The road to Middenheim brought a witch hunter’s accusation, rumours of religious unrest, and a lesson in why seasoned drinkers preferred glass-bottomed tankards.

With weapons drawn at the Forest Hearth, Thindruk tries to bargain the company out of trouble before the northbound road offers a halfway celebration and troubling rumours from Middenheim.

Felrick’s Deadeye Dog finds eager customers before a broken axle pin strands the company at the Forest Hearth, where armed visitors in Imperial uniforms come looking for Thindruk.

After Wanda seeks guidance at Altdorf’s College of Light, the company heads toward Middenheim aboard a coach crowded with old grudges, religious tensions, and bureaucratic absurdity.

After their barge burns in a suspected act of sabotage, the companions secure repairs, deposit a dangerous Chaos stone in a bank, and accept a mysterious delivery to Middenheim, returning to Altdorf with the arsonist still unidentified.

The crew’s inquiries and social triumphs in Kemperbad end abruptly when they return from the Blüchers’ anniversary celebration to find the Dandy Fräulein ravaged by a suspicious fire.

With the Dandy Fräulein barely afloat and Imperial scrutiny gathering around Castle Wittgenstein, the party must carry its wounded and its most dangerous secret downriver to Kemperbad.

The companions escaped the collapsing Castle Wittgenstein with its treasure and a dangerous Warpstone relic, surviving ratmen, sorcery, a river disaster, and the fortress’s final destruction before limping toward Kemperbad with new wounds and darker burdens.

The companions push deeper into Castle Wittgenstein, slaying its mistress and a Chaos champion before becoming trapped between her stitched monster, a swarm of ratmen, and the corrupting fragment of Morslieb they have come to claim.

The party descends through Wittgenstein’s rotten underbelly, rescues Aubrey and the imprisoned villagers, reclaims their escape route, discovers their stolen gold has been taken upstairs, and creeps toward Lady Marguerite’s chambers only to find a scorched minotaur corpse and the armored Chaos champion Ulfrin stalking from the dark.