The Radio Tower, on discovery, is receiving an SOS message from the Helix Station which says they have a world eater within that killed most of the people there. A group of explorers manages to contact a survivor at the station.
A crew from Beacon descends to the Helix Station, at long last. They are split into three groups - one team goes to restore power to the station, another explores the Research and Development wing where weapons were being tested and spirits were being experimented on, and a third team goes to explore the crew quarters to obtain the keys needed to open the portal room door, where an injured, and likely immature, World Eater is trapped within the portal itself.
A lantern is delivered to Haein by a forest spirit. It is the same lantern that was given to Robin by the green-eyed spirits some time ago. He manages to restore it at Solis' Lab, and thus Beacon is treated to the arrival of Diode, a former lighthouse keeper.
Ultimately, after weighing their options, the group in the Helix Station decides to try Weaver and Pluto's plan to kill the World Eater with an internally-detonated bomb. It works, but the cost is heavy - some are killed outright, while others suffer heavy physical and mental wounds.
Discoveries:
While exploring the R&D wing of the Helix Station, a group manages to find Weaver, the only survivor of the Night Market.
After the group from Beacon returns to town, Weaver offers to help with tech and repairs if those who ask for help are willing to pay her back by helping to clean up and restore the Helix Station, where she wishes to remain.
Weaver explains that the World Eater trapped in the Helix Station was intentionally brought there in order to test a weapon that the Night Market crew was working on: a drone with an attached plutonium-derived bomb. The idea Pluto had was to deploy the bomb inside the World Eater, through a mouth or other opening or site of injury.
Unfortunately, even an underdeveloped World Eater is immensely strong, and its presence caused green-eyed spirits, trapped within the station for experimentation, to break free and begin to kill the residents in combination with the deaths caused by the World Eater's presence. Several of the crew died simply after seeing it or being within close proximity for too long.
While the World Eater was ultimately killed, other avenues were explored. Magically-inclined members of the Night Market had developed potions which provided some mental resistance against the hallucinatory effects of the World Eater, as well as tranquilizers which were powerful enough to temporarily help contain it. Another former member had found a way to eject the World Eater out of the portal back to where they had pulled it in from.
JULY 2020
Unfortunately, even an underdeveloped World Eater is immensely strong, and its presence caused green-eyed spirits, trapped within the station for experimentation, to break free and begin to kill the residents in combination with the deaths caused by the World Eater's presence. Several of the crew died simply after seeing it or being within close proximity for too long.
While the World Eater was ultimately killed, other avenues were explored. Magically-inclined members of the Night Market had developed potions which provided some mental resistance against the hallucinatory effects of the World Eater, as well as tranquilizers which were powerful enough to temporarily help contain it. Another former member had found a way to eject the World Eater out of the portal back to where they had pulled it in from.