Cycle 28 has no fixed native audience. It is Victoria’s earliest Arrival stage and the first target for one of the three non-Brimwood Act Three county openings; both remain conditional on the prior route.
Spoiler warning: All newly eligible choices and outcomes are linked below. A route-union entry means the scene can occur on at least one valid history, not that every listed scene can coexist in one playthrough.
Return to the Cycle 27 walkthrough
Recommended Order
- Resolve any forced major intervention before planning the selectable morning.
- Play recruitment returns and corruption returns before scenes that check the current Round Table.
- Clear fixed and delayed story audiences, then resolve the random grievances actually drawn on this route.
- Use afternoon conversations before the Round Table only when their state change helps the assignments you are about to make.
- Assign deadline quests first, repair armor before lethal work, and send only callbacks you want competing for the next cycle’s character slots.
- Continue through every result panel until the first Cycle 29 Tower View appears.
Morning Assembly
Direct story audiences, callbacks, quest results, deaths, and current-cycle injections are assembled before random grievances. Same-character conflicts do not delete a valid delayed scene; they move it to the first later cycle where that character is free.
| Direct audiences before filling | Random grievances added |
|---|---|
| 0 or 1 | 2 or 3 |
| 2 | Exactly 2 |
| 3 | 1 or 2 |
| 4 | Exactly 1 |
| 5 or more | None |
The exact live pool is route-dependent because earlier draws permanently remove wrappers and only a separate location-introduction scene activates a county pack. An Act Three county opening starts its quest chain; it does not activate that county’s random pack by itself.
Fixed and Newly Eligible Audiences
| Scene | Earliest route | What it changes |
|---|---|---|
| Victoria’s Arrival | Morning | Finish the Cycle 27 Wounded Man audience while Victoria is alive. |
Inherited Route Pool
This stage also carries 4 explicitly linked earlier roots. Their choices are not duplicated here; use the Conditional Audience Choices reference and follow only the entries whose prerequisites your route actually satisfies.
Newly Unlockable Quests
| Quest route | Unlock source | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| Assassination simulation: (Lie) We’ll take care of him. (Fake his death.) | Victoria’s Arrival | Finish the Wounded Man audience while Victoria is alive. |
| Assassination simulation: We will discreetly eliminate him at his mercenary camp. | Victoria’s Arrival | Finish the Wounded Man audience while Victoria is alive. |
| Griffin taming: Let’s tame the griffin belonging to the late Count; it must know something. | County Quest Basalt Isles First Audience | This county must receive the second or third shuffled Act Three opening slot, or arrive later after a collision. |
| Pirates under pressure: The pirates must have information: we’ll make them squeal. | County Quest Basalt Isles First Audience | This county must receive the second or third shuffled Act Three opening slot, or arrive later after a collision. |
| Public assassination: We will search for him at his mercenary camp and execute him in public. | Victoria’s Arrival | Finish the Wounded Man audience while Victoria is alive. |
| Repel the dragon: Fine, we’ll help you… | County Quest Moonvale First Audience | This county must receive the second or third shuffled Act Three opening slot, or arrive later after a collision. |
| Search underwater: We’ll look under the water! I bet no one else even thought of that. | County Quest Basalt Isles First Audience | This county must receive the second or third shuffled Act Three opening slot, or arrive later after a collision. |
| The merchant’s guilds: We’ll speak with the local merchant guilds.. | County Quest Basalt Isles First Audience | This county must receive the second or third shuffled Act Three opening slot, or arrive later after a collision. |
| The princes of the Islands: We’ll speak to the leaders of the local islands. | County Quest Basalt Isles First Audience | This county must receive the second or third shuffled Act Three opening slot, or arrive later after a collision. |
| Victoria duel: I shall grant you the mercy of death through honourable combat. | Victoria’s Arrival | Finish the Wounded Man audience while Victoria is alive. |
Earlier Quest Results Reaching This Stage
| Quest route | Knights whose assignment resolves now |
|---|---|
| Countering scholars: Our most powerful knight will cast a counter spell. | Rufus alone, The Wolf alone, any other single Knight, left unassigned until its deadline |
| Let’s intimidate the academician: Dulahan terrifies me: he’ll make a perfect candidate. | Rufus alone, The Wolf alone, any other single Knight, left unassigned until its deadline |
| Let’s intimidate the academician: I am sure that Victoria will be very convincing. | Rufus alone, The Wolf alone, any other single Knight, left unassigned until its deadline |
| Massacre of the Beggars: May all the rebels be executed. | Rufus alone, The Wolf alone, any other single Knight, left unassigned until its deadline |
| Merchant assassination: Let’s get rid of the guild leader, and presto, problem solved. | Rufus alone, The Wolf alone, any other single Knight, left unassigned until its deadline |
| Merchant negotiations: Two knights will go to negotiate with the guild leader. | Rufus alone, The Wolf alone, any other single Knight, left unassigned until its deadline |
| Monster Hunters: Edith will surely know how to harass in a proper manner. | Rufus alone, The Wolf alone, any other single Knight, left unassigned until its deadline |
| Noble civil war: Let us prepare for war, and rally the people to our cause. | Rufus alone, The Wolf alone, any other single Knight, left unassigned until its deadline |
| Noble civil war: Let’s prepare for war. | Rufus alone, The Wolf alone, any other single Knight, left unassigned until its deadline |
Route Warnings
- A delayed audience’s target is a minimum, not a promise. A shared visitor moves the later addition forward until the first free cycle.
- A death removes that Knight’s already scheduled future audiences before the death announcement is added.
- A newly triggered low-affinity departure is checked after the current morning is assembled, so its departure card targets a later cycle.
- County quest openings and county location introductions are different scenes. Only the latter unlocks a county’s random audience pack.
Victoria and the Second County Slot
Victoria’s Arrival is scheduled after the Wounded Man scene, provided she is still alive. Separately, one of Basalt Isles, Moonvale, or Enberg targets this cycle as the second Act Three opening; Brimwood can also drift here after a shared-character collision.
Not Yet Reachable
- Bettie’s Victoria Request: The Wounded Man audience that unlocks this request also matches its exclusion condition, so the request is immediately locked.