A fog rolls into the square in Phlan during the Reclamation Day parade, within it a wave of undead attackers. Left behind is a staff of ebony bearing an amulet of an onyx wave, the symbol of the Ebon Wave, an offshoot of the Zhentarim

We are directed to a book bindery to learn more about the Ebon Wave's activity within Zhentil Keep. The bindery's owner, a white dragonborn bard named K requested that we attempt to convince the Ebon Wave to leave Zhentil Keep peacefully.

As we approached the forest around the Keep, a pair of Wyverns with three casters riding attacked with fire breath, dropped rocks, and spellcraft.
One of the casters had a spellbook on them which Anorak took and begins to study.

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

gained " blue jellybean (potion) of healing (superior)", "dreamsicle jellybean (scroll) of Enhance ability, Fox's cunning, "lemon bean of Enhance Ability, eagle's splendor"

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

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.

Potion: Healing

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

19g starting gold; -50gp diamond (material component)

Fai Chen's Faire: Traded for +1 Wand of War Mage. Bought Scroll of Unseen Servant

Copied spells into Spellbook: Detect Magic, Unseen Servant, Tenser's Floating Disk
Spent 150g in transcription, and 1 downtime day.

Bought Scroll of Maximilian's Earthen Grasp

A fog rolls into the square in Phlan during the Reclamation Day parade, within it a wave of undead attackers. Left behind is a staff of ebony bearing an amulet of an onyx wave, the symbol of the Ebon Wave, an offshoot of the Zhentarim

We are directed to a book bindery to learn more about the Ebon Wave's activity within Zhentil Keep. The bindery's owner, a white dragonborn bard named K requested that we attempt to convince the Ebon Wave to leave Zhentil Keep peacefully.

As we approached the forest around the Keep, a pair of Wyverns with three casters riding attacked with fire breath, dropped rocks, and spellcraft.
One of the casters had a spellbook on them which Anorak took and begins to study.

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

gained " blue jellybean (potion) of healing (superior)", "dreamsicle jellybean (scroll) of Enhance ability, Fox's cunning, "lemon bean of Enhance Ability, eagle's splendor"

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

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.

Potion: Healing

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

19g starting gold; -50gp diamond (material component)

Fai Chen's Faire: Traded for +1 Wand of War Mage. Bought Scroll of Unseen Servant

Copied spells into Spellbook: Detect Magic, Unseen Servant, Tenser's Floating Disk
Spent 150g in transcription, and 1 downtime day.

Bought Scroll of Maximilian's Earthen Grasp