Night deepends outside and a sense of dread grows with each passing hour you spend inside the haunted keep. You fear that if you don't find Fram's sword and escape quickly, you will lose yourself to the darkness.

When Revealed: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. Then, each player reveals an encounter card.

Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, the first player must choose: either raise each player's threat by 2, or discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until a location is discarded and add that location to the staging area.

This stage cannot be defeated unless the players control at least 2 Loot objectives.