After all, you need him for your big plan: heading to the arena, waving your arms, and yelling as loudly as you can to attract enemies to you. This succeeds, and you and Monty are soon cornered by nine people... including Horse Face, who's joined the Game! He's ambushed by a team of weaker opponents as you face off with one of Ramsey's inner circle and Monty takes down three more, though not before he's badly wounded. Once you've disposed of everybody in your path (with help from some giant alligators), you locate an injured, unrepentant Horse Face and forcibly commune with him. Intent on "getting through" to him, you peel away several Horse Facey layers-- and several layers of your own-- before exposing him to the mortal terror of the void. He goes catatonic. Hooray!

Back in the real world, Gil finds a mechanism to open Horse Face's AUX space, and Monty helps drag Horse Face inside-- important, because the outskirts of the Fen are now horrifically poisoned by more collateral damage. Meanwhile, you set off to rescue the other 95% of Gil, who's contacted you on his walkie-talkie. You discover the rest of Gil hiding inside a log, most of his goo body having been sliced off. You drop everything and carry him off to Pat's manse, but not before stumbling across the ruins of Branwen's farm, Branwen's dead body included.

Pat promises to fix Gil back up, and you get some sleep on her couch. The next morning, a patched-up Gil shows you his new metal skeleton, and you get a missive from Ramsey: teaming up with others is now considered "cheating." This bodes ill, because you've just had a prophetic dream about two things: A), one of Ramsey's surviving retainers sacrificing herself in some kind of Wyrm-centric ritual, and B), Monty dying in a fight against the other surviving retainer. You sprint off to save him, but are waylaid by one of the remaining contestants-- after you're done killing him, you're too late to help Monty, whose head is nearly severed from his shoulders. All of your concentrated God powers are enough to allow him to get some last words out, but he gently refuses further attempts to save him.

You bury him and kill the remaining non-allied contestants, leaving only yourself, Gil, Earl, Lucky, Horse Face, and two Courtiers alive. Ramsey, seeing this, teleports the seven of you into a tiny arena and instructs you to murder each other. If you won't, she'll use the tokens to control you until you will. Or not: you tear out your token, charge Ramsey, tear out Gil's token, instruct Earl to blood-magic transform to get his token out, and use your Herald powers to rip out Horse Face's. (Lucky and the Courtiers have it under control.) Then everybody teams up to launch you through Ramsey's cloak-- and you and her vanish!