As Reginaldus watched the dreams of his citizens at night, he noticed a disturbance in two separate villages. The first was odd, but not immediately threatening. He discovered that an earthquake had opened a large fissure in the town, stretching deep into the earth. Seeing that they were going to send a messenger the next day, Reginaldus planned to anonymously ask the civil engineers how to fix a large earthquake-caused fissure so they would be more prepared. Anonymous tip-offs were Reginaldus's main way of acting on what he saw in the dreams, aside from the weekly meetings with the High Court. The fissure seemed to have unsettled the town, at a cursory glance it seemed to be quite natural if just unusual.

The second village, however, was much more worrisome. Early in the night, it was the buzz of the town that a mother and son had been taken away by some strange beast and that a group of men had gone off after the beast. Probing the mind of the farmer who actually saw the event, he managed to deduce that this beast was some horrifying mangled combination of flesh and limbs, although the details were blurred by fear and horror. Then, later in the night, 6 more souls joined the people sleeping in the village, and these confirmed the fears that something was terribly wrong. They were the men who had gone out to hunt down the beast, and they found that there were more of them in a grotesque grotto of flesh and death, which was much too dangerous and horrible for them to fight on their own.

Reginaldus woke immediately after getting all information he could. Something horrible had emerged near that village, inside his domain. Some vile [i]thing[/i] was threatening the security of his kingdom. He would have to send a military patrol out to gauge the situation more accurately, and thus determine how to eliminate this threat. Reginaldus could not allow such threats to unravel his brilliantly organised kingdom.