1. Deadly Spices: After Nicholai's wedding to Tatianna, the released pantherwere who once inhabited Nicholai's Figurine of Wondrous Power—Panther ("He's marrying a magic item? I respect that," said Sindaraen), the group and guests all met in Mikhael's ballroom for the banquet. During dinner, the fumes from the food suddenly rose and became monsters, while simultaneously Nicholai, Mikhael, Cassia, her new boyfriend Gideon, Lairunya, the now-female Simon, and Callous were all mysteriously swept to Kara-Tur ... again! (And Nicholai without his new wife Tatianna, making neither of them happy.) Gideon, who seemed to have been pulled along by accident, quickly learned that he'd been targeted by Hera, who had a grudge against Zeus-worshipping Cassia and was taking a malicious interest in ruining Cassia's love life.
During the course of the adventure, the Scintillating Company—mostly grumpy about being pulled so rudely from retirement, discovered that the monsters and transportation seemed to be caused by a Kara-Tur speciality called "spice magic." ("That's it—my cook is fired!" said Mikhael.) The company spoke to the local daimyo and discovered their old enemy Fireleech had committed seppuku and was now being tormented in the afterlife. After an ambush against the company and a fight in which Fireleech surrendered, Mikhael made some sort of deal with an agent of No Cha to ensure that Fireleech would die combatting the Scintillating Company's old enemy, the neogi, in return for Fireleech becoming a Glenzoran hero and No Cha's worship being allowed back into the city. The group grudgingly agreed, primarily because it meant getting to see Fireleech die again.
The group, now obliged to protect Fireleech, paid off his duty-debts to the daimyo and then set off to find the spice-mage who'd arranged their deportation from Glenzor. The spice-mage was confronted and admitted that he'd made a deal with the neogi to get the Scintillating Company off-plane while the neogi worked on his master plan to create a Balrog. (Not the puny demon; a much, much worse monster.) The Scintillating Company was less than thrilled to discover that the neogi had been researching their truenames, and most of the truename information was promptly destroyed. (Mikhael chose to eat the ashes of his truename on a variety of different planes in order to keep them from being Reconstructed by some enterprising mage.)
After a brief excursion to pick up an Apple of Immortality and visit Yeng-Wang-Yeh, the god of death, the ScintCo returned to Glenzor again.
In order to avoid the question of who'd get to be immortal, the Apple of Immortality was given to the company's ally, an ancient, plane-researching grey-elven sage named Baldarion Wolfe, who was on his deathbed. Baldarion recovered and was quite grateful.

2. The Tomb of Horrors: The hunt for the spice-procurer was on. Mikhael chastised his cook, who fingered a spice merchant in Belgabass. There the group learned, among other things, that the spice merchant's sons had been nipping the spices and losing life energy. A vampire was suspected, so Ambassador-to-the-Undead Cassia Vesellos headed off to her would-be paramour, the nosferatu Dom Egrets. Eventually Gideon's brother was suspected—the company was surprised to learn that Gideon's brother was a vampire, but promised Gideon that they'd stake the wayward sibling out as soon as possible. Gideon wasn't happy.
Investigations led to a small Parthenon town called Callistrand, where the ScintCo discovered strange undead doings afoot. A vampiric trio called the Dim Triad was in operation. Investigations led the group onward to the mansion of a vanished mage, where it fought and killed a magically lust-inducing male lamia ("As soon as it suggested that it might come to the university where Danny teaches, it sealed its death warrant," Mikhael said about having killed it with Simon) and freed the wemic's love-slave Amazon giants. Information from the mage's records indicated that behind the Dim Triad was some sort of dark being called Acererak, a demi-lich who once dwelled in a lair colloquially called the Tomb of Horrors. The ScintCo located the last surviving adventurers to visit the lair and spoke to them, getting records and more background information.
The Tomb of Horrors now seemed to have grown into a necromantic school and city in the remote Parthenon swamps. The group talked the situation over with its government contacts and ended up taking the job of clearing out the swamps from the king of Parthenon. As the ScintCo was getting ready to finish its initial recon of the city, it was summoned by the vampire Egrets to Sigil to talk the affair over with the vampire's superior and the Dustmen's faction leader, a lich. The group decided to go—Cassie wearing her best gothbabe-vamp outfit. The lich offered to provide information about the City of the Skull and Acererak in return for the ScintCo's promise to destroy any information it might find about creating liches. To sweeten the deal, the lich mentioned that Acererak was in cahoots with the neogi.
After a heated debate in which Mikhael sullenly agreed to go along only after much argument, the lich provided the information and the group returned to Glenzor to do more research based on the new information. After a day's research, it regrouped in the Temple of Tyr and sacrificed a number of magical weapons for a high-powered Commune spell. The information from that spell led the company to believe that something called Drake's Child might be an ally. In scrying on the Child through the group's Mirror of Mental Prowess, the group found William Drake and decided to grab the necromancer through the mirror. The attack went awry when Gideon tossed in a Bead of Force that interacted badly with Drake's Bag of Holding and rifted, sending three of the company onto the Astral Plane with Drake. The rest of the group headed after the lost members within two rounds, but not before Gideon was killed. Drake Teleported Without Error across planes, and Mikhael scried upon him, finding the necromancer banging on the lid of a coffin—one of the Dim Triad's coffins, the group surmised. It returned to the Temple of Tyr and shifted the mirror to Drake again, attacking, as the "Tyr Pit Crew" of lower-level clerics fed Gideon a potion that brought him back from the dead and once more into the fray. The fight across the mirror's threshold between continents, one side within the Temple of Tyr and one side in the vampire's lair, was truly something to behold, ending with Drake being Feebleminded, the pennegalan vampire destroyed, Lairunya killed, Nicholai paralyzed, Sindaraen battling a Phantasmal Killer of Lord Skineater ("I knew he was in on it!"), and the headmistress of the school Shapechanging into a dragon. Half of the group fled back through the mirror and half hid in Mikhael's Cube of Force while the vampires fled and the breath-weapons froze the area. Then, after some argument with Mikhael, who wanted to go charging after the dragon and continue the fight, the half hiding in the Cube of Force also fled back through the mirror. Mikhael sulked while the party and clerics raised Lairunya, unparalyzed Nicholai, "rescued" Sindaraen, and discovered and questioned the mutant child living in Drake's body. The child, which spoke much like an adult and was apparently around 50-plus years old, agreed to help the group because it objected to the experiments the necromancers were carrying out on unborn children. Since the child had no name, Mikhael suggested Kasper, and the child agreed. Although Kasper wanted to eat Drake, the group resisted the suggestion until more research could be done ("It could set an interesting precedent," Mikhael mused).