Downtime-Epulae
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[edit] Downtime (Prelude to Arc One)
- September 2004: The students begin attending the Vernal Sanctuary.
- February, 2005: Alexis' parents announce they are getting a divorce.
- March, 2005: Gaerun, the Hierarch of Rochester/Buffalo, is forced to grant the Orders access to the students of the Vernal Sanctuary. Over the next month, they are approached by a variety of other magi, who introduce them to the Orders.
- May, 2005: The students graduate the Vernal Sanctuary. Alexis (now called Kore) and Angela (now called Daimona) go to the Boston Consilium, to be trained in their Orders. Justin returns to his family in Athens, TN, while Ryan returns to his family in Idaho, while figuring out what he wants to do. Ben heads out in search of his brother, south into Florida.
- June, 2005: After a month in his home-town, his Aunt Dorothy (the witch Enula ) offers Ryan a free education in London. He takes her up on the offer, and flies out to England. Later that month, Justin packs up his sister and moves to Memphis, TN, to join the Consilium there under the apprenticeship of a Silver Ladder magus. In his search for his brother, Ben goes through New York, but doesn't find any other mages.
- July, 2005: Kelly transfers schooling to England, and flies out to join Ryan, who has taken the name of Storm and joined the Free Council in London. Later that month, Sara visits as well. After searching for his brother unsuccessfully, Ben returns to Boston, and joins the Adamantine Arrow, taking the Shadow Name Promachus.
- September, 2005: Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans. Daimona wants to go there immediately, and the Curator of the Boston Athenaeum, seeing that she won't be dissuaded, persuades her to undertake a recovery mission there. She agrees. Additionally, at the Curator's request, the Adamantine Arrow sends Promachus to be her guardian.
- October, 2005: Her participation in relief efforts finished, Daimona begins hunting for the lost artifacts and books of the Athenaeum of New Orleans, which have been scattered by looters, rival magi and other supernatural creatures. In this effort, she makes the acquaintance of Taboo, a mambo of the Guardians of the Veil.
- November, 2005: After helping Daimona and Promachus fend off the attacks of some vampires, Taboo tells them that she is going to New York, to look into the disappearances that have occurred there recently, and to secure some of the resources that have been abandoned there. She tells them to look her up if they ever end up in the city.
- December, 2005: The Curator of Boston contacts Daimona and tells her to deliver the things she has retrieved to the new Curator in New York, Theophrastus, at the old Ironrose Pub in Manhattan. He also suggests that if she begins to find the rebuilt New Orleans to be too strange of a place to live in, she may find the opportunities in New York to be quite fine, indeed.
- January, 2006: Kore's parents finalize their divorce. Her mother gets legal custody of Kore, and moves the two of them to Manhattan, where she can pursue her career as an artist…of some kind. Enula, Storm's aunt, hears about the disappearance of the Sodality coven in New York, and begins doing some investigating from afar. Finishing what they are doing in New Orleans, Daimona and Promachus leave, detouring into Florida to search for Promachus' brother, Jacob, a bit, before heading north.
- February, 2006: Enula asks Storm to accompany one of her initiates, the witch Boudicca, to New York to see about finding what has happened there. Storm agrees, having gotten a letter from Kore telling him that she is now living in New York City. Marbas (as Justin is now called) is sent to New York by his mentor in Memphis, who says he can no longer properly train him; he is to meet up with a Clavicularius magus named Valdus to continue his education. Daimona and Promachus arrive in New York.
[edit] Downtime (Arc One to Arc Two)
- April 2006
- Kore: Kore spent two days in a coma following the events at Wakefield. During this time, Valdus works to keep Danielle calm, and suggests that they should schedule some time away once she recovers. When Kore wakes up, she is whisked away by her mother to a small villa in Martha's Vineyard.
- Daimona: Daimona checked in on Promachus nightly, and put in appearances at the Athenaeum, but seemed to lose herself for a while. She didn't return to the cabal sanctum to sleep, and generally hit the bars and nightclubs on a nightly basis, usually going home with someone and dropping them before they got too attached.
- Promachus: Promachus spent this entire time in a coma.
- Marbas: Marbas, stricken by the death of Violet, accompanied Valdus on a trip to a sanctum of Valdus' in the Swiss Alps. Valdus returns to New York to continue tending to things, leaving Marbas to spend some time in private.
