Our heroes level up to 10th! They investigate the treasures they have acquired -- short swords and potions from Vogel, the Blade of the Sun Lord, and of course the Shard of the Sun itself! They strategize about what to do next -- go and fight Scarlet Antwerp! And they must figure out what to do with the pulsating, radiating Shard!

Invisible Tharivol and Aspen Kutcher slip away from Scarlet, Snarl, and Ziege the Small. Fence convinces Claren and Mouse, Field Mouse that healing up is the smarter course of action rather than racing after their enemies in their injured state. Fence presents The Great Sword, the Blade of the Sun Lord, to Claren.

Death saves for Tharivol. Scarlet and her minions blinded in the darkness. One large enemy swordsman in combat with Claren and Fence. The Sliver of the Sun dumped into Claren’s Bag of Holding. The battle seems balanced on the edge of a knife.

Scarlet Antwerp and three of her henchmen engage in combat with the party. The Silver of the Sun that one of them is carrying continues to emit radiant energy weakening the party. Fence engages an opponent wielding a giant two handed sword that almost seems to glow. The blows are heavy between the two of them.

Our heroes carefully interrogate  the drow mage they have captured. Crenshaw uses his telepathy to query the bound, blindfolded, and gagged prisoner, whose name is Vogel Altig. They learn that Scarlet Antwerp and her group only need....

Crenshaw holds the bullettes in place with a hypnotic spell. Mouse Field Mouse comforts the young bulette. The drow elf casts gaseous form on himself and slips mostly out of his bounds and tries to float-run away; however, Fence and Claren are having none of it.

Our heroes defeat the last two golden statues warriors who are caught in a web. The party goes north and northwest into the naturally “chewed” tunnel system. They see a baby bullette. Tharivol wants it as a pet. Everyone else thinks this is a bad idea....

Our heroes are chasing the drow who has taken Drake, but they slam into a group of statues who animate. The statues seem determined not to let our heroes pass.

Although Fence attacks the skeletons playing chess, they engage the party in dialogue. Crenshaw and Tharivol strike up a lively conversation, and Crenshaw ends up taking over one of the sides in the game of chess.

What happens to the treefrog commando assassins trying to take over the Gherkin? What about Stabbi? Can his body be found? The questions at the end of the Battle by the Frogfolk Village will be answered, and then we learn what is next for Immortalia and those questing after the Well of Dragons!