Recaps

At the Mistsea Trading Company's shareholder gala, Mr. Ivankov announced spectacular profits and promoted new investments tied to wars and expansion. As Katerina presented the Atlantean Kingdom's plans, Ivankov considered opening low-cost investments to ordinary people, pending the boss's approval.

• The Mistsea Trading Company staged a lavish shareholder meeting, drawing Kaffahoka's elite and royal financial officer Mr. Maro.
• Desert dancers performed, and Marshal Heraclius told Mr. Maro that the company had legitimate operations and influential connections in the Sanghai Empire.
• Mr. Ivankov announced a 243 percent return and predicted returns above 500 percent in the next investment round, prompting shareholders to celebrate.
• Mr. Ivankov introduced Katerina and other speakers to promote opportunities tied to Atlantean expansion and Plantagenet colonization.
• A halfling accountant reported that many shareholders were reinvesting and proposed opening low-threshold investments to the common people; Ivankov said he would seek the boss's instructions.

At the Mistsea Trading Company’s shareholders’ meeting, Ivankov used world news and carefully staged success stories to attract investors while Marshal Heraclius defended the company and Sir Maro investigated it for the Wolf Girl. After Ivankov arranged a reunion between Maro and Vera, he learned that a man claiming to be his brother had arrived with his wife and child.

• The Mistsea Trading Company gave small shareholders booklets explaining how news about the Atlantean Kingdom and the Plantagenet Kingdom could create investment opportunities, while Sir Maro recorded the intelligence for the Wolf Girl.
• Mr. Huguenot announced that the House of Capet was about to become regent of a grand duchy, and planted investors praised the company to encourage more people to invest.
• Marshal Heraclius accepted Ivankov’s dividends for the Kafhoka Legion’s veterans but ordered him to reinvest the money, despite Ivankov’s private fear that the venture was becoming too risky.
• Heraclius and Ivankov tried to involve Sir Maro in their interests, and a dancer named Vera recognized him as her former lover before the others left them alone together.
• Ivankov thanked a Thorn Clan vampire for helping arrange the reunion, then received word that a man claiming to be his brother had come to the casino with his wife and child.
• Ivankov told the guards to take the man and his family to his hotel room so he could meet them after the shareholders’ meeting.

Ivankov reunited with his brother Anton and cousin Anna, then refused Anton’s demand to invest the proceeds from selling the family estate. After knocking Anton unconscious, Ivankov arranged for Anna and her daughters to escape to Paradise Island while he stayed behind.

• Ivankov returned to the King's Suite after Misty Sea Trading Company’s successful shareholders' meeting and met Anton, Anna, and their two daughters.
• Ivankov sent Anna and the girls to the restaurant, where Anna found his note asking her to meet him privately.
• Anton demanded an investment and revealed he had sold the family estate, so Ivankov punched him and knocked him unconscious.
• Ivankov met Anna alone, gave her a passbook, and told her to take the girls to Paradise Island under new identities.
• Ivankov reassured Anna that he would stay behind and handle Anton, then gave her medicine for the bruise on her neck.

Ivankov and Old Huo expanded their Kafhoka investment scheme, while Murphy learned how its collapse could destabilize the Wolf Girl’s rule and chose to leave Kafhoka’s future to Mirian and Transia’s leaders. When intelligence revealed Shani was investigating the scheme across several regions, Murphy decided to seek permission to help Andrei deal with her.

• Ivankov told Old Huo that Anton had accepted money to leave, and he planned to send Anna and the children to Paradise Island with Lady Katerina.
• Ivankov proposed opening Class A investments to Kafhoka’s private capital, and Old Huo approved the plan as part of the Wealth Goddess’s trial.
• Adele reported to Murphy that the Mistsea Trading Company’s scheme had drawn enormous wealth from Kafhoka and could cause the Wolf Girl’s rule and the Kafhoka Legion to collapse when exposed.
• Murphy said he would leave Kafhoka’s fate to Mirian and Transia’s leadership and intended to relinquish his governorship after resolving the Life Greenhouse conflict.
• Murphy learned that Shani was investigating the Mistsea Trading Company in multiple regions, and he decided to seek the Sovereign’s permission to help Andrei and his sister stop her.

