Recaps

Murphy investigated how Dagon became connected to the fishmen and learned that the Third Observation Area was hidden beneath Cape's End, while Mannis warned that it was protected by Dagon's power. After considering how the biological symbiote crystal might enable enhanced soldiers, Murphy decided to pursue the Life Greenhouse Project and prepare for a future struggle against the Scholars.

• Murphy told Triss and Dena that Project 27 was an Astral Realm outpost founded by Grand Duke Charlemagne and speculated that Dagon had manipulated the Bloodfear Clan's destruction.
• Triss connected Dagon's arrival to the fishmen's failed Eden observation project, and she began explaining the world's history to an eager Dena.
• Mannis refused to observe Dagon through time but located the Third Observation Area beneath the strait at Cape's End and warned that Dagon's corruption made it nearly inaccessible.
• Murphy asked Mosna about the biological symbiote crystal, and Mosna advised rewriting its damaged controls before using it for organ enhancement.
• Murphy imagined using symbiotes from the Sons of Dagon to produce enhanced soldiers, then identified the Life Greenhouse Project as the key to mastering Creator biology.
• Murphy resolved to find the Third Observation Area during his trip to the Origin Land and to defeat the Scholars to take control of the Life Greenhouse Project.

Five-Wheel watched the Amastacia Fleet use seed-based weapons to drive back the Dagon fishmen, while Murphy's Hammer scattered the rest with incendiary bombs. After the sea elf prince Ivirios ordered his fleet to pursue the fishmen and visited Murphy, the two acknowledged their earlier meeting while fishing and prepared to discuss the conflict involving Bablou.

• Five-Wheel saw the elves use seeds that grew into blood-draining sea mines, and the halfling first mate explained the Amastacia Fleet's weapons and the Misty Sea's powerful factions.
• Old Qin ordered the players to pursue the retreating fishmen, and Soymilk White used Murphy's Hammer to bombard the sea with incendiary bombs.
• Ivirios and his captains judged that the elves needed to develop new warships to counter Transian air power, and Ivirios left them to finish the battle.
• Ivirios rode to Murphy's airship, where Murphy welcomed him with Triss and Lady Dena.
• Murphy recognized Ivirios as the elf angler his warriors had encountered near Chardo Port and proposed friendship between their fleets before offering to mediate with Bablou.

Murphy built rapport with sea elf prince Iverios Amastacia and negotiated for the Castia Kingdom’s living ship seeds, offering technology and help with the kingdom’s divine and political challenges. Iverios agreed to report Murphy’s proposals to King Quirion, leaving the kingdom’s response unresolved.

• Murphy and Iverios bonded over fishing and discussed the Castia Kingdom’s gratitude for Transia’s role in recovering the power of the Star of Adel.
• Murphy explained the Blood Dread Fleet’s situation, and Iverios promised the Amastacia Fleet would not actively hunt Pablo as long as the Plunderer stayed out of its waters.
• Murphy joined Iverios aboard the living flagship Stormfang, where he learned the Amastacia ships grew from seeds and were treated as family members.
• Murphy asked whether the shipbuilding seeds could be used for other constructions, and Iverios explained that the great druids could lift their restrictions but the seeds could not be given to outsiders.
• Murphy offered the elves aircraft designs and help against the Witch Cult in exchange for construction seeds, and described Avalon’s coming transformation into the Father of the Oak.
• Iverios said he would report Murphy’s proposals to King Quirion, while Murphy offered to help reconcile the Castia elves with the shadow elves.

Count Leon learned that the coastal murloc attack might be a staged attempt to stir unrest among Cato’s refugees, while Murphy received three divine artifacts from the Silver Dwarves aboard the Stormfang. The chapter ended with Murphy inspecting a blood-red sword named Night’s Sentinel.

• Huguenot warned Count Leon that a large group of tide murlocs was attacking Cato’s coast and urged him to evacuate to Dorod Fortress.
• Juna argued that the murlocs’ retreat from the sea was likely staged to cause panic among Cato’s refugees and locals.
• Count Leon suspected the Transians wanted manpower and decided to let events unfold, despite the risk of King Louis’s displeasure.
• Three Earth Priests delivered the completed divine artifacts to Murphy and passed along Lord Oufge’s request to protect Loren until his granddaughter’s wedding.
• Murphy agreed to help and opened a box containing the red sword Night’s Sentinel.

