Recaps

Murphy agreed to help restore the Shattered Astral Realm using Aphidashir’s seed and proposed creating an elven God of Death and a Black Knight legacy. On Gramor Island, the Red Knight Commander of Epirus passed the Punisher Holy Blade to Meow Brother before he and the other dead guardians finally crumbled into ash or became trees.

• Murphy learned that Aphidashir’s seed could restore the Shattered Astral Realm, but planting it would provoke Chaos and require preparation in the World Furnace.
• Avalon explained its disagreement with Aphidashir over saving the Astral Realm and pleaded with Murphy to help it recover.
• Murphy agreed to plant the seed after his heroes finished their material-world stories, but required Avalon and Rose to help create an elven God of Death and a Black Knight legacy with a holy blade called the Reaper.
• After the Black Grail was destroyed, Meow Brother approached the dying Red Knight Commander of Epirus to receive the Punisher Holy Blade.
• The Red Knight Commander corrected Meow Brother’s mistaken use of the White Knight’s code, urged him to live for battle, and died in the sunlight.
• Mayor Sen Audis and the other dead guardians transformed into trees, while Meow Brother and his companions mourned their passing.

After Glamour Island was saved, Murphy awakened the spirits who had sustained Caspar’s dream-lock and proposed that they establish an underworld there. He offered them a chance to serve as heroic spirits and intervene in the war over Helm’s Island, ending with his offer to appoint a volunteer Dream-Earl of Glamour.

• Mo Ni Qiong rescued Lady Caspar and reunited with Princess Bridget, while the island’s survivors rested and players searched Avalon’s ruins.
• Meow Brother asked Great Shark to teach him berserker techniques so he could strengthen his Battle Will Resonance with the Punisher, and Great Shark offered to let Vam possess him for a sparring match.
• The Deadwood Tower returned to the dream realm as the boundary between matter and dream stabilized, leaving Caspar’s still-functioning dream-lock unresolved.
• Murphy awakened the exhausted spirits who had served as nodes in Caspar’s dream and praised their sacrifice in suppressing the Black Grail for eight years.
• Murphy proposed that the spirits establish the Glamour Underworld and offered them a role in negotiating an end to the war over Helm’s Island, including the title of Dream-Earl of Glamour for a volunteer.

Murphy recruited the Old Church spirits to help prevent a war on Helms Island, then returned to Glamour Island to decide Lady Caspar’s fate. Little Rich Bro agreed to hire Caspar to strengthen his manticore, letting Murphy postpone his judgment and leaving Caspar under his supervision.

• Murphy persuaded the Old Church spirits to work at the Glamour Underworld and planned to speak with King Louis about avoiding a war on Helms Island.
• Little Rich Bro fed poison sacs to Stinky Treasure while Lady Caspar warned him that his adult manticore needed different training and offered advice on strengthening it.
• Caspar asked Little Rich Bro to help her reach Murphy, explaining that a nightmare mark forced her into Baphomet’s arena once a month and that she needed help removing it.
• Murphy arrived and told Little Rich Bro he could hire Caspar to help the manticore win its territory battle, postponing judgment because she had caused no serious harm.
• Little Rich Bro accepted Caspar’s help and promised to keep watch over her, while Murphy welcomed the decision as the sunship descended.

After the battle on Gramor Island, Sir Ferdinand confronted the mysterious Maredin living within him, while King Louis reunited with Princess Bridget and rewarded her rescuers. Queen Elizabeth then revealed her secret leadership of the Yisha resistance and asked Murphy to help stop its radicals, offering an ancient secret and assistance in finding Twilight’s hidden agent, the Nun.

• Brother Goji and Tan prepared to leave Gramor Island and welcomed the arriving Plantagenet royal fleet.
• Sir Ferdinand discovered that the wounds that should have killed him were healing and argued with Maredin, who warned him to stay away from Murphy.
• Countess Margaret and King Louis reunited with Princess Bridget, and the king rewarded the rescuers with Plantagenet knighthoods and vouchers.
• Adele learned that Queen Elizabeth had a hidden identity and gave her a communication orb to contact Murphy.
• Queen Elizabeth told Murphy she had secretly led the Yisha resistance for thirty years, denied ordering Bridget’s kidnapping, and asked him to help contain the radicals.
• Queen Elizabeth offered Murphy an ancient Yisha secret about the Land of Creation and political help locating Twilight’s agent, the Nun.

