Recaps

Murphy led the players toward the battle between the Midnight Hunters and the Golden Lily Transport Team, then unlocked new game features after completing the fifth beginner guidance quest. He briefly enabled Deep Datafication, suffered a headache from the flood of information, and turned it off before a scream from Lady Femis interrupted him.

• Murphy led eleven armed players through Smugglers' Woodland toward the battlefield while Happy Stick examined the world’s unusual rifle technology.
• The players completed the fifth Beginner Guidance Quest with an outstanding rating, unlocking ten Test Invitation Codes, Deep Datafication, and tester-initiated login for up to six hours a day.
• Murphy received the final Beginner Guidance Quest, which required him to return to Cadman City, pass the Black Iron Body Trial of Strength, and obtain a territory.
• Murphy enabled Deep Datafication, saw the detailed statistics and traits in his character sheet, and collapsed as the information overwhelmed him.
• The players tried to revive Murphy, but he recovered after switching back to Simple Mode and considered how quickly they could grow stronger.
• Murphy heard Lady Femis scream ahead and turned toward the sound.

Commander Finoc Lawson reached the burning camp and rescued the surviving Witch Hunters before riding after the retreating Midnight Hunters. He revealed himself as the Oak Knight, a Gold-rank protector of the Old Church, and drove Miss Femis to flee.

• Lady Adele went alone to find Murphy while her five blood thralls attacked the four Witch Hunters at the burning camp.
• Porter, Norman, Natalie, and Amber killed the blood thralls, but all four Witch Hunters fell near death as the fire closed in.
• Finoc Lawson arrived, used seeds of life to revive Porter and Norman, and treated Natalie and Amber; he told Natalie that Swiftshadow had led him there.
• Finoc rode toward the vampire battlefield as his sacred white oak sword stirred the forest and helped him trap the retreating Midnight Hunters.
• Finoc cut down several vampires with his Oakwood Sacred Blade and identified himself as White Knight Commander Finoc Lawson, prompting Miss Femis to flee.

Femis was captured by Finok after his attack devastated the Midnight Hunters, but the Watcher unexpectedly refused to strike her. Finok gave her a strange seed, then left after hearing her vision of a blood tree; Murphy and the players found the injured Femis and carried her onward.

• Femis realized an infiltrator might have compromised the Blood Eagle Clan’s intelligence and that Cadman City could be the enemy’s target, but Finok’s attack brought her down before she escaped.
• Finok defeated Femis, bound her to a tree, and prepared to kill her, but the Watcher’s purifying fire faded and the blade refused to harm her.
• Finok made Femis swallow a black seed, questioned her about her vision, and heard her describe a leafless blood tree growing from an endless pool of blood.
• Finok released Femis and left, telling her to ask her father about her miserable future rather than claiming he had spared her.
• Murphy and the players found Femis, and Murphy appointed Niu Niu her personal knight and ordered him to carry her.

Murphy’s players scavenged the woodland where the Midnight Hunters had been wiped out, while White Knight Finoc escorted the surviving psionicists toward Transia. After promising the players a lasting connection to the world, Murphy learned that the convoy’s cargo included thousands of forbidden halfling psionic calculation orbs, putting them in grave danger.

• Murphy and the players found the Midnight Hunters’ battlefield, discovered the vampires had been reduced to ash, and collected psionic bags, weapons, ammunition, and packhorses before leaving with the unconscious young lady.
• White Knight Finoc refused to recover the convoy’s cargo and warned the surviving psionicist that the Blood Vultures might have infiltrated the Pioneer Legion.
• Finoc escorted the survivors toward Transia while Swiftshadow reported that a vampire apprentice and human blood thralls had come to clean up the battlefield.
• Murphy told the players that he had found a component for his summoning spell and promised they could remain connected to the world after one more day; he then sent them back to their own world.
• Maxim brought Murphy to inspect the opened cargo, where Mirian identified thousands of smuggled third-generation halfling psionic calculation orbs as forbidden military equipment.

