Down in the Depths

You each step through the portal, and as you do, you seem to be spun in a circle, as if you were caught in a whirlpool. You spin, and as you spin, it is as if the surroundings stretch below you, until you don't see the cavern anymore. After about 20 seconds of this disorienting spinning, the spinning begins to coalesce, as you feel your weight shift from a weightlessness back to standing on solid ground. As the weight shifts, you each take one knee, and a loud sound emanates from your space, like that of a sonic boom.

You find yourselves in a somewhat ethereal place, and you all look at each other and see yourselves as translucent vestiges of yourselves. Your surroundings seem to be in the dim light of darkvision (grayscale colors), but you can see the distances as if it were day.

You are standing in a teleportation circle on the floor, which is located at the bottom of a 6-foot trench.

You peak out of the trench, and you see a network of trenches like this one, but whereas yours seems abandoned, those trenches hold angels, spectral conscripts, and sword wraiths, looking ahead at other trenches that house various demons, devils, other conscripts, and other sword wraiths. There are massive banners of either side and you see and hear enemy arrows, magic missiles, and other energy blasts zooming out around in your direction before you duck back down.

The trench leads in one direction (you're not sure which way is north yet), and then sort of veers, but in the distance you see a huge city, rivaling the size of Sharn, in that direction. Unlike Sharn, this city has been weathered and impacted by the war that rages outside of it.

After taking in all of this sensory information, you all notice Battlecat sniffing and paying attention to a strange coin on the ground (it is the size of a US quarter).

Those who hold the coin feel an ever-so-slight tug upward.

Each of you that handle the coin look up in the sky, and you see the moon Vult in the sky (about the half the size of Earth's moon in the sky), Eberron (a lush green and blue planet with a ring of asteroids and gaseous matter surrounding it, about the size of Earth's moon in the sky), but none of the other celestial bodies that you know should surround Eberron. And you see, pretty large in the sky, the strange celestial body in the sky (about twice the size of Earth's moon in the sky).

Alin does not glean anything religiously from the coin; on the back, though, is one of the signs of the Traveler.

You hear some strange resonance, emanating from Battlecat, almost like feedback from a radio, but it is the voice of Krynn.

"Hey guys! Gan you hear me? You need to go the City of Knives. There is a vantage point that is high enough to get a good look at the celestial body.

"It's called the Tower of the Arcane."

The transmissions cuts out there.

As you travel through the trench, you see that the trenches have been dug in such a way that they connect to other trenches. You see the images of soldiers from various ages of your world, some wearing armors you recognize (but all spectral), and others wearing armors you have not seen in your lifetimes.


You come across a deva in the trenches, wearing resplendent armor. He looks at you all and says, "You are not from this world, are you? What are you doing here?"