Episode Summaries

The campaign begins. Hyzel Cohen, Sabastion Grailouse, Jon Reed, and Emil are stuck together on the *Maypole's Crewel*, headed to Pandyssia. Their ship is boarded by the Crimson Pennant, who takes the party and the ship's crew captive and search the ship for something. Emil, who has been slipped a strange black railroad spike by Izun Kenji, refuses to tell the rest of the group.

After freeing themselves and drugging a Crimson Pennant pirate, the party confronts the captain, "Snatch" Ogden. Jon Reed tries to kill Ogden and instead hits the *Crewel's* Captain Poppen. After Jon Reed is shot in reprisal, Hyzel Cohen bluffs that the artifact the pirates are looking for isn’t on the ship, using her Hastings Device as evidence. This deters the pirates, who leave the *Maypole’s Crewel*.

Episode 2: A Captive Audience

In Episode 2, the party deals with Demas, the pirate Hyzel drugged in the previous episode. Interested in finding out more about the Void artifact, Hyzel proposes keeping him alive for questioning, while Emil and Jon Reed want him dead to stop him from telling the Crimson Pennant what they know. Sab puts on a circus for the crew on the upper deck. After trying several ill-informed strategies to get Hyzel away from Demas, Jon Reed leads Emil and Sab to confront her. Hyzel puts a knife to Jon Reed's throat and tells him to stop the increasingly chaotic behavior he's been exhibiting. They strike a tenuous truce after Reed reveals some of his past, and Hyzel recruits Sab to help keep watch over Demas.

Episode 3: Explosive Revelations

In Episode 3, Emil allows Hyzel to analyze Kenji's Void artifact, which nearly breaks the Hastings Device. The party discovers that Demas has escaped from captivity. Jon Reed and Hyzel Cohen find Demas in the cargo hold, which they find out is full of volatile whale oil. Demas threatens to blow up the ship if the party tries to take him captive again. The party deliberates on ways to deal with Demas, but ultimately decides not to interfere. Emil shows Hyzel the Void artifact, and she agrees to travel with the group if he eventually gives it to her. Hyzel reveals her role as the Lady Augur in the Cult of the Forgotten to Sab, but he remains tight-lipped about his own Void experience.

Over the next three days, the party all experience dream visions induced by Emil's Void artifact, all echoing the same phrase: "built to help." Sab and Jon weaken and start to experience pain, which they discover is because of their separation from the artifact. Sabastion goes to Hyzel for help and reveals that he used to be marked by the original Outsider and spent time in the Void. Emil and Hyzel cure Sab and Jon.

Episode 4: The Tragedy

The *Maypole's Crewel* arrives in Briamton, Pandyssia. Jon Reed and Emil hatch a plan to blow up the *Crewel* once they disembarked to prevent Demas from telling the Crimson Pennant anything about them. The Briamton docks are crowded with refugees from the Isles, but the gates are closed to those who don't have proof of Morleyan citizenship. Hyzel manages to get the party into Briamton by pulling on her connection with Maxim Kennerick, the head of Kennerick's Private Enforcers and an influential public figure in Briamton. The party meets Kennerick and Verne Pelkins, his right hand.

Kennerick offers the crew transportation to Sunline on the *Techix Caravan* and allows them to stay in his apartment there. He also reveals that he's been visited by the Reeve Leonnaire Glynne, shaking Hyzel. As the party heads back to the docks, Emil's explosive device goes off and the *Maypole's Crewel* explodes, killing or injuring not only the crew, but eight of the refugees on the dock. Verne opens the gates to Briamton, allowing the refugees inside. The party are taken into custody for the crime on the testimony of Captain Ivohnn. The case worsens when the authorities find damning evidence in Emil's notebooks incriminating him and Jon Reed. Hyzel and Sabastion are released.

Episode 5: The Trial

Hyzel and Sabastion fill Kennerick in about the Voidrite spike and await the trial at his estate. During the trial, Jon Reed stabs his attorney and is convicted. Emil realizes Jon Reed is actually Jared Valentine, a destruction cult leader and the man whom he came to Pandyssia to kill. The trial fades away into the Void as The Carpenter appears to Emil, offering him a chance to kill Reed. Emil sees a structural weakness in the courthouse and shoots it, sending debris crashing down on Reed. His mission complete, Emil is executed.

Kennerick returns the Voidrite spike to Hyzel and Sab. Wren asks after Izun Kenji and the Voidrite spike and explains the spike's function to the party, attaching herself to them until she can get the spike back. Anton Blackburn, a painter and past client of Hyzel's, meets the party after the trial and agrees to travel along with them as well. Kennerick assigns Enforcer Lee Berrett as Hyzel's new bodyguard, to both Hyzel's and Lee's displeasure. The party leaves Briamton. Wren reveals that she's a member of a larger organization called the Protectors.

Episode 6: Welcome to Sunline

Hyzel overhears a Protector code on the party's trip to Sunline. Sabastion asks Wren about the list of names he has been carrying around and Wren identifies Sherry Tew as a doctor who runs a Sunline clinic for the deprivileged. The party goes to Kennerick's apartment in the Heights, and on the way they meet Mikhail Zavillyen, a member of Hyzel's Cult and author of the popular radio serial Tears of the Constant Sea. The party goes down to Sunline's open-air markets searching for Zviva, a black market for Void-related items.

When the party reaches Zviva, there are signs of a struggle. The party questions Marshal Ault, who shows up to investigate the crime scene. He believes the shop-owner, Ebrin Duxson, has been kidnapped by Boss Darrigan, a minor crime lord who Duxson got behind on payments to. Wren arrives and reveals that the Protector Wren has been looking for has also been kidnapped by Darrigan. Ault recruits the party to sneak aboard Darrigan's ship, the *Mabe's Shoe*, and find proof of his crimes. Hyzel and Anton plan to pay a social visit to Darrigan while Berrett, Sab, and Wren sneak aboard and search. The latter team steals uniforms from some of Darrigan's attendants and sneak in.

Episode 7: The Empire's Finest

The teams split up to infiltrate the *Mabe's Shoe* as planned. Hyzel offers her consultation as the Lady Augur to Darrigan, who makes advances towards her and asks her how his business meeting that night would go. While Hyzel leaves to consult the Void about that question and searches for evidence, Anton paints a portrait of Darrigan. The infiltration team, made up of Sab, Berrett, and Wren, have a series of close encounters with Darrigan's crew before finding Ebron Duxson and LG restrained in the engine room. They also find a safe they believe may contain evidence.

As Darrigan's business meeting grows closer, the infiltration team gets caught and starts a firefight on the lower deck of the ship. When Darrigan goes to intervene, Hyzel puts a Voidphine needle to his throat and tells him to call off his men. The remaining men obey him and throw their weapons overboard. The party turns the ship around and brings it back to Sunline, causing Darrigan to miss his meeting with Ixen Field, who he was going to sell a Voidrite spike too. The party rescues LG and Duxson and turns Duxson and his crew in to Marshall Ault, who rewards them with Darrigan's ship and the loot onboard.

Episode 8: Of Threats and Deals

Wren calls Hyzel's bluff and tells her that Leo actually did become The Diplomat, one of several Outsiders that now exist, but lost his humanity in the process. Anton disappears for the night, very high, and comes back with a dog, whom he names Bill Sokolov. Anton tries to explain his reasons for being in Pandyssia to Hyzel, but makes little sense. He says he's looking for someone who trained him, but can't remember who that is. The party, including Bill, go to Mikhail's house. Hyzel reads Tears of the Constant Sea. Mikhail invites the party to join him at the Obsidiary.

Sab goes to visit Sherry Tew and breaks into her house, waiting for her to return. When she does, he threatens her and her clinic despite her attempts to apologize for what she and the Ghosts did to Sab. Sab asks Sherry where the other Ghosts are, but she doesn't know.

At the Obsidiary, the party gets in by showing off Emil's gun contraption, which the owner, Sandr, takes an interest in. Anton gets Berrett drunk on spiked coffee. Berrett drunkenly leaves the bar and mentions to Hyzel how he wanted to protect someone else and couldn't. Later, Hyzel meets Sandr, the club owner, who offers to make her a gun for Emil's contraption. The party meets back up with Sab outside of Kennerick's apartment.

Episode 9: Hangovers, Assassins, and Bonecharms

Hyzel translates the Protectors' code and reacts poorly to the contents of Wren's message, getting both drunk and high before going to Mikhail's house. In the morning, the rest of the party finds her there and discuss the Protectors' code and the Outsiders pantheon. Sab finds a man watching them and catches him after a rooftop chase. The party gets after Sab about his encounter with Sherry Tew and checks in on her to make sure he hasn't harmed her. Sab reveals his past association with Sherry and the Ghosts and explains his goal: getting back the Jade Music Box the Ghosts used to remove Sab's powers.

