Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-34633327-20180125034140/@comment-10390252-20180213224134

Christl Rosebud wrote: So bacically either Atlus falls or Salem recovers the relic there at least, would be a massive blow to the heroes. FWIW, my preferred idea is for a string of white hat victories securing all the remaining relics. Then for a penultimate volume reverse with the Ozluminati bringing all the relics together for the final act of Oz's strategy (using their combined power to edit the Grimm out of existence or something similar) when Salem, through a fifth columnist in the hero group but who had actually always been her agent, who sabotages the defences and lets Salem and her allies steal all the relics and escape.

This would possibly include massive casualties in the primary cast (bye-bye JNR?).

The final volume is then a race to catch up with Salem at the ritual site somewhere hard-to-get-to and stop her before she can use the relics for whatever she wants.