Recaps

Ed settled the aftermath of the Valhalla attack while the players investigated the Stained Ones and uncovered the origins of their test subjects. The investigation led through Fir City Cathedral’s dungeon to Howard, and Ed prepared Fir City to become the Second Holy See’s first line of defense.

• Ed sent Duma and Enzo to Valhalla, where Duma joined the Soul Returners as Nige Ganhuo and began telling them his life story.
• Vanilla Ice Cream Scoop posted a bounty for Marba, while players formed the Adrian Imperial Guard to defend Valhalla and its surroundings.
• Ed restored the Treant Hunters who could safely return to human form and helped the half-treants extend their lives by accepting permanent plant traits.
• Clear Soup Master, Great Wei Boxing Champion, and Zhong Lele investigated altered records and discovered clues that missing children had been transported out of Fir City.
• Ed gave Clear Soup Master a Citrus Aggregate, and six players entered the cathedral dungeon to reach Howard, collecting the two halves of a miniature World Tree icon along the way.
• The players opened the corridor between the towers, where Howard and Gorn resumed their feud, and the players used the Citrus Aggregate to form a Treant Aggregate and defeat Howard.
• The Treant Aggregate forced Howard to confess that Antiya Lisi had ordered experiments using subjects with bestial traits, and Ed expanded the players’ investigation to the Starlight Empire, the Bone Alliance, and the Holy City.
• Ed prepared harder dungeon bosses and told Duma that Fir City would become the first line of defense, with the Holy Crusaders withdrawing to Blue Gum Town and local recruits and Soul Returners helping defend it.

Ed and Gray expanded the sale of mechanical arms as a blue dragon’s death sent psionic energy surging across both worlds. As the real-world team made contact with Ed and the coming threats gathered, Ed opened a new campaign for players and Seraphina inspected Gray’s custom wares.

• Ed returned to Valhalla, met Gray and Nora, and learned Gray had passed the preliminary selection for Grand Foundry Master.
• Gray and Nora opened a cyberware shop aboard the Antasia, and players bought all the mechanical arms within two hours.
• Players began experimenting with their new arms, while [Evergreen Tree], [Dawn Ah], and [Backstabbing Expert] were called to help investigate infected sheep in the real world.
• The researchers traced the sheep infection, and Ed sensed a vast psionic disturbance as a blue-green aurora appeared across the sky.
• Xilǐ'er and the Eternal Domain warriors fought the Blue Dragon, and a knight sacrificed his life to kill it as the expedition suffered heavy losses.
• Seraphina explained the dragon’s extinction and its released psionic energy, while Ed connected the aurora to the worlds’ growing link.
• The real-world team contacted Ed through the World Tree webpage and sent footage of an infected sheep, which he identified as Blood Poison from a Blood Corpse.
• Sailesi maneuvered against political and military threats, while Ed launched a player campaign offering eastern and southern fronts.
• Seraphina visited Gray and Nora’s mobile fortress stall and questioned Gray’s claim that a custom mechanical arm contained Amber Dragon scales.

Seraphina investigated her weakening poison and hired A Huan to train the Dragonborn, while players turned Bennett’s Blood Corpse lure into a plan to capture a vampire count. Soaring Clouds’s studio subdued Count Luoli and brought him to a cabin outside Valhalla, where Do Some Farm Work said his preparations were ready.

• Seraphina proved Lion Hidden in the Eyes’s Green Dragon scale was genuine, then discovered her poisonous touch was weakening and asked Ed to help understand her changing powers.
• Seraphina hired A Huan to train a hundred Dragonborn and paid Lion Hidden in the Eyes to organize their participation and create slogans.
• A Huan and Lion Hidden in the Eyes rallied players to produce portraits, stories, badges, and other tributes to Seraphina, while Soaring Clouds rented Bennett to lure Blood Corpses.
• Soaring Clouds’s studio built a plant-lined enclosure and captured batches of Blood Corpses, then tracked the reviving vampire count to a sealed crypt.
• Bennett directed Blood Corpses to dig through the rock wall, and he negotiated with Count Luoli to help break the seals in exchange for Blood Corpses.
• After Luoli revived, Soaring Clouds’s players attacked him with arrows, bound and gagged him, and carried him out on a cross while Bennett kept the Blood Corpses under control.
• The group brought Luoli to a cabin outside Valhalla, where Soaring Clouds kept Bennett nearby and Do Some Farm Work announced that everything was ready.

Ed launched the second phase of Great Adventurer, sending players to investigate Klaf City and support Duma’s campaign. After surviving a chaotic journey and locating the buried city, the players entered its underground streets and began exploring.

• The players interrogated Luoli, who recounted the vampires’ rise, the Corpse Tide, and how two Short-Eared Elves destroyed Klaf City before sealing him and Bennett.
• [Soaring Clouds] gave Ed an account of Luoli’s testimony and received Vine Dog Seeds, which the players planted and tested.
• Ed assigned Gungnir to patrol the road to Klaf City and launched quests to investigate it and help Duma and Duolin retake Fitz Province.
• Players traveling toward Klaf City became trapped in a Weightlessness Domain, and [Soaring Clouds 3773] used his Vine Dog Bruce and a Strangler Fig to rescue himself and the Sandwich Squad.
• The players reached Klaf City’s reported location but found open wilderness, then deduced that Blood Corpses were digging toward their progenitor beneath the ground.
• The Grand Duke gathered the Blood Corpses and directed them to dig, but a collapse swallowed many of them and exposed a huge pit.
• The players built a reinforced vine net, descended into the pit, and discovered Klaf City’s buried stone streets beneath the plain.
• The players entered the underground city, collected proof from the wounded Blood Corpses, and split up to explore its ruined houses while watching for falling stalactites.