Synopsis:

• Party returns to Humble Mead inn to learn Orynn has not returned
• Party meets up with Twig at Statue of Doom
• Twig explains that he and Hodgins Verathan were investigating Theo Salma
• Party learns that Hodgins snuck into Doom’s estate the night before and has not returned.
• Under cover of night, party sneaks into Doom’s estate
• They find a room full of maps with figures of the emblems of the lords visiting Darkwell
• In the dungeon, past the secret door in the library, they find the slain bodies of Hodgins Verathan and Louis Orion.
• They escape with Hodgins’s body and bury him.

• Party sneaks into Iados Terror’s magic school through the roof.
• Within the tower the party cannot get past some magically locked doors.
• Mithos transforms into a bug to go under the crack of the door
• He forces a dwarf inside to open the locked door who gets immediately killed by Twig
• Other wizard students rush the stairs after hearing the dwarf’s cry
• The party fights off a group of students including the previously encountered senior student
• During the fight, Mithos sneaks under yet another magically locked door
• Mithos walks through a bed chamber (taking some robes with him) and a magic experimentation room before reaching the tower roof
• On the roof’s floor is marked a teleportation circle
• Stepping through a tear in space, Iados Terror himself suddenly appears on top of the tower.