During the rest of the day, the party visits the library and Sandr's shop. The librarian will not allow Bill to come inside, so Anton sneaks her in. At Sandr's, Hyzel agrees to giving Sandr time to examine Emil's mechanism in exchange for him designing her a gun for it. The Hastings Device breaks after Hyzel tries to use it to analyze the Voidrite spike again, but Sab is able to fix it.

Episode 10: Lives on the Line

Wren finds a bug in Kennerick's apartment and snatches it, telling the party they need to leave immediately. As they travel, the group gets onto a cable car, where they are attacked by both a local gang and a more mysterious second group, agents for the Gristolian Organizers known as Undertablers. While the group receives help from a sniper (Wren's spy), LG still gets seriously hurt. Though he receives medical attention, he undergoes complications and nearly dies, with Hyzel and Berrett saving him in the nick of time. The party encounters Marshall Ault, who takes the remaining gang members into custody.

Once the group is secure again, they are joined by Grounder, the spy/sniper who Wren had sent to keep tabs on the party. Wren suggests the party should leave town while she deals with their opposition and reveals that the Protectors have information on another Voidrite spike in Jessamine. The party finds a pilot, young and overeager Ellison Tezroy, who takes the *Mabe's Shoe (rename pending)* for an excellent test flight.

Anton questions people for information about the new Outsiders and receives a variety of unhelpful but colorful answers. He talks with Sandr and finds out about "The Minstrel," who offered Sandr a mark which he refused. Berrett escorts Hyzel to Mikhail Zavillyen's house and Mikhail and Hyzel have a private talk in which Hyzel reveals to him that she had been lying to her cult and had no idea where Leonnaire Glynne was until Wren revealed his status as The Diplomat to her.

Episode 11: Visions at 5,000 feet

The party prepares to leave Sunline while Wren interrogates the gang members without them. Sab meets Ellison Tezroy onboard the *Mabe's Shoe (rename pending)*. In the morning, the party goes to Sandr's shop to pick up the Presage. Onboard the *Mabe's Shoe (rename pending)*, Anton enlists Hyzel in a Void ritual including the party's Voidrite spike, Voidphine, and Anton's painting abilities to reach Leonnaire Glynne. Sab decides to join them. The ritual gives Anton a vision of Leo with his eyes removed, distorted. All three characters hear a voice. Sabastion flashes back to his time with the Ghosts and tries to attack Hyzel, but Bill Sokolov bites him and Berrett restrains him. After this incident, the party disarms Sab for several episodes, and he gains a crutch to deal with the severe injury to his leg. LG walks in on the group after this encounter and frees Hyzel and Sab from their tie to the Spike. Grounder tosses the rest of Anton's Voidphine off the ship. The party locks Sabastion in a makeshift brig.

Episode 12: An Unlikely Prisoner (Part One and Part Two)

The party questions Sab, who has temporarily reverted to his prior self within the Ghosts. When he comes back to himself, he tells the party more about his time stuck in the Void and reveals that the voice of the Spike that he heard during the ritual caused his regression. The party allows him to continue with them under severe regulations. As Ellison lands the ship in Jessamine, Hyzel learns more about the Protectors from LG and he agrees to give her their information on the new Outsiders if she continues to help the Protectors.

The whole group meets with LG and Grounder to plan. LG knows of a collector, one Mattias Teppin, who is hosting a party in Jessamine to show off a decoy Voidrite spike the Protectors designed. LG heard of a thief who he believes has more spikes, so he plans on baiting the thief using this party and asks the party to aid him in either capturing the thief or tracking him down after the party. The party lands in Jessamine. Anton expresses a desire to repeat the Void ritual to Hyzel. The party and the Protectors are picked up by Cyclone, a younger member of the Protectors and an inventor, who takes them to Shademere, the Protectors' base outside of Jessamine.

Episode 13: Protector Preparation

The party drives back into Jessamine and buys clothing for Teppin's party the following evening. Hyzel pays a visit to Marie Atchkinson, who chews her out for a false reading Hyzel gave concerning the success of a patent. Sabastion gets his leg checked out by a local doctor. Anton starts to learn how to craft bone charms from a local sailor. Lee Berrett approaches the Enforcers on Teppin's staff to talk security for the party the following night. In the evening, Sab, Berrett, and Anton sneak to the base's basement to try and steal one of Cyclone's stun batons and investigate his other secret inventions, but Cyclone catches them in the act.

Episode 14: Ambush at the Exhibition

The morning of the party, LG tells Hyzel his real name. Berrett has a private conversation with Investigator Krapp and asks for the Enforcers' help in restraining the Protectors and taking Hyzel back to the *Mabe's Shoe (rename pending)*. He also gives Krapp the location of Shademere. Hyzel admits to LG that she thinks her Cult made a mistake by putting Leo in the Void, and LG amends their previous bargain, promising Hyzel information on pulling Leo out. That evening, everyone heads to the party.

Teppin's masquerade party is holding a game to see who can remain unidentified behind their masks. Sab talks with the host about the collection. Anton meets a lady who says his portrait style reminds her of Nikolai Graves, who Anton thinks may be the mentor he is looking for. Hyzel meets virtuoso pianist Lysander McRoven and his bodyguard, who is later revealed to be Captain "Snatch" Ogden. The party suddenly loses contact with the Protectors and the room with the decoy spike gets closed off with the party inside. All of the other guests are knocked unconscious with toxic gas.

Lysander and Snatch reveal themselves to be the Ebony Pervasion's operatives and Hyzel leaves the room to talk to them. Lysander reveals that the Enforcers are under the Pervasion's control and that the Protectors have been blatanlty lying to the party: the Protectors created the new Outsiders, of which there are eight. Lysander tries to recruit Hyzel, revealing he's marked by The Diplomat, and she keeps him talking long enough for the rest of the group to leave.

The rest of the party sneaks out through a secret passage in the exhibit room. They find Mattias Teppin's family, tied up and seemingly kept as Teppin's leverage by the Enforcers. They sneak out a window and free Teppin's family with the help of Graye Candler, one of the uncorrupted Enforcers. Anton decides to go back for Hyzel and knocks Snatch unconscious. Lysander comments that Anton must be "one of Atlee's" before the other Enforcers take Anton, Hyzel, and LG captive.

Episode 15: In the Pervasion's Clutches

Lee calls Maxim Kennerick to inform him about the Enforcers' betrayal and Hyzel's and Anton's capture. Lee and Sabastion are attacked by a woman who seems to want the Spikes, but she kills herself to avoid capture when Sab and Lee get the upper hand. Local authorities blame Sab and Lee for the death, and they quickly leave town in the Protectors' carriage. When the authorities catch up, they all suddenly die, and a mysterious figure called The Broker offers Sab a deal, but rescinds the offer when he sees Sab's original Outsider's mark. When Lee and Berrett arrive at Shademere, they find the place burning down and Grounder dead. They save Cyclone and go on the run back to the *Mabe's Shoe (rename pending)*.

Meanwhile, Hyzel wakes up devoid of her possessions in Lysander's Mount Ezna chalet, guarded by the Enforcers. Anton is chained up in the basement. Lysander reveals that Atlee "created" Anton and that most of Atlee's other creations are crazy. Lysander questions him, but Anton proves uncooperative. Snatch tortures him in retaliation for the stun baton incident. Meanwhile, Lysander tries to convince Hyzel to join the Ebony Pervasion and explains their cause. Hyzel bargains for Anton's freedom with information, and Lysander accepts.

Hyzel breaks the glass of water Lysander gives her and hides a shard of glass up her sleeve. When Lysander brings LG in, minus an eye, and threatens to torture him in front of Hyzel, Hyzel reveals that LG has the information Lysander needs and proceeds to threaten LG's life with the shard of glass. Pleased by the move, Lysander promises Hyzel both her and LG's lives and safety. Lysander returns to Anton, announces his release, and also tells him his liver is failing (the grievous injury Anton sustained in the previous session).

\*In a secret sub-session, Hyzel Cohen makes a deal with Lysander McRoven to be an inside agent within the Protectors and siphon information back for the Pervasion in exchange for their future help. Lysander agrees to set up a hostage exchange for the Protectors' Spikes to enforce Hyzel's cover, and the two plan the Escantite rig from Episode 16. Hyzel tells Lysander about the decoy spike.

