Recaps

Vanessa’s community canteen became a refuge for workers and a gathering place for the Fog Horn Fraternity, while a hungry being inside Eleanor attacked the group and was subdued. Elliot used Eleanor to investigate the Night Watch Bureau, and the threat called The Enemy in the Dark fled before Xiao began his transformation into a supernatural person.

• Dorothea concluded that the Linoleum Street family massacre had been staged, while Eleanor found that a being had left Fango’s corpse and vowed to hunt it.
• Elsa died by suicide, and Elliot asked Flora to investigate the corpses, and Flora found Fango’s spirituality drained and discovered that Elsa’s body retained its own will.
• Vanessa registered the Hearthfire District Third Community Canteen, and Elsa’s corpse began moving as her Spirit Body recovered.
• Jin brought the Fog Horn Fraternity to the canteen, where Elsa offered food and the cult promised help, healing, and supernatural powers.
• Elliot advanced Vanessa to the Second Rank, while Eleanor’s madness drove her to attack the canteen and ask Elsa to join her kin.
• Vanessa’s Spirituality Pressure stopped the monster inside Eleanor, and the group concealed Eleanor and their weapons from the patrolling Machine Priests.
• Elliot controlled Eleanor to enter the Night Watch Bureau, where he learned of a hidden Difference Engine Core, and meanwhile Feiniao’s group fled after hearing that the Wheelchair Gambling God V was among the canteen’s fighters.
• Elliot learned that The Enemy in the Dark had fled, gathered materials to continue Elsa’s resurrection, and watched Xiao enter Vanessa’s ritual to become a supernatural person.

Elliot resurrected Elsa and uncovered the Holy Scripture’s role in the Fog Horn Fraternity, while Lillian joined his cult and Eleanor returned to life. The Canteen’s people began investigating Simon and Maeve’s troubled relationship as Eleanor sought to learn about their secret society.

• Vanessa offered Xiao [Spirit Vision] and extra food, and his lost leg regrew, and Elliot then resurrected Elsa in the Dream World and Elsa awoke in the Mansion beside her corpse.
• Elsa and the core believers investigated the Holy Scripture, whose safeguards concealed a warning that someone had falsified the world, and Elliot took the message and suspected the Rose Cross was involved.
• Elliot disguised Elsa’s corpse as V and sent her to the Ratway, where she met Lillian and asked about the Fog Horn Fraternity.
• Lillian discovered the Difference Engine and encountered Elliot as a Great Being in a vision, and Elliot later questioned her about the Holy Scripture and learned it transmitted Secret History.
• Lillian joined Elliot’s Esoteric Cult, and Elsa’s corpse forced the living Holy Scripture to answer questions about itself and the Fog Horn Fraternity.
• Elliot found Eleanor stealing supernatural materials in Flora’s dream, restored her Spirit with her corpse, and Eleanor woke and made her way to the Canteen.
• Maeve wrote Simon a letter asking him to stop researching [it], but Simon rejected her and discarded the letter, and Vanessa and the others investigated and found him denying that Maeve was his sister.
• Elliot found no supernatural evidence in Simon’s laboratory, while the Canteen’s people planned to monitor Simon and Eleanor asked Dorothea to explain their secret society.

As the Night Watch Bureau tightened its grip on Saint Clair, Elliot brought the Canteen’s believers into his dream sanctuary while Vanessa investigated the Ratway, the Daydream bookshop, and the Empire’s buried history. The arc left Vanessa and her companions tracing Simon’s change to a moon-related altar and wondering whether the moon was connected to [it].

• Eleanor told Vanessa that the Night Watch Bureau’s [The Thinker] tracked harmful acts and supernatural activity, while she and Vanessa suspected history had been rewritten and began searching for surviving records.
• Elliot used Dream Memory Cards to create a world where Vanessa, Dorothea, Allen, Flora, and the others could gather beyond the Night Watch Bureau’s reach.
• Vanessa investigated the Theresia Festival and the Daydream bookshop, then entered the shop and completed a sacrifice that Elliot recognized as a fragment of the Overflowing Garden.
• When the bookshop’s books opened their eyes and an unseen being blocked the exit, Elliot controlled Vanessa through the Combat Platform and helped her escape.
• Vanessa recovered and told her companions about the bookshop, while Dorothea explained the public festival and Elliot revealed that Victoria had vouched for Vanessa’s library card.
• Vanessa asked Maeve to describe her countryside trip with Simon, and Maeve recalled that Simon had screamed, run home, and changed afterward.
• Vanessa connected Simon’s incident to a Cosmog Dynasty moon-related altar and suggested that the moon might be linked to [it].

Vanessa and her allies pursued Simon into the ruins, where the Blood Moon revealed Maeve’s transformation and forced the group to fight their way out. After Maeve returned to human form and the ruins vanished, Elliot advanced Vanessa and began preparing for the Theresia Festival while Maeve trained to gain power.

• Vanessa followed Simon into the ruins with Allen and Elsa, where the changing moon carvings and whispers revealed a supernatural threat.
• Simon explained that an entity from the moon controlled its hosts, and Maeve appeared outside the ruins with blood-red eyes as the Blood Moon rose.
• Vanessa, Allen, and Simon fled the monster-filled ruins, while Maeve and Simon helped drive the creatures back and collapse the entrance.
• Maeve told Simon she had merged with the monster and asked him to kill her, but Vanessa’s sacrifice healed her and restored her human form.
• The ruins disappeared, and Elliot used Elsa’s corpse card to discover that the interior had reset while Elsa remained aware of the change.
• Elliot gathered supernatural materials for Vanessa, learned from Flora that Worm was a taboo being tied to the end of the First Era, and advanced Vanessa to Third Rank with Veil and Hypnosis.
• Vanessa and Maeve entered a dream world, where Vanessa summoned Lords of Dreams for Maeve to eat and build toward her next rank.
• Vanessa researched the Theresia Festival and the Secret History with the Eldest Princess and Dorothea, while Elsa reunited with Dorothea and Vanessa planned to stay at the princess’s home.