The party finalized their takeover of the VSS Dominion, rechristening it the SS Nadine as they embarked on a high-stakes voyage toward Murmansk. Amidst the discovery of horrific corporate secrets and unstable shardisite artifacts, the session was defined by a miraculous sacrifice from Viktor and a direct divine intervention from the angel of hope.

The session opened with Viktor performing the ritual of command, hucking a bottle of champagne against the ship’s bow. The gesture, performed without a formal speech, was met with a genuine cheer from the crew of sailors and mercenaries. As the ship prepared to sail, the party noted an uncanny, miraculous soothing of the crew's fear and uncertainty, as if their very presence was cutting a path through the atmospheric despair of St. Petersgrad.

Before departing, the party visited the brig to interrogate Harold Drekanov’s second-in-command, a man contemptuously referred to as “Piss Pants” (Mr. Fisher). Under duress and the threat of Harold’s severed head, Fisher revealed the dark purpose of the ship's voyage to Atlantis. He detailed a failed “vision” of Harold's: the destruction of the village of Svalbard in Atlantis through an aerosolized mutagen tested on the local population. Fisher confirmed that Dr. Minerva Sedgwick was the recipient of this research and that the ship's hold #2 contained the “waste product”—the horrific, mutated remains of those who failed to survive the experiments.

The party moved to Hold 3, the Viroc Arcane Affairs section, which was modeled like a miniature corporate campus within the hull. Lusat utilized a *Knock* spell to breach a secure container, revealing hundreds of well-documented and contained shardisite chips and slivers. Inside, they encountered the R&D team: Ansel, a specialist in animatronics, and Rhonda, a clerical researcher. Ansel revealed a second secure cube, identical to the one the party encountered on the train, which was coded to the handprints of the Drekanov lineage and Ansel revealed that it contained three, high-purity Shardisite Ingots.

In a move of desperate intuition, Viktor attempted to open the secure cube by pressing Harold’s charred, severed head against the lock. The contact triggered a catastrophic necrotic backlash, manifesting as a manifestation of Harold Drekanov's face surrounded by inky black tendrils which enveloped everyone in the secure container. Utilizing his Aura of the Guardian, Viktor took the full weight of the necrotic explosion to save the two scientists and the junior officer from certain death.

The blast nearly killed him, leaving his flesh eaten from his bones, but he was held from death by his Relentless Endurance. In the moments he hung between life and death, Viktor experienced a profound vision of Nadine. Unlike her previous featureless manifestations, she appeared as a classical angel of hope with piercing green eyes. She healed Viktor’s flesh with a touch, thanking him for his deeds and reaffirming the party's final mission before vanishing back into her light-filled realm of hope.

With the security features of the box now neutralized and converted into a plain steel container, the party turned their focus to the war for Murmansk. Ansel, realizing the party was “on a mission from God,” agreed to assist. The party commissioned him to use one of the shardisite ingots to construct what they called a “Razzle Dazzle Bomb”. A remote-detonated device based off of their experiment in Svalbard, capable of erasing the Viroc HQ in Murmansk from existence. In exchange, the party promised to fund Ansel’s dream project: an animatronic line of archanotech transport elephants.

As the SS Nadine stabilized its speed toward Murmansk, the party sent a final sending stone message to Galvar the Pugilist at the St. Petersgrad waterfront. They officially placed him in charge of local security and instructed the militia to protect Anya and grow the faith of Nadine. They received an immediate and hopeful reply: “The horizon is bright. The house is being built… May hope guide your path”. In addition they sent a message to Minerva Sedgewick asking her to meet to discuss the future of Viroc Industries leadership, which went unanswered.