Episode 16: The Swap (Part One and Part Two)

In Episode 16, Anton leaves Lysander's chalet and braves Mount Etna. He is nearly chased down by a pack of hostlers, but the Daredevil halts time and offers Anton her mark. Anton finds himself able to outrun the hostlers and starts heading for where he sees Lysander's airship going. Onboard the *Mabe's Shoe (rename pending)*, Lee and Sab debate what to do when Lysander and Hyzel contact them and tell them about the hostage exchange. Lee in particular lets his guilt get the best of him after slipping information to the corrupt Enforcers. Wren meets up with them, as does Maxim Kennerick and his airship.

When the Pervasion's ship, the *Mabe's Shoe (rename pending),* and Kennerick's ship convene at a small mill town bridge, Hyzel and Snatch cross the bridge and negotiate with the party. Anton arrives at the mill town and the Pervasion members threaten him when he gets close to the bridge, so he joins Ellison Tezroy aboard the *Mabe's Shoe (rename pending)*. In the end, Wren makes the decision to trade both real spikes for LG's and Hyzel's lives. As Snatch leaves with the real spikes, Lee Berrett rushes him and tries to kill him, but Snatch shoots him and throws him in the river.

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Episode 17: Keeping an Eye Out

Reeling from Berrett's death, Hyzel and Sab search the river all night for his body before they rejoin Kennerick onboard his airship. Kennerick agrees to send Enforcers to help search for the body. When Anton finds out about Lee's death, he lashes out at both Hyzel and Wren. Hyzel admits to Kennerick and the rest of the party that she's been lying about Leonnaire Glynne and tells them about the Protectors' involvement with the new Outsiders.

When the party checks on LG in the medical bay, the Protectors surround them and question them about Grounder's death, believing Anton or Hyzel must be a Pervasion spy. When both party members manage to convince them of their innocence, they back off. Wren reveals to Sabastion that Grounder wanted him to become a Protector, and Sabastion accepts. The party takes their airship downriver to Triptych to find another person on Sab’s list, and upon arriving, they meet a ginger-haired courier named Jacob Reed.

Episode 18: A Courier and a Vigilante

Jacob Reed talks with the party about their experience with the Ebony Pervasion before Anton collapses due to his liver problem. Reed asks to travel along with the party on the *Mabe's Shoe (rename pending)*, and the party allows him to join them on the condition that he tells them about Sabelle Escanti or Nikolai Graves, both of whom they are trying to track down. Sab tells Hyzel more about Sabelle Escanti and Argan Marchenko. While Hyzel leaves to find Sabelle, a masked vigilante attacks the ship and knocks the crew unconscious, kidnapping Sab. When Anton wakes up, he reports the incident to the local Enforcers, who agree to help Anton search.

Hyzel visits Arteni Venzetti, a friend of hers from the Cult, who invites her to a monocycle race in the city the following day. Hyzel also makes it to the Pandyssian Art Institute, where the curatorial assistant tells her he thinks Nikolai Graves is dead but that the curator might know more. The curator has gone into self-imposed exile to his cabin by the lake after the Institute’s masterpiece, Pattering’s Triptych, was mysteriously stolen.

Sab wakes up in the lair of this vigilante, who reveals himself to be the infamous Raven of Argonnica. He questions Sab about his travels and tells Sab about his mission to take revenge on those who have done wrong, like the Ebony Pervasion. After their conversation, the Raven leaves Sab to be found by the Enforcers, who brings him back to Anton. Sab tells the group he suspects that Jacob Reed and the Raven are the same person.

Episode 19: The Man with the Portable Desk

The party discusses how to deal with Jacob Reed. The Protectors and Sab take the Mabe’s Shoe overnight back to Shademere’s ruins to bury Grounder. In the morning, Jacob Reed meets the party at the docks with his belongings, including a large portable desk for “journalism practice.” Hyzel takes Reed to the tavern and tells him they know he’s the Raven; he confirms this and explains that he was a childhood friend of Jared Valentine’s and feels the need to protect the world from people like him. The party allows him on the airship.

While they’re gone, Sab goes to Anton for advice, saying he isn’t sure whether to trust Hyzel, and Anton advises keeping her at arm’s length until he knows if she’s trustworthy. Jacob Reed confesses to being the Raven and apologizes for the attack on the Mabe’s Shoe (rename pending). Anton and Reed decide to have a race across the rooftops of Triptych, but Reed jumps on the roof of a carriage and wins, ruffling Anton.

Episode 20: Off to the Races

The party splits. Anton, Sab, and Reed leave town to find Ex-Curator Merrick’s house by the lake. When they arrive there, they find his house is on an island and the water has been filled with bear traps, several of which Anton sets off. Eventually, the group convinces Merrick to send a boat over for them.

They tell Merrick about their interest in helping with the Triptych situation and he tells them more about the theft, which seems to have been done with Void magic. Anton hatches a plan to forge a new Triptych and convinces Merrick by showing him his landscape-painting skills. The party goes back to town to buy canvases and paint.

Meanwhile, Hyzel attends the Triptych monocycle races. Arteni is oddly absent, and her father, Armano Venzetti, blames Hyzel. Mikhail Zavillyen is also at the races. Hyzel has a brief conversation with Sabelle Escanti in which she pretends to have seen things about Sabelle from the Void, catching Sabelle’s attention when she mentions Argan Marchenko’s name. Sabelle invites Hyzel to come to her home later that day.

When the races begin, Hyzel recognizes one of the racers: Arteni. She nearly wins, but another racer, Pix, cheats and disables her monocycle. Armano drags Arteni home. Hyzel neglects to tell Mikhail about the events after Teppin’s party and leaves to visit Sabelle.

Episode 21: Primed and Deadly

In Episode 21, the party visits the Triptych Institute of Art and investigates the disappearance of Pattering's *Triptych*. Anton sees Chara Tolormic, whom he had first met at Mattias Teppin's party, and she tells him more about Nikolai Graves before inviting him to sit in on one of her art classes. Anton buys the canvases for the forgery triptych and transports them to the ship via a carriage Jacob Reed had employed to transport his belongings from the Raven of Argonica's base.

Hyzel meets with Sabelle Escanti, hoping to acquire the whereabouts of Argan Marchenko, but after revealing she had received her information from Timothy Goldwin, Escanti and Pix attack her, breaking her hand and multiple ribs. Sab fills Mikhail in on Lee Berrett's death and the events of Teppin's exhibition, and Mikhail proposes joining the party to protect Hyzel. Sab regrets sending Hyzel alone to talk to Sabelle and brings the party to find Sabelle's house with the help of Mikhail's friend Morgan, who notes that a journalistic team, Gennifer Casey and Wilkes, are already on-site. At Sabelle's house, Hyzel shoots Pix around his armor but doesn't manage to kill him, and he knocks her unconscious and takes her out back.

Episode 22: Investigative Journalism

The party searches Sabelle’s estate for any sign of Hyzel and sees signs of a struggle. Sabelle starts to bury Hyzel alive, and Hyzel reveals to Sabelle that Sabastion is alive in order to buy herself time. Gennifer Casey and Wilkes intervene and fight off Sabelle and Pix.

The party intercepts Casey, Wilkes, and Hyzel on their way back to Sabelle’s estate and assume they’re Hyzel’s aggressors, getting into a brief scuffle before Anton and Hyzel clear things up. When the party goes back for Sabelle’s and Pix’s bodies, they’re gone.

Back at Sabelle’s estate, Casey and Wilkes question Hyzel about her conversation with Sabelle, and Hyzel holds back the truth to protect Sab. Anton heads back to the airship to pick up the party. The rest of the party searches the house and finds out that the basement is full of escantite. A Crimson Pennant ship hovers outside of the estate and its captain threatens the party if they don’t come out, but Casey calls his bluff with a Void power. The captain sends in some Pennant members and Pix and a struggle ensues between them and the party. In a moment’s respite, Hyzel gets Casey to admit she’s marked by the Diplomat.

Episode 23: Boom or Bust

The Broker appears to Anton. The rest of the party shores up in Sabelle’s house and posts traps by the windows for when the next attackers break in. Another wave of Crimson Pennant attackers as well as Pix storm the house. While the party disables the other attackers, Pix proves difficult to kill and even when Reed does manage to mortally wound him, Pix sets off Sabelle’s basement full of escantite. Everyone else flees the house. Jacob Reed finds himself paused in time and accepts an offer to be Marked by the Dazzler. The building explodes and Reed blinks outside in the nick of time.

The party, wounded or unconscious, face up against the Pennant airship before it’s shot down out of the sky by another ship, the RMS Requite, which Casey had called for backup from. The Requite takes the party onboard and their doctor tends to the party’s injuries.

In the medical bay, Sab opens up to Hyzel about his issues trusting her and he and Mikhail remind Hyzel that she doesn’t have to go it alone. The Requite crew contacts Anton and Ellison and the ships meet. Hyzel privately entreats the Diplomat for his Mark and hears a laugh in response.