Murphy agreed to confront Shani after Sovereign Payen declared her unfit to lead the Thorn clan and warned that she could no longer appear again. In the Empire of Sanghai, Shani uncovered the Mistsea Trading Company's schemes, then Murphy arrived to deliver the Sovereign's final warning.

• Murphy met Sovereign Payen, who said Shani had ignored his summons and asked Murphy to remove her from leadership without killing her if possible.
• Murphy and Payen discussed Andrei as acting Grand Duke and considered Queen Angelina as a possible future leader of the Thorn clan.
• Payen said his power was approaching the demigod level and warned Murphy to resolve Shani's situation before the Life Greenhouse assault.
• Shani's progeny showed her evidence that the Mistsea Trading Company was a fraudulent operation connected to Transia and a threat to Angelina's rule.
• A sudden unnatural midnight fell over the oasis, and Shani sent her vampires to warn Angelina while she stayed behind.
• Murphy landed before Shani and told her to stop investigating and heed the Sovereign's warning.

Murphy confronted Shani over her allegiance to the mortal kingdom and fought her after she refused to surrender. He overwhelmed her with resurrected Thorn Dukes, destroyed her Thorn Crown, and sealed her clan’s power, then ordered her to kneel.

• Murphy accused Shani of neglecting the Thorn Clan and warned that her past loyalty to the Romanovs was holding her back, while Shani defended her alliance with the kingdom.
• Shani attacked Murphy, but he blocked her strikes and marked her with the Blood Oath’s sin brand as her Haunting Shadow turned against him.
• Murphy summoned Lady Sophie Bloodrobe, who wounded Shani while Murphy defeated the wraith and used Shani’s blood to strengthen himself.
• Murphy resurrected Sophie and Lady Oksana, then summoned the first five Thorn Dukes to surround Shani.
• Murphy destroyed Shani’s Thorn Crown and sealed her Thorn Clan bloodline power, leaving her weakened beneath the gathered dukes.
• Murphy declared that vampires must return to orthodoxy and demanded that Shani kneel for her last chance.

Murphy defeated Shani and forced her to confront how her attempt to protect her family and kingdom had alienated them. After Andrei revealed that he and Angelina had chosen a new future for the Thorn Clan, Shani broke down and asked Murphy to kill her.

• Murphy's summoned Thorn Dukes subdued Shani, and he demanded to know whether she still believed she had done nothing wrong.
• Duchess Oksana explained that the Thorn Clan's tragedy came from its members' deep attachment to the past, and Murphy gave Shani a computational orb to contact her people.
• Shani warned Andrei about a plot threatening Angelina's rule, but Andrei showed her that the Thorn Duchy capital was under attack and revealed his alliance with Angelina and Murphy.
• Andrei told Shani that he and Angelina would join the vampire dynasty while preserving Nordtov's unity, leaving Shani devastated by their rejection.
• Murphy pressed Necessary Evil to Shani's neck, and she closed her eyes and asked him to kill her.

Murphy left Shani in Triss’s care and headed to Origin Harbor to check on Lady Flindis. In Kafhoka, Ivankov managed the Misty Sea Trading Company’s finances, inferred the Wolf Queen’s political strategy, and prepared for a mass investment scheme as its index surpassed 90,000.

• Murphy handed Shani’s coffin to Triss, who took it to the Blood Vulture Corridor while joking about turning Shani into a clone of her will.
• Murphy told Adele they would visit Origin Harbor to check on Lady Flindis’s repairs and seek information from the Sentinel Legion.
• Ivankov arranged to move Kafhoka’s funds through ordinary channels and planned to attract small investors with Class A goods.
• After reading a book Mr. Raven recommended, Ivankov connected Marshal Heraclius’s reassignment to the Wolf Queen’s possible plan to weaken her opponent’s faction.
• A halfling accountant showed Ivankov the return curve calculators and described the investment groups and data monitoring planned for the scheme.

Ivankov opened Class A investments to the public, drawing crowds of eager buyers across Kavhoka Province, and changed the settlement terms despite his secretary’s warning. As investors watched their apparent returns soar, a small merchant was beaten into selling his certificate, then heard a mysterious voice tell him to preserve his principal and buy the dip.

