Recaps

Chris consolidated his rule through a royal wedding, religious reorganization, and festival celebrations while Bagnia prepared to confront the Snake-Men. The Holy Crusade Army reached the edge of the corrupted swamp, where its commanders weighed their options and three Minisians offered to guide the players to the enemy.

• Chris opened the Anvil Railway Station as Mole secretly recorded Bagnia’s cargo and troop numbers, while Lawrence returned to Tavitsky and received a promotion and medal for his service at Suvano.
• Chris negotiated railway technology sales with Bohemia and Retalia, refused Princess Phyllis’s request to buy locomotives, and denied the churches’ request to form a Holy Crusade Army against the Snake-Men.
• Chris learned that Fisher had met with Byron and Lydia, appointed Diu Ni Leimu to lead the Mechanicus Cult’s crusade, and removed Byron as High Priest while making Crawford his successor.
• During the Harvest Festival and royal wedding, Chris and Elena rode before cheering crowds as guards and workers thwarted attacks and sabotage, while Elena recognized Chris’s detachment and enjoyed her new influence.
• After the wedding, Chris learned that the Snake-Men had captured Suvano and ordered Bagnia’s forces to prepare for war, while Doran Ayr embraced the new reforms and pursued a government post.
• Diu Ni Leimu led the Holy Crusade Army toward Suvano, assigned Lydia to supply work, and saw soldiers share rations with refugees fleeing the Snake-Men.
• Barbarossa surveyed the flooded ruins and warned Diu Ni Leimu that the swamp held organized Snake-Men, lethal poison, and powerful monsters, so Diu Ni Leimu agreed to try Little Knife’s plan to lure them out.
• A Minician woman led an old man and a wounded man toward the crusade camp, where three camouflaged players stopped them as she offered to guide them to the Snake-Men.

The Holy Crusade Army broke through the Snake-Men’s defenses while Minisians joined the fight and Bagnia cultivated allies amid a growing conspiracy against King Charles. Home Alone’s mission to wound Charles ended with the king shot dead, plunging the palace into chaos.

• Ivyra offered Diu Ni Leimu a route through underground passages, but Polka refused to lead a swamp expedition, and he later saved Diu Ni Leimu from a Snake-Man assassin with his musket.
• Diu Ni Leimu’s army repelled a Snake-Man assault, then drained the poisoned swamp and fought off repeated attacks with flamethrowers and other defenses.
• The Snake-Men moved north toward Grayrock Pass and captured it and Naxi Fortress, while Ivyra recruited Minisians to fight alongside the Holy Crusade Army.
• Black-and-White Bear discovered that the Snake-Men were weakening, and Athos led Railway Troops into the swamp as more Minisians joined the army.
• Knife-in-the-Butt’s players and Colonel Vigo’s Self-Rescue Army retook Naxi Fortress, after which Vigo asked for his forces to join Bagnia.
• Baron Neharry and Bagnia’s Intelligence Bureau conspired to exploit a plot against Charles, while Home Alone’s team was ordered to wound the king without killing him.
• Home Alone and five players entered the palace disguised as guards, but Home Alone shot Charles in the head and killed him as the Royal Guards attacked.

King Charles’s staged death and the nobles’ rebellion plunged Treasure Island into a purge before Young Charles surrendered Minisia to Bagnia. Chris then consolidated Bagnia’s control, defeated the Snake-Men, and reshaped the government while building influence within the palace.

• Neharry fled Treasure Island as the nobles rebelled, while Dorok’s players attacked the nobles’ forces and helped turn the city into a battlefield.
• Gray Shadow arranged player assassinations of several noble leaders, and the resulting suspicion and infighting shattered the nobles’ alliance.
• Gray Shadow killed Young Charles under King Charles’s orders, then helped incite a Royal Guard mutiny that put Charles back in control.
• Charles’s forces purged Treasure Island, but Charles died from poison and Gray Shadow killed himself as Young Charles returned to the palace.
• Young Charles surrendered to Diu Ni Leimu and asked Bagnia to protect Minisia, while Bagnia’s players defeated looters and aided the city’s civilians.
• Chris made Young Charles Duke of Treasure Island and oversaw Minisia’s submission, while Bagnia’s fleet also took control of the Minicia Fleet.
• Chris’s forces drained the Snake-Men’s lake, flooded their lair with acid and fuel, and burned the creatures inside.
• Chris appointed Julie to build a palace informant network, reorganized the State Council, and planned to manage the Sea God Church through legal recognition and rival churches.

Chris sent Bagnian mercenaries to Casarina Island, where their arrival led to clashes with the Makon Alliance and a brutal fight against the Snake-Men. After Casarina fell, the survivors defended their camp and captured a Snake-Man divine son whose revelations complicated their understanding of the conflict.

• Chris negotiated an expensive weapons and mercenary deal with Alvarez, then dispatched unruly new players to Casarina Island.
• The new mercenaries clashed with Makon soldiers at the docks, and Governor Almeida’s forces struggled to control the escalating conflict.
• A Sea Python’s magic turned Snake-Man corpses into venomous flesh snakes, but the players used Dragon’s Breath flamethrowers to drive back the assault.
• After suffering heavy casualties, Not Playing If I'm Not Having Fun rejected Almeida’s requests and organized the mercenaries to secure supplies and defend their camp.
• The Snake-Men attacked Casarina while the mercenaries held their camp, and routed Makon soldiers reported that the town had fallen.
• Dai Xi Hu and Archaeologist returned from the Snake-Men’s nest with a captive who said it was born inside the Shelter and that the Snake-Men sought refuge from a calamity linked to magic.
• Snake-Men attacked the camp from both sides, and Not Playing If I'm Not Having Fun directed the defenders as cannon crews and flamethrower teams fought them off.
• Five Snake-Man Assassins broke into the captive’s tent, but Dai Xi Hu and Archaeologist fought them until the players killed the last attacker and prepared to move the captive.