Episode 24: The Raven Transplant

The party questions Casey about her Mark and she deflects. Hyzel privately asks her to check up on the Protectors and the Pervasion, and the two exchange radio frequencies. After Casey and Wilkes leave, the party loots the wreckage of Sabelle’s house, finding a good deal of money and whale bone in her safe as well as Pix’s monocycle. They trade the monocycle to a local Charter Marshall for his silence about their looting, much to Jacob Reed’s chagrin.

While the group rests, Ellison flies the ship back to Sunline. Hyzel and Anton both encourage Sab to reconcile with Sherry Tew while he’s in town. Mikhail and Hyzel grab a drink while Anton goes to get his liver checked on. Anton and Reed get the clinic’s location from Sherry’s neighbor, opera singer Bertram. Sherry replaces Anton’s liver, and unbeknownst to Anton, Jacob Reed is the donor. When he finds out, Anton is ungrateful and Sherry knocks him back out so Reed can play a trick on him. Reed asks a tattoo artist who happens to be in the clinic to tattoo a raven onto Anton’s neck.

Episode 25: Alka Operetta (Part One and Part Two)

Hyzel meets Wren and the two head back to the ship. Anton breaks into Sherry Tew’s house for a picture of the Ghosts and steals her journal while he’s there. Reed hunts down a gang for a bounty. After pretending to help them with one of their operations, he double crosses them and beats up some of their members.

Back on the Mabe’s Shoe (rename pending), The Protectors promise Hyzel help retrieving Leo. They tell her that each spike is tied to a specific Outsider and the symbols on each spike are a part of the Void language, the Ahlka Deiva. They hatch a plan for the party to retrieve another spike, this one from Dr. Orris Atlee, who contracts with the Pervasion and has taken up residence in Soulspring Resort.

Anton gets visited by the Daredevil, who gives him a rune. When Reed goes to the opera, he finds out Bertram hasn’t showed up for his dress rehearsal. As he goes to Bertram’s home to investigate, the party hears a broadcast from the Frequency Killer, a serial killer who broadcasts his victims’ deaths on the radio. He has Bertram captive and is making him perform. Mikhail recognizes the voice and tells them where the killer is, so they meet Reed at Bertram’s house. The party saves Bertram and finds out that the Frequency Killer is none other than the Broker. While the party nearly kills him, he escapes through the Void.

Episode 26: The Ties That Blind

The party has a number of conversations before leaving Sunline. Wren takes Sab aside and asks for any updates he has. She tells Sab the Protectors are looking into finding him a mentor to start his formal training with them, which Sab initially objects to. He learns killing Argan should be enough for him to regain his powers. She also gives him a mission of his own for Soulspring: finding the three Protectors who were already sent to Soulspring two months prior.

Anton suggests to Sab that he should consider forgiving Sherry Tew and any of the other Ghosts who regret what they’ve done, and Sab yells at Anton about it. Reed asks Hyzel about the Cult of the Forgotten’s mission and why she can’t lead it instead of Leo. Hyzel checks in on Sab and Anton, asking the latter about how he’ll react to finding the truth about himself at Soulspring. She encourages him to focus on the good memories he knows to be true, like his time with the party.

Anton asks Wren more about the Broker and starts working on a plan to kill him in Soulspring. The rest of the party, aware that the Broker may be able to perceive through Anton’s senses, knocks him unconscious while they plan their strategy for Soulspring.

Episode 27: The Soulspring Plan

   The party plans for the Soulspring Trip, dividing into three teams. The first team, LG, Hyzel, and Anton, will go in first, publicly, and express interest in meeting with Dr. Atlee as a kind of bait. The second team, Jacob Reed, Sab, and Gray, will sneak in afterwards and guard the first team in case any combat goes down. The third team, Ellison and Mikhail, will wait on the ship as a support team. At the end of the session, Jacob Reed retroactively buys a rune while he was in Sunline and works on his monocycle designs.

Episode 28: Welcome to Soulspring, Pt. 1

In a private sub-session, Team 1 reaches Soulspring. The visitor's center is run by automata, one of which is dressed like a receptionist and one of which, standing by a chair on a track near a tunnel, is dressed like a nurse with a syringe. Hyzel finds out there was already a room on the fifteenth floor of the Grand Duke Hotel reserved for her there, so the group gets their room pass and converts some of their currency to the resort-specific specie. Anton approaches the nurse automaton and it asks if he would like some Voidphine; considering the tunnel seems to be the easiest way in, Anton says yes and sits down in the chair. The automaton stabs Anton and Hyzel and LG run to join him on the platform the chair is on as it starts to move down the tunnel. Anton starts hallucinating and goes feral. As they reach the end of the disorienting tunnel, the door swings open into the resort and dozens of people with Voidphine-black eyes swarm the track. Hyzel throws a grenade to eliminate as many of the Void-zombies, or squatters, as possible and she and LG run, forced to leave Anton behind.

As Hyzel and LG flee, a man with a large machine strapped to his back electrocutes all of the sqatters behind them and tells them to come with him. Joplin, one of the Protectors who had been sent to Soulspring, lets Hyzel and LG through a wall of light into a warehouse he's made into his base. He tells them the other Protectors were killed by a monstrous creation of Atlee's in the Grand Duke lobby and that the squatters originated when the resort guests all took a "Promotional Voidphine" compound the resort founders offered. He also tells them that Atlee's likely in his laboratory on the third level of the resort, accessible only by the ski lift. He mentions the other living residents of Soulspring Village, a Tyvian Operator who snipes squatters from a tower in the Museum of Arcane Persecution and a man Joplin calls "Change" since he runs around Soulspring with his pockets full of coins. Hyzel tells Joplin about Team 2 and he agrees to go retrieve them when they get into Soulspring.

Episode 29: Welcome to Soulspring, Pt. 2

Not knowing what happened to Team 1, Team 2 enters Soulspring Resort. In the lobby, they buy a room pass on the third floor of the Grand Duke Hotel. Sab damages one of the automata in the lobby by pouring alcohol onto it and then lighting it on fire. When the automaton retreats further into the building, Team 2 follows it and bypasses the wall of light blocking off the automaton maintenance rooms when it recedes for the automaton to pass. They find some audiographs by Kittner Tazalaney, the inventor of the automata. The maintenance rooms connect to the inside of the resort, so Team 2 gains access to Soulspring village without exposure to the Promotional Voidphine.

Once they're inside, Team 2 quickly meets Joplin, who leads them back to his base. After Jacob Reed frustrates Joplin, Joplin nearly leaves him behind before Sab convinces him they need all the help they can get. Team 2 reconvenes with LG and Hyzel, who tell them about Anton. The party decides to continue their mission to reach Atlee and start by trying to retrieve one of the group's room cards from the Grand Duke Hotel.

Episode 30: Fortunate Son

The party leaves Joplin's warehouse, splitting ways to fetch a room card from the Grand Duke Hotel and search the Museum of Arcane Persecution. As they sneak across the village, they're caught by a group of squatters and saved by Change, whose real name is Wayne. He reunites the group with Anton, who miraculously survived the Promotional Voidphine. Wayne reveals he wants to kill the Broker, and he joins forces with the party.

The team splits ways from Wayne's hideout. Grey, Anton, Wayne, Hyzel, and LG leave for the Muesum. Sab, Reed, and Joplin head to a building across from the Grand Duke Hotel, hoping to climb across using Reed's grappling hook. Reed attacks Joplin because he's trying to kill the squatters, and Joplin knocks Reed unconscious in retaliation. Joplin lets Sab up to the roof with a rope and Sab reasons that Reed might want to cure the squatters, which Joplin believes is impossible.

Episode 31: Silence of the Dead

Sab, Reed, and Joplin break into the Grand Duke Hotel and grab their room card from the third floor, but they attract the attention of a number of squatters and the creature in the lobby, which loudly screams and disorients the party. Sab escapes while Reed hides. Joplin gets swarmed by squatters, and Reed waits until they move off before dragging Joplin into the room he was hiding in. Unseen by the rest of the party, Reed stabs Joplin and lets him bleed out. He lies to Sab and says the squatters killed Joplin.

Meanwhile, the other team approaches the Museum of Arcane Persecution. When the Operator shoots the snow in front of them, Hyzel slowly approaches and yells up to the Operator to ask if they can come inside. The Operator doesn't respond, so they approach and enter the Museum. Inside, the team looks around. When Anton tries to steal from one of the showcases, an alarm goes off and the Operator turns it off. Anton tries to get the Operator to talk, but he remains nonverbal. Hyzel asks if he would like to coordinate with them to escape Soulspring, and the Operator accepts. The team explores and finds a number of runes, bone charms, and an Anton Sokolov painting in a hidden cache.

