Recaps

Shade drank four bowls of the ship’s soup to learn how to escape, then reunited with Miss Princess. They learned they must find the captain, survive a duel with the Sailors, and win a gamble to leave the ship.

• Shade drank the third bowl of soup, and the monster revealed that Miss Princess was nearby.
• The monster struck a wall panel, causing Miss Princess to burst through the fungal carpet in the corridor.
• Shade explained their situation, and Miss Princess said the way out lay in the deepest part of the ship.
• Shade drank the fourth bowl instead of letting Miss Princess take the risk.
• The monster explained that they had to find the captain, defeat the Sailors in a duel, and win a gamble to earn their freedom.
• Shade and Miss Princess left the cabin, while the monster returned to stirring its soup.

Shade and Miss Princess fought a Treasure Chest Monster in the ship’s hold, and Shade gained insight into Greed. They continued toward the next level, where a waterlogged sailor blocked the stairs and spoke of being swallowed by the sea.

• Shade and Miss Princess passed through the ship’s hold, where Miss Princess revealed her Core Runes and Words of Sublimation.
• Miss Princess used story-based Thaumaturgy to put the Treasure Chest Monster to sleep, and Shade killed it with the Holy Silver Greatsword.
• Shade gained insight into Greed from the Relic and told Miss Princess it had not cursed him.
• Shade and Miss Princess ignored fish-headed sailors and a weeping boy before finding stairs leading deeper into the hold.
• A dripping sailor sat across the stairs and told Shade and Miss Princess that the sea had swallowed part of his body and soul.

Shade and Miss Princess escaped the sailor’s curse with the Ruby Earring and continued down the ship’s stairs. Shade’s divine radiance appeared as they neared the Captain’s cabin, where he sensed an evil god’s power, and he prepared to lead the way while Miss Princess stayed beside him.

• Miss Princess used her Ruby Earring to restrain the sailor, and she and Shade hurried down the stairs.
• Shade and Miss Princess continued descending until they heard a commotion and saw sickly green light below.
• Golden fissures covered Shade’s body as God's Radiance appeared and eased his hunger.
• Shade concluded that the Captain’s cabin held an evil god’s power, though no evil god had watched the ship.
• Shade told Miss Princess to leave the coming encounter to him, and she agreed to follow while promising to intervene if he faltered.

Shade and Miss Princess reached the Fishbone Pirate Ship’s lowest deck, where its Captain demanded that Shade fight a sailor to earn the right to speak. Shade and Miss Princess defeated the sailor despite the cabin suppressing Shade’s powers, and the Captain accepted the victory.

• Shade and Miss Princess entered a cargo deck filled with undead sailors, treasure, and a lavish feast, where the Fishbone Pirate Ship’s Captain confronted them.
• The Captain offered Shade a choice to board the ship or defeat one sailor, and Shade refused to board and accepted the challenge.
• A one-eyed undead sailor attacked Shade, whose Silver Moon power was weakened by the cabin and whose Holy Silver sword shattered against the sailor’s saber.
• Shade used Chaotic Time Blade and Soul Echo while Miss Princess secretly summoned an archer to shoot the sailor, allowing Shade to melt its head with a small flash of moonlight.
• The Captain stopped Shade from seizing the sailor’s body, declared Shade the winner, and restrained the agitated undead crew.

Shade and Miss Princess faced a gambling challenge from the captain of the haunted ship, who set their freedom against three rounds of guessing. Shade lost the first round after the Mermaid tattoo changed hiding places, leaving him needing to win the next two.

• Mr. Darkness arrived but immediately fled after seeing Shade, Miss Princess, the captain, and the evil spirits.
• Shade and Miss Princess approached the table, and Shade agreed to gamble for their freedom.
• The captain revealed the Mermaid tattoo and declared that Shade had to win two of three rounds to free everyone aboard the cruise ship.
• Shade sensed that the Mermaid was beneath the White Bread, but it moved beneath the roast meat before he answered.
• The captain ruled that Shade had lost the first round and returned the Mermaid tattoo to his chest.

Shade endured the first round by eating bread made of desire, then won the second round by unlocking three boxes and claiming the Fishman's Elixir of Immortality. The Captain began a third wager using Rhodes Cards, leaving Shade to face another contest aboard the ship.

