The Homeshard Heroes find three missions posted:
Storm of Vengeance has a mission to the Lava Swamp, where Gamma Co. seems to be making a move
Xander has a heist at a Gamma Co. warehouse
Maze has data from Harmony Selvig's (Gamma Co. CEO) stolen crystal. It's a repository of some sort with a hidden back door in the Gamma metropolis. They'd like someone to find out what's there.
The group takes the Storm of Vengeance mission
Gamma Co. is expanding more, with a new prospect in teh Lava Swamp, where they've identified sapient monsters. The mission is to head to the Lava Swamp, find these monsters, and convince them not to ally with Gamma Co. The only information they have is that the monsters live under the swamp.
The Homeshard Heroes traverse a small mountain shard fragment, encountering an orange toad in front of the gate. It attacks he group before Beatrix manages to grab it. Lith casts Animal Friendship and notices the poor thing is shivering. She produces a flame which it cozies up to, and the group carries it back through the gate to the Lava Swamp.
Lith casts speak with animals, and their new friend Toad agrees to lead the party through the swamp to the underwater town? walls? it's encountered.
Following Toad, the group successfully sneaks through the swamp, past the large flock ofA Fire McCaws and the tentacles some of the group remember from way back on their very first mission. In fact, they end up at the exact pier from their first mission, where Gamma Co. had been excavating a dump site. There's no sign of the pit, it seems to have been filled in since then.
Caiel and Val go for a swim in waters the rest of the group find too hot. Caiel casts detect thoughts and makes contact with some people under water. They agree to come up for a chat.
A few dozen tentacles pop out of the water with Caiel and Val's return. King Swava also pops up, seen as a head poking out of the water surounded by 4 tentacles with a drippy, flowy orange face and eyes that flicker with orange fire, wearing a crown made of trees.
King Swava tells the party that Gamma Co. and The Jarxis drove their anscestors out of their volcano home a few decades ago, and has beeen aggressive to their people in the past.
The scouts detect a heavily armed group approaching and asks the party to drive them off. Two guards seen at the Gamma Gala, a drow and a half giant, as well as three mechanical structures with spinning blades attack. The group defeats them all.
In the distance the grup hears a femal voice singing, which Caiel notes is not in any language since he cast comprehend languages. They see a drow woman in a tree with skimpy gold armor and a segmented longsword. She mysteriously flies away (coward!).
Following our adventure, the Lore-Axe reveals the following information about our mysterious drow songstress: