The session begins with the Wind's Revenge hovering at the peak of the mountain range. The party identifies salvaged parts from the Caracas Gantry, including pulleys, gears, steel cable, and brass ingots. Upon spotting glacial ice, Captain Barnaby Harrier orders the ship to descend for harvesting. The party successfully fills seven barrels with melted ice; Mickle Cobblelob utilizes ritual casting to purify the water, ensuring the crew avoids dysentery during the long journey east.

While traversing the mountain range above a thick layer of rolling clouds, Nebish and Grundel spot unnatural glints and ripples in the cloud cover. A massive Skracken (Sky Kraken) lunges from the mists, drawn to the ship to feed on its hydrogas fuel. The beast clamps onto the side of the hull, violently rocking the vessel. Khalid unleashes a psychic blast that ripples through the creature's gelatinous form, while Mickle deploys a Flaming Sphere directly onto the monster's face. Lofta, Mickle’s homunculus, successfully hurls a R.I.P. bomb into the sphere, causing a massive explosion that maims the creature's eye and hide.

The Skracken retaliates with a jagged lightning bolt that knocks Mickle prone and grapples him, along with the ship's hydrogas engine, using its tentacles. Using a legendary action, the creature flings Grundel 40 feet backward into the open sky. In a desperate rescue effort, Lofta pitches a 100-foot coil of rope toward the falling Goliath. Nebish dives from the top of the balloon at dash speed to grab the rope and fly it to Grundel, embracing him in mid-air to arrest his lateral movement. The entire party—including Mickle and Bludarious—join a combined strength check to anchor the rope to the railing, eventually hauling Grundel back aboard via a rope ladder.

Bludarious mans the ship's brass cannon, dealing massive bludgeoning damage to the Skracken’s face. He follows up by taking aim with his hunting rifle, firing a precision shot into a gaping hole in the creature's head. The bullet ignites the creature's internal hydrogas, causing its head to explode in a violent burst of purple flame. They harvest a square foot of Kraken skin and a 100-foot spool of brass wire from the stomach of the dead carcass. During the remaining seven-day journey, Bludarious uses the ship's workshop to craft a professional-grade stock for his rifle, significantly improving its appearance.

Captain Barnaby drops the party off at a peninsula on Suriname Bay at midnight, careful to avoid detection near the Amazonian capital of Petrolina. He bids them farewell to reprovision the ship in Manticore, promising to meet them there in a few days. While traveling north through the lush jungle coastline, the party discovers a marble monument overlooking the bay. The monument features statues of warriors and lists highly decorated officers; however, the party discovers that the name Bludarious de'Tempoon has been illegally crossed out of the stone.

Continuing their forced march through the night, the party is stalked by a group of Cockatrices (hybrid bat-lizard-chicken monstrosities capable of petrification). Combat breaks out in the tall grass as the creatures charge. Bludarious uses his pistols to deliver a series of lethal “cowboy style” shots, eliminating one creature. Nebish hacks another to pieces with his rapier and shortsword. Mickle concludes the fight by using a Firebolt to ignite the feet of the final Cockatrice; the creature's frantic “hot-foot dance” causes it to lose its balance and snap its own neck. The session ends as day breaks over the horizon of the bay.