Previously on Reclaiming Orathos

A million bugs pour out of the pipe room — and we crush them. Crits everywhere, Keith the caged thief shoved out front as bait, the whole swarm dead before it's a fight. Then Malifax, our skinless Forge Lord, takes us the long "safe way" to his cupboard: past his ghoul-keeping neighbor, past the eye-stalk Watchers we wave off with the woodling staff, past a giant crab that Lash just feeds a severed finger.

Inside his treasury we find wonders — a loot box that's different every time, a mirror that shows the past, a pulsing crystal egg, swords waiting to be "wammed" into one. And a fallen meteorite, ours to keep, if we bury the three crushed dead beneath it. Valmora gives them a funeral and earns lost-god lore for it.

We grab the prisoner-moving staff to cage the Queen Grabbler. Thalia exposes Keith's murder plot and re-cages him. New plan: evict Malifax's scheming immortal clique next door — and turn their room into the Queen's cell.

SUMMARY: A one-sided bug slaughter, a tour of the Forge Lord's hoard, a funeral that wins divine lore, and a fresh plan to evict his immortal neighbors and cage the Queen Grabbler in their room.