Queen Elizabeth explained how the Ishan restorationists split between peaceful negotiators and radicals, then enlisted Murphy’s help to prevent violence on Helm Island. Murphy agreed to connect her with the Helm Rangers and asked her to clear the way for his followers on Greeny Island; afterward, Countess Margaret confronted the other consciousness within Sir Ferdinand about Princess Bridget’s kidnapping.

• Queen Elizabeth told Murphy that the restorationists’ radicals had sabotaged negotiations and might have kidnapped Princess Bridget to destroy the prospect of peace.
• Queen Elizabeth accepted responsibility for her past actions and offered to help settle the border conflict, while Murphy agreed to connect her with the Helm Rangers.
• Queen Elizabeth revealed the Land of Creation beneath Greeny Island and agreed to keep local security forces from interfering with Murphy’s followers’ conflict with the Wolfgriffin faction.
• Murphy ended the call with Queen Elizabeth and met King Louis, urging him to rest while privately anticipating his reaction to the queen’s secrets.
• Countess Margaret confronted the consciousness inside Sir Ferdinand and demanded to know whether its people had arranged Princess Bridget’s kidnapping.
• The consciousness called Margaret Eula, admitted she had left its cause, and asked her to perform one final favor as a nun.

Murphy and King Louis agreed to establish the underworld on Glamour Island, while Helms Island descended into violence between the living and the dead. After Mother Marian helped Effie stop a planned terrorist attack and urged her to accept cooperation with the Plantagenet Kingdom, Effie was left facing a new mission beyond Helms.

• Murphy and King Louis agreed to establish the underworld on Glamour Island, and Louis designated the island neutral while permitting Avalon Church pilgrimages but banning preaching.
• The Underworld Guard and Effie's hunters attacked Isha restorationists who had rebelled and tried to seize control of Helms Island's fleet.
• A tied-up captain told Effie the rebels planned to ram the Plantagenet Royal Fleet and use the Astor's Glory submarine to bomb Greeny Island, but he then attacked her and was killed.
• Mother Marian told Effie that the submarine had been seized by Transian agents and Avalon Witch Hunters, then gave her a list distinguishing moderate and extremist restorationists.
• Mother Marian urged Effie to accept the island's future within a larger nation, eliminate the extremists, and take the Helms Rangers to the mainland on a broader mission.

Murphy met the Tower of Rings’ leaders, who asked him to retrieve the Eye of the World from White Cliffs so they could restart the Grand Dean. Their leader, Lord Sim, revealed that he was an illithid from Eden Zone and offered to explain his knowledge of Pliny Meiridine and the fight against Chaos.

• Murphy learned that Mother Marianne had persuaded Effie and the Helms Rangers to join the Order faction, and he decided not to involve himself in their negotiations with the Plantagenet Kingdom.
• Adele urged Murphy to prepare for the anniversary celebration at the Great Reef Province, and he agreed to leave after meeting his final guests.
• Grandma Bach and the other Tower of Rings leaders invited Murphy to White Cliffs to retrieve the Eye of the World and restart the Grand Dean.
• Murphy challenged Lord Sim’s assurances that White Cliffs was free of Twilight corruption and questioned whether Sim’s protection of the other psionic overlords involved illithid tadpoles.
• Sim removed his disguise and revealed that he was an illithid who had been brought to this world by the Creator to contribute to civilization’s diversity.
• Sim claimed he understood the threat posed by Pliny Meiridine and offered Murphy his insights into fighting the doomsday zealots.

Murphy accompanied Sym to White Cliff, where he learned that the Tower of Rings’ psions carried mind flayer tadpoles and that Sym had once served the Eden District. Sym revealed that Steiner had become a Chaos wraith and warned Murphy that he might be hiding near him.

• Sym told Murphy that every active Purifier psion at White Cliff carried a modified mind flayer tadpole, and Murphy agreed to visit the demiplane with the Rod of God ready.
• Before Murphy entered the portal, Grandma Bach said she had knowingly joined the Purifier faction and accepted the risks of the tadpole in her mind.
• Murphy arrived at White Cliff and followed Sym through its towers and town toward the Grand Dean.
• Sym explained that he had created the Beta Program’s memory-erasure function and that Steiner had tampered with its safeguards to erase memories of himself.
• Sym told Murphy that Steiner had died after becoming a Chaos wraith and warned him that Steiner might be hiding in the shadow of someone he knew.

