On the 75th night of adventuring in Chult, b'Urp awakens to find himself gagged and tied and being carried through the jungle. His companions are nowhere to be seen. He has been abducted by a group of grung. He recognises that they are from his village of Dungrunglung and even that a clutchmate of his among them, b’Reep. He does not attempt to escape and listens to them talk as they travel. He learns that orders have been given to bring him to the village by Krr’ook, the village priest who has heard stories about b’Urp and his encounter with other grung hunting parties and his exploits in the area. The journey takes several days. One particular night, the group is attacked by a group on undead again bearing that same sigil as b’Urp has encountered before. The grung are taken by surprise and are in a dire predicament when b’Urp slips his bonds and joins the fight. B’Urp manages to save most of the grung party and b’Reep’s life. Afterwards, he proffers the ropes that were being used to hold him again and submits to once again to bound. The group arrives at the village eventually and b’Urp is quickly ushered to meet with Krr’ook. The priest tells b’Urp that the king has succumbed to madness and is committing all of the village resources into a ritual to summon a goddess with which the king will mate, allowing the creation of a new clutch of grung that will allow them to deal with the undead threat to the village. Krr’ook believes that the ritual will fail and the increasingly unstable king (who is murdering grung who defy or question him) will use his considerable powers on the village itself. She tells b’Urp the only way to stop this from happening is to kill the king. She tells him that she will listen to b’Urp’s teachings about the elements as she fears that the grung gods have forsaken them. B’Urp is skeptical, but does not want his village destroyed and reluctantly agrees. B’Urp is sent to the prison pit where he prepares himself, communing with the elemental spirits and trying to gain greater insight into the powers that he may be able to unlock. During this time, he overhears talk amongst the guards and the other villagers about how how b’Urp had demonstrated ungrunglike behaviour but showed powers that grung had never seen before. That maybe they should follow b’Urp as he may be the strongest, but they are all confused at his surrender. Roark, King Groak’s chief enforcer, squashed any talk he hears of b’Urp’s exploits in a brutal manner and often comes by to taunt b’Urp who does not respond, further angering Roark. The only thing that keeps Roark from attacking is the ruse that Krr’ook devised that b’Urp is to be a sacrifice at the ritual to ensure the coming of the goddess. The night of the ritual finally arrives. B’Urp, gear restored, is escorted to the site by guards, among whom is b’Reep. The king has had prepared a statue of his ‘goddess’ and has b’Urp brought to the sacrificial altar in front of it. The king rants in his madness about the ritual and how it will summon the goddess. However, when the king reveals that his intends his new progeny with the summoned goddess to kill, eat and replace all the current villagers, Roark angrily cuts b’Urp’s bonds and urged him to kill the king. A furious battle ensues, the king being powerful, insane and armed with soome sort of magical crown. B’Urp is severely injured but in the end manages to kill the king. As he turns to face the onlooking villagers, he is startled as a body falls into his back. He looks down in shock to see b’Reep with an arrow piercing his chest. He looks up to see an enraged Roark, flanked by Krr'ook, throw down his bow and summoning a dozen guards, move to attack. B’Urp realises that b’Reep had taken an arrow meant for his back and that his hopes of teaching the village about a different way were a delusion. B’Urp turns to fight his entire village, knowing that he cannot win, but driven by anger and sorrow, he cannot help himself. He knows he will likely die. The battle is furious and bloody with many of Roark’s guards doing down. Roark sees an opening in the fight and stabs through a villager and strikes b’Urp with what would seem a mortal blow. However, unnoticed by him, b’Reep had placed the summoning stick whose mate still resides with his adventuring companions in his robes. Roark's blow had shattered the stick, activating its teleportation magic....