Gate-of-Gods-Timeline

Pre-Chronicle

• May 14, 1896: Master Kang Lu receives a dream-vision of the mage he is to take as his apprentice, and discovers that he won't be born until the late 1900s. So, he prepares a set of scenarios, and a handful of clues to lead the young mage to view those scenarios post-cognitively.
• 1897: The Tri Ptitsy take over the Hotel Regina from Master Kang Lu.
• 1902: Master Kang Lu dies of old age. He is buried in a beautiful tomb in the Babylon Gardens Cemetery.
• 1904: The Columbia Consilium is founded, uniting the Awakened of Astoria, Warrenton and Seaside, OR, and Chinook and Ilwaco, WA, with Lady Alkanost of the Tri Ptitsy as the Hieararch.
• November 2009: The Portland cabal Magnum Opus awakens their apprentices, bid them to form a cabal and then sends them out of Portland. They do not explain the mysterious circumstances, but do give them an objective: secure the powerful Hallow in the Hotel Regina in Old Town Astoria.

Season One

Arc One: Winter's Rest

• November 2009:
  • Late November: Episode One: The Puppet Masters
• December 2009:
  • Early December: Episode Two: New Beginnings
  • Winter Solstice: Seers of the Throne strike in Seattle, nearly destroying its Assembly in a matter of days, thanks to a variety of well-placed sleeper agents. Magnum Opus is among those that answer the call for help from the Free Council. When survivors trickle back into Portland, however, they claim that Magnum Opus assisted the Seers of the Throne. Magnum Opus is nowhere to be found.
• January 2010:
  • Early January: Interlude One: Inquisition at Mount Angel
  • Late January 2010: Episode Three: Sea of Stars
  • Late January 2010: Interlude Two (Autumn in San Francisco)
  • Late January 2010: Episode Four: Cast Open the Gates

Downtime

• February 2010 - Early March 2010

Arc Two: Spring Awakenings

• March 2010

Session One (1.8.11)

• Issa has cast a spell that allows him to be aware of everything that happens within the Regina's walls. When a mysterious, shadowy figure appears over Malachite's bed, Issa sees it and shakes Malachite awake via scrying magic. The shadow immediately vanishes, leaving behind the six-shooter that Auctorita summoned into the hotel right before she began attacking us. Rasayana determines that the weapon has an intimate connection with the hotel.
• Autumn uses post-cognition to look into the gun's past. It was purchased in the 1800s by a young boy and his father. The father was later killed, and the son took vengeance by killing the murderer with the six-shooter.
• Serafina awakens the spirit of the gun to ask it about its previous owner. The son's name was Cole, and he grew up to be a notorious gunslinger. He killed dozens of people, though he claimed he'd killed more. He was eventually lynched at the Hotel Regina. The gun seems sad about Cole's death and said that Cole was angry after he died. According to the six-shooter, the shadow and Cole are not the same being. The shadowy figure is “what remembers Cole” when the gun is back inside the hotel.
• Via post-cognition, Autumn watches the fight with Auctorita again. She summoned the six-shooter from the Flavel House Museum, then deliberately let it drop. The shadowy figure came afterward, picked up the gun, and disappeared.
• We layer Autumn with various mage sights so he can get a better idea of what the shadow figure is. It is deeply tainted by Death energy, and though it is not a ghost, it looks like a ghost returning to its anchor when it disappears.
• Malachite hacks into the police database to see if the museum reported the gun missing. They did, and the file contains pictures of the display it was in. There is a frayed noose and a picture of Cole at a card table. Rasayana realizes that the picture was taken at the Regina's gambling hall.
• Serafina, Autumn, and Issa go to the museum to ask the Riverboat Captain about Cole and the shadow figure. He tells them that Cole was lynched by a group of sailors possibly for cheating at cards and possibly for being caught in bed with another man.
• The Riverboat Captain interrupts himself when he catches sight of the Columbia Maiden outside the museum's window. He says that she's the spirit of the river, but they see her very rarely. He is a little in love with her.
• Serafina goes outside to try and talk to the Maiden, but the spirit is in the middle of the river where Serafina can't reach her. Serafina runs into a different spirit, one that manifests as a child and constantly asks for money.

Session (1.15.11)

• Stoughton contacts Serafina about her interest in joining the Guardians. All that night, she has what can only be described as “serpent dreams.”
• Autumn also has a strange dream, involving a lighthouse with a red searchlight, a blood red tide, the shadowy shape of an oceanliner, and four people who appear and then disappear into the crimson tide—a European woman, a spoiled fratboy, an all-American girl, and a skinny, strung-out young woman.
• At breakfast the next morning, there was a lot of quasi-hostile discussion of Serafina's decision to change her order.
• Autumn attempts to draw the faces of the people in his dream so that Malachite can run a facial recognition search. The very first drawing he produces is Charline Toulouse. After that, Autumn simply begins describing the people, on the off chance that we recognize them. Another one turns out to be Carlie Banks. The remaining two we don't recognize, so Serafina uses the descriptions to shapeshift into them. We take “their” pictures, which Issa uses to scry on them and steal their wallets. Once we have their IDs, Issa returns their property, after relieving the frat boy of his cash and putting it in the strung-out girl's purse.
• The other two potential victims are Robert Henderson and Valentina Cooper. Valentina has a sister named Sophia.
• We split up to engage in various investigations, both magical and mundane, into the mysterious gun and Autumn's dream.
• Later that night, we decide to arrange for Autumn and Rasayana to get a read on each potential victim's fate/death and any connections between them.
• Malachite and Autumn go to the Wet Dog Cafe to see Carlie; her death is coming in days or weeks. They then visit Charline, and her fate looks the same. She tells them she is leaving for New York soon and asks Malachite to house-sit.
• Valentina works at a strip club called Annie's Upper Town Tavern. In order to lure Robert there , Issa creates drink tickets to the club, and Serafina doctors them with pheromones and plants them in Robert's hotel room. At the club, Autumn sees the same fate on Valentina and Robert as on the others. Valentina's is the most intense, possibly the most immediate.
• Rasayana sees one connection between them, obviously supernatural. Issa copies that sympathy onto himself and follows it via scrying to its source. It is a vampire.