Murphy visited White Cliff with Sim and learned about the Dean, an ancient machine that calculated risks and offered recommendations. After Murphy questioned it, the Dean urged him to pursue several urgent tasks and revealed that the Creator had hidden a gift at the end of Murphy’s journey.

• Sim explained that his neglect had allowed corruption to take root in the Tower of Rings, and that the Dean had advised him to cultivate psychic guardians.
• Sim told Murphy that the Dean’s computational core was housed in a factory beneath northern Greeny Island, and described White Cliff’s history as a psychic research station.
• Murphy questioned the Dean, which recommended that he strengthen himself, empower the Seed of the Galaxy, prepare against Dagon and threats from space, and take control of the Greenhouse of Life.
• The Dean explained that it calculated without a goal and told Murphy to stop clinging to the Creator’s broken blueprint and decide his own future.
• The Dean revealed that the Creator had hidden a gift for Murphy at the end of his journey and urged him to climb the world’s highest peak.

Murphy recovered the Creator’s Huntian device from the Grand Dean and combined it with the Myriad Phenomena Device, restoring the Eye of the World’s monitoring systems. After installing Eden as its AI, Murphy gained continent-wide surveillance and left for Great Reef Province, while warning Sim to restrain the mind flayers and promising to monitor the Twilight.

• Murphy and Sim found a mechanical module draining the Grand Dean, and Murphy merged it with the Myriad Phenomena Device to create the complete Huntian wristband.
• The wristband unlocked Creator weapons and world-monitoring systems, and Murphy decided to install Eden as its AI assistant.
• Murphy allowed the Plantagenet Kingdom to use an Eden-era factory for peaceful development, warned Sim to ensure mind flayer reproduction required consent, and threatened to use the Eye of the World to monitor him.
• Murphy returned to the Origin Vanguard and transferred Eden into the wristband, bringing the Eye of the World online.
• Murphy used the system to observe Triss in Scarlet Castle and remotely trigger her Raven Star Staff, then tasked Eden with watching for clues to the Twilight.
• Eden reported that Lady Rose was trying to infiltrate the monitoring network, and Murphy refused to give her access for now.

Murphy arrived in the Great Reef Province as players flooded Azure Wave Town and the mermen prepared a large campaign against the Dagon Mermen. He reached the Great Reef Dragon Palace to discuss the coming Mad Fish Feast and promised that his undead warriors would secure victory.

• Murphy left the Genesis Vanguard to resupply and train for the Holy Blood Seal event, then traveled to the Great Reef Province to inspect preparations for the anniversary celebration.
• Players gathered in Azure Wave Town, taking quests and hunting merman bandits with such efficiency that Governor Hood's plan to use them against the Dagon Mermen became clear.
• Murphy and Adele followed Nikita underwater to the Great Reef Dragon Palace, where Nikita explained the planned campaign against several merman clans and bandit groups along the province's southern border.
• Nikita said the campaign depended on Murphy's undead warriors holding the vanguard against the mermen's counterattack.
• Murphy assured Nikita that his warriors would accomplish the campaign's objectives and promised a victory that would be remembered as a miracle.

Murphy met Prince Bai in Great Reef Province and learned that the Moon Capital contained a sealed Warp rift and a vast stronghold of Dagon’s forces. Prince Bai proposed that Murphy use the Scepter of God to destroy it, while Murphy left to consider the plan and confirmed the region’s immense demonic presence.

• Murphy arrived at Governor Hood’s estate, where Prince Bai outlined a steady defensive strategy for expanding into fishman territory.
• Prince Bai privately revealed that the Callum emperor had ordered him to support Murphy and had sent three golden god-lords to Great Reef Province.
• Murphy told Prince Bai about his plan to fight Dagon, and Prince Bai warned him that the Moon Capital was the heart of Dagon’s cult and contained a sealed Warp rift.
• Prince Bai suggested Murphy use the Scepter of God to destroy the Moon Capital’s demonic stronghold, freeing Callum and Atlan forces to join the wider war.
• Prince Bai asked Murphy to avoid harming his old acquaintance among the shadow elves, then resumed playing his game.
• Murphy checked a satellite view with Eden and saw that the Moon Capital and Tiancao Sea were saturated with demonic energy.

Sanwudou accompanied Catelyna to meet her family at the Great Reef Dragon Palace, where her strict mother challenged their relationship. Lady Biquoka ordered Sanwudou to stop seeing Catelyna, leaving their romance at an impasse.

