Awake again, Mandy struggles desperately to locate Gordon. She know’s that he’s being prepared for a medical procedure that will end in death should he not be found. With the help of Annie and her ex-military friends, they decide to investigate a mortuary owned by Mandy’s uncle. What they find is something more heinous than any of them could have imagined.

Deep in the dreamworld, Arahan guides Gordon and company through the bandit-infested Stern Forest. They must reach the fabled Kingdom of Bowron at all costs. Reports of ravenous glor-hoard sightings are being whispered of in every tavern, with rumours of a vast glorhost being spawned in the Jim-Dan’s grim Cloaca hatcheries.