Murphy received the Longnight Guardian, a vampire divine artifact meant to help bind the Midnight Mother, and gave Triss a pendant that shielded her from the Mother’s influence. He then delivered the Peacemaker to Biji, who accepted her calling as the continent’s first Holy Radiance Knight.

• Prince Iverios forgave the Silver Dwarves after they delivered three artifacts of faith to Murphy, then the dwarves departed to support Marshal Loren.
• Murphy examined the Longnight Guardian, whose powers would grow through the vampire faith and whose divine blessing risked turning its wielder into the Midnight Mother’s vessel.
• Murphy gave Triss a pendant containing Omega energy that calmed her mind and shielded her from the Midnight Mother, then invited her to join him at the Origin.
• Triss admitted that Murphy had become essential to her and accepted their bond, while Murphy asked her to prepare a complete Midnight Scripture.
• Murphy brought Biji the Peacemaker, a Holy Light artifact tied to her future and his agreement with her grandfather.
• Biji accepted the sword, bound it to the Holy Light faith, and began her legend as the continent’s first Holy Radiance Knight.

Players from Transia, the merfolk, and the elves attacked the murlocs along the Genoa Peninsula to reopen the besieged Pioneer Legion’s supply route. With reinforcements approaching, Marshal Loren prepared a counterattack against the gnolls while worrying about finding Fraser and facing Murphy over Xico City.

• Judy’s guild prepared to land on the murloc-infested coast, and Dad Potato resolved to fight for his daughter’s future, inspiring the players with a powerful battle song.
• General Soros told Marshal Loren that allied reinforcements had cleared a coastal murloc force and were advancing to restore the terrain.
• Soros warned that German Gnawbones might retreat, and he and Loren agreed to counterattack the gnolls the next day despite their damp gunpowder and losses.
• Soros reported that Fraser was out of contact but likely fighting a guerrilla campaign with the Blackflame mercenaries, and Loren ordered that he be found and brought back safely.
• Loren accepted responsibility for the crisis and said he would face Murphy’s reckoning over Xico City after helping his king achieve his ambitions.

Colonel Ron struggled to keep Brigadier General Fraser alive after gnoll corruption infected his wounds, amputating his arm and sending Captain Ironhand to seek help from Governor Murphy. Fraser survived the surgery for now, but remained tainted as he reflected on the Warp as their true enemy and insisted he would finish his last battle.

• Ron discovered that Fraser's arm had become infected and arranged for the mercenary medic to amputate it, despite the medic warning that Fraser's corruption could not be purged.
• The medic revealed that Fraser had become an infection source, so Ron ordered Captain Ironhand to cross the gnoll lines in the Swift Eagle exoskeleton and contact Governor Murphy.
• Ron held Fraser down during the amputation, then injected an alchemical substance into his heart when his breathing and heartbeat weakened.
• Fraser woke after the operation, gave Ron a letter for Scarlet Keep to deliver only if he died, and spoke of his feelings for Mirian and the soldiers who had died protecting him.
• Fraser recognized the Warp's corruption as the true enemy, and told Ron he was not dead yet and intended to finish his last battle.

Colonel Ron and the Blackflame mercenaries fought Chaos-mutated gnolls until the storm was dispelled and a rescue team arrived. Murphy received the gravely contaminated Fraser and began preparations for a risky symbiote transplant trial.

• Colonel Ron and the Blackflame mercenaries killed the attacking gnoll abominations while protecting the wounded Fraser.
• Green-jade lightning cleansed the storm, and Penny and Bertie arrived as a search-and-rescue team sent by Governor Murphy.
• Penny scanned Fraser and estimated that he would become a Chaos creature within 27 hours, but Bertie said Murphy had a way to save him.
• Bertie stayed behind to treat other contaminated soldiers while Ron explained that the gnolls had sacrificed the local population and ruined the northern peninsula.
• Penny carried Fraser to Murphy's airship, where Murphy used the Omega program to briefly restore Fraser's reason and told him he could try to save him.
• Murphy ordered Mosna to prepare a symbiote transplant trial and said they would figure out how to make a Captain Carpe.

