A local antiquities professor begins receiving mysterious communications from an unknown source. He believes these messages are tied to his decades long search for a famous and long-lost artifact, a mysterious book entitled "The Portal of Pythagorus". The book is said to contain Pythagorus' great and highly potent spiritual teaching. Rumor has it that the book holds a magic which is mostly lost on planet earth in the present day. What is this magic and why might it be appearing at this time?