Copied scrolls of Haste, Hypnotic Pattern, Slow, Greater Invisibility, and Sickening Radience (Evocation, XGE from Fai Chen).
Spent 750g in transcription costs and 15 hours = 2 days.

purchase scroll of Steel Wind Strike (5th level), healing potion

Spent 6 downtime days to read the Manual of Clear Thoughts.

Copying spells from the brown leather spellbook to my spellbooks, adding feather fall, detect thoughts, locate object, clairvoyance, fly, arcane eye, ice storm, stoneskin, Rary's telepathic bond, scrying, mass suggestion, true seeing, delayed blast fireball, teleport
Copied the scroll of Steel Wind Strike

Spent 2,925g in transcription costs and 117 hours = 14.6 downtime days.

Copied Catapult, Erupting Earth, and Tidal Wave into spellbooks. Spent 350gp on ink and materials for transcription.

While visiting the arcane library of the Von Finklestein family, Anorak copied many spells into his spellbooks, including Disguise self, Identify, Jump, Longstrider, Tasha's hideous laughter, Alter self, Arcane lock, Blindness/deafness, Blur, Darkness, Darkvision, Enlarge/Reduce, Knock, Melf's Acid Arrow, Misty Step, See invisibility, Blink, Fear, Hypnotic pattern, Leomund's tiny hut, Phantom Steed, Protection from Energy, Vampiric Touch, Water breathing

Spent 2,400 gold in transcription costs over the 10 days.
Purchased an additional spellbook for all these spells. -50g

At the top fo the obsidian spire raised from Zhentil Keep was we discovered Marzellus Marshward. The former Zhentarim officer and current necromancer revealed himself a Fallen Aasimar seeking to wage a terrorist campaign and eventual war with the pane of Celestia. A fool's notion to be sure. His necromantic magics were not finely honed for martial application and with Brek the barbarian assisting by holding Marshward down, we were able to desroy him - at least temporarily - so that the portal to Celestia he'd opened would close.

Gained potion of superior healing, potion of vitality, spell scrolls of contingency, circle of death, and mislead

Translating the scrolls created by the mad necromancer Marzellus Marshward and copying them into my spellbooks. One of these is an evocation spell and was quite simple to decipher.
Copied the scrolls of Contingency, Mislead, and Circle of Death to my spellbooks.

Spent 700g in transcription costs and 28 hours = 3.5 downtime days.
Purchased fourth spellbook. -50g

1 Common Scroll of PHB Spell (Detect Magic)

While at The Yawning Portal to buy and sell spellbooks with a Chultan dealer, I met Danifae Melarn, a grenadier of Bregan D'arthe. She bartered my ancient Zhentarim shield for a staff she claimed to have found in the pincers of a human archmage who had purportedly been warped into an insectoid aberration by the Far Realm. It's actually plausible as the provenances of magic items go, and it does seem to be very powerful.
I will throughouly study the staff to make sure it has no lingering traces of the Far Realm tied to it.

2,000 XP, (1) Uncommon Spell Scroll (Find Familiar), a Potion of Healing, or 20 DTD for one PC x the number of times you have completed this quest.

Potion: Healing

1 common scroll of PHB spell (Tenser's Floating Disk)

Copied scrolls of Haste, Hypnotic Pattern, Slow, Greater Invisibility, and Sickening Radience (Evocation, XGE from Fai Chen).
Spent 750g in transcription costs and 15 hours = 2 days.

purchase scroll of Steel Wind Strike (5th level), healing potion

Spent 6 downtime days to read the Manual of Clear Thoughts.

Copying spells from the brown leather spellbook to my spellbooks, adding feather fall, detect thoughts, locate object, clairvoyance, fly, arcane eye, ice storm, stoneskin, Rary's telepathic bond, scrying, mass suggestion, true seeing, delayed blast fireball, teleport
Copied the scroll of Steel Wind Strike

Spent 2,925g in transcription costs and 117 hours = 14.6 downtime days.

Copied Catapult, Erupting Earth, and Tidal Wave into spellbooks. Spent 350gp on ink and materials for transcription.

While visiting the arcane library of the Von Finklestein family, Anorak copied many spells into his spellbooks, including Disguise self, Identify, Jump, Longstrider, Tasha's hideous laughter, Alter self, Arcane lock, Blindness/deafness, Blur, Darkness, Darkvision, Enlarge/Reduce, Knock, Melf's Acid Arrow, Misty Step, See invisibility, Blink, Fear, Hypnotic pattern, Leomund's tiny hut, Phantom Steed, Protection from Energy, Vampiric Touch, Water breathing

Spent 2,400 gold in transcription costs over the 10 days.
Purchased an additional spellbook for all these spells. -50g

At the top fo the obsidian spire raised from Zhentil Keep was we discovered Marzellus Marshward. The former Zhentarim officer and current necromancer revealed himself a Fallen Aasimar seeking to wage a terrorist campaign and eventual war with the pane of Celestia. A fool's notion to be sure. His necromantic magics were not finely honed for martial application and with Brek the barbarian assisting by holding Marshward down, we were able to desroy him - at least temporarily - so that the portal to Celestia he'd opened would close.

Gained potion of superior healing, potion of vitality, spell scrolls of contingency, circle of death, and mislead

Translating the scrolls created by the mad necromancer Marzellus Marshward and copying them into my spellbooks. One of these is an evocation spell and was quite simple to decipher.
Copied the scrolls of Contingency, Mislead, and Circle of Death to my spellbooks.

Spent 700g in transcription costs and 28 hours = 3.5 downtime days.
Purchased fourth spellbook. -50g

1 Common Scroll of PHB Spell (Detect Magic)

While at The Yawning Portal to buy and sell spellbooks with a Chultan dealer, I met Danifae Melarn, a grenadier of Bregan D'arthe. She bartered my ancient Zhentarim shield for a staff she claimed to have found in the pincers of a human archmage who had purportedly been warped into an insectoid aberration by the Far Realm. It's actually plausible as the provenances of magic items go, and it does seem to be very powerful.
I will throughouly study the staff to make sure it has no lingering traces of the Far Realm tied to it.

2,000 XP, (1) Uncommon Spell Scroll (Find Familiar), a Potion of Healing, or 20 DTD for one PC x the number of times you have completed this quest.

Potion: Healing

1 common scroll of PHB spell (Tenser's Floating Disk)