Recaps

Evan used the Shark Potion to track Alcott after the Apprentice escaped the factory by transferring his consciousness into a prepared host. Evan caught up with Alcott’s car on foot and seized him through the roof.

• Evan destroyed Alcott’s scattered flesh bodies, but Alcott escaped by transferring his consciousness into a prepared host several streets away.
• Alcott used the One-Ninth Silver Key and Misdirection Spray, then drove away from New Haven City toward Bolton City.
• Evan consumed the Shark Potion and spotted Alcott’s moving car more than three kilometers away.
• Evan ran at roughly a hundred kilometers an hour and caught Alcott’s Ford Model T outside the city.
• Evan tore open the car’s roof and pulled Alcott out by the head as the driverless car slowed to a stop.

Evan killed Botis Alcott and recovered Alcott’s Beyonder Characteristic, then captured a living key that merged with the Secondary Brain and gave it the ability to pick locks. When two Demon Hunters from the Authorities arrived, Evan identified himself and explained the fight, leaving them to assess his credentials and account.

• Evan crushed Alcott’s head and found the Beyonder Characteristic inside his body.
• Evan sent the Secondary Brain after a silver key that had escaped into a marmot burrow, and it caught the key underground.
• The key revealed itself as a Living Artifact and merged into the Secondary Brain, whose new ability opened the Ford’s locked trunk.
• Evan spotted two golden-aura members of the Authorities approaching and waited as they arrived by carriage.
• Evan told the Demon Hunter and Witch that he had fought cultists, presented his Miskatonic University and Hurst family credentials, and identified the dead man as Botis Alcott.
• The male Demon Hunter lowered his pistol and began examining Evan’s university identification booklet.

After Evan helped defeat a Monster, Doctor Armitage explained how Magic Potions and Beyonder Characteristics worked and warned him never to inject a potion. Once the Police Department cleared him, Evan celebrated with a meal large enough to fuel his enhanced body.

• The Witch contacted Headquarters, and police officers arrived with Doctor Armitage and Miskatonic University students to verify Evan’s identity.
• Evan asked to keep a valuable car as spoils, but Armitage said it was evidence and took him back to the city.
• Armitage explained that a Monster’s remains could yield one basic Profession Characteristic, and that only about thirty percent of its power could be passed on through a Magic Potion.
• When Evan asked why people did not inject potions directly, Armitage warned that the Monster’s Bestiality would overwhelm him and turn him into a Monster.
• The Police Department cleared Evan after he gave a statement and provided fingerprints, and Armitage took him to a restaurant.
• Evan ate an enormous meal, and his enhanced digestive system converted the nutrients into energy and blood that brought his Blood Quality to 242.5%.

Evan asked Doctor Armitage whether he could use or sell the ability sac, but police officers interrupted them to request his cooperation. As the police investigated the Demon Hunter who had killed Botis Alcott, Alcott’s victims at the New Haven Hotel regained their memories and exposed his crimes.

• Doctor Armitage told Evan he would handle the Beyonder side of things, and Evan asked whether he could use or sell the ability sac.
• Police officers stopped Evan and Doctor Armitage and asked Evan to help with the follow-up investigation.
• Garp learned that Evan had been taken from the hotel and that Alcott’s men had not returned, then watched Alcott’s victims emerge in distress and accuse him and Albert Trus of assault.
• Sheriff Leon and his team examined the torn Model T and massive footprints, identified the Demon Hunter’s trail, and reconstructed his defeat of Alcott’s Apprentice.
• Sally reported that Albert Trus had lured Iwen Ludwig Arkham with drugged tea, and that the controlled girls had regained their senses after Alcott’s death.
• Sally said the girls’ public accusations had spread through the New Haven Hotel and reached the city’s noble circle.

The New Haven police announced that Botis Alcott and his accomplices had enslaved young women and were now dead, while Iwen recounted how he had escaped their ambush. The deputy chief presented the deaths as the work of a killer who mistook the gang for plainclothes officers, leaving Director Smith stunned by the scandal facing Sage University.

• Leon closed the case against Iwen and celebrated the trouble it would bring the Merchants' Association.
• Sally alerted Beyonder headquarters, and New Haven officers rescued the girls and gathered witnesses at the hotel.
• The deputy chief identified Botis Alcott as the ringleader, announced that his gang had died, and asked Miss Hurst to assist the investigation.
• Iwen arrived at the hotel and told Eldin and the others how Alcott's accomplices had lured and attacked him.
• The deputy chief confirmed Iwen's account and said a killer had mistaken the pursuing gang for plainclothes officers and killed them all.
• Director Smith reeled at the news that Alcott and the others were dead.

