Recaps

The Silver Moon Guild prepared for its southern-front campaign against Plaguebane Town as Meow Brother proposed using Avalon’s seeds to grow a treant army in the swamp. The guild agreed to fund his plan and planned to enter the swamp the next day to find the Witch Hunters’ forward camp.

• Madam Shui, Orchid, and Sister Pomegranate discussed the other fronts’ progress and agreed that their undermanned team needed to advance carefully.
• Meow Brother and his allies arrived on wind gryphons, and Madam Shui teased Orchid about Mr. Yuan before revealing she had invited him to Transia.
• Meow Brother presented Bloodwood and other seeds and proposed cultivating a treant army called “Avalon’s Fist” to defend the swamp and remain there after the war.
• Madam Shui expanded the plan to at least three thousand treants and agreed to find a druid to manage them, while Meow Brother identified Belly Brother as a potential expert.
• Madam Shui offered thirty thousand gold coins for seeds, and Meow Brother left to buy them before the group’s planned expedition into the swamp the following day.

Meng Haha returned to the swamp camp and explained her government work to Sister Pomegranate, then traveled to the Ancestral Forest to tell Madam Shui that Cement Heart needed help. The chapter ended with Meng Haha asking Madam Shui to help find Cement Heart a beacon in Transia.

• Little Ashina went for a ride on a Windroc with Brother Qu while the Big Bird Group headed early to the swamp.
• Meng Haha teleported into camp, and Sister Pomegranate confronted her for hiding her government work and involving Little Ashina in the computational orb operation.
• Meng Haha explained that the inquiry was over and asked about Sister Cement and Ruyi, who had helped send an encrypted message.
• Sister Pomegranate directed Meng Haha to speak with Madam Shui and Orchid in the Ancestral Forest, and Meng Haha agreed to go.
• Meng Haha's teleportation spell went wrong, and she crashed into Madam Shui's hut as Madam Shui prepared to change into her new ceremonial garb.
• Meng Haha told Madam Shui that Cement Heart was being monitored while studying Alpha's headsets and needed a beacon in Transia.

Lord Ripping Flesh prepared the Warplague Clan to enter the Swamp Forbidden Zone and seek the Bone-Biter King's secret treasure while Transian forces attacked. After learning that Lord Source's agent planned to use the clan as bait against Governor Murphy, Ripping Flesh considered abandoning its apprentices and finding a wiser successor.

• A Warplague sorcerer reported that Transian forces and the Plantagenet Kingdom's army had captured six outposts, but Ripping Flesh dismissed the threat and asked about preparations to enter the Swamp Forbidden Zone.
• Ripping Flesh warned that legendary serpents guarded the zone and ordered its apprentice to finish preparing one hundred Netherworld Knights before the enemy broke through three defensive lines.
• Ripping Flesh contacted Lord Source's agent, who said he would arrive the next night with a way to obtain the treasure and ordered Ripping Flesh to leave its clan and army behind afterward.
• The agent explained that the swamp would serve as a grave for Governor Murphy and that the Warplague Clan would be used in the plan; Ripping Flesh refused to commit to the order.
• Watching its apprentices prepare for battle, Ripping Flesh decided they were unfit to lead the clan and resolved to leave them in the swamp while seeking a better successor.
• Ripping Flesh thought of Hogg as the kind of clever, capable gnoll it wished could inherit the clan, and wondered whether he had survived the Transian advance.

Chief Hogg hosted Colonel Fraser and Professor Malcolm at a Bloodclaw Clan feast, where he defended his people’s identity and negotiated recognition of their authority over Smuggler’s Woods. A violent tremor from the swamp’s forbidden zone interrupted their talks, and Fraser hurried to his position.

• Hogg welcomed Fraser and Malcolm to a barbecue, where Fraser observed the gnolls’ hospitality and learned that Malcolm had taught Hogg history.
• Hogg explained that the Transian gnolls were distinct from the Dark Mountains gnolls and had chosen to fight alongside humanity in the Black Calamity.
• Fraser revealed that Marshal Loren had sent him to assess the Bloodclaw Clan, and Hogg demanded recognition of his clan’s rule over Smuggler’s Woods during the campaign.
• Hogg offered a trade route between the Kato region and Transia through Smuggler’s Woods, and Fraser said a guild leader would discuss the proposal later.
• A violent tremor came from the swamp’s forbidden zone, prompting Hogg to send guards to check the den and Fraser to ride to his position.

