- Travels to Stoutwall to seek opportunities in the city, and pass by some Geyser Springs on the way to the city.
- Entering the city walls, are immediately accosted by a group of ruffians whom they manage to defeat.
- The ruffians - thugs of Calibar, reveal that Calibar is part of the Crimson Brotherhood, a fringe cult looking to give a return to the Red Mist, an entity which was known as the "World Eater", by sacrificing the entirety of the city to it in stone.
- They learn that the Red Mist was the original goal of Helle, the ancient Ifrit who sought to awaken the entity before it's exile into an alternate plane.
- They learn the ritual is in fact ready to be underway, having been progressing steadily over the past few weeks.
- The party - with a wounded Flametongue in the last battle - heads deeper into the city, entering a storefront to see if they may get some healing.
- Unfortunately, the storefront is front for Calibar's cultists, with 4 cultist slavers who attack the party.
- The party manage to defeat the slavers, but not before Flametongue is severely wounded.
- While searching for a healing potion for the dragon, the party realizes another cultist had been hidden within the store, as he casts an alarm spell.
- As he triggers the spell, numerous alarm spells in unison start ringing out, and it seems the plan has been set into motion - possibly because of the arrival of a party that managed to kill so many cultists.
- The cultist them pulls out hidden explosions, and detonates them in a suicide bombing, shouting "For Calibar!"
- Thumb, Lap, Flametongue, and Murder are slammed against a wall...as a low rumbling begins deep within the city.
- Thumb, manages to stay conscious, as he goes to check on his friends. But much to his horror - Flametongue is dead.
- Lap and Murder are mortally wounded, with Murder unconscious and Lap barely conscious, and bleeding out, as Thumb tries to use whatever he can find to patch them up - but his attempts fail as Lap catches his hand.
- "The prophecy...leave Thumb...the city is gone...the Red Mist arrives...the prophecy..." Lap bleeds out and dies, Murder soon passes after him.
- All of his friends dead, and Thumb himself severely injured, he runs out, only to see massive red clouds with lightning and thunder gather in the distance, funneling over the city.
- Without looking back, Thumb limps out of the city walls and flees for his life, and leaves as the Red Mist arrives in full force, consuming Stoutwall...and slowly inching out of the city across land.
Current Characters: Thumb
