•The king’s road now clear, the city of Bodemere is bustling with trade.
•Several people learn of the potential successor to Deacon Decimus: Subdeacon Exodus. The Subdeacon, like his predecessor, hates the royal knights and Deacon Augustine. But what’s different about him is that he preaches peace with the Kin - his mission is to convert them and get them to attend the churches in the city, pulling htem away from their renegade heretic preachers.
•Drosera sent Friar Laurence to gather information on Deacon Exodus. She told him that if he delivers useful info, he will be freed of his obligation to her. Laurence has been tortured, and is visibly scarred, but is too intimidated to spill the secret about who tortured him.
•Crow’s Eye met with Commander Lehigh to commiserate with him. Crow’s Eye considered Lehigh a father figure. Lehigh was disgraced after the theft of his sword, happy to have a friend to drink with. Crow’s Eye was desperate to find who is wielding the magic behind the “Shadow Walker”, the shape shifter terrorizing the city. Lehigh said that he only knows of two witches - Tril (who used to sell him Moon Tea), and Serena, who is a former Sword of Seneca, disgraced and stripped of her position for heresy. Commander Lehigh suspects that this was never true--that the accusation of heresy was a church plot designed to hurt the royal knights.
•Metal Legion had his illusion refreshed by the witch Serena. He now appears as another person. The people of Bodemere are beginning to whisper of the Shadow Walker, the shape shifter sowing discord. He asked Sereana whose throat needs to be slit now - she said that Commander Lehigh and Deacon Augustine are her biggest targets right now.
•Crow’s Eye visited King Camus and requested knights to form an elite guard, to protect the king from the Shadow Walker. King Camus granted this, but is displeased by Crow’s Eye’s lack of discipline and disrespect for his order. The King ordered Crow’s Eye to wear a humiliating garment in punishment for his failures. Crow’s Eye refused. He gathered a small company of knights (in plain clothes) to increase security in the castle. In trade for these men, he was tasked by other knights with intimidating Subdeacon Exodus and convincing him not to become the Deacon.
•Orwell (the king’s cousin) met with Drosera privately in the Moon Room, and hired her to find out where the Unwanted are based. Drosera warned the king about Subdeacon Exodus.
•Subdeacon Exodus met with Lord Camus, offered a gift - if the king can return the Lunar Chalice, he can perform a miracle with it - enchanting Seneca’s sword.
•Crow’s Eye met with Subdeacon Exodus, and offered protection in trade for him blessing the Knight’s Swords during the next undead attack. Exodus countered that he will do this if Crow’s Eye asks the King to allow Exodus a channel to the crown. Just outside of the church, Crow’s Eye grabbed Lawrence and shook him, trying to get him to say who tortured him, to say to whom he is leaking info. A crowd formed. Lawrence backed away, and Subdeacon Exodus interposed himself between Crow’s Eye and his friend the Friar. Crow’s Eye persuaded Exodus that this interrogation was in the best interest of both the knights and the church.. They went into a private chamber in the church, where Laurence revealed (under threat of being beaten within an inch of his life) that he was tortured by both Drosera and the King. Crow’s Eye pivoted, using this information to put pressure on Exodus - you’d better behave, because you now see what the king is capable of.
•Metal Legion infiltrated the barracks where Commander Lehigh works. While disguised, he came into Lehigh’s office to deliver a report, but stabbed the man to death. Metal Legion attempted to escape the barracks, but had to hide until nightfall.
•Meanwhile, Crow’s Eye showed up at the barracks, learned of Lehigh’s death, and began to have an emotional breakdown. He wanted to investigate the scene, but knights sequestered him. A combination of his flipping the table on Sir Bastion, his refusal to follow the king’s humiliating order, and Crow’s Eye’s general recklessness and madness in the past few weeks has caused the knights to view Crow’s Eye as a potentially dangerous element. But by sequestering him and trying to get him to calm down, Metal Legion was able to escape the barracks unnoticed.
•Metal Legion had the unwanted spread rumors of the Shadow Walker. The city is now filled with fanciful tales of this mysterious, face-shifting assassin. People are paranoid, seeing the Shadow Walker behind every corner.
•Drosera tortured Lawrence into agreeing to find out who stole the Lunar Chalice. He now bears fresh scars, but won’t tell who tortured him. Laurence is intimidated - he does not know how to find out this information. Drosera doesn’t care.
•Metal Legion attempted to assassinate Deacon Augustine.. Disguised as a royal knight, he showed up at Augustine’s church at night, and attempted to get an audience with the Deacon. Begging for an opportunity to confess, Deacon Augustine was not persuaded. After all, many people have been stabbed to death in their own offices in the past few weeks, and rumors of the Shadow Walker are everywhere -- Deacon Augustine is not easily persuaded to speak to an unknown knight in private. Metal Legion was surrounded, a group of increasingly suspicious priests circled around him. Metal Legion threw his sword at Augustine, revealing himself as the Shadow Walker. Augustine was injured, but survived. Metal Legion shouted his own name, striking fear into the priests, and then made a hasty exit. Outside the church, the other Unwanted were waiting, disguised to look like Metal Legion. As the assassin burst out of the church doors, he was in a crowd of people dressed similarly to him, who scattered in different directions. The assassin escaped into the night.
•Lord Camus used his familial power to grant status to someone -- elevating one of the Kin, named Jean Reynard, as Reeve. Reeve Reynard will serve as a liaison to the court, speaking on behalf of the Kin. Reynard met the royal court, and the King asked what he could do to please the Kin. Reeve Reynard begged the king to not let any more blood be shed in the villages outside the city - for weeks now, knights and church-officials have been butchering people in the streets.
•Crow’s Eye gathered his company of knights and marched towards the outer villages, determined to get revenge for Commander Lehigh.
•Drosera confirmed that Augustine survived the attack, then tried to invoke the unspeakable power. She failed, and the power demanded blood. She bled in sacrifice, slitting both wrists -- but the sacrifice was not enough, and the power denied her an answer anyway.
•Lord Seneca, too, invoked the unspeakable power. In an attempt to discover where the Unwanted are centered, he prayed to the darkness in his private chamber. His hand momentarily possessed, he pointed to a village on a map where the Unwanted operate out of. But Bodemont told Lord Seneca that he now knows who he really is - is not Camus, but Voltaire.
Is anybody reading these? should I continue?
