A King's agent, Femira the Grey(T-6), joins as Party needs a guide and some inside information. (and the King's people want someone to keep an eye on Party...)

Around now, it is strongly suggested to Ancalidon that the ethics of this mission will likely compromise his own, so Ancalidon leaves, but stays in sporadic psyonic contact.

Femira points Party at a suspicious ship anchored in harbour, so Dharmastin and Dior pick up Araglas and Dezler (all invisible) and simply walk across the bay to reach it; both have devices of water-walking.

Find a crewman tied to mast; Dior cuts him free and he bolts, resulting confusion provides distraction while Party search ship and leave with a pile of papers.

Back to holding area to report; papers provide wealth of information including link to Carrick Island and hard evidence of Shining Band's duplicity regarding their "recruitment" of over 100 young adventurers 18 months ago, prove none left alive except those few already known to Party.  Find mention of campaign of discredit against Throy, Pearl, Calion, Llandreesa, etc.

Papers indicate in-town base as "Fishermens' North Warehouse"; spies impressed as all their information had pointed to the South warehouse.

Using various distractions, Party does a walk-by investigation of warehouse, then goes in pretending to buy fish.  Dharmastin blows Party's cover by saying they are actually adventurers; warehouse operator immediately tries to capture Party, and Party barely survives a messy combat including a spectacular Araglas fumble into a (fortunately-empty) street.

Dezler has to be rushed to a temple after this as he has been poisoned, but he survives.

Ancalidon checks in, passes news on to "B" party and stays in closer touch at their request.

Long argument as to whether this Party should remain part of the Enterprise Company; they decide not to but cannot think of a better name, thus nothing changes.

Femira brings in a new recruit: Akasha(I-4) joins.

Spies and Party decide Party should go to supposedly-deserted Carrick Island and find out what's there;

Arrive at island; greeted by 6 men with crossbows charging down path, Akasha announces to one and all she's about to cast an illusionary fireball at them; even with this warning one of them believes it and dies!

Dharmastin climbs cliff to haul down a couple of crossbowmen; Akasha casts Darkness on them just as he gets there, much to his annoyance.

Dior's dog Moro sent up path to chase one escaping soldier, does not return.

Dezler charms one of the men just as a ship full of slavers comes around the point; 2 fireballs sink ship.

Party goes up track and finds Moro dead; Dior starts wailing, rest of Party realize enemy have invisibility too, and a long cat-and-mouse game ensues.

Carrying a now-useless Dior, Party retreats to a clifftop lookout point, then Dharmastin walks across bay and finds a hidden harbour with a second ship full of men just leaving.

Ship comes around point; Dezler blasts it but it gets to shore, messy combat sees Majiro poisoned but Dior snaps out of it long enough to slow the effect.

Dharmastin goes briefly nuts and slays charmed captive; Dior goes fully nuts and attacks Dharmastin; an all-out brawl ensues.  Amazingly, nobody dies, though Dior to -6 and Araglas nearly falls off cliff.

Dior wakes up back to normal, everyone carries on as if nothing happened. (!)  Moro's corpse sent by ship to Riveria, causing many raised eyebrows among the sailors.

Overland to hidden harbour; find and sabotage controls to open it, then throw a pile of cages, manacles, etc. into the bay - after taking a few toys and souvenirs, of course.

Find an underground passage; meet 3 very tough warriors here.  Majiro killed, but Party wins in an upset.

Dior won't cure Araglas after this battle, so they argue for days.  Dezler spends evening making a lantern from skull of the warrior that killed Majiro.

Follow passage to a room full of caged slaves; attract attention then retreat but get chased and found by slavers, Party does well to win.  Slaves fed and watered but left in cages - the safest place - for now.

Reach main complex - an underground harbour with a ship in it - scout, retreat, camp.

Party mounts a full-scale invasion of slavers' complex:
 o Darkness, fog, webs and smoke ruin visibility;
 o Dharmastin and Dior both flee in terror during combat thus aren't much use;
 o Take out about 50 slavers including a MU-8/A-8 but leave a dozen or so alive hiding on ship.

Ondansetron killed by exploding rune on book just after battle ends.

Slavers bolt from ship; Party boards and searches, finds lots of loot including some rum which Dharmastin happily gets into.

Release the caged slaves.  Brogmac(F-4) joins now and helps out; Taralassa(T-3) and Scoria One-Armed(F-6) join as well but do little for rest of this adventure.

