(or Lead, Follow or get out the way)

A few days after the explosions at Acryn's prison, the Warden is overheard exclaiming “oh my gods! Prisoner One has escaped”. The city council puts out the message that absolutely everything is fine but that it would like to hire some adventurers.

When the decapitated body of one of the first party of adventurers is discovered, along with the message “you will pay for your insolence” scrawled in blood, a number of merchants and nobles pack up their interests in the city and retreat to their country estates. The city council continues to put out messages that absolutely everything is fine but now they would really like the help of some adventurers. Rumour has it that the situation is so dire that the City Council has even been forced to accept aid from the other Council.

Anabel- Iain
Aria- Chaos
Howard Branch, formerly Leaf- Matthew
Booker- Dan

Through visions it transpires that Prisoner One was the Follower, the Leader's greatest servant, who the Leader himself had imprisoned for his crimes in the eary days of Acryn. He was badly burned by something called “Dragon Fire” whilst adventuring with some of the Founders and the Tender managed to save his life by grafting one some of the Leader's skin to him. His immortality is granted to him as a side effect of the Leader's skin holding the Dragon Fire inside of him. They learn that he might be killed by removing the Leader's skin using a knife crafted from the Traitor's bones that Willie “Two-Knives” Altieri has loaned out to his daughter Regan. Along the way the party find that the Follower has kidnapped Eustacia Graves, the Leader of the Church of the Leader.

The party follow one of the Follower's servants to the square outside the Council building, where the Follower is holding Eustacia Graves at the top of the clocktower at knife point. They are too late to stop his ritual as he sacrifices Eustacia Graves and the populace of the city is driven in to a frenzy (with those that are vunerable to suggestability seemingly having been driven by the Follower's words to kill every tenth person as punishment for rejecting the Leader). The party succeed in killing the Follower and the ritual starts to die down. They steal both the knife and the Leader's skin grafts that were removed from the Follower from Willie Alteri's daughters, Regan and Desdemona, leaving the pair for dead as a mad mage collapses the clocktower.