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What went down at the bookstore

 As the team enters The Wide they notice a few things:  The Wide seems to have a definite bougie vibe--there are definitely sections for the haves and other sections on the outskirts for the have-nots. Reggie is not stoked on this.  That Luocious can change shape as he does so in front of the characters to better interact and wheel and deal through the wide. Now Luocious looks like a rich human merchant. What else might Luocious be hiding?  Tybalt was not kidding about being nervous -- he won't even go into any shops and keeps furtively looking over his shoulder, hood up, beard up, and hunched down. He wouldn't even go to Wizards of the Wide  with Reggie (who went in and looked at tome of the uncommon, rare, and mythic rare magic scrolls they printed and sold from the stand.   Eventually the team finds Amberdune Books and talk to the booksellers there asking them about what kind of books exactly do they think they're selling. The two booksellers who ar...

Holy *&$%#@! That book bit me!

 After returning to Candlekeep from Fistandia's Floating Castle, the team are tasked by Miss Hollypocket to investigate the library where strange and dangerous events have been occurring.  There Luocious finds  a tome titled Mazfroth's Mighty Digressions and learns a couple of things: mostly though he learns about who's who in The Abyss and what monsters each of these demon lords may have spawned. New names from the hell realms included: Baphomet, Demogorgon, Graz'zt, Orcus, Juiblex, along with a few others. However as Luocious was just getting into full research-mode, the book transforms into an ectoplasmic ball of purple power and attacks.  Eventually after Mazfroth's Mighty Digression Died and Disappeared, Miss Hollypocket showed up out of nowhere and tasks the team with finding the original -- it appears the book was donated to the library only a few weeks earlier and they should go investigate.  The team is slightly unnerved by how Miss Hollypocket can just...