Baxter finds his long lost sister, but she is different.  Ban returns to Dr. Luther’s secret office.

After the accidental arson, Ban is pursued back to the Documented District by men brandishing crowbars.  Baxter overhears a conversation about a Jade Horseshoe.

Baxter’s haunting troubles with Ela Tass have ended for the moment, but he must find a way extricate himself from the demon Abelard.  Ban and Sic run into Baxter outside of the Embassy, in a warehouse near the lumber mill.

On the same night as Amadeus’s party, Ban and Sic go back to the Sawmill.  Oyster aspires for his troubles, both legal and lethal in nature, to balance each other out.

Ban and Sic take the very inebriated Oyster Python back to his apartment.

Amadeus’s parties are highly regarded, and easily the best in all of Magbriggan.  The invitations appear to be normal spectacles.

Members of the party are given new character moves for their Humour Advancements.

No Christmas cheer will be found in this episode.  The group prepares for another gladiatorial fight.  Ban studies  the Humour Bath, passes a well choreographed parade, and plans to dig up his brother’s body.  Baxter’s real fight is imminent, but first he wants to place a bet on himself.

Baxter and Oyster rendezvous with an arms dealer named Cody to acquire some lethal poison.

Oyster meddles with Demon records,  Ban strikes a deal with a secretive doctor.