The real monsters are the people, the cultists who tortured Alessa. All of his clerics are extremely secretive and trust only fellow cultists. Their followers are typically referred to as Dragon Cultists. He further accused them of being egomaniacs and "cultists". The policemen exchange gunfire and grenades with cultists whose hoods depict an enormous eye. There, they discover the thief and other cultists performing a ritual. The heroes defeat Shub-Niggurath by feeding it the white cultists, making Shub-Niggurath violently ill. Aloy wins the competition, but the Nora are attacked by cultists. At the shrine, cultists strip Carmen and Sara and dress them in ceremonial gowns. Howard uses magic to raise the dead, using them to overcome the cultists. Lamper and Brears are exposed as agents and Lamper is killed by the cultists. Hugh brings out his gun, forcing the cultists to leave. At some point, Malcolm died and the cultists disbanded. He recruits Becky and Lucy, the women he saved, and hundreds of hybrid cultists. Ross O'Hennessy and Gareth Pierce appear as unnamed cultists.