The three would-be heroes, accompanied by the missing villagers and guards of Paddlewick, escape Brizalla’s towers, tricking the Grimlocks into their own cages! Slaying the two final guards, who they’ve discovered to be drow elves (underground humanoids who are sensitive to sunlight), they lead the charge out of the camp, through the valley of crystals, and back up towards the sewers beneath Paddlewick. Meanwhile, the diminutive and easily-forgotten deep gnome, Pleabo, is forgotten and left behind, tied up in the castle.

The way is blocked and so the party rests for a moment, tending to their wounds and examining their loot. Scram accidentally puts the purple prism too close to the Shard, which immediately absorbs the prism. He then lies to Zola about it (but confides in Prya).

Zola’s investigations uncover a handprint on the ceiling above them, allowing the floor to open up their escape route. After wandering the maze of the sewers, they’re challenged yet again by the crocodile-filled chasm. Zola saves Scram from being crocodile chow, abd with the villagers in tow, they climb back up into the Overworld.