A Letter to Alura

To the knowledgeable Alura,

I am writing you with some questions that I have not the faculty to investigate with the rigor that they deserve. By way of context, I would like to outline the following:

1. Together with several of my students, we were contracted by the local mining company to investigate issues with personnel being killed inside of a mine.
2. In route to the mine, we took a boat and slept in the open. While sleeping, we began to notice the stars were moving. Typically, these stars were in one part of the sky and seemingly “moved” from their location in the Western Sky and then reappeared (apparently the same star?) in the Eastern Sky. There seems to be a single spot in the sky that they disappear from and they reappear in some sort of random pattern.
3. I have asked a number of residents in town to record the comings and goings of the stars. In the next couple weeks, I should have some sort of dataset to orient myself with.

Next, inside of the mines, we found what seems to be an alter to the deity or demon or figure called, “Dagon.”

This alter was populated by a number of creatures that seemed to be trying to open some sort of portal through which this creature would apparently enter this dimension.

The alter within the mine was also protected or the residents had disturbed a race of creatures that resembled large ants. These ants attempted to either block us from or were driven from that alter. Upon entering the alter, we did not see them again.

The alter itself was filled with a number of images depicting some sort of flooding-type event. We found a staff that seems to called, “Dagon’s Reach” which is filled with what seems to be a spherical object that resembles the one in my chest.

Within the mines was also some sort of indentation that resembled what I would call the tooth of a shark. This makes sense as the Sahaguin-like imagery inside and around the temple seems to be very ocean-inspired.

Interestingly, many of the miners seem to have been part of a group that was uncovering the alter. They also seemed to have signed their lives away on magic-bound contracts that would result in their untimely deaths had they revealed what they saw there. I am unsure if these miners were killed by the ants or whatever lived in the alter.

Finally, this group of companions and I are headed toward what I like to think of home. Where I was found is rumored to have had recent activity and new lights have been seen in the area. We are stopping by some sort of alter-like site to investigate the claims of a beaten and bloody individual. It is on the way to my home and so I am anxious to get that over with in order to see if anything else has awoken in my home.

I remain your faithful servant and student,

Sincerely,

He who others call Travis.