Evan’s account of the massacre survived police scrutiny, and the Hurst family’s lawyer made clear that Dean Smith could not settle the matter privately. After Cyril Hurst learned that the Spirit Communion Society was involved, he began mobilizing officials to have the cult rooted out.

• Evan relied on Albert’s betrayal and death to make his accusations against Alcott seem credible, while Eldin and the others completed hours of questioning at the New Haven Police Department.
• Garp praised Evan’s performance, and Evan asked Eldin for a bonus before the group returned to the hotel.
• Newt rejected Smith’s offer of private compensation and warned him that the consequences would have been far worse if Eldin had been harmed.
• News of the deaths reached Hurst Manor, where Cyril Hurst learned that Evan had killed the attackers and that the conflict involved the Spirit Communion Society.
• Cyril refused to warn the cult and called the mayor to arrange a complete purge of it.

After reversing several potion side effects, Evan’s heightened senses led him to discover Deep One bodily fluid in his hotel room, while the Copper Plague left a patch of copper patina on his chest. Before leaving New Haven for Bolton City, he visited the Armitage Museum, where Armitage gave him his payment.

• Evan’s reversed potion side effects enhanced his sleep, blood quality, vision, smell, and taste, and he used his keen senses to investigate the hotel room’s foul odors.
• Evan licked a floor tile and discovered trace Deep One bodily fluid, reversed its side effect, and gained a slight permanent increase in Spirit.
• Evan woke with copper patina covering part of his chest and found that his left shoulder and pectoral muscles had weakened from the Copper Plague.
• Evan heard hotel guests discussing the prominent families targeted by Alcott, then learned from Garp that the party’s events were canceled and they would leave for Bolton City at ten.
• Evan went to the Armitage Museum before departing, and Armitage handed him his payment.

Evan received his reward from Armitage and learned that his ancestor Kaisha Mason was a fifth-stage Witch who wanted to consume her descendants to suppress her madness. Armitage proposed that Evan make his blood chaotic through alchemy and assigned him to investigate a faction producing an infectious drug in Bolton City.

• Armitage paid Evan $2,030 for clearing out the Phoenix Brotherhood and explained that Beyonder society limited active recruitment while allowing newcomers to join.
• Evan learned that Armitage had once helped banish an Outer God, the same being connected to Evan’s immortal ancestor.
• Armitage revealed that Kaisha Mason had reached the fifth stage and that her Homecoming invitation was a ruse to lure descendants she could consume.
• Armitage advised Evan to make his blood impure with multiple Beyonder Characteristics so Kaisha would lose interest in him, and offered to teach him alchemy through a university laboratory assistant position.
• Armitage assigned Evan to investigate a Bolton City faction secretly producing an infectious drug that turned people into mindless walking corpses.

Evan learned a ritual for appraising Magic Artifacts from Armitage, then exploited the cursed seals in the Hurst carriage to advance his Copper Plague to its Second Stage. The Panel warned that he would need to consume large quantities of microbes to keep the characteristic balanced and activate its plague effect.

• Evan accepted Armitage’s letter of recommendation for Otto Freim and received secret addresses and passwords for Magic Potion suppliers.
• Armitage demonstrated the Basic Appraisal Technique, revealing that his pocket watch kept perfect time but would explode unless paid two U.S. Dollars every Monday.
• Evan memorized the appraisal ritual and returned to the hotel before the Sage University party departed for the station.
• Evan secretly activated Demon-Hunting Form in each carriage compartment, absorbing Benevolent Copperization curses and increasing the Copper Plague’s progress.
• Evan’s Copper Plague reached 55.371% and gained its Second-Stage ability to concentrate microbes and infect targets by biting or scratching.
• The Panel warned Evan that Copperization had become too dominant and that he needed to devour large quantities of bacteria, viruses, and fungi to activate the Plague component.

After returning to Bolton City, Evan caught a thief on the Streetcar and discovered that the man carried a rare Beyonder organism called Dark Mother Fungus. The discovery led Evan to demand the name and address of the doctor who had infected the thief, leaving him eager to find the doctor.