Cheche’s party attacked the undead defenses near Plague Town while the flesh-ripper led an army into the Filthy Swamp’s forbidden zone. There, the legendary giant swamp serpent Ningjinanka devastated the invaders before a mysterious psychic banished it to the Astral Plane, giving them thirty minutes to search the land of creation.

• Cheche spotted tremors and flashes near Plague Town, gathered the student party, and led an assault on Outpost Seven, but the undead defenses repelled them.
• A-Cha explained that the three fronts were working together, while the party wondered what was causing the increasingly powerful tremors.
• The flesh-ripper’s undead army entered the forbidden zone and fought through swamp beasts displaced by the gnoll shamanists’ destruction of the local ecosystem.
• A mysterious psychic told the flesh-ripper that the swamp held a secret connected to the Bone-Biter King and that he had come to retrieve something for Lord Source’s organization.
• Ningjinanka appeared, blinded and confused the army with its radiant hide, then crushed many undead with an earthquake and war stomp.
• The psychic banished Ningjinanka to the Astral Plane and urged the flesh-ripper to find what they sought before the serpent returned in thirty minutes.

Meat-Ripper accompanied Explorer into the Creator’s exhibition hall to retrieve the Bonechewer King’s remains, learning that the gnolls’ civilization tablet lay deeper in the protected core. Explorer promised to recover it if his mission succeeded, while Meat-Ripper left with the corpse and advice to search the surrounding swamp for the king’s belongings.

• Explorer led Meat-Ripper through the cave and explained that the Bonechewer King’s civilization tablet was protected in the exhibition hall’s core.
• Explorer and Meat-Ripper removed their psionic equipment and passed through the hall’s detection gate into the Creator’s visitor hall.
• Meat-Ripper found the Bonechewer King’s preserved corpse and learned that the king had died praying to the Creator more than a century earlier.
• Explorer told Meat-Ripper that the tablet was in the core and suggested searching the nearby swamp for the king’s hidden belongings.
• Meat-Ripper placed the corpse in a body bag and departed after learning Explorer’s codename and receiving a warning about a giant serpent.

Flesh-ripper recovered the King of the Bone Gnawers' remains and secretly planned to use a necromantic awakening to claim the power hidden in the swamp. Meanwhile, Murphy's uneasy premonition led Triss to divine signs of a giant serpent, mist, stars, and a desecrated corpse, though she did not uncover what he was hiding.

• Flesh-ripper ordered his apprentices to collect Ninkinanka's blood while he returned to Plague Town with the King of the Bone Gnawers' remains.
• Flesh-ripper told his apprentices the king's legendary weapons had been lost in battle and promised the one who found them the Plague Clan's leadership, while they secretly planned to kill him.
• Flesh-ripper decided to pursue the power hidden in the Land of Creation and ordered Limpclaw to prepare a necromantic awakening ritual.
• Murphy told Triss he felt an unexplained warning of danger, and she used a crystal ball to divine images of mist, a giant serpent, stars, and a desecrated corpse.
• Triss failed to identify the source of Murphy's unease and advised him to avoid Astral Plane powers, while Murphy privately congratulated himself for keeping his secret from her.

Murphy discovered that the new incendiary weapons tested by Loyal Bro and the players could devastate undead forces, and he ordered them produced in preparation for the Black Calamity. The chapter left Murphy arranging a supply of burning gold and proposing that blood thralls manufacture the weapons in secret.

• Murphy flew over his territory and reflected on how much power and land the Blood Eagle Clan had regained under his rule.
• Murphy spotted Thirty-Year-Old Smoke testing a napalm incendiary bomb, which ignited a large area of the wasteland.
• Smoke dropped a white phosphorus bomb designed by Loyal Bro, and the blast burned most of the skeleton soldiers in its test zone.
• Loyal Bro ordered white phosphorus weapons added to expedited production, while noting that burning gold could improve the incendiary bombs.
• Murphy said he could seek help from a Silver Dwarf marshal and a vampire lord to obtain burning gold before the Black Calamity.
• Murphy ordered Loyal Bro to prioritize mass production for the war in the Filthy Swamp and suggested using blood thralls as secret workers.

Murphy sought a way to secure firegold for Transia’s army and discovered that Lady Heather Hoffman, rather than Lord Paine, handled the Bloodsworn Knights’ dwarven supplies. He also urged Laennia to pursue her feelings for Maxim, then learned that the Legendary Hero had built an impact fuze that could enable mortar production.

