[[Staiger Ren]], [[Wixton Quillbit]], [[Faolin]], [[Hoodwink]] and [[Mimmin Flickerboot]] meet [[Thesis]] at the [[The Goose Feather]] to discuss terms for releasing [[Byton Mawl]]. [[Characters/Thesis]] describes a plague threatening the clone towns near [[Vigil Fall]]. He explains that one town was already lost and that [[The Knights of The Son of Serah]] torched the town to the ground. He offers that if the party help him, he will release [[Byton Mawl]] and call it a truce. The party agree to investigate the [[The Four Crystal Children and the Zombie Infection|plague]] in exchange for [[Byton Mawl]]‘s freedom.