• Evan returned to Bolton City with his pay and reward from Garp, then boarded a Streetcar home.
• Evan caught a thief trying to cut open his pocket and broke one of the thief’s fingers.
• Evan dragged the thief into an alley, where the thief admitted he had gonorrhea, leprosy, and blood poisoning but claimed they could not spread.
• Evan tasted the thief’s blood, and the Panel detected several pathogens, including Dark Mother Fungus, which greatly increased Copper Plague’s progress.
• Evan demanded the doctor’s name and address, offered to work with him, and gave the thief a dime taken from the thief’s own money.

Evan returned to Gooding Street, tore off and examined the Copper Patina on his chest, and advanced his Copper Plague while recovering. At the docks, he learned where Carey lived and discovered that Parker had suffered a festering wound after visiting him, leaving Evan worried that Parker might die.

• Evan forced a frightened thief to reveal that Mrs. Kemi now ran Niyo Clinic, then returned home and checked that no one had entered his apartment.
• Evan ripped the Copper Patina from his chest, watched his wound begin to heal, and found the removed tissue too hard to bite through, so he hid it beneath his bed.
• Evan fed on fourteen rats, advanced the Copper Plague to its Second Stage, and increased the number of body areas he could Copperize from two to six.
• Evan went to the Dock District and asked Parker where Carey lived; Parker gave him Carey's address and warned that Carey had been acting strangely.
• Parker revealed that Carey had beaten him during a visit, and Evan smelled a corpse-like odor from Parker's infected wound but could not yet cure him.

Evan went to Carey's home and found him mutated and barely self-aware, while a seductive Monster attacked Evan with a charm and tentacles. Evan resisted enough to kill her with his immense strength, leaving Carey broken and helpless.

• Evan found Carey’s home and saw Carey drive a young man away while displaying severe physical mutations and loss of self-awareness.
• Evan entered the house, discovered wartlike growths beneath Carey’s clothes, and confronted the woman, who revealed herself as a Monster and threatened him.
• The woman charmed Evan and attacked with tentacles, but his hardened body resisted her strikes and he trapped her in his arms.
• Carey attacked Evan, broke both hands and wrists, and collapsed without injuring him.
• Evan crushed the woman’s ribs, sternum, and spine, then watched the charm’s effects fade.

Evan devoured N'yogtha's Servant and absorbed the viruses in Carey's body, completing Copper Plague and triggering its full transformation. After surviving a strange encounter with a figure sealed in amber, he awakened with new powers and an Apprentice status.

• Evan ate N'yogtha's Servant, advancing Copper Plague to its Third Stage.
• Evan found Carey losing control to Beastification and ended his life before absorbing the viruses in his body.
• Copper Plague reached 100% progress and activated its complete effect, granting Evan new weaknesses and the power to transform composite viruses into the Plague of Copper.
• Evan took Carey's corpse home, secured his room, and confirmed the transformation, which covered his body in copper and intricate patterns.
• Evan heard a terrifying roar, glimpsed a figure sealed in amber, and awoke with instinctive control over his new powers and an Apprentice status.

Evan tested the powers of his transformed Copper Plague body and began considering ways to improve Demon Hunter potions and bodies. He then went to Bolton First National Bank to open an account, where his offer to deposit two thousand dollars earned him immediate VIP service.

• Evan used Plague Control to create a concentrated viral mixture and watched it destroy a mouse before absorbing pathogens from its remains.
• Evan concluded that Copper Plague let him refine pathogens and inflict unusually severe symptoms, which conventional Beyonder healing might not remove.
• After the Lion Potion's side effects were reversed, Evan resolved to improve Magic Potions and imagined adding monster organs to Hill and Richard.
• Evan reviewed his status, left his apartment, and went to Bolton First National Bank to open an account.
• When Evan said he wanted to deposit two thousand U.S. dollars, the bank attendant offered him a VIP room and a dedicated account manager.

Evan opened a bank account with his $2,000, resisted the bank’s silver gift, and returned to his life on Gooding Street while Pierson investigated Carey’s death and Lily’s disappearance. After news of the Alcott family’s crimes reached Bolton City, Evan rejected his classmates’ attempts to reconcile and made his contempt unmistakable.

