Recaps

Xia Nan’s investigation into Beastman attacks revealed that Mint had manipulated the Sea Thorn Squad to take revenge on her former companions. After killing Mint, Veris, and Kash and escaping the Owlbear, he returned to River Valley Town seeking a cure for Beastification Syndrome and arranging appraisals and sales of his loot.

• Xia Nan and the Sea Thorn Squad killed a Night-Stalker Wolf pack, then planned an investigation into Beastmen in the eastern forest.
• In Green Wheat Village, the squad learned that Adventurers connected to Xia Nan’s earlier encounters had fled Thin Mist Forest, and a Beastman attacked Mint that night.
• The squad followed a trail of slaughtered animals into Thin Mist Forest, where an ambush by beasts and an Owlbear scattered them and left Mint apparently dead.
• Xia Nan rejoined Kash and Veris, followed a wounded Beastman with them, and discovered that Veris and Kash planned to kill him for the spoils.
• Xia Nan killed Veris and Kash, then learned that Mint had survived her past, joined the squad under a false identity, and used him to help take revenge.
• Mint transformed into a Bear Beast and fought Xia Nan, who killed her with Gravity Etching and escaped the clearing as an Owlbear arrived to devour the corpses.
• Back in River Valley Town, Xia Nan submitted his quest report and sought a cure for Beastification Syndrome, while selling Veris’s poison and beholder-eye item.
• Xia Nan arranged repairs for his armor, sold Veris’s daggers, consigned Kash’s magical spear, and took Mint’s broken staff to the Association for appraisal.

Xia Nan joined Wood’s escort to Sticky Tree Territory, where the party became entangled in a struggle over a stolen heirloom and the Dreamweaver Corridor Terminal. After Vior banished Klaogbari, Sava was stabbed while reaching for the terminal.

• Xia Nan traded Mint’s broken Yew Wood Staff to Vior for 400 Gold Coins and a Purification Ritual, and Vior recognized him from her memories of the future.
• Wood recruited Xia Nan to escort Hai An to Sticky Tree Territory, and the party traveled through the wilderness until an Adult Red Dragon passed overhead.
• In Molten Scale Town, Luca found the Dreamweaver Corridor Terminal, and Xia Nan concealed what he learned about its need for a dynamic password.
• Lawson captured Terry William’s knight Grove while seeking the Molton Family heirloom, then fought Terry as the town’s forces pursued him.
• Klaogbari attacked the escort party with Dragon Breath, killing Luca, but Vior restrained the dragon with Extra-Dimensional Banishment and vanished with it.
• After Vior disappeared, Xia Nan moved to retrieve the Dreamweaver Corridor, but an unseen attacker stabbed Sava through the neck.

After surviving Terry William’s ambush, Xia Nan traveled through Gray Valley and found signs of an ancient Church of Ashes. He followed the Blood Blade Squad into the ruins, where the survivors turned against one another over a Magic Staff.

• Xia Nan used the Dreamweaver Corridor to master Tooth Hunt, then killed Terry William and helped save Hai An and Wood before the group crossed the Molten Scale Mountains.
• Xia Nan agreed to Vior’s conditions for the heirloom and accepted a future favor in exchange for her help and a location to investigate.
• Xia Nan reached Gray Valley Village, killed a Goblin horde, and began training Leon while investigating a strange half-coin linked to the Church of Ashes.
• Xia Nan explored Gray Valley, found ancient ruins and Axe-Beak Birds, then learned that the village chief had never seen the valley’s mist or ruins before.
• The Blood Blade Squad arrived and threatened the villagers, but Marcus restrained his companions after sensing Xia Nan nearby.
• Xia Nan followed the squad into Gray Valley as they encountered a Dried Corpse, then a square full of corpses and an armored Knight.
• The Knight and the Dried Corpses attacked the squad, and Xia Nan killed the Knight and Gorge as Marcus, Xili, and Stonebelly fled deeper into the fog.
• Marcus, Xili, and Stonebelly found a Magic Staff in a ruined church, then fought over it until Xili wounded Stonebelly and Marcus stabbed him through the head.

Xia Nan survived the Gray Valley ruins, gained the Ember Instructor Staff’s inheritance, and pursued a Petrification Lizard to fund a reforged sword. He uncovered signs of a supernatural presence at the lizard’s lair, while Abi fell under Saloyan’s influence and Xia Nan accepted a goblin-hunting bounty.

• Xia Nan killed the transformed Snake Scale Dried Corpse, then witnessed a vision of a swordsman taking the Magic Staff and woke with the Kindling Staff tied to his belt.
• Xia Nan released the Flame Crystal’s inheritance, learned [Ember Echo], and brought his damaged Beheading Longsword and Molten Ash Silver Ingot to Barn for reforging.
• Xia Nan encountered Abi, who was being guided by Saloyan, and later rescued Adeline from a Petrification Lizard after it attacked her party.
• Xia Nan and Adeline found Morrison dead in the lizard’s lair beside destroyed eggs and signs of a supernatural intruder, while Abi confessed to Saloyan that he had killed Morrison.
• Xia Nan sold the lizard’s materials, chose an expensive Luminous Iron Dust reforging plan, and sold the Iron Stomach Flail to Solding for 155 gold.
• Xia Nan rejected two commissions and accepted a bounty to eliminate a goblin community led by a hobgoblin, while Abi entered the Underdark with Saloyan’s aid.
• Margaret’s party killed a Woodland Brown Bear, and Joshua noticed their route to the Petrification Lizard’s nest crossed the Rotten Root Swamp.