• Murphy visited Laennia and asked her to pass along his request to import firegold, but she explained that Lady Heather Hoffman managed the Bloodsworn Knights’ dwarven procurement.
• Laennia told Murphy about Lady Heather’s family ties to the Brass Dwarves and her role as quartermaster general, giving him a promising route to obtain firegold.
• Murphy recognized Laennia’s feelings for Maxim and suggested she could earn enough standing with the Lord Paramount to pursue a relationship despite the Knights’ rules; Laennia was left conflicted.
• Murphy contacted a half-dwarf marshal at the Pioneer Fortress and offered to share credit concerning the Frost Dwarf lord’s whereabouts in exchange for help.
• The next day, the Legendary Hero showed Loyalty Bro a crude impact fuze he had devised, and Loyalty Bro said it could make mass-producing mortars possible.

Players on the swamp campaign arranged cross-front purchases of faction equipment, while Little Ashina continued lending money to newcomers. Colonel Fraser recruited players for camp activities and quests, and General Baldwin sought to use their eagerness for labor while considering how to handle Fort Krim’s armed blood thralls.

• Players advertised reputation-gated weapons, armor, supplies, firearms, and explosives, and coordinated purchases for teammates on the other fronts.
• Little Ashina continued offering new players one-month equipment loans at three percent interest.
• Colonel Fraser asked players to find entertainment for his soldiers and unusual ancient artifacts for his father, and they quickly supplied mahjong and relics.
• Fraser gave players a quest to collect marks and texts from gnoll shamans, which they eagerly accepted.
• General Baldwin learned that Transian players had completed menial work at Fort Krim and ordered more upkeep tasks while forbidding them from approaching the armed blood thralls.
• Baldwin considered how to deal with the ten thousand armed blood thralls before the Black Calamity began.

General Baldwin planned to exchange Krim Fortress’s uncooperative blood thralls for supplies and help from Murphy’s forces, while the players’ swamp campaign stalled as they awaited a new weapon. The chapter ended with the weapon revealed as a mortar and Doorman Grandpa Qin surprising the young players with his apparent military experience.

• General Baldwin and his aide planned to send defiant blood thralls to Transia in exchange for supplies and for Murphy’s warriors to clear beasts from the swamp.
• Baldwin rejected intervening in Murphy’s plan to carve a road through the swamp and ordered a proposal for the prisoner exchange to be sent to Crimson Castle.
• The three player fronts stalled in the swamp as the major guilds slowed their advance and prepared for a rumored weapon of mass destruction.
• Rainbow Cat Hero recruited new players to help transport bombs from Morland Village, and the wagon convoy set off with Doorman Grandpa Qin among them.
• At the temporary warehouse, Sweet Potato Liquor broke a crate and Grandpa Qin identified the weapon inside as a replica Stokes mortar.

Lin welcomed the new players delivering supplies and sent Rainbow Cat with a group toward the western front, where Old Qin spotted a Gnoll shaman raid threatening the outposts. Old Qin rallied the group to ambush and delay the enemy, and they prepared to fire their mortars.

• The new players unloaded supplies at the warehouse and received purses and a choice of weapons as a welcome reward from the Hammer and Sickle Regiment.
• Lin warned the recruits about the swamp and asked volunteers to carry supplies to the fronts; Rainbow Cat agreed to scout the route toward the Golden Gorse vanguard's base and took new guns with him.
• Rainbow Cat led two groups of newbies west, where Old Qin spotted a huge, silent force of elite skeletons moving toward a gap behind the western front.
• Old Qin recognized the threat as a Gnoll shaman raid and persuaded the group to delay the enemy while someone contacted the student players.
• Old Qin led the group to a defensible outcropping, set up eight mortars, and ordered the first calibration shot.

Qin and the students ambushed a lich’s undead army with cannons loaded with white phosphorus shells, but the lich counterattacked and devastated their position. As the lich approached, Qin ignited an aerial bomb, engulfing the high ground in flames while A-Cha arrived too late.

• The lich’s skeletons suffered heavy losses when the first two cannon barrages scattered burning white phosphorus across their ranks.
• Qin ordered the students to keep firing as skeleton cavalry charged, and Rainbow Cat found an aerial bomb among the supplies.
• A Flame Strike killed several students and wounded Qin, but Sweet Potato Liquor and Rainbow Cat continued firing until the shells were spent.
• Sweet Potato Liquor charged the skeletons and detonated his grenades, while Rainbow Cat escaped the high ground and Qin prepared the aerial bomb.
• The lich approached Qin, who struck the bomb’s chemical fuse and set off a massive explosion across the high ground.
• A-Cha arrived above the burning battlefield and realized he was too late.

