Recaps

Old Neil discovered Wilt in his basement, where Wilt explained the Acting Method and offered help with the resurrection ritual and Neil’s growing corruption. Neil agreed to keep the Nighthawks uninformed for now, and Wilt proposed that he reveal the plan and his own involvement to the Evernight Goddess.

• Old Neil returned home, found evidence of an intruder, and entered the basement with his revolver drawn.
• Wilt used a Sealed Artifact to disguise himself, identified himself as Vincent, a Sequence 7 Cryptologist, and explained the Acting Method to Old Neil.
• Old Neil verified Wilt’s explanation with divination, and Wilt said the Hidden Sage had given him knowledge of Life Alchemy and sent him to help.
• Wilt warned Old Neil that the Hidden Sage had corrupted him and that the resurrection ritual had almost no chance of succeeding, then offered to improve it and treat his mental state.
• Old Neil refused to let the Nighthawks stop the ritual, and Wilt soothed him with the Sealed Artifact.
• Wilt suggested that Old Neil cooperate with him and tell the Evernight Goddess about Wilt, the ritual, and his decision.

Wilt urged Old Neil to confess his Life Alchemy research and grief to the Evernight Goddess, then left him to consider Wilt’s offer of partnership. In East Borough, Wilt stole money from a noble’s carriage and witnessed a dead worker’s Wraith pursue it, prompting him to put on his monocle and act as a Monster.

• Wilt explained that the Evernight Goddess had watched over Old Neil and was waiting for him to speak to her about his fiancée and Life Alchemy.
• Old Neil asked whether Mr. Vincent was a Blessed of the Goddess, but Wilt denied it and offered to return the next morning for his answer about partnering.
• Wilt used Dream Traversal to leave Old Neil alone in the basement and appeared in a secluded alley in East Borough.
• Wilt stole 30 pounds, 7 soli, and 4 pence from a noble’s carriage as it passed through the street.
• A young worker fell dead near Wilt, and her Wraith emerged and rushed after the carriage.
• Wilt put on his monocle and decided to act as a Monster.

Wilt freed Hailiye Walker’s spirit and enlisted her help to avenge her death, then met Earl Corodo, who tested Wilt’s account of his family and gold mine. Corodo promised to help Wilt keep the mine, leaving Wilt with an apparent ally as the dispute continued.

• Wilt chose to act as a Monster in Tingen City’s East Borough and restored the mind of the vengeful spirit he had confined.
• The spirit identified herself as Hailiye Walker, and Wilt recognized Sir Deville’s wallet as evidence that he had found the scene of Hailiye’s death.
• Wilt promised Hailiye revenge on Sir Deville, compensation for her parents, and reincarnation in exchange for her obedience and power; Hailiye agreed and entered his body.
• Madam D told Wilt that Earl Corodo wanted to see him, and Lanevus explained that Corodo had insisted on meeting despite the plan having only recently begun.
• Wilt told Earl Corodo a fabricated account of his family, military service, and discovery of the gold mine, asking him for help.
• Earl Corodo promised to help Wilt and said the gold mine would not be taken away.

Wilt let Earl Corodo believe he was grateful for his help against the Negan Family, while Corodo planned to profit from the gold mine. Corodo proposed rallying the New Party and took Wilt to prepare for a charity auction where he would meet its members.

• Earl Corodo described the Negan Family's political power and claimed he could not solve Wilt's problem alone.
• Corodo proposed using the New Party to attack the Conservative Party over the Negan Family's actions.
• Wilt offered the New Party ninety percent of the gold mine's profits in exchange for help.
• Corodo called for Wilt to be fitted with a suit and announced he would take him to a charity auction that night.

Wilt and Earl Corodo secured Mayor Dennis’s support in their dispute with the Negan Family, while Georgina Augustus arranged for the mayor and his bodyguard to assist them. Afterward, Corodo took Wilt to a charity auction to meet influential New Party and Conservative Party members.

• Earl Corodo explained the West Family’s influence and brought Wilt to meet Mayor Dennis, where Wilt sensed that the mayor’s bodyguard was a Sequence 5 Disciplinary Paladin and spotted Georgina Augustus, a demigod.
• The Disciplinary Paladin used an authoritative Beyonder ability to question Wilt about his identity and gold mine, then escorted him to Mayor Dennis.
• Mayor Dennis promised to support Wilt against the Negan Family, and Wilt recounted his prepared story about what had happened.
• The Disciplinary Paladin reported to Georgina, who arranged for MI9 teams to assist him and promised royal support for his advancement to Sequence 4 Imperative Mage.
• Earl Corodo told Wilt that Dennis would contact the New Party and took him to a charity auction, warning him to pay particular attention to Maynard.

