Roaming Vendor, Guardant Angel, and Warded Path arrive at a medical facility on the outskirts of Mytenea. There, the doctor provides them with medical supplies to take to the spaceport. A patient approaches with a large pustule on their forearm. The doctor is alarmed, quickly diagnosing the condition as the bite of a burrowing mite but can't find the antidote. The pustule bursts and small mites swarm out. Warded Path calls to her Ship Heart which directs her to the antidote.
Roaming Vendor examines both the antidote and the mites and is able to synthesise a sort of vaccine to prevent parasitic infection by the creatures.
Warded Path drives Vendor and Angel to the edge of the decay, then turns back to return the vehicle to the medical facility. Vendor and Angel proceed toward the spaceport, encountering both decay monsters and a canyon of raktors. The rain grows ever heavier as they head into the storm.
In a town at the base of the space elevator up to the port, among vendors peddling supplies and raktor cheese, a worried parent approaches Guardant Angel, concerned for their young daughter who has gone missing in the storm.
Vendor and Angel head in the direction the girl was last known to be. They find a cave and shout out to the child but hear the calls of Mytenean devils. Inside the cave, they find the missing child hiding in a fissure too narrow for the devils to reach in, having taken shelter in the same cave as the creatures. Vendor and Angel rescue the child and return her to her parent.
Vendor and Angel ascend the elevator to the station. The elevator lurches alarmingly in the high winds and halfway up, one of the cables snaps. The elevator squeals to a halt. Vendor and Angel manage to climb up past live wires and sheared metal to the second elevator cabin in which they are able to continue upwards.
At the top of the elevator, they meet Iron Pyrite of the Industrial Corps, one of their sick workers, Overseer Industrial Diamond of the Societal Corps, and his assistant, Steel Spark. It quickly becomes clear that Industrial Diamond is entirely pompous and self-absorbed, making questionable claims about his supposed dynastic lineage. It is equally clear that the workers are suffering from a respiratory illness. Iron Pyrite identifies that the oxygen filters need to be flushed but she is unable to do so remotely. Angel volunteers herself and Vendor to go outside the spaceport and manually fix the filters.
Steel Spark takes them to the airlock where they don spacesuits. Vendor considers improvements to the mag-boots but ultimately decides not to fiddle with them. The pair begin the walk to the oxygen filter but they are not alone. Burrowing mites scuttle out of the filter system, many clinging to the back of a far larger mighty mite. They manage to clear out the infestation to inspect the damage and suddenly an earlier vision makes sense to Roaming Vendor… he has brought along some replacement oxygen filters and is able to fix the system.
Another problem soon emerges. Steel Spark is unable to open the airlock. They've identified another entrance though - via the heat vent. Vendor rigs up some improved heat protection into their suits and they manage to make their way back into the spaceport.
Steel Spark suggests they meet up with Iron Pyrite who is apparently doing a job for Industrial Diamond. On the way there, they pass by a group of loader bots and a welding bot which unexpectantly attack, knocking out Steel Spark. Thankfully they are brought around, though they don't escape being loaded into the trash chute. Vendor and Angel disable the bots with extreme force and lower a winch cable down into the trash compactor to pull out Steel Spark.
Returning Steel Spark safely to their office, Vendor and Angel go to find Industrial Diamond, just in time to see him trick Iron Pyrite into an airlock and set it to open into space. They waste no time in overriding the airlock and taking down Industrial Diamond and his security bots.