At the sound of the soldiers coming down the alley, Gronk orders the rest of the party up through the roof hatch to flee, taking the magic device from Vernon in an attempt to provide a distraction. They flee across the rooftops of the slums, noting an entire company...
In light of the information from the mysterious woman, the party decides to move straight to the University of Invention in the middle of the night and attempt to interrogate Bubblesneezer about Corky. Poppy scales the tower and drops a line, Gronk folows, but...
The party, sans Moriel and Poppy, converge on a spot in a busy marketplace and observe an entire neighborhood street in Penshin completely deserted. A beggar in the street makes an enigmatic mention of how "she isn't a goddess, just an obscenely powerful woman" and...
The party spends their first evening in Penshin attempting to gather intelligence from around town. Diego and Banagher visit an upscale supper club (though Diego steps out for nearly two hours without remark), Alton and Vladimir a working-class tavern, and Moriel and...
The party works out the details of hitching the team to the carriage and gets on their way. A few miles down the road, the carriage comes to a roadblock manned by three Peacekeepers and a High Strangler, using their spare time to torment Chumley, the erudite...
After a brief gathering in Alton's quarters, the party rests for the evening and gathers for breakfast with the leaders of the Riverton underground. In attendance are Peruppi Dentkettle-Stoutfoot, the halfling folk hero Harfur Stoutfoot, druid Jacob Dain, and the...
The party patches up Poppy as best they can. Gronk finds a mithril medallion on Warder Joseph bearing the symbol of the Knights Leopold - the order of knights sworn to protect the human emperor. Continuing alone through the caves, they pass through what appears to be...
A brief investigation of the site of the explosion makes it clear that it was a deliberate act, requiring the transfer of a number of powder kegs from the protected magazine at the back of the warehouse. It would appear that Futz, Itchy, or both were the intended...
Late in the evening of Xander's funerary service, Diego is attacked by a Guild assassin while returning from the latrines. He dispatches the foe, barely surviving the encounter, and discovers the assassin was sent by one Count Rocheleau - the same Penshinite merchant...