Portugal Mission Summary

Chiaki, Deadpool, Morgan, Thoster, Val'drin, Fred Jr.

The Knights were briefed on the appearance of a mysterious castle that had fallen through the Veil, ordered to search it for dangers or artifacts.  Chiaki picked the lock on the gate and then Thoster kicked in the door and Deadpool threw in a grenade.  However, this triggered a trapdoor on the porch and Thoster, Fred, and Deadpool tumbled down as Val'drin, Chiaki, and Morgan jumped aside.   Val'drin noted that the owner of the castle seemed to be human, and they saw that it had been recently lived in....   Down in the basement, the three heard strains of music and wound up fighting a crocodile.

Chicago mission summary

Rose, Dimitri, Amrita, Lila, Aurelius, Tia, Eric, Adrian

The team was briefed on a series of deaths in Chicago, where the bodies had been drained of blood, occasionally missing organs, and sporting a laceration to the forehead.  Wynn suspected a possible link to to the yuan-ti black market in Japan, which is why he was sending Eric, who had been involved in that investigation.

Arriving in Chicago, the team split into three to investigate crime scenes.  Amrita & Tia discovered something amiss in a building near one of the scenes of attack.  Eric, Aurelius, and Lila discovered a strange symbol which Aurelius identified as an occult marker of those who worshiped the patron God of Mind Flayers, Illsensine, meaning this was something different than what had happened in Japan.  They reconvened with the others, who had run into Adrian Ivashkov, a Moroi vampire that Rose had crossed paths with in Chicago before.  He let them know that many of the victims seemed to be Hunters and took them into a Hunter's bar, run by Robin Wood.  Eric, Aurelius, and Lila caught up with them there as they discussed Hunter gossip about the "Monster" and what they'd discovered.  Someone else was listening and piped up with his own interest - unknown to them this was Sylar, the very person they were hunting.  Robin brought up that the creature was drawing an influx of hunters, and someone was bumping them off - mostly likely the Corsone Syndicate, who used the symbol they'd discovered.  Lila brought her extensive familiarity with crime family politics into play, attracting Sylar's attention  

Robin also directed them to another Hunter who was on the case, who didn't 'play well with others'.  This was a certain surly Dean Winchester and some of them went to speak with him as Lila & Sylar spoke alone outside.  Dean explained to them that an oracle had had a prophecy about an 'ultimate monster' coming to Chicago, and hunters had been flocking here to destroy it.  Most of the monsters they were taking out, however, were employees of the Corsone Syndicate, and they were striking back by killing as many hunters as they could, under guise of the "Monster".  Dean suspected that Corsone would try to recruit the actual monster, and Dean suspected whatever it was, it could pass as human.   He figured Corsone was using hunters' deaths to try to draw the creature out so he could attempt to seduce it into working for him, and claimed that they'd been following him specifically.  Lila was unhappy with this plan and suspected moving to speak to Corsone directly, and Sylar butted into the conversation under the guise of being Jack, a crime scene investigator.  He got Dean to admit that like most of the victims of the "monster" he had a special ability as well - he could see invisible horrors that most people didn't even know existed.

Realizing Tia and Amrita hadn't checked in, they called and found out they were in trouble next door.  They'd found a young woman's body drained of blood, and realized someone was still there.  Tia had stayed behind to stave the thing off, and ordered Amrita to run for it.   With Dean along, the others caught up to the warehouse and found Amrita.  They helped Tia take down her attacker, a vampire sporting a Corsone tattoo that marked him as in the syndicate's employ.  Rose, however, recognized the vampire as Davin, who had once hunted vamps with her when she lived in Chicago, and who she had assumed was dead.  He claimed that Corsone was the only one who would take vampires in to give them legitimate 'work', and that he was having them clean up after the Monster, scavenging the corpses it left behind.  They convinced him to take them to Corsone, but warned them that he had a prophet on his staff, that was how he knew where the Monster would leave its corpses before the police could find them.  

Tia mind linked both those who would be going in and those staying on the outside, and Davin led Dean, Lila, Rose, and Dimitri to the Diner where Corsone housed his operations.  Lila managed to talk them past Tony the Choker and they were taken into the creepy back warehouse, tailed by one of Corsone's minotaur bodyguards.  They were taken back to meet Louis Corsone himself - who was actually a mind flayer in a pin stripe suit, enjoying a brain for dinner.

Brazil mission summary

Violet, Reynard, Robin, Koraith, Luthir, Belle

The team was briefed on a conflict between a company cutting down rainforests in Brazil, and the dryads that were being slaughtered in the process.  Upon arrival, they split into three teams.  Violet and Luthir went to seek the dryads and met with their leader, who was impressed with Violet and allowed them to accompany her back to the others so that Violet might help heal their injured with her plant powers.  Koraith and Belle went to try and contact the foreman, while Reynard and Robin worked at sabotaging the machinery cutting down trees.

