Without recognizing the reveal of the end of the trial, Alia finishes off Nigel before things truly settle down. Opal tries to use a spell scroll to revive Nigel but in the end he is too far gone. The stranger leads to group out of Thorne's tower and meets up with other Vigil's who rush Nigil and Lanaster away in a teleporting carriage. The Stranger introduces himself as Henry Van Dyke and welcomes the party into the Vigils. Van Dyke leads the party back to the Fairy ring teleporter they woke up in. Eventually they meet the other test group there and after a long rest, they teleport to the Lighthouse. Once the party reaches the massive HQ of the Vigils, they meet Draven Durill, the acting Leader of the Vigils and he explains that they will go to a few months of training. Barren in private asks for Draven to look and see if a girl in his care could stay with a family of Vigils on the Isle of Ostow. On the carriage ride to the training facility, Alia has a call with her mother that reveals she was responsible for the heightened challenge for the trial. She wanted Alia to fail so she doesn't go somewhere actually dangerous and she looses her like Alia's father.

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As the party hears the crash of the metallic bull in the sea far below, they take the chance to finally catch their breathe and head back to the underground tunnels to rest. After a bit of strife over the treatment of a silk shirt subsides, the party receives a missive from Nigel Zolair, the necromancer the party has been trying to track down. With an invitation to talk, the party sleeps on what to do taking time during their watches to tailor, metal work, and deepen bonds. They set out early in the morning to Thorne's Tower and are greeted by skeletons forming a bridge for them. Once inside the tower, they are lead up to the top where they finally meet Zolair. Once given a chance to explain his motives and desire to change the Vigils, he invites the party to die, surrender, or join him. Lanaster reveals that he is against the Vigil's from the start and the party is given five minutes to discuss their choice. With a distraction and feigning to side with the necromancer from Moss and Barren, Alia sacrifices the necklace that her father gave her the day he died to be able to break the arcane seal protecting the Rod connected to the Conduit. A fight ensues and before the party can finish Nigel off, Opal uses the Rod on the Conduit and the stranger stands up and announces the Trial to be over.

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The party finds themselves delving down into the ancient tunnels under servitude. As they search what seems to be an escape route from the Thorne's Tower, they find the remains of archaic warriors, some bearing the markings of Adilaide's faith and Opal's Oath. The party finds that the tunnel ends at the shear cliff that the town runs beside. With presumably no way forward, the party turns back only to find that the skeletons guarding the town also sought refuge in these tunnels. With luck on her side, Opal is able to stop the undead by using the scrolls that they gathered from their last fight with these thralls. After a brief scare from exiting the tunnel system by the mechanical bull, the party finally finds an exit to these tunnels that is unguarded. The party moves their way to the battlements, but in doing so draws the bull in. Battle ensues, as the bull destroys one of the battlements causing Barren and Moss to jump to the other rather than plummeting to their death off the cliff. Adilaide is almost killed as the bull throws her. Finally, Ren with the help of Barren is able to bind the beast to the other tower, jump off, and as it knocks the battlement over the cliff, the bull is pulled by the weight to its demise.

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After Kyra and Lanister explain that their evaluator and other recruits had been taken by Zolair's minions, the group takes time to rest and prepare by washing clothes, blessing weapons, cooking fresh meat, and other various activities. They decide to follow the trail left by the captured Vigils in which they hope leads them right to their adversary. After a few hours of travel, the party sees the dilapidated destroyed town of Servitude set on the edge of a cliff with the dark tower behind it. Pinky is chosen to scout ahead. In doing so, she comes face to face with a massive mechical bull who can petrify with its breath. After a narrow escape and with knowledge from some insight that Opal has, the party makes a plan to try to make it through the village with coming to blows with the beast. After a distraction, the party makes it to an ancient church of Duruth, God of Tyranny. Upon finding a secret passageway, the group signals Pinky. She flies toward the church with the Bull hot on her tail.

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Once their skirmish with the skeletons was over, the newly formed party braved their way to find answers about their test. A journal entry pointed them towards a different cabin where other Vigil recruits were tested named Olivia's Cabin. With the time to walk, they converse about their pasts and their bonds start to grow. After going over the river and through the woods, heavy rain pushed them to find a cave along a shallow canyon wall carved by a river. They finally are able to rest. Two figures in trouble pursued by howls awake them from their slumber. Using bow and shouting to deter the wolves, the saved figures turn out to be other recruits from Olivia's Cabin. They explain that the situation is more dire than expected.

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As the newly formed group of tryouts search for answers about where they are and what their test is, they become surrounded by undead thralls of a necromancer. The skeletons have come looking for the half dead Vigil found in the cabin. After a bit of parlay involving a carrot and a ring, a fight breaks out. The new Vigil recruits are able to come out on top in the end and find clues of what is really happening in this area known as 'The Proving Grounds'.

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From across the land of Yavna, adventurers heed the call to join ranks with a mysterious Guild known as the Vigil's. We see some of these adventurers as they prepare and gather together for the trial that determines if they can join. Upon finding sleep that night; Barenn, Opal, Ren, Moss, Adelaide, Alia, and Pinkie awake to find themselves in a misterious forest on the inside of a ring of mushrooms. As there trial has started, they follow a path that leads them to what seems to be a cabin recently attacked by undead skeletons. As they search for clues and to understand what they must do, the skeletons return...

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As the doors open, the party sees an old friend lying on an altar dead. A Hooded figure stands above them. The party tries to learn who this is and what they want.

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The party speaks with Astoria, and David Stone leaves the party as the pressure is starting to increase. Astoria Shares her plans with the group.

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The party gathers at Vivian's. He gives them access to his teleporter to travel to Thunder Mountain. As the Party arrives they are greeted by Rebecca's Parents.

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