While visiting Lonelywood on the 12th of Chas, the Sewer-side Squad hears of a brilliant falling star from a tenday prior (on the night of the 1st of Ches). A streak of light slashed across the sky, followed by a great rushing noise and boom. The group estimates from the reports that it landed to the northeast, in the general direction of, but perhaps eastward of, Revel's End.
In conversations later in Termalaine, the town's seer - in fact the one insisting Dzaan a deceiver (see Hostage King), adds that she has felt a pulsing psychic wave about once an hour following that night. She asked around some of the other psychic seers of Ten Towns, and some of them sent back confirmation they too have felt this - Telvaster of Lonelywood even experiencing terrifying nightmares of strange creatures after several days had passed.
These Ten-Towner-seers are briefly described below, having agreed to meet in Termalaine on the first day of what would be Spring (19th of Ches) to figure out what to do about the disturbances.
- Vedda Starsprit, a frail 30-year-old seer with severe exotropia (opposite of crossed eyes) who does fortune-telling and advises leaders in the town of Termalaine
- Nars Beldrun, a tall, heavyset, 33-year-old shipwright from Targos who complains about everything
- Telvaster Hangingbell, a 25-year-old man from a well-off merchant family in Neverwinter, looking to escape his responsibilities by hiding out in Lonelywood
- Kaska Lang, a 30-year-old author writing a mystery novel about a series of fictional murders in Ten-Towns, residing in Bremen
The meeting is delayed by the Dzaan matter, as Vedda Starsprit is obsessed with the matter.
Result
On the 20th of Ches, the party sets out to investigate this for an offered 300gp reward from the fortune tellers.
(See: Brain Freeze)