Devil's Triangle mission summary

David, Charming, Emma, Gold, Hook, Francesca, Risa, Zatanna

The team was introduced to a part time member of the Knighthood, Zatanna Zatara, who had asked Wynn for assistance in finding the mother she had thought dead since childhood, but who had been contacting her urgently through magical means.  The Knights traveled with her to Italy to speak to her father, the magician Giovanni Zatara.  With their help, she learned that her parents had lied to her to protect her from the real reason her mother had left: that she was being hunted by her people.  Zatara wished to undertake finding her alone, but the Knights talked him into traveling with them and Zatanna, and even offered them the use of a magical compass that could point out the way to the thing a person desired the most.

They set sail across the sea following the compass, with Hook captaining, and found themselves led towards the Bermuda Triangle, where they discovered powerful magical wards that it took their combined might to peel back.  They landed on the shores of what Zatara revealed to be the Hidden City of the Magi, home of the Homo Magi, the first race of sorcerers who once ruled over Atlantis - one of whom had been Zatanna's mother, Sindella.  Opening the gates required blood magic, but an eager Zatanna willingly undertook the ritual.  They found themselves in a strange seemingly empty city, where David got the distinct impression they were being watched...  

Upon arriving at a raised dais in the center of town, a trap was sprung and iron walls trapped them within the square.  A sorcerer appeared with Zatanna's mother, Sindella, in chains.  He explained that Sindella had been born with a medulla jewel in her brain that allowed her to sustain the powerful magic to keep the City of the Magi cloaked from the outside world.  Sindella had willingly agreed to accept this burden, but it had drained her life force, and was about to be drained entirely, meaning they required a new host - one who also possessed the medulla jewel.  Zatanna had been born with this same genetic anomaly - and in order to save her mother's life, she must agree to take her place.   When the party protested this, the magi put several of them under his thrall and forced them (Hook, David L,  and Emma)  to attack their friends.  Francesca managed to kill the sorcerer, but it didn't break the enchantment, and neither did smashing his staff.

Risa managed to shatter the spell enthralling the others, just as Zatara put together the truth: that the man could not have been a real homo magi, because they were under a curse that caused them to fall in love with the first human they set eyes on.  This was how Sindella had come to fall in love with him, and why Zatanna had been born, and it was also why the homo magi had isolated themselves there on the remote island.   A crowd of brainwashed shipwrecked 'guards' surrounded them as a beautiful woman appeared - Amara, a true homo magi - who they attempted to reason with.  Francesca and Gold tried to convince her that the Knights could help break the curse, but she insisted that if they were to make the alliance, Zatanna must stay behind.  Zatanna refused, unwilling to compromise with those who would enslave so many and force them to kill others.

As they distracted Amara, however, Sindella said a tearful goodbye to her loved ones and Amara realized what she intended to do.  Her staff knocked from her hands, Amara was forced to look for it and made eye contact with Charming, just as her army was about to kill them all.  The curse fell into effect as she fell completely 'in love' with him and she ordered the army to cease.  It was, however, too late for Sindella, who used her magic to destroy her own medulla jewel, killing herself in the process, but also breaking the spell on the enthralled army and freeing them.  The Wards on the City began collapsing and an angry voice yelled Amara's name - another Homo Magi, clearly furious at the turn of events.  Convincing her to go with them for her own safety, Amara teleported them all to a far-off beach in South America, along with the confused masses.  Realizing what had happened to Amara, they decided it was best to bring her back to the castle until they could find a way to help her.

In the meantime, it would take them months to help return the shipwrecked survivors to their homes and families.  And of course, now the City of the Magi stands without protection... 

Nevada mission summary

Faye, Tybalt, Miles, Jaina, Solace, Christos

The team was briefed about a series of disappearances in a small suburb of Nevada, entire families who vanished without a trace and no sign of struggle.  They split up upon arrival, Tybalt, Faye, and Christos seeking a way into the houses of one of the missing families, while Solace searched the area for evil auras, while Jaina and Miles went to question some local kids about the disappearances.  Tybalt discovered an overlooked invitation written by a child to dinner up the street as Jaina & Miles learned some disturbing rumors about the house with no grown-ups.  

Jaina & Miles decided to go check out the house themselves, and confronted the eerie children living within.  As the sun went down, the flesh disappeared off their skin turning them into skeletons, and they barely got out with their lives.  Outside they ran into Solace, who had sensed the evil in the house only after night fell.  He scolded them for going in without the others and they reconvened with the whole group to make another push and cleanse the house of its evil.  Christos and Miles snuck in the back and headed into the basement where they discovered a ghostly woman and a cradle as the others fought off the skull children above.  Upon hearing Miles' shouting below and the ghost's haunting cries, Jaina left the others to go assist in the basement and Faye followed, as Solace stayed to destroy the other children.  As Christos fought off the ghost with the others providing distracting aid, Faye did as ordered and burned the crib, destroying the bones of the child inside.  The ghost was destroyed - and could not return, and in a further investigation of the house, faye found the woman's diary, detailing her depression and abuse at the hands of her husband, who was disappointed that she could not conceive a child.  The bones seemed to have belonged to a baby she miscarried and treated as alive, clearly having gone off the edge of sanity, causing her to try and collect even more children after her death to satisfy her long dead husband.  

The ghost put to rest, and the monsters destroyed, the team returned to the castle.