Welcome to Gaia! ::

As you return to your master's home, your stomach feels queezyy, and for a second, your knees feel so weak you nearly collapse. Its as if the magic in this area had suddenly shifted to be right below your feet. It was quite unlike anything ever felt, even in the presence of your masters more powerful spells.

"So you finally felt it too? I've felt the same thing since we've been here. You do your master proud with that kind of sensitivity. Now that you can sense it, you can serve me more appropriately. As you become more accustomed to the attention, it won't make you feel so ill."
Just some quick background, you guys were brought here about 2 years ago by captain spitz, struck a treaty w/ Tempesti to work here, but you've never been clear w/ what exactly drew your master here other than the ruins that possibly houses a variety of undead.

"Now that you can sense it. We can find it. This is the one creature in all of existence to cheat death this long. It is not a necromancer, nor a liche, from my knowledge, Im here on the part of my colleagues to study and possibly learn to manipulate this magic. What you actually felt earlier was its attention. It is that potent that it may turn its attention in a direction. Me as well as some of my colleagues could sense this oceans away and I took up this task. I have used this sense to pinpoint this islands crater as the location of the being, but the crater is projected to reach into the underdark, and the hive of ettins and their sheer numbers make it difficult to pass.

"The learning curve in life is much sharper than in undeath. Im not ready to have you throw that opportunity away journeying through the hive just yet. You have to know that the further you go, the stronger the ettercaps become. There exist larger more elite predators than the ettercaps. The being seems to have taken great precautions in creating obstacles. I have all forseen this with the eye."

you know the eye is literally an undead eye that your master can send out to give him a scrying ability.

A smile can be seen through the bone mask he wears. "Your enthusiasm is good, I have not had a pupil with such ambition. But you must realize that we deal with much unpredictability. I tell you what. In a few days, I will send you on a bit of a journey, give you a fleeting taste of what your up against."

You hear a rumble in the sky. Likely Tempesti, the gaurdian of this island. He's always around, and now you understand that he was just one more obstacle your master had to overcome in this pursuit.

As the sun starts to creep over the horizon, your master tells you to burn this oily incense in your room all day while you sleep. He explains that the constant, fairly repetative breathing of your sleep is necessary for this excercise, but cautions you, light only when you are sure that you will be asleep w/ in the hour.

You sleep restlessly, your sleep haunted with ghostly nightmares. In the morning you awake, only able to prepare half as many spells as normal. Some things different about your vision as well, like your peripheral vision is foggier or something.

You see your master talking to telvort. You know that Telvort is one of your masters ghostly minions, but you normally can't see him w/o a spell, and in those instances, he wasn't so vivid.
"Telvort here will take you around the island, give you a better understanding of the sight I have bestown upon you. Understand?"