Remaining slavers have retaken ship; they try a foray against Party but are turned back, Party holes up.

Several hours later, Party goes to retake ship and finds it and all the slavers gone; water-walking to outside finds ship a mile or more away and receding fast.  Party and ex-slaves leave.

Edwin reaches Zarim and puts his case before the rulers there; they agree, and send diplomats to Riveria.

About now, Ancalidon realizes he's made himself a little unwelcome, so Ancalidon retires.  Dezler, Scoria, and Taralassa leave to form their own little party.

Party invited to a ball thrown in their honour by King Richard.  As reward, he releases Company from the nation's skay tax on adventurers.  Pearl, Throy and Mrikle here from "B" party (they happened to be in town) and are happy to hear this.

During ball, Brogmac stays at Party's inn and rebuffs an attempted break-in by Perry, who ends up in jail.

Richard pulls Party aside for a private audience, explains Dwarven situation, and asks if Party is willing to do him another favour.  They agree, and mission is explained by an aide. (see background above)

Party takes Richard to meet Chiron, who is safely hidden in the Loki temple; Richard quite impressed.

Party meets a caravan during night and finds out there is a big reward for some of them in Waterdeep; soon becomes obvious this has to do with the escaped slavers.

Brand Burlock(F-0) joins as hench to Dharmastin, then to whole Party once Dharmastin remembers he's not allowed to have henches!  Dharmastin still gives him a +1 longsword, however.

Darby O'Malley(MU-4) joins.

That night, get attacked by 5 Bugbears; trivially easy combat except Darby uses ventriloquism to make one seem still alive, so Party flays it to -56 h.p. before clueing in.

Reach complex, take out a guardian Ogre, and wade in slaying everything in their path; a rare moment of mercy sees Party spare some non-combatant Goblins.

Chiron's first experience with stairs goes surprisingly well; this would fortunately become a trend.

A very strange banquet hall with unkillable undead servants provides hours of entertainment.

An illusionary Dragon is nowhere near as much fun, but Party prevails and makes good lots of ground.

Araglas shoots Darby "just to shut him up" but it doesn't work.

Find an underground lake with a half-insane old man sitting by a beachside cabin grumbling about wolves. Araglas, Dharmastin and Dior chat with him; all goes well until Akasha tries to break into his cabin - and disappears. (actually, the old man has teleported her to the surface; she would try and get back down to the Party by herself, run into some Zombies, and die: Akasha killed.  Party doesn't find her for days.)

Somewhen around now, Dharmastin finds a sword half-buried in the sand with a bunch of very odd writing on it; he keeps it. (and see below, and Swordquest)

For some inexplicable reason Party joins up with a group of Neanderthals camped along the lake.

A boat drifts ashore; Party wonders where it came from but doesn't explore.

During a battle with some Hobgoblins, Darby wanders off and gets mauled and poisoned by a Giant Spider; after much protest, Araglas uses one of her herbs and saves his life.

Party takes a Hobgoblin captive; Dharmastin gets some useful information until Glimmer sneaks up and tries to kill it.  Much infighting follows, during which Araglas defends the Hobgoblin!  After all this, the Hob. escapes a few hours later when Party completely forgets about him and leaves him behind.

A very lost Human washes ashore on the beach; Party begin to suspect there's something fishy about the lake.  Sheela-Nee, the Human, confirms this with her tale of being very elsewhere just moments ago, and not knowing what else to do with her the Party take her in.

Find another banquet hall much like the one above.

Find another Dragon not at all like the one above; this one's real, and kills Sheela-Nee.  Party retreats, tries to leave but gets attacked by Zombies - one of which is Akasha!

Back for another go at Dragon; Party wins but Dior killed with its dying strike.

While praying for something else entirely, Yishallis gets divine intervention and raises Akasha, much to everyone's surprise.  With this, exit to surface.

Chiron, Yishallis and Dior return to a very bored Party.

Wade straight back into complex; get attacked by a Zombie Hawk, once Akasha's familiar.

With great difficulty, defeat Nakki-Nakk and his herd of Zombies.  Dior learns the futility of trying to stop a terrified Chiron in full flight, and Brogmac heroically carries the day.

Find the Hammer they're here for, along with a Helm of Telepathy and lots more loot, and leave.

Darby tries on the wrong cloak and changes gender, so Darby becomes Darcie; she doesn't mind at all.

