We start where we left of, during Week 19 of the ritual in The Horn of Abaddon.
Week 19, later in the day: The group sends a falsified letter to fyrra Valin Darian, the heir to the Victor - and his berserkers from Alerion. The letter states that The White Ravens, The Seventh Knot, can be find in the Farholde's inn and that they are responsible for the troubles in the Horn. Valin and his men seek out the White Ravens and attempt to discover the truth. In the middle of the conversation between Valin Darian and Elise Zadaria, an agent of The Ninth Knot enters the inn and shouts "FOR ELISE ZADARIA AND THE SEVENTH KNOT!" The agent then proceeds to attack Valin. Battle ensues. Valin kills the agent, loses two of his own men, and withdraws, so as to not lose more resources for the upcoming battle against the Horn. In the same moment, Solomon Crowe is unknowingly teleported directly into the Inn by an unknown mage. Battle breaks out between him and The Seventh Knot. While this is happening, Semmemon teleports into the Horn and meets with The Ninth Knot:
The zhentarim officer explains that Solomon is currently being punished for his transgression against Semmemon the last time the two met. Semmemon is not without mercy, however, and he offers the group a chance to save their comrade,
if they accept responsibility for Viktor's due to the Zhentarim. The group accepts and is teleported to The Auld Briarhall - Farholde's inn. Here, they fight an epic battle with The Seventh Knot and emerge victorious - barely. They take Dostan Alfson and Elise Zadaria prisoner, killing the rest of the Knot's members. Elise promises to sign a pact if they let her live. Onni - the leader of the child gang running the orphanage - suggests that the group hire him and the kids. For payment, he demands that the group delivers Thatcher from 'Thatcher's Thugs.' The group accepts.
Week 20: One of the mighties Wychlaran in the land - Sheva Whitefeather of Mulsantir - sends spies to the Horn because she is is suspicious of what is going on, but wants her fears confirmed before acting. The Ninth Knot intercepts this info through a warning sent by Baron Vandermir. They send their minions to take care of the spies. The minions succeed.
Week 21: Crime in Farholde is on the rise after the local fyrra is killed in the Battle of Lorringsgate against Sakkarot Fire-Axe's horde. The thayan population knows that the Rashemi government of the town is weakening, and takes advantage of this. Grumblejack and his band of robbers thrive as a result.
Week 22: Khalili, an influential calishite merchant from a guild in the Mulhorandi capital of Skuld, contacts The Ninth Knot and asks for their assistance to eliminate a couple of competitors:
Over the next few weeks, the minions of The Ninth Knot assassinate different merchant leaders around The Golden Way from Thesk to Rashemen.
Week 23: The silver dragon that The Ninth Knot has heard rumors of attacks Vandermir's mansion. The knot manages to save the baron, though he loses all that he owns (as well as his men) to the beast.
Week 24: A bittersweet fair comes to Farholde. The population is unable to really enjoy it. Solomon Crowe is sought out by a Thayan Knight by the name of 'Skull'. Skull claims to be sent from Szass Tam himself to assist the young wizard.
Week 25: Fyrra Valin Darian and his men have finally had enough. They gather a small army of 50 berserkers and assorted riff-raff and rides against the Horn. But The Ninth Knot is prepared, due to their spy in Darian's ranked. 70 minions lie waiting in an ambush and attack the army from behind, while a small force clashes with their front. Darian and his army are defeated in 'The Battle of the Horn', and the fyrra himself is taken prisoner. Raimon the Wise - one of the Ninth Knots cohorts - dies in the battle.
Week 26: Four Will O' Wisps are drawn to the Horn due to its malicious energies. They eat and kill every last boggard in the Horn, before Viktor talks them into taking residence in the meditation chamber. The Ninth Knot also agrees to provide them with weekly sacrifices.
Week 27: Trithraxus, a gigantic Gorgimera, attacks the Horn. Solomon talks it into guarding the caves instead. There, it drives out worm, who in his anger seizes Solomon's room and... well... "desecrates" it. Viktor talks Trithraxus into letting Worm stay in his cave.
Week 28: Grumblejack is brought to the Horn's inner sanctum to guard the ritual. Here, he gets dizzy, faints, and his horns grow out. It becomes apparant that he has fiendish blood, and the inner sanctum draws out his powers.
Week 29: It is quiet... too quiet.
Week 30: It is quiet... too quiet.
Week 31: It is quiet... too quiet.
Day 217, at the evening ritual: The Horn shakes. The seal that binds Vetra-Kali becomes weaker, and planar energies smashes out into every corner of the Horn. The following rooms are affected
(see the map of the Horn):
1-9: Half of "The Death's Head", the room that The Ninth Knot has refurbished into an inn, collapses. Many minions are flung into the open air and spiral into their deaths.
1-16: The fountain blows up in a cascade of energy-infused water and buries the entire first floot in water reaching to a normal man's knees.
1-23: The floor between 2-1 and 1-23 collapses and kills several guards.
2-2: The walls in the room explode and kill several mercenaries.
2-5: Metal bars twist and bend, and five donkeys are let loose and storm through the Horn.
2-15: A giant stone rains down from the ceiling and crushes one of the orphanage kids.
2-20: The pillar marked 'B' collapses into the dobbelt-doors. The guards are crushed.
3-1: The archway to the sanctum collapses and creates a giant, gabing hole in the side of the Horn.
3-2: The bended, north-western wall collapses and opens a new entrance into 3-13.
3-7: The room is completely destroyed and kills a large gathering of mercenaries.
3-10: All cell-doors in the prison pop open. Eight imprisoned peasants die during their escape, while a row of berserkers and other peasants manage to escape from the Horn. Others are caught. In act of blind luck or brilliant foresight, Jandar of Kumar has chained fyrra Valin Darian to the wall, and the open cell-door remains useless to him.
3-11: The northern wall melts away and falls into the valley under the Horn, creating a new entrance into the Horn.
S-1: The wall that seperates S-1 from B splits down the middle.
After these catastrophies, The Ninth Knot only has 25 minions left in its employ.
Day 217, during the midnight ritual: An avoral uses the planar connection that The Ninth Knot is creating into the prison of Vetra-Kali to free-ride into the Horn and attack the group. Four of the group's members handle the ritual while to others help the cohorts win the fight. Worm summons an owlbear that graps the Avoral and manages to keep it from fetching its allies - 8 giant owls - to assist it. Onni loses his life, but is reincarnated by Worm.
Day 218, during the afternoon: The colossal mass of energy that is gathered in the Horn awakes the ground itself. The mud in the caverns beneath the horn come to life as a giant elemental. The Ninth Knot manages to dispatch it.
Day 219, right as the midnight ritual is about to start: A terrible Leng spider uses the portal that the knot is opening to send 6 Tindalos hounds in to exterminate the group:
The Leng spider plans to use the Horn as its own lair. Once again, the group must leave 4 members to conduct the ritual while two and a group of cohorts kill the hounds. Onni loses his life a second time, this time remaining dead.