• Callum sent three Golden Divine Generals to support Murphy's preparations as the Deepsea Festival and anniversary approached.
• Juno intercepted Catelyna and Sanwudou, brought them to the Dragon Palace, and introduced herself as Catelyna's eldest sister and a Tide Hunters commander.
• Nikita warned Murphy and Adele that Lady Biquoka was harsh and would likely disapprove of Catelyna dating without permission.
• Catelyna told Lady Biquoka about her recent achievements, then refused her mother's plan to send her to Moon Capital Province and pressure her sisters into public roles.
• Lady Biquoka offered Sanwudou her late husband's greatsword, but he refused it and asked her not to interfere with his relationship with Catelyna.
• Lady Biquoka said she could not trust that Sanwudou, a foreigner without flesh and blood, could give Catelyna his heart, ordered them to stop seeing each other, and told Juno to show him out.

After Madam Duanmu challenged Three-Five Dou over his relationship with Katerina, his friends debated the obstacles facing them and Happy Stick urged him not to give up. Three-Five Dou returned to the game to speak with Katerina, while staff continued monitoring players facing conflicts between their real and virtual lives.

• Three-Five Dou's friends discussed Madam Duanmu's objections, and Meow Brother warned him about the difficulties of marrying into Katerina's family and the risk of family conflict at home.
• The group rejected elopement as a dangerous move before the anniversary celebration, and Meow Brother suggested Three-Five Dou might win the Abyssal Venerable's favor by distinguishing himself at the event.
• Brother Bang found Three-Five Dou on the rooftop, mistook his attempt to get fresh air for a suicide attempt, and knocked him away from the edge before they fought.
• Three-Five Dou explained that he had not intended to jump, and Brother Bang encouraged him to keep pursuing Katerina and speak honestly with her in the game.
• A staff member reported to Loyalty Brother that Three-Five Dou was safe and that the Ashen Man remained estranged from his family; Loyalty Brother ordered continued monitoring.

Murphy planned to engineer a crisis that would make Bichouka appreciate Sanwudou, while he and Adele discussed the consequences of giving players physical bodies in the Otherworld. After learning that the construction worker was facing family trouble over his relationship with the Palien sisters, Murphy told Brother Loyalty that physical bodies were coming and hinted that marriage and reproduction systems might follow.

• As Murphy and Adele left the Great Reef Dragon Palace, he proposed staging a battlefield crisis so Sanwudou could earn Bichouka’s gratitude and approval.
• Murphy told Adele that Dagon’s Scions might be cultivated in Moon Capital, making the area a potential source of materials for the Creator’s Chosen project.
• Brother Loyalty asked Murphy whether the dev team planned to give players physical bodies in the Otherworld, citing concerns about real-world relationship problems and public criticism.
• Adele explained that the construction worker had left home after his parents confronted him about his relationship with the Palien sisters, and had been staying with Professor Chen.
• Murphy told Brother Loyalty that physical bodies in the Otherworld were coming, and suggested that future game features could include marriage and reproduction.

The players prepared for the anniversary event’s campaign against the murlocs and planned to help Sanwudou win respect among the merfolk after Katerina’s family insulted him. The chapter left Sanwudou with a new sword-and-shield set from Lady Adele and nearly ten thousand players ready to support him.

• Lord Qin and the Qing Dynasty Veteran briefed guild leaders on the five-stage murloc campaign, battle-point support, and a possible hidden event involving Dagon.
• Sister Maotu warned the guild leaders to treat the Tidal Warriors respectfully, while the players discussed how the later battles might involve an evil god.
• Meow Brother told the guild leaders about Sanwudou’s trouble with Katerina’s family, and players from several groups volunteered to help him earn fame among the merfolk.
• The players agreed to make Sanwudou a celebrated hero during the anniversary campaign, and Meow Brother promised to share the Big Bird Squad’s rewards with the assisting guilds.
• Lady Adele gave Sanwudou an Armored Rose sword-and-shield set as a personal gift from Lord Murphy and a reward from the Blood Eagle Clan.

Players assembled in Bibo Town for the underwater campaign at Gray Trench while Lord Qin prepared a new aircraft unit aboard the armed airships. Smoke Sang agreed to train pilots and test a Vulture plane, and set off to pick up Old Qu as his gunner.

