Cycle 9 is the Dragon Knight deadline and the earliest Act Two transition. A victory is handled during the transition, while failure ends the run; Act Two introductions and traitor business can then replace an otherwise quiet morning.
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.
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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 10 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 Two 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arlin Opens Act Two | Morning Direct Audience | A Dragon Knight victory schedules Arlin’s Act Two introduction into Cycle 9. |
| Arron Asks for the Dragon Heart | Optional Dialogue | Arron Asks for the Dragon Heart can become available from this cycle when its relationship and availability requirements are met. |
| Arron’s Standard Affinity Scene 2 | Optional Dialogue | Arron’s Standard Affinity Scene 2 can become available from this cycle when its relationship and availability requirements are met. |
| act 2 courier intervention: The Courier Bringing Quests 4 | Phase End Intervention | Act Two adds Courier Offer 4 to the phase-end courier draw; availability is not a promise that it will play. |
| act 2 courier intervention: The Courier Bringing Quests 5 | Phase End Intervention | Act Two adds Courier Offer 5 to the phase-end courier draw; availability is not a promise that it will play. |
| act 2 courier intervention: The Courier Bringing Quests 6 | Phase End Intervention | Act Two adds Courier Offer 6 to the phase-end courier draw; availability is not a promise that it will play. |
| act 2 courier intervention: The Courier Bringing Quests 7 | Phase End Intervention | Act Two adds Courier Offer 7 to the phase-end courier draw; availability is not a promise that it will play. |
| act 2 courier intervention: The Courier Bringing Quests 8 | Phase End Intervention | Act Two adds Courier Offer 8 to the phase-end courier draw; availability is not a promise that it will play. |
| Silgur Reacts to the Dragon Knight’s Defeat | Optional Dialogue | Silgur Reacts to the Dragon Knight’s Defeat can become available from this cycle when its relationship and availability requirements are met. |
| Silgur and the Consumed Dragon Heart | Optional Dialogue | Silgur and the Consumed Dragon Heart can become available from this cycle when its relationship and availability requirements are met. |
| The Demon’s Act Two Introduction | Phase Start Intervention | The Demon speaks at the start of Cycle 9 on the Act Two victory route. |
| The Traitor Plot Begins | Morning Direct Audience | The Traitor Plot introduction is queued for Cycle 9 on victory routes with an eligible traitor; collisions can move it later. |
Inherited Route Pool
This stage also carries 19 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Captain’s Mutiny | Act Two Courier | Act Two must be active, the courier cooldown must be ready, and no more than 10 quests can be open. One unplayed courier bundle is then chosen at random. |
| Cheesemaker Dispute | Act Two Courier | Act Two must be active, the courier cooldown must be ready, and no more than 10 quests can be open. One unplayed courier bundle is then chosen at random. |
| Dairy Sabotage | Act Two Courier | Act Two must be active, the courier cooldown must be ready, and no more than 10 quests can be open. One unplayed courier bundle is then chosen at random. |
| Dragon hunt | Act Two Courier | Act Two must be active, the courier cooldown must be ready, and no more than 10 quests can be open. One unplayed courier bundle is then chosen at random. |
| Ether medallion | Act Two Courier | Act Two must be active, the courier cooldown must be ready, and no more than 10 quests can be open. One unplayed courier bundle is then chosen at random. |
| Fabric Parasites | Act Two Courier | Act Two must be active, the courier cooldown must be ready, and no more than 10 quests can be open. One unplayed courier bundle is then chosen at random. |
| Hydra Hunt | Act Two Courier | Act Two must be active, the courier cooldown must be ready, and no more than 10 quests can be open. One unplayed courier bundle is then chosen at random. |
| Manticore Hunt | Act Two Courier | Act Two must be active, the courier cooldown must be ready, and no more than 10 quests can be open. One unplayed courier bundle is then chosen at random. |
| Merchants Guild Traitor | Act Two Courier | Act Two must be active, the courier cooldown must be ready, and no more than 10 quests can be open. One unplayed courier bundle is then chosen at random. |
| Music Competition | Act Two Courier | Act Two must be active, the courier cooldown must be ready, and no more than 10 quests can be open. One unplayed courier bundle is then chosen at random. |
| Rozenn Peace Treaty | Act Two Courier | Act Two must be active, the courier cooldown must be ready, and no more than 10 quests can be open. One unplayed courier bundle is then chosen at random. |
| Searching for the traitor: … Indeed. | The Traitor Strikes | Requires Dragon Knight victory, Act Two, at least one eligible living and recruited traitor, and enough available Knights. The murder plot can trigger only through Cycle 12. |
