Working and studying at the The Black Abby,   Dr. Dick Dante was called out by the Sisters of St. Herne.   After mastering the presdigitation, it was time for him to have a real mystical experience.   They say that every aspiring magician needs to have one. 
   Sister Minerva and Sister Hermia explained to Dante that he needed to speak to Moldy Mary.   After his initial laugher subsided,  Dante realized that Moldy Mary was real and that was, indeed, her name.   She was to be found wading in the waters on the eastern shores of the Waldron River, by the temple of Mithras.   This was all the direction given to Dante.
   Dick went about asking where the River Waldron could be found.   After three days of research in as many libraries,  by a stroke of luck, Dante found a book on London's Lost Rivers.   
    It seems that many rivers in London have been paved over and flow under the streets often to be used as sewers.  The Waldron is one of those rivers.   Finding the Temple of Mithras in the very same book,  Dante found it to be under a pub called the Slug and Lettuce.
   Off  to the pub he went.
    While in the pub, Dante was hit.  He treated Edna the owner's goiter and arthritic leg.  He convinced Smelly Joe to get his gangrene treated at the local hospital, and he even put some suave in Nigel, the bartender's eye.   Dante was a big hit, except with Nigel, who was giving him the stink eye.
   He asked about the lost river, explaining he was interested in  ancient things now lost in London.  Nigel took him to the wine cellar and behind the stairs showed him a door that he had not opened in 30 years.  He said that it leads to the sewers and the place smells with the door shut.   Using his charm,  he talked Nigel into finding the key and together they pried the door open.
    Dante explored the underground river, which was just a trickle at this point, for a few hours.
   He stopped when he found an arm holding a spear.  He soon realized that it was part of a statue that was buried.   He started to uncover it when he smelled brine and seaweed.  He turned to find himself face to face with the scariest woman he had ever met.  Her skin was phosphorescent green. Her eyes were yellow and red.  Her hair was matted and looked more plant like than like regular hair.   She was dressed in a hooded cloak of moldy black.   
  He had found Moldy Mary.
     Dante handed Mary an envelop the sisters had given him.   It was labeled the St. Elizabeth Orphanage.    Mary was impressed with Dante, no one else had ever given her payment up front.  She took this as a token of trust.  She then told him that Merlin gave him back his own blood that night when he forced his arm into his mouth.  Dante was surprised by this revelation.  He thought he got Merlin's blood in him.  The idea that Merlin didn't want Dante's blood in his veins never occurred to him.  Dante explained that the sisters told him she would show him something mystical.   She ordered him to scrap the red rust like mold from the buried statue and boil it in a pot.
He did.
   When she said it was done,  she had him taste a spoonful.   To Dante's credit, he didn't winch, gag or vomit.   
   Then it all went weird.

  He experienced four visions.

The first vision was of two knights battling.   One was older, the other young.  The young one called the older father and said it was the natural order.  That winter gives way to spring, that night gives way to day.   They fought until they both lay down dying.   The older laughed and said that the land would now be without a king as death had claimed them both.
 
  The second vision was a very singular one.   In it the sky radiated with a blue light.  Above were two moons in a black, starry sky.   One moon had a purple sigil that pulsed and gave this place is bluish shine.   The plain was full of hovering creatures.  They had jellyfish like heads, lobster like bodies and enormous wings that didn't seem to hold them aloft, yet somehow they did.   They all scattered when, from below,  a huge creature emerged from a crater and grabbed at a few of these flying creatures  with great tentacles.  It caught a few and receded down into the deep.  The creatures then returned and resumed their chanting.

The third vision was of a woman giving birth.  She was surrounded by midwives.   When the boy was born one of the midwives said to kill it.   The mother pleaded saying no one would ever know who he is. That she would keep his birth a secret.   One of the midwives whispered something in her ear.  Dante couldn't hear it.

The fourth vision was of the Eye of Creation.

For hours Dante giggled and foamed while his mind expanded with his visions.   When he came to, he was alone and he realized that he had tried to take his pants off over his head.  He was cold, and filthy.   At this point a man in a gasmask attacked him.

Dante tried to fight, but hunger, fatigue and a lifetime of being a wuss hampered him. He was beaten into the mud and knocked out. 
    He came to in a bed in the Slug and Lettuce.  Dirty Eddie, a dwarf, went to look for him and chased away the Gasman, a person responsible for many attacks in London.   Eddie said he was lucky as the Gasman usually kills those he attacks. 
   Something the Gasman said made Dante think it was more than a random thing.  He said that he doesn't deserve it and he and his line should be severed.   
   Dirty Eddied revealed himself to be not a human dwarf, but a dwarf dwarf.  A creature that lives under the ground and makes weapons for gods kind of dwarf.  Eddie said that the Slug and Lettuce is one of the last Free Inns left in England.       Then he told him to back to the Black Abby.
   While he was there, he told the sisters all he experienced.  They cast a divination on him, and they screamed with horror.     Then they saw men gathering out side with black raven feathers.  They were filled with panic.
    They debated what to do, and decided to get Dante to flee.  They asked Sister Tess to open a door to the Dragon's Corridor.    They urged Dante not to speak when inside and to never stray from the path.  Sister Tess and Dante went into the magically summoned doorway and into a hot dry world of ash and stone columns.  Putting her finger to her mouth to plead Dante for silence they ran on an ashy pathway for a few hours.   They found an orange stone column that she used a dagger to carve a door way with.  They pried it open and emerged in Dante's Los Angeles bedroom.    Needless to say, Dante was taken back by the experience.

Since I am doing a bunch of re reading of Old Threads I am bringing this up for Dick.

The First vision was Arthur and Modred fighting to their own Mutual deaths.

The second one was from Pluto? I believe. The Sigil is a letter of The language of Creation. Unfortunately try as he might Dick cannot remember exactly what it looks like. Maybe if he takes a trip without his body soon He may see it again.

Third vision was probably his great great great etc, Grand Mother giving birth to Modreds Child.  Dick is descended from Arthur and Moded. Yep, that makes him the rightful Heir to the throne. The whiperred words are still a Mystery.

The Eye of Creation. Well that everyone knows, Right????