When Edward and the other had reached the gathering point noted in the forum post, they realized that the other Explorers of the Seven Seas (Player parties who had obtained the Sea Sapphires) had arrived too.
As a matter of fact, many other familiar faces were gathered here—even the owner of the Iron Cauldron Tavern who never often showed up was there, gently rubbing and weighting his massive war axe, as if anticipating a violent battle.
"Is it that bad?" Edward asked Princess Leah when he found the Players debating hotly away. "How could no one have noticed the Bastion Crab King before?"
Although Edward could have asked the others, only the former princess of Tierra could hold things together, aside from Edward himself, Marni who was the richest person amongst the Players (not including Angora and the duke's estate he had yet to inherit) and Angora the liege of the unnamed town.