Bina, Prima 121, Addison, Jenna, and Matriarch head over to the Philosophy Building to see if they can stop Dr. Lawrence Beech and his cyborg monkeys. This episode is a not only a problem--it's an epic battle!

Our hunters are down in the steam tunnels beneath west Davis, and they have encountered some of Dr. Lawrence Beech's cyborg monkeys. Will they escape the fight? Will they ever get over to the Primate Center?

And what the heck happens to Jenna and Prima 121? There's some magic that goes off sort of at a slant..... and that's not usually a good thing....

Officer Paulina Brooks has been injured. The hunters rush to Sutter hospital to try and discover what has happened to her. They are desperate to learn if Professor Lawrence Beech is behind the attack, and if he is, they want to know exactly what the attack was..... this is unfortunately becoming a pattern, and they don't seem to be getting any closer to solving the mystery.... yet, the clock is ticking....

The barroom brawl reaches its certain conclusion.... Crenshaw continues his Machiavellian manipulations, Fence moves across the rafter beams, Tharivol tries to rescue his new beloved, Sophia, from a tangle of bodies on the barroom floor, and Masaki seeks her revenge.

The angry dwarven denizens of the Shore District storm into the Rusty Nail, they are intent on roughing up the town guards who Tharivol has brought here. Chairs and punches are thrown; smoke clouds are summoned....

Tharivol sits down at a table with a town guard, Broski. They drink. They go and play darts with other town guards, Odom, Sean, and their crew. In the craziness of the evening, Crenshaw and Fence join them and the whole group makes their way over to the Rusty Nail. Needless to say the town guard is not exactly going to be welcomed to a bar where most of the patrons are still loyal to the exiled Duke and his niece, Claren Steelcloven.

Crenshaw, Fence, and Thraivol talk with Ruda Goldbraid, the Blacksmith. Fence wants the magic of his spear increased, and Crenshaw wants information. Then our heroes move next door to Ruda’s cousin’s shop, Sophia Huff, the armorer. Finally, the party heads out to scope out the districts in Dan and get eyes on the entrances to the Inner Keep where they Scarlett Antwerp resides.

Our adventurers leave the Crypt of the Sun Lord and travel for three days to reach the capital city of Dan in the country of Isk-Dan, Claren’s old home and now under the thumb of Scarlet Antwerp.

Our heroes arrive on the outskirts of Dan, cross the River Isk, and sneak into the city, pretending to be farmers seeking out one of Dan’s leading dry goods merchants, Barto Crumwat. Behind the city’s walls, they can see its Temple dedicated to Ra, Anubis, and Ptah rising skyward within the city's Central Keep.

Adison, Bina, and Prima head over to the Primate Research Center to investigate where the 18 monkeys and 3 chimpanzees disappeared. Matriarch interviews the elvish Professor Clayton Holt, Chair of the Ethics Committee, and learns that Dr. Lawrence Beech was engaged in some unapproved and rather questionable experiments. Matt also learns that Professor Holt sees the supernatural and the weirdly scientific as being on a continuum, and that that continuum might be where Dr. Beech's work and Dr. Noble's work was coming together. There's also another attack, but this time the victim Officer Paulina Brookes survives!!!!

Our monster hunters leave Oakland and venture north to Sacramento. There has been a murder and other bizarre going ons at UC Davis and the police chief there has called in her buddy Marvin Horner and the Nyctophonbics Anonymous crew to see if they can get to the bottom of things....