Recaps

Angel used her Magic Mirror to learn that Hibbert Hall and Glaint were arranging an attack on committee member Mary Gail, then joined Audrey and Glaint at a Beyonder gathering. The gathering began in an abandoned medical college classroom, where a corpse in a glass cylinder addressed the participants.

• Angel used the Crimson Eye to locate two Beyonder guards at the Hall Family villa and divined Hibbert Hall and Glaint discussing a plot against Mary Gail.
• Angel returned to the reception room and considered Cons's theory that the Black Emperor might belong to a Tarot-card organization.
• After the gathering ended, Audrey invited Angel to join her and Glaint at a Beyonder gathering, and Glaint said he needed materials for his Apothecary Potion.
• Angel, Audrey, and Glaint changed carriages several times and traveled to an abandoned building in the North Borough to conceal their identities.
• At the gathering, Glaint recoiled from the preserved corpses while Angel and Audrey took their seats.
• A corpse inside a glass cylinder opened its eyes and announced that the gathering could begin.

Angel accompanied Audrey and Glaint to a Beyonder gathering, where Glaint bought a potion ingredient and Audrey failed to find the Spectator formula. Afterward, Angel questioned Glaint about Hibbert Hall and sensed that a Beyonder was watching them as they rode away.

• Glaint asked Angel to trade for a Venom Crystal of a Crown Jellyfish, and she bought one for him for 240 pounds.
• Audrey requested the Spectator Potion formula, but no one responded, and Angel noticed that several attendees scrutinized her.
• Angel bought 20 grams of Star Crystal before the gathering ended, and she, Audrey, and Glaint left through the changing rooms.
• Glaint celebrated finding one of the Apothecary Potion's main ingredients, while Audrey said she would keep searching for the Spectator formula.
• Angel asked Glaint about Hibbert Hall's role in the Atmospheric Pollution Investigation Committee, then questioned whether Glaint's account matched what she had learned through divination.
• Angel sensed a trace of malice or attention from a Beyonder and suspected that someone was following their carriage.

Angel investigated a suspected stalker after Audrey’s gathering and later discussed the nobles’ plans for the Atmospheric Pollution Investigation Committee with Sevillea. She concluded that the plot against Mary Gail was likely a staged provocation intended to rally public support for the committee and its proposed legislation.

• Angel sensed a faint trace of malice following the carriage, and Audrey arranged to change carriages and leave separately.
• Angel used the Crimson Eye to identify an unremarkable carriage following Audrey, then left without confronting the pursuer.
• Angel told Sevillea that her divination had revealed a plot against Mary Gail, a member of the Atmospheric Pollution Investigation Committee.
• Sevillea argued that industrial nobles had reason to obstruct the committee because its regulations could hurt their businesses.
• Angel reasoned that Hibbert Hall and other committee members could use early access to standards to prepare their factories and disadvantage competitors.
• Angel and Sevillea concluded that the plot against Mary Gail was meant to generate public outrage and build momentum for the committee’s work.

Angel learned that nobles and the Demoness Sect were watching Backlund’s environmental investigation, then obtained the Sequence 6 Pleasure formula from Lola Swann. She left with a possible way to acquire the scarce ingredients, if she continued investigating the Demoness Sect.

• Sevillea told Angel that Lady Despair had ordered the investigation and promised her half of the Potion’s Main Materials as a reward, while withholding the formula until she earned more merit.
• Angel left Sevillea’s home beneath the full Crimson Moon and reflected that she might soon advance to Sequence 6.
• At the Divination Club, Angel told Lola Swann what she had learned about Hibbert Hall, Earl Hall, and the environmental investigation.
• Lola gave Angel the Sequence 6 Pleasure formula and explained that Succubus ingredients were scarce while Widow Giant Spider ingredients were easier to find.
• Lola offered to help Angel obtain Potion ingredients if Angel continued investigating the Demoness Sect’s interests and plans, and Angel wondered why Lola seemed to hate the sect.

Angel searched for the remaining ingredients for the Demoness of Pleasure Potion, collected Succubus Eyes and hair from Sevillea, and learned that the sect might soon give her the formula. She left with a new assignment to investigate Arbiter pathway characteristics, while privately knowing she had already obtained and verified the formula.

