Editing Macchiato Monsters: The Stygian Library (section)

==Rumors & Clues==
Anyone can write these here as you encounter information that looks interesting.
*"I am very busy negotiating the usurpation of the Librarians, and the floating brains are being recalcitrant, so you can imagine the kind of stress I am under." [https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/macchiato-monsters-the-stygian-library.869759/page-5#post-23508791 #46]
*Stray thoughts recorded in the hungry book: [https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/macchiato-monsters-the-stygian-library.869759/page-12#post-23551913 #114]
**"The Astrolabe lets you control Time Itself!"
**"Beware of the Man who Speaks in Hands."
**"I have forgotten something. I don’t know what. If I try to remember, I convulse and black out. If you start forgetting, flee or it will happen to you too."
**"They're killing us!!!"

===Progress===
Progress explained: [https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/macchiato-monsters-the-stygian-library.869731/post-23503175 #24]
*Progress toward finding "honest-to-goodness-no-kidding-no-really-you-shouldn't-have-this dark magic texts": '''25'''
*Locating "A True Account of the Expeditions of Edward Tongue Within the Stygian Library, Written by the Same Edward Tongue" requires Progress 25 on Layer 5 or deeper.

===Threads===
*There are lockers at the Decirculation Desk where you could safely store items by the Library door. [https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/macchiato-monsters-the-stygian-library.869759/#post-23492720 #1]
*There is a calculation engine which can answer simple questions and identify books containing answers to complex ones, which will increase Progress. [https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/macchiato-monsters-the-stygian-library.869759/#post-23495740 #7]
*There is a book titled "A True Account of the Expeditions of Edward Tongue Within the Stygian Library, Written by the Same Edward Tongue" which contains an answer to the question "safest route to magic texts near current location?" It is apparently located in or near the map gallery, "near the travelogues." [https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/macchiato-monsters-the-stygian-library.869759/page-2#post-23497997 #18]
*The Grey Librarians in the calculation room have offered to bring one book of the party's specifications to them for supervised reading, and to identify them as friendly to the Librarians, if they write a book containing an answer to the question "Where is Cert?" and bring it to the calculation room. [https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/macchiato-monsters-the-stygian-library.869759/page-3#post-23501463 #29]
**There are several blank books in the planetarium. [https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/macchiato-monsters-the-stygian-library.869759/page-12#post-23556620 #117]
*The neurovore who makes his lair in the taxidermy gallery has been converted to the Powers of the Mind and gone off to spread the word. [https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/macchiato-monsters-the-stygian-library.869759/page-6#post-23514666 #58]
**Man has proselytized 1/5 minds toward stepping up the Powers of the Mind Δ4 to Δ6. [https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/macchiato-monsters-the-stygian-library.869759/page-6#post-23513264 #53]
*There is a console at the planetarium's orrery which apparently measures the passage of time in Roman numerals. [https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/macchiato-monsters-the-stygian-library.869759/page-12#post-23555055 #116]
*There is a Sanskrit scroll describing how to cast a horoscope using the orrery to answer yes/no questions and accumulate Progress toward finding information. [https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/macchiato-monsters-the-stygian-library.869759/page-13#post-23561231 #126]