AEHU/Plot

This is where we'll keep track of and refine the basic plot outline. It will be presented as a series of chapter-by-chapter summary links for ease of reading and editing.

As far as what the "endgame" is here from the 2400AG perspective, Belthasar has begun Project Kid following the events in Crimson Echoes. His main goal is to get Magus into the Darkness Beyond Time and awaken Schala so that she'll produce Kid. However, Belthasar is unable to determine the exact method by which a gate to the DBT might be opened because he is not omniscient - he is merely utterly brilliant. He finds what he believes is an historical incident in which someone succeeded in opening a gate to the DBT based on before-and-after topographical evidence, and prepares to use this incident to study the process of DBT gate creation for further refinement later. As an added bonus, he plans to have Magus "piggyback" on the historical incident and essentially get a free ride to the DBT.

Background Assumptions

Compendium Esoterica

Plot Sketch

Introduction: Like Rocks Across a Pond
Chapter 1: Confessions (W)
Chapter 2: Choran Hero (W)
Chapter 3: Credo (W)
Chapter 4: Those Who Devour (W)
Chapter 5: Intermission I (R)
Chapter 6: Ties That Bind (S)
Chapter 7: Dreams Devoured (S)
Chapter 8: Voice of the Flame (S)
Chapter 9: The Flame's Arbiter (S)
Chapter 10: Intermission II (R)
Chapter 11: Bearing the Frog (W)
Chapter 12: Complications (W)
Chapter 13: Untitled Wittel Chapter (W)
Chapter 14: Memento Mori (W)
Chapter 15: Intermission III (R)
Chapter 16: The Island of Dr. Bekkler (S)
Chapter 17: Fata Morgana (S)
Chapter 18: Devil's Sleight (S)
Chapter 19: Flying High (S)
Chapter 20: Though the Heavens Fall (S)
Chapter 21: Dreamstone Quarry (S)
Chapter 22: The Greatest of All Sins (S)
Chapter 23: Schala's Choice (S)
Chapter 24: The Robbed That Smiles (S)
Chapter 25: Intermission IV (R)
Chapter 26: Untitled Wittel Chapter (W)
Chapter 27: Untitled Wittel Chapter (W)
Chapter 28: Untitled Wittel Chapter (W)
Chapter 29: Sleep, the Beloved Children (W)
Chapter 30: Black Dreams (W)
Chapter 31: Intermission V (R)
Chapter 32: From the Deep (S)
Chapter 33: What the Prophet Seeks (S)
Chapter 34: Lavos Beckons (S)
Chapter 35: Intermission VI (R)
Chapter 36: Race Against Time (W)
Chapter 37: Untitled Wittel Chapter (W)
Chapter 38: Intermission VII (R)
Chapter 39: Crimson Echoes (S)
Chapter 40: The Song of Life (S)
Chapter 41: Glass Rose (S)
Chapter 42: Intermission VIII (R)
Chapter 43: Where Angels Lose Their Way (W)
Ending Credits

Previous Drafts

Ye Olde Plot Sketch

In-Depth Scene-by-Scene Synopses

...additional chapters TBD.

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