Finally, you have reached the Blacksplinter Peak, on the Eve of Phollollo, when the Moon is near to the Earth. As rumored, waiting for you here is the Seer, the legendary prophet who appears here but once a year on this very night. Lowering his cavernous hood and revealing a face without eyes, the Seer speaks to you in a booming voice.

"At great risk to yourselves you have sought my wisdom and I shall impart it to you with glee, for little do you know that the vision of the spirits is not a blessing, but a deadly curse.

You must span the mighty Spitmede across the Blackaxe Bridge, wade the Deathslick Moor and enter the forgotten Oozeden Keep. If you survive these trials, in the depths of the Keep, below the Altar of Tsathoggua, you will enter the ancient Wormslide, remnants of the work of the Gods of Crawling Things. If you successfully navigate the worm-gnawed labyrinth, you will find the Great Iron Port and beyond, the Crypt of the Lost Emperor.

Within the Crypt, my sight is dim. There will be deathly challenges around every corner and horrors beyond imagining. Evil things lying in wait for untold ages to feed on warm flesh. Deathly cold and searing heat and finally, in the deepest, best guarded chamber... The Jade Crane of Hulish-zha, wrought from a shed fang of Rsha, That Which Feeds on Stars.

Set forth to reclaim this Legendary Artifact and return it to the Surface World. If you survive and return bearing the Jade Crane, untold power will be yours, enough to dethrone the Gods themselves.

Now go quickly, for this much is certain: Having heard the vision of the spirits, you have but until the height of the next full moon to complete your journey, or you will perish. Begone!"

And with that the form of the Seer dissolves into fleeting shadows and echoing laughter, leaving you alone atop Blacksplinter Peak, with, if the prophecy is true, but two weeks left to live.