Reach Riveria city, pass Hammer on to King Richard, and start an eventful break.

Araglas hires a hench: Vinyamar Ulworth(NrC-2) joins, and Brand is promoted to full member status.

Dior receives a message from Llandreesa seeking a meeting with Party.

Ancalidon tells Party of a psyonic mage in town looking for work, so they go and find him: Altheas Windrider(MU-3) joins.

Akasha tries to get another familiar, isn't impressed with the toad that shows up, and abandons it.

Meet with Llandreesa; the only part of this that goes the least bit well is Brogmac strikes up a friendship with her Dwarven bodyguard Gorlim Axe-In-Stone.  Llandreesa sticks around for the day, however.

Party buys 4 robes that are exact matches for the robe that changed Darby to Darcie, and leaves all 5 with the Helm temple as gifts labelled for Pearl, Throy, Calion, Kermut, and Mrikle; the one marked "Calion" is the booby prize.  (as Pearl's party did not return to Riveria, these would go unclaimed for months only to get destroyed with the temple in the Canne 756 uprising - what a waste!)

For some reason everyone gathers at Loki temple that evening, and a massive brawl erupts:
 o Darcie starts things by using ventriloquism so "Dior" insults Llandreesa;
 o Llandreesa and Dior start a heated argument, Brogmac tries to intervene;
 o Darcie charms Dior to settle her down but Araglas sees Darcie doing this;
 o Araglas draws sword and charges Darcie, Darcie pulls out a wand of magic negation from last treasury and shoots Araglas with it, immediately disenchanting almost 50,000 g.p. worth of her possessions;
 o Araglas goes berserk, Brogmac tries again to intervene but Dior (still charmed) beats him to it and starts whaling on Araglas until gets stunned by Altheas;
 o Chiron spends the whole time running around asking people who he should clobber next, gets a different answer each time; the only person he damages is Brogmac, and that by mistake;
 o Llandreesa leaves in a huff, and things slowly come to order.  Brogmac ends up held, bruised, stunned, and tied up - all from innocently trying to keep the peace!

Altheas follows Llandreesa to her boat "to swap spells" and spends the night there.

Morning too stormy to sail so everyone to Loki temple's pleasure palace.  From DM notes: "Glimmer<=>Darcie sex. Altheas<=>Llandreesa sex. Chiron loses virginity.  Etc."

Set sail for Culavera near noon; fortunately for all, Darcie gets too seasick to start more trouble.

Darcie shoots Dior with the magic-negation wand to break the charm and, as a minor unforseen side effect, wipes out all Dior's spell points for the day.

Arrive Culavera; big argument over who leaves boat first is just about settled when Perry shows up and starts things over again.

The meeting:
 o Present: Llandreesa, Perry, Calion, Taralassa, Scoria, Andrew, Dezler, and Gorlim, along with the entire Party, a few interested locals, and Ancalidon via psyonics;
 o Llandreesa provides much information on current state of affairs; tells Party every idiot with a sword is looking for them, and that she raced to Riveria from Waterdeep just ahead of the first wave;
 o Much speculation as to what the Black Hand is really up to but nothing concrete, so some people decide to go to Waterdeep and find out; see Black Hand I for details.
 o Dharmastin, Glimmer and Brand leave to train while Akasha leaves to hide; rest of Party told to stay low for a while.  Akasha loans her Crown of Telepathy to the Waterdeep group so they can report back.

Party immediately makes inquiries as to adventure opportunities; learn of something inland.  Dezler has to stay in hiding but everyone else from his group is going to Waterdeep, so Dezler joins this Party instead.

Arrive at a clearing in forest with a large building in it, all protected by some sort of forcefield.

Experimenting with forcefield, and arguing over what to do about it, all end abruptly when Darcie negates it with her wand.  Everyone suddenly feels very uneasy.  Lots of people yell at Darcie.

Meet Dennis the groundskeeper, who refuses to believe he's a skeleton.

Find a starving Giant Rat in a shed; ethical arguments end when Throg squashes it flat.

Another conversation with Dennis is almost an exact copy of the last one.

Wade into library and start clobbering everything they meet.  Magic effects both hurt (Vinyamar at one point finds himself naked, with all his equipment on the floor around him, still in combat) and help Party (a Wraith's touch fails to drain Araglas of a level).

