Meeting back up at the crossroads of the Market and Residential Districts, the party then followed Captain Lutgehr into the heart of the Hul, to the chambers of the Council of Twelve. While there were no official meetings planned for the day, given the events in the Market District and Cephandrius’ business for Freythor, Lutgehr was able to round up enough Councilors to sit quorum and hear Freythor’s request. The Councilors present, however, split evenly; to break the tie, the eldest member, Hurbek Torevir, called in the High Forgesmith Enkil to hear the request in private chambers and cast the deciding vote. After several minutes of raised voices, the Council emerged, Torevir and Enkil smiling – Golgrim would join the fight. Their business finished in Hul Golgrim, the group trekked back out to the Nightwolf and made their way north to the Keldon camp.

Camilla and the other Keldon elders met the ship as it landed, and all assembled proceeded to the cages where the Vodoni were being kept. Cephandrius showed Remus Adaka’s mask as proof; the large wolf asked if the party would be willing to part with it, but Viktor refused – it was his trophy… something the wolves understood. Within the Nightingale Blade dealt with, the Vodoni agreed to uphold their end of the bargain: they would trek to their ships in the Glacier Rift and leave Vandalmál and not return. As the wolves gathered their belongings from the Kelds, Cephandrius asked how the Vodoni had discovered Adaka’s location and the location of their world, as several people had told them it was not otherwise on maps. Remus told the bard of the Arcane – mysterious interstellar merchants who dealt in spelljamming technology and information – and an outpost on Bral where one could readily find Arcane to barter with. As dusk fell, the wolves left the camp, beginning their trek into the North Mountains. Exhausted, the party took rest in the Nightwolf, planning to leave the camp in the morning to take the Visitors back to their ship and retrieve the wreckage of the Disassembler.

In the morning, the party and the Visitors took off at first light for the Tomb of Illarian where the Dragonfly had been left. As they traveled, they discussed the Arcane; Sabrina and Shimmer had dealt with the strange merchants previously as well, as the merchants had sold them the technology the Dragonfly used to track the Crystals… which led to the discussion of the Crystals. As the two groups squared off over who should keep the crystals, another problem arose – when the Visitors had entered the Tomb and ascended to the Balcony of Night, they had been forced to destroy the Disassembler as well, but when the party had arrived, it had been fully restored.

Sabrina and Shimmer then asked what the party had done with the Disassembler when they had destroyed it… which was dragged the remains of it onto the Dragonfly after stripping it for parts. Sabrina and Shimmer grew pale, and Cephandrius put together why… if the Disassembler could repair itself, but they had removed components and had left it on the spelljammer…

Shimmer then asked if they had found an odd-shaped book made of metal plates – Numinal. As the party seemed very confused by the question, she surmised they had not. She explained that the book was an Ancient artifact, intelligent, which had told them some details of how to locate ruins and had helped them in their journey to find the crystals, but it must still be on their ship.

As the party made a pass over the valley, they could see their fears were valid – the Dragonfly had been altered, albeit incompletely, by the repair mechanisms of the Disassembler, grafting itself into the ship. The crab-bug fusion was ambling jerkily in front of the entrance to the Tomb, now too large to enter. Shimmer now worried that the Disassembler may have integrated with Numinal... she was unsure what effects such integration might have, but assumed they would be nothing good.

Landing some distance from the monstrous construct, the group approached cautiously, Viktor and Bastion in the lead and addressed the ship, asking if it was Numinal. It responded in the automaton voice they remembered from the Balcony... but it also responded that it had located the entity Numinal within the ship and was now moving to integrate it. Viktor, Fie, and Bastion advanced on the ship, while Church, Malva, Shimmer, and Sabrina moved to climb the hull. Cephandrius launched himself into the air, flying up on the main deck, avoiding wriggling, sparking wires as he lowered himself down through a cargo port in the top of the ship. The bulk of the Disassembler was in the hold, conduits and wires snaking out of it into the rest of the ship. As he tried severing the connection of the Disassembler by disrupting whatever magic animated it, Malva also made her way down from the top deck. The bard's magic proved unsuccessful, so he attempted likely the most desperate move - he made his way to the bridge and attempted to wrest control of the ship from the Disassembler by taking command of the helm.

Outside, the Dragonfly-Disassembler had grabbed Bastion with mechanical tendrils and was slowly crushing him; Viktor tried to desperately hack away at the writhing mass to free him, but could not. Skaeti, the seneschal of Hnigalimar, and Vondal aboard the Nightwolf, rained down catapult blows against the ship, battering it back and keeping it off balance as the others worked to sever the Disassembler's connection.

Church quickly joined Malva and Cephandrius on the bridge; as the bard fought for control with the Disassembler, Malva and the cat started hacking at some of the tendrils extending from the bulk in the cargo hold to the helm. Its connection to the helm weakened, Cephandrius was finally able to take command of the helm as Viktor and Bastion were able to crush the claws protruding from the keel of the ship. It landed back to on ground heavily, but did not break apart.

Surveying the damage, the ship would need significant repairs before it could travel outside of an planet's atmosphere, but it could still be used to traverse the skies over Vandalmál.