Recaps

Xia Nan survived the Goblin expedition, killed Maji after discovering his betrayal, and returned to River Valley Town to prepare for further adventures. While gathering Firefly Garlic Vine, he killed two ambushers and was confronted by Hai An’s party, whose motives remained uncertain.

• Xia Nan joined Maji, Ga Gu, and Elki on a Goblin hunt, then used Whirlwind Slash to kill Goblins during an ambush that claimed Elki’s life.
• The party found a Goblin nest, where the Bear Goblin killed Ga Gu and shattered Maji’s leg before Xia Nan beheaded it with Ga Gu’s Hand Axe.
• Xia Nan took the nest’s spoils, including the [Dead Line] ring, and traveled with Maji toward town, but killed Maji when he tried to murder him at camp.
• Xia Nan reached River Valley Town, claimed the Goblin bounty, sold most of his loot, bought supplies, and kept the [Dead Line] ring and Elki’s daggers.
• Xia Nan prepared for the wilderness, bought leather armor and Barn Steel Beard’s Sturdy Beheading Longsword, then gathered Firefly Garlic Vine in Thin Mist Forest.
• Xia Nan killed two men who approached the clearing, took their gear and money, and met Hai An, Larry, Doris, and Wood as they emerged from the woods.
• Hai An explained that his party had let the ambushers escape to trace their mastermind, while Larry proposed recruiting Xia Nan and Wood warned against it.

Xia Nan joined Hai An’s party to investigate the Wooden Token in Thin Mist Forest, where a petrifying lizard drove him into a hidden cave and he gained the Golden Dewdrop. Back in River Valley Town, Xia Nan sold his finds, bought new Combat Skills and chainmail, and asked Barn to make equipment from the Snake Scale.

• Xia Nan accepted Hai An’s invitation to investigate the Wooden Token’s origins and traveled with the party through Thin Mist Forest.
• The party fought Rust Monsters, and Hai An gave Xia Nan their poison glands while explaining how adventurers learned Combat Skills and gained Professions.
• The party found strange ruins and statues, then a Petrification Lizard emerged and petrified Larry and Doris while Hai An’s protective item shattered.
• Xia Nan fled from the lizard, was struck and injured, then vanished into a hidden cave when the space around him twisted.
• Xia Nan discovered a colossal pinned serpent and Li Haoran’s remains, buried Li Haoran, and absorbed the Golden Dewdrop before reappearing in Thin Mist Forest.
• Xia Nan reunited with Hai An and Wood, received 100 Gold Coins, and returned to River Valley Town before selling Firefly Garlic Vine and Rust Monster Poison Glands.
• Xia Nan bought [Forward Thrust] and [Block Upward Slash], sold his damaged armor, and commissioned a scabbard for the [Green Pine] Wooden Sword.
• Xia Nan bought a chainmail shirt and showed Barn the Snake Scale, who proposed making it into an arm shield.

Xia Nan guarded a caravan to Kalanfu'er, where a series of murders led him and his companions to confront Tim and uncover a cultist commanding skeletons. The gravedigger’s book pointed to the next targets, and Ingram arranged surveillance while keeping his suspicions about the killer to himself.

• Xia Nan accepted Barn’s caravan guard job, traveled to Kalanfu'er, and bonded with Alton during the journey, where they fought off a Goblin attack.
• Alton took Xia Nan to the Full Money Bag tavern, where his strange run of gambling ended in a deliberate loss that he described as part of Tymora’s balance of fortune and misfortune.
• After Ingram caught Joey attempting to steal from Alton, guards reported a series of murders involving victims whose limbs had been mutilated or had their bones removed, and Joey was later found dead in the same manner.
• Xia Nan’s Green Pine warned him of danger, and he interrupted Tim as the former adventurer cut bones from sleeping Jeff’s leg, but Tim escaped through a window.
• Ingram brought Jeff to a church, where a priest healed his wound and detected dark energy parasitizing him, while explaining that the influence might be removed by finding its source.
• Ingram led Xia Nan and Alton to the graveyard, where a fleeing gravedigger attacked Xia Nan and summoned nearly thirty skeletons with a Bone Whistle before the three defeated them.
• Ingram’s guards captured the gravedigger, who revealed a skull-covered book, and Ingram matched its poem to the murders and ordered men to watch the Full Money Bag Tavern for the predicted next targets.

Xia Nan survived Ingram’s ritual, gained the Fate Coin, and trained with Fugan until he learned to combine Tooth Hunt with Whirlwind Slash. Fugan’s hunt for the blight led to a catastrophe at Kalanfu'er, where Xia Nan killed a Thorn Demon while Fugan confronted Bartholomew.

• Xia Nan and Alton pursued undead Tim into the woods, where Ingram trapped Xia Nan and prepared to complete his ritual with the Halfling as the final sacrifice.
• Xia Nan broke free of Ingram’s Hold Person, survived their fight, and killed him, then destroyed the undead formation and received Tymora’s Fate Coin from Alton.
• Xia Nan sold the undead palm bone, collected his repaired armor and custom arm shield from Barn, and waited in River Valley Town for Fugan Frostthroat.
• Fugan tested Xia Nan against Goblins and a Bear Goblin, taught him Tooth Hunt, and watched him combine it with Whirlwind Slash to kill the Bear Goblin.
• Xia Nan and Fugan found a pale-green mushroom on a Hobgoblin corpse, and Fugan changed their plans after noticing a dark-purple mushroom near Kalanfu'er.
• Fugan sent Xia Nan running from Kalanfu'er and confronted Old Man Lou and a priest of Amaunator, while a blast and a cloud of colony spores erupted over the town.
• Xia Nan fought the Thorn Demon blocking his escape, and Fugan’s Wolf Howl helped him move with a Winter Wolf’s speed and behead it with Tooth Hunt.