Recaps

Lee Stein established a research base on Skull Island, developed new technology in the real world, and returned to Earth OL after its update. As the game drew a flood of new players and crime rose, Badoers prepared a meeting with Lee Stein that attracted a large livestream audience.

• Lee Stein crashed the Medium Assault Armor into Skull Island, destroying a Hound Organization town, then traded armor research with Tony Stark and studied a Modal Hound corpse.
• Li Si examined Skull Island’s Star Core, restored its spatial barrier, and arranged for Pandora and Engineering Robots to build a mobile research base while Tony Stark scanned the Mark Armor’s shock-absorption system.
• Li Si left Skull Island in Max’s care and returned to the real world, where he planned home security, rented Liu Qin’s laboratory, and produced a Regeneration Serum and a transformation serum.
• Li Si launched the Stein Trading Network, then logged into Earth OL after its update and confirmed through accelerated consciousness that Marvel Earth was real to him.
• Lee Stein used Pandora’s virtual space to confront Ivan Vanko, then arranged for the Mechanical Overlord System to guide Ivan toward advanced technology after sending him back in time.
• Lee Stein returned to Stein Tower, reunited with Gwen, tasked his team with repairing the combat platform, and spent two days with her as new players crowded into the game and crime increased.
• Lee Stein brushed off Tony Stark’s request for help with the crime wave, then noticed Badoers’s invitation and suspected he was concealing his intentions.
• Badoers told Maberen and Lu Yao that Lee Stein had invited them to name their price, then livestreamed their wait at an abandoned factory as Players speculated about the meeting.

Lee Stein used the Gotham instance to build his position, treat Maberen’s condition, and stage Jigsaw’s test for Arthur Jackman. Arthur began earning money through exercise and writing, while Varric became interested in seeking out Jigsaw.

• Lee Stein revealed himself to Badoers’ livestream audience, used their demand for compensation to promote the Stein Trading Network, and announced limited serum and Azeroth-Marvel Continent testing rewards.
• Lee Stein entered the Gotham instance with Badoers, Lu Yao, and Maberen, chose the Chaos faction, and helped Maberen manage his unstable lizard transformation in exchange for errands.
• Lee Stein arranged a secluded site for his Jigsaw plan after Maberen reported that Arthur Jackman was mistreating Mina Zhang, while Badoers joined Batman’s group and struggled to gain points.
• Lee Stein broadcast Arthur’s ordeal in a sealed room, where Arthur earned skull coins by exercising, bought food and warm clothes, and faced the choice of bringing Mina into the prison or receiving a bomb doll.
• Arthur chose to keep Mina away from the prison, and Lee Stein told Maberen to prepare to relocate before Batman found their base.
• When Arthur argued that the test offered no intellectual work, Lee Stein let him write for coins and arranged for his story about Jigsaw to be published online.
• Lee Stein promoted Arthur’s story and a Jigsaw video, and Arthur was overwhelmed by his first payment while Varric watched the video and decided to seek Jigsaw out.

Li Si turned his growing influence in Gotham toward a confrontation with Batman, while managing Joker, Lu Yao, and a series of trials. After willingly ending up in Arkham, Li Si announced a public trial that left Bruce Wayne facing his challenge.

• Arthur Jackman survived Jigsaw’s simulation, returned to Mina, and accepted Li Si’s offer to write web novels from his outlines, helping make Jigsaw’s platforms popular.
• Li Si rescued two children from a staged attack, fought Jason and the Lizard-man at Wayne Hospital, and learned from Lu Yao that focused knowledge and intent could improve blueprint skills.
• Li Si implanted a holographic virtual chip in Lu Yao to help him manage Jason, while secretly planning to deceive him through altered sensory information.
• Li Si and Joker judged Beryl McGee and Charles Fox for raising their sons without accountability, but Batman rescued the family before the trial could conclude.
• Li Si chased Batman through Gotham in Bumblebee, defeated him in their armored fight, and brought Bruce Wayne to Secret Room No. 16, where Joker trapped them both.
• Bruce escaped the gas and captured Li Si, but Li Si revealed Joker had kidnapped Rachel Dawes and Harvey Dent, prompting Bruce to rescue them and break Joker’s back.
• Bruce took Li Si and Joker to Arkham, where Li Si healed himself, merged his templates, and told Joker he planned to put him and Batman on trial.
• Gotham erupted in protests after Jigsaw’s capture, but Li Si calmed his supporters from his Arkham cell and announced “The Trial of Batman,” inviting viewers to decide whether he would stay or leave Gotham to a redeemed Batman.

Li Si turned Jigsaw’s influence into a virtual world that recruited Players and trained technology for real-world use, while he strengthened himself and tested his powers. He brought Tony Stark into the game and ended their tour by humiliating him with an interference round as the Hulkbuster assembled around him.

• Li Si used Jigsaw’s stories to make Bruce Wayne reconsider Batman’s approach, then left the instance as Gotham embraced Jigsaw and Bruce pursued reforms.
• The system awarded Li Si first place and an SS rating, and he bought enhancements and technologies before receiving the Legendary Superhero template and its Chamber Judgment ability.
• Lee Stein returned to New York, helped Peter Parker capture the Headless Horseman, and learned that Doctor Otto and Peter had defeated Kingpin.
• Lee Stein recruited support for his plans, expanded biological armor research, and worked with Pandora to design the Azeroth-Marvel virtual world.
• Li Ritian entered the closed beta as Hao Bruce, joined the XF-26 garrison, and showed viewers how the War Terminal supported Players in combat.
• Li Si tested Immersive Command Mode, planned to use Player data to train mechanical legions, and gained the Mad Genius Scientist template before injecting himself with Green Goblin Enhancer.
• Lee Stein used Chamber Judgment and Tireless Teaching to persuade Yin Zhiping to reconsider suicide, then met Tony Stark after he revealed that he had upgraded Jarvis into Ultron.
• Li Si brought Tony into the virtual world, explained his plans to create a god for Earth, and later used an interference round to make Tony convulse and meow while the Hulkbuster assembled around him.