Reed expresses how much he hates the Protectors to Sab. Reed and Sab reconvene with the rest of the party. Reed overacts when he tells the party about Joplin's death and Hyzel and Sab start to suspect him. As they question him, it leads to a confrontation.

Episode 32: Deadly Compulsion

Jacob Reed admits to killing Joplin and explains he has a split personality that sometimes overtakes him and causes him to do chaotic or evil things. The party becomes hostile, but Reed manages to escape them with the use of his smoke bombs. A chase ensues, but is interrupted by a broadcast from Atlee. He plays Overseer music box music over the loudspeakers, then speaks a command in the Alka Deiva. All of the squatters, as well as Jacob Reed (Anton withstands the compulsion) begin to file towards the Grand Duke Hotel to pick up Joplin’s body and carry it to the morgue. Once there, the squatters turn on Reed and knock him unconscious.

Hyzel and LG try to find Sab and Anton in the blizzard. When they realize the squatters can be controlled by the Alka Deiva, they take a music box displayed in the Museum and successfully command the squatters to run away. They find the others and head for the morgue once Anton tells them what happened. In the morgue, the party briefly questions Reed before being attacked by two creatures with blades for arms. They are nearly overwhelmed, but are aided by an unlikely savior: Enforcer Lee Berrett.

Episode 33: Spire's Illusion

Lee explains what happened to him once the party reunites in the Museum of Arcane Persecution. He was saved by a man named Tullit, who nursed him back to health and put a bone charm in his chest to save him. On a tight schedule because of the one-day resort pass, the party crosses the village, fending off the squatters with the music box. They buy some helpful items from a vending automaton before taking the ski lift up to the second level.

On the second level, the party checks the next lift and finds that it is out of power. They enter a lodge next to the track in the hopes of turning it back on. There are people inside, seemingly going on as if nothing has happened. Hyzel find Sableaster Spire there and asks her about the lift. The rest of the party starts to realize the lodge’s untouched appearance is an illusion. Sabelaster stabs Hyzel and the party sees her true form: she has been turned into a mantis-like creature that can suck blood through her claws. After a hard fight that nearly kills multiple party members, the party manages to defeat her.

Episode 34: Natural Selection

The party treats their wounds and regroups after the fight with Sabelaster. Once they find the controls for the ski lift, they continue on to the third level. There, they follow a path to Atlee’s lab and meet him for the first time. Hyzel lies and says that she and the party have been sent by Lysander and are Pervasion agents.

Atlee takes an immediate interest in Anton, who he says he created Anton from the mind of Nikolai Graves’ Tyvian apprentice and the body of an unknown Morleyan after the former died of a Voidphine overdose. Atlee gave Anton a Voidphine heart and says he should be able to travel to and from the Void. Atlee says the rest of the “Voidwalkers,” his creations, are dead except for the Broker and Lord Erimany Talvon, leader of the Pervasion.

The Broker shows up and threatens Atlee, but Anton gets him to step down and Atlee agrees to answer both of their questions over tea. Anton subtly instructs Hyzel to poison the tea. Sab asks Atlee about his involvement in The University Cult and his search for the jade music box. Berrett tries to kill Atlee’s dormant creations, more of the knife-arm variety the party faced in the morgue, but Atlee stops him. The Broker drinks a poisoned cup of tea and uses his powers to stop time for everyone but Sab, Anton, and Wayne, who are also Marked. They follow the Broker into the Void and kill him.

Atlee agrees to give the party the spike and the information they need if the party is willing to unjam Soulspring’s radio system. He tells them Kitner Tazzelaney jammed it and is holed up in his automaton museum in Soulspring Village. The party agrees to help and takes a passage from Atlee’s lab down into the morgue.

Episode 35: Into the Breach

After arriving back in Soulspring Village, the party strategizes on how to get into Tasselaini’s automata museum. They end up splitting up into two teams. The first team, comprising most of the party, plants a variety of explosives around the outside walls of the museum and detonates them, commanding the squatters to rush inside and hopefully distract the automata defenses before following them in. Meanwhile, Sab and Berrett sneak inside the back. Both teams encounter several automata, but Sab and Berrett manage to blow up the generator powering the charged floor, causing the automata to lose power and turn off.

Episode 36: The Final Founder

The party explores Tazzelaney’s labs. They find a number of audiographs of his. These audiographs talk about how Tazzelaney built a highly developed automaton, E, as a companion and about how he and E opposed Atlee as Atlee decided to start giving out the Promotional Voidphine. Tazzelaney himself had a Voidphine addiction that slowly killed him, but before he died, he tried to upload himself into E’s body and failed.

After exploring the rest of the labs, the party finds E and Sab turns him on. E informs the party about how to turn off the radio dampener but suggests they blow up Soulspring. The party debates this idea and eventually decides against it. Berrett wants to kill Atlee, but Hyzel refuses and privately tells Berrett about working as a double agent between the Pervasion and Protectors to try and garner some trust. LG mentions he needs to tell a Protector friend, Scowl, about Atlee’s presence. The group decides to use the music box and Alka Deiva to disable Atlee and take him captive, leaving the resort in tact.

Back up with Atlee, the party reports that the signal is operational again. After getting some information from Atlee about the Ancient Music, Hyzel gets LG to turn on the music box and double crosses Atlee. Atlee calls his sword-armed creations to defend him.

Episode 37: Operator, Operator

The party quickly shuts down Atlee and his creatures by using the Alka Deiva. They take Atlee captive and search his lab. Deeper in his lab, they find four volumes of Atlee's work. The Operator appears and looks through each of them before taking one. Hyzel tries to ask him what he wants with it, but the Operator does not cooperate and tensions escalate between him and the rest of the party. The Operator gets the party to let him leave by threatening Atlee. Hyzel calls the ship and asks Ellison to disable the other airships in the docks.

Most of the party meets back up with Graye and Wayne at the docks after leaving Soulspring proper. A new airship starts docking to pick up the Operator, and Wayne shoots the Operator, but they get him on board and start to leave. Berrett shoots the Operators' ship with his new mammoth gun and it goes down. Meanwhile, LG and Sab collect the spike from Sabelaster's corpse. The surviving Operators from the crash attack the ship and hurt Ellison, so Hyzel and Berrett haphazardly fly the ship to pick up LG and Sab and escape.

Atlee offers Anton and Hyzel some of his procedures. Anton deciphers Sherry Tew's diary, including some of Sab's misdeeds with the Ghosts, and tells Sab about it. Berrett asks Atlee about the Pervasion and Protectors. The Diplomat shows Hyzel a dream of all the people she's met around her in a crowd, staring at her, and he gives her a Void artifact patterned after Leo's cane, The Blindman's Cane/The Blindman's Baton.

### ACT III

Episode 38: The Doctor in Residence

LG tells the party that they're going to go visit the old Outsider. Wayne pilots the ship through the night. Sab and Hyzel talk to Atlee, and Atlee expresses willingness to teach Hyzel more of the Alka Deiva if she gives him liberty to work onboard the ship. Anton uses a new power and paints some scenes related to Lord Erimany Talvon as he tries to find out information about him. Sab stays behind after Hyzel leaves Atlee's room and asks Atlee how he knew Sab's real name, but doesn't get any answers from him.

Hyzel asks Anton about his ability to travel to the Void, and Anton tries to open to a portal but fails. Berrett takes over for Graye, who tells Hyzel he used to know Leo back when they both were kids. Sab tells Berrett about being a Protector, and Berrett asks Sab where his loyalties lie. LG identifies the newly acquired spike as the Diplomat's Spike and links Hyzel to it. She warns him the group has mixed feelings about Atlee. Sab studies Tazzelaney's music box book. Berrett checks in on Atlee and finds him diagramming Void upgrades on a blueprint figure that looks like Hyzel.

Episode 39: The Tail

Berrett freaks out about Atlee's plans and nearly harms him, but Hyzel breaks up the fight. The crew names their ship the Ivory Respite. The crew realizes that their ship is being tailed by a Crimson Pennant ship. They land in Jessamine to see if the ship will leave, but when they continue on their way the ship returns to following them. The ship docks in New Dunwall, where the party pays a landing tax to Beggis. When they go to report the Crimson Pennant ship to the local Charter Marshall, they find out that he is one of the ex-Ghosts on Sab's list.

Episode 40: War Stories

Sab nearly kills Flintlock before storming out of the bar, unwilling to accept his apologies. Berrett follows. Flintlock asks Hyzel if Sab is beyond saving, and she encourages him to reconcile with Sherry and try and make things right with Sab. Anton asks Hyzel about underground cities in Morley because he believes his body came from one of these cities, but she doesn't recall anything.

