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H4 - Specimen Gallery

Corven Vell's Hideout — Upper Floor

H4 — Specimen Gallery

Everything Has a Label

Glass-fronted cabinets cover three walls from floor to ceiling.

Inside them sit jars, wax-sealed tubes, pinned insects, packets of dried fungus, fragments of bark, teeth, venom sacs, roots suspended in clear fluid, and things difficult to identify at a glance.

Every specimen carries a number. Several shelves have been left conspicuously empty.

The gallery is Corven's reference collection. Most samples are mundane to a toxicologist: venomous insects, poisonous plants, fungal growths, contaminated soil, and preserved tissue used for comparison.

Reiver's Right Reference Series

A secured cabinet contains RR-labeled material. Some labels match specimen numbers from the Lower Works. The contents include blackened root fibers, residue scraped from timber, contaminated soil, and inactive fragments stored in preservative.

Challenge: Understand the Missing Samples

Primary CheckCrafting DC 17, Nature DC 17, Medicine DC 18, or Toxicology Lore DC 15
Critical SuccessThe empty positions are not random. Corven removed a sequence of samples representing increasingly mature growths. His later work was comparing stages rather than merely cataloging contamination.
SuccessThe missing jars belonged to the same RR specimen series and were removed together for further study.
FailureThe collection is too specialized to reconstruct what the missing specimens represented.
Specialized Materials

Rare Specimen Stock — 3 gp

Carefully harvested venoms, dried toxic plants, fungal cultures, and mineral absorbers worth 3 gp as alchemical crafting materials.