| Spearfishing Competition | Act Two Courier | Act Two must be active, the courier cooldown must be ready, and no more than 10 quests can be open. One unplayed courier bundle is then chosen at random. |
| The Black Knight | Act Two Courier | Act Two must be active, the courier cooldown must be ready, and no more than 10 quests can be open. One unplayed courier bundle is then chosen at random. |
| The Stolen Tiara | Act Two Courier | Act Two must be active, the courier cooldown must be ready, and no more than 10 quests can be open. One unplayed courier bundle is then chosen at random. |
| Wolf Invasion | Act Two Courier | Act Two must be active, the courier cooldown must be ready, and no more than 10 quests can be open. One unplayed courier bundle is then chosen at random. |
Cycle 7 Quest Results Reaching This Stage
| Quest route | Knights whose assignment resolves now |
|---|---|
| Apple Pie Riots: Arrest the culprits | Angelica, Arron, Brunhilda, Chester, Dulahan, Goberto, Gwendan, Silgur, Tarcus, Ursule, the full requested party |
| Apple Pie Riots: Hold a craftsmen’s tournament | Angelica, Arron, Brunhilda, Chester, Dulahan, Goberto, Gwendan, Silgur, Tarcus, Ursule, the full requested party |
| Apple Pie Riots: Supervise the market | Angelica, Arron, Brunhilda, Chester, Dulahan, Goberto, Gwendan, Silgur, Tarcus, Ursule, the full requested party |
| Beaconsbury’s Hunt | Angelica, Arron, Brunhilda, Chester, Dulahan, Goberto, Gwendan, Silgur, Tarcus, Ursule, the full requested party |
| Biggest Aligot Contest | Angelica, Arron, Brunhilda, Chester, Dulahan, Goberto, Gwendan, Silgur, Tarcus, Ursule, the full requested party |
| Checking the Egg | Angelica, Arron, Brunhilda, Chester, Dulahan, Goberto, Gwendan, Silgur, Tarcus, Ursule, the full requested party |
| Curse of the Baths | Angelica, Arron, Brunhilda, Chester, Dulahan, Goberto, Gwendan, Silgur, Tarcus, Ursule, the full requested party |
| Milking Goats | Angelica, Arron, Brunhilda, Chester, Dulahan, Goberto, Gwendan, Silgur, Tarcus, Ursule, the full requested party |
| Negotiate the Eggs | Angelica, Arron, Brunhilda, Chester, Dulahan, Goberto, Gwendan, Silgur, Tarcus, Ursule, the full requested party |
| Rat Extermination | Angelica, Arron, Brunhilda, Chester, Dulahan, Goberto, Gwendan, Silgur, Tarcus, Ursule, the full requested party |
| Sheepfold Fire | Angelica, Arron, Brunhilda, Chester, Dulahan, Goberto, Gwendan, Silgur, Tarcus, Ursule, the full requested party |
| Technical Sabotage | Angelica, Arron, Brunhilda, Chester, Dulahan, Goberto, Gwendan, Silgur, Tarcus, Ursule, the full requested party |
| The Sheep of Drowsiness: Break the spell | Angelica, Arron, Brunhilda, Chester, Dulahan, Goberto, Gwendan, Silgur, Tarcus, Ursule, the full requested party |
| The Sheep of Drowsiness: Slay the beast | Angelica, Arron, Brunhilda, Chester, Dulahan, Goberto, Gwendan, Silgur, Tarcus, Ursule, the full requested party |
| Urgent Delivery (Smelling Parcel): Deliver by boat from Grest | The Wolf |
| Urgent Delivery (Smelling Parcel): Deliver by road | Rufus |
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.
Act Two Transition
Dragon Knight failure ends the run. Victory is removed from the normal Cycle 9 row and played during the transition, then Act Two can add Arlin, Demon, traitor, courier, and murder-plot scenes. The first shuffled county opening targets Cycle 10; the other two begin with later target slots.
Not Yet Reachable
- Arron Babydragon Affinity 3: Not reachable in Cycles 8-12: Arron’s baby-dragon state cannot be established in Cycle 8-12.
- Arron Follow Up Babydragon Gimmick: Not reachable in Cycles 8-12: The Dragon Egg prerequisite is outside this window.
- Arron Get The Egg: Not reachable in Cycles 8-12: The Dragon Egg comes from Moonvale/Act Three content outside this window.
- Conversation: Arron Belladona: Not reachable in Cycles 8-12: The baby-dragon/Moonvale chain required for this pairing is outside the window.
- Conversation: Silgur Ligia: Not reachable in Cycles 8-12: Ligia requires later Southbay progression beyond the Cycle 10 opening audience.
- Gideon Death Announcement: Not reachable in Cycles 8-12: Gideon is not recruited before Cycle 13 in forward Cycle 8-12 play.
- Gwendan Affinity 3 Humble: Not reachable in Cycles 8-12: Reformed Gwendan can return in Cycle 12 at earliest and is marked spoken in his recruitment cycle.
- Gwendan Affinity 4 Humble: Not reachable in Cycles 8-12: Its prerequisite humble affinity scene cannot occur before the window closes.
- Traitors Plot Demon Quest Accept Reaction: Not reachable in Cycles 8-12: The optional scene points to a knot absent from the available English dialogue.
- Traitors Plot Demon Quest Success Reaction: Not reachable in Cycles 8-12: The optional scene points to a knot absent from the available English dialogue.
- Traitors Plot Omniscient Gideon Murderer Reaction: Not reachable in Cycles 8-12: Gideon’s fixed candidacy is Cycle 13, so he cannot be the in-window traitor.