• The Captain offered Shade a loaf made of desire and threatened to keep Miss Princess if Shade refused to eat it.
• Shade ate the bread and told Miss Princess to stay behind him while he gambled for their freedom.
• The Captain wagered a Fishman's Elixir of Immortality hidden in one of three locked boxes, and Shade opened all three with his Door Key spell.
• Shade found the potion, took it, and declared that he had won the second round.
• The Captain proposed a third round of Rhodes Cards and explained that each player would arrange nine cards into three groups.

Shade challenged the Captain to Rhodes Cards, where the Captain openly stacked his deck and dealt himself three sets of 21. Shade exposed the Captain’s cheating by slipping Origin · Balance into his deck, leaving the Captain caught with 55 cards.

• The Captain dealt himself three sets of 21 and ordered Shade to pick his cards.
• Shade secretly sent Origin · Balance beneath the table while drawing the evil spirits’ attention.
• Shade lost his first set, then won a draw in the second set with Moon 4.
• Shade refused to reveal his third set and accused the Captain of cheating.
• The Captain found Origin · Balance in his deck, and Shade pointed out that it contained 55 cards instead of the standard 54.

Shade lost consciousness after eating three dishes to withstand the Captain’s hunger wager, and Miss Princess took his place. She began eating the remaining food to secure the release of everyone aboard the cruise ship.

• The Captain exposed Shade’s cheating and, after Shade revealed a Queen, offered a final wager involving an Ivory Dice.
• Shade rolled a three, and the Captain promised to release the passengers if Shade ate three dishes and could still say he wished to leave.
• Miss Princess offered to continue eating if Shade collapsed, and Shade finished the fish soup and purple grapes despite his growing hunger.
• Shade ate three Baked Beans, succumbed to the soul-deep hunger, and collapsed motionless on the table.
• Miss Princess began eating the beans in Shade’s place, demanding that the Captain release everyone he had robbed if she finished all the food.

Shade’s hunger and the power he had gained from devouring a god awakened a snowing Mystic Lock, turning the pirate ship into a moonlit feast and trapping its evil spirits. The Fishman Captain conceded, but Shade’s hunger and demand for more remained uncontrollable.

• Miss Princess ate two beans and nearly lost herself to the hunger they stirred, then wrapped a red ribbon around the third bean before eating it.
• Shade awakened the Gluttony power within his Mystic Lock, The Little Match Girl, and transformed the cabin into a snowy nighttime street with a lavish feast.
• The evil spirits became guests of the Blood Feast and were trapped at the table as the snow and tablecloth drained their strength.
• The Fishman Captain admitted defeat and urged Shade to leave, but Shade refused to stop demanding more.

Shade used the Mystic Lock to win a wager against the Fishman captain, learning how to lift Miss Princess’s curse and forcing the pirate ship to withdraw. After they returned to the cruise ship, Shade and Miss Princess escaped into the sea and headed east toward a waiting boat.

• Shade wagered with the Fishman captain and used the Mystic Lock’s wishes to learn the Mermaid’s Song curse could be lifted by preventing Miss Princess from entering the sea during the Sea Burial ritual.
• Shade won the captain’s ten empowered coins and learned the pirates had raided the cruise ship because they believed in fate; he then won their promise to leave the passengers alone and wished for Miss Princess’s safety.
• Shade gained the Greed Spirit Rune from the Fishbone Pirate Ship as the Mystic Lock ended, and the captain promised the pirates would never rob him again unless he provoked them.
• Shade and Miss Princess returned to the cruise ship, where the survivors began waking under the curse and the Orthodox Church’s warships approached.
• Miss Princess tore a wooden board from the deck and pulled Shade into the sea to escape; she told him her people were waiting to meet them to the east.
• Shade and Miss Princess swam toward a small boat they spotted offshore, with Miss Princess clinging to the board.

After escaping the pirate ship, Shade healed the exhausted Leisha Cavendish as their boat returned to Coldwater Port. Leisha learned that Shade had left her a gift and planned to meet her again on Wednesday, leaving her delighted by their shared adventure.

• Shade helped the exhausted Miss Princess aboard the small boat and used Cindyia's Silver Moon Gift to heal her mental injuries as she fell asleep.
• The boat reached Coldwater Port, and Leisha Cavendish woke to find Shade had jumped into the sea and left five minutes earlier.
• The older maid told Leisha that Shade would meet her at the Golden Rose Inn on Wednesday and asked her to notify The Church about the Sea Burial ritual and the evil god.
• The maid gave Leisha a box containing Mermaid-shaped Ruby Earrings that Shade had bought as a gift for her.
• Leisha remembered their day together, admired the earrings, and welcomed the adventure as a happy memory rather than a tragedy.

