Session 5 — Toil & Trouble arrives in wintry Davin, returns Kara Feldron to her family's farm, and settles in at the Griffon and Oak. At the seedy Goblin's Fire they press Gregor and learn that Renvar personally recruited Perrin into the Adventurer's Gambit; Marva is knocked out in a pit fight with Big John. Ellowen acquires and attunes to a goat named Snowball.
Session 6 — Kessia rejoins the party (revealed to work for the Vykris Ledger). Lyre escorts everyone to the Earl's Manor, where they meet Captain Edrick Havin and are housed in the chapel. Continued questioning of Big John and Gregg yields little before a confrontation lands the party in jail. They learn Renvar secured Blackroot Hollow via mining permits from the Earl, receive a coin purse from Perrin's mother Mirabelle, and set out for Blackroot Hollow.
Session 7 — The party travels to Blackroot Hollow, fighting through a corrupted forest and into a cave that reeks of rotting fruit and hot iron. Inside they find Renvar's parasite laboratory and Perrin being tortured as Subject 25. After a brutal fight, Renvar casts Time Stop and escapes. The party recovers Perrin (alive but magically incapacitated), seizes the research notes and parasite specimens, finds the drained Cloak of the Archmage, and learns Subject 14 was likely Perigrine LeCroix.
Session 8 — The party returns Perrin to his family, where a master healer confirms he is inexplicably alive but stripped of all magic. After a recovery night, a grand breakfast, and goodbyes (Perrin retires from adventuring; Lady LeCroix learns of her husband's death; the Earl takes the evidence), the Duke of Whitethorn summons Lysander by name. Three weeks south, the party arrives in Lyre's home city to find its vineyards failing to an unexplained blight and its beloved witches being blamed.