Midnight Brunch, as they have now named themselves, wake after having been thrown in the water during a battle on the Captain’s ship. Oddly, are in Nordfeld, at the Company of Blades house. All is not as it seems though, and they soon discover that they are being held as prisoners and what they saw was an illusion created by psychic projections into their minds. They are being interrogated for information about what they were doing out at sea. Once the psychic projection is broken, they are returned to their cells where they re-meet their cellmate, an elf ranger named Hlwynn. Hlwynn explains that they have been there a month and have, so far, resisted the interrogation process. Together, they hatch a scheme to break out of the prison and then work to attack whatever power did this to them.

The group hatches a plan and manages to escape successfully, accidentally taking the commander of the keep and prison with them. Hlwynn leads the group northward to the city of Ironvale where they have a friend that will help all of them and should even have a plan to undermine their captors – the power Ulfsdain-Grotfell family. However, Midnight Brunch is surprised to see that Hlwynn’s friend is none other than Coromanth.

After overcoming their initial trepidation, our heroes agree to work with Coromanth on the plan he has to steal a powerful artifact from the Voice, who is visiting the Ulfdain-Grotfells, and disrupt an important party they are having in the process, all while grabbing anything else they can get their hands on. Taking a little more than a week to prepare for the theft, Midnight Brunch, Hlwynn, and Coromanth, get themselves into the party, steal the artifact, pilfer important information about the Ulfsdain-Grotfell plans, and cause complete mayhem in the city of Ironvale with a massive explosion. Job completed, Coromanth parts ways with Xoria, Nines, and ulseth, but Hlwynn joins the group, becoming the fourth member of the team. As a group, they flee north of the city to investigate a lead they discovered that may be where Xoria’s clan is being held at a secret keep of the dead Ulsfdain-Grotfell heir, Brukelion. The information proves accurate, and Midnight Brunch quickly craft a plan to free all the captured changelings by having Xoria appear as Brukelion.

The plan goes smoothly until other forces from Brukelion’s sister and rival, Glinvie, arrive and attempt to take over the keep. A massive fight ensues, and Midnight Brunch brawl their way out and follow a tip that leads them through the mountains in abandoned mining tunnels. The journey is perilous and fraught with danger, but they make it through to the other side where the waiting Glindrengan military takes them into custody for protection and questioning.