STORY ARCS

Resonance story arcs are large extended or continuing episodic storylines with each episode following a narrative arc. These large stories offer all members an opportunity to intertwine their own stories with these greater site-wide plots. All Resonance members are welcome and encouraged to participate in these ongoing 'story arcs'. Becoming a part of the story can mean joining a developing thread or it can also mean folding the story into your own thread. Please contact an administrator or participating member of any episodic story within an arc to discuss your ideas to better help your character become enfolded in the story. Always be aware of the set timeline and it's relation to your character's current history.

*Inactive/Completed Arcs will be listed at the end of the article. Members are always welcome to resurrect these storylines.

Main Theme

This story arc develops a secret society embedded within both the Vanguard and the Order of Light. An “enemy from within” working to destroy the two powerful factions and take over the Western Federation and the Eastern Alliance. Thus far this unknown enemy has been perpetuating the war between the two factions by framing one or the other in murders they have committed. It is an enemy that stands to benefit from the fall of these two extremes, thus their motives have to be engrained in the support of the technological world of the past. A very ‘human’ enemy seeking dominance over the new world. Who can you trust?

Synopsis

Our story begins in West Virginia where a lone cavalier, a one @Rami deChartres, discovers the grisly murders of three Vanguard legionaries. Among them his protege, Caleb Lock, the illegitimate son of Deputy Director @Vacily Rezanov. The scene then moves to Washington DC, where a bloodied Rami enters the Washington Legion in search of the visiting Rezanov. It is revealed that both the Order and the Vanguard are aware that their people are being murdered by unknown force but also that Washington may be compromised. Left with no other choice than to escape by use of force, Rami makes it back to New York where he and Rezanov make plans to meet back in Virginia, to return to where it all began. In Winchester, Virginia the two men embark on uncovering a hidden menace that threatens both the Vanguard and the Order of Light.

In a simultaneously occurring episode set four months later two opposing magus have a theoretically cordial meeting. @Dacia Setgrave and @Alistair Greene discuss, among other things, the presence of this encroaching menace, lurking within their own corridors.

@Alistair Greene, thinking like a detective, is following the 'components' these 'arcane practitioners' or 'sorcerers' require for performing their incantations. We are beginning to see the preliminary stages for the control of these items as enforced by ARMA and the ORDER. He's also checking into the 'missing persons', going on the premise that they are sacrificing humans to generate the necessary power to conjure their spells.

Episodes / Timeline

"Thrive in Spite" - July 29, 2019

“Haunted Woods” - Oct. 2, 2018

“War has begun… are you ready?” - Oct. 3, 2018

“Deadfall” - Oct. 5, 2018 ("Undead Army")

"Consult" - ????, 2019

"Theoretically Cordial" - Feb. 21, 2019

"By the Pricking of my Thumb" - Jan. 19, 2019

Main Theme

This story arc explores the mysteries of the Nevus, but more specifically shards or particles of it existing upon Earth. These legendary ’Fragments of Creation’ have been sought after since the dawn of Human contemplation and understanding. They have existed in many forms, a power believed to be intangible and metaphysical. A few individuals know these ‘shards’ to exist in our physical world and will stop at nothing to possess them for they are the keys to heaven… or hell.

Synopsis

In this arc we strive for continuity in our descriptions and understanding of the Nevus and it’s influence upon our physical reality. It coincides with one of the site’s major themes: “the impact of magic upon science and the latter upon the other”.

Taking place back in November of 2018 the episode ‘Reappearance’ delves into the impact of other ethereal realms upon our own. It brought us the reality of ‘Hell Storms’, anomalous weather phenomena influenced by the magic of elemental beings. The following episode, ‘Sands of Time’, takes Derrick Mason Gray and Atticus Gale to Egypt in search of answers concerning her amalgam with raw magic, a shard of the Nevus itself. This story will branch into Egyptian history and how it was influenced by the lingering influences of a past Resonance, and how it might have been altered in more recent years by a Sub-Resonance event. Elements of Pharos and the Sheut Nation will be touched upon, as well as any other characters and devices that are effected by Egyptian lore.

The event that first brought Derrick Mason Gray into the 'violet world' of Nevusian Mysticism occurred back in November of 2015. During a epic battle in New York, the earth split, dropping she and @Slate Morrison deep underground into a world within a world. An injury received by a 'Nevus Shard' endows her with new abilities.

Episodes / Timeline

"Sands of Time" - Nov. 20, 2018

"Reappearance" - Nov. 16, 2018

"Gloom & Doom" - Nov. 3rd, 2015

Main Theme

This story arc follows the ambitious and unscrupulous plans to modify and control zombies and the ‘undead virus’. Modifications of the the super-viruses are allowed if the end result all comes to naught. This particular story arc is primarily coordinated through staff and thus any alterations to the virus and zombies are carefully monitored.

Synopsis

Back in the beginning of 2017 Gabriele Salvatierra and Atticus Gale became unlikely partners in an investigation concerning the manipulation of zombies. The undisclosed group of scientists were attempting to modify the creatures on a cellular level, but it would seem that the experimentation didn’t stop there. In 2019, a New York hospital becomes the scene of an outbreak of a mutated form of the ‘morteximius virus’. On the scene is DeClan Asher Quinn with assistance from Maree’Anca Marin while Atticus Gale, an acting member of the CDC and Bo Salvatierra intercede to lend their expertise.

Episodes / Timeline

“Deadfall” - Oct. 5, 2018 ("The Enemy From Within")

“Emergency Quarantine!” - Jan. 25, 2019

"Not all is what it seems...." - March 15, 2020

STORY ARC 4

Main Theme

In the shadows of New York's seedier side lurks a killer. Nightclub workers have been trading their shifts for slabs. Over doses on the surface but deeper investigations reveals a pattern that will take our heroes and anti-heroes down a swirling drain into the dark world of illegal narcotics.

This gritty arc will initially deviate from magic and myth predominantly supporting factions such as Bakkhos, Outlaws and Law Enforcement types.

Synopsis

Pending...

Episodes / Timeline

"Nevermore" - Sept. 4, 2019