After returning from his dangerous adventure, Shade slept through the night and woke to find Miss Louisa waiting with Mia and breakfast. Louisa gave him a partial diary that confirmed her and Princess Leisha’s souls had been exchanging bodies, and Shade began reading how they first discovered the truth.

• Shade returned home at two in the morning, ate some biscuits, and fell asleep on his sofa from exhaustion.
• Miss Louisa arrived the next morning with Mia and breakfast, and Shade told her he had returned home after saying goodbye to Princess Leisha.
• Louisa explained that Leisha could not leave Coldwater Port because of the Mermaid's Song curse and handed Shade a partial diary about their secret.
• Shade read the diary and learned that Louisa and Leisha had first discovered their souls were exchanging bodies after waking in each other's lives.
• Louisa explained how their diaries helped them recognize the exchanges, then blushed as she recalled an embarrassing incident.

Shade read Miss Louisa and Princess Leisha’s diary and learned how their involuntary soul exchanges began and how their connection had deepened. Miss Louisa revealed that their “Another Me” talents seemed to be fusing, while Shade remained uneasy and asked whether their recent encounter had been planned.

• Shade read diary entries showing Louisa and Leisha’s early complaints and warnings as they adjusted to exchanging lives.
• Miss Louisa confirmed that she and Princess Leisha had been exchanging souls since reaching the fourth ring, eventually learning to limit the exchanges and switch voluntarily at a cost.
• Miss Louisa told Shade that she and Leisha had grown closer than family and that their Spirit Runes, Thaumaturgy, spells, and soul imprints were influencing each other.
• Miss Louisa asked Shade to keep their secret, and he agreed while remaining concerned about their growing connection.
• Shade continued reading the diary and asked whether his trip to Coldwater Port and his chance encounter with Princess Leisha had been part of a plan.

Shade learned that Dorothy and Princess Leisha shared bodies through a soul exchange, but could never meet face-to-face because proximity caused them pain. After Dorothy left, Shade secured dangerous coins and relics for containment and planned to seek help identifying them and locating the missing part of the God Summoning ritual.

• Miss Louisa explained that Leisha had tracked Shade to Coldwater Port and used her body to test his character, and she thanked him for saving Leisha from the cursed ship.
• Shade read Leisha's letter about the Church and Delarion Navy taking control of the cruise ship and receiving information about the Sea Burial ritual and the Fishbone Pirate Ship.
• Miss Louisa told Shade to call her Dorothy, then revealed that she and Leisha could exchange bodies but could never look at or approach each other without suffering pain.
• Dorothy left Shade's home, and Shade reflected that she was not the Academic Spy suspected by the Academy, though he could not reveal her secret connection to Leisha.
• Shade placed the bag of ten coins and Omnipotent Currency in God's Gift Box, and he planned to ask Annette to use the coins for divination and seek the missing ritual component.

Shade bought the Soul Fishing Rod relic and learned the Greed thaumaturgy Cherished Item, choosing his Rhodes card deck as its target. He tested its enhanced abilities at home, where Mia played with the flying cards.

• Shade paid Old Dad John 300 Pounds for the Soul Fishing Rod, which could harvest memories and spirit from living targets but carried dangerous side effects.
• Shade visited Black Raven Library and chose Cherished Item from a list of Greed thaumaturgies, spending 232 Pounds including materials.
• Shade used the learning materials at home and found that Cherished Item had selected his entire Rhodes card deck, excluding Origin · Balance.
• Shade discovered that the thaumaturgy let him control the deck precisely and made its cards sharp enough to cut through a newspaper and threaten a person's throat.
• Shade made a card fly around the table for Mia to chase, then stopped it so she could touch it.

Shade attended the Saint Prayer Festival at Dawn Church with Mia, where he took part in religious ceremonies and delivered a prepared speech. He discovered that the church had commemorated his rescue of Queen Diana in a painting, then asked Priest Augustus to introduce him to the speechwriter.

• Shade traveled with Mia to Dawn Church and joined Priest Augustus for lunch after listening to a sermon.
• Shade gave Priest Augustus the supposed Elixir of Immortality, and the priest said he would need a few days to identify it.
• Shade attended a prayer gathering and watched the baptism of three children during the festival.
• Priest Augustus showed Shade a painting commemorating Shade saving Queen Diana, and said it might remain in the church for decades.
• Shade delivered a speech about God's love for mortals, using her help to memorize and translate it.
• Shade asked Priest Augustus to introduce him to the writer who had prepared the speech.