During night, someone runs screaming past Party's camp but can't climb a nearby cliff; Altheas and Chiron catch him and calm him down, so Khye(F-3) joins.

In morning, Dezler fireballs himself, and Throg and Chiron get injured by an explosion - all just to get the doors off the building to let some light in!

Altheas nearly killed by 2 Stirges.

Someone opens a door and lets Ghouls into Party's midst; Dior turns them away from her right into everyone else, and Throg and Dezler paralyzed before Ghouls done.  During this battle, a wild magic effect levitates Vinyamar to the ceiling; he cannot be brought down, and hovers there for nearly an hour.

A clerk in Special Collections drains Throg a level (to F-3); this gets him mad, so he does 64 h.p. damage to it in one swing.

Party line themselves up in perfect order of height - Darcie, then Dior, then Throg, then Chiron - then open a door with a Medusa behind it.  Darcie and Dior petrified but Medusa slain in seconds.  Retreat.

Dior restored by Dezler, via scroll.

Throg goes back in and recovers Medusa's corpse and possessions.

The loot proves more dangerous than its owner.  From DM notes: "Dezler goes boom.  Dior gets sneezy. Throg poisoned to Strength 2."  Party leaves Throg in shed with Dennis for rest of adventure.

For some reason the battered Party now throws caution completely to the wind, wades back into library, and crashes its way through the building slaughtering everything it meets.  This works fine until they meet Maritan, the building manager:
 o Chiron and Araglas each fail 6(!) consecutive saving throws vs. fear and run away screaming each time;
 o Wild magic effects rule the day - a wall of force appears in room (and ruins a flying carpet), a thicket of brambles appears, and so on;
 o Dezler tries a spell; it backfires and turns him into a cat, but he doesn't survive the change, so Dezler killed;
 o Dior gets a minor divine intervention to allow Chiron and Araglas to get over their fear;
 o Another spell failure generates an anvil above Brogmac's head; Brogmac killed when it lands, just as he takes out Maritan.

Back to Maritan's office to finish looting.

Araglas finds a Mirror of Opposition the hard way, gets sucked in, and loses against her own clone in a 38-round combat: Araglas killed.  Fortunately, the Mirror spits the corpse out.

Retreat to forest once more.  Araglas raised by Dior, using a scroll.  Party keeps Mirror.

An arrow thudding into a tree next to Dior's head heralds a new arrival: Grolsch(T-4) joins despite howls of protest from Dior.  He doesn't help his own cause much a few minutes later when he gets caught trying to pick Altheas' pocket; rest of day is lost in argument.

Back to library, find someone passed out on lawn, wake her up and take her in, so Chance(NtC-4) joins.

Finally reach the top floor; Araglas, Dior, Khye and Grolsch each get a chance to talk to Leng, the ancient and very powerful being whose building this is - or was.  He tells much about the curse on the place, and how to release it.

Spend whole day searching library for sub-basement but cannot find.

Khye clubs Grolsch for no particular reason at one point; everyone ignores, including Grolsch.

Chiron, Altheas and Chance have their chats with Leng.

Find sub-basement, defeat a Demon.  Grolsch closes a book and releases curse.  Everyone leaves.

Chance finds a herb and gets Throg functioning again.

Library building ages 1521 years in 2 hours and collapses; wild magic zone dissipates shortly after.

During night, assassins strike:
 o False attack goes after some of Party sleeping upstairs, alarm raised;
 o Everyone gathers downstairs where Chiron and Dior had been sleeping, except Grolsch who leaves to get help, Glimmer who is sleeping elsewhere, and Akasha who is roaming the streets outside;
 o Assassins come in the door while a Cloudkill comes in the window: Altheas, Brand, Chance and Khye all killed by the cloudkill, Throg put to sleep by a second spell, and Dharmastin poisoned (so only functioning are Araglas, Dior and Chiron);
 o Dior throws her magical lions out the window; they neutralize the spellcaster (who was about to chuck a second cloudkill in; the reward for Party says "dead or alive"...);
 o Town guard, summoned by Grolsch, arrive and assailants melt away into the night.

Party takes refuge in Kerial temple.

Dezler fails raise as he has already been reincarnated as a Faun.

Darcie restored from petrification.  Araglas begins a long and loud campaign to get paid back for all the magic possessions Darcie disenchanted during the brawl in Riveria.