• Angel searched Backlund for potion ingredients, bought Feynapotter Flies, and discovered that a merchant had sold her ordinary ash as Real Mummy Ashes.
• Angel read that Capim had been exposed as a human trafficker and that at least twenty girls remained missing.
• Angel visited Sevillea and received Succubus Eyes and attached hair as materials for the Pleasure potion.
• Sevillea told Angel she had passed the sect's test and might receive the formula with a future order.
• Sevillea asked Angel to watch for Arbiter pathway characteristics, while Angel concealed that she already had the verified formula.

Angel visited Artisan Kavi to commission a powerful Beyonder weapon, but learned that her preferred magazine-fed handgun was impractical with current manufacturing technology. Kavi offered her a completed revolver for 3,500 pounds, leaving Angel to consider the costly purchase.

• Angel traveled to the West Borough to visit Kavi and buy a powerful weapon after setting aside her Beyonder Ingredients at home.
• Angel found Kavi at her renovated clock shop and learned that a contact from the Eye of Wisdom gathering had introduced her.
• Angel asked Kavi to make a magazine-fed handgun, but Kavi explained that revolvers were more reliable with current technology, so Angel agreed to customize a revolver instead.
• Angel requested a powerful weapon that could use special bullets and enhance their effects, and Kavi explained that this required a Mystical Item made with Beyonder Characteristics.
• Kavi offered Angel a completed revolver originally commissioned by an absent customer and priced it at 3,500 pounds.

Angel discussed commissioning a weapon with Artisan Kavi, but decided to wait until she could provide an uncontaminated Beyonder Characteristic. After explosions shook West Baylun Shipyard, she learned where to ask about Mummy Ashes and left before Machinery Hivemind began investigating.

• Kavi refused to make a weapon from Angel's contaminated Rose Bishop Characteristic and offered to craft one from an uncontaminated Characteristic for a fee.
• Angel decided to wait until the Black Emperor search had passed before using the Sheriff Characteristic, and declined to buy Kavi's revolver.
• Explosions sounded near West Baylun Shipyard, and Carlson arrived to summon Kavi to the Mechanical Research Society.
• Angel asked Carlson where to find real Mummy Ashes, and he directed her to a Folk Herbal Medicine Shop on Williams Street.
• Angel watched Machinery Hivemind prepare to investigate the shipyard and took a carriage away from the area.

Angel bought genuine Real Mummy Ashes from Darkwill, completing the materials needed to advance to Demoness of Pleasure. Elsewhere, Tris obtained a rare material in a woman's identity and prepared for something that would happen tomorrow.

• Angel visited the Folk Herbal Medicine Shop and discovered its owner was Darkwill, whom she knew from Eye of Wisdom gatherings.
• Angel bought five grams of genuine Real Mummy Ashes from Darkwill and paid him the remaining hundred pounds owed for the Apothecary formula clue.
• Darkwill told Angel that Father Utravsky had captured a lost Vampire and was trying to reform him at Harvest Church, prompting Angel to wonder whether the Master Key had led him there.
• Angel left with every material she needed and resolved to advance to Demoness of Pleasure.
• A woman thanked a middle-aged man for finding a rare material and, after he left, revealed her identity as Tris and examined the heart-shaped sac inside an iron box.
• Tris said she would soon be free, then remarked that tomorrow was rather sudden.

Angel prepared and drank the Demoness of Pleasure Potion, but a sudden Blood Moon triggered a violent reaction that left her unable to use her abilities. Klein heard prayers from both Miss Magician and Angel and entered the Gray Fog, where he saw Angel's star light up again.

• Angel prepared the Demoness of Pleasure Potion and drank it after divining that her advancement carried some danger.
• Her hair grew rapidly, then a Blood Moon appeared and her body began to boil and split as her spirituality spiraled out of control.
• Angel could not reach her Mystical Items or complete her prayer to the Goddess as pain and her own hair left her trapped on the floor.
• Klein, recovering from exposure to the Biological Toxin Bottle, saw the Crimson Moon become full and prepared to enter the Gray Fog.
• Klein heard prayers from Miss Magician and Angel, entered the Gray Fog, and saw Angel's star light up again.

After Mr. Fool rescued Angel and Magician from losing control during the Blood Moon, Angel returned to the Tarot Club and learned what had happened during her absence. She agreed to resume attending its gatherings.

• Angel nearly lost control while advancing during the Blood Moon, called on Mr. Fool, and awoke in the Gray Fog Palace.
• Mr. Fool introduced Angel to Magician, who explained that he had rescued her from the Blood Moon’s maddening murmur.
• After the Blood Moon ended, Magician left the palace, and Angel apologized for missing the Tarot Club gatherings.
• Mr. Fool told Angel that Klein Moretti had joined the Tarot Club and confirmed that Angel could choose whether to return.
• Angel agreed to continue participating in the Tarot Club.

