| I'll use this section to post the first chapter of the different stories I write, so that the beginnings are all in one coherent, easy to find place. |

A Weird Western PrologueThe night sky is crisp, cool in the late days of May. The full Flower Moon lights the sky over the rolling hills of Virginia. Atop a hill, clear of trees and brush, sits a strange domed building, one of five like it in the United States of America. From the brilliant copper dome of this large and otherwise white, circular building protrudes a massive telescope positioned toward the Moon. The telescope raises slowly, an operator inside positioning the contraption to better analyze some specific portion of the Earth’s closest Celestial cousin.A Weird Western Prologue by *Kythkyn
Clacking hooves of an excited horse resound through the small forested land that frontiers the treeless hill on which the strange building rests. “Yah!” calls a girl loudly as she hurries the horse along to the hill, slowing as she exits the forest. The young woman hops off the horse and ties it to a post not far from another horse chewing some tasty grass. She then walks up the hill toward the building, the Moon’s the only
| I'll use this section to post the first chapter of the different stories I write, so that the beginnings are all in one coherent, easy to find place. |

Anno Arcani Setting InfoY2K Man!Anno Arcani Setting Info by *Kythkyn
The year 2000 came and, against all conspiracy odds, nothing happened. The world didn’t end. Computers didn’t become sentient and enslave mankind, nor did they become inert. The world’s economy, though not great, didn’t collapse. Not a single Alien landed in Washington or enslaved the world. Nothing happened. Sane people never really worried, but the conspiracy nuts were beyond disappointed. Men with tinfoil hats the world over found that January 1st, 2000 was pretty much just like December 31st, 1999. Some continued to rant on the street corners, but people began to ignore them just as they have been doing since the invention of the tinfoil-hatted loony.
December 31st, 2000 was about as eventful as any other New Years. Some one million people gathered in Time Square to watch the ball drop and celebrate in the New Year (and New Millennium for those people that understood how the Gregorian calendar works).
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Stacey and Sabrae Part 1Since the Convergence in 2001, Atlanta has been locked in the Expanse; a large swath of verdant forestry running the East coast of the United States and into Canada. Although many of the larger cities were strangely unaffected by the eldritch change on January 1st, 2001, the entire outlying area of Atlanta has become dense forest. Although highways are being built and rebuilt, still ten years after the Convergence most mass transit into and out of the city takes place by air. The Lancers have found copious amounts of work in and around the city, dealing with the many Arcane problemmes that the average citizen and the police do not want to touch.Stacey and Sabrae Part 1 by *Kythkyn
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It is currently late evening, mid-summer of 2011. Life in Atlanta, as almost everywhere else, has moved on. People are lining up for the clubs, populating the bars, or in line to see one of the newest movies, though the movie industry still hasn’t recovered fully thanks to the machinations of the Matriarchy. In many ways it is an aver