diff --git a/internal/web/adventure.go b/internal/web/adventure.go
index eb0aa3b..e50ea93 100644
--- a/internal/web/adventure.go
+++ b/internal/web/adventure.go
@@ -188,6 +188,8 @@ func advEventMeta(eventType string) (label, emoji string) {
 		return "Pete's duels", "🤝"
 	case "milestone":
 		return "Milestone", "🏅"
+	case "retreat":
+		return "Pulled out", "🎒"
 	}
 	return "Dispatch", "📣"
 }
@@ -375,6 +377,19 @@ func renderAdventure(f AdvFact) (headline, lede string, ok bool) {
 	case "death":
 		return fmt.Sprintf("We lost %s in %s.", f.Subject, f.Zone),
 			fmt.Sprintf("Sad news to pass along: %s fell at level %d in %s. The graveyard's a little fuller tonight. Rest easy.", f.Subject, f.Level, f.Zone), true
+	case "retreat":
+		// An expedition that came apart without killing anyone. Until gogobee
+		// started sending these, the feed had no way to say "it went badly and
+		// everyone lived" — so it never said it, and the classes that retreat
+		// often simply never appeared. Warm, not a failure notice: everyone came
+		// home, and that is the part Pete leads with.
+		howFar := "barely a day in"
+		if f.Count > 1 {
+			howFar = fmt.Sprintf("%d days in", f.Count)
+		}
+		return fmt.Sprintf("%s backed out of %s.", f.Subject, f.Zone),
+			fmt.Sprintf("%s turned around %s — %s got the better of them this time%s, and they made the call to walk out rather than push it. Everybody came home breathing, which is the bit that counts. That dungeon'll still be there next week.",
+				f.Subject, howFar, f.Zone, atLevel), true
 	case "arrival":
 		return fmt.Sprintf("Welcome to the realm, %s!", f.Subject),
 			fmt.Sprintf("A new %s just walked through the gates. Say hello if you see them out there.", f.ClassRace), true
diff --git a/internal/web/adventure_retreat_test.go b/internal/web/adventure_retreat_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4dab3df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/web/adventure_retreat_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+package web
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"pete/internal/storage"
+)
+
+// The retreat bulletin — gogobee's newest event type.
+//
+// The failure this guards against is silent and total: handleAdventureIngest
+// answers an unrecognized event_type with 400, and gogobee's sender treats any
+// non-2xx as a failure, retries eight times over ~two hours, and then PARKS the
+// row forever. So a gogobee that emits `retreat` against a Pete that doesn't
+// know the word doesn't log an error anyone reads — it just quietly drops every
+// retreat the realm ever files. Pete has to learn the word first, and this test
+// is what says he has.
+func TestAdventureIngest_AcceptsRetreat(t *testing.T) {
+	const token = "s3cret-token"
+	s, posted := newAdvServer(t, token)
+
+	f := AdvFact{
+		GUID: "retreat:abc:1000", EventType: "retreat", Tier: "bulletin",
+		Actors: []string{"Brannigan"}, Subject: "Brannigan",
+		Zone: "the Underforge", Level: 12, Count: 3, Outcome: "retreated",
+		OccurredAt: 1000,
+	}
+	if rw := postFact(t, s, token, f); rw.Code != 200 {
+		t.Fatalf("ingest status = %d body=%s — Pete rejected a retreat, so gogobee will "+
+			"retry it eight times and park it forever", rw.Code, rw.Body.String())
+	}
+
+	got, err := storage.GetStoryByGUID("retreat:abc:1000")
+	if err != nil || got == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("retreat was accepted but not stored: %v", err)
+	}
+	// It has to actually say what happened, in Pete's voice, using only the
+	// supplied facts.
+	body := got.Headline + " " + got.Lede
+	for _, want := range []string{"Brannigan", "the Underforge"} {
+		if !strings.Contains(body, want) {
+			t.Errorf("rendered retreat is missing %q: %q", want, body)
+		}
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(got.Lede, "3 days in") {
+		t.Errorf("the day count never made it into the copy: %q", got.Lede)
+	}
+	// Bulletin, not priority: a retreat goes in the daily digest, it does not
+	// interrupt the room. Pete announcing every failed run live would be a
+	// firehose — and an unkind one.
+	if len(*posted) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("a bulletin was posted live: %+v", *posted)
+	}
+}