After some back and forth between the HQ and the Tiger's Eye hotel - one of the bases of operation for the Mediator - the party splits up. While Syllas and Bruri observe the hotel, the others go back to the home base to make sure the girl they rescued from the Mediator is okay.
Jeff meanwhile is training the whole time in the basement of the HQ until he gets interrupted by a visitor - Qizenya. The mercenary dragonborn brings strong alcohol called "Draecerian Flower Breath" he intends to drink with his old friends.
When the others arrive at the HQ, they excuse Qizenya for the moment to check on their other visitor, which turns out to be missing while their own dragonborn guard is sleeping passed out in one of the beds after sharing a drink with Qizenya. After splitting up to search the whole HQ for almost an hour, no trace of the girl can be found, only a slight magical aura from the kitchen that Ken perceives. When he attempts to go there alone, Qizenya enchants him and commands Ken to tell the others that everything is okay and they can finally drink with Qizenya.
While Flo believes Ken and starts drinking the Draecerian Flower Breath to a point of poisoning himself, Jeff remains suspicious. Ken briefly goes outside to forge a letter from the girl to get the others to trust him, but while outside, the spell fades and as Ken comes back to his own senses, the real Qizenya with bread and toilet paper arrives for a visit.
Storming inside, calling the inside-Qizenya an impostor, the individual reveals themselves to be a shapechanger - the Mediator - who immediately calls out to the kitchen where his companion Fenris Melonheed waits, the big human that the group already fought a day ago at Barbara's place. He comes out holding his sharp axe against the throat of the missing girl, willing to cut off her head shall anyone not behave like the Mediator wants to.
Demanding back the papers from his base that Flo stole, the Mediator explains that he just wants to talk, make a proposal. But the situation escalates and a combat breaks out resulting in the beheading of the girl right when Bruri returns to the HQ. In the end, the group gains the upper hand, defeating the intruders. A fireball is thrown, and Ken executes the passed out Mediator in his rage - whose corpse burns up in smoke not leaving anything behind. Fenris is being captured, even though he asks to be killed and tells of the Mediators return.
At the end of the day, the guards are called and after they collect information and evidence, they take the passed out Fenris to the Undercork prison in Zeantis to be investigated. When the forgotten Syllas returns home, he finds a first floor burned by a fireball, the floor drenching in blood, and an exhausted group going to bed. And while some find their sleep, others suffer from insomnia...