So, our intrepid group of travelers, having successfully stolen a scroll of wish,

reconvened at a hideout, wherein the apostate slash mage in training,

Gaius proceeded to spend

all night

and all day

making a new scroll

of wish

slash modify memory

in order to

reverse what had been

sort of wish

modified into existence

from the folks of the, oh no, I didn't write down the other country.

It wasn't Calderon. That's the mountains.

Are you thinking of Gasol?

Gasol, that's the one.

Yes. So, Mages of Gasol had mess with magic and people's memories and stuff.

And so, Gaius was going to undo that.

In order to do so, however, we needed to go to the Coliseum,

where there were sort of magic energy boosting things in place.

Upon arrival, we discovered that our arrival was expected,

and an enemy mage from Gasol met us there,

...