Recaps

Lu Yuan took over Laisen’s Clinic, discovered the spreading Strange Dream, and joined the Night Watchers as an Occultist consultant. After contaminated water brought him into the Waterworks investigation, he led a team into the sewer to track the source of the growing danger.

• Lu Yuan found Laisen’s diary, learned that the Iron Whale’s crew had brought back a contagious sea-themed Strange Dream, and disposed of Laisen’s corpse after encountering Abyssal Kin in the darkness.
• Lu Yuan reopened the Clinic, treated Thomas’s deep-sea toxin wound, and began investigating the Iron Whale’s return and the strange creatures caught near Grim Port.
• Lu Yuan treated Lausen with Silverlight Grass Mixture, realized that Lausen’s sea dreams were worsening, and discovered that he himself had become infected after dreaming of the dark sea.
• Lu Yuan obtained Holy Water from the Church, then went with Brent to find his uncle, fought the transformed Murloc Kin, and was recruited by Hans and Mary as an external Night Watcher consultant.
• Lu Yuan chose Occultism, identified the frozen flesh as belonging to a juvenile Icefield Ghoul, and advanced along the Knowledge Path as a Seeker after studying in the Library.
• Lu Yuan moved his Clinic to a Night Watcher Safe House, concealed his infection, and accepted an Emergency Conscription Order to investigate Grim Port’s contaminated water supply.
• Lu Yuan and Hans led Night Watchers to the Waterworks, defeated Rotten Water Toads, and found evidence that something had opened a passage into the sewer network.
• Hans sent Toby for reinforcements, and Lu Yuan identified the sewer’s Corpse Moss and inferred that a large source of meat deeper inside was feeding it.

Lu Yuan survived the sewer disaster, treated Lausen and Mina, and was drawn into Night Watcher operations against Deep Sea cultists and the Ascension Society. After bringing Mo Shui to help Mina, he faced Priest Andrew’s attempt to seize her and used his Pocket Watch to cripple the Deacons.

• Hans led the team into the sewers, where Lu Yuan spotted a hidden tentacle and helped the group escape the creatures pursuing them.
• Valentin and the Night Watchers returned to destroy the Meat Mountain, and Lu Yuan identified its core before Mithril destroyed it, though the death howl left Valentin’s fate unknown.
• Lu Yuan treated Lausen’s accelerating Deep Sea erosion with a Deep Sea Sedative, then learned that a stranger had searched his records and marked his name.
• At Thorn Manor, Lu Yuan killed the Baron, his polluted servants, and a Hatchling, then confronted Old Morgan over the Night Watchers’ use of him as bait and chose the Time Bestower from the Deep Warehouse.
• Lu Yuan explored the Strange Dream and investigated the Iron Whale before an Ascension Society squad attacked his clinic and Old Morgan drove them away.
• Lu Yuan treated Mina’s mental contamination and, with Mo Shui’s help, calmed her Echo talent and arranged for her and Brent to stay near the clinic.
• Lu Yuan learned to form a Sanity Barrier through Mo Shui’s knowledge infusion, then Priest Andrew arrived with Deacons and demanded Mina.
• Lu Yuan used the Pocket Watch’s Accelerate ability to shoot the Deacons in their knees and wrists, crippling them.

Lu Yuan’s Strange Dream infection led the Night Watchers and their allies to investigate the Iron Whale and the island tied to the Deep Sea Church. The expedition reached a vast mine filled with Deep Blue and pulsing Ore, with the danger still ahead.

• Mo Shui stopped Priest Andrew’s attack on Lu Yuan’s clinic, and Eger forced Andrew and his attendants to leave after Lu Yuan received compensation.
• Lu Yuan learned that Strange Dream was eroding his sanity, and Old Morgan identified the Iron Whale and the island in his dreams as clues to its source.
• Lausen warned Lu Yuan that the Deep Sea Church planned to bring chaos to Grim Port, and the Church’s forces soon attacked the city and the Night Watchers’ base.
• Old Morgan and the city’s leaders organized an expedition to investigate the Iron Whale and the island, and Lu Yuan volunteered to join Alice’s team aboard the Abyssal Hunter.
• The expedition reached the polluted island, where Lu Yuan and Gray found the Iron Whale’s captain and uncovered records of a failed attempt to contain the contamination.
• Alice, Born, and the others fought a ritualist who animated corpses into a Deep Aggregate, then chased him onto the island as the sand swallowed him.
• Marcus chose to continue inland, and the group followed the tentacles to a mine where Philip identified Deep Blue as connected to the Eerie.
• Lu Yuan and the others entered the mine and reached a vast chamber whose floor was covered in pulsing Ore.

Lu Yuan and his allies uncovered the Deep Sea Church’s attack on Grim Port, defeated its high priest, and treated the contaminated defenders. Old Morgan reached City Hall and discovered a ritual vault beneath it as a Rift’s tentacles overwhelmed the Inner City.

• Lu Yuan and Marcus pierced the heart in the island’s mine, collected its blood, and escaped as the passage collapsed.
• A tentacled presence escorted the wounded group through a storm, and Alice led the Abyssal Hunter through the blockade to Grim Port.
• Old Morgan learned that the island and the Iron Whale had been bait, while Lu Yuan locked the heart’s blood in the Deep Warehouse.
• The Deep Sea Church attacked the Night Watcher base, and Lu Yuan learned that Mina’s Echo of All Things exposed her to whispers about an awakening.
• Lu Yuan fired the underground cannons to disrupt the high priest’s Blood Mire Formation, and Xi Wading and Alice killed the priest and destroyed his black heart.
• Lu Yuan made Purifying Sedative for Mary and contaminated Night Watchers as Xi Wading’s team advanced into the Inner City.
• Old Morgan and Valentin found the Inner City overrun and joined the fight against the Rift’s tentacles at City Hall.
• Old Morgan entered the underground vault and found glowing runes, a ritual circle, and a black spine at its center.