After the Blood Moon triggered a terrifying reaction to her potion, Angel sought help from Mr. Fool and learned she had not lost control. She returned to reality safely as a Sequence 6 Demoness of Pleasure, while Klein wondered about her new abilities.

• Angel explained her Blood Moon crisis to Mr. Fool and asked whether her physical body had lost control.
• Mr. Fool told Angel that the Blood Moon had affected her advancement and that her unharmed Spirit Body meant she had not lost control.
• Angel recounted her revenge against Lanevus and asked for information about Ince Zangwill, but Mr. Fool said one of his Blessed was investigating the matter.
• Klein confirmed through Angel's prayer connection that she was safe, then reflected on her advancement and appearance.
• Angel returned to her living room, found her body restored, and tested her enhanced Invisible Spider Silk and Cursed Flames.

After advancing to Sequence 6, Angel tested her new Demoness of Pleasure abilities and considered how to combine them while keeping her advancement secret. She resolved to prepare a mystical substitute to guard against Sevillea’s curses and conceal that she had advanced.

• Angel discovered that her spirituality had nearly doubled, strengthening her Mirror Substitution, curses, and other abilities while granting her Invisible Spider Silk.
• Angel tested ways to combine spider silk with Black Flame and ice, and concluded that an ice coffin could be dangerous against multiple enemies.
• Angel recalled how blood and hair could serve as curse mediums, and recognized that Sevillea had wanted to keep hers to control her.
• Angel reflected on new ability combinations she might investigate and decided her hidden advancement gave her an opportunity while Lola and Sevillea still believed she was Sequence 7.
• Angel saw her newly alluring appearance in the mirror and realized she could control her own desires only temporarily.
• Angel cleaned the scattered basement equipment and planned to make a mystical substitute to protect herself from Sevillea’s curses.

Angel visited Harvest Church to investigate the Master Key and learned its history from the imprisoned Vampire, Emlyn White. After discovering he had lied about where the key came from, she tricked him into giving the correct address and left while he remained imprisoned.

• Angel asked Father Utravsky about the Master Key, and he revealed that it had belonged to a Vampire locked in the church basement.
• Angel spoke with Emlyn White, who explained that the key had passed from a thief to him after the thief used it to break into homes around Backlund.
• Angel suspected the key endangered its owners and used divination to discover that Emlyn had lied about the thief's address.
• Angel and Father Utravsky tricked Emlyn into correcting his lie, and he revealed that the thief had found the key at No. 32 Verdi Street in the Bridge South District.
• Father Utravsky invited Angel to attend a sermon and urged Emlyn to convert to the Earth Mother, while Angel identified herself as a Goddess believer and left the church.

Angel investigated the house on Verdi Street where the Master Key had been found, overcame a Spirit Body that trapped her in a staircase maze, and discovered an Abraham descendant’s notebook in the basement. The notebook revealed the family’s curse and three Potion formulas, leaving Angel to suspect that the curse also affected the Master Key and Miss Magician.

• Angel entered the abandoned house on Verdi Street and found a dead burglar whose corpse had been held upright by a supernatural force.
• Angel became trapped in a staircase loop, then burned away the Spirit Body behind the maze with Black Flame.
• Angel reached the basement and found the Abraham descendant’s remains and a notebook documenting the family’s history and curse.
• Angel copied the notebook’s Potion formulas for Apprentice, Trickmaster, and Astrologer.
• Angel connected the Abraham curse to the Master Key and wondered whether Miss Magician was also an Abraham descendant.

Angel explored a haunted house, burned a Wraith, and found evidence that it had possessed a thief before killing itself. The next morning, she visited Detective Sherlock Moriarty and learned that another client had hired a detective to search for Emlyn White.

• Angel burned Abraham's remains in the basement and discovered that the dead thief had strangled himself, likely while possessed by the Wraith.
• Angel left No. 32 Verdi Street after performing Anti-Divination, then considered investigating the false address Emlyn White had given her.
• Angel arrived at Sherlock Moriarty's home and met the detective Isengard Stanton, who said Moriarty would receive a reward for helping solve the serial murder case.
• Moriarty explained that his investigation had helped earn him more than a hundred pounds from the Devil Dog case.
• Angel told Moriarty about Emlyn White, and Moriarty revealed that a colleague had been hired by someone likely of Emlyn's kind to find him.
• Moriarty asked Angel why she was investigating Emlyn.

