Meneldin asks Luna what she's doing that she isn't willing to give up. She says she's an adventurer, solving murders and such. He asks if she's having fun, to which she responds that there are worse things she could be doing.

They come to a hallway with a platform at the end of it, 20 feet on a side, the platform an engraving of the three beasts together—a checkpoint to ensure there are still people in all three paths. The groups all stand on their respective platforms, activating them and the air platform descends while the other two ascend. The badges lose their connection with each other. They arrive in musty, sandstone rooms; Armin and Thyrr smell blood.

The wall before Mira and Dorean lowers to reveal a platform filled with people in SMF armor. They have weapons apparently built with some sort of shard magic incorporated and comment about testing their new weapons before engaging. Hiroto is killed through a combination of mind control and bad luck. One of the weapons is able to create evil clones of people. Safala, possessed by one of the enemies, kills Modrod as the platform begins to descend.

Vera and Eck's group face down a twisted mess of apendages and tentacles. Its skin shimmers with a hexagonal pattern; a metal plate in its forehead reads, "Gamma." Gamma casts multiple spells at a time, including two Meteor Swarms at once, forcing the group to deal massive damage in a short period of time. The platform begins to descend.

Ward and Luna's platform descend from the ceiling into an arena. The far wall also lowers, revealing a heavily modified Arcbound. Myrdra is killed in the combat, as the other two groups join the fray at the end of the fight. As they defeat the arcbound scorpion, Motoko's scream of despair comes over the adventurer's badges. As Ward looks over the arcbound corpse, he realizes that it was a new construct rather than repurposed. As he examines it, one of the seven canisters on its back regenerates its power, waking it up once again.

Returning

• Meneldin
• Safala - Catfolk Rogue
• Modrod - Modrod
• Hiroto Karuto - Samurai
• Motoko Sukai - Attendant/Naginata wielder
• Bazan - Goliath Barbarian
• Bozja - Bazan's dog in a battleaxe
• Armin Desult - Vampire
• "Beryn" Berynneth - Succubus
• Thyrr Bloodmuzzle - Gnoll archer
• Talthis Vim
• Fladict - Elven Archer
• Myrdra BelBreln - Dwarf
• Garton Rainshadow - Halfling