Trapped in a Chaos-ravaged camp, Gellman Bonegnaw seized the chance to escape when civilization’s forces broke the storm and attacked. As players cornered him, he drank the suspicious immortality potion given to him by the Dusk, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Gellman Bonegnaw realized the Chaos abominations had made his camp a prison and decided to escape with his loyal guards rather than join them.
• When the storm weakened and civilization’s forces attacked, Gellman roused his guards and led them toward a breakout, telling them to surrender if they reached the ruins of Brass Fortress.
• Gellman and his guards fought off his mutated dire wolves, and he vowed revenge on the Dusk if he survived.
• Meow Brother and other players diverted from the battle to pursue Gellman after Smoke-san identified him as the enemy faction’s leader.
• As players killed his guards and cornered him, Gellman drank the amber-colored immortality potion he had received from the Dusk.

Murphy and the players fought Germann Bonegnawer as Chaos power pushed him toward a final transformation. Penny and Murphy intervened after the players struck him down, but Germann remained alive.

• The players cornered Germann Bonegnawer and battered him with coordinated attacks while Murphy flew toward their position with Penny.
• Penny warned Murphy that Chaos energy would transform Germann into a powerful champion, and Murphy told her to wait until the players needed help.
• Germann’s power surged as his health fell, and he ignored the players’ attempts to draw his attention, killing Lion Beast and chasing other warriors.
• The players rushed Germann before his berserk timer expired, and Moonlit Mad Wolf drove a blade into his brain as the others struck him.
• Germann’s death released a dark storm, but Penny tore through it with a flashy attack and Murphy struck Germann with Hugsun’s warhammer.
• Murphy told the still-living, Chaos-covered Germann that he had gnoll friends and called Germann a piece of shit.

Murphy confronted Original Sin through Gherman Bonechewer, learned why the Warp entity opposed the Creator, and killed Gherman after the Chaos shadow withdrew. After the battle, Lord Payn urged Marshal Loren to meet Murphy about the Brass Fortress ruins, while warning that new Deep One threats awaited the dwarves.

• Original Sin took control of Gherman Bonechewer, revealed its origins and plans to restore the world, and attacked the battlefield with its psychic presence.
• Murphy rejected Original Sin's claims, destroyed Gherman's body, and watched the Chaos abominations disappear as the Warp rift closed.
• Murphy granted Gherman's plea for death by purifying the Chaos energy that kept him alive, then teased Penny and flew off to the cheering players.
• Lord Payn thanked Marshal Loren for the dwarves' survival, warned him about Deep One fishmen infiltrating nearby waters, and urged him to discuss the Brass Fortress ruins with Murphy.
• Marshal Loren agreed to meet Governor Murphy, then shot a tentacle emerging from a corpse before setting out with Soros.

Murphy persuaded Marshal Loren to let Transian adventurers help reclaim the Brass Fortress ruins, while Fraser recovered from a Chaos infection aboard Murphy's Hammer. After Loren agreed to grant the Transians supporter status, Silver Dwarf Earth Priests seized him and took him away to attend his delayed wedding.

• Marshal Loren visited Fraser in the medical bay, where Heru explained that a symbiote had halted the Chaos infection and Fraser was recovering.
• Loren thanked Murphy for saving Fraser, and Murphy said the Transians would eventually kill Loren for his past actions but preferred to discuss practical matters.
• Murphy proposed that Transian adventurers reclaim half of the Brass Fortress ruins within three months, and Loren agreed to grant them official supporter status after learning the Sin Dwarves had entered the underground city.
• Murphy offered Loren a wedding gift containing fertility and pleasure-enhancing items, prompting Loren to lose his temper.
• Six Silver Dwarf Earth Priests bound Loren by order of Lord Oufuge and took him to the Bont Mountains for his delayed wedding.

Murphy arranged to exploit Marshal Loren’s absence to draw immigrants into Transia and recruited Granny Little Bach into his anti-Dusk group. After learning that the Explorers’ Guild might be aiding the Dusk’s New World operations, Murphy also planned to use a Creator remnant at Whitecliff as bait for the Dusk.

• Murphy sent Adele to accelerate immigration from the Kato region while Marshal Loren was away, and planned to rely on Count Lyon and the Capet family’s cooperation.
• Murphy assigned Adele to accompany him to the Pharaoh’s birthday banquet and expand the Shadow Intelligence Bureau’s influence in the Land of Origin.
• Bonnie reported merfolk activity near the Bloodclaw smugglers, the Andmar Hills, and Rapidsburg, while Granny Little Bach arrived to discuss her father’s return and madness.
• Granny Little Bach joined Murphy’s anti-Dusk group and warned him that the Explorers’ Guild might be connected to the Dusk’s infiltration of the New World.
• Murphy accepted Granny Little Bach’s offer to introduce his warriors to the Explorers’ Guild and asked her to tell Lord Sim to leave the Creator remnants at Whitecliff untouched.
• Murphy proposed using the remnant at Whitecliff as bait to lure the Dusk into a trap.