Berrett catches up to Sab, and Sab tells Berrett about his story. He lived with a Gristolian family, the Goldwins, whose farm was burned down with them inside it during the Morleyan insurrection. Sab and his little sister, April, were the only survivors. Sab took care of April for a while, but she died as well, possibly of disease or starvation. Sab has a hatred of Morley and Morleyans because he believes they took his family from him, and so he joined up with the Ghosts to take his vengeance. Sab's friendship with Hyzel tested that hatred and caused him to mistrust her. Berrett encourages Sab to focus on his new friendships instead of his hatred to try and move past it, but Sab feels like he can't move past what he's done.

Meanwhile, in town, Anton gets drunk and wanders into a costume shop and buys the old Outsider's clothes, which LG insists Anton doesn't wear to meet him. Hyzel and Anton claim Anton's a famous actor to get Anton a discount. The costume store owner recognizes Anton's description of the Dazzler and finds Anton his name. The rest of the party returns and everyone takes a carriage to the Outsider’s home.

On the awkward ride there, Berrett tells a story about his time poaching to break the ice. Hyzel talks about Leo’s skill on the fiddle and the time she drugged a ladies’ Nancy group in Dunwall. Anton talks about a memory he has when his underground city went dark. LG talks about setting Piero Joplin on fire, and Wayne talks about being marked by the Gambler. A radio broadcast announces that the war in Dunwall is over and the Regenters have won.

At the Outsider’s home, LG gets the party inside while Berrett guards the perimeter. The Outsider, now going by Idamarr, lives there with Emily Kaldwin, the nominal if not actual leader of the Protectors. Sab gives Idamarr Sokolov’s portrait of him. Hyzel asks Idamarr about getting Leo out, and he tells her she must enter the Void from where he died and speak his name. Wren and two other Protectors burst in and ask LG why he deviated from the plan.

Episodes 41-43: Lost

Wren reprimands LG for breaking protocol to show the party where Idamarr and Emily live. The Protectors all talk about whether they can trust the party and decide to help them after all. They tell the party they want to bring them to the man who’s forefront of their plan to shut down the Void. While they’re there, one of the other Protectors, Draper, reveals to Sab that she was also Marked by the Outsider and had a very similar story to his, as her Mark was stolen by Giles Axven and the University Cult.

Berrett tries to take a carriage and get back to the Ivory Respite before the Protectors, and Hyzel joins him. They get lost and ask directions of a traveling salesman, who breaks their carriage by throwing one of his signature products, the Cleaning Grenade, into it. Hyzel convinces his retinue that he won’t pay them and they leave him on the road, taking Hyzel and Berrett back to town.

The rest of the Protectors and the party beat Hyzel and Berrett back. Sab and Draper question Atlee, and Atlee hints that Talvon may be Giles Axven. Wren suspends LG from traveling with the party. The Ivory Respite takes off for Briamton after a harried call from Maxim Kennerick, but the party finds they are being followed by the Crimson Pennant again— this time in much more force.

Episode 44: Devil's Bargain

Anton asks Atlee about crafting bone charms before a Void portal opens up in the side of the ship. Above decks, the rest of the party sees a dreadnought descend on them and start to attack. Hyzel joins Anton while Sab and Berrett defend the ship. They try to outrun the other ship, but cannot manage to escape.

Hyzel joins Anton as Lord Erimany Talvon walks out of the Void. He offers Hyzel and Anton a deal to take them to Alba to find Leo and to Fort Vitre to find Nikolai Graves. They try to convince Talvon to stop the assault and fail; he says he owes the Commodore, Argan Marchenko, a favor.

Anton and Hyzel accept Talvon’s offer and go through the Void with him. Hyzel tries to convince Atlee to advocate for the crew with The Blindman’s Cane, but Talvon sees through the ruse. Hyzel tells Anton to run and he goes through his portal to Fort Vitre as she holds a knife to Atlee’s throat. Her ultimatum fails and she kills Atlee, throwing him off the edge of the Void, before Talvon takes the Diplomat’s Spike and allows her to go back to the Ivory Respite. When she arrives, it has crashed, though thanks to a masterful landing by Ellison Tezroy, no one was killed in the crash.

Episode 45: Respite's End

Sab and Berrett drag the others out of the crash, and Sab panics at not finding Hyzel or Anton, starting to relive past memories. Graye points his shotgun at him, but Hyzel joins them and diffuses the situation. As they start to plan where to go, someone attacks them from the woods with poisoned darts, downing Graye and Berrett. Tullett Sloane, founder of Pandyssia and Berrett’s rescuer after the bridge, intervenes. He reveals the attacker was his brother, Turrus, another member of the Ghosts. Tullet takes the group towards his town, Mercy, about a day’s walk away, to get the antidote for Terrus’ poison.

Meanwhile, Anton arrives outside Fort Vitre at night. He outruns the giant owls that populate the area, but not without some serious injuries. The gatekeeper lets him in and the residents help him dress his wounds. They tell him that Nikolai Graves is in the area and will likely be back at the fort soon.

Episode 46: No Mercy

Anton has a dream of the Daredevil, where she hints that he’ll need a Slingshot and number 877. He wakes up and finds the fort’s engineer, Benji, who reveals that The Slingshot was a project of Pearl Ecklesbee, the woman who died and became the Daredevil. Anton and Benji look at the current Slingshot, which failed but didn’t explode like the others, and they try to repair it.

Tullett leads the party through the woods. Hyzel tells Sab about the deal with Talvon and that she came back to save the party. When she mentions being tied to the spike Talvon stole, Tullett takes notice. He conducts a ritual to undo her tie to the spike.

Episode 47: Joyride In Memoriam

In Episode 47, the party arrives in Mercy and receives medical attention. Sabastion has a breakdown after realizing how much harm he had caused to people during his time with the Ghosts, and Berrett reassures him he can try to do better and atone. In the morning, the party debates what to do with Jacob Reed and Terrus. Berrett shoots the latter man, causing the town to nearly turn on him. After heated debate, particularly between Sab and Hyzel, the party decides to leave Reed in Mercy for medical treatment and under close observation.

In Fort Vitre, Anton finds The Daredevil's project: The Slingshot. She encourages Anton to complete her work and succesfully operate the Slingshot, a rocket-like contraption meant for high-speed travel. Anton repairs The Slingshot before Lord Talvon appears to try to talk with Nikolai Graves. Graves runs and Anton follows, with both of them jumping into the Slingshot and nearly running over Lord Talvon in the process. Anton goes unconscious during the ride, but it's revealed that The Slingshot works and rapidly flies all the way to Briamton, where it crashes. The Daredevil applauds Anton in a dream sequence, but as she's distracted by Anton, Talvon stabs her with her own spike, killing her.

Episode 48: Briamton, Briamton, Briamton

In Episode 48, the party boards Kennerick's airship for Briamton. Sab researches Kitner's music box book, and Hyzel hears a broadcast from Lysander: "Will the real Lady Augur please stand up?" In the meanwhile, Anton wakes up in a Briamton hospital and explains his situation to Kennerick, Verne, and Captain Brigham Bell. Nikolai Graves takes Anton to an exhibition in Briamton, where they see Pattering's *Triptych* on display. The curator plans to ship it back to Morley, but Curator Merrick protests this plan before being removed from the exhibition. Anton considers stealing the *Triptych*.

When the rest of the party arrives in Briamton, they hear a protestor loudly decrying Maxim Kennerick and the Enforcers. Berrett argues with the man, while Sab tries to draw attention away from him by performing across the street. When Hyzel hears the protestor say "will the real Maxim Kennerick please stand up," she looks for Lysander and slips off with him to an empty tavern. He offers her The Diplomat's spike back if she comes with him to wait out The Inversion, the Pervasion's master plan, which they plan to put into motion that afternoon. She accepts.

Episode 49: Doublecross

In Episode 49, Berrett and Sabastion realize Hyzel has left and jump to the conclusion that she's been kidnapped. In the meanwhile, Hyzel accompanies Lysander to the Gilded and questions him about the Inversion, ignoring the party's attempts to contact her. While there, Lysander and Hyzel are interrupted by a Doublecross Messenger, who delivers a message from Sybil Hastings and stuns Lysander, revealing himself to be Dispatch. According to him, Doublecross is a shell company for the Protectors. Hyzel informs him about The Inversion and he contacts Verne and Sab to get them to send help.

The rest of the party start a search and meet up with Verne, Anton, Captain Bell, and Kennerick, whose estate is on lockdown after Bell informed him he was a Pervasion target. While they discuss the current situation, a shot rings out from the stables and Kennerick goes down, heavily injured. The party rushes to respond.

