Now that the gang are wanted criminals, they carefully make their way out of Copper's Hideout to find that most of the city surrounding them is now an ashen ruin. They carefully make their way into the part of the city that was not lit ablaze and try to figure out what to do next - especially now that they have Annabelle, Sai‘s daughter, but also the step daughter of Atherik Decannith.
Chauncey suggests going to meet Professor Gulad once again to get a better understanding of what to do with the gate stone so the gang heads to the Renard Institute Chauncey goes to inspect the professors office while the rest of the gang speaks with the Archmage Andrathath Trismaier. Trismaier is a practitioner of Entropomancy, chaos magic, and he discusses this rare talent with Aeva.
In the meantime, Chauncey investigates Gulad's office and finds that the place has been ransacked. A struggle has taken place inside of the room and Chauncey calls the gang in to investigate. Searching the room, they find a secret staircase, but it appears no one knew about upon following the staircase they find a small entrance leading into the sewers, as well as one small room, holding a chest with a few magical items, as well as the hand of Professor Gulad.