Count Leon addressed rising hostility between local workers and Genoan refugees in the Cato region, ordering an investigation into corrupt officials while refusing to solve the conflict through violence. After learning Fraser was recovering from Chaos contamination, he heard Sir Palien propose moving the refugees to Transia and warned that the Capet family would eventually face a choice between submission and rebellion.

• Count Leon rejected a factory owner's suggestion to let fishmen kill the refugees and ordered Huguenot to investigate corruption and have the military police punish offenders.
• Juna told Count Leon that Fraser had been contaminated by Chaos, and Sir Palien showed him a recording confirming that Fraser was recovering.
• Sir Palien asked the Capet family to expand its business in Transia and help relocate the skilled refugees from Cato.
• Sir Palien revealed that Murphy and Grand Duke Wolfsbane had agreed to make the Cato region an independent trading territory, and she urged Count Leon to conceal the plan or risk war.
• Count Leon protested that the Capet family was loyal to King Louis, but Sir Palien warned that a future king would eventually move against the powerful family.

Sir Parlen met Laura, who offered to help move Transian refugees and sought to recruit Meliya and Winnie into her faction. Meanwhile, Wolfsbane recruiters persuaded refugees to leave for Transia as unrest and danger grew in the Cato region.

• Sir Parlen told the Ghost Shadow Intelligence Bureau that Count Leon had accepted her letter and learned that her daughters were recovering and applying to become mechanics.
• Laura arrived in Sir Parlen’s carriage, introduced herself as the Wolfsbane Clan’s Blackmane Countess, and offered to arrange routes for transferring refugees to Transia.
• Laura asked Sir Parlen to arrange a meeting with Meliya and Winnie so she could recruit them, but Sir Parlen said they had moved on with their lives.
• At the trading post, Marcus introduced himself as head of security for the Batasin Chamber of Commerce and warned Laura to send away her nearby vampires.
• Wolfsbane recruiters handed out flyers at a refugee camp and urged people to relocate to Transia, while one recruiter warned a former foreman that local factory owners wanted the refugees driven out.
• After a fire broke out at the camp, the former foreman negotiated a cut of the recruitment payments in exchange for bringing at least fifty people to the smuggling-route entrance.

Players auctioned Gelman Bonechewer’s spoils while Murphy returned to Chardo Port and discussed weapons development and vampire redemption with Maxim. There, Minx gave Murphy a powerful new calculating-orb, and Murphy proposed putting Chardo Port’s factories back to work for a greater cause.

• Players auctioned Gelman’s high-grade equipment, while the Canglang Army’s gnolls prepared to claim their quest rewards.
• Murphy departed for Chardo Port as the halflings hired Transian instructors and bought weapons technology to strengthen their airship forces.
• Murphy told Maxim about Transia’s next-generation weapons, then tasked him with selecting Blood Eagle elites for Old Flynn’s organ-enhancement project.
• Minx gave Murphy an advanced calculating-orb module built by Old Bach and improved by Minx, Sulfek, and Ruyi.
• Minx told Murphy that Chardo Port would mass-produce advanced calculating orbs and establish a Mechanical Church college in Transia.
• Murphy named the new orb Afterlife and proposed restarting Chardo Port’s factories for a larger purpose.

Murphy negotiated with Minx and the Steam Lords to manufacture aircraft engines, artillery, and computing orbs for Transia’s war effort. Minx pledged the halflings’ support against Twilight and said the Steam Lords would investigate the Explorers’ Guild and take action if it aided Twilight’s schemes.

• Minx toured Murphy through Chardo Port’s industrial district and explained the halflings’ manufacturing capacity and their interest in exchanging technology with the Explorers’ Guild.
• Murphy asked the halflings to build specialized fighter engines, and Minx agreed after studying the blueprints, though mass production would take at least half a year.
• Murphy proposed commissioning large-caliber artillery and Minx promised that halfling weapons would not be used in civil wars between the continent’s civilizations.
• Murphy ordered ten thousand customized computing orbs, and he and Minx discussed vehicles and combining a tank’s armor and firepower with a walker’s agility.
• Minx agreed to help the otherworlders reactivate the Sun Ship and other Creator technologies, oppose Twilight, and support Little Bach’s investigation into the Explorers’ Guild.

