Black Hole: The Book of Iratus, Recap of Chapters 1 to 33
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Episode 1. The story starts with a mousefolk named Iratus of House Lionheart going into a cave to slay a diseased wolf and coming out into another world. After a brief moment of confusion and fighting a monster called a treeskin, Iratus wondered and ended up in a strange stone city that was infested with treeskins.

Iratus looted some items from a few buildings before leaving the city and ending up on a dirt road that led to a stone military tower that he made into his home.

After some exploring, he found two people nearby his home, Victoria and Aestus.

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Episode 2. Iratus talked to the duo for a while before Iratus offered to shelter the two in his newly claimed stone tower on a trial basis. In the night, Iratus witnessed that there were neither stars in the sky nor any other light except for the bioluminescence of many plants and insects.

On another day, Iratus and Aesus would travel out to explore some and find a giant wasp hovering in front of a cave. After some combat, the two killed the wasp, and Iratus explored the cave to discover it was a cave that held a large hot spring network inside of it.

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Episode 3. Once together, the group talked about preserving their excess meat, with the need for a smoking rack becoming the main project. The group would delve into the stone city to find more resources, but they ran into a small group of treeskins and had to be diligent and careful to avoid serious injury. They also found another type of monster called Edax Examina, and unlike the bark-skinned treeskins, they were fungal-like creatures that could almost float off the ground; they were filled with such air. The group fled the scene of the two different monster factions fighting with each other.

One day, the group talked about some of their own world's religions and some other things while playing a game from Iratus's world. Iratus and Victoria would attempt the first expedition to the coast and found the new world they live in to be cut up into different environmental biomes, with a forest on one side of the river and on their side a more tropical one, and even more so just south of their tower. After some time, the pair was ambushed by a blackened monster that would eventually be called an Ebony.

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Episode 4. Iratus and Victoria barely managed to fend off the monster, who slank back into darkness and fled. At the tower, the group would work and keep on completing more projects, such as a smoking rack.

The group would eventually take to the hot springs cave to enjoy themselves. Later, Iratus and Aestus would travel back to the stone city for more loot.

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Episode 5. After seeing even more treeskins in the city, the pair decided to travel around instead. They explored the eastward areas and found a modern campsite southeast of their tower, and inside the camp were monsters called metalheads, which are an oil-like creature that replaces its host's skeleton with a metal-like one.

On another expedition, Iratus and Aestus would hear gunshots and head over to investigate.

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Episode 6. The pair would find several people who came from a train that crashed into a hole. They met a pair of hyenafolk who agreed to a later trade and would hold up in the campsite while the other train people were allowed to stay in the stone tower. After a substantial amount of talking, the train folk would show Iratus and Aestus the train wreck.

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Episode 7. After a brief combat with another new monster faction, Ashborn, Iratus, and Aestus retreat to scold the other group for not assisting him in the battle.

Once day 8 came, the two groups got to know each other a little more before Iratus and Ignis ventured off to a place where chickens were seen by the train folk in order to grab some eggs to make ink. They found a chapel along the way and prayed for a moment before continuing to their destination, a long-since abandoned festival location. They took a few items and treasures, and they collected a few eggs for their project.

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Episode 8. Iratus and Ignis would come back to the tower and find out that a few of the girls went out to the stone city but got attacked by the treeskins within it, forcing the group to retreat.

Iratus would also find out that the train folk had eaten away at the tower's stored food, so he decided to go out hunting, and the shark girl Resonantia joined him. After a successful hunt, they traveled back with a leopard stalking the pair and putting fear into Iratus. Luckily, they made it back without an altercation.

The next morning, the tower people and the train people had a falling out with the train folk eating all the food again and not doing any work themselves, resulting in Iratus, Victoria, and Aestus kicking them out of the tower with Ignis and Resonantia taking their sides.

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Episode 9. The next goal the now-five tower folk came up with was to loot the train wreck for anything left behind. During the exploration, Iratus was ambushed by another type of monster known as gray masks, masked beings that wear gray, grainy masks. The gray mask broke a chain link and dropped Iratus train car into the hole. The train car stopped and slipped on the wall of the hole, which gave Iratus enough time to jump and tumble away before it crashed into the hole.

Iratus had no choice but to navigate the tunnels below and came across the Ebony living in them. He escaped out of the cave, only to be attacked by the leopard. Luckily, the leopard and the pursuing ebony fought each other, which allowed Iratus to fight the ebony on even ground. Before Iratus was killed by the monster, it bled out and died.

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Episode 10. Much of the medication the group received was used on Iratus for his grievous injuries, and after a few days, a group was ready to head out for the encampment to trade with the two hyena soldiers.

