There's no force in the multiverse that could have stopped Ford from reading that note, but it's nice to have the encouragement all the same. And such an interesting sort of encouragement, too! It's a good thing it's already in his journal; now he doesn't have to put any thought into how he can keep it for further study.

So he turns the journal enough to read the note, realizing with growing fascination that he doesn't have the faintest idea what it's talking about. He knows plenty of the terms, of course, and the concept of a phylactery registers even though the word itself isn't used. It's also clear that this is information being written about someone that is, at the very least, a potential threat, if not an outright enemy. He has absolutely zero context for what he just read, however, and no idea how to go about getting more.

"I don't suppose this archlich is here, is he?"