In a dark forest, an elaborate role-playing game that focuses on an ancient European ritual is about to take place. A battle is is between the power-hungry Celts, the rampaging Vikings, the secretive wood elves and the mysterious shaman Murtagh. The night has finally come for Murtagh to unleash his latest fiendish scheme. But in the heat of battle, one of his men is hit five times and the referee rules him dead until he can regenerate. Even worse, someone breaks character, the worst transgression possible in this game of dress-up.