Tallos introduces Snake, Isabel and Reg to Martha who provides them all cheap rooms. Very quickly conflicts start between Tallos and Snake. Tallos sees himself as the leader of the group as he asked Snake and Isabel to join him whereas Snake refuses to accept anyone as a leader.

Tallos is determined that the group must get to The Vulgar Unicorn in the Maze as he has heard that this is the base of the Guild's activities. He is sure that they will find work here. However, he had been warned about venturing into the Maze without a guide and had obtained the address from Martha of a member of the Guild called Dante, who lived nearby.

In the meantime Martha offers the group free room and board if they can find out who had poisoned the local well. The City Watch recently arrested Rorbin, a retarded Dwarf, who kept the streets around Martha's Place clean. Martha is sure that Rorbin could not have committed the crime and although she is not overly concerned about the fate of Rorbin she is worried about the effect on her custom of his arrest. She will not be able to find anyone else to do such an unpleasant job. Martha uses the convenience of Rorbin's arrest to take custody of his Dwarven ale which she distributes free to her customers that night. Little does she realise that the ale has also been poisoned in an effort to further incriminate Rorbin (for reasons never discovered by the group). Both Reg and Isabel enjoy some of the free poisoned Dwarven ale.

Talks with local people and shopkeepers reveal that Rorbin probably is innocent. The group concludes that the water has been poisoned by someone gaining access to a disused section of sewer that is somehow connected to the local well. On hearing this theory, and group's intentions to gain access to the disused sewer, Martha suggests that they either talk to Dante, who has some knowledge of the sewer system, or that they talk to Melilot, Master Scribe, who is rumoured to have maps in his possession of most of the city.

During this time Englebert, a male human rogue (played by Billy), who is also new in town and staying at Martha's place, joins the group after striking up a friendship with Reg.

The group visits Melilot to ask him about the map. He has such a map but it is too expensive for the group to afford. Instead he offers them a trade. There is a courier arriving later in the afternoon with an important and valuable document which he is carrying to Gorolan, one of Melilot's rivals. Melilot wants the scroll and asks the group to kill the courier and his guards and to get the document. He is very keen that the crime cannot be traced back to him and instructs the group to make the attack look like a robbery and not just take the documents.

The group ambushes the courier and his four guards, but because they have not ascertained where Gorolan's shop is located, they find themselves split up when they are forced to attack because the courier has arrived outside the shop. Snake and Tallos, who were following the courier, attack first while Reg, Isabel and Englebert hurry to the scene. Tallos is struck down and Snake flees, but the other three are able to kill the courier. Unfortunately they kill him on Gorolan's very doorstep and in front of Gorolan's wife, and are also only able to snatch the documents before needing to flee themselves.

Snake is only able to get Tallos' unconscious body a short distance through the alleyways of Sanctuary before the attention of a wild dog force him to seek help on a main thoroughfare. Unfortunately for him the first person he encounters is Zalbar, Captain of the Hellhounds. Snake's story that they are innocent victims of an attack does not convince Zalbar, and Snake and Tallos find themselves locked up for the night while Zalbar waits to see if any crimes are reported in the morning that they might be linked to.

Fortunately for Snake and Tallos, Gorolan chooses not to report the crime the following morning and they are released. Instead Gorolan tries to blackmail Melilot, who he correctly assumes is responsible for the attack. This makes Melilot furious and he refuses to hand over the map until they take care of Gorolan and his wife. While the group are making their plans for this they hear that Rorbin has been found guilty and is to be executed the following day. This means that they have to gain access to the sewers that night.

Englebert steps into the fore, and the assassination he carries out of Gorolan and his wife is seamless and almost goes without a hitch. The one problem is that when he returns to the group they realise that they have no proof to offer Melilot that Gorolan and his wife are dead. The group decides that rather than waste any more time trying to to resolve this dilemma they shall ask Dante to lead them into the sewers.

Dante agrees to help the group in return for them rescuing his woman, Sashka, who has recently been kidnapped by The Golden Lily, a brothel on the Street of Red Lanterns. He neglects to tell anyone that he had originally stolen her from the same brothel and has been in hiding ever since.

On the way to The Golden Lily the group rescue a woman from being raped. She turns out to be a messenger for Myrtis the most powerful woman on the Street of Red Lanterns and owner of The Aphrodite House brothel. Myrtis is extremely grateful and gives the group the secret knock used to gain access to the rear door of The Golden Lily.

The group uses the secret knock to get the rear door of The Golden Lily opened but then things start to go wrong. They fail to kill the guard who opens the door and he is able to raise the alarm. The group is only able to get a short distance into the brothel before the remaining guards meet them. The ensuing fight is made harder by the fact that Tallos, on the way to The Golden Lily, had been mistakenly recognised by the City Watch as a man who was going to identify a wanted criminal who was arriving by ship that very night. When he did not deny that he was this man he was taken by them to the docks to identify the criminal. Tallos points out a random man debarking and pockets the reward money. Unfortunately his absence from the fight means that the rest of the group are out-numbered. When Englebert is knocked unconscious, Reg, who is badly injured himself, and Isabel, flee, leaving Snake no choice but to flee as well.

Englebert, rather than facing torture by Amoli, Madame of the Golden Lily, tells her everything. She releases Englebert the following morning with his weapons and armour knowing that this will send a clear message to the group that Englebert had told her everything. Amoli fully expects this to be Englebert's death warrant.

This latest disaster puts an end to the group's efforts to free Rorbin and seals the fate of the Dwarf.

Snake and Isabel wisely do not spend the night at Martha's Place, just in case Englebert is still alive and talking. Reg is not so wise and awakes to find a group of armed men in his room. They overpower and capture him. Amoli sells him into slavery to cover the costs of hiring replacement guards for those killed in the attack. Reg is never to experience his slavery. The combination of the wounds he sustained on the abortive attack on The Golden Lily and those while being captured in his room at Martha's Place, combine with the effects of the poison to kill him the following day.

Snake, Tallos and Isabel are extremely surprised and suspicious to see Englebert the following morning. Their suspicions are confirmed when Englebert tells them everything that happened to him the previous night. He is still badly injured and it only takes a moment for Tallos to break his neck.