The group arrives in the City of Amissa Aestate with their prisoner in tow, and with the help of the eladrin woman they traveled with, are able to discreetly dispose of him. After that the rendevouz with Calliope and Penelope at the Lepidoptera Bar. Cal challenges their ability to gather information and remain stealthy with a game, then requests aid in calming down a racoon she found. In the morning, she tells them that they obviously can’t make any progress towards rescuing Slender until they learn where he is being kept. She also confronts Stabby over his objective, and extends a show of faith by providing him a location that he can use to begin his search.
The group makes their way towards the market in the center of town where Dreamer finds Yua Bellowgale working as a botanist. She agrees to help them quell the angry dryad, but won’t do it without the help of the adventuring party first. She tells them that she recently purchased a house that is incredibly haunted, so she wants them to clear it out before she even thinks about moving into it. After they buy some fine clothing and masquerade masks, they continue looking for where Slender is being kept.
After overhearing a conversation of some guards keeping people out of a “Forbidden Palace” they try to find a way to gain access. The guard notices that Dreamer is a holy person, so asks for help with a wedding between himself and two squirrels. As they do it, he allows the others to slip inside and began going through the palace. They discover that it belonged to Etheria Dawnsong, an oracle that lived in the Turinth Vale that was dying to an unknown illness. The find a ritual site where someone had tried and failed to ascend to godhood in the palace, and it seemed that Etheria was investigating a location called Mining site 12: “Vorskald.”
After looting the palace, they return back to the bar to tell Calliope and Penelope what they found. The following morning, Calliope slides a note under their doors to inform them that Cassian Grimlock is having a gala in 3 days.