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In the seedy town of Llorkh, Neville accepts a job to try to steal an ornate sarcophagus from an embalming house run by the Grave Men, a group of smugglers. Flip, Kain, and Lysander accompany him to surveil the place, but first they tangle with a bunch of dancing beggars led by a piper with an unusual head. Once there, Lysander gets drunk on addictive hyacinth wine, then he and Neville infiltrate; but Lysander blows up the front room with Shatter and kills a smuggler, so they flee into the night, pursued by a strange skeleton-man. The following day, they come disguised first as town watch, then later as bounty-hunters with Lysander in tow. While Lysander is in the attic getting harshly questioned by the skeleton man Chakkralka, Flip and Neville find the sarcophagus in the basement and manage to escape with it. Lysander and Kain escape by jumping out a window, and Flip finally gets a wild magic surge while casting Feather Fall on Lysander. Based on the DCC Lankhmar adventure "Grave Matters" by Michael Curtis.

VS leads the caravan this session, with Ibin the Scorcher and Eero the goliath monk. They buy some mead, sheep, and pigs in Llorkh, then head eastward out of town towards Dragonfang. They pay off a Zhent patrol, hear about Axebeak Falls from some hunters, battle a troll trying to steal a pig, buy an Axebeak mount for VS to train up, learn the location of the Abbey of the Broken Blade, but end up going to Dragonfang, where they resupply the dwarven party who has been living there over the winter.

Eero, Zaza, and VS hear rumors about the Monastery of the Broken Blade (from itinerant mendicant Brother Aerelm), the Black Cats reactions to being blamed for the (other PC's) heist (from aspiring fixer Narder), and something about the Black Network emptying some warehouses (from fish broker Vinchenziana Moory). In the Llodown neighborhood they stumble across some ghouls and get into a fight - Eero goes down multiple times but VS saves him multiple times, which Eero attributes to the favor of battle-god Tempus. They seek out Lord Harrand Tormblade, a patron of the Abbey of the Broken Blade, who gives them a consignment of weapons to deliver to the Abbey. On the way back, they encounter crazed hermit-priest Dintoven of Waukeen digging in a garbage heap, which VS and Zaza eagerly help him with. VS recovers his cursed tongue and is praised for his service to Waukeen, accidentally discovering that he is a vessel of divine will for the second time that day.

Neville Cavendish puts together a crew for a heist, featuring Flip, Kain, Brimlad the Brawler, and the return of Lysander. A Goliath gang leader sends them on a city-wide scavenger hunt before taking them to Grathka Stonevein, who wants an important ceremonial ledger stolen from the Black Network. She has them meet up with her inside source and a strange wizard to aid their preparations. During the heist, a huge stone colossus rises up from a magical circle to do battle against the party. Narrowly escaping with their loot, the party help stage a scene to blame the crime on some of the guards and on a rival adventuring party, the Black Cats.

New Party! While the dwarves who took Dragonfang Mountain recover, we meet the Caravan Crew: dwarven arcane brothers Obin the Fortress and Ibin the Scorcher, VS the shifter spore druid, Eero the goliath monk, and the return of ZaZa the goblin rogue, who once served a nixie for a year and has the gills to prove it. They're taking some mules loaded up with iron, steel, and leather from Llorkh up into the mountains in winter, delivering to Runedarth. Along the way, they hear possible fire beetles in the hills, encounter a tannery where they buy more leather and learn about several surrounding hexes, VS makes friends with Petunia the giant goat, and they make their way past Sapphire Falls to arrive safely at Runedarth.