- Storm: Storm and Boudicca spent time getting the covenstead back in shape, and formally beginning his apprenticeship. They spend the week of the full moon back in Britain, inviting Kelly to accompany them, but she demurs, needing to attend her first full moon with her new coven.
[edit] Downtime (Arc Two to Arc Three)
- July 2006
- The Feast of Flesh in New York is blamed by law enforcement agencies and the government on another terrorist attack, claiming they used chemical agents to instill hallucinations and rabid behavior in the populace. The government and Homeland Security arrive in force, very nearly shutting down the city in their investigations.
- Cabal Et Astrum discovered several of their household servants turning into ghouls, and spent the rest of the night quelling the havoc in the Financial District as businessmen and others turned into ghouls. Only Dusk was not with them at the time, hanging out with her vampire friends when it happened.
- The Evangelists suddenly found their fight much more difficult, with several of their targeted vampires suddenly turning into something much, much worse. Marcus called in a favor from Valdus, seeking his help.
- The Krewe of Pan spent their time consolidating their hold on the apartment-Hallow and wiping out zombies and ghouls in a ten-block radius of their new Sanctum.
- The Summer Lotus Court took to the streets of Chinatown and Little Italy, defending everyone they could find and destroying zombies.
- The night the havoc broke out, the Temple of Stone returned to Boston.
- A number of mages died during the Feast of Flesh: Dusk of Cabal Et Astrum, Lucas of the Evangelists and Phobos, of the Free Council New York Reclamation Project.
- Midnight Cantata settles down in Manhattan, joining the Consilium of the Phoenix.
- Valdus is quite injured by some kind of wound that will not heal, either naturally or with magic. He is still on hand to help Liz through the difficulties she experiences in the wake of Corbin's death; likewise, she physically assists him around the house. Eventually, Valdus hires her to be his caretaker and nurse.
- Life in New York becomes quite difficult with government agents everywhere. They find nothing, and Taboo goes to work using her influence in the Guardians to get certain members of the Order to get them to lighten up.
- Storm is visited by Phinia and Heliophilus, who give him the deed to the Sun & Steel shop and the apartments above it.
- Boudicca hands the reins as Adamant Sage over to Sife Xia He of the Summer Lotus Court and takes Storm and Kelly to Britain, where Kelly is initiated into the Craft properly.
- Danielle Grant, Kore's mother, breaks up with Carter Rockerfeller when she catches him seeing another woman. She retreats to a villa on Fire Island; Kore decides not to go with her, staying in Manhattan with Ms. Edith.
- August 2006
- After a lot of difficulty, Marbas' gym, XXXX opens in Midtown and is immediately a big hit, providing stressed police officers a place to congregate, work out their stresses and bitch about things outside of official areas.
- At Lughnassadh, Storm acts as the sacrificial Lammas King at the Covenstead, and the spirits of the place turn out to witness and experience the rite. In honor of his assumption of the mantle of stewardship over the land, Boudicca offers to craft him a set of tattoo-fetishes, in which the four elementals he is now rightful king of might dwell, waiting for his call.
- In late August, an overly-extreme checkpoint operation results in a riot at the Manhattan exit of the Brooklyn Bridge. Government agents are extricated by the police, and the Army is on hand to quell the rioters.
- Tired of waking up with nightmares after his experiences on Midsummer Night, Jake (Promachus' brother) signs up for boxing and martial arts classes at Marbas' gym.
- September 2006
- Riots during the first week of September demonstrate how fed-up the citizens of New York are with the presence of government agents doing nothing. A curfew is established, and outrage swells.
- Having trained the new Guardian of the Veil, Thor, Taboo announces the establishment of a new cabal called XXX whose membership is made up of herself, Thor and Rodin.
- After some time working on paperwork, a business plan and the like, Daimona finally gets enough of a loan from Marcus to open her business, Guardian Angel Security, with help from Noah establishing a new identity.
- The Temple of Stone returned from their extended stay in Boston.
- The entire city shuts down on September 11th, the anniversary of the World Trade Center bombing, and the next day the President announces the lifting of the curfew and State of Emergency.
- The Curator of the Athenaeum, Theophrastus, still has not been heard from. The Athenaeum is generally unguarded, save by Albert Rybak (who is facing problems of his own, having lost his wife and nearly been killed by her during the Feast of Flesh).
