The party takes turns explaining what happened, since he'd left. As soon as he vanished, like the first avatar, the other four quickly came together, to discuss things and plan out a route of action. Deciding that Jarod was the biggest threat, they united their powers, to create a being eerily similar in power to him, then waited for the enemy god to appear. He did, and.. well, there are several large craters in the desert, from their battle, though Jarod is now destroyed, having left behind the largest crater, and his staff is in a containment field in the lab.<br/><br/>After that, the avatars split up, to resolve outstanding issues, such as the ancient red wyrm he'd promised to see off, and then set about the task of finding Draiss. Despite their combined efforts, and the information broker, they turned up nothing. "And that's when I had an idea. If you were some place we couldn't find you, then we needed to locate places where we couldn't look," she explains, expounding upon the fact she was thinking about his 'non-detection' aura, which she'd researched a bit of. With their combined efforts, and the help of the information brokers of Union, for a not-insignificant sum, they proceeded to search the entire multi-verse for places they couldn't find.<br/><br/>It turns out, that was almost the easy part, although there were quite a few that they found, fifteen in all. The hard part was getting in, once they'd isolated them. By reverse-engineering the SEP field spell, they managed to get close enough to these undetectable pockets of the Astral Plane to be able to crack into them. "It seems, however, that they are typically used as prisons for some of the most... dangerous entities in existence." Three escaped, during the attempts to find Draiss; the first, because they weren't expecting something to try to escape at all, the second, because it waited until they'd opened it enough to let their guard down, before it tore through... and the third was powerful enough, they couldn't stop it, once it started to escape. "We finally located you in the seventh one we opened. It was the hardest to break, but we managed to retrieve you, quickly." "And that's all that's happened, since you vanished, to us, anyway."<br/><br/>He'll notice some changes, among his women; first, Kat is amongst them, when, before, she'd been mostly excluded, second, most have let their hair grow out, a bit and, finally, Cerul, Maura, Tyra, and Ulwei are all now showing their pregnancies, to varying degrees; Tyra actually looks the most pregnant, and is likely about ready to lay her egg; Ulwei is the next-most, hobgoblins having the shortest pregnancies.