Mouse stays behind to lead the firbolgs of Norland! At Caer Moray the crew fights wereboars and meets Balandor, a reincarnated paladin of Valkur! At Caer Corwell, they intervene in a standoff between beseiged Harpers and angry fey and find their old frenemy Captain Callous! Sailing to the Nelanthers, there is a fire and Barnacle Bess finds a beau! In Skaug, they hear of a tribe of sahaugin led by a hag named Auntie Gristle, and buy up their unclaimed tiles on the cheap! They meet Delgar of the Emerald Blade, a retired pirate cursed with a skeleton steel drum band! They hire a bard in town and swear on Orphiel's Cage! In Ioma, they buy purple crystals and in Nemessor, they get sucked into the Astral Plane by a whirlpool and emerge hundreds of miles away in Asavir's Channel where they confront the legendary zombie dragon turtle known as the Curse of Irphong!