A-Cha and Cheche discovered that the defeated necromancer was Rotem Hugh Baldwin, the ancestor of the Winter Wolf General, while Murphy decided to join the coming swamp offensive and received a one-use teleportation charm from Triss. The chapter ended with Loyal Brother warning his colleagues not to investigate Old Qin the Doorman and anticipating the next stage of the campaign.

• After Old Qin's attack broke the undead army's command, A-Cha found Rainbow Cat in shock and arranged for him to return to the rear lines for treatment.
• A-Cha and Cheche found the dying necromancer, who named himself Rotem Hugh Baldwin and revealed that he was the Winter Wolf General before his skull crumbled.
• A-Cha and Cheche planned to report the victory, compensate Old Qin's group, and help clear the battlefield.
• Murphy decided to head to the swamp and take part in the vampire air force's debut, and Triss gave him a one-use teleportation charm.
• Border City Loner told Loyal Brother about Old Qin's battlefield leadership, and Loyal Brother ordered him not to investigate Old Qin.
• Loyal Brother prepared to leave work, then returned for the helmet he had forgotten.

Murphy and the vampire players launched a night bombing raid against the gnolls’ defenses in the Filthy Swamp. As the bombs set the battlefield ablaze, Murphy and Little Countess Sharon also sought to capture necromancers, and Murphy claimed the swamp for Transia.

• Thirty-Year-Old Smokey briefed the vampire players on the bombing plan, and Amina joined the squadron with a specially made small bomb.
• Murphy disguised himself and joined the departing bombers, while Little Countess Sharon secretly joined them too.
• The vampire squadron flew toward the northern front as Thirty-Year-Old Smokey instructed the players to follow his guiding incendiary and drop their bombs.
• Murphy and Little Countess Sharon dove into the attack, and Murphy targeted necromancers and death knights as explosions engulfed the battlefield.
• Murphy declared that the Filthy Swamp belonged to Transia and would serve his cause.

Vampire bombers devastated the undead command network in Plague Marsh, clearing the way for Avalon’s forces and their allies to advance. As Vesta’s White Mountain faction joined the fighting, the player Three Jin Sweet Potato Liquor used a mortar against a fleeing lich and was called to support another assault.

• Happy Rod’s vampire nightwalkers bombed carefully selected undead command nodes, then firebombed strongholds across Plague Marsh.
• Mother Marianne, Natalie, and Amber debated the Church’s changing theology before Natalie urged the forces to exploit the bombing and advance with more than three thousand treants.
• Vesta ordered his progeny to help Murphy’s warriors by assassinating undead commanders, while warning them to follow Count Andre’s will rather than the Wolf Queen’s court.
• The bombing and coordinated ground advance shattered the undead defenses, forcing a lich to flee through the marsh.
• Three Jin Sweet Potato Liquor fired a white phosphorus bomb at the fleeing lich, marked his second kill, and hurried to support A Can of Tomato Sauce’s squad.

Flesh-Ripper responded to the Transians’ devastating attack by abandoning the outer defenses and preparing the Bone-Biting King’s body, while learning that the king’s soul remained missing. After the Explorer agreed to return in two or three days, Flesh-Ripper decided the Explorer was a blasphemer who intended to destroy the Land of Creation and resolved to punish him.

• A gnoll messenger told Flesh-Ripper that Transian vampire bombers had burned through two defensive lines and destroyed most of their commanders.
• Flesh-Ripper ordered the remaining spellcasters to retreat to the final line while he prepared a surprise, then asked Lameclaw about the Bone-Biting King’s revival.
• Lameclaw reported that vampire hearts were powering the king’s body, requested Ningkinanka venom, and admitted he could not find the king’s soul.
• Flesh-Ripper contacted the Explorer, who said he would return in two or three days to confront Lord Murphy and offered to bring Creator’s potato chips.
• After hearing the Explorer compare himself to the Creator, Flesh-Ripper concluded that he was a blasphemer plotting against the Land of Creation and vowed to punish him.

