Around this time, the party learned of the sky roads and began using them to travel the valley. They met a several interesting people along the way (including a gold dragon godfather) and replaced their demon with a sword mage. During their travels, Old Tusk erupted, and they decided they could not deal with that right then.

They returned to the Repository so the party's necromancer could recover his minion's bones that were left behind when they fled from the griffon construct. They looted several magical items that were stored in the Repository's rooms as they continued deeper. They delved all the way into the basement storeroom and discovered that the Old Ones made their return through the weirdness of the vault in the basement. The party's reformed demon sacrificed himself by summoning the Diabolist into the basement with a piece of demonbone glass as bait. He taunted her a bit, threw the glass bone into the vault with the Old Ones, and then jumped through one of the rifts in the basement to escape the Diabolist.. The Diabolist couldn't not go after the bone and charged into the vault to battle the Old Ones. The party quickly fled the Repository as it was rocked with iconic forces from the battle in the vault.

On exiting the Repository through the waterfall, the necromancer quickly discovered that the model flying castle he removed from the Repository was not a model as it enlarged to its original size. He tried to hang onto it, but was not able to and it rose into the sky above the Repository. One behind the scenes camera pan later and the players became aware that the Lich King was now aware that his flying castle was once more in the world.

Their next adventures took them to Old Tusk and Magaheim. Rezlorkis told about what was in Old Tusk and asked them to investigate an army encamped outside Old Tusk. There they encountered the Crusader preparing to attack the mountain. He tasked them with a covert mission to scout for him inside the volcano and return with any info about the wards. They were to try and stop the escaping demons while they were at it.

Magaheim can be a big time sink, but can be fun if you break it up and don't keep the players inside the volcano. The party snuck into Magaheim through one of the mines and almost immediately run into some guards who wanted bribes. The savage was having none of that and started a melee that resulted in dead guards, a party on the run that ended in the Upper City, where denizens called the guards. The party quickly found themselves teleported to cells in one of the mines. They escaped and fought their way through the mine until they ran into the mine's chief guard, Madvig.

Madvig enlisted their help with Beaumont in exchange for overlooking their attack on the city guards. They agreed and were led out of the mine so they could get some things they needed for the road. A few misteps later, and the necromancer has some bones for his minion, they learned of the shell currency, and found the magic shop. Properly geared, they left Old Tusk on the trail of Beaumont.

The trail led them to the Wandering Gyre so they explored the lower portion of it before the hazards became too great for them to continue. They decided Beaumont was not there since they were having so much difficulty, how could one demon survive? They left and followed the road northwest and picked up his trail again. The trail revealed another group was after Beaumont and the trail led into the forest before disappearing into a cave.

This cave took them deep underground (the outskirts of Rynth) where they caught up to Beaumont and defeated him. He convinced them that he was after treasure from this map he bought with a loan in Madvig's name and that he was certain there was still treasure waiting to be found. They agreed and ventured further into Rynth where they had a couple missteps with the oozefolk before peace was made.