• Crowds formed outside Mistsea Trading Company offices across Kavhoka Province as small merchants and servants rushed to invest in Class A goods.
• Ivankov decided to shorten the settlement period to ten days and set the settlement rate at ten percent, overruling his secretary’s warning against changing the plan.
• A small merchant bought investment item A-04-11 and learned from other investors how to use his calculation orb to track its rapidly rising returns.
• A group led by a handsome man cornered the small merchant and forced him to sell his investment certificate for a bag of gold coins after beating him.
• As the distraught merchant stood by the docks, a female voice urged him to preserve his principal, wait for a dip, and remember to revere wealth.

The Mistsea Trading Company's investment frenzy spread through Kafhoka, and Andre learned that the resulting financial disaster could devastate the province. He agreed to let Crow Brother and Boss Huo proceed with a plan to save commoners by sacrificing nobles who invested in the scheme.

• The Mistsea Trading Company's three-day subscription rush drew commoners and merchants into Class A goods, while Boss Huo and the players realized the frenzy had become a dangerous snowball.
• Crow Brother blamed Lady Dutena's intervention for drawing more commoners into the scheme and argued that a collapse could destroy Kafhoka's economy.
• Andre arrived in Borne City and learned that the company had raised wealth worth twice Nordtov's annual treasury revenue in just over four months.
• Ivankov explained the investment scheme to Andre, who trembled as he imagined the consequences and worried that telling Grand Duchess Shani would undermine his standing.
• Crow Brother offered Andre a choice between reimbursing commoners by sacrificing the lords' investments or letting Kafhoka collapse, then proposed using the next payout to draw in more aristocrats before triggering the scheme's failure.
• Andre accepted the plan, reasoning that sacrificing nobles could save the rest of the province and clear the way for his sister's reforms.

Murphy confronted Lady Flindis over her failure and stopped her from erasing herself, ordering her to return to the Sentinel Legion and face trial. Flindis explained that prolonged exposure to the Warp had corrupted her thoughts, then hinted that the guilt of executing her sisters lay behind her despair.

• Investors and nobles across Nordtov pursued Mistsea Trading Company's investments, while Lord Anton secretly raised funds through an investment company to join his brother's business.
• Murphy criticized Mossna's crude mechanical body for Lady Flindis, who explained that her damaged components and lack of blueprints had limited the repair.
• Flindis revealed that she had begun a self-reformatting command, but Murphy used his authority as an apprentice Creator to order her to stop and face trial.
• Murphy questioned why Flindis had fallen into a cultist's trap, and she admitted that Warp assimilation and buried despair, pain, and guilt had led to her mistake.
• Flindis said her guilt came from personally executing many of her sisters under the Purge Protocol, but she refused to explain further.

Murphy learned that Ms. Flindis had secretly executed Sentinel sisters for centuries while trying to contain Chaos corruption, and that the tradition of reusing their bodies spread the corruption through the Legion. Ms. Flindis revealed that Murphy’s vampire body was only a remote shell and urged him to reach his true body in the World Heart, where the Creator’s trial and a Pool of Truth awaited.

• Mosna flew into a rage and pulled Ms. Flindis’s monitor off, but Murphy activated Eden’s compulsory calming protocol and had her reconnect it.
• Ms. Flindis explained that a quarter of the Sentinel heroes had been potential traitors and recounted the Legion’s war against Chaos, her executions, and the failed mind resets.
• Ms. Flindis said the Frontier Pact had failed and that the Sentinel Legion’s corruption left her despairing about the future of the material world.
• Ms. Flindis revealed that she had physically locked the World Heart and told Murphy he had to go there himself to find his true body and the Creator’s Pool of Truth.
• Ms. Flindis called Murphy the Creator’s ultimate weapon, then described a legend that a perfect Sentinel could become the Creator’s bride, prompting Murphy to mock her and the Creator.

Murphy brought Madam Flindis to Base R-9 to assess the Astral Army’s stalled enhancement program. Her advice pointed toward stronger anti-Chaos biology, mass-produced powered armor, and subdermal neural links, and she pledged Sentinel Legion support before Murphy prepared to take her to the astral realm.

• Madam Flindis confirmed that the Creator had many specialized aspects, including a combat aspect that had once suppressed the monsters and demons of the Sea of Lightless Night.
• Murphy took Flindis to Base R-9, where she judged the Anti-Chaos Equation promising but unsafe for deeper Warp regions and recommended retaking the Life Greenhouse for advanced research.
• Flindis advised Old Flynn that biological enhancement alone could not defeat greater daemons and recommended equipping enhanced soldiers with specialized powered armor.
• After inspecting Murphy’s Warlord armor, Flindis proposed mass-produced armor linked to its wearer through subdermal neural nodes instead of a psychic interface.
• Flindis offered Sentinel Legion technology and workshop support for the Astral Army, and Murphy told her to prepare to accompany him to the astral realm in three days.

