The wedding reception of Ksenja Bravich and her childhood sweetheart, Vadryn Gilennan, is cast into chaos when thieves attempt to steal the wedding dowry chest from the stage at the Faith and Fury Theatre.
Brahm, A'nukai, Kester, and Virris were seated together near the back (almost certainly due to their status as the town's only four half-elves) and had barely met, but jumped into the fray to help. An axe-wielding stranger, Tagruk, headed off Virris with a muttered "Nothing personal, but I was told to take you down." That proved a task the stranger wasn't up to, and soon the four half-elves had managed to bring down two of the four town thugs. A tearful Ksenja offers them her full dowry if they will hunt down the remaining would-be thieves and bring them to her to answer why they would do this.
With the help of an near-deaf alchemist, they track a troublemaker named Raykey to an inn called The Standing Trap. Upon accosting him in his room, they interrogate him, and he fearfully points the group to the old storage caves on the road to Casting Creek. There he says they will find the two outsiders who hired them and set up the attack.
Once informed, Ksenja promises to pay them regardless but asks for a night to consider what to do with Raykey while they look for more information on why outsiders had her husband killed. They group agrees and Raykey is moved to the Stone & Slab Inn cellar, the inn owned by Strakamir Revik. Their investigation turns up only one strange Northerner in town, an unnamed man recently in the company of an elven tax collector, both of whom are involved with Lord Savatri.
While exploring the caves, the group is locked inside and fired upon by Tagruk, who fells Virris again. They take Raykey to meet Ksenja that night by the river to be questioned. Shaking and angry, awkwardly brandishing the ceremonial dagger she received as a wedding gift, she screams at Raykey about who hired them and why. In the confusion and the dark, Raykey tries to escape but somehow ends up speared on the widow's dagger.
The next morning the group is arrested, not for the murder of Raykey, but the murder of Danil Bartos, the second escaping thug. Their time in cells is brief as they are soon escorted to The Baron's Swordsman to meet with Vorad Dvorik, the majordomo for Lord Savatri. He is seated with a priestess of Fate in a pale cloak, Nariah as he explains the true killer of Danil is Tagruk -- and where to find him. The group retrieve him for arrest, and four days later he is hanged -- which he vows to return from. For their assistance, Vorad sets them on another task (a paying one this time) checking on the Lord's disappearing sheep just south of town (Sheep and Shadows Story Arc).
After almost a month undertaking other tasks, the group is approached by Thorosian Tyrlon, the priest who performed Ksenja's wedding. He seeks the advice of Virriswho he knows is closer to Ksenja about how to speak to her about his growing affection for her. Virris counsels against this, but it seems the eager priest does not take it to heart. The next day, the group find that Brahm has left town, and soon after learn that Ksenja is gone as well, seen departing in his company. Thorosian Tyrlon is found dead, and she is the only suspect.