With the polar bear captured and the spy ravens dissipated, the party is ready to pick up the intrinsically valuable commissioned painting from artist Barttle. The painting’s subject lady dwarf Vincent and Reade wait inside an hour or so until finally taking possession of “A Dwarfen Miners”.
Meanwhile, two drow accost isolated alley-watching Smoll, beat her unconscious, and drag her bound person to a seedy dockside area known as Mistshore. The party tracks her assailants first to a very small single bedroom and then on down a pier where the drow pair obviously await some form of transport to arrive by sea with their Smoll-shaped parcel between them on the dock.
The party closes in around the drow, quietly and then noisily. An earnest fight ensues as Smoll breaks free of her bindings. The struggle is interrupted by an eruption of steam from a surfacing mechanical dragon turtle which the drow board sans prisoner. The scalded party is scolded for the ruckus by a woman representing Grendace Harbor Hunters. With the first key warhammer only a day away and so much to live for, the party withdraws from any further confrontations with drow or conversations with women.
Camp is made in a dismal rubbish heap away from prying eyes and creature comforts.