• Players boarded giant sea turtles bound for Gray Trench as their guilds organized into battalions under commanders advised by military interns.
• Lord Qin and Five Pairs of Wheels inspected the wooden Vulture planes and discussed recruiting pilots, testing aircraft, and developing more advanced models.
• Lord Qin assigned Five Pairs of Wheels to recruit professionals from a test flight base in YL.
• Smoke Sang arrived at the hangar, volunteered to train pilots, and agreed to assess the Vulture plane for the Explorers' Guild and halfling mechanics.
• Smoke Sang prepared to fly the Vulture and messaged Old Qu to serve as his gunner, but Old Qu was still traveling with the main force on a giant turtle.

The Transian players and their merfolk allies advanced toward the fishmen of Dagon as the Sea Abyss Festival began. The event announcement introduced military merit rewards and a new Path system, and the forces prepared to meet the charging fishmen.

• Sanwudou prepared for battle as his friends promised to help him win the favor of the Sea Abyss Celestial Venerable and offered him alternative support from the Rain Princess Dragonkin faction.
• Taipal announced that more than a hundred thousand fishmen had counterattacked the Tidal Warriors, and ordered the war turtles to enter the fighting without regrouping.
• The players and merfolk advanced underwater as Potato Dad led the bards in performing "Holy War," granting the warriors powerful buffs.
• Great Shark called on Wam for a blessing, and Wam covered the warriors in crimson lightning and blood-red armor.
• Elf Deputy General Ma Guocheng spotted the fishmen ahead, and the Sea Abyss Festival announcement opened with objectives, rewards, and the new Path system.
• Great Shark and Niu Niu discussed the Path system as the fishmen charged toward them.

The Transian players joined the mermaids’ battle against a vast fishman force and rapidly overwhelmed the enemy through coordinated attacks and targeted commander kills. As Lady Beqiuka’s forces prepared to support their advance, she warned that the fishmen were only a minor part of the Abyssal Sea celebration and the real threat had yet to appear.

• The players wiped out the first fishmen they encountered, then rode the children of Triton toward the mermaids’ trench positions.
• The players attacked the fishmen surrounding the mermaids, while Old Master Niu charged a fishman commander and Sister Shiliu refused to intervene.
• The Transian forces advanced through the fishmen ranks as their elite players hunted enemy commanders, and Junuo reported their progress to Lady Beqiuka.
• Katerina defended the Transians’ courage and warned that Governor Murphy was a powerful Order faction leader whom Lady Beqiuka had angered.
• Lady Beqiuka sent clerics to clear the currents and ordered Junuo to prepare for the greater threat still approaching.

Lord Qin directed the players’ assault on the Dagon fishmen while the Sword of Cape arrived to support a secret mission targeting the Dagon saints. The operation began when a trapped saint emerged on a deserted island, where the Golden Peach Knight confronted it and called Fraser to join the fight.

• Lord Qin ordered the Riptide Knights’ second company to continue its rapid advance toward Beastfort despite concerns that it might become isolated.
• Serak Fenda sent Yansang in the newly built Crimson Wing to scout an unidentified airship, and Yansang identified it as Brigadier General Fraser’s Sword of Cape.
• Fraser told Lord Qin that the Sword of Cape was joining the war on a secret mission to capture Dagon saints, and Lord Qin gave him coordinates for an intercepted saint.
• Fraser and his Hunter squad waited as the fleeing Dagon saint and its stragglers reached a deserted island under fire from impact cannons.
• The Golden Peach Knight landed before the Dagon saint with the Holy Blade of Zhi Ge and called for Fraser to help kill it and recover its symbiotic crystal.

Governor Hood watched the Transian forces smash through the merman front far faster than expected, forcing Great Reef Province to confront the cost of their success. As the vanguard advanced on the Beast Fort, Hood and Ms. Dena began devising unusual rewards and revenue schemes for their allies.

• After ten hours of fighting, Nikita reported that the Transian vanguard had seized the Gray Trench and reached the merman clan’s core trench, while consuming enchanted ammunition at a startling rate.
• Governor Hood learned that the Transians tracked kills through the World Network and realized Great Reef Province might struggle to pay their military rewards, so she sent Nikita to seek emergency funds from Ms. Bichuika.
• A messenger reported that the Transians had broken through the central abyss and were assaulting the Beast Fort, while General Qin asked merfolk priestesses to help break the mermen’s protective currents.
• Governor Hood ordered Ms. Dena to release five small ghost ships as an extra reward for the Transians.
• Ms. Dena proposed opening Dragonbone Bay as a paid hunting dungeon, charging the Transians five hundred military merit per entry, and promised to plan the promotion with Little Katerina.

