Recaps

Hobart learned that the Heller Family’s bloodline curse was tied to the Lawyer pathway, became a Beyonder, and gained a measure of control over the Country of Disorder. He began working as a lawyer, helped Xue resolve her case, and gathered information and resources while exploring his powers and connections.

• Hobart was pulled above the gray fog by Klein and joined the Tarot Club as Emperor, where Mr. Fool identified a Curse as the cause of his growing madness.
• Christine told Hobart that his mother had sealed the Heller Family curse until he turned twenty-two, and Hobart chose the Lawyer pathway to continue his family’s work.
• After taking the Dark Potion, Hobart gained control over the Country of Disorder and used its stars to observe the outside world and suppress the curse’s influence.
• Hobart began working for Barton and handled Xue’s case by persuading Veil to accept treatment and withdraw his complaint.
• Hobart’s Honorific Name let him send the Power of Order to stabilize Elliot, who revealed the Balk Family shared the Heller Family’s curse and had learned resistance methods from Rex Heller.
• Hobart joined the Mercenary Club, discovered its Beyonder gathering, and investigated Mr. Robin’s claim that Zachary and Hayman had swindled him and his cousin.
• At the Tarot Club, Hobart explained the Pound Family’s connection to the Tudor Family and told Alger that Loen planned retaliation in the Southern Continent.

Hobart investigated Zachary and Hayman, joined a new mutual-aid alliance, and explored the Country of Disorder through Elliot. After taking on Mr. Barton’s divorce case, Hobart helped him and Penny reach an agreement while preparing for a jewelry trade.

• Hobart and Xue tracked Zachary to an abandoned factory, where Hobart stopped his prayer to the True Creator and learned through Spirit Communication that Hayman had planned the fraud with Hillman’s support.
• Hobart and Xue searched Hayman’s properties and questioned DakHorm, uncovering Hayman’s links to Hillman and the Aurora Society.
• Hobart, Xue, Fors, Audrey, and Glaint attended Mr. A’s gathering, where Hobart advised Bishop Utravsky’s follower and the five formed the Justice League.
• Hobart sold Zachary’s Mutated Eyeball, confirmed his Honorific Name reached him in the Country of Disorder, and sent Elliot to observe a mercenary attack on a Fosac convoy.
• Elliot obtained an Extraordinary Necklace, and Hobart helped him escape pursuers before Elliot sacrificed the Necklace to the Creator.
• Hobart rented a house, took Mr. Barton’s divorce case, and persuaded Mr. Barton and Penny to agree to a divorce that protected Benny and provided Penny with a wool-processing workshop.
• Hobart received a proposal for a jewelry and gold trade, while Elder Calvin gave Elliot permission to advance to Sequence 7 and named the potion Bribor.

Hobart investigated the Henry family’s deaths and defeated the Living Corpses with a Sealed Artifact connected to the Country of Disorder. He secured a cooperative relationship with the Nighthawks, took on a workplace injury case, and learned that Elliot had seen a figure resembling Hobart in a vision.

• Elliot consumed the Bribor Potion, while Hobart sold the Secret Supplicant characteristic and celebrated his growing wealth with Donna and Tyrone.
• At the Tarot Club, Hobart shared knowledge about Extraordinary Characteristics and warned of Aurora Society members, while Klein discovered that Old Neil was nearing Loss of Control.
• Klein and the Nighthawks used a ritual to expel the force threatening Old Neil, while Ince Zangwill wrote that the event served his expectations.
• Hobart investigated the barking at the Henry home, found the dead couple and a contaminated Giant Dog, then discovered that their son had become a Living Corpse.
• Hobart and the Official Beyonders lured Little Henry into the basement and used the Sealed Artifact to trap the corpses and defeat him.
• Hobart negotiated informant credentials and access to the Sealed Artifact, then brought it to the Country of Disorder and saw a gigantic figure beyond its sky.
• Hobart handled Mr. Polly’s compensation and took on a factory worker’s injury claim, while Elliot saw a throne and towering figure during his journey with Calvin.
• At a Mercenary Club gathering, Hobart recognized himself in a sketch of the figure Kast was investigating and stayed silent.

Hobart advanced to Sequence 8, took on new legal and Beyonder dealings, and assembled allies to ambush the Tamara Family’s pursuers. After the battle, he gathered potion recipes and clues about the Tamara Family while steering Aputon away from a dangerous entity.

• Hobart won Sean’s case and pushed Bob’s injury claim toward Formal Court, then secured a settlement and found Bob a place at the Night Church poorhouse.
• Hobart defended Bruce against charges of attempted murder and explosives, earning a modest sentence for his client and fully digesting his Lawyer Potion.
• Hobart drank the Barbarian Potion, tested his new abilities, and fashioned Order Wood from a branch taken from the Country of Disorder.
• Hobart learned that the Tamara Family was pursuing his friend, recruited Utravsky, Daly, Aputon, Xue, and Fors, and arranged to ambush the attackers near Harvest Church.
• Hobart and his allies defeated the Tamara Family’s attackers, killed the Judge and two Sequence 8 enemies, and divided the spoils and Extraordinary Characteristics.
• Hobart used Spirit Communication to obtain potion recipes and clues about Tamara Family businesses, but the vision of their gathering place dissolved into Gray Fog.
• Hobart stopped Aputon from speaking the Honorific Name of the entity on his altar, helped him choose the Creator, and identified a sacrificed note’s Honorific Name as that of the Mist of Uncertainty.