Murphy prepared to return to Transia after learning that Mrs. Sunny had given birth to healthy twins whose faintly purple pupils might be connected to the Astral Rift, while Mannis warned him that Dagon’s fishmen were spreading. At the first settlement of the Feast of the Frenzied Fish, the players’ success unlocked a special mermaid character template.

• Murphy saw Halfling factories accelerating Transia’s military mechanization and considered adding heavy machine guns to production.
• Madam Funa told Murphy that Mrs. Sunny had given birth to twins, and that Mirian wanted him to attend their Avalon forest baptism because their pupils glowed faintly purple.
• Mannis assured Murphy that the twins were unlikely to suffer harm from the Astral Rift, but warned that fishmen were spreading into Kakhovka and threatened to turn villages toward Dagon.
• Murphy planned temples to the Great Disc and Vikanos near Lake Shurpel, while Mannis refused to ask Vikanos for a blessing because she was hunting him.
• Players gathered at the Great Disc Temple island for the first Feast of the Frenzied Fish settlement, where they showed off loot and eyed the merfolk’s weapons, armor, and sea-beast rewards.
• The settlement announced that players had turned in more than seventy thousand pairs of black fishman fins, unlocking hidden rewards and a mermaid character template for eligible female players.

Murphy’s new merfolk template let female players transform into merfolk, prompting a wave of delighted race changes and speculation about future playable races. As the players celebrated, Katerina explained merfolk origins and invited Sanwudou to the Great Reef Province, where her family’s powerful history began to emerge.

• Murphy used his Computing Orb ProMAX to reveal the merfolk template, and female players including Lady Judy and Sister Mao Tu logged out to change races.
• Lady Judy returned with a red merfolk tail, tested her underwater abilities with Little Ashina, and joined other newly transformed players swimming near shore.
• Cheche and the other students argued over why the template was female-exclusive and speculated that future updates might add dragonkin.
• Lady Judy and Potato Dad kissed and splashed into the water together, while Mao Tu dragged Xugou into the sea with her tail.
• Katerina told Sanwudou that merfolk were women blessed by the Abyssal Sovereign and invited him to a celebration for the Dragon Emperor’s queen in the Great Reef Province.
• Sanwudou offered to trade military merit for a sea serpent mount for Katerina, who offered him one of her family’s weapons and hinted that her parents were exceptionally powerful.

Mogni Qiong lent Boss Huo money to fund a financial scheme in Kafuhovka, where Boss Huo and Raven planned to advance the God of Wealth’s influence and weaken Nordtov’s hold on the region. After Chenlong claimed the first Ghost Warship, Mogni decided to get one himself and watched Boss Huo get dragged into the sea by Shen Yu.

• Boss Huo told Mogni Qiong that he wanted to borrow gold coins to finance a plan with Raven in Kafuhovka.
• Boss Huo explained that their fundraising and Ponzi schemes could turn the region against Nordtov and potentially let Transia reclaim it without a war.
• Mogni gave Boss Huo the key to his halfling vault and suggested he seek more backing from Little Ashina, Madam Water, and Brother Loyalty.
• Boss Huo described how their financial games could help the God of Wealth grow into a powerful deity, then offered Mogni a stake in the scheme.
• Chenlong claimed a Ghost Warship, prompting Mogni to decide to get one of his own.
• Shen Yu dragged the water-fearing Boss Huo into the sea, while Mogni laughed from shore before flying away on Stinky Treasure.

Murphy agreed with Dena to turn the Feast of Frenzied Fish into a permanent merman-hunting event and learned that Katerina came from a powerful family. Meanwhile, the raven presented Consul Mirian with a plan to destabilize Kafuhoka through a covert financial scheme, and she had to decide whether to approve it.

• Dena proposed that Great Reef Province hire Transia’s warriors to hunt mermen across Atlan, and Murphy agreed to make the Feast of Frenzied Fish a permanent event.
• Murphy suggested establishing a Great Reef Temple at Lake Shuerpos and asked for Katerina to be stationed at Scarlet Castle, but Dena explained her powerful family and obligations would prevent it.
• The raven presented Mirian with a plan to raise investment through shell companies and trigger a financial collapse in Kafuhoka.
• Mirian questioned the scheme’s consequences, and the raven argued it would weaken a hostile neighbor and avoid a military conflict.
• The raven gave Mirian a file on an ambitious, disloyal northern officer who could serve as their agent in Kafuhoka.

