The Final Cut: Curse of the Borgovian Stain

“God, no. You’d probably invent mechanical killer bees by accident.” She pauses. “Besides… I heard a rumor about a vampire lord in the southern swamps.”

Their first mission is a gothic dungeon crawl through the Theatre of Nightmares, where a rogue stage magician has become a flesh-weaving abomination. The Hunter fights with a rapier, a steam-powered pistol, and a "Glimmer-Cage" grenade that traps spectral enemies. Katarina phases through enemies to stab them from behind, all while delivering deadpan commentary.

The Hunter stands on a rooftop with Katarina. The locket is whole again, but she doesn’t take it.

In its distraction, the Hunter uses The Final Cut not on Moribund, but on the anchor binding The Other to Borgovia. The blade severs the metaphysical knot. The tower collapses. The Stain evaporates. Borgovia’s citizens wake up with no memory of the madness. General Harker and Professor Fulmigati, having lost their armies, awkwardly agree to share a beer.

“Don’t touch the purple fog,” she warns, floating through a wall. “It makes you hallucinate your own death. Rather inconvenient.”

The Hunter smiles. He loads his pistol.

“You know,” she says, “most hunters retire after saving reality. Buy a cottage. Raise bees.”

It’s during this chase that they encounter the true antagonist: , a disgraced alchemist from Van Helsing’s own era. He has been kept alive for 200 years by a machine-spirit hybrid. Moribund reveals he created the Stain on purpose. He is not trying to destroy Borgovia—he is trying to awaken The Other so he can bargain for immortality for all.

The Hunter realizes the truth: Moribund is already dead. He was the first victim of the Stain, and his machine-spirit is just a recording of his madness. The only way to stop him is to convince The Other that Moribund’s proposal is boring.