Dragon quickstep

[Anastasia]

Correct.

[Corwin]

The way up is a dead end. I'll quickly check all the doors here, but maybe the true goal rests at the landing below us after all.

And then Seira continues to slip through the doors! Invisibly! After making sure there is no strange magic or traps!

[Anastasia]

Spellcraft.

[Corwin]

Taking 10 for 120

[Anastasia]

In one room there is. In this room a particular book radiates overwhelming magic to your powerful senses.

[Corwin]

Is anyone in the room? Can I tell what the magic is? Any traps?

[Anastasia]

It's empty and no traps. It looks to be magic based around resurrection and restoration. You'd need to see it with your own eyes, because you can detect that there's powerful magic to block what you're doing - you're just better.

[Corwin]

Seems like a good idea to pick it up! Seira takes a closer look! And also looks for alarms.

[Anastasia]

No alarms - the book is just one of many here. Plain, bound in leather and fire resistant. It is a Libram of Gainful Conjuration, a book created to aid goodly spellcasters by Mystra. A minor artifact meant for mortals, it will strengthen a mortal reader's spellcasting ability as well as the particular talents that power that magic, such as intellectual ability.

There's spells wrapped around it to prevent it from being detected, as well as from it to do anything but sit there. These spells are ancient in the extreme, weathered by millions and millions of years of the magic of the artifact pushing against them. Enough to allow a surpassingly powerful spellcaster to detect it.

[Corwin]

That artifact clearly doesn't want to be here, and Mystra would probably be happy if Seira liberated it! Thus Seira takes a look at the lattice of ancient spells keeping the book here. The disguise field is irrelevant, since she can perceive it just fine. Thus, the most important spells are any who might alert someone should the book be taken. Then, any spells that might attempt to destroy it if it's taken. And afterwards, any spells actually keeping it in place. Once she's confirmed that such spells have been eliminated, she'll look into any traps that actually moving the book would trigger.

[Anastasia]

It's clean and no traps that you can see.

[Corwin]

In that case, Seira takes the book!

[Anastasia]

The book is taken, sure enough. No great calamities from taking it, either.

[Corwin]

Well, then. With the western side cleared of anything of interest, Seira proceeds towards the eastern door once more! Invisible, she keeps on slipping through all the doors in that corridor first in search of anything of interest before she considers the stairs heading down.

[Anastasia]

There is one thing - looking closely, you think there may be a door hidden behind a shelf.