Recaps

Murphy expanded Transia’s defenses and prepared a campaign in the Filthy Swamp while new racial conversion features, undead threats, and tensions with Plantagenet forces reshaped the region. Hogg maneuvered the Plagueblight forces toward Transia’s planned operation as Murphy readied a rescue alongside the Rapids Knights.

• Hogg cured his poison through Lameclaw, then stirred up conflict with the Bonechewer Clan to keep the players busy and secure direwolf mounts for them.
• Murphy and Dorothy staged Ghoul Night in Scarlet Castle, and Murphy prepared the players for a campaign against the Plaguebane Clan in the Filthy Swamp.
• Happy Stick tamed the Shadow King, and his group recovered Vam the Beheader from the Snegov tomb robbers before taking on new duties among the mountain folk.
• Murphy and Triss converted Lumina into a half-elf and introduced appearance customization, then gathered human racial data so players could select subraces and talents.
• Murphy received tens of thousands of border guards and other arrivals from Marshal Loren, and he organized their labor while preparing Transia for the Black Calamity.
• Maxim and the Transian forces suppressed unrest among the Plantagenet soldiers, while Colonel Fraser’s visit ended in conflict with Mirian over her inheritance and independence.
• Murphy warned Fraser that Transia would attack in the Filthy Swamp within fifteen days, while Happy Stick strengthened his defenses along the Maginot Line.
• Hogg led three thousand skeletons and the Plagueblight warlocks toward East Prussia, but Femis’s false mage tower diverted them into Transia’s planned operation.

As Transia faced the Black Calamity and the Plague Clan, Murphy turned the fight in Filthy Swamp into a coordinated player campaign while its allies prepared for a larger war. The arc ended with Murphy discovering that Triss was studying the corpse of an elf from the current elven king’s clan.

• The Torrent Knights and players fought Plaguefang’s undead forces, rescued refugees, and helped expose the threat of Dusk and its links to the Twilight.
• Turner and Shani attacked the Snegov family’s operation, killed a drider, and uncovered evidence tying the spider demons to Avalon and the Twilight.
• Murphy shut down the server to introduce racial talents, then watched Madam Mei reunite with A-Feng after she entered the game.
• After Hogg’s gnolls turned toward Transia, Murphy rejected waiting for the Plague Clan to withdraw and made the route through Filthy Swamp a team dungeon and campaign.
• Murphy launched the Shadow of the Swamp event, dividing the guilds among three fronts, while the players recruited allies and competed to reach Plague Town.
• Major Ron and his Plantagenet soldiers defended captured outposts alongside the players, who ambushed necromancers controlling the skeleton army.
• Afeng operated on Robinson, and Sharon and Loyal began designing a mechanical arm as Transia expanded its medical and weapons programs.
• Dou and Loyalty proposed burning a road through the swamp and developing white phosphorus weapons, while Murphy discovered Triss’s dissected elf corpse in her laboratory.

Murphy’s forces used bombs and coordinated attacks to break through the undead defenses and besiege Plague Town, while the players uncovered the swamp serpent’s sanctuary and used its egg to lure it toward the gnolls. The assault remained unfinished as the gnolls began teleporting and Coo-Coo Chicken was near death.

• Meow Brother proposed raising a treant army to defend the swamp, while Meng Haha told Madam Shui that Cement Heart needed a beacon in Transia.
• Ripping Flesh pursued the Bonechewer King’s remains and the swamp’s hidden power as the player fronts fought through the undead defenses.
• Old Qin’s group destroyed the Winter Wolf General’s undead force with mortars and a bomb, and Murphy’s vampire bombers helped break the swamp’s defensive lines.
• Murphy’s forces advanced on Plague Town, where the students investigated the Astral Plane and the awakened King of Bone-Biting killed the Explorer’s puppet double.
• The fronts attacked Plague Town, but Kenport and Experimental Subject 16-C repelled assaults, while the players sought ways to weaken the wizard tower’s barrier.
• Cheche and the students discovered a petrified serpent egg in the forbidden zone and decided to use it to lure the giant serpent toward Plague Town.
• Coo-Coo Chicken carried the egg toward the gnoll encampment, drawing the serpent across the boundary as its venom killed three warlocks, before he reported that the gnolls were teleporting and called for help.

Murphy defeated the warlocks, gained authority over the Creator’s exhibition hall, and restored the swamp serpents while forming a pact with Mannis. As he prepared for the Black Calamity, Hogg received a warning from the Bone-Biting King about the Lord of the Hunt’s altar.

• Murphy and the players defeated Crippleclaw and the Bonechewer King, then discovered that Tearmeat had escaped with the Creator’s key staff left behind.
• Murphy explored the Creator’s exhibition hall, bound the Omnia Device, and became its curator, appointing Triss as his assistant and learning about the Gnoll King’s failed claim to the facility.
• Murphy incubated Ningishzida, healed Orr with Mannis’s toxin, and reunited the swamp serpents with their kin before they led him to a cavern containing dead gnoll guards and Creator relics.
• Murphy contracted with Mannis, learned that it was bound by seven emerald locks and that Cadman City’s survivors remained in the Astral Plane, then tested its powers on Maxim.
• Murphy recovered Wayfarer equipment from the exhibition hall and assigned it to the Blood Eagle Clan, while Maxim returned other weapons and armor to the treasury.
• Hogg claimed Wolf Fort and encountered the Bone-Biting King in a vision, where the king asked him to destroy the Lord of the Hunt’s altar in Moss Valley before it entered the Warp.