Your Books Are Overdue, or Blogging Candlekeep

The team ventures through the glimmering doorway and step from Candlekeep into a mansion floating in an empty purple miasma. Within, they meet and greet a somewhat frazzled Matreous who is relieved to see the team as well as the book. He managed to open the portal to Fistandia's mansion after noticing the same command in the Joy of Extradimensional Spaces, but leaving the book behind like a dummy, he did not know the command word to reopen the portal when it closed behind him.  He's been searching around the mansion (Fistandia is not present and Matreous is curious) and shows the players a small statue of an imp that he believes has magical properties. He needs to go back to Candlekeep ("I can work better from the library"), but asks if the team would be interested in looting exploring the mansion while he keeps the portal open on the other end. The teams agrees, but when Matreous steps through the portal they hear him shriek and the portal closes before they can esc...

While traveling along the Sword Coast, Tybalt, Reginald, Luocious, Nox, and Gudetama decide to rest at the Dragon's Breath, a tavern known for it's cheap beer and food. Whilst each takes a break inside, pondering the adventures and decisions that led them here, a lad rushes into the tavern and asks for help--someone has died in their nearby village and he needs to find the scholar Matreous who will know what to do next; he asked for help from strangers, and our heroes strangely agreed. They're told Matreous has travelled to Candlekeep for magical studies, and are asked to find him there and bring him back. Each stalwart do-gooderis given an unusual book in order to gain entry to Candlekeep and the adventurers set out walking to the legendary fortress of knowledge.  Upon arrival, they are greeted by Avowed gatekeepers--acolytes working at Candlekeep--and are shown to a room where Matreous, a researcher of portals and dimensional magic, is staying and was last seen. The team ...