Professor of Linguistics Cornelia Chol of the Circle seeks competent citizens to serve as guards on an expedition into the Wastes. Ability to remain calm in cramped spaces desirable. The Professor offers her gratitude for assistance given in this way.

• Peleus - Declan
• Rekha - Chaos
• Mable - Iain
• Sata - George
• Magda - Florence

• The party head into the wastes fighting past various mutated creatures to reach a hole sloping down into the ground.
• After making it down into the pit the party are assailed by moles and viscous shadows but manage to prevail.
• At the bottom they find another expedition led by Thaddeus Grim a professor of artifacture who seems ro be somewhat of a rival of Cornelias.
• Going onward the party are attacked by large mouths floating in the air. They manage to destroy them all but not before Peleus is slowly eaten by one of them. He spills out of ones guts at the end.
• Venturing onwards the party find a room covered in strange writing with a door at one end. A voice begins to intone a story but when the party are uncertain what to do they are assailed by pictures which rip themselves from the walls.
• Peleus does a ritual to attempt to understand what the room is attempting to communicate which goes slightly awry. He understands they have to act out the story but also gains the delusion that he is the character in it repeatedly hitting himself in the head trying to separate it in two.
• With this the rest of the party catch on eventually the story is acted out correctly and the door at the end of the room creaks open.
• Venturing inside the party find some sort of crypt weirdly proportioned two headed skeletons lying upon stone slabs. As they venture within however these skeletons slowly climb to their feet and begin to attack the party.
• Having driven of the skeletal assault off the party search the room for anything of interest and find: a set of stones which appear to switch the bodies of those who hold them; a musical instrument which produces the sweetest songs even when played by an amateur; a scroll of archaic writing; and a rudimentary telescope.