After completing his Saint Prayer Festival speech, Shade learned from Miss Galina that the Murmuring Chapters had revealed clues to the second Chosen One. He suspected the prophecy referred to the cruise ship he had escaped from, while the Church, Academy, and Council began searching for the Chosen One.

• Priest Augustus praised Shade's speech, and Bishop Owen paid him twenty pounds and arranged a newspaper interview.
• Priest Augustus invited Shade to investigate a possible evil spirit or out-of-control Relic on Thursday, offering a chance to earn credits.
• Miss Galina picked Shade up from the festival and warned him that the Witches of the Council were active and he should stay in Tobesk.
• Miss Galina told Shade that a newly found tablet predicted the second Chosen One would face supernatural danger at sea near a western Old Continent seaport and escape ocean bandits.
• Shade suspected the prophecy referred to the cruise ship he had recently escaped, where a Chosen One might have been aboard.
• Miss Galina explained that the Church, Academy, and Council were searching for the incident described by the prophecy.

Shade learned that the second Chosen One was connected to darkness and that two Blood Spirit School Ring Arcanists might be in Coldwater Port. He told Luvia about the pirate-ship incident and revealed the hidden chamber beneath his house, where she discovered a statue of Primal Rift.

• Miss Galina told Shade that the second Chosen One's power was related to darkness and that two Blood Spirit School Ring Arcanists might arrive in Tobesk from Coldwater Port.
• Miss Galina explained that the Witch Council wanted to capture the two Blood Spirit School members alive, and Shade agreed to help if needed.
• Luvia arrived at Shade's house, and Shade showed her the bag of ten coins and an Omnipotent Currency before sharing what he knew about the second Chosen One.
• Shade told Luvia he had been aboard the cruise ship where a Ring Arcanist auction took place near Coldwater Port and that survivors bore a curse like Mermaid's Song.
• Shade took Luvia into the hidden chamber beneath his house, where she recognized the statue of Primal Rift as an Ancient God.

Shade and Luvia examined the coins from Coldwater Port and used them to divine details about the pirate incident and its Chosen One. They confirmed the incident matched the prophecy and learned the Chosen One was male, while Shade planned to keep investigating.

• Shade told Luvia about the Old Gods Statue and his experiences in Coldwater Port, then asked her to divine whether Professor Manning would find the Doomsday Academic Organization and the information Shade needed.
• Luvia spent an Omnipotent Currency and divined that Professor Manning would find the person Shade sought within the week and bring him the answers.
• Luvia identified the remaining coins as Pirate's Blood Money, God of Death's Atonement Coins, and Colmore Empire Civilization Gold Coins, and Shade set some aside for future divinations.
• Shade used an Atonement Coin to confirm that the pirate incident matched the newly discovered stone tablet's prophecy.
• Luvia spent three Atonement Coins to determine that the Chosen One was male, and reassured Shade that he could not be the Chosen One.

Shade learned that the second Chosen One would remain in Coldwater Port for about a week before traveling to Tobesk, and he went to Coldwater Port to investigate the escaped Ring Arcanists. There, Princess Leisha invited him to visit a Ring Arcanist rumored to have removed the Mermaid Curse.

• Luvia divined that the second Chosen One would stay in Coldwater Port for approximately a week before traveling to Tobesk, and she asked Shade to identify them without making contact right away.
• Shade told Luvia he would investigate the escaped Ring Arcanists in Coldwater Port, using his lead on Mr. Darkness and help from the authorities and Princess Leisha.
• Dorothy stayed at Shade's home to care for Mia while Shade traveled through Sea Cliff Cave to Coldwater Port in the pouring rain.
• Shade met Leisha Cavendish at the Golden Rose Inn and learned that the Church was searching for the Ring Arcanists who had escaped the pirate ship.
• Leisha invited Shade to investigate a local Ring Arcanist who was rumored to have removed the Mermaid Curse, and Shade agreed to go with her.

Shade and Princess Leisha visited the secluded Old Town to meet Mr. Jude, the Ring Arcanist said to have lifted the Mermaid Curse, while posing as a reporter and her assistant. They joined two folklorists from a local academy, and the chapter left them waiting in the gloomy house as their host went to fetch Mr. Jude.