Murphy and his companions traveled to the Astral Frontier to approach the rebuilt Subspace Hunter-Killer Ship, the Daughter of Glory. Murphy invoked his authority as the apprentice Creator, took command of the ship, and prepared to board as Flindis recognized him as the Creator's return to his daughters.

• Old Transia brought Murphy, Triss, Adele, Mosna, Flindis, Maxim, and Bonnie near the Astral Colossus, where Mother Gaia was reinforcing its walls by hand.
• Pipi Snake and Old Transia explained that Mother Gaia was rebuilding the Colossus after her former retinue had fallen to Chaos, while Flindis judged her resolve and Triss rebuked Flindis.
• The group reached the Sea of Chaos and saw the Daughter of Glory, whose defenses had previously attacked anyone who failed its authentication protocol.
• Flindis and Mosna warned Murphy that the warship had not authenticated them, but Murphy ordered Eden to grant him command authority as the apprentice Creator.
• The Daughter of Glory accepted Murphy's command, lowered its defenses, and opened a teleportation arrival zone for him and his companions.
• Flindis watched Murphy take control of the warship and murmured that the Creator had returned to his daughters.

Murphy took control of the Daughters of Glory and accelerated its reconstruction, bringing its captain, Lady Ersha, back into existence. Ersha accused Flindis of causing the loss of the Archmagos division, but Murphy subdued the ship’s defenses and declared himself its temporary commander.

• Murphy and his entourage teleported aboard the Daughters of Glory, while Mannis tried to evade the ship’s defenses and discovered that bending causality required looping time across an entire region.
• Murphy learned that the ship had no crew yet and that material reconstruction restored it by reversing causality, at the cost of Sentinel lives and the ship’s defensive causality device.
• Murphy sat in the captain’s chair and used his authority as the Creator’s chosen one to accelerate the Daughters of Glory’s reconstruction.
• Lady Ersha materialized on the bridge and angrily accused Flindis of losing the Daughters of Truth and putting tens of thousands of Archmagos sisters at risk.
• Ersha activated the bridge’s weapons against Flindis, but Murphy shut them down and announced that he was taking temporary command of the ship.

Murphy used the Creator’s voice through Elsa’s mechanical halberd to confront the Sentinel Legion’s rigid doctrines and summon its leaders for a lecture. Elsa agreed to bring Flindis and the other sisters to the detention room, while the artificial divine cores were expected to arrive soon aboard the Beautiful Daughter.

• Elsa cleared Murphy’s inspection, reclaimed command of the Glory's Daughter, and sentenced Flindis to serve in a Penitent-class war chassis.
• Mosna accused the Primarchs of knowingly permitting the Purge Protocol’s executions, and Elsa defended the policy as necessary to protect the Legion from betrayal.
• Mosna slapped Elsa, who subdued and injured her before insisting that Sentinels were tools meant to fulfill the Creator’s design.
• Murphy told Elsa that the Creator was still watching and used the halberd’s item description to let the Creator speak directly to her.
• Elsa announced that the Creator wanted her, Flindis, and the other sisters to attend a lecture in the detention room, and said the artificial divine cores would soon arrive aboard the Beautiful Daughter.

Murphy welcomed the Sentinel Legion’s warships and their fanatical Primarchs, then brought the Astral demigods to the Still Beauty to claim artificial divinities. He explained that anyone who took one would have to bind their existence to an unbreakable constraint, leaving the demigods to weigh the cost.

• Murphy broadcast the Creator’s conversation across the Daughter of Glory, drawing Sentinel commanders and troops to listen while he kept them from neglecting their duties.
• Murphy identified the arriving Sentinel ships and explained that the Sentinel Legion had split between loyalists and rebels, with several vessels and the Omega still missing.
• Hetis and Amenis arrived aboard the Still Beauty, gave Murphy access to its vault, and hurried to join their father aboard the Daughter of Glory.
• Murphy persuaded Pipi Snake and the other demigods to follow him to the Still Beauty, where they found artificial divinities numbered 001 through 007.
• Murphy offered the demigods any artificial divinity except Hades’s Death divinity, then warned them that accepting one required freely binding themselves to an unbreakable constraint.

