Trapped!

The Fateful Eight made their way back to the Justicar's Guild from the sewers. They were given a message, presumably from Ealasaid (Ella-sich, or Ellie), directing Mr. Fahrenheit and Bodo to meet at the Builder's Block Tavern at 10 PM. When they arrived at the Tavern, they split off into two groups. Mr. Fahrenheit and Bodo went to meet Ellie, while the rest of the group arrived a few minutes later and grabbed a separate table. As Mr. Fahrenheit and Bodo approached the table, they noticed a human male sitting across from Ellie. Ellie appeared to have significant bruising on her face, but she insisted it was nothing. The human introduced himself as Calio Duvret, a high ranking official within the Gryffon organization. The group sat and got down to business. Calio reviewed Bodo's ship designs and offered to let Bodo do a trial run at their dry docks. Shipwrights are responsible for hiring their own crew, so Bodo rounded up the rest of the Fateful Eight and three acolytes at the Justicar's Guild to fill out the crew.

The group worked throughout the evening on Bodo's ship design. At one point, Froderick attempted to leave the docks, but found they were locked in the building they were working in. Discussions with the guard outside did not go anywhere, though they did agree to bring water for the party members. As the morning approached, two men entered the building, a Guard Captain and a robed figure. The robed figure introduced himself as Brutus Gryffon. He insisted that the Fateful Eight needed to leave the city and stop meddling in their affairs. The Fateful Eight agreed to leave the city, but Brutus demanded they each leave a vial of blood as assurance that they were gone. The Fateful Eight did not agree with the terms, and faced with little other options, Bodo decided to plant a magic bean.

The bean grew up into a Treant, which turned out to be chaotic evil, and it immediately attacked Brutus. Brutus and the Guard Captain retreated from the building and relocked the door, but not before Buck slipped out. Dreld cast a fireball on the Treant, and the building began to catch on fire. Froderick tried to calm the Treant down, to no avail. Mr. Fahrenheit eventually felled the tree. Buck had engaged Brutus and the Guard Captain in combat outside of the building, but retreated back inside. Locked inside a locked, burning building, Buck decided to disintegrate a side wall. The party began to escape through the hole, but Mr. Fahrenheit, Buck, Beldor, and Bodo became trapped inside a wall of force.

Noticing what happened, Bodo immediately teleported Buck outside the wall of force, near Brutus. Froderick teleported Rosie inside the wall of force so that she could teleport the remaining members outside the area. Many additional guards reached the fighting and opened fire on the Fateful Eight. Dreld fell unconscious numerous times during the battle. Mr. Fahrenheit tracked down the Guard Captain cut him in half. Brutus retreated and went into hiding and then summoned a demon. The demon waded into the skirmish and killed Rigline. Thankfully, Beldor was nearby and was able to bring Rigline back from the dead with revivify. Buck eventually killed off the demon and the Fateful Eight killed off the rest of the guards that were attacking them. Brutus was nowhere to be found.

Realizing that more guards were on their way, the Fateful Eight made a beeline for the shore. They found a few seaworthy boats and stole one, narrowly escaping ballista fire, and made it out to sea. They traveled down the coast a few miles before running aground and taking a short rest. They traveled north back to Port Solaris and reached the Justicar's Guild before the Gryffons were able to alert the city about the earlier disturbance. Buck filled Hank in on the situation and the group finally got some rest.