Angel hired Moriarty to investigate River Bay Avenue 48 and Emlyn White, then returned to the Tarot Club after two months away. The gathering began with the familiar members, but Angel noticed an unexpected new member seated opposite Mr. Fool.

• Angel told Moriarty that her Master Key had led her into dangerous alleys, and Moriarty suggested its curse could help track dangerous people.
• Moriarty accepted Angel’s commission to investigate River Bay Avenue 48 and Emlyn White for 40 pounds, with half paid in advance.
• Angel and Moriarty discussed poverty in Backlund, and Angel urged him to protect the journalist he was escorting to the East Borough.
• Angel spent Monday morning making Extraordinary Bullets and Charms before returning to the Tarot Club gathering at three o’clock.
• Angel joined the Hanged Man, the Sun, Justice, and Magician at the long table and saw a hooded, black-robed member seated opposite Mr. Fool.

Angel returned to the Tarot Club, surprising Hanged Man, who believed she had died in Tingen. After Audrey discussed infiltrating the Psychology Alchemists with Mr. Fool, Angel used the new private communication method to ask Magician whether she had ties to the Abraham Family.

• Angel reappeared in Empress's seat, and the Tarot Club members welcomed her back while Hanged Man wondered how she had survived her reported death.
• Audrey told Mr. Fool that suspected Psychology Alchemists had approached her and received permission and safety advice to infiltrate them.
• Audrey presented two pages of Roselle's Diary to Mr. Fool.
• Angel learned that members could request private communication through Mr. Fool and chose to speak with Magician.
• Angel asked Magician whether she was related to the Abraham Family or had been in close contact with them.

Angel offered Magician the Abraham Family notebook’s Apprentice formulas, and Magician agreed to buy the Trickmaster formula. At the Tarot Club, Sun reported his release from confinement and the mysterious Amon, while the members discussed unrest in Backlund and Hanged Man’s search for Baelen; Angel realized the Fool’s blessed had been involved in Capim’s death.

• Angel offered Magician the notebook’s formulas and agreed to sell her the Trickmaster formula for 450 pounds, with a discount if she later bought Astrologer as well.
• Sun told the Tarot Club that he had been removed from the Expedition Team and described a former captain’s account of encountering a mysterious outsider named Amon.
• Hanged Man warned Sun that Amon might be dangerous and urged him to investigate cautiously and seek help from his elders if needed.
• Justice reported that the kingdom and major Churches were focusing on poverty and cult beliefs in Backlund’s East Borough, Docklands, and Factory District.
• Hanged Man asked the members to watch for Baelen, a suspected link to missing colonial slaves, and offered a reward of at least 100 pounds.
• Angel mentioned Capim’s murder and realized that the Fool’s blessed had contributed to it after Hanged Man said the blessed had played an indispensable role.

After the Tarot Club meeting, Angel suspected that Sherlock Moriarty was connected to the Fool and went to question him in person. She paid him for his investigation of Emlyn White, then asked whether he knew the Fool, leaving Moriarty's answer unresolved.

• Klein prepared to conceal the investigation report from divination and considered how Sherlock Moriarty would explain himself to Angel.
• Angel reasoned that Moriarty might believe in the Fool without belonging to the Tarot Club and decided to visit him for the overdue report on Emlyn White.
• Angel arrived at 15 Minsk Street, where Moriarty gave her the investigation report describing Emlyn's family as law-abiding Vampires and his room full of ordinary dolls.
• Angel paid Moriarty the remaining 20 pounds and asked if he knew the Fool, causing his hand to freeze.

Angel discovered that Sherlock Moriarty was a believer of the Fool and learned he had placed Tarot Cards on Lanevus as part of the effort to stop the True Creator’s descent. After leaving, she divined that Sherlock had told her mostly the truth.

• Angel confronted Moriarty about the Tarot Cards at Capim Mansion, and he admitted he was a believer of the Fool who had recognized her through Mr. Fool.
• Moriarty told Angel about journalist Mike Joseph’s investigation into poverty in the East Borough, and they discussed the need for change.
• Angel asked about the Tarot Cards on Lanevus’s body, and Moriarty admitted he had placed them there as part of Mr. Fool’s operation against the True Creator.
• Angel and Moriarty parted on friendly terms, while Klein watched her leave and burned a World Card.
• Angel performed Pendulum Divination in the carriage, and the clockwise swing indicated that Sherlock had told her mostly the truth.

