As the little boy grumpily opens the cabin door, he notices that snow has begun to fall and warns that the first snow fall is a sign that Krampus is coming to snatch people and judge them, sending those he deems bad to his “hell” at the bottom of his tower. The snow begins falling very heavily and the wind picks up, creating a whirlwind of snow that obscures the party’s vision.
Suddenly, Fergus and Circe find themselves magically transported into individual cages inside of a dark room. Using her druidic shapeshifting skills, Circe transforms into a rat, crawls out of her cage, and retrieves a lockpick to free Fergus. Together, the two adventurers stealthily travel down a set of spiral stairs from room to room of Krampus’s tower, searching for their companions and means to escape and solving puzzles along the way. The route is treacherous, but Fergus’s axe convinces an old man in a Krampus mask to bring them to their friends and even reveal a secret bookcase passage that opens to another spiral staircase that leads out of the tower.
Before they can open the final door to freedom, Krampus suddenly appears before them! With two of their party members knocked out, Fergus and Circe struggle to battle the beast, eventually managing to subdue him. Before he disappears in a puff of black smoke, he glares at Circe, takes out a scroll, and crosses something out on the paper.
Carrying their incapacitated companions, Fergus and Circe escape back out into the cold where the original cabin in the woods still stands. The little boy, wide-eyed and impressed that the group escaped the clutches of Krampus, invites everyone in to sit by the fire and rest.