• Evan opened an account with Fleming, declined a fixed deposit, and suppressed the dizziness caused by the bank’s silver fountain pen.
• Pierson found Carey’s corpse and no trace of Lily, then concluded she had likely escaped and decided to report that N’yogtha’s Servant had run away.
• Evan woke with increased physique and spirit, read the news about the Alcott family, and ate breakfast before going to school.
• Evan saw police and detectives at the school and entered a classroom full of students who knew he had been involved in the events surrounding the Phoenix Brotherhood.
• Evan refused his classmates’ belated friendliness, called out their past treatment of him, and punctuated his insult with a fart.

After the Phoenix Brotherhood was expelled, Evan visited Doctor Furim at Sage Medical College to seek an assistant position and test one of his Magic Potions. Furim discovered that the potion’s Bestiality had not spread through Evan and warned him that an Ancestor wanted to devour him.

• Professor Mons began class after the students fell silent, and Evan impressed him with his answers throughout the morning lessons.
• Detectives questioned students connected to the Phoenix Brotherhood, and the university expelled Alcott and his associates at an assembly.
• Evan declined the medal, credited Hurst, accepted the hundred-dollar prize, and left campus before reporters could question him.
• Evan delivered Armitage’s recommendation to Doctor Furim, who welcomed him and offered him a Magic Potion.
• Evan drank the Focus Potion and reversed its side effects, then told Furim that potions usually affected him only mildly.
• Furim examined Evan and found that the potion’s Bestiality had been sealed away, then warned him that his Ancestor wanted to devour him.

Freem taught Evan the principles and brewing procedures of Magic Potions, then revealed that the Good Person’s body contained competing personalities hungry for more flesh. After returning home, Evan went to the Dock District and found Parker gravely ill but still clinging to his position as foreman.

• Freem explained that Magic Potions affect Spirituality, require focused intent, and consume Spirituality through their Side Effects.
• Freem taught Evan about potion ingredients, the role of Bestiality and Buffers, Demon Hunter resistance, and the practical steps of brewing.
• Freem warned Evan to be careful and invited him to return on the weekend for his first brew; after Evan left, Freem suppressed the greedy, violent heads emerging from his body.
• Evan returned to Gooding Street, ate at the Bee Restaurant, and used his Secondary Brain to kill rats in the stairwell.
• Evan went to the Bryce Transport Company and saw Parker struggling with a worsening wound, refusing to seek treatment and insisting that he was fine.

Evan cured Parker with his new Beyonder ability, then received a reward from the Hurst family before attempting a ritual that failed and stole a hundred dollars from him. The chapter left Evan furious over the lost money.

• Evan secretly used Copper Plague to draw the infections from Parker and restore his health.
• Parker confronted Dan after Manager Mike learned Dan had claimed Parker was dying, and Parker threatened to make Dan cooperate.
• Evan returned home and gained two permanent Spirit increases after the Focus Potion side effects reversed.
• Garp gave Evan a $550 reward from the young miss for handing the credit to Armitage.
• Evan performed a ritual to appraise a silver key, but it failed and swallowed a hundred-dollar banknote.

Evan bound a soul during the Silver Key’s appraisal ritual and learned the key’s powers and costs. After merging it with his Beyonder Characteristic, he gained the ability to form plague-laden bullets from his body, and later learned that reversing N'yogtha's Servant's side effects had improved his physique and resistances.

• After a failed attempt and the loss of a hundred dollars, Evan strengthened his ritual with a fourth offering and bound the soul with a spiritual chain and net.
• The soul identified the item as the One-Ninth Silver Key, explained its abilities and costs, and revealed that it could also extract a memory from a helpless intelligent being for an additional secret.
• Evan released the soul, cleaned up the ritual, and merged the key into himself after learning it belonged to an Outer God.
• The key enhanced Evan's Copper Plague, allowing him to shape copperized tissue into bullets containing propellant and primers.
• Evan studied chemistry and fell asleep, then the reversal of N'yogtha's Servant's side effects completed and increased his physique, solar affinity, and electrical resistance.
• Evan realized the reversal had counteracted the creature's traits and decided he would eat and take home more of it if he encountered one again.

Evan found Richard badly wounded by an infected claw attack and used his new Copper Plague ability to draw the infection from him. After Richard recovered, he warned Evan about Beyonder Characteristics and taught him the formulas for five Magic Potions, leaving Evan eager to brew one.