Some recruits show up: Yfielim(T-4) and Yn.Nimb Levyv Frias(I-3/T-3) join.  Leave Riveria that afternoon for Waterdeep on Llandreesa's fast ship.

Go to sleep that night and enter Tel'he'ran, a quasi-real dreamworld.

Utterly disoriented, Party starts exploring.

Meet someone else wandering here: Tuomen(R-4) joins and acts as something of a guide.

Pass through a forest; Chiron steps on a concealed sleeping Green Dragon and wakes it up, amazingly it doesn't kill anyone despite being the biggest thing they've ever fought. (though Yfielim to -9)

Find out they need to find something or someone called Brilta'a'an, then sack out.

Travel to a stone circle; stones and plants behave oddly whenever someone gets near, much paranoia but no real danger.

Araglas goes into circle and disappears.  Everyone else reluctantly follows except Tuomen, who leaves.

Everyone appears in some sort of cavern except Khye and Yfielim, who are nowhere to be found.

Altheas and Yn.Nimb solve an air-based puzzle; Party realize this place is based around the four elements and they must visit each to find Brilta'a'an.

Khye and Yfielim show up half an hour later but don't think they've missed any time; much confusion.

To water.  Little problem here except Yn.Nimb almost kills Khye with a lightning bolt; a very loud argument follows.

To earth.  The only problem here is fitting Chiron through a maze of tiny passages.

To fire.  A Demon blocks the way here, and fools Brogmac into thinking his family is in danger along a clear passage ahead; this is all an illusion, and Brogmac in fact runs off a cliff into a lava pit: Brogmac killed.

Altheas somehow charms the Demon (psyonics?) and Party gets through fire.

Having visited all four elements, Party goes back to center and leaves Tel'he'ran.

Arrive Waterdeep; lots of argument about who is going where and with who, once ashore.

Llandreesa informs Altheas that she is pregnant.

Major meeting at Culavera (see Library of Leng for details) creates this Party and sets its mission.

Llandreesa brings her bodyguard along, so Gorlim Axe-In-Stone(F-5) joins.

Perry disguises himself as a Persian, incorporates Crown of Telepathy into his turban, and begins attempts to contact and infiltrate the Black Hand guild.

Scoria learns he is on a "wanted" list, so Scoria leaves to go north into hiding.

Lots of people go lots of places to find information.  Taralassa finds a "wanted" poster in a temple, offering a huge reward (1000 g.p. each) for Araglas, Dior, Dharmastin, Dezler, Brogmac, Akasha, Scoria "and others".  There is also an accurate drawing of Dior on the wall.

Perry makes contact, but with the wrong guild; it costs him 670 g.p. to get steered to the right one.

Perry reaches the Black Hand guildhouse, is able to use Crown to give people a rough idea where it is, then is put through some tests and admitted to the guild.  He is then blindfolded, led through many passages to the docks, and put on a boat for somewhere away south, for 6 months of boot-camp assassin training.  So, Perry retires, not entirely by his own choice.

On learning this, Llandreesa flips her lid while Ancalidon (en route to Waterdeep) starts psyonically calling up everyone he knows.  Party settles in to wait for reinforcements, and starts keeping an eye on guildhouse.

Part of the company's other Party show up: Mrikle, Myra and Simpson join, but seem to have lost 2/3 of a party on the way here.

Strategy meeting at Simpson's house.  Decision is to lie low for a while.

Myra regains her Bard-hood, so Myra now B-4.

After a roundabout trip from Culavera, Calion arrives in Waterdeep.  Nobody has any idea he's coming, and he has no idea how to contact people, but by sheer luck he runs into Llandreesa.  Thus, Calion joins.

By now, Party has a pretty good idea where the guildhouse is, so Myra tries a solo scouting mission.  She barely escapes with her life after tripping various alarms.  Llandreesa's impatience has driven her (and everyone else!) almost around the bend.

Party starts keeping close 24-hour watch on guildhouse but don't see much activity.

Parties merge.  Most of the characters are based at a house Llandreesa has bought for just this purpose; a few - most notably Araglas and Ancalidon - are based at Simpson's.

Yfielim and Yn.Nimb start training, to T-5 and T-4 respectively.

Scoria, who has been hiding in a village north of Waterdeep, tries to get back to town and is taken by a group of bounty hunters.

By now, it is assumed Perry's cover has been blown in the Assassin camp, as he has not been heard from in days and Ancalidon cannot raise a clear response from him.