The Transian players reached Plaguevenom Town and learned they had to clear its outer dungeons before Lady Femis could counter the gnoll mage tower for six-hour assault windows. As the western front prepared to advance with artillery support, Ge Bao and A-Cha pursued a secret alternative plan, while the southern front battled through the swamp and Knight Liwen spoke with the Astral Dragon.

• Student players planted their flags opposite Plaguevenom Town and earned the hidden achievement “Victory Day.”
• Lady Mary announced that the undead garrison had to be cleared before Lady Femis could counter the mage tower, giving attackers six hours to assault the town each time.
• Teacher Li and the guild leaders planned to use mortars and Goldenbloom field guns against the elite undead guarding the outer dungeons.
• Ge Bao and A-Cha said they would spend up to three days testing a lore-based plan that might bypass the dungeon restrictions.
• Zhulan asked the western-front teams to leave unusual undead for the Eight Demons to bind and study.
• Biji and the southern-front paladins fought undead ambushers as Knight Liwen heard the Astral Dragon reflect on the foreigners and the change beginning in the world.

Student players discovered gnoll warlocks bleeding the legendary swamp serpent Ningishzida at a supernatural boundary, but a mysterious explorer banished their reconnaissance party to the Astral Plane. There, Cheche recognized the enormous serpent that had eaten him before as it descended on the group.

• The players’ probing assault on the western mini-dungeon faltered when a death knight knocked Two Big Cucumbers’s grenades back at his squad, and Old Qin ordered a retreat.
• Electronic Snail led the student players into the eastern swamp, where Meow Shark spotted gnoll warlocks using undead to attack Ningishzida and harvest its blood.
• The explorer explained that an ancient boundary kept Ningishzida from entering the mortal world, then used his staff to banish the student players to the Astral Plane.
• The explorer left to meet Ripping Flesh and reflected that Lord Yuan had plans for the Bone-Biting King’s remains and the coming Twilight Fire.
• Cheche began guiding the banished players through the Astral Plane, but a gigantic serpent emerged from a rift, and he recognized it as the one that had eaten him before.

Murphy and Triss learned that the student faction had been thrown into the Astral Realm by a mysterious figure near Plaguetown, and Murphy decided to go there as danger from Dusk grew clearer. Meanwhile, the Explorer’s scheme at Plaguetown collapsed when the revived King of Bone-Biting killed his puppet body, leaving Ripmeat with the Creator’s staff and determined to protect his clan’s legacy.

• Murphy and Triss discovered the students’ forum post about a strange man who had teleported them into the Astral Realm, and they recognized his metal staff as an artifact of the Creator.
• Bonnie brought back the students’ calculation orbs and dog tags, and Triss suspected that a force in the Astral Realm was monitoring them and returning their belongings.
• Murphy decided to head to Plaguetown and help conquer it, while Triss began analyzing the Astral Realm traces.
• The Explorer argued with Flesh-Tearing over whether Lameclaw would remain in Plaguetown, then followed him to the Construction Tower when Lameclaw failed to answer.
• Flesh-Tearing found Lameclaw’s body torn apart, and Lameclaw warned that the revived King of Bone-Biting had awakened and was outside.
• The King of Bone-Biting killed the Explorer’s puppet double, but the Explorer spoke through its shattered head before Ripmeat crushed it and vowed that his clan would carry on the king’s unfinished work.

The three fronts advanced on Plague Town after reinforcements arrived, with artillery and player forces breaking through the undead defenses. The southern team breached the city’s psychic barrier, only to find Zombie Kenport waiting inside with a formidable group of undead.

• Unaffiliated players adopted cautious ambush tactics while the three fronts waited for reinforcements.
• Major Ron ordered the Pioneer Legion’s field guns to bombard the undead position, and the western front’s players charged through the barrage to seize a quarter of it.
• Meow Brother led the southern front’s treants and players through the final defense, destroyed the southern gate, and reached Plague Town’s psychic barrier.
• Femis performed a psychic countermeasure ritual that shattered the barrier, and Meow Brother charged through before being thrown back out by Zombie Kenport.
• Orchid Flower prepared to defend the group against Zombie Kenport, four zombie barbarian soldiers, and four Demonic Heart Wraiths.

Ripflesh left Crippleclaw to defend Blighttown while it pursued the Blightplague clan’s civilization tablet, and Happy Stick’s team faced a different gatekeeper than the Zombie Warlord. After the vampire-gnoll patchwork monster overwhelmed them, Happy Stick planned to destroy its shadow refuge and attack again in daylight.