• Evan found Richard injured in his home and learned he had been ambushed by people using methods associated with the Healing Church.
• Richard revealed that the attackers had infected him with a Beyonder virus, and Evan used his completed Copper Plague ability to remove it.
• Richard explained that he had fought a Witch and warned Evan to choose his Beyonder Characteristics carefully because incompatible ones could prevent advancement.
• Richard said he and his companions had finished analyzing Pulis's five Magic Potion formulas and began teaching Evan their effects and ingredients.
• Evan memorized all five potion formulas and eagerly decided to try making one.

Evan bought permanent Solar Affinity potions and injected himself with the Daylight Potion, doubling its effect through injection. He began reversing its side effects, but the process would take 500 hours.

• Richard left after reassuring Evan that the Authorities were hunting the Witch and telling him to get a gun at the Bolton City Police Station.
• Evan went to Angel's Hand on Central Avenue and bought an Advanced Light Potion and an Intermediate Daylight Potion for $2,300.
• Evan bought a brass syringe and sterile gauze, then returned home and secured his apartment.
• Evan injected the full Daylight Potion, gaining a permanent 40% increase in Solar Affinity and triggering 500 hours of side-effect reversal.

Evan injected a Light Potion and a Bloodthirsty Species Characteristic Potion, gaining Solar Follower status while weighing the long reversal times and the irreversible weaknesses of completing his Basic Sanguine characteristics. After activating the completion effect, he encountered the Moon Goddess’s hair, which retreated when his lingering solar power melted it.

• Evan injected a full Light Potion, endured a vision of a living sun, and advanced to Solar Follower with 127% Solar Affinity and increased Spirit Vision.
• Evan injected a Bloodthirsty Species Characteristic Potion and learned that its doubled effects required 840 hours of reversal.
• Evan reviewed the permanent benefits and weaknesses of completing Basic Sanguine, chose to proceed, and activated the completion effect.
• Evan felt his heart and blood vessels transform and saw the moon draw close, with black strands of hair reaching down to drink his blood.
• The Moon Spirit Hair snapped and retreated after Evan’s solar power melted through it.

After the Moon Spirit’s hair transformed Evan’s Basic Sanguine Characteristic into the Cain Bloodthirsty Species, he permanently reduced his bloodthirst weakness and gained a dramatic boost in strength. An ambush seeking Richard forced Evan to fight his way out and flee across the rooftops with the young attacker and a Copper Man Guard.

• Evan absorbed the Moon Spirit Hair, evolved into the Cain Bloodthirsty Species, and reduced Advanced Bloodthirst to Basic Bloodthirst.
• Evan reviewed his strengthened attributes, then the Secondary Brain warned him of an incoming attack and helped him dodge it.
• Evan confronted a young man and three black-armored guards who demanded to know where Richard had gone.
• Evan pierced a Copper Man Guard and the young man with one strike, then carried them both through the window to escape the neighbors.
• Evan raced across the rooftops and broke the young man’s jaw with a slap when he threatened him.

Evan fought a young Golden Path factory owner who used Money Corrosion and five Copper Men to attack him. Evan resisted the corrosion and overwhelmed the guards, but they pinned him long enough for the young man to flee while counting the cost of their repairs.

• Aubly, Old Tom, and Prey joked that fewer rats had been appearing in the apartments as Evan carried the wounded young man into the Suburban Hills.
• The young man wondered how Evan had detected his ambush and recognized him as a supposed rookie Demon Hunter.
• The young man’s Money Corrosion turned Evan’s arm against him, but Evan severed his hand and used the Copper Plague to suppress the curse.
• The young man healed his chest with copper and ordered five Copper Men to attack at five times overtime pay.
• Evan regenerated his hand and smashed the Copper Men, but their rapid healing let them restrain him as the young man ran away.

Evan killed Connor Elton by infecting him with Plague and Toxic Blood, then disposed of the remains and the five Copper Men in the Atlantic Ocean. He returned to his damaged apartment with unanswered questions about the missing Beyonder Characteristic and how Connor had tracked him.

• Connor Elton fled toward the city but collapsed as Plague and other diseases overwhelmed him after his money ran out.
• Evan defeated the five Copper Men, followed Connor's Beyonder aura, and found only the black residue left by his body.
• Evan deduced that Connor had broken the copper shell around his infected fist, releasing Toxic Blood that killed him.
• Evan gathered and dumped the contaminated soil and the Copper Men's remains into the ocean to hide the evidence.
• Evan returned to Gooding Street, found his apartment window shattered, and wondered how Connor had tracked him and his senior apprentice-brother.