The Danger Gang Auxiliary Decides To Try Something Else

After resting and resting and resting, the Gang is finally on their way back to normalcy. A Neutralize Poison has once again brought Xenn back from the dead; this dude is like Steven Seagal: hard to kill.

The Danger Gang Auxiliary, lost in the high weeds, decides to ask for another Divination. Their latest plan is to go after The Baroness Kosmina with the hopes of finding the wayward Ilyana somewhere in her basement. Wirshin prays and prays, and then babbles up some words of wisdom; Arben jots down the following notes:

"As is above so is below"

"Not in basment"

"blood stone doesn't exist? (It's like sunshine underground, it is not found it is not found)"

"Pupils we should fear"

"How to get out"

There was some other stuff that wasn't jotted down, but basically people can agree that Ilyana is not in Dumetrescu. Arben keeps harping on the idea that the "it's like sunshine underground" and "it is not found" are two seperate clauses. It's then that he gets a sending from Gebertus who says he's found the Boysenberry, it's on Al-Wathiq's ring. If you see Al-Wathiq, don't look in his eye. Arben sends back asking what is like sunshine underground and telling him that he suspects that Wathiq's B.S. is bullshit. Gebertus says that sunlight underground is shadows, lack of sunlight. So they're going back to the shadow realm. Arben sends back that they're probably going to come chump out Wathiq, we'll see what happens.

Conveniently, that's when Kosticu shows up. He says he knows about a dungeon in the shadow realm. A spellcasting party member died there, so he might have a little spellbook or something. Plus treasures. Everyone agrees to check it out. Dr. Stupiferous agrees to talk some Wyverns to fly the gang out to the border in exchange for getting healed up to 1.

Unfortunately, wyverns are dumb dildoes, so they attack the guys once they land. Real pricks. The boys and their guide dash into the mists and lose them, however. They then travel along the border of Dumetrescu and the shadow realm until they get as close to their destination as possible. There's a brief debate as to whether to rest in Dumetrescu or the shadow realm, since they seem to have enemies on both sides, but they decide to go for the shadows. Once they cross out of the mists, they find a large group of angry looking Shadows. They turn some of them and fight some others before setting up a secure shelter. Unfortunately, these guys are really pissed, and so they do not go through the night unmolested. Some sort of Shadow Dogs creep in from nowhere, defying the titular security of their shelter. The battle is hard, as they keep fading into the shadows, but they are eventually defeated.