to eat it. But it just holds the scroll there. The scroll is illuminated by blue-green light shining out from a portable lamp resting in its mouth.
Also inside the brute’s mouth is an isopu, who is eagerly reading the scroll and puzzling over its contents. The isopu has control of the kulu brute and is oblivious to interlopers. The creature will defend itself if attacked and surrender if defeat looks inevitable; otherwise, it will express only annoyance if the heroes interrupt its reading. Note its Truthless trait.
The isopu's scroll is a copy of the Wisdom of Adod, written in Oxhouse. Characters who are literate in the Oxhouse writing system recognize it as such—and can learn the Wisdom of Adod lore by reading this text during Downtime.
Characters who don’t know Oxhouse only recognize that it’s written in Glyphs. If a character can read Glyphs but not Oxhouse, the text appears to be repetitive nonsense about how wise Lord Adod is.