At a charity auction, Wilt met Selena Wood and learned that her occult teacher Vincent had disappeared before Madam Sharon approached him. Wilt fought Sharon in a lounge, then stopped attacking and asked her to speak with him properly.

• Wilt used Spirit Vision to inspect Sir Deville and the other auction guests, seeing resentment around them and faint merit around Sir Deville.
• Selena Wood thanked Wilt for rescuing her from the Khoy River, and Wilt learned that she could no longer find her teacher Vincent.
• Madam Sharon asked Wilt to speak with her alone, and Wilt agreed after placating Selena.
• Wilt followed Sharon to a lounge and attacked her with a shortsword and Frenzy, while she retaliated with black flames and an ice-crystal spear.
• Wilt protected himself with golden light, struck Sharon with the spear, and then hypnotized her before asking to talk properly.

Wilt fought Sharon after she tested his strength, then stopped when she surrendered and asked to talk. He revealed that Trissy was the Primordial Demoness’s Divine Descent Vessel and blessed, while Sharon struggled to explain why she had summoned him.

• Sharon used invisibility to keep fighting, but Wilt spotted her with Spirit Vision and stole her spider silk ability.
• Wilt bound Sharon with spider silk, burned away the ice arrows she sent at him with a charm, and used Dream Infiltration to make her drowsy.
• Sharon escaped Wilt’s cocoon with Staff Substitution, then surrendered when he prepared to attack again.
• Sharon tried to appease Wilt with flirtation, but he asked why she had called him and ignored her advances.
• Wilt told Sharon that Trissy was the Primordial Demoness’s Divine Descent Vessel and blessed, shocking her.
• Sharon admitted she had come after seeing Wilt’s portrait at a charity event, leaving Wilt unimpressed.

Wilt recruited Sharon to help with his gold mine company and explained that working with him could protect her from Ince Zangwill. After using a Sealed Artifact to suppress her madness for a week, he returned to the hall, where Selena warned him that his association with Sharon could cause trouble.

• Wilt explained that Ince Zangwill had manipulated Sharon's fate and offered to save her if she helped stir conflict between the Conservative Party and the New Party.
• Sharon doubted Wilt's claims, but agreed to cooperate after he described her danger and threatened to leave her to her fate.
• Wilt told Sharon to recruit nobles to invest in his gold mine company, then used Placate and a thread of golden light to suppress her madness for a week.
• Wilt returned to the hall, where Selena warned him that nobles had fought over Sharon and advised him to keep his distance from her.
• The charity auction was about to begin, and Selena left to rejoin her father.

Wilt attended a charity auction with Earl Corodo, then separated from him to avoid bringing danger to his uncle. That night, Wilt infiltrated Sir Deville's dream and began tormenting him.

• At a charity auction, Wilt watched Sir Deville spend about fifty thousand pounds on relics and other lots.
• Earl Corodo explained the interests behind the Conservative Party and the New Party, and told Wilt that they needed to win over major capitalists.
• Wilt refused to stay with Earl Corodo, citing the assassins pursuing him and his encounter with someone from the Rose School of Thought.
• Wilt went to Sir Deville's home, used Psychological Invisibility to enter his bedroom, and sent Hailiye into Sir Deville's body.
• Wilt entered Sir Deville's dream and woke him by ordering him to get up and work.

Sir Deville dreamed that he lived as an exploited farmhand and factory worker bearing his own name, then woke and ignored a poisoned woman outside his carriage. After dying in old age, he found himself in a gloomy afterlife being taken to face a judge by an ox-headed and a horse-faced figure.

• Deville awoke in a crowded hut and learned from Vincent that they were farmhands on Earl Corodo's cotton estate.
• An overseer whipped Deville for eating too slowly and not knowing how to pick cotton, and Deville endured the harsh work alongside Vincent.
• Earl Corodo sold the farmhands to a philanthropist, and Deville spent years working in a lead factory while sick, refusing to leave because he had a family to support.
• Deville collapsed from lead poisoning and saw the factory owner was Sir Deville, who looked exactly like him; he then woke from the nightmare in his carriage and drew the curtain on a poisoned woman outside.
• Sir Deville later died in old age and awoke in a frightening afterlife, where two strange figures told him he was going to see the Judge.

