25th November, 1886
When the party is fully rested and healed they approach the Brule Chief Red Crow to talk about their upcoming journey and to ask some more questions about the Lakota beliefs. After some storytelling and questions they go out in search of Wochikeye to send them on their journey to face Anúŋg Ité. When they arrive in the spirit world, Chow, Jed, and Raylon reach out to their ancestors for guidance and strength, and their prayers are answered.
The calls out to Anúŋg Ité in the spirit world and she draws them to her domain. They find her in a void. As they approach, granite spikes burst forth from below them. A ground forms and she attacks. The party finds that just as the realm will bend to her will, it will also bend to theirs at a cost. They gain a small victory as Anúŋg Ité retreats to another of her realms within the spirit world.
This realm is lush, verdant, and forest-like. The party devises a plan to use explosives against her. As they flee the charge, Grimm and Jed are caught in the blast. While Jed’s wounds are survivable, Grimm becomes caught in limbo. Neither dead nor alive. In a valiant last stand, Raylan goes down shooting. As hopes for a victory steadily wane, Chow opens up a portal back to the living world for a much needed respite. After gathering some advice from the Lakota elders and a little bit of healing he returns to the fight to find Anúŋg Ité gone along with Grimms body. Chow heals Jed and Raylan as best as he can and they pursue the badly injured Anúŋg Ité into her next realm of the spirit world.
The last realm of Anúŋg Ité is an icy forest. A chill wind cuts through to the bone. A deadly silence fills the air. After teleporting themselves to the supposed location of their friend's body, they still find an empty forest. It is only after the reanimated corpse of Grimm attacks them that they realize that Anúŋg Ité and her thrall are both invisible. After taking some deadly hits they finally defeat Anúŋg Ité; her last words: “Why do you fight for them?”
When the party returns to the world of the living, they find a nightmarish scene. The settlement has been deserted with frozen blood and bodies out in the cold harsh winter.