The players reached Beastfort and waited for the Giant Tortoise priests to break the fishfolk’s tidal-psionic defenses while Murphy considered how to defeat Dagon and free future fishfolk from Chaos. The priests opened a breach, and the players stormed the stronghold as its destruction began.

• Madam Shui and Little Ashina inspected Beastfort’s filthy defenses, while the players rested outside the city and awaited the Giant Tortoise priests.
• Murphy discussed the players’ slaughter and its meager spiritual yield with Adele, then ordered her to bring old Flynn to the Great Reef Dragon Palace to seek the White Prince’s help in obtaining symbiotic crystals.
• Murphy told Triton that killing Dagon and ending the corrupted fishfolk generation could eventually allow a pure new generation to emerge under the protection of the Lord of the Deep.
• The Giant Tortoise priests arrived and used vortex blades to dismantle Beastfort’s filthy currents, opening a gap in the city’s defenses.
• The Torrent Knights and other players charged through the breach, drove the fishfolk back into Beastfort, and began demolishing the stronghold with depth charges.

The players destroyed Beast Fort, while Taipal explained how tainted relics could unlock divine Paths and Old Man Niu revealed his remarkable progress toward his Silver Trial. In the southern trench, Biji, Brigadier General Fraser, and Knight Liwen discovered a Chaos-infected sea monster leading a vast fishman army and charged to meet them.

• The players broke Beast Fort's defenses, assassinated its Dagon Chosen chieftain, and destroyed its spawning grounds with explosives.
• Taipal told Old Man Niu that purified tainted relics could unlock divine Paths, and Old Man Niu revealed he had reached 85% Potential Release with five Ancestral Powers.
• Uncle Fuding summoned Taipal to reinforce Saint Lancer Marcus against Dagon cultist priests and investigate a possible quest involving Biji.
• Brigadier General Fraser sensed another Dagon Chosen nearby, and Knight Liwen warned that a powerful presence was approaching through the trench.
• A Chaos-infected sea dragon appeared with a huge fishman horde, prompting Colonel Ron to send a warning to Beast Fort.
• Biji, Knight Liwen, and Brigadier General Fraser charged the sea dragon and its advancing fishmen.

Uncle Qin organized a defense against a surprise Black Tide assault on Beastfort, using airships, deep-water bombs, players, merfolk, and power-armor knights to buy time. As the storm forced the airships to withdraw, Brigadier General Pablo arrived with the Blood Dread Fleet to take over the surface battle, leaving the pirates fighting the fishmen.

• After nearly two hundred thousand fishmen attacked near the Gray Trench, Uncle Qin ordered airships to bomb them, players to form a defensive line, and the merfolk to fall back while holding the trench.
• Players withdrew from Beastfort, and Taipal and the merfolk prepared to defend Great Reef Province as deep-water bombs struck the advancing fishmen.
• Fifty power-armor knights deployed to the seabed and fought the fishmen while Uncle Qin kept the airships bombing through the growing storm to give reinforcements time to arrive.
• Brigadier General Pablo appeared with the Plunderer and more than forty Blood Dread pirate ships, offering to take over the sea battle in exchange for help securing trade charters and royal favor.
• Uncle Qin agreed to act as an intermediary for the pirates and ordered the airships to climb as Pablo led the Blood Dread Fleet against the fishmen.

Murphy rallied the defenders at the Gray Trench as Nikita and the merfolk held their position against Dagon’s fishmen. Far behind the front, Fraser’s squad killed a corrupted sea dragon, but Fraser warned that Dagon was drawing near and that symbiote hosts could become its vanguard.

• Nikita ordered the merfolk to hold the Gray Trench and led the Tide Warriors against the advancing fishmen.
• Murphy arrived with Adele and his Hades Guard, and his presence inspired the players to push back the fishmen.
• Fraser, Golden Peach, Liwen, Ron, and Ironhand fought a corrupted sea dragon while their squad held off fishmen.
• Ron gave Fraser a spear fitted with Grey Knight blade fragments, and Fraser struck the sea dragon’s eye before Golden Peach finished it with Saint-Saboteur.
• Fraser said Dagon was nearing the material world and warned that symbiote hosts, possibly including himself, would serve as its vanguard.