Murphy explained the artificial divinities’ oath restrictions and proposed restarting the Frontier Pact, while Tritan and Hayes supported accepting its trial. Old Ao then ordered Mannis to pursue a path to ascension without faith, and Mannis left to reconsider his future and speak with Liji.

• Murphy explained that artificial divinities required strict oaths to unlock their full power and proposed expanding the Frontier Pact’s battlefield to include the astral front.
• Tritan insisted on taking the full Frontier Pact trial to avenge his people, and Hayes agreed that the demigods should face the challenge.
• Murphy told the demigods to consult their elders, collect the artificial divinities, and register for the operation to retake the Think Tank.
• Murphy explained that most demigods could not yet safely bind an artificial divinity, then gave Mannis the No. 001 divinity and relayed Old Ao’s order that he ascend without faith.
• Maxim suggested that the ancestor Mannis remembered from hatching was his future self, and Murphy said that this implied Mannis would eventually ascend.
• Mannis refused to take the divinity and vanished into the river of time to think and speak with Liji, while Murphy planned to inspect the Daughter of Abundance and prepare for the expedition into the Gray Desert.

Murphy and the Sentinel Primarchs planned to recover the missing Daughter of Truth and reform the Legion, while Mosna chose to serve the material world as its Sentinel Ambassador. After touring the Daughter of Abundance’s immense factories, Murphy began preparing armor and weapons production for the Astral Army.

• Mosna revealed that Flindis had concealed signals from the Daughters of the Fallen, and the Primarchs formed a team to find and retake the Daughter of Truth with material-world support from Murphy.
• Mosna declined a Forge Sage post aboard the Daughter of Abundance, accepted the role of Sentinel Ambassador, and planned to spread the Great Father's ideals in the Gnoll Kingdom and Sanhai Empire.
• Murphy brought Explorers' Guild scholars to inspect the Daughter of Abundance, where they saw its vast automated weapons lines and the rapid production of Sentinel bodies.
• A Forge Sage explained that the Legion suffered enormous losses in Warp battles and relied on manufacturing facilities and the Librarius to restore fallen Sentinels.
• Matcha Popsicle argued that the Sentinels could become a civilization rather than remain tools, leaving the Forge Sage quietly considering the idea.
• Murphy asked Maxim to test a new power-armor prototype and appointed Mosna Astral Forge General to establish factories and arm the Astral Army against Chaos.

The Explorers obtained an Origin Alloy formula aboard the Daughter of Plenty, while Murphy discussed the Sentinel Legion’s future with its Primarchs. After Murphy urged the Sentinels to make the Astral Realm their home and join its revival, Lady Hetis asked him for orders to help him reach the Creator.

• The Explorers secured a basic Origin Alloy smelting formula from the forging sage, and Maxim and Bonnie discovered that King Ma had brought several leaders from his world aboard the ship.
• King Ma explained why the leaders had joined the tour, and Murphy invited them to meet with the Crimson Regents; the invitation was approved.
• Ersha and Fendir told Murphy that the Creator had praised the Sentinel Legion but left them to decide their future, and they proposed building a stronghold in the Shattered Astral Realm.
• Murphy offered to help the Sentinels join the Astral Realm’s revival and argued that the Creator had left them there to make the world their home and protect its life.
• Lady Hetis accepted Murphy’s call to action and asked him to name the enemies standing in his way.

Murphy arranged for the Sentinel Legion to produce weapons and vehicles for the Imperial Guard, then prepared to reclaim the Greenhouse of Life and watch the Mistsea Trading Company’s financial scheme collapse. In Bernier City, Ivankov ordered his team to drain local banks before the company’s final settlement, as the Goddess of Wealth’s trial approached.

• A Forge Sage confirmed the production of ten thousand Astral Warriors power armor sets and thirty thousand downgraded combat suits, then offered Murphy a catalog of vehicles for Astral and Warp battles.
• Murphy ordered five thousand of each vehicle, agreed they would be restricted to the Astral, and learned that Mosna’s Order of the Imperium could protect him through a true Astral drop.
• Murphy told Triss they would gather troops to reclaim the Greenhouse of Life after previewing version 4.0 and watching the Mistsea Trading Company’s final settlement in the Kavhoka region.
• Ivankov told his core team to withdraw funds from local bankers so the company could pay dividends in physical currency before the settlement.
• Ivankov urged his team to exploit investors’ fear of losing their returns and extract every remaining coin before the Goddess of Wealth’s trial descended in seven days.

