A length of rothe-hide parchment has been cut into a roughly circular shape; a hole has also been cut in the centre. The markings on the document suggest that the writer is coming to terms with a new language.

This length of parchment is regularly shaped. The handwriting is crude, but readable, spanning left to right across the page.

Scouting Report

~Iok of Qus'tenarr Monastery* For the Floating City of Shrak't'lor* -- 1st Turning -- +

Sensei Qus'tenarr~

First Stage of the rrakkma is complete* One of the Tentacled Ones of Ysinode city has been made as husk for the pits of growth by my *knowing* of steel~ flesh~and will* A combination of Ke'n'to's Circle and Dal'rek's Teaching brought my will to peak during the battle. A handaxe dowsed with alchemical fire and earth elemental shaped fists~ endowed with the martial training of Qus'tenarr~ allowed me to *know* the creature in battle* I retain the skull only - for record and research*

Three of the four in rrakkma have fallen as husks to an illithid scientist of the city. So'axamec~ Zru Zerchai~ and En'ka are re-shaped as husks* It is unlikely the Healer Anarchs of the Great Floating City will find their essence in the Chaos-Soup* The illithid in this place use an unknown science to re-shape many of our ancestral energies~ I sense* Our maps of Toril~ and the planar equipment~ are lost to a sand-shaped laboratory of the illithid*

I choose self-exile to this city of Sanctuary in the Torillean UnderEarth until the rrakkma is complete~ Sensei. The human city is fertile for a rising* Most fight the Foe of Melniak deep in their thoughts and actions* Few recognise the illithid threat to the mind of the city~ and each soul in turn* The historical reports were correct - former slaves to the Tentacled Ones abound* Two other dominant races wage a war in this pocket-shaped city alongside the Illithid - a species of elf known as Drow;; and an aberrant species known as Beholder*

The seeds of a dire threat to Toril are being explored in Sanctuary~ Sensei* An illithid scientist has spoken of It's *will* to dominate the Prime Material Plane* More truth to the historical record of the Monasteries* It is my will to reveal this threat by fulfilling stage two~ three~ and four of the rrakkma* In this way~ Jeluddin's will prevails in me, and Senzi's Reward looms ever closer*

~Iok of Qus'tenarr Monastery* For the Floating City of Shrak't'lor* --Ist turning-- ++

In this Monastery on the Hill I see the chaos-shapes of Limbo reflected manifold~ ten steps from my resting place* I smell the sounds of the Slaad breeding grounds as I put my mind to sleep-absorption* It is unreal until I speak with Ophelia Tideborn who knows of these Creatures* The Healer-Monarchs come to ward those People of Qus'tenarr from the gravity lifts in a place like this* Not here~ they do not come here* I am lost to communication with them*

Armand Bluecoat speaks as a Sensei ~ a teacher that all the People seek on their chosen path* I am to choose the freedom and knowing of the illithid hunt~ or I am to know the path of the Society Crusade until I am shaped as husk for the pits of growth*

I sense the free path holds the virtue of common linkings of mind and will among the people of Sanctuary* Ophelia Tideborn~ Lafrenius Aberrant-Hunter~ walking the path of my turning and will* Talk of the Scholar who has walked deep into Ysinode's labyrinth* The Elder Brain is weak*

Armand has placed a stone on the path to my Senzi's Reward* To walk or fall upon it~ I sense~ will bring me closer to knowing Senzi's Reward* Arlam Human-Balancer spoke of me as from Outside Toril* Armand Sensei-Bluecoat spoke of the balance of battling all aberrants* When Ysinode falls the Beholder colony will come for Sanctuary* *Know this*

I sense Armand knows the fear of loss in his own family~thus he asks me to denounce my People* Armand's Crusade has Fri'hi's roots~ tangled in rage* Sensei Rhiannon's Crusade contains a *knowing* Find this*

Beyond Zerthimon there is Dal'rek's Teaching of the Will stronger than flesh or steel* Know this* Beyond Zerthimon there is the knowing contained in the pursuit and fulfilment of rrakkma *Know this* Beyond Zerthimon there is Sensei Rhiannon~ the One who claimed the path to Under-Earth~ the One who walks the paths, fortresses, labyrinths of the aberrants* Know this*

Equipment So'axamec's ancestral bracers focus the rushing winds of the chasm and electric fire* Illithid psionics fragment upon martial directed chi-impact* As the Illithid Scientist has taken from my Self and the People~ I will take from It* Ysinode must fall into ruin*

Adamantite is not among the traders of Sanctuary* The dwarves know how to shape it* Once a sample is found~ to my stone-filled gloves the sorcery of fire and wind it is my will to add*

Harrison and the Canal Dwarf know nothing of shaping adamantite* Office of Engineering ~ do not speak* The gnome office-leader has a chaos-shaped mind* Drow and duergar traders will make adamantite diseased* Find dwarven metal*