You've rescued Kahliel's son and several others from their dungeon cells, but you're not free yet: an entire garrison of Orcs occupies the fortress above you. One false move could bring them all down on top of you, so you quietly make your way towards the secret exit, hoping to avoid a fight.

When Revealed: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. Each player discards cards from the encounter deck until an enemy is discarded and adds that enemy to the staging area.

Each enemy in the staging area cannot take damage and gets +X engagement cost, where X is the number of progress tokens here.

Forced: At the end of the round, reveal an encounter card. Then, place 1 resource here if no enemies were engaged this round.

The players cannot defeat this stage unless there are at least 2 resources here.