Leaving Unknown, the group met up with Unknown in an alley of The Underhang. Quickly realizing he served as the carnival's animal handler, they pressed him on the missing people. Kili explained that two land-sharks, a mated pair, had escaped from their pen. However, he was certain his babies could not be responsible for the disappearances and offered us a coin reward if we could bring them back to him unharmed. Oh, and the female is due to give birth any day. So, there's that.
Time not on their side and a few false starts later, they descended into the sewers beneath Evershoal. For the most part, they managed to stay as clean as possible, given the circumstances. In their efforts to track the land sharks, they discovered a smugglers' hideout. After Lorsan Brightwood rattled the resolve of several of the thugs while invisible, Usil Chanterelle and the others in the group were able to talk sensibly with the bandits. And, as luck would have it, they knew of the missing people. Some of theirs had also gone missing. The luck didn't hold, however, as their leader explained something turned their lost companions to stone - something certainly not the work of a land shark.
With the stakes that much higher, they left the smugglers to their own fate. Every minute was another chance for a land shark pup to be born as well as be turned to stone by whatever stalked the sewers.
Eventually, they tracked both sources of headache to the same area. In a more open area of the sewers, the mother had made a small cave to birth her children, while the father patrolled in front. A basilisk hid nearby, clearly intending to snatch the pups as easy targets. It seemed the basilisk, who appeared well into adulthood, was the likely source of the missing people.
As the group approached to lure away or slay the basilisk, its machinations were discovered by the male land shark. A heated but brief battle ensued, with Daddy Shark coming off the top turnbuckle, er ceiling to nearly crush the thing, giving Agga Inge the perfect opening to slay the beast.
With the threat to their unborn children defeated, Usil was able to tame both beasts, both through kind actions and the fine art of smelly fish. The adventurers lead the two land sharks back to the carnival, much to Kili's excitement. With the female going into labor and the male safely returned to its pen, the adventurers returned to Celaeno House in hopes of a hot, soapy, bath.