Episode 50: Dishonored

Sab, Berrett, Anton, Graye, and Bell deal with the shooter situation. Sab pulls the bullet out of Kennerick’s poisoned wound and Verne takes him inside to treat him. When the party rushes out to the barn, they find their weapons covered in blood in a pile in the loft. There’s no sign of the shooter.

Hyzel is joined by a team of Enforcers who helps her carry Lysander to a motorized carriage and kill a couple of Pervasion agents. They head for Kennerick’s estate. As they do, a radio announcement from Verne says that Kennerick is dead and the party were the murderers, with Graye as an unwitting accomplice and Hyzel’s involvement unknown. The Enforcers keep Hyzel at gunpoint for the remainder of the ride.

As the party searches the barn, Inspector Claypott’s voice calls from outside that they have the barn surrounded and will kill anyone who walks out. Graye convinces some of them that the party isn’t to blame for the murder, and Berrett’s friend Everton defends the party against Claypott and is shot. The rest of the Enforcers shoot at the barn as the party punches a hole through the blockade and runs through the hedge surrounding Maxim’s property. With an extraordinary 7-success check, Anton successfully transports everyone through the Void to the docks, where Everton told Berrett that Orwell was waiting.

Hyzel arrives at the Kennerick estate in the aftermath and asks Verne to see the body. She notices a stab wound in Kennerick’s back that really killed him. When she comes back downstairs, Lysander is awake, apologizing that she had to see this. He questions her motivations in calling Enforcers to pick him up, but she convinces him with The Blindman’s Cane that she tried to keep him safe. Convinced she’s still Pervasion, Lysander and Verne allow Hyzel to leave to go see Sibyl Hastings with very clear instructions not to find the party, as they are “dead men walking.”

### ACT IV

Episode 51: On the Run

The party meet Berrett’s friend Orwell at a warehouse in the Briamton docks. MacCready, another of Berrett’s group, believes Berrett murdered Kennerick and calls the other Enforcers into the location, covertly setting explosives there. Sab uses Orwell’s radio to contact Hyzel, and she tells them to meet her at the Premier, Sybil Hastings’ ship.

Berrett sees the Enforcers surrounding the warehouse and leaves, leading them on a chase and distracting them. Macready corners him and Berrett convinces him of his and the party’s innocence. Macready warns Berrett about the explosives and the party narrowly escapes, jumping through another Void portal to the Premier.

They beat Hyzel there and convince Sybil Hastings and her pilot, Clip, to let them in by showing her Sab’s diagrams of the Hastings Device. Hyzel takes a carriage to the docks and convinces the Enforcers there to let her through by dropping Verne’s name. She joins the party aboard the Premier. Anton and her agree to go to Alba as soon as he’s recharged.

Captain Bell reveals that the Pervasion has corrupted the Morleyan government and dishonorably discharged him from the Constabulary. Sybil privately tells Hyzel that the Pervasion also stole the second prototype of her Hastings Device and suggests they help her get it back. Mikhail calls over the radio and he and Hyzel set up a meetup in Sunline. Sab contacts the Protectors and tells them he’s not coming to Panoply; LG asks him where to meet the party and they agree to meet in Sunline as well.

Episode 52: Reeve's Return

As the Premier heads for Sunline, Sab and Berrett ask Sybil for help with Tazalaney's music box notes. She finds musical notation that might depict the Overseer's nullification song. Sab's symptoms from his illness worsen. Brigham asks Hyzel about the gameplan for their fight against the Pervasion and tells her more about the war in Alba, insisting he come with her and Anton to retrieve Leo. When the group lands in Sunline, LG joins them and gives Anton, Hyzel, and Brigham a vial of Sokolov's Spiritual Solution, saying it will stop them from going crazy in the Void. Berrett leaves to go to Sandr's.

Inside the Void from Sunline, Hyzel picks up a frequency that reminds her of Sab's mark. Anton opens up a portal to Alba from a photograph Brigham has of his family in a photo studio there. From the studio, the three make their way to the site of Leo's Ascension, with Brigham talking his way past a guard at the entrance to Alba's Leviathan Quarter. From the building the ritual had taken place in, they re-enter the Void. Hyzel climbs to Leo's location and says his name, freeing him. Anton opens a portal back to Sunline and he, Brigham, Hyzel, and Leo reappear on the Premier a half hour after they'd left.

Episode 53: Change in Course

While Anton, Hyzel, and Brigham are in Alba, Sabastion gets a metalworker in Sunline to engrave a cylinder with the Overseers’ music box pattern, then purchases the rest of the parts to construct his music box device and hands them off to Sybil. Berrett visits Sandr and purchases a Newport-Atchkinson converter as well as picking up a new gun with extensions.

Once the rest of the party returns with Leo, LG and Anton talk about a mission to retrieve Billie Lurk, who has taken on the role of the Lurker, from the Void from a government building in Serkonos. LG radios his contact from Sybil’s ship. LG also informs Anton of a plan to stop Talvon by making him into an Outsider, making him into a hypocrite and ruining the Pervasion’s ideological core.

Hyzel tells Berrett about her plan to publicly reveal the secret war from Frequency Seventy’s headquarters, and Berrett suggests Leo give the message instead. The party leaves the Premier for the night and gets rooms in the Sunliner’s Tap. Hyzel and Leo leave to see more of the city. LG decodes the response from his contact: be sure to bring gas masks.

Episode 54: Reunions

Hyzel and Leo spend a night out in Sunline. They plan a bit more for the radio speech and their options for after the Pervasion is dealt with. LG, Berrett, Sab, and Anton visit Cyclone in a secret Protector cache in Sunline and he provides them with gas masks. They go to the Void and Anton and LG quickly prepare part of their trap for Lord Talvon, crafting a Voidrite altar and cutting out a sword-sized piece of Voidrite to shape later. LG realizes Anton's never seen Stilton's manor in Karnaca and gives him a picture of his family outside of their house. When they go there through the Void, LG talks with his parents and Anton and Berrett awkwardly join him.

When they arrive at the manor, Anton changes everyone's clothes to match the guards' uniforms. They sneak in through a window Anton paints out and are immediately caught by a few guards. They knock the guards out, but the noise alerts other nearby guards and the group gets into a skirmish before a knockout gas fills the hallway. The group turns on their respirators while the guards fall unconscious. LG's contact, Thomas, arrives and shows the group where Billie died, saying her name to free her. Most of the group then leaves through the Void, while Berrett gets stuck on the wrong side of the portal. He distracts the guards on the outside of the manor and escapes, meeting the rest of the group back where they had left their coats and extra gear.

In Sunline, Sab decides to go talk to Sherry and radios Hyzel about it. Hyzel and Leo follow to make sure he doesn't get into trouble. Sab finds Emmett and Sherry both at Sherry's house and he apologizes. They welcome him in and ask him more about what happened to him. Sab tells them about what happened after his time in the Void and how he's grown. Sherry gives Sab back an old weapon of his.

Episode 55: Keep Your Friends Close

Hyzel and Leo join Mikhail and Ellison at Mikhail’s house for dinner while Sab reconnects with Sherry and Emmett, who offer to help him take down Argan.

Berrett, Anton, and LG return with Billie Lurk, who leaves to go find the Empress. Berrett gets Anton’s help in freeing Everton from the hospital in Briamton he was put in after helping the party escape. On the way back, with Everton and Macready in tow, Berrett and Anton are stopped by Talvon, who has Nikolai Graves captive. He demands the location of a painting Graves hid secrets from the center of Pandyssia in, but Anton refuses and Talvon kills Graves, throws Macready off the ledge into the Void, and cuts off Everton’s legs.

Episodes 56-58 (Lost)

Anton uses Brush of the Dark to paint Everton’s legs back on while Berrett fights Talvon. Anton tries to make a deal with Talvon, but still cannot save Graves. As Berrett wears down Talvon’s defenses, he transforms into another person, corrupted by the Void, but he leaves through a portal to the Briamton Art Exhibition before they can stop him.

Anton brings Berrett and Everton back to Sherry’s house so she can treat Everton’s severe injuries, then follows Talvon back through the Void to Briamton. While he tries to find the painting, Talvon has already taken it, and Anton is out under arrest by the Enforcers for the murder of Maxim Kennerick.

The party become aware of Anton’s arrest when Orwell picks it up over the Enforcers’ radio communications. They fly back to Briamton aboard the Premier, with the plan to get Anton out quietly if possible, using the radio broadcast to try to sway the Enforcers to their side. Enforcer Phillips, another friend of Berrett’s, questions Anton on what happened, but doesn’t get a conclusive story on what happened.

