wrote:
To all concerned,
A massive disturbance occurred in the city late afternoon yesterday when an especially large illithid nautilus class spelljammer warped into the skies just between the Ladies Ward and Great Bazaar. The ship was damaged, and promptly came crashing down, destroying a residential block on impact. A large party of planewalkers and I hurried over to investigate. Outside we found a single injured illithid who, after much coercing, finally admitted that Sigil was the ships destination, but that they were attacked by githyanki pirates on the other side. Further questioning and attempts to remove him from the scene led to his attacking the group, which in turn had us incapacitating him (he should still live however). Following this, the Harmonium finally rallied to the scene. While they secured the outside, we breached the hull and entered the vessel.
Describing the inside of this alien vessel would take up a research paper of its own, so I'll skip to the mission specific revelations.
First and foremost; we discovered a very large cache' of Mnemur scrolls scattered through out the ship. It is obvious that this was the primary cargo, as one of our companions- a vampire named Brynn- peered into some kind of mind stone on board and received visions of a location in Undersigil, supposedly filled with tentacles and the repetition of the word "mnemur". This ties in with the presence of a self-proclaimed seer from a few days back who had warned of some kind of impending event involving those mysterious scrolls.
More disturbingly, we found a passage leading from the damaged ship down into Undersigil. Some of the crew seem to have escaped. Whether they took with them the reagents for some ritual or simply escaped remains to be seen, though the planewalkers and I are planning to follow up on this lead as soon as we have recovered from our exposure to the vessels psionic frequencies.
During our exploration, we came upon several hundred pods, 25% of which held still living humanoid prisoners, whom we freed. These people remained unconscious, but are currently in the Harmoniums hands and will hopefully recover soon.
We also discovered a lone female githyanki prisoner. She was.... less than cooperative, but professed that the illithids had been acting especially strange,even for their kind. To what extend she means remains to be seen (she is in Harmonium hands), though the suggestion was that they appeared almost possessed and dazed.
The arrival of this ship has caused a massive stir in the city, and most of us who are in possession of a number of these mnemur scrolls have felt the disturbance either in dreams or some other manner. As such, I strongly advise all within our Order to avoid channeling these scrolls if they are in your possession. Further, I'd ask that anyone maintaining a collection of them come and speak with me as soon as possible so that we can take a final count for how many are within our factions possession, and figure out what to do with them before this new enemy attempts to compromise them further.
- Justice Dace Andor
NOTE: In case there was any question, it was my order that had those units dispatched from the prison to assist with re-securing the block and evacuating the wounded civilians.
