Patches returns to the party and gives them one last once-over for hidden valuables and administers the antidote. When the party comes around, Patches explains to the party that while they were unconscious, he went to get help and managed to buy some food. He exaggerates how much the food cost him and convinces the party that because he saved their life, he should get a big portion of their next reward. Patches even gave himself a black eye and scratches on his arm, neck and face and even caked his cloak and boots in mud so that he could claim he tried to stop the Party from throwing their gear and gold into the bog, but the party fought him. Patches of course blamed the whole thing on the Cleric, who was preaching the evil of material possessions. According to Patches, the Cleric was convinced that by abandoning their material goods the Gods would look down with mercy and save them.

It's at this point that I'm struggling to get the wheels back on my campaign. I have no idea where to go, and I've got three hours left in the session, so I start riffing. The players are getting awfully close to the border of another country, where they plan to illegally immigrate and hide from the folks that are out to kill them. Unfortunately, it's too long of a trek to do on the food that Patches shared with the party despite ensuring that Patches would have enough food for the trip when I bartered with him as the Gypsy crone. Party is back in starvation mode, only this time nobody trusts the Loremaster's roll regarding some edible wild onions and berries (he rolled correctly this time, go figure.) because I accidentally layed it on pretty thick that the Loremaster is in truly unfamiliar country and he'd have a -10 to his botanical knowledge checks. I relent, though, and fudge a roll for a random encounter and they run across a band of highwaymen that mean to rob them of everything they have. The pyromancer burns a few of them alive, the Loremaster turns into a throwing knife pincushion, the Knight and Cleric, missing their weapons thanks to patches gang up and club one of the bandits to death, and Patches disposes of two of them by himself. The remaining two bandits flee and the party surmise that they must have a holdout somewhere so they follow their direction of travel, eventually stumbling on the camp and catching the bandits unaware at night.

While searching the camp, the Cleric starts looking through their effects and discovers that these bandits were really just poor refugees from the next country over looking to make money for their starving families (only women and children permitted in the indigent camps). The party finds a sack of cabbage, onions, potatoes and carrots and some burporridge dry mix to hold them for the rest of their trek. Upon realizing they've found enough food to get them to their destination, the Pyromancer attempts to hide the fact that he's disposing of something, but he fails the roll. The party notices that he's got a well-done leg of bandit tucked away in a sack and the entire party is completely horrified that he's gone and done this. Patches attempts to exacerbate the situation by faking outrage at the concept of resorting to cannibalism, but he's a sociopath, so I rule that outrage is a lie. I force him to make a roll under the table via mobile (first failure) and then announce to the party that Patches' dialogue has been retconned mid-argument. Patches announces instead that he thinks it would be hilarious to watch the Cleric unknowningly dining on human flesh while Patches secretly eats food that was bought with the Cleric's own gold and not shared with the party. The resulting ransacking of Patches' goods consumes the remaining hour and a half of the session and the OOC/IC argument went completely nuts, including the Cleric completely losing his shit that Patches basically manipulated him into murdering bandits, who were only guilty of robbery out of desperation. Luckily for Patches, the party assumed that Patches had actually dived in the bog and managed to recover most of the Cleric's gold, so they haven't quite figured out that he's the whole reason they are now using shitty bandit steel instead of their starting weapons.