The Librarian's Severed Guard

The scuttling sound of sixty severed hands ceases as the last twitching finger is quelled. In the stagnant air of the vampire's vast library, you realize these macabre servants were guarding more than just dust-laden tomes. Within a hidden compartment behind a row of genealogies, and clutched in the death-grip of the larger claws, you recover items of significant power and value. The archive holds secrets of life and death, reflected in the items left behind by its previous, long-dead curators.