An away team of Khrodhar, Yfielim, Khye, Yn.Nimb, Gorlim, Andrew and Mrikle go out and rescue Scoria, so Scoria joins when they bring him back to town.

Watchers at guildhouse are completely surprised when familiar people start appearing in a nearby dark rainy courtyard: Throy, Pearl, Drogo, S'nel'be, Fulvin and Grolsch all join, having just teleported from Dafan.  Rest of night and all of next day spent debriefing.  (Aimbitlooa and Nadii also arrive, but immediately head off elsewhere and retire)

Mount an assault on guildhouse at last and encounter surprisingly little resistance, but Taralassa killed by one of the few Assassins present.  Assassins captured and taken back to Llandreesa's house.

Bounty hunters mount a major assault against Llandreesa's house, sparking a loud and messy battle in the suburban street. (while most thought this to be the Black Hand's doing as reprisal for entering guildhouse, it was in fact a planned attack by an independent group. The timing was pure coincidence.)

More arrivals: Dharmastin, Darcie, Throg, Chance and Glimmer join, having walked down from Riveria. (as this assault was mostly Dharmastin's idea in the first place, he absorbs some teasing for being so late)

Now numbering about 30, Party goes back to guildhouse and completely ransacks the place, impeded only by a few traps.  They find little, but trigger a sarcastic message from the guild leader advising that while they have been chasing shadows in Waterdeep the Black Hand have just taken the Riverian throne!  Frantic psyonic contact with Kermut in Riveria proves this to be true: Riveria is now in Teimperian's control, backed by an army of undead and the Black Hand guild, and Kermut and others are fleeing for their lives.

Somehow, somebody contacts Prittr and learns he saved King Richard's life; they are en route to the castle of Duke Althus at Nymph Bay.

Throy and Araglas leave for Nymph Bay by carpet.

A few Bugbears hold the entrance to Nakki's caves.  Thinking threat and cavern to be far bigger than they actually are, Simpson tries a fireball; the blowback hits entire Party and costs him a 35000 g.p. ring!

Wade through the Nakki-Nakk complex, arguing all the way.  Simpson already just wants to go home.

Run into an adventuring party that has just arrived through the teleport lake; amazingly, both groups go on their ways without a drop of blood being shed.

Reach lake.  Dharmastin pulls out a little folding boat, everyone piles in, and they head out onto the lake and start teleporting.

After one-and-a-half very strange days with Wowbagger, Party leaves for Sheiral through one of his many teleport gates, still with their little boat.

Arrive on lake near a small town and start heading for a nearby hilltop stronghold known to be their goal.

4 people attack en route and use a very unusual fighting style; Ancalidon recognizes them to be Monks.

Simpson charms a Monk; Party learns Gnomes and Elves are much disliked here.  Simpson and Glimmer take captive to front door of stronghold and announce arrival of Sword of Tamaka; this the sword Dharmastin is carrying.

Up to stronghold, now known to be a monastery.  Long chat with Grand Master; learn Dharmastin must complete a test to prove his claim, and Party volunteer to help him.

Leave monastery and head up a mountain; several Monks run up the cliff(!) and attack.  Dharmastin cut off from Party and nearly killed (at -6 on a steep narrow trail); Ancalidon uses "psyonic blast" and destroys one attacker - thus saving Dharmastin's life - but feels uneasy about it for months.

During night, another Monk arrives and tries to join Party - at least that's everyone's best guess, as he and the Party share no common language!  Eventually, though, Tzoitchka, BA(Mk-4) joins.

Reach plateau at top of mountain, much trouble with glyphs; Throg nearly killed.

Ancalidon killed by a glyph while cut off from Party; big debate whether to recover corpse or not.

Dharmastin carries on alone into a small hut, everyone else sits and waits.

Design flaw corrected, Monks move to lake while Party experiments with teleports.A

t one point, Party make it to Telenet using a teleport; Dharmastin and Ancalidon almost killed by lack of ambient magic (this feels all too familiar to Ancalidon, as this was his home world), and great worry as to whether outbound teleport still functions.  It does (barely!), and exploration continues.

Monks and Party sweep through entire Nakki-Nakk complex and find a surprising number of previously-unnoticed occupants.  Party then leaves, while Monks start making the complex their new home.

Dharmastin retires and remains with the Monks, learning their ways.  Tzoitchka retires here as well.