Chinese 003 recruited the indebted Major Ivankov to manage Count White Mountain’s trading company in the Kafhoka region, using his debts and resentment toward Marshal Heraclius to pressure him into accepting. Crow Brother began training Ivankov to look and act like a successful businessman, but the chapter ended before Ivankov chose his new identity.

• Blood Rats abducted Major Ivankov over his gambling debts, and Chinese 003 revealed himself as the man behind the recruitment plan.
• Chinese 003 offered Ivankov a share in a trading company backed by Count White Mountain and promised help escaping his stalled military career.
• Ivankov questioned the company’s supposed business and tried to avoid signing, but 003 presented a pistol and insisted he had no real alternative.
• Ivankov signed the company papers and followed 003 into a warehouse being prepared for the business.
• Crow Brother instructed Ivankov to change his appearance, bearing, and identity, then coached him through introducing himself.

Murphy reached the borderlands aboard the Carpe Hammer and learned that Brigadier General Fraser had survived through a symbiote implantation, gaining powerful regenerative abilities at the cost of a dangerous risk of losing control. Fraser left the medical bay pledging loyalty to the Creator faction, while Murphy and his researchers began planning to develop more symbiote-enhanced soldiers.

• Murphy discussed Madam Liji’s growing following with Adele and considered keeping the Yunlan Temple outside Transia.
• Murphy and Adele found Fraser awake in the medical bay, where Mosna explained that the symbiote had enhanced his body but could rampage if he lost control of his emotions.
• Fraser accepted that he could not return to his former life and agreed to monitoring, testing, and service to the Creator faction.
• Fraser revealed intense hunger and rushed to the kitchen after Murphy told him his father would soon arrive.
• Mosna explained that Murphy’s purification of the symbiote had activated a genetic imprint guiding Fraser toward absolute loyalty to the Creator.
• Heru reported that the symbiote could support further organ alterations, and Murphy proposed hunting tainted symbiotes as a hidden objective in a future operation.

Fraser told Count Leon how the symbiote crystal had saved his life and agreed to retire from the army, while resolving to use the Capet family’s wealth to fight evil in secret. Murphy and Count Leon then discussed Transia’s refugee crossings, the Capet family’s political future, and their shared opposition to the Dusk.

• Count Leon found Fraser ravenously eating aboard Murphy's Hammer, and Old Huguenot warned that the seemingly healthy young man might not be Fraser.
• Fraser explained the symbiote crystal’s role in his recovery, agreed to retire from the army, and told his father he would build the family’s power before pursuing his mission in Transia.
• Murphy showed Count Leon how refugees were being smuggled into Transia and offered them work and shelter while denying them freedom.
• Murphy warned Count Leon that King Louis might restrain the powerful Capet family and urged caution about the New World, then proposed a future alliance with the Church of Holy Light.
• Count Leon asked Murphy to help ensure Fraser would not be alone, and Murphy said Fraser would have to handle his love life himself.
• Murphy and Count Leon agreed to cooperate against the Dusk infiltrators in the Plantagenet Kingdom.

After the Creator’s war machines failed, the Aztecs’ advance pushed the United Confederation of New States toward collapse, while Mayor Pat struggled to find help. Meanwhile, Twilight’s Reverend Superior prepared to leave the New World with a valuable trophy, abandoning the colonists to their fate.

• The chapter described how Old World settlers had nearly destroyed the Ganote clans and their demigods across the Spirit Plains over fifty years.
• A defense officer told Mayor Pat that the Aztecs had captured Machute and New Bourbon, and that the Seventh Colonial Regiment had been handed over to the Ganote.
• Mayor Pat urged the colonists to hold the line, but the officer warned that the Creator’s machines were irreparable and proposed abandoning southern towns to regroup.
• Mayor Pat privately realized that the Old World powers and the Bosia Confederacy could not help, and considered retreating north.
• A Ganote servant told Mayor Pat that a ship from the Seven Islands Alliance had arrived with weapons, prompting him to head for the harbor.
• The Reverend Superior told Twilight’s followers to transport their trophy by ship to the Old World, accepting that the colonists would be left to face the Aztecs and Ganote.