Angel received news from Sevillea about an invitation and a new Demoness Sect subordinate, while Fors used the Tarot Club to obtain the Trickmaster formula. The chapter left Fors celebrating the club’s power as Xio continued her investigation.

• Angel felt Sevillea’s nonlethal curse through her mystical substitute and went to Baron Landon’s Residence.
• Sevillea told Angel that Audrey had invited her to Viscount Glaint’s gathering and that she would receive a Sequence 9 subordinate.
• Xio prepared to investigate Capim’s associates and search Beyonder gatherings for potion ingredients.
• Fors told Xio she had found someone selling the Trickmaster formula, then prepared a sacrifice ritual to trade with Miss Empress.
• Fors received the Trickmaster formula through the Tarot Club and praised the club’s effectiveness.

Angel considered buying a 3,500-pound Beyonder weapon, found a possible chance to sell Potion formulas, and heard Lola’s proposal to strike at the Demoness Sect over its human trafficking. Later, she joined a gathering at Glaint’s home, where the viscount revealed that he had become an Apothecary.

• Angel deposited most of her cash, then spotted an advertisement for Mr. A’s gathering and considered selling Potion formulas to replenish her savings.
• Lola asked Angel about the Demoness Sect, and Angel told her about a human trafficker linked to slave disappearances in the Southern Continent.
• Lola said the Demoness Sect was unusually vulnerable in Backlund and asked Angel whether she would help damage it, but Angel withheld her answer.
• Angel arrived at Glaint’s home for a mysticism gathering and congratulated him on becoming a true Apothecary.
• Glaint proudly displayed bottles of medicine and confirmed that he had become a Beyonder.

At Viscount Glaint’s gathering, Audrey asked Angel and Fors to accompany her to a seminar hosted by the Psychology Alchemists, hoping to secure a Spectator Potion formula without her father’s interference. Angel agreed, but afterward wondered whether Audrey had uncovered her true identity; her attempt to divine the answer failed.

• Glaint showed the group three potions he had made and proudly announced that he had become a Beyonder.
• Angel offered Fors a lead on the Trickmaster formula, but Fors said she had already bought it elsewhere.
• Audrey explained that the Psychology Alchemists had assessed her and invited her to a seminar, then asked Angel and Fors to protect her.
• Angel and Glaint advised Audrey to involve her family and bring guards, but Audrey insisted she wanted to keep the meeting from her father.
• Angel agreed to accompany Audrey, while Fors declined and suggested that Audrey ask Xio instead.
• After leaving Glaint’s home, Angel suspected Audrey knew she had combat abilities and used her Magic Mirror to ask whether Audrey knew her true identity, but the divination failed.

Angel learned that the damaged whip required an expensive Lightning Viper skin to repair, then negotiated to buy Kavi’s powerful Lucky Revolver. At Mr. A’s gathering, she noticed someone seeking materials for the Sheriff or Interrogator potion.

• Angel brought Katie’s broken soft whip to Kavi, who said it could be repaired with a Lightning Viper skin costing around 300 pounds.
• Kavi explained that her 3,500-pound revolver enhanced accuracy, could unleash attacks up to sixteen times stronger, and could cause a Mental Storm, while bringing its bearer bad luck.
• Angel negotiated for twenty Demon Hunter Bullets to be included with the revolver and arranged to collect it on Saturday.
• Angel attended Mr. A’s gathering and submitted trade requests for potion formulas and Storm Convergence Bullets.
• Angel noticed a request for the main materials for Sheriff or Interrogator, or items that could substitute for them.

Angel avoided a buyer seeking the Black Emperor, purchased the Mystical Item Good Luck, and met the Demoness Sect’s new Assassin in the East Borough. She introduced herself as his superior and began assessing Sherman.

• Angel sold twenty Storm Convergence rounds to the masked buyer but refused to become his long-term supplier.
• Mr. A met Ms. D beneath the True Creator’s statue and warned her not to ruin their plans in Backlund.
• Angel spent most of her savings on the revolver Good Luck and discovered its negative effect could cause intermittent mishaps.
• Angel reached the East Borough and entered Sherman’s apartment through a window to meet the new Assassin.
• Angel showed Sherman Sevillea’s token, claimed him as her subordinate, and told him to introduce himself.