Quertus tries out his new Scrying spell in the Inverted Tower's scrying room.
He is unable to scry upon Narcelia.
Trying for Menzoberanzan, Quertus is much more successful. The buildings of the city seems to have recovered from the slave revolt, but there is much commotion in the city.
One of the Major Houses on the Ruling Council, House Agrach Dyrr, seems to be under siege from several of the other houses on the Ruling Council, including House Baenre and House Barrison del Armgo.
Fierce Battles rage in the stone caverns surrounding Menzoberanzan, as drow defenders battle Gray Dwarves from Gracklstugh and an army of half-fiends.
Trying to scry upon another drow city, Quertus focuses on the city of Shimmering Webs, Ched Nassad. At first, he thinks that protection spells have re-directed his scrying, for all he sees is an empty stone cavern. Then he realizes that there are bits and pieces of rubble at the bottom of the chasm and that he is looking at Ched Nassad. The city has been completely destroyed; all of the great webs that suspended the city in the chasm are gone. Quertus does not know what sort of spell could have destroyed a entire drow city, but whatever it was, must have been very thorough. Not one building remains intact in the great cavern of Ched Nassad. The only creatures in sight are kobolds looting the rubble at the bottom of the chasm.