The Head That Glows is Key

The party was able to decipher the coded dots into IF YOU WANT TO FOLLOW ME THE HEAD THAT GLOWS IS KEY. To find the head that glows, Beckett put out all of the candles and braziers in the art room. A single metal skull in a cluster of them was glowing a dull red. We detected there was magic in the area but did not see any runes or sigils carved into it. Rivvikyn offered to pick it up and confirmed it was metallic. The skull was hollow and somewhat decorative. Turning it over he saw an inscription on the inside that read, “Poke out my eyes and ring the bell.” Beckett tried slapping it gently with his hand inside of it and it made a faint ringing noise, but nothing else happened. After several attempts, Amos took it from him, hung it from his fingers via the eye sockets, and smacked it with a crowbar.

The skull rung loudly and after a second it's mouth opened so a beam of light could shine out of it, opening a portal. We step through it and come out in a dark place with a tower ahead of us containing lots of moon symbols.