While guests at Lestache's chateau, the agents clash with the vampires over the fate of a halfling colony in beholder territory.
While attending Lestache de Lyarcourt’s grand masquerade ball in Sepulchralis, the SPI discovered a vampire-orchestrated Hunt—a grotesque entertainment in which humanoids were pursued as prey—and that Sophie Steelboots, an exiled halfling captain under Tiamat’s protection, had been selected as the quarry. To locate and destroy the catastrophic threat underlying the halflings’ plight, the agents allied with the Crispic vampire Goratrix Ceoris and ventured into the Soulbound Rest—a huge graveyard anathema to vampires—where they found Xaryu the Liberator, the missing Xaryu hive component, now evolved into a Death Tyrant beholder, growing ever more powerful by consuming the essence of the restless dead. After battling their way through multiple vampire clans (including the near-unstoppable Enoch the Wise) and fighting through the defiled Elysium Sanctum, the party destroyed the Death Tyrant and narrowly escaped after a clash with the Brocolac himself.