Episode 59: The Worst Laid Plans

With the threat of Anton’s execution the next morning, the party tries to break him out. Hyzel convinces the Enforcers she is there on Verne’s behest, but only gets a few minutes to talk to Anton, seeding suspicion in Phillips’ mind about Hyzel’s allegiances and the true murderer of Maxim Kennerick. Phillips promises Hyzel he will investigate, but sends her to a room under watch while he does so. Berrett, who had been tailing Hyzel, encounters a Charter Marshal, Marshal Fleming, who informs him the other Charter Marshals in town have been detained. Berrett is discovered by Anton’s prison and is imprisoned as well.

Sab and Brigham concoct a plan to blow up the prison wall, but stop before implementing it when they talk with Hyzel and LG, who tell them to wait for the morning before trying anything.

Episode 60 (Lost)

Investigator Claypott questions Hyzel after hearing her radio conversation with Sab. Hyzel reveals Verne’s treachery to Claypott and Phillips, who stay Anton’s execution until they can investigate.

Episode 61: Sinking Sand

Sab and Brigham return to the Premier and the newly arrived Requite, where they meet up with LG, Gennifer Casey, and Demas, who has turned against the Pervasion. Demas reveals that Talvon has gained access to the Void in the Hossler Pup and is taking out the last of the Outsiders. He also reveals the Pervasion’s plan to wipe out the Protectors in their meeting on the island of Counteye with the help of the Crimson Pennant and corrupt Enforcers.

When Phillips finds out Kennerick was killed by a reopened wound in his back, not from the initial gunshot, he releases Anton, who portals himself and Berrett to the Premier. Hyzel meets the rest of the party there. Demas fills everyone in on the Pervasion’s plan, and the party comes up with a plan of their own: to intercept Talvon at the site of the last Outsider and make him into an Outsider himself using a Voidrite knife and Ahlka Deiva incantation, ruining his message and hopefully the Pervasion’s united front.

Anton attempts to put the Daredevil’s mark back into his hand using his painting ability. He feels the mark carve into his bone, and LG, seeing this, informs him this process has happened before— and is always fatal.

Episode 62: Eleventh Hour

Anton uses his abilities to find the locations of the remaining two Outsiders. He identifies the name of the Carpenter. Berrett talks with LG, who confesses that he has another plan similar to the one the party is working on in case things go wrong.

Leo, Mikhail, and Ellison reconvene with the group. Sab asks Sherry and Emmett to join him at Counteye, which they agree to. Berrett receives a message from Sandr, who gives him a multi-form gun called the Heritage Gun.

Anton, LG, and Hyzel free the Carpenter, then adapt the island the Pugilist is on to have the correct Void sigils for the ritual to make Talvon into an Outsider. Anton carves knives and a sword out of the Voidphine for the party, and Hyzel inscribes them with an Ahlka Deiva word to nullify the harmful effects. The party reconvenes, ready for the trip to Counteye.

Episode 63: Mountain of a Molehill

The party splits ways between the Premier and Requite, heading for Counteye. Berrett expresses his guilt over the negative consequences his actions had, and while Hyzel and Sab comfort him, LG still blames him for what happened to Grounder. The party rests on the trip. Hyzel practices the Ahlka Deiva phrase with LG. The party narrows down the possible mole within the Protectors to the scientific group working on the Cleft Project.

The ship docks at Counteye. Anton voices his uncertainty about what kind of life he could have after this as a Voidwalker to Hyzel. Dispatch, as well as Protectors Fumes and Scowl, accompany the party to the Cleft Project. They find that head scientist Berrato, along with the entire rest of the project, are all Pervasion operatives, seeking to use the Cleft Project to hasten The Inversion. The party stops the Cleft team and subdues Berrato.

Episode 64: Panoply

The party joins the Protectors’ Panoply meeting. Dispatch outlines the battle plan, and LG informs the Protectors of the plan to foil Talvon. After the meeting, the party prepares for the final fight. Anton is asked to pilot a rocket for Project Merchant Clipper, a jetpack-like invention of Cyclone’s that fires a rocket at incoming airships, then allows the user to float down to the ground with a wingsuit. Berrett commissions a riot shield from Cyclone.

Sab talks with Draper about the relationship between Talvon and Giles Axven, who he guesses to be components of the current Talvon like Anton Niski and Josh Blackburn comprise Anton. Sab admits to Draper how much he hopes to regain his Void abilities after confronting Argan.

Hyzel prepares to part ways with Leo when he proposes, and the two get married in secret with Brigham Bell officiating.

The Battle for Counteye begins. As Anton flies his rocket for Merchant Clipper, Sabelle Escanti attacks the rest of the party with an explosives squad. Wren takes on one group while Sab and Berrett kill Sabelle. She takes a drug to make herself nearly invincible, but Sab stabs her with a quickie stim, causing her to overdose and her heart to give out. Anton’s rocket misses the airship, but he manages to activate the wingsuit and make it safely back to the rest of the party.

Episode 65: To the Void

After killing Sabelle, the rest of the party meets back up with Anton, who transports them to the Eidolon. On board the Eidolon, the party tries to sneak to the Door to Nowhere, dealing with several smaller fights along the way. Upon arriving in the center of the ship, the party fought Argan and Lysander, with Talvon closing the Door to Nowhere behind himself and stranding them. Argan was killed, and Lysander taken in by the Protectors.

Sab regained his Void powers by using the Jade Music Box. Anton found a way to open the Door to Nowhere, but was shot at by Snatch, who was waiting behind the Hossler Pup’s side of the door. Berrett rushed Snatch with his riot shield and, mid-charge, was given the mark of the Pugilist, throwing Snatch off the side of the ship into the Void. As the remaining Protectors took the ship, the party and LG went down to the Pugilist’s location to head off Talvon.

Talvon revealed that he had had the assassin who killed Kennerick, a Marked One of the Lurker, capture Leo. Anton released the Pugilist on Talvon’s demand and he released Leo, but a fight broke out shortly after. Despite the plan, the Voidrite knives didn’t make Talvon into an Outsider. As Talvon killed Berrett, Sab, and Anton, LG grew increasingly dismayed. Finally, he stabbed himself with the twin-blades knife and became a new kind of Outsider, the Regulator.

The Regulator set out to restore the Void to its natural state, starting with separating Lord Erimany Talvon from Giles Axven. As Talvon reeled from the separation, Hyzel took Berrett’s knife and killed him. The Regulator returned Berrett, Sab, and Anton, as well as Ellison and Graye, who had died in the fighting on the Hossler Pup. He told Hyzel Verne possessed a letter from Kennerick to guide her to her new life. He removed Anton’s Voidphine heart and gave him the heart of Nikolai Graves. He offered Berrett a choice: to live on with Macready’s heart, or to take Macready’s place in the Void and give him a new life. Berrett chose to save Macready and said a heartfelt goodbye to the rest of the party.

The Regulator let the party out of the Void with the statement to Wren that he would lead the new Protectors to a new end: the stabilization and protection of the Void.

Epilogue

In the epilogue, Hyzel released Lysander from the Protectors’ custody after he gave them the names and locations of the Pervasion’s remnants, with the warning that the Protectors would hunt him down if they ever heard his name again.

Sab and Hyzel attended Lee’s funeral. Head Enforcer Everton gave a speech on how Kennerick’s and Berrett’s deaths will shape the reforged Enforcers. Sab received a letter from Berrett leaving him his apartment and money.

Anton found the Underground city and had to relearn their language— a variant of the Ahlka Deiva. He led them out into Morley and, eventually, into Pandyssia.

Hyzel, Leo, and Bill arrived at the villa Maxim Kennerick built for them, resolving to start a new life free from the danger and ambition of the last few years.

Sab found Ebron Duxson in Sheri’s clinic and invited him to be Sab’s roommate and instructor. He hunted down the Raven of Argonnica’s weapons caches and ran into Jacob Reed, who started going to therapy to work out the traumatic effects of his friendship with Jared Valentine.

Anton learned to carve protective bone charms and gave the first two to Hyzel and Leo, revealing a plan to mass produce them to make violence in Pandyssia more difficult. He traveled on his monocycle to the locations of the Outsiders who died to make monuments in their remembrance.

Sab invited the rest of the party back to his family’s old farmstead in Dunwall, rebuilding a home for himself there and meeting one of his new neighbors.

Long in the future, Head Curator Merrick taught an art class about Anton Blackburn’s contributions to art during the Second Void Crisis.

Hyzel and Leo welcomed Mikhail to their villa, asking him to be the new face of the Cult of the Forgotten, which was changing methods, if not goals, to support those suffering the consequences of the Second Void crisis. Hyzel provided advice on how to proceed, and revealed that she was pregnant with Leo’s child, to be named Maxim or Evelyn depending on the gender.

Mikhail signed off the episode by reading the last few lines of his “Tears of the Constant Sea” before directly bidding the viewers farewell.