Journal Entry 14.2024.3.3

Date: 23ish Stiirs 528
Dalden has been kidnapped by the Masked Priest, who demands we bring Susan Smith and the brass ship’s bell to him in Halastar’s dungeon in exchange. We have Tecpilcoatl polymorph into SS and make a bell replica and head out. We tried to destroy the real bell but it returned to us.
We find Dalden in the clutches of some lobster people, clawed undead monsters, spectators, and toothed ankle biters. The lobster people grappled J'aboc, Grasshopper, and I and dragged us under water. After a fierce battle in which we nearly lost Bolide, we prevailed. Two spectators and a couple undead fled and did not return. As the others searched the buildings in the area, two goblins approached and handed over a note from Cerebracious Dick (?) who is a beholder that regards Hergatz & Co. as its minions? The note tells us to go take over the leadership of Skullport and make it our own. We fed and watered the goblins, but blithely ignored the message.
 
Dalden’s dream: I dreamt many strange things, and my mind still recoils in horror at the recollection. One thing I can recount, I saw twins born to an elf woman. The boy and girl were treasured by their family and grew up quickly in my dream. I saw the boy gain stature and wisdom and his people saw a great hope in him. The girl was always in her brother’s shadow and over the years, something twisted inside her. It was revealed to the wise, that the twins were harbringers of something, a great change. It seemed the two were linked, or could be linked to realms beyond the mortal realm. Then the dream travels too fast for my mind to follow, there is a ritual or cataclysm or choosing, something my mind cannot fully grasp. After this, a clear picture emerges in my dream, one twin standing tall surrounded by a nimbus of pale light crowned as one of the mighty in the Fey-wild, and the other shrouded my a dark miasma ruling from a place of dread and despair in the Shadowfell. At this point in the dream my mind is shocked by a similarity between the twins and Susan Smith, something in their fates are related.