A message is circulated by eccentric, winsome orphans to adventurers of means.

• Clem - Florence
• Vermillion - Joe
• Thorn - George
• Edward - Iain
• The Wanderer| - Dan

• Eudaimonia Gunderson gives the party a holy torch which the party can use in combination with DECISIVE EVIDENCE to make someone in denial of the truth confront it. It is in no way a magatama.
• The party proceed to the Cataclysm refugee camp. Upon saying something positive, they are attacked by SLEEPERS.
• Upon examining the brain of one of the sleepers (thanks to Edward's skills with brain surgery) they discover that the part of it that is associated with strong emotional responses such as sorrow and hope and despair has been overloaded. Edward tries to consume part of the brain and is confronted by an entity that wants to do something rather unpleasant to his soul. Upon contemplating this later, it occurs to him that, with his innate understanding of consumption, the victims have been 'fattened' in some way. This corroborates Clem and Thorn's magical understanding.
• Meanwhile, at the camp, they discover three groups of individuals with unusual problems.
• The first is a teenager who has found a source of clean water for the camp, but everyone they have brought water to appears to be sick.
• The second is a child whose mother has been arrested for murder and scheduled for execution, despite the fact she was only working odd jobs at the docks to provide bread and money for her dependents.
• The third is a man whose wife has been kidnapped after being diagnosed with a terminal illness.
• In the first instance, it seems as though the 'clean well' the teenager found was actually horribly contaminated. The party present the evidence to the teenager and enable him to confront the need not to be 'strong' in front of the demands of the needy children. He breaks down and admits that he's been bringing contaminated water into the camp because he couldn't face the idea that they would die of dehydration otherwise.
• In the second instance, the child's mother is discovered to have been a member of the Red Hook gang, and a violent murderer who found a haven from despair in the excesses of violence. With decisive evidence of her crime, the party convince her to overcome the allure of the violent impulses being nurtured by a misused love. She breaks down and confesses to her crimes.
• About this time The Wanderer takes a veil potion and has a vision of an ancient pewter sarcophagus to which pilgrims offered up great burdens and came away light again.
• Vermillion witnesses that the work of the torch is divine in nature, and that by burning away the falsehood a dark cloud of smoke pours out of the affected individuals and floats away on the wind.