Ivankov learned that Alfred had copied the Mistsea Trading Company's fundraising scheme, arranged to have him disappear temporarily, and rejected the vampires' demand for returns. As the company paid out dividends and lured clients into borrowing and reinvesting, Murphy watched the golden dream begin to collapse.

• Gwenhwyfar told Ivankov that Alfred had opened the Silver Sun Trading Company in Derik Province to copy his investment methods, and Ivankov ordered the vampires to make Alfred disappear for a few days without harming him.
• Ivankov told Gwenhwyfar to promise the Thorn Duchy's vampires only their principal, with repayment delayed until they had lost hope, then accepted her resignation as she prepared to return to her homeland.
• Clients rushed into the Mistsea Trading Company's hall for dividends, where Artyom collected seventeen gold coins on his thirty-gold investment and was astonished by the mountain of gold on display.
• Artyom borrowed against his property, reinvested the loan, and persuaded his gang members to borrow and invest as well, leaving them penniless but convinced they would soon be rich.
• Murphy, disguised and accompanied by Adele, watched Artyom celebrate and said the golden dream had begun to burn.

Ivankov oversaw Mistsea Trading Company’s escalating Class A investment scheme while preparing to withdraw his people and transfer its assets. In Bernier, Young Beng recognized the scheme as a trap and urged his father to pull out while encouraging other bankers to invest; he then examined a strange, glowing gold coin.

• Gwynevere told Ivankov that investment in Class A goods had surged, that Lady Dutena was recruiting followers, and that Mistsea’s wealth was being moved to the Iron Vault.
• Ivankov refused Gwynevere’s invitation to join Lady Lolth’s sanctuary, ordered a gradual withdrawal from Kafkovka, and planned to reclaim money from Marshal Heraclius.
• A Mistsea account manager asked Sir Beng for another cash withdrawal, offering interest and promising strong returns from Class A goods.
• Young Beng warned his father that Mistsea’s request was a trap and advised him to withdraw, but to persuade the other bankers to invest instead.
• Sir Beng decided to test the account manager, while Young Beng studied a glowing gold coin and wondered whether he had been chosen.

Ivankov prepared for Misty Sea Trading Company's collapse while Young Benge tried to secure his family's place in the coming crisis. As the company’s cash-flow troubles became public and investors panicked, Artem clung to the belief that Ivankov would return and their investment returns would keep rising.

• Kiki reported that Old Benge wanted to withdraw his investment, and Ivankov instructed her to handle the request firmly and publicly.
• Young Benge took control of Kiki’s communication orb, revealed Old Benge’s plan to host a bankers’ banquet, and asked Ivankov for a seat at the table.
• Ivankov recognized Young Benge as a Chosen of Wealth and invited him to the company, while telling Guinevere to welcome him rather than hire assassins.
• Misty Sea Trading Company’s new staff uncovered unbalanced accounts and a cash-flow crisis, while bankers learned the company had withdrawn funds across Kafuhoka County.
• Bankers stormed the company, and its mass message denying rumors while postponing investment returns intensified public panic.
• Artem urged his brothers to keep believing Ivankov would return, pointing to the still-rising figure on his Investment Returns Calculator.

Bernier erupted into chaos after rumors spread that Ivankov had fled with the Mistsea Trading Company's investors' money. Alyosha survived the panic, but Artyom's faith in the scheme ended in tragedy as the company's office burned.

• Investors and constables crowded the Mistsea Trading Company's locked doors, and the mob began attacking the building.
• Alyosha found the injured Artyom on a rooftop and gave him bread while Artyom insisted his investment certificates would make him rich.
• Artyom urged Alyosha to buy properties cheaply after the crash, but his Wealth Assistant stopped working when its free trial expired.
• Artyom realized the investment scheme had failed, blamed Alyosha for surviving in his place, and jumped from the roof.
• The Mistsea Trading Company's office caught fire as the crowd's violence escalated, and Alyosha fled with Artyom's discarded computing orb as a reminder.