At Hardbark Meadows, the party countered a disputed debt, weathered Strongsteel’s threats, and turned a tense negotiation into a pastry supply deal.

Hardbark’s collectors interrupt the morning, the flower queen delivers three boons, and Hat drafts a counterclaim before the party takes its new vine steeds to Hardbark Meadows.

The companions turn Destiny’s former emporium into Thalmiir’s Thunder Thicket, rehire her freed staff and plot a security business, while a mysterious flower connects them to distant forests and an audience with a pixie queen.

After paying Sterling and returning the stolen flower to the sprites, the adventurers discover they can reshape Destiny’s house, creating new business facilities and a mysterious connection to the Primal Woods.

The party defeats Destiny, frees Nathaniel Merville and the surviving staff from her magical coercion, and inherits the dangerous problem of what to do with her blackmail-fueled empire.

In Destiny’s living basement, the party fights through vines, fire, fear, betrayal, and collapsing courage as Barnaby refuses to surrender the sacred flower despite Destiny’s final bargain.

The party recovers the stolen orchid from Destiny’s hidden laboratory, uncovers disturbing evidence of her alchemical use for it and another shard of the Orbum Vitalis, then sabotages her wards and is forced into a chaotic battle when their attempted escape from her basement lair goes wrong.

The party descends into a hidden, living basement filled with unsettling magical constructs, uncovers disturbing secrets about Destiny’s control over others, and ultimately calms a monstrous, flesh-like guardian with music to reveal the path to their goal.

The party infiltrates Destiny’s opulent gathering, overcomes doubt and magical interference, and ultimately breaks into her secured office to uncover clues and gain access deeper into her hidden operations.

At a lavish party hosted by Destiny, the infiltrating adventurers navigate unsettling magical mirrors, social intrigue, and subtle dangers to gather intelligence—ultimately planting a tracking device on their enigmatic host while uncovering hints of a deeper, more insidious power at work.