The group took some time to rest while simultaneously plotting a course of action for the next Disaster they were going to encounter, the 'Basilisk's Stone Festival'.
Once again, the role of strategist was unanimously passed on to Laurene, who had already prepared several plans of action for this Disaster, all of which involved a core figure who was even more powerful than Deram Hester, the Marquis of the nation of Isolon, Stone Protector, Leoniel Gilbert Franco.
They were about to enter a pocket reality that had the greatest number of similarities to their own reality, because in both worlds, Leoniel Franco had successfully been transformed into the berserking basilisk that the Demonic Hand wanted him to become.
However, there was a distinction, one created by the actions that had been taken in both worlds before both versions of the Basilisk's Stone Festival came to be.
