Rickety Stitch is a walking skeleton, blessed with much more personality than his kind usually have, but plagued by dark dreams of a undead army and a terrible Lich King. He and his best friend, the Gelatinous Goo, are on a quest to find the source and meaning of these dreams which they believe lies in a nearly forgotten kingdom called Epoli. In this volume they stumble into a construction site which has uncovered pieces of Epoli's ancient treasure. But as soon as they glimpse it it is stolen by the minions of a petty goblin merchant running a caravan across the continent. Rickety and Goo get on board with a party of musicians, but the caravan is repeatedly attacked by bandits and black knights. With so many enemies and competing motives in the way, will Rickety ever find the answers he's searching for?