Ascent into Madness is a mini-campaign in the city of Hollin. Thanks Amy, Henele, James, Keith, Nick, Tracy!
The party kills Miss Miller. They meet Beale's barber Matilda, wearing bells and confused. At Voorman's prosthetics shop, they find he was building astronomical clocks, mechanical spiders, and automatons. They discover that the automaton Hestor killed Voorman after he gave her life and free will. They discover that Hestor has built her own astronomical clock mechanical spider god Chronos, and Marina and Rosy defeat them. Beale and Manfred Unger discuss paradoxes, and Beale plans to deal with the lich Ishild.
Wolfgang discusses the infected, Rosy, and Melek with Melina and Singleton. Ishild asks Beale to find 20 million gold pieces worth of doubly-refined greencake and the True Name of God. Kasskar tells Beale about Ishild, loaded on opium. The party goes to the Brock House monument in the City of the Dead. There, the party defeats Bullington Brock at the arcane vortex, freeing Stella Brock from her curse. Beale and Marina solve Winnie Brock's love triangle riddle there, freeing Winnie from her curse.