Season 2 Episode 6 -- Second Thoughts With some cunning mental prowess david fishes Hulic's plan for the titan: possess it with one of the demons he controls and then let the moss surround hulic in the center of the titan's brain. Then he tromps nw then sw then running jumps onto the Eldeen Reaches where the run along the coast to the new athas island across to droaam. team decides letting a demon -- even if it's possilbe -- to be a VERY bad idea and immediately begin plotting to murder hulic for the sake of humanity. they've got 26 days til H is done without assistance.. The other major concern is Droaam controlling friendfell. Still on friendly terms, Hulic sends Feng and Loper into the ether with the GreatHawk favored to Loper... 20mph 7 hours later they spot out the location... carrier parked on the ground at the gash, 1 topside along with a command ship and the damaged carrier Setting down on the ground in the spirit world the two shield brutes that tusselled with the team last time small talked on a matched intimidate. The carrier's DeathHelm has been cracked and is drooling Liquid Evil down into the Friendfell shield structure.. shield brutes say they're there til the liquid evil has filled the structure. They don't know why but it makes them edgy. Meanwhile David and Maheva take the kashakant junk to Rotting Blade-- Maheva picks up on the change in atmosphere -- a large portin of the blood crescent population has fled town towards Rotting Blade. only about 1,000 Blood patriots remain there in town... the refugees are all camping in the hills southwest of town.. there have been a few deaths so far and a skirmish between a privateer ship unidentified against one of the Bravado Pirates' squids -- both ships end up wrecking further south into the mountains. With the new unid'd ship in town, assumptions are that they are hired by Droaam through Blood Crescent, but it's unconfirmed. Hiring off\-duty Bravado Pirates proved to be rather easy. Athas Dwarf wanted for serial killing... reward... they offer a crew of 15 pirates to back up the team when they take on the Dwarf.. just let them know when and where. junking to the ag combine poodle farm, they spend time with a visotr's pass david manipulated from reception. chatting with the vets on duty and bending minds where possible, M+D get a feel for the terrain and once Loper and Feng get back to kashakant to cross over again, they swing down to catch up with Maheva and David.. the Main animal handler had been nursing the first birth of a poodle litter earlier. Feng performs a tea ritual with the exhausted mother who has caught some bad infection from the birthing and is scared for her pups who won't be able to blink until they able to run. She also wants the town to stop protecting the old and sick from being snatched away by the feral pack of poodles that escaped the Poodle Farm during the initial biopses of a few of the poodles. breaking into the handler's quarters, the team finds all the research records of the poodles, and david figures out the placenta suppresses spirit walking. After some testing, he can make planar anchor poison.. 1 dose per placenta... 4 remained from the mother's post-natal nourishment. team heads back to the farm to brew some potions and get some rest before grabbing some pirates to go kill the dwarf.