After a bit of downtime with the girlfriends, Iwo led us to a meeting with Jamil, who assigned us to infiltrate the Consortium of the Vermilion Dream's home base, a tavern called the First Eclipse located in the Suncut Bazaar.

We headed that way with Question, but found ruidium elephants rampaging. We defeated them and sent Diassa in, in disguise, to see what she could find out from the Consortium. This was not particularly successful and we soon started fighting.

One of the inhabitants of the tavern was involved in the slaughter of Diassa's village; we kept him alive for interrogation. He revealed a list of names involved in that decision and also a hint of where Aloysia might be. He had no information on the location of the drowned city of Caelmorrow or really anything else of use.

We also found a note referring to an Aboleth known as Alyxian who had been terrorizing their teams in Caelmorrow.

Master Khelkur,
Our attempts to gain access to the rift have been disastrous. An aboleth haunts the Drowned City. It slaughtered all but one member of our last expedition. The creature calls itself Alyxian-certainly not an aboleth name, but not one I am familiar with either. But know this: Cael Morrow is where we must focus our efforts, lest the Allegiance of Allsight claim the only known source of ruidium for itself. Our key to the rift is lost, but we have a spy in the Drowned City searching for it. Meanwhile, we have decided to secure a new headquarters. Please see that First Eclipse is cleared out-and quickly-before the Hands of Ord search the place.
Humbly,
Master Dendarron

We returned to Jamil, who paid us handsomely and declared that in a week we'd be going to Caelmorrow.