• Ripflesh accused Crippleclaw of plotting to use the King of Bonechewers against it, then ordered Crippleclaw to defend Blighttown and escape with the King after three days.
• Ripflesh took the Staff of Creation and a red bucket of materials, then flew away on its wyvern toward the Land of Creation.
• Happy Stick learned that Meow Brother’s team had been wiped out by Kenport’s poison attacks, so he equipped his own team with poison-resistant gear.
• Happy Stick’s team entered Blighttown’s northern gate and discovered that its gatekeeper was Experimental Subject 16-C, a powerful undead vampire-gnoll patchwork monster.
• The monster dodged an execution attempt in bat form and killed five players with its soul-attacking strikes, forcing Happy Stick to retreat.
• Happy Stick ordered his team to rest, recruit faster fighters and specialists, and locate the spell sustaining the shadow before challenging the monster again in daylight.

The student players on the western front abandoned their attempt to reach the wizard tower after occult traps summoned a powerful Reaper of Bones. They headed for the swamp’s forbidden zone to try to lure the giant serpent into attacking Plagueblight Town, and Murphy listened in as they planned to steal its eggs.

• Master Yang explained that capturing the other two psionic nodes could weaken the wizard tower’s barrier, and Old Qin led his squad and several newcomers toward Psionic Node One.
• The Hymn of Loyalty guild volunteered to capture Psionic Node Two, while Brother Bang’s team defeated the northern front’s guardian and reached the warlock tower before withdrawing after heavy losses.
• A-Cha, Ge Bao, Teacher Li, and Zhou Lan agreed to prepare a backup plan as the western front began its attempt to advance toward the tower.
• Basha warned the players that the road was covered in interconnected occult traps, and Ge Bao triggered one that summoned a Reaper of Bones and four Ghost Guards.
• The western attempt failed, and Murphy followed the student players toward the forbidden zone after learning they intended to lure Ningkinanka into attacking the town.
• Ge Bao proposed drawing lots to choose a scout who would search for Ningkinanka’s lair and steal something valuable, preferably snake eggs, while Murphy listened in disbelief.

Cheche and the other students searched the forbidden swamp for a way to lure the injured Ningji Nanka toward the gnolls, uncovering a hidden facility built to preserve the endangered serpent species. After finding a petrified egg that could serve as bait, they decided to use it in their Plaguehaven strategy despite expecting the serpent to attack them.

• Cheche sneaked into the forbidden swamp, observed the injured Ningji Nanka fighting the gnolls, and reported its wounds to the others.
• Cheche found a maze filled with discarded serpent scales, and the students joined him to gather the valuable crafting materials.
• Murphy spotted a concealed passage and kicked Electronic Snail through an illusionary rock wall into the serpent's lair.
• The students discovered that the lair contained artificial equipment, ancient gnoll remains, and a petrified Ningji Nanka egg identified as a special story item.
• A-Cha realized the forbidden zone was a sanctuary for preserving the serpent species, and Ge Bao decided the students would use the egg as bait in their Plaguehaven plan.
• The students agreed to risk their lives to draw the serpent toward the gnolls and proposed drawing lots to choose who would go first.

The Big Bird and Silvermoon guilds defeated Kenport but failed to break through the Plague Warlock Tower, while A-Cha’s group launched a plan to lure the giant serpent into attacking it. Coo-Coo Chicken successfully drew the serpent across the forbidden-zone boundary, but the gnoll warlocks began teleporting as the plan’s next phase started.

• Brother Black Silk and Little Ashina killed Kenport, but the Big Bird and Silvermoon guilds retreated from the Plague Warlock Tower after a poison trap overwhelmed their exhausted forces.
• Orchid, Little Ashina, and their companions discussed the tower’s defenses, the campaign’s difficulty, and the missing gnoll warlocks before returning to camp.
• A-Cha organized his brothers to use the stone egg to lure the giant serpent toward Plaguewind Town and make it trigger the tower’s traps.
• Coo-Coo Chicken carried the egg toward the gnoll encampment, and the giant serpent crossed the forbidden-zone boundary to pursue it.
• Cheche and Ge Bao shielded Coo-Coo Chicken from the serpent’s poison as he flew past the gnolls, where the serpent’s venom killed three warlocks.
• Coo-Coo Chicken announced the plan’s success, then reported that the gnolls were teleporting and called on Meow Shark as he was about to die.