• Leisha arranged a carriage and false identities for the visit, explaining that the Tuna Literary Gazette belonged to her.
• Shade and Leisha traveled to Kezhem Lane, an Old Town area known for disappearances of outsiders.
• They met Professor Katia and Lim Scott, folklorists also visiting Mr. Jude, and continued with them.
• A gloomy house servant let the four visitors inside and told them to wait in the entrance hall while he informed Mr. Jude.
• The visitors waited in the dark, damp mansion, surrounded by unsettling old decor and a storm outside.

Shade, Leisha, and two folklorists visited Mr. Jude to discuss Coldwater Port’s ancient beliefs and the Sea Burial rhyme. While Mr. Jude’s servant tried to lure Shade upstairs alone, Shade discovered a statue covered in crimson aura and heard an ominous Echo about the Sea Burial ritual already being underway.

• Mr. Jude explained that three ancient fishing villages worshipped different evil gods and showed the visitors symbols associated with a human figure, a Mermaid, and a storm.
• Mr. Jude claimed that descendants of the old fishing-village families still lurked in Coldwater Port and that Mermaid worship persisted in the city.
• Shade and Leisha discussed the Sea Burial rhyme with the folklorists, whose ordinary interpretation linked its lines to a Mermaid’s song, pirates, slaughter, and their departure.
• A servant asked Shade to fetch antiques upstairs, but Shade refused to leave Leisha and the scholars offered to accompany him.
• After the servant left to ask Mr. Jude, Shade saw crimson aura covering the broken-arm statue and heard an Echo warning that the Sea Burial ritual had begun and that ordinary people should no longer be lured in.

Shade, Leisha, Professor Katia, and Mr. Scott discovered they had been locked inside Mr. Jude’s study and searched it for clues. Shade opened a protected safe and found a disturbing painting of a Fishmen creature that appeared to blink, leaving Mr. Scott badly shaken.

• Professor Katia and Shade noticed the study was suspicious, then found the door locked from outside and the window unable to open.
• Professor Katia revealed a rapier hidden in his cane, and Shade showed that he carried a permitted revolver before suggesting they search the study.
• Shade found a pistol, spellcasting materials, and business papers in Mr. Jude’s desk, then sliced apart a severed hand that sprang from a drawer.
• Leisha told Shade she had backup nearby and a Steam Bomb, but Shade advised her not to use it unless necessary.
• Shade used Door Key to open a magically protected safe and found an oil painting depicting a monstrous Fishmen creature.
• Mr. Scott cried out that the mermaid in the painting had blinked, and the others waited until Leisha confirmed no one outside had heard him.

Shade, Leisha, Professor Katia, and Mr. Scott discovered that Mr. Jude was connected to the Scarlet Secret Society and escaped his house when its servants attacked. They fled into the rain toward Leisha’s nearby allies.

• Professor Katia identified a stone Mark as a symbol of the Scarlet Secret Society and recognized the banned book "Ocean Mysteries" as a sign of its leaders.
• Shade read letters from the safe and concluded that the alley was a cult gathering place where nearby people had disappeared.
• Professor Katia and Shade prepared to escape through a window as servants approached, and Professor Katia shot the servant who forced open the door.
• Shade split the reinforced window with Moonlight, and Leisha shattered the cracked pane before jumping outside.
• Leisha, Mr. Scott, Professor Katia, and Shade escaped through the window, then followed Leisha through the rain toward her people.

Shade and Princess Leisha fought the Scarlet Secret Society’s fish-like residents and Ring Arcanists on the Old Street, then escaped after Shade alerted Peace Church and killed Mr. Jude. They fled east in the carriage with the injured Professor Katia, Scott, and coachman, while the Church’s forces arrived behind them.

• Shade and Leisha attacked the fish-like creatures as Professor Katia and Scott fled, and they realized the cult was transforming people and using rumors of a cure to lure Ring Arcanists.
• Mr. Jude revealed that the Scarlet Secret Society had controlled the street for centuries, then confronted Shade and Leisha with hidden Ring Arcanists.
• Shade used Silver Moon high above the street to alert Peace Church and blind many cultists, then pursued Mr. Jude while Leisha escaped east.
• Shade overcame Mr. Jude’s defenses and killed him, then fled onto the rooftops as Church Ring Arcanists arrived.
• Shade found Leisha’s carriage, where the coachman and scholars had been injured by the flash, and they drove away through the rain.