Most of the books detail the day-to-day transactions of the Skytower Emporium, which you understand now to have been a shop on ground level above you. The stairs are blocked by rubble. One of the books is is Relios’s personal journal. It details the goings on of many of his wealthy clients, as well as Relios’s personal life including the details of his ancestry (in which he is NOT a noble) and his son’s birth. One of the last ledgers mentions that Relios was falling on hard times and intended to sell his wayfinder back to the Pathfinder Society. The ledgers also show that Relios was selling a steady stream of yellowcap mushrooms to members of the pre-revolution high society in Augustana.
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"Well..." says Auriferous.
"I think it may be time to get back to the VC. We still don't know where that wayfinder came from. The rest however... it looks like the demons were real, but perhaps summoned from that scroll."
She gestures to the old scroll from the previous room.
"We should take that in case the Master of Scrolls can tell what spell used to be on it. The rest appear to be mushroom generated hallucinations. I'm not sure that the old mans mind is going to be quite up to hearing that he is not actually the emperor returned."
She ponders matters.
"Let us lay what we have in front of the captain. It may be he can suggest another avenue to explore where the wayfinder came from."
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Seems like the poor owner of this shop and his son were under the hallucinogens effects of the mushrooms. They must have stayed in here for quite a long time when the Revolution struck...
A sad story but I think nothing of true value is here, only the wayfinder presence is worthy of our attention.
I agree with Auri, we must gather the evidences we found here and present them to the Venture-Captain. He will decide if we must continue our investigation or not.
Gandros ignores the news you bring him, other than it its now safe to return home, which he wishes to do. He is firmly entrenched in his delusions regardless of what you tell him. He magnanimously grants you anything you want from among the remains of the Emporium basement.
Venture-Captain Caudron Wallace is more relieved than disappointed that there is no otherworldly portal in the sewers, but mostly self-satisfied that the whole thing was a waste of his time as he predicted.
