[Actual RP date: 13 Jul 1999 / 20 Jul 1999 ]

Jynx, having sought advice from Schoolmaster Horace Bookman in the village, dropped off anything of metal in his possession, and now heads off to Cemetery Hill, armed with only his obsidian dagger, a wooden mallet, and seven wooden stakes. The foppish fox bard provides musical accompaniment – and the occasional scream.

After some minor spooky encounters on the way, Jynx and the fox arrive at the Old Cemetery. As soon as they step inside, the gates slam closed, and the fox falls into an open grave. Skeletal hands claw at the fox, and Jynx hurriedly pulls him out … only to find that the cemetery is coming to unlife as the dead rise and shamble toward the twosome. Up on top of a mausoleum, a raven appears, as the sky fills with an unholy storm. The foppish fox identifies the raven as Schoolmaster Bookman, but as Jynx rushes for the mausoleum, he learns that the Schoolmaster is indeed the very same Horatio Bakula – the spirit mage turned creature of the night.

Bakula gloats about having tricked Jynx into leaving behind just about every useful tool or weapon, and coming to this trap in the cemetery. He offers Jynx a chance to walk out alive, if he will promise never to return, to interfere no more … and to sign over the deed to the lands he inherited. Jynx asks about the fate of the townspeople, but Bakula just tells him that it will no longer be his concern.

Jynx ponders his situation, then puts on the chaos charm given to him by the Priest-Queen, and uses his belt as a makeshift lasso. He turns down Bakula's offer … then proceeds to snare a gargoyle with the lasso, and to pull himself up as the zombies close around the base of the mausoleum. The gargoyle cracks, and Jynx just barely leaps up to the edge of the roof – and another gargoyle – as his first foothold falls away. As Bakula takes to the air, Jynx pulls out a stake and jams it into a gap in the stonework … then, after fumbling another, he does the same with a second stake, and more carefully makes his way up to the roof of the mausoleum.

There, he decides to try half of the contents of the healing potion, having sustained minor injuries in his adventure so far. At the same time, a bolt of lightning shatters a gargoyle next to him, making his precarious situation very clear, as he is now at the top of the tallest structure on the tallest hill in the middle of a thunderstorm!

As Bakula mocks him from the air, Jynx tries a desperate gambit – He coats his obsidian dagger with some of the remaining healing elixir. Then, when the Korv is close enough, he flings the dagger … and, in a truly heroic feat, he manages to impale the chest of the monster with the weapon! Bakula is destroyed, and the storm goes wild, levelling the cemetery.

When Jynx comes to, he finds himself amidst the rubble of the ruined cemetery. The foppish fox has found the crystal shard … and, unbeknownst to Jynx, an obsidian shard which the fox uses as a toothpick. Jynx then determinedly makes his way to the crater in the heart of the Haunted Wood, and plunges the shard back into its proper place. The ancient crystal structure seems to come to life … and the gathered forest animals mutate back to their normal, mundane forms.

Having saved the countryside from the threat of Bakula, and swarms of monsters, Jynx returns to the village with the foppish fox singing his praises.