Deville dreamed that he was judged after death and sentenced to experience the suffering of the workers harmed by his businesses. He awoke in the mortal world, where the same ghost and Vincent from his dream appeared before him.

• Two monsters brought Deville before a giant judge, who sentenced the wicked Corodo to hell and reincarnation as a beast.
• The judge ruled that Deville’s charity was mostly self-serving and sentenced him to a hundred years experiencing the workers’ suffering before reincarnation into an ordinary, well-off family.
• Deville endured repeated illnesses and deaths in the Hell of the Sinful Mirror until the monsters released him.
• Deville awoke in a carriage and saw a gravely ill young woman with lead poisoning, whose resentful spirit struck him with an invisible shriek.
• Deville woke again, drenched in sweat, and found Vincent and the ghost beside him; he screamed for help.

Dunn investigated Sir Deville’s dream and suspected an unknown Beyonder had tampered with it, while Klein wondered who had planted unfamiliar ideas in Deville’s mind. Wilt began studying mysticism with Old Neil, then found a Werewolf inside Rosen’s herbal medicine shop.

• Dunn pulled Sir Deville into a dream, found signs of tampering, and decided to seek Daly’s advice while the Nighthawks continued investigating strange incidents.
• Klein asked whether Emperor Roselle had said the phrases from Deville’s dream, then resolved to divine who was responsible once he returned to the Gray Fog Space.
• Wilt visited Old Neil, who agreed to partner with him and teach him mysticism in exchange for Life Alchemy knowledge and help with a resurrection array.
• Wilt studied ritual magic with Old Neil through the morning, then went to Rosen’s shop and found a Werewolf inside after sensing an evil, frenzied aura.

Wilt killed the out-of-control Werewolf with four powerful charms, then demanded payment from Darkwill and asked for potions to help a friend who was close to losing control. After Darkwill fled and the official Beyonders arrived, Klein used the golden star to try to discover Wilt Mirage’s true identity.

• Wilt used his Frenzy ring on the Werewolf, causing him to lose control, then blasted him with four charms until he died.
• Wilt demanded three hundred pounds from Darkwill for saving him, and Darkwill protested the price before agreeing to pay with potions.
• Darkwill said he had no potion that could help someone losing control, and Wilt took thirteen potions from him toward the debt.
• Wilt warned Darkwill that official Beyonders would arrive soon, so Darkwill gathered a few important things and fled to Backlund.
• Dunn, Leonard, and Klein arrived at the scene ten minutes later, and three hours afterward Klein used the golden star to try to see who Wilt Mirage really was.

Klein divined that Wilt was behind Sir Deville’s nightmare, the attack at the folk herbal shop, and the strange incidents in Tingen City. He pulled Wilt into the Gray Fog Space and told him that signs showed his fate had been manipulated.

• Klein divined that Beyonder factors were behind Sir Deville’s dream and saw Wilt enter the dream after a wraith and black gas emerged from him.
• Klein saw Wilt save Darkwill from a rampaging Werewolf with charms at the folk herbal shop in Rosen.
• Klein’s divination showed Wilt making a contract with an unknown existence and acting as a Monster to frighten people.
• Klein decided to question Wilt and pulled him into the Gray Fog Space.
• Wilt stopped resisting the pull, arrived in the ancient palace, and became frightened when Klein said his fate showed signs of manipulation.

Klein summoned Wilt into the Gray Fog Space, where the Gray Fog stripped away several influences attached to him. As Klein questioned him about recent events in Tingen City, Wilt revealed that he had been corrupted by an existence in the starry sky and forced to become a Beyonder of three Pathways.

• Klein struggled to pull Wilt into the Gray Fog Space before succeeding, then saw multiple strange manifestations surrounding Wilt’s spirit body.
• Klein told Wilt that someone had been manipulating his fate and that many influences on him had disappeared in the Gray Fog Space.
• Wilt thanked Klein and agreed to answer questions in exchange for Klein’s help.
• Klein asked where Wilt had learned about the Eighteen Levels of Hell, the judge, and Ox-Head and Horse-Face, and Wilt attributed the knowledge to the Holy Monk.
• Wilt said he had created the strange incidents in Tingen City to digest his Monster Potion.
• Wilt revealed that an existence in the starry sky had corrupted him, forcing him to become a Beyonder of three Pathways at once.

