Episode 10: The Towers

In Episode 10, the newly minted Halen’s Heroes leave the devastated farm, only to discover that the kobolds were actually fleeing from horrifying, magically engineered predators. After battling a monstrous bear-bird, dissolving manticores, and a fire-breathing chimera, the party tracks these unnatural beasts to a ruptured, ancient stone tower. Inside, they uncover a gruesome scene of dead experimenters and a hidden lower level filled with cages that violently triggers Apple’s trauma from the pirate ship. As Wyn pieces together scattered notes, the group realizes this shadow organization is intentionally rewriting predator instincts to create a behavioral curse.

The investigation pushes the group further west to a second, fully intact tower protected by a deadly swarm of blood-sucking insects and ...