The Museum of Natural History falls into the pattern followed, so far, by the mysterious Seattle Slayer. The heroes decide to stake out the darkened corridors in hopes of capturing the murder.

A gaunt, wizened figure in coal black tatters appears and runs through the museum. His skin is practically on the bone, and resembles leather in texture. His hollow, sunken eyes burn bright blue against black “whites”, set far into a small, shriveled skull.

Despite his floppy hat, cloak and coat, he moves with absolutely no sound. He runs silently through the labyrinthine corridors, clothes flowing in an unearthly wind. In an effort to elude the heroes, the killer runs through walls or ducks out of sight, then reappears somewhere else in the museum.

Diving behind partitions, ducking through doors, the ghostly figure leads the heroes on a baffling chase. Forte decides to spread out in order to ambush him when he reappears. In the course of all this, Mist finds a female body by the mastodons—the killer’s latest victim.

To fight the Slayer, the heroes turn on the lights. This also activates the silent alarm, and so the police arrive before the capture. They also spread out at Mist’s instruction to spot the killer.

Unfortunately, police cars attract newshounds. Peggy Adam is charging up the front steps as the ghostly Mr. Macabre is fleeing. He had taken a number of blows but seemed unruffled. Grabbing the startled reporter, he revealed his true nature, as a shiny, slimy razor-tipped tentacle-thing came out of his mouth and into hers. Just in the nick of time, Phantasm clobbered him, and the wizened figure collapsed unconscious, and Peggy Adam collapsed, sobbing hysterically.

The police and UNCLE try to bind him to he can be taken to S.I.S.R.S. prison, but his phantom spirit rises out of the ancient body. The spirit tells the heroes that he is Shontu, the last shaman of the Duwamish Indians, who has come forth on the 1500th moon since his death with a heart burning for vengeance.

He claims that the Knights of Enlightenment systematically killed his tribe in much the secretive, cowardly way the modern Klan acts. The leader of the Knights, Ramses Shaw, murdered Shontu (Duwamish for “wise”). Shontu cursed the Knights and their descendants, and vowed to return to destroy a generation.

His anger can be understood even more if one considers the Duwamish and the white man approached each other as friends in the 1850s, such friends that settlers named the city Seattle in honor of the gracious and helpful Chief Sealth.

Mr. Macabre, the risen bones of the medicine man, promises to bear no ill to the heroes, because they fought as honorable opponents for what they perceived as a just cause. The spirit reenters the inanimate form, but although the wispy spirit was seen by all present, only the three heroes could see Shontu’s features clearly or hear his message.

From the small crowd, a sorcerer steps forth. Doctor Strange, a visiting mage from another plane, offers to mystically bind the shaman. He offers to introduce Phantashia to The Council, an assemblage of sorcerers from throughout the mystic realms. He explains The Council meets regularly on a plane known as Gemworld, a repository world where magic, not science, rules. Doctor Strange offers Phantashia a mystic rubiyat which will guide her safely to The Council on Gemworld.

But first, she must return to Abyssia to begin her three-year reign as titular sovereign. Dr. Strange quietly leaves, and Peggy Adam composes herself enough to turn in her finest story—the capture of the Seattle Slayer by Forte.