Wilt joined Klein’s Tarot Club as Mr. Lovers after telling Klein about his strange history and the Western Continent. Back in his inn room, Wilt found Madam D with a captured Trissy and learned that the New Party in Backlund had become involved in Lanevus’s plan, prompting him to suspect his fate was being manipulated.

• Wilt told Klein how Amon had parasitized him, how he had been corrupted and rescued, and how he came to follow three Pathways, leaving Klein eager to learn about the Western Continent.
• Klein invited Wilt to join the Tarot Club, and Wilt accepted and chose The Lovers as his codename.
• Klein ended the meeting because his Spirituality was running low, then returned to his room and considered writing to Mr. Azik about the Western Continent.
• Wilt woke in his inn room to find Madam D there and Trissy bound on the floor; Madam D said she had stopped Trissy from ambushing him.
• Madam D reported that Lanevus’s plan had gained support in Tingen City and that the New Party in Backlund had joined in, leading Wilt to suspect that his fate was being manipulated.

Wilt suspected that George III and Adam were using his plan to weaken the Conservative Party, but he decided to continue and let events unfold. After reading Sharon’s letter, he learned that the Demoness Sect planned to cooperate with him, and Trissy denied trying to attack him.

• Wilt concluded that the Loen Royal Family, with Adam behind George III, might be manipulating his plan, but he chose to carry on.
• Wilt told Madam D to let Lanevus accept anyone who wanted to join and stop Trissy from being killed.
• Trissy explained that Sharon had sent her to assist Wilt and gave him Sharon’s letter.
• Wilt learned that Katarina and the Demoness Sect planned to support his operation, so he agreed to let Trissy join.
• Madam D left to find Lanevus, and Wilt confronted Trissy about trying to attack him.
• Trissy denied attacking Wilt and claimed she had only meant to check on him.

Wilt took Trissy to a factory where workers often died so he could collect grievances for his Monster Potion. After testing the accumulated spirits on Trissy, he planned to use them to frighten factory owners, beginning with Maynard.

• Wilt decided to keep Trissy with him because her familiarity with Tingen City's East Borough and Factory District could help him collect grievances.
• Wilt and Trissy entered Maynard's cargo packing plant, where Trissy explained how workers stacked the cargo and said she had once worked there.
• Wilt performed the Dance of Attraction and drew the factory's grievances and resentful spirits into himself.
• Wilt unleashed the collected spirits on Trissy, terrifying her, then returned them to his body and said he would target factory owners that night.
• Maynard woke to find his room filled with black grievance and screamed.

Wilt continued using resentment to frighten nobles as part of digesting his Monster Potion, then attended his first Tarot Club meeting as Mr. The Lovers. The meeting began with Audrey welcoming him and presenting another page of Emperor Roselle’s diary.

• Wilt frightened Member of Parliament Maynard unconscious with nightmares, then told Trissy that his actions helped digest his Potion.
• Wilt and Trissy visited more than a dozen major capitalists before Wilt ended the night’s work and arranged to resume the next evening.
• Wilt studied Beyonder matters with Old Neil, prepared for the Tarot Club meeting, and entered Sefirah Castle at three in the afternoon.
• Klein introduced Wilt as Mr. The Lovers, and Audrey greeted him while Alger concealed his displeasure at the new member.
• Audrey gave Klein another page of Emperor Roselle’s diary, then observed Wilt until he raised his head and smiled at her.

At the Tarot Club, Wilt teased Audrey by claiming his Swindler abilities had deceived her, then warned her not to rely too heavily on Beyonder powers. Audrey asked him about ordinary animals becoming Beyonder creatures after drinking a Potion and revealed that her friend’s pet had done exactly that; Wilt called it a jackpot.

• Klein read Roselle’s diary entry about an ancient secret organization and wondered whether it was connected to Wilt.
• Audrey apologized to Wilt for using her Beyonder Ability to observe him, and Wilt claimed he had made her observations false.
• Wilt explained his Marauder Pathway and described the Swindler’s abilities, leaving Audrey confused about which of his statements were true.
• Wilt reassured Audrey and asked whether she had encountered a difficulty, prompting her to ask about animals that became Beyonder creatures by drinking Potions.
• Audrey said her friend’s pet had drunk a Potion, and Wilt replied that her friend had hit the jackpot.

