After surviving the daemon in the burning temple, the company retreats deeper into the cursed castle, bluffs their way past grotesque servants, finds tortured prisoners in the dungeon, and prepares to murder the dreaded Slagdog in his sleep.
As a storm gathers over Castle Wittgenstein and a green moon rises overhead, the companions interrupt a depraved Chaos ritual in a desecrated temple, battle savage Beastmen amid purple corruption, and ultimately discover that a daemon of Slaanesh has been orchestrating the horrors within.
The adventurers storm a corrupted castle, seal themselves within its inner sanctum, and press deeper through grotesque horrors toward the sinister heart of its decay.
The company storms the gatehouse and nearby barracks in a bid for stealth, but missed strikes and desperate escapes trigger a spreading alarm as their violent advance through the castle begins to unravel.
The party infiltrates Castle Wittgenstein under cover of darkness, silently killing a guard and slipping past mutated inhabitants to seize the walls and prepare an ambush from within.
The company braves the caverns beneath Castle Wittgenstein—slaying warped rats, feeding lashworms, outwitting a rock-throwing mutant, and discovering a forgotten stair into the keep—only to return and find their boat vanished, forcing them to commit fully to a perilous infiltration from within.
Seeking a hidden path into Castle Wittgenstein, the companions win the trust of Wittgendorf’s forest exiles and descend into the tainted caves below, where unseen horrors, unnatural growths, and a nest of monstrous, warp-glowing rats herald the corruption festering beneath the fortress.
The company defies an armed attempt to seize their riverboat, scouts the ominous heights of Castle Wittgenstein, and ultimately returns with food and caution into the haunted woods, where signs of hidden camps and darker forces suggest the true danger lies beyond the village itself.
In plague-stricken Wittgendorf, the party uncovers signs of ancient corruption, desperate cannibalism, and carefully tended lies, realizing that beneath the village’s suffering lies a long-buried secret still shaping its fate.
Arriving in plague-stricken Wittgendorf, the party confronts starving villagers and evasive masked guards, uncovers a burned-out Sigmarite temple, and begins to suspect that the castle’s nobles—and their forbidden knowledge—are the true source of the village’s slow, deliberate ruin.