Battle at Rackthorn

Janine is broadcasting today and lets everyone know Runner Five is safe and well. When Thurman met Five at the top of the lift shaft, he just turned and walked away. If Five is listening, you will be rescued soon. Janine has found Sam's notes for a supposedly unwinnable Demons & Darkness campaign and believes she can win it – as long as you can keep up with the workout.

Janine plunges you into the campaign. You enter Castle Rackthorn's packed feasting hall and climb its staircase towards your summoner. For the next minute, do High Knees on the spot as you ascend. The castle has been besieged by giant spiders shortly after your arrival and it will be your mission to join the knights in battling them while the castle evacuates.

You enter a bedchamber where King Sigmund is slumped over a desk, bejewelled and asleep. You spot a secret passage but before you enter must steal one of the King's gold chains. This wakes the King, who shouts at you as you escape, calling you Doref. He activates an arrow-shooter and you must dodge the arrows! Use Hopping Side-to-Side for one minute. You evade the arrows and head towards the tunnel's exit.

You emerge in a woodland glade full of giant spiders. To move among them you must jump from one of their backs to another! Jumping on the Spot is ideal for this – make sure to keep your knees bent. You escape the spiders and make for a waterfall upriver.

Casting the King's chain into the Water Elemental river satisfies its desire for treasure and the waterfall sweeps to one side, revealing a cave. However, the river wants yet more treasure and a great wave follows you as you enter the cave. You climb the cave wall. Assume a Plank for a minute or more to keep you steady while the waves crash around you. This is where the spiders have been coming from – where their master must be.

Deep inside the cave you discover Doref, the King's chief warlock and advisor, commanding the spiders. He sees you and whispers to a crystal in his hands, causing the spiders to charge – the crystal must control them. One minute of Air Punching should see them off. Doref has been plotting to overthrow the King! The Water Elemental river crashes after you and you direct it at the crystal treasure in Doref's hand. That and your thrown sword dislodge it and the burst of energy created when it shatters collapses the cave. You flee, but the river drags Doref back in, hungry for his glittering rings.

Sam's back! Janine was called away and he's finished baking. She's... she's what? Cool down? Castle Rackthorn is saved?! You weren't meant to reach Doref yet and the spiders should have been impossible to evade! Looks like Sam has a lot of rewriting to do.