Wilt explained how difficult and costly it was to make an animal into a Beyonder creature, and described how one could be useful, prompting Audrey to admit that Susie was her pet. The Hanged Man, feeling overshadowed by Wilt’s rapport with Audrey, asked her to investigate whether Loen would go to war with Feysac.

• Wilt explained that Beast Tamers could help animals survive Potions, but that obtaining a Beyonder creature could cost thousands of pounds.
• Wilt described ways a Beyonder creature could assist its owner, including eavesdropping and carrying messages.
• Audrey admitted that Susie was the pet that had accidentally become a Beyonder creature, and Wilt praised her luck.
• Klein ended the conversation and opened the Tarot Club’s trading session.
• The Hanged Man asked Audrey to investigate whether Loen planned to retaliate against Feysac and start a war on the Balam East Coast.

At the Tarot Club, Wilt warned Audrey about the Psychology Alchemists and offered her the Telepathist formula in exchange for Beyonder materials. He also asked the Fool for help making charms and arranged to pay with Roselle’s diary or information about the Western Continent, then asked Alger how to sell stolen jewelry.

• Audrey asked Wilt where to find the Psychology Alchemists, and he advised her to digest her Potion and wait until she was stronger before approaching them.
• Wilt offered Audrey the Sequence 8 Telepathist formula and gave her and Alger lists of Beyonder materials he would buy.
• Wilt asked the Fool to help him make charms, and the Fool requested Emperor Roselle’s Diary or information about the Western Continent as payment.
• Alger wondered whether the Western Continent was the Forsaken Land of the Gods and resolved to build a good relationship with Wilt.
• Wilt asked Alger how to sell jewelry, then admitted he had stolen it the previous night.

Wilt made five charms using power Klein sent from the Gray Fog, then began a ritual asking the Eternal Blazing Sun for the Spirituality to inscribe more charms. Klein watched the second ritual, speechless.

• Wilt admitted he had stolen gemstones from wealthy homes, and Alger offered to sell them for a commission.
• Klein ended the Tarot Club meeting and taught Wilt his Honorific Name and the sacrificial and bestowal rituals.
• Wilt prayed to Klein for the power to make charms, and Klein sent Gray Fog through the ritual.
• Wilt used his Dream Stealer ability to combine Klein's response with the spiritual materials and made five charms.
• Wilt set up a second ritual and prayed to the Eternal Blazing Sun for Spirituality to inscribe charms, while Klein watched.

Wilt spent nearly four hours making charms through rituals to various Gods and evil Gods, then gave Klein a bag of stolen jewelry to pass to the Hanged Man. When Wilt returned to his hotel, Trissy accused him of stealing her new demigod-level Sealed Artifact, Cheek's Ring.

• Wilt failed to make charms by praying to the Eternal Blazing Sun, then succeeded with a ritual to the True Creator.
• Wilt performed thirty-two charm-making rituals, succeeded five times, and identified the ten charms he had made.
• Wilt sacrificed a bag of jewelry to Klein and asked the Hanged Man to dispose of it.
• Klein watched the valuable jewelry and considered stealing some for himself.
• Trissy confronted Wilt about her missing ring, and Wilt returned Cheek's Ring while claiming his Sealed Artifact had caused him to steal it.
• Trissy told Wilt that the Demoness Sect had given her Cheek's Ring, a demigod-level Sealed Artifact with the abilities of a Demoness of Despair.

Wilt and Trissy entered a remote factory to gather resentment, where they encountered two Rose School of Thought members and fought for their lives. Wilt escaped, but Trissy emerged from a mirror badly wounded and unconscious.

• Wilt and Trissy went to a neglected factory after increased police patrols made other sites harder to reach.
• Trissy blasted open the factory gates, and Wilt discovered mutilated workers and two Rose School of Thought members inside.
• Wilt identified the attackers as a Sequence 6 Zombie and a Sequence 5 Wraith, then used Mind Breath against the Wraith.
• The Wraith dodged Wilt's attack, struck him with a Wraith Shriek, and possessed him, but Wilt stole the possession ability with his monocle and escaped by Dream Traversal.
• The Wraith turned toward Trissy after Wilt fled, and Trissy later emerged from a mirror covered in blood before fainting.