New rat-shifter spore druid VS joins new firbolg warlock Tharivol and new dwarf life cleric Gorm, along with returning human hotelier/warlock Neville in another Llorkh caper - this time, the Miner's Cooperative is allying with the local wererats to go after a Stone of Controlling Earth Elementals that the Church of Bane has in its temple. They come up with a plan to minimize casualties, case the joint, and infiltrate by night. Killing a few guards in the process, they escape with the stone and several other magic items, only to discover that the stone is a fake. Now the Church of Bane is tearing the town apart looking for the thieves, so the party has to lay low and come up with another plan to go back in and get the real dingus.