cw: fantasy violence, complex & complicated relationships, romance and flirting, references to sex, and possession.

Our graduate students share breakfast and research notes with their housemates and prepare for their trip to Paradox Gardens. Ecstasy shares details of their life as Jaisha tries to uncover the deeper truth. Stag gives the group an invitation – that Baru has already received.

cw: fantasy violence, death of loved ones, trauma & grief, complex & complicated relationships, romance and flirting, references to sex, possession, and disreality.

Our graduate students regroup in the wake of Professor Sorva’s revelations. They make plans for the future in Barugash’s workshop before heading back to Zuo House for a night of fitful – and terrifying – dreams.

Our graduate students are called to a campus-wide presentation about the Ascension Cycle, but this lecture had a lesson nobody was prepared for. Featuring SPECIAL GUEST Aabria Iyengar as Professor Salomé Sorva, our party wrestles with expectation, insecurity, and truth as their lies begin to fall down around them.

X returns to the sewers to tie things up, the party pushes through the next few weeks of school coping in their own ways, Jaisha and Baru come together to problem-solve the rings they intend to make, the party meets in the bog to solidify their plan, Cirro has a tense lunch with Aurora, and Stag finally works up the courage to call home.

Stag wrestles with the message her great-grandfather is trying to convey through the corrupted spiritual guardian. Kleca attempts to thwart the party from impeding his plans, whatever those might be. The party regroups after narrowly escaping and then disperses to process the events of the evening in their own ways.

Our crew decides to glimpse what lurks behind the door with the red X and finds themselves caught up in a maelstrom of memories, emotions, and apparitions. An unexpected hero, a surprise run-in with a peer, and face-to-face with the Pied Piper himself...