They find the cake shop all locked up. A beggar tells them that the guard are going to investigate the deaths here. Osgoth shoulders his way in and they go below. They soon encounter the giant ants and Osgoth strikes them down. They find a hole down to the next level and Osgoth drops a whiskey bomb down it. There is an, unexpected, large explosion. They go down to find that a pool of natural pitch was ignited by the whisky; all the ants here are burned to a crisp. They go down to the next level to find larger ants guarding the way.Again Osgoth attacks this but it got in a couple of hits and they retreat to the surface taking the head of an ant to see Mayor Anton. Henrey, the Mayors aide, offers 20 gold pieces per left mandible.
Resting, plus a visit to the temple of Heironeous for healing by Yolkin, see them ready for shopping. They go to Carter the Seamstress and Fnipper Rooner’s before going back into the nest. The 3rd level is guarded but they push through to find the queens chamber. There are too many ants here and so they flee back to the surface. Greedy Ulalume, however, tarries to get a couple more mandibles and is overrun. Osgoth leaps to the rescue just in the nick of time before Ulalume expires.