Recaps

Arthur navigated the Rat Council’s collapse, gained mystic tools, and became entangled in the case of the missing painter Jenkin. After uncovering a revenge plot tied to forged checks and a planned conflict between South Los and Swallow Castle, Arthur and Maltz faced an assault at the Whitebird villa, where Urto stabbed Arthur.

• Dottas reported the Medium’s dispute to the Rat Council, while Arthur rejected the messenger’s offer and made sure his refusal would spread as a rumor.
• After ten bodies were discovered beneath a burned Pine Street house, Arthur investigated the scene and stopped Dottas and his men from staging more deaths as suicides.
• Arthur killed Dottas and the other attackers, then received the Athos Box, the Blood Marquis’s Ring, and a copper coin from Losek in exchange for his friendship.
• Arthur helped the amnesiac painter Jenkin and accepted Malinda’s payment, but Malinda identified him as the current Black Cat and pressed him about the faction.
• Arthur and Maltz investigated forged checks and the deaths of Jenkin’s wife and Jondis, then exposed Aeron as the killer seeking revenge for his father.
• Arthur and Maltz uncovered evidence of a scheme to provoke war between Swallow Castle and South Los, and Arthur destroyed Delong’s body and suicide note while presenting an Evil Spirit as the explanation.
• Maltz armed his officers after realizing the Whitebird District patrol had been wiped out, while Arthur defended the villa against Urto’s attackers.
• Urto spread mist over the villa, entered the building, and stabbed Arthur in the chest.

Arthur uncovered the Rat King’s secrets, investigated a corpse hidden in a mannequin, and solved a locked-room murder at the Camille villa. He then stole counterfeit-check supplies from 10 Clara Street, where two intruders were killed, and began to suspect Chief James’s interest in the Hite Furniture Store.

• Arthur killed Urto with a poisoned bolt, then watched Aisi Bonaparte South Los arrive amid a storm and hoped her presence would end the struggle with the Old Lion.
• Arthur killed Isidore, the Rat King, and recovered a copper ring, a scroll, and a strip of cloth that led him to a Herke Key and the Rat King’s Crown.
• Malinda told Arthur that the Countess might make him a Knight if he won the South Los Swordsmanship Tournament, while Arthur considered using Wiggins as his proxy at the Secret Gathering.
• Arthur and Maltz investigated a shriveled corpse found inside a mannequin, and Arthur deduced that melting ice had allowed the culprit to move it without leaving tracks.
• Arthur exposed Dr. Chelmi as the killer of his son, and Lady Camille privately revealed her connection to Old Charlie and asked Arthur to call her Grandma.
• Arthur and Maltz planned to use supplies from 44 Whitebird Street against Room, while Arthur identified 10 Clara Street as a likely hiding place for counterfeit-check materials.
• Arthur entered 10 Clara Street and seized boxes of special paper, ink, and prepared checks, then killed an intruder after another intruder was slain by a figure in the house.
• Arthur returned to Maltz without revealing details about the second intruder, and Chief James’s arrival made Arthur suspect the Hite Furniture Store mattered greatly to him.

Arthur consolidated his influence in South Los while a trap involving the Blood Clan’s legacy drew Malinda, the Death Poetry Society, and rival pursuers toward 5 Moon Street. He used Auben and the Exquisite Puppet to fulfill the Blood Marquis’s contract, leaving Freeman transformed and the hidden conspirator exposed to his attention.

• Arthur refused James’s handshake, then joined Arthur, Maltz, and Dico at the death scene on 10 Clara Street, where they decided to continue framing James.
• Malinda gave Arthur the Raven Feast ring, and her investigation of 10 Clara Street ended with an explosion and a cracked bone that pointed to a nearby mastermind.
• Maltz’s Matchlock killed an attacker, while Arthur recruited Cook through a sealed contract and ordered Jennifer to leave South Los after revealing that Bagua was dead.
• Arthur built up Wiggins’s Rat Street organization, opened the Goodbye Worries General Store, and learned that James had disappeared.
• Jane poisoned and stabbed James, then left South Los with his corpse and prepared bodies, while Jennifer joined her on the way to the Inner Bay.
• Arthur rejected Malinda’s request to act as bait, defeated several impostors, and bluffed Shadow Snake Xiudik into retreating before plotting around the three items he recovered.
• Arthur used the Exquisite Puppet and Auben’s identity to draw the Blood Scion and rival pursuers to 5 Moon Street, where Auben confronted the Blood Scion and the Blood Brides.
• Arthur made the puppet wear [Devoted Blood], fulfilling the contract through its blood as Freeman became a Blood Fighter, then sensed the hidden Death Poetry Society member’s blood react.

Arthur investigated the Golden Canes and the Sunk Family massacre while pursuing alliances and building plans for a security company. As Harris’s secrets and the Blood Scion’s history came into focus, Arthur received a surprising letter from Ymir Manor.

• Arthur searched Moon Street after the Blood Scion’s attack, gathered loot, and found the Stone Pellet Art among the Athos Box’s contents.
• Arthur met Amuel, learned that Freeman’s exposure of a sleeper agent had led the Sixty-Six Advisors to investigate him, and warned her not to use Malinda’s face again.
• Arthur investigated Frank’s murder and uncovered Faulkner’s role in stealing the Golden Canes, then traced the case to Fornak and the massacre of the Sunk Family.
• Fornak told Arthur that the Blood Scion had killed the Sunk Family and spared him, Nack, and Hite, while William had disappeared during the massacre.
• Arthur returned the Golden Cane to Malinda under a contract and told her about the Blood Scion’s connection to the massacre, then asked for her help starting a security company.
• Arthur arranged for Dico to interrogate Hite, then warned Harris that Wiggins and the Worry-Relief Grocery were in danger and confronted him over the Golden Canes.
• Harris offered Arthur Herke’s Gliding Art and a Blood Bat Ring, and Arthur sent Fuginn to follow him after arranging for him to cooperate with Malinda.
• Arthur watched Harris move heavy trunks, collected the scrolls he left behind, and considered using a Wraith Spell to consult dead experts before refining his Auben persona and receiving a letter from Ymir Manor.