Murphy discovered that the seized calculating orbs could form a military communications and command network, and learned that their shipment included a hidden upper-level node. Opening the safe revealed a fourth-generation prototype capable of reproducing a function of the Test Administrator System, bringing Murphy closer to giving players an interface.

• Mirian explained that psionic calculating orbs could handle calculations, communication, and military coordination, and that the Plantagenet Kingdom had used them to reform the Greeni Legion.
• Murphy identified the seized orbs as cracked versions and realized he needed to find their upper-level node to activate them.
• Murphy and Mirian searched the wagon and found an inert, binary-locked brass safe at the back.
• Murphy used Item Identification to learn the safe’s combination and opened it to retrieve the commander’s calculating orb.
• The system identified the orb as a fourth-generation prototype and offered Alpha the chance to reproduce one of its functions, giving Murphy hope of creating a player interface.

Murphy activated the stolen fourth-generation computing orb, which began copying administrator-system functions so he could equip thousands of players with interfaces. After securing the orbs and discussing Mirian’s future, he turned to the injured Lady Adele and prepared to use vampire power to counter the poison harming her.

• Murphy started the orb’s system-replication process and explained that its computing matrix could initialize the 3,000 confiscated orbs for his players.
• Mirian agreed to keep the stolen orbs secret and left, while Maxim urged Murphy to distrust her and make her a blood thrall; Murphy rejected that plan and entrusted Maxim with guarding the boxes.
• Murphy learned that Maxim had killed the cavalrymen in the pit and told him to keep the deaths from their softhearted warriors.
• Mirian explained that her limited psionic talent could not let her cast spells, then reported that Lady Adele was feverish and dehydrated from vampire poison while Femis had recovered her severed hand.
• Murphy woke Femis with a burst of psionic energy and declared that he would use one vampire’s power to fight another’s and reward Lady Adele for saving him.

Murphy agreed to perform the Embrace on Lady Adele to save her from the Wolfsbane toxin after Miss Femis dissolved their master-servant bond. As Murphy began the ritual, he sensed an unexpected woodland fragrance in Adele's blood and realized she had a quarter elf blood.

• Miss Femis woke after Murphy struck her with a Dark Psionic Blast, and Murphy explained that Lady Adele was dying from Wolfsbane malice.
• Miss Femis said she could not Embrace Adele herself, then dissolved their master-servant bond and ordered Murphy to save her.
• Murphy asked Maxim whether he objected to the Embrace, and Maxim agreed while postponing his own transformation until after completing the Black Iron Trial.
• Miss Femis explained the Embrace ritual, and Murphy began drinking Adele's blood as Mirian and Maxim watched.
• Murphy detected a woodland fragrance in Adele's blood and realized that she had a quarter elf blood.

Murphy completed Lady Adele’s Embrace, creating a powerful bloodline bond while gaining new abilities and suffering severe weakness. As he rested, the forum announced that the True Otherworld Alpha 1.0 test version would launch in 16 hours, with player login and major new features.

• Murphy drained and purified Lady Adele’s blood, chose the Rare inheritance template, and completed her Embrace as Bella Bernice Adele Lasombra.
• The Embrace created a profound bloodline contract between Murphy and Bella Bernice Adele Lasombra, granting Murphy new attributes, swordsmanship, and talents while leaving him weakened.
• Murphy returned to the campfire with Maxim and rested, thinking about Triss and his growing longing for home.
• Alpha announced that the True Otherworld Alpha 1.0 test version would launch in 16 hours and posted details about player login, the interface system, new content, and rewards.
• Forum users teased Meow King about his supposed special treatment, and he denied making any shady deal with the development team.

Murphy traveled toward Cadman City with Femis and the unconscious Lady Adele while preparing to test the players’ new manual login system. After the players returned and activated their computational orbs, Murphy recognized Meow King for an unknown contribution and prepared a special reward for him.