With only the metalheads wandering the camp, the party decided to explore the cabins and found a few items as well as a tied-up rabbitfolk, whom the party never questioned once and released. They learned his name, Clamor, and learned that the remaining train folk and he teamed up before they went crazy with some sort of metalhead sickness.

While figuring out what happened to all the different parties, metalheads attacked and learned that the hyenas were slain and their bodies were now metalheads. On another day, an expedition went to the hideout to see if the train folk were still around and found nothing, with Clamor going out on his own to continue searching.

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Episode 11. In one morning, the tower folk found treeskins wandering around their home and so came up with a plan to deal with them and did quite well in dispatching them. When day 15 came, the group attempted to really get down to looting the campsite, but once the metalhead sickness started to affect the party, they decided to head back to the tower.

The group continued to expand on their construction projects, making things such as a bookshelf and even converting one of the barracks rooms into an infirmary.

After some discussion, the group didn't like how dangerous going outside was with the monsters called ebony hunting people, and thus, the group decided to head into the mines to see if they could find where the creatures lived. Without proper lighting, the group split up to find some light sources, namely a flashlight, and once they secured one, they finally delved into the mines. Deep within the mines, the party found a person-made elevator tunnel with lots of new stuff to loot.

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Episode 12. Down further in the tunnel was another tunnel with train tracks in it. The tunnel was also incredibly cold, too cold, and so the party backed into the elevator room and took a few items with them home with their primary goal out of sight.

At the tower, Clamor returns without having any clues to where the remaining train folk were, with only one option left on the table: another tower with a deep basement level full of dangers. However, a faction of people called invaders have already begun to pick at the tower. For a while, they kept to their own tower and explored south, where they came across a town from the planet Providence, Iratus's home world.

Since the town was infested by treeskins, the party was careful to explore the ruined town, though they eventually were found and had to flee the town.

On another day, the group got working on expanding the tower's defenses as they found a gray mask wondering near their home, and since gray masks attack large groups of people, the party expected an attack soon. Eventually, the party tried to follow a group of Invaders to see if they couldn't make contact with them, but only ended up in conflict with one of them.

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Episode 13. Another Invader ran down the group, but instead of fighting, he wanted to talk. The talks didn't go anywhere, so the respective groups parted ways.

On day 27, a hunting party found a bag of supplies with a map inside that had a location in Last Mistake, a province town, highlighted. While they thought it was most likely a trap, they did their best to prepare for one when they went to the marked location. To no one's surprise, the group was ambushed by the gray masks. They fought out of the town, though Clamor was captured by the gray masks.

During day 30, the gray mask assault began, and the defenses and plans of the tower folk were put to the test.

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Episode 14. The battle between the tower folk and the gray masks continues with the group launching a daring gambit and slaying the gray mask conduit, Tacitus. They rescued Clamor and would take some time to rest after their battle.

Then eventually the group would go back to looting Last Mistake for more items and loot. Clamor and Iratus found some intact segmented armor, and Clamor won the debate and won the armor.

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Episode 15. After their trip to Last Mistake, the group would spend the next day resting at the hot springs cave, and Iratus would become inspired to create some homebrew shampoo for everyone.

After some days, the party decided to continue clearing their location of monsters, starting with the stone city, which was now torn apart by the environment that was overcharged by the treeskins. The group spent days trying to burn down the main tree but didn't get too far with that plan.

Clamor ventured out because his kidnapper, Tacitus, told him of another group in the area, a hostile one. He told the group to head west and find the bridge north, which led into a temperate forest, making it the fourth biome stitched together in the stone tower's vicinity. Down a dirt road, a Japanese city was found, and the group deduced that it came from the human home world. On their way back, the party had an altercation with particularly strong metalheads wearing samurai armor and managed to escape them.

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Episode 16. The group continued to build upon their garden, and during one of their relaxing periods at the hot springs cave, they found a hidden tunnel that led to a proper stone bathhouse with a library in a hidden compartment. Iratus realized that the cave and bathhouse were locations in a book series on his planet, and the book stash was the complete collection of this book series.

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Episode 17. Iratus and the four girls agree to attempt to create a family. They also start spending a number of days further expanding their home with such things as a coop as well as a proper butchering hut. A group was sent out to find the chickens at the festival location to round up the chickens there.

On another day, the group raided Last Mistake for clothes and other things. The group would also continue to cut at the tree in the stone city until one morning they found it on fire. Clamor had returned and found the hostile group, which was led by an old friend/rival and managed to get in his good graces, redirecting his path slightly to the Japanese city.

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Episode 18. The group had a bit of a moral dilemma in setting up this vicious and ruthless warband to die at the hands of monsters, but in the end, Iratus agreed to help Clamor with his scheme.

The head of the warband, Victorium, set up his camp and staging ground for the incursions on the other side of the city, with plains to their backside.

