Recaps

Lumian investigated strange events in Cordu while exploring deadly ruins in his recurring dream and seeking supernatural powers. As he and Aurora prepared to leave the village, he obtained a Hunter Beyonder Characteristic and asked the mysterious lady about Cordu’s abnormalities.

• Lumian befriended Ryan, Valentine, and Lya, then tricked them into discovering Guillaume Béné with a naked woman in the church.
• Lumian received the Seven of Wands from a mysterious outsider and learned that his recurring dream could grant supernatural powers but could also kill him.
• Lumian investigated the Warlock legend with Raymond and learned that the Warlock had lived where Lumian and Aurora’s house now stood.
• Lumian explored the dream ruins, killed a skinless monster, and encountered a three-faced monster and a rifle-bearing creature.
• Lumian learned that Ryan’s group had received an anonymous plea for help and discovered that its words had been cut from his family’s Little Blue Book.
• Lumian saw Naroka walking before dawn, learned that she had died, and persuaded Aurora to arrange a departure from Cordu under the pretext of attending a writers’ salon.
• Lumian trapped the rifle-bearing monster, subdued it through Meditation when it nearly strangled him, and killed it to obtain a dark crimson mass.
• The mysterious lady identified the mass as a Red Priest pathway Beyonder Characteristic, gave Lumian the Hunter potion formula, and warned him about the risks of consuming it.

Lumian became a Hunter and discovered Cordou Village was caught in a time loop, while his and Aurora’s attempts to escape revealed the village’s horrors and the Night Lady. After returning to the loop’s beginning, Lumian and Aurora investigated the villagers and began studying mysticism, ending with a strange creature emerging from Michel Garigu’s mouth.

• Lumian mixed and drank the Hunter potion, gained its abilities in reality, and saw the legendary owl watching him.
• Lumian learned about Beyonder characteristics, pathways, potion dangers, and the Acting Method, then joined the village’s Spring Blessing procession.
• Pierre Berri beheaded Ava during the church celebration, and Lumian attacked Guillaume Béné before waking at the start of the day with Ava alive.
• Lumian reentered the special dream, recovered his Gold Louis, and killed the blood-red monster and the Shotgun Monster.
• Lumian learned that he and the villagers were People of the Loop, then found clues that Pierre Berri’s sheep had once been human.
• Lumian and Aurora tried to leave Cordou, saw a claw-nailed baby emerge from Louis Lund, and fled undead in the Otherworld before the loop reset.
• Lumian and Aurora compared what they knew about the loop, investigated the village’s secret ritual, and Aurora began teaching him mysticism and Spirit Vision.
• Aurora used White Paper to observe Michel Garigu, and Lumian and Aurora watched a transparent lizard-like figure crawl from his mouth.