• Murphy left Smuggler's Woods with Femis, Lady Adele, Maxim, and Mirian, and learned that Adele had hidden elf blood and had been with Femis for twenty years.
• Murphy manually confirmed the players’ login prompt, and the players appeared beside him for the first time using manual login.
• Murphy distributed computational orbs to the players and activated them with his own orb, unlocking their interfaces and game functions.
• The players checked their attributes, and Niu Niu tackled Car after Car mocked his low Intellect score.
• Meow Brother asked Murphy about his forum reward, and Murphy said he did not know why but sensed Meow King had contributed to the grand plan before offering him something suitable.

Meow Brother received a holy blade from Murphy and accepted a hidden quest to investigate the Old Church and the god Avalon. As the players learned about their traits and prepared for the journey to Cadman City, Niu Niu discovered that Maxim’s swordsmanship training was brutally difficult.

• Murphy gave Meow Brother a replica of an Old Church holy blade and assigned him the hidden quest Shadow of the Old Church.
• Meow Brother accepted the quest, learned that Maxim taught Blood Vulture Swordsmanship, and gathered information about the convoy’s other NPCs and supplies.
• The players compared their character traits, and Niu Niu revealed that he had both Sports Master and Martial Artist.
• Mirian rang a bell to signal the convoy’s departure, and Meow Brother suggested the players take turns staying online during the three-day journey to Cadman City.
• Niu Niu challenged Maxim to teach him swordsmanship, but Maxim disarmed him for the seventh time and left him sore and discouraged.

General Loren learned that his cargo convoy had been destroyed by Blood Eagle vampires, but the attack also confirmed that the vampires had an informant inside the Pioneer Legion. With the Plantagenet Kingdom ending its advance and Nordtov invading the Bosia Confederacy, Loren ordered Major Fraser to launch Plan D against Cadman City.

• Major Fraser reported that the convoy had been ambushed near the Filthy Swamp, and General Loren learned that its defenders had killed the attackers but lost the cargo.
• Fraser explained that captured Witch Hunters had escaped and set fire to the vampires' rear camp, alerting the convoy, while reports pointed to a leak inside the Pioneer Legion.
• General Loren ordered compensation for the dead soldiers' families and declined to pursue the cargo, then told Fraser that the war was ending because Nordtov's Winterwolf Legion had invaded the Bosia Confederacy.
• General Loren revealed that the Plantagenet Kingdom and Nordtov had agreed to divide the Bosia Confederacy and said Transia's future would be settled by politicians.
• General Loren ordered Fraser to contact the Tower of Rings and the Wolfsbane Clan chief and launch Plan D against Cadman City.

Murphy's convoy approached Cadman City as he learned how to preserve the remains of summoned creatures and arranged for Adele to travel with him. Before he could return home, General Loren and Old Edward launched Plan D, unleashing an astral catastrophe that devastated most of the city.

• Murphy discussed the players' behavior and rapid swordsmanship training with Maxim as the convoy neared Cadman City.
• Murphy asked Mirian to keep the players' origins secret, and she agreed to describe them as northern mountain folk.
• Miss Femis explained that calamity cores could preserve a summoned creature's physical remains for up to a day and agreed to send Murphy instructions.
• Miss Femis consented to Adele going with Murphy, citing the Blood Vulture Clan's family rules.
• General Loren ordered Plan D, and Old Edward of the Wolfsbane Clan watched as an astral tear swallowed and tore apart most of Cadman City.

As Murphy and the players approached Cadman City, an astral catastrophe began tearing the city apart, and Murphy rushed toward it to save Triss. Trapped beneath the ruins, Triss believed Murphy had escaped and prepared to die as Cadman City was dragged toward the astral plane.