Iratus and Clamor had to work for the army to help clear out the city. Iratus had to endure a tough situation with Clamor and Victorium, but eventually they got to continue their somewhat forced work. Soon, Iratus and Clamor noticed the signs of metalhead sickness and planned to end the army.

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Episode 19. Day 70 would be the final day Iratus and Clamor would stay in the warband. Iratus was forced once more into the city and was then given an ultimatum to join the warband or die. Iratus dueled the soldier and won, fleeing back to the camp sight, only to be temporarily stopped by an elderly fox woman who came out of nowhere to give Iratus a key. This absolutely confusing event was pushed to the side as Iratus continued to travel back to the campsite.

The campsite was attacked by metalheads and abnormal-looking metalheads that were centaur-like. Iratus fought for survival, while Clamor and Victorium dueled to death. Iratus, Clamor, and a fleeing doctor left the campsite in its chaos.

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Episode 20. The tower folk convinced Fractura to live nearby, as having a doctor nearby would be a positive thing for them. The party would also comb over the destroyed warband camp for loot as well.

The party is also aware of another group lurking around, as they saw someone trying to break into their stone tower and have thus started to search for this other group.

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Episode 21. The party explored the cold tunnel and reached the summoner's tower, where Fractura now lives, but only the underground portion of it. The party found a warm room where the other group was staying, but they were not there, and so Iratus's group decided to explore deeper in the underground tower.

Day 85 would see the party delve back into the cold tunnels and the warm room in order to find the other group. Once the others were found, they were quite hostile and even had the old fox woman tied up.

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Episode 22. Just before a breakdown happened, the security system of the tower and three ebonies attacked the room at the same time. with only the tower folk and a few others surviving the attack.

In the aftermath, the old fox woman, Venatio, and a badger woman, Tempestas, joined the party.

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Episode 23. A phenomenon of the Nexus Prime called the Blackest Day happened, which caused a ton of random things to happen to the detriment of Iratus and his group.

During the event, gray masks returned and attacked the tower, and while they were repealed, Iratus was angered that the non-tower folk did not help defend the tower, and Clamor was also having problems with Iratus's leadership.

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Episode 24. With the blackest day over, the tower folk and the others had a falling out, though they would still work together.

The party still tried to locate the leader of the hostile group and eventually met up with her on the bridge to the Japanese city. The group killed her quite coldly, then fought a horde of samurai metalheads, sustaining many injuries in the process.

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Episode 25. While recovering from their wounds, the group was attacked by gray masks again, led by the woman they just killed.

On day 104, the party set out to hunt down and finish off the new gray mask conduit. They reached the Japanese castle, found their foe, and eventually slew the creature.

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Episode 26. With their foe slain, the party had to flee the city as another monster faction started to move in. The party fought the ashborn and succeeded in fleeing the city, which became a mess of burned houses and ash.

After some days, the group would continue to clear out locations such as Last Mistake, and they finally managed to slay the large monster treeskin.

After that, the party would also try to reach the coast, this time succeeding in doing so.

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Episode 27. On day 132, the group would attempt to explore the battleship that was anchored near the beach. In the communication room, they picked up a communication from someone who lived in a large building far away and was in danger.

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Episode 28. The ship was full of Edax Examina and a roaming hologram that could interact with things and people. All of these hostile enemies forced the party into being stuck on the boat until Fractura set off explosives that sank the battle and freed the party to swim for their own ride.

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Episode 29. Eventually, after the group rested from their ordeals in the battleship, they launched a rescue operation and headed to save the trapped person, Desidia, from a fortified hospital. The group found the feline woman, and they found themselves stuck in the hospital.

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Episode 30. Down in the second building that was under the hospital, the group found a black blob of some kind, which would be later revealed as the original form of the metalheads. Iratus and Desidia got separated, and they had to fight the blob alone. They survived and met up with the others at the heart of the building nearby, which housed a shard of reality and two tools to utilize it. It was revealed that Desidia isn't what she seemed but would leave the group peacefully with their treasure intact.

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Episode 31. The group discussed using the shard for a while before agreeing to come back to it later.

Eventually the other people decided to create houses near the tower so that everyone would at least be close together, which the tower folk were fine with. Fractura also wanted to clear out the fortified hospital to use it for his own ends, to which Iratus and a few others offered to assist him.

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Episode 32. In the hospital, the group found more monsters and even a strange creature that was some sort of mannequin that was filled with thin metal fibers that were thin enough to be cut. It took the whole group, but they managed to survive against the creature and clear out the building of monsters.

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Episode 33. The group continued with building their new homes and walls with Iratus, and the girls took a break to explore Last Mistake and hunt down an animal for food. The group would go all out, cooking a lot of meat to stuff themselves with and taking their time to relax.

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