After a quick bluebook review, Caradoc takes over as caller and the party heads southwest to look for the Sootscale kobolds, but instead they find a farmstead the kobolds have raided and a magic mouth gives them a kobold-related quest! A cache of furs and other goods is discovered that the farmers had hidden. Overnight, Arty hears kobold yipping and goes to investigate, and comes back with a pair of emaciated kobolds who had been tied to a tree and tortured by mites. After a rough interrogation where one kobold dies, the party decides to 'help' the remaining kobold by having him lead them to the Old Sycamore tree where the mites lair. Everyone who can fit down the dirty burrow goes in and the mites and their giant centipede and tick pets are destroyed and the demonic kobold idol they had taken recovered, along with kobold warrior MikMek, who agrees to accompany the party back to the Uthgardt camp for a couple of weeks to earn back the idol.