As Nyridius slept, the party was able to scavenge three complete uniforms off of the Knights of Genetic Purity. That left them in a tricky spot, seeing as there were five of them. But Cuddlepunch wouldn't fit in one anyway, and Nyridius would probably just burn through his. So Duke laid out the following strategy: Duke, Defendomax, and Vagabot would pretend to be KGP, and Nyridius and Cuddlepunch would be their "hostages." As they left, Og urged Cuddlepunch to save the yeti chieftain, who was being held hostage.
The party entered the Valley of Sorrow, only to find a tragic scene. Yeti corpses littered the village, and most of their simple straw huts had been burned down. Many had apparently fled. Only the chieftain's hut was intact, and it was guarded by a 9-foot, muscle-bound, hard-headed, no-toothed, in-bred, hillbilly simpleton. Duke confidently asked for permission to enter, but the brute balked at Duke's fancy-talk. Only after Duke bathed his words in a warm, ignorant drawl did he gain the hillbilly's favor. The hillbilly asked their names. It took a couple of tries, but once the party fabricated names that indicated a sufficient level of down-home genetic purity, they were allowed entrance.
Inside, the party found that the Knights of Genetic Purity had turned the chieftain's ceremonial hut into an execution staging area. Statues of yeti elders had been smashed, and gaping craters of radioactive acids covered the ground. Three yetis, including the chieftain, were shackled to the wall. Duke pretends to shackle Nyridius and Cuddlepunch in beside them.
When the humans begin executing they yetis with an elaborate electricity-producing machine, the party springs into action. They immediately focus their attacks on the leader, and disable the machine in the process. However, in a comedic back-and-forth, the adventurers and the Knights fight each other as they turn the machine on and off, on and off. This process is continued by several critical failures, which cause Defendomax and a Knight to bump into the machine's levers.
Defendomax, filled with robot adrenaline, beats the snot out of two of the scouts, while Nyridius defeats the leader with his cannonball attack. The second-in-command traps Vagabot in a bubble, but is taken aback and gasps loudly when he looks upon her face. Vagabot frees herself and tries to immobilize the lieutenant in order to question him, but Duke inadvertently delivers a fatal blow to him with his radiation eyes. In an attempt to stabilize him, Cuddlepunch uses a radiation barrier and Duke shoots him with a healing syringe. The battle comes to a quick end as Vagabot holds a scout in a pool of acid and Nyridius, Cuddlepunch, and Duke gang up on a second.
Cuddlepunch frees the yeti chieftain, who expresses great thanks to Cuddlepunch. The chieftain explains that the Knights of Genetic purity accused the yetis of "stealing Ivan's daughter," and although they yetis didn't understand the charges, the Knights began "purifying" the area.
Vagabot grills the lieutenant, who is in his final moments, for information about her past. The lieutenant explains that the "Imperial Wizard" of the Knights of Genetic Purity is a man named Ivan, and that Vagabot is his daughter. When she was born with a crab-claw, Ivan was ashamed of her "impurity." Vagabot had always yearned to make her father proud, and when he sent her to the Archive to steal some tech, she used the phase shifter to become a nano-bot and reshape her appearance. However, the transformation left her amnesiac, which is when she met Professor Cuddlepunch. But apparently, word got back to Ivan that his daughter was seen with a yeti, so Ivan ordered his Knights to attack the Valley of Sorrow.
As the party prepares to leave, the yeti chieftain wishes them safe travels. He tells Cuddlepunch that she is destined for great things, and is a much nicer yeti than Khali... who was kicked out of the Valley for being a serial rapist.
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