• Murphy warned the players about Cadman City's customs and said he would take them to meet Triss, activating a new-area quest.
• Femis sensed a rapidly gathering tide of psionic energy around Cadman City and flew ahead to investigate.
• A rift opened over the city, and black astral energy, dimensional meteors, and splitting ground began destroying Cadman City and swallowing its fleeing vampires.
• Murphy cut the horse free and rode toward the city, while the players watched him disappear into the astral gale and decided to follow.
• Triss, injured after killing two otherworldly beasts, took shelter in her ruined manor and assumed Murphy had escaped north.
• As the manor collapsed and every escape route closed, Triss toasted Cadman City and begged Murphy not to return.

Murphy entered Cadman City as the Astral Rift dragged it toward the Astral Plane, and organized a safe passage while searching for Triss. He found her badly wounded and carried her toward the escape route as the black snow intensified.

• Murphy fought off an astral leopard and used his core orb to tell Mirian and Maxim to establish a safe passage by the collapsed eastern wall.
• Murphy's main quest sent the players to help Maxim hold the passage while Mirian followed them outside the city.
• Lady Adele woke early, summoned an astral wolf, and ordered it to lead her to Triss.
• Triss lay weakened among the ruins after killing an astral creature and recalled finding Murphy as a starving young man.
• Murphy found Triss alive, covered her with his Midnight Cloak, and carried her toward the collapsed wall as she asked him for a drink.

As players fought the seemingly endless astral monsters at Cadman City's breach, they gained skill proficiency and received class options based on their abilities. Murphy arrived with Triss and nearly a hundred townspeople, then stayed behind with the players to fight while Mirian led the refugees to safety.

• Mirian shot an astral spider, but it changed shape and attacked again until Niu Niu and Car Car drove it off.
• Car Car reached level 3 and received a Swordsman class option, while Niu Niu was offered Shieldbearer; Meow Brother called them back and urged everyone to choose carefully.
• Meow Brother explained that class options reflected players' skills and strengths, and he discussed potential builds and ways to become vampires or visit the halflings.
• Happy Stick spotted Murphy approaching with Triss, a starry wolf, and frightened townspeople, so the players reinforced the breach and opened fire on the pursuing monsters.
• Murphy asked Mirian to lead the townspeople somewhere safe, then stayed with the players to fight and farm experience before Cadman City fell to the astral realm.

Murphy learned that Triss had once been a powerful Gold-tier vampire, then sent the players to rescue Cadman City’s survivors and gather supplies before the city was pulled into the astral realm. As the players split up to search the outskirts, a wounded young lady and her butler crashed near the student group, who recognized them and set out to take them to Murphy.

• Triss refused to leave the safe zone, collected blood from survivors to recover, and helped Murphy assess Cadman City’s danger.
• Murphy discovered Triss’s former strength and divided the players’ rescue work into three zones, warning them to stay away from the rift.
• The players accepted a 72-hour quest to rescue at least 600 survivors and collect supplies, then split into groups to search the city outskirts.
• Meow Brother’s group headed for a wealthy house, while the student group wandered toward the forbidden astral rift and spotted strange figures across it.
• A wounded young lady and her butler fell from the haze near the students, and Niu Niu recognized them as the missing young lady and her injured butler.

Murphy and Triss uncovered evidence that traitors working with Wolfsbane had caused the astral disaster in Cadman City, while the little players rescued the young lady and Lady Adele. After Murphy left to search the Blood Eagle Clan’s vault, Triss woke the two women and questioned the young lady about the destruction of the clan and the truth she had sought in the Blood Eagle Corridor.

• Mirian led the rescued civilians to a safer area while Murphy, Maxim, and Triss fought the despair-born creatures and Triss explained that the astral calamity had been deliberately caused by a traitor.
• Triss concluded that the Tower of Rings had opened the rift with help from Wolfsbane spies, and Murphy told her about defeating Jopan and summoning the little players from another world.
• Triss warned Murphy to conceal the little players’ nature, promised to help disguise them with mithril and alchemy, and cautioned him to keep his distance from Femis.
• Niu Niu returned with the unconscious young lady and Lady Adele, and Murphy learned that other players were rescuing people from basements as the black snow and monsters worsened.
• Triss stayed behind to awaken and question the two women while Murphy and Maxim went to search the Blood Eagle Clan’s third warehouse for sword techniques and mithril.
• The young lady told Triss that a dimensional meteorite had destroyed Blood Eagle Castle, contaminated the Sacred Pool, and corrupted the clan’s elite, and Triss asked whether she was ready to face the truth inside her.

