The Story So Far

From the casino to Greed.

Relapse is being published in order, chapter by chapter, alongside the records that score it. Everything below is out now. It ends where the next release begins.

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Building Relapse → The Ghosts We Can't Leave Behind → The Relapse Canon →

Chapter

Heaven's Gate

The casino. Everything that follows starts inside it.

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Panel

Put out of Heaven's Gate

Drew is thrown out of the casino.

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Chapter

Demeter's Torch

The first relic, found on the boat.

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Chapter

Cast Away

Out at sea, and then the rescue — Cynthia, the Cancer guardian.

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Chapter

Still Petty

On the boat with the guardians, telling them where he came from — the whole road that led to the casino door.

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The story he tells — Volumes I–III

The Vault

West Rose

III

Homecoming

Panel

The Cross

Adrift on open water, he's given the Hermes Caduceus Cross-Keytar — twin serpents forged into something he can carry and play.

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Chapter

Porto Tranquilo

Landfall at the dock. He offers Demeter's torch in trade and learns that some things aren't for sale — then finds Lira waiting at the end of it.

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Next · September 18

Greed

The first of seven. Where the story goes next.

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