Murphy and Maxim explored a Blood Eagle Clan warehouse in Cadman City’s astral-shadowed ruins, finding valuable weapons and advanced skill manuals. Murphy recruited new players and arranged for Maxim to test their strength in combat, leaving the warehouse with a new challenge for the warriors.

• Murphy and Maxim reached the hidden underground warehouse after Murphy opened its blood-locked entrance.
• Murphy found recruit weapons, armor, and class manuals, then learned Graveguard Swordsmanship from the Graveguard Manual.
• Maxim discovered a hidden cache of rare psionic weapons, including Mick’s Ambition and Dreams battle sword, and Murphy gave the weapons to him.
• Murphy told Maxim to recruit promising warriors by challenging them to regular spars and rewarding those who proved themselves.
• Murphy gave Maxim a copy of the Shadow Elf Family Secret Sword Art and instructed him to teach it to any warrior who beat him three times in a row.

Murphy announced new quests and testing activities as Cadman City faced destruction, then arranged for Triss to recruit players as assistants. Triss sent Lumina and four other players into the city to find aged liquor for her alchemy.

• Alpha posted an update announcing exploration and item-search tests, NPC side quests, party zones, a combat challenge with Maxim, and new questlines for Triss and Mirian.
• Players discussed the new content and wished the event would last longer, while Murphy knew Cadman City might be swallowed by the Astral Realm in less than a week.
• Murphy watched Triss treat mithril and asked her to reward the adventurers rather than send them to their deaths.
• Five players arrived at Murphy’s resurrection point, and he gave them computing orbs before leaving Triss to direct them.
• Triss told Lumina and the other players to find her bottles of liquor aged at least ten years as ingredients for protective trinkets.

After the players discovered that trapped civilians might not survive until the next day, Murphy triggered a rescue operation and saw an opportunity to claim authority over Cadman City’s survivors. He convinced Femis to join the effort, though she required him to investigate the Blood Eagle Corridor after the astral tide receded.

• Lumina and the other four players rescued a trapped shopkeeper’s family, and Forklift Operator warned that other civilians might die if they were not found soon.
• The players told Murphy their concerns, prompting him to trigger the hidden quest “Rescue in the Besieged City” and order Maxim to help Mirian gather able-bodied survivors for the rescue.
• Murphy ordered the players to the survivors’ camp and commanded Maxim to execute anyone who resisted Mirian’s authority or refused to help.
• Murphy asked Femis and Lady Adele to join the rescue, but Femis revealed that the Blood Eagle Clan was nearly destroyed and its sacred pool and corridor had been corrupted.
• Femis accused Murphy of using the rescue to build his own power, and Murphy admitted his plan to lead the survivors; Femis agreed to help if he later accompanied her to investigate the Blood Eagle Corridor.

Murphy organized a nighttime rescue of civilians trapped in Cadman City's astral-shadowed ruins, assigning survivors and players to search by torchlight while vampires hunted astral beasts. The rescue reached a grieving turning point when Lumina saved two children but could not save their mother, leaving the shaken rescuers determined to continue.

• Murphy revised the rescue plan after learning that astral shadows and beasts, rather than widespread earthquake rubble, were keeping civilians trapped in the outer city.
• Triss proposed using torches to drive back desperate spawn while Murphy, Femis, and Lady Adele hunted dangerous astral beasts; Murphy gave Femis's enhancement scrolls to the players.
• Murphy put Mirian in charge of the survivor teams, warned the survivors to follow orders, and sent them into the ruins with his warriors and the players.
• Lumina crawled through a narrow vent and rescued a baby and a young girl, but she found their mother mortally injured and could not save her.
• Brother Black Silk and the survivors were moved by the children's rescue, and the survivors began searching the ruins with renewed determination.

Murphy fought through astral beasts while helping search the ruined city, then defeated a dangerous astral lynx and reached several class and character milestones. His new Black Iron Body trial required him to defeat a Black Iron-tier enemy alone, leaving him frustrated about where to find a suitable opponent in Cadman City.

• Murphy and the rescuers searched the outer districts, and Brother Black Silk reported that they had saved 37 people before Murphy sent the group back to rest.
• Murphy detected a high-danger astral lynx and stayed behind with his summoned astral direwolf to hunt it.
• Murphy and the direwolf fought the lynx; the direwolf was dispelled after tearing off the beast's paw, and Murphy killed it alone.
• Murphy's Blood Vulture Swordsmanship reached Master proficiency, his Blood Vulture Swordsman class reached level 10, and his character reached level 10, unlocking class-change options and a Black Iron Body trial.
• Murphy discovered that his vampire-exclusive trial required him to defeat a Black Iron-tier enemy alone and drink its blood, and he complained that Cadman City offered no obvious target.

Major Fraser learned that survivors were gathering near Cadman City and General Loren ordered Finock to lead hunters there to investigate and kill Salokdar Collinsman Lasombra if he survived. Natalie learned of the mission and resolved to join it so she could avenge Joe by catching Murphy.

• Major Fraser and Heru examined a blurry reconnaissance image and suspected Blood Eagle remnants were organizing among Cadman City's survivors.
• General Loren ordered Finock and thirty of his best hunters to reach Cadman City within three days and bring back Salokdar Collinsman Lasombra's insignia or body.
• General Loren privately explained that Fraser would accompany Finock to help secure the hunters' future and strengthen the report to King Louis.
• Heru broke down after General Loren criticized his reconnaissance spell, and Fraser tried to comfort him.
• Natalie heard from Amber that the warband might return to Cadman City, then ordered Amber to find Norman and Porter while she sought to join the mission.

After rescuing 409 people, Murphy organized the Cadman People's Self-Rescue Army and sent three player groups to reclaim Blood Eagle Clan storehouses and search for survivors. He left Meow Brother and two players to hold off waves of fearspawn while he broke the storehouse seal, beginning a punishing test of their combat skills.

• Mirian told Murphy that survivors had high morale but that the shadowed districts remained dangerous, and Murphy ordered her to organize the Cadman People's Self-Rescue Army under Maxim.
• Murphy assigned Maxim to build a defensive line and support his warriors, while Lumina logged off after rescuing thirteen children and Meow Brother took over their care.
• Murphy gave eleven newly logged-in players three quests to reclaim Triss's secret storehouses, and Meow Brother's group joined Murphy's assault.
• Meow Brother and his companions fought through a heavy wave of fearspawn until they reached the storehouse, where Murphy gave them recruit armor and told them to hold the monsters back while he broke the seal.

After the first group of players returned from the vaults, Murphy sent them back to search for survivors while Maxim followed them into the danger zone. Murphy then summoned twenty-four new players, and Triss warned him that his ability to connect with another world made him a target.

• Murphy told the exhausted players that they could collect Blood Eagle Clan blood to open hidden vaults, and they resumed the timed rescue mission.
• Maxim praised the players’ fearlessness, ordered his militia to hold the line, and followed the players to search for survivors.
• Triss gave Murphy psychic dog tags that would stabilize the players’ projections and conceal signs of their lives and deaths.
• Murphy summoned twenty-four new players, and Triss warned him to hide his unique ability from powerful psychic users.
• The new players marveled at the realistic world while one of them licked the dirt, leaving Triss doubtful that they seemed reliable.