Timeline

June 2014

Lauren and Chris awaken.  They attend their first Concillium meeting and their first Free Council assembly.

July 2014

Lauren and Chris take shadow names and choose their orders.

August 2014

Aurora and Ranger meet Romeo and Lyssa.  Patrick awakens and gets introduced to Aurora by Ranger. Dan returns home for 2 months.

September 2014

The Cabal helps the Concillium stop the Free Council from sending an agent through TIA.  They also help to retrieve a retainer for The Smokers from The Castle and the grip of vampires.  George begins learning under Samael, but is eventually taken on by Absinthe as her student.

October 2014

Ranger and Aurora ask George to join them in the Cabal and together they track down a book with Arcane notes to a safe-house kept by the Seers of the Throne.  Together they help to save Delphi.  Ranger and Aurora pass their tests and are initiated into their Orders as full members.

November/December 2014

The group formalizes their Cabal as 'The Ark' and changes their shadow names.  A holiday party for Script goes terribly wrong.  They join Romeo in looking for Maria and find a trailer park called Elysian Fields has become the stomping ground of a Seer who is raising pain spirits.  They notice a vampire who looks like 'Rosie the Riveter' at a coffee shop/bar called Wayfairer's in Wiregrass.

January 2015

The Cabal visits the Tampa Bay Downs, bringing in enough cash to repay Gabriel for the $50K used to pay off a mole in the Seer's organization, then have a few drinks with Grant afterward.

Story: "Living Dead Boy" [LDB]
Chapters 1 & 2
They agree to house-sit for Romeo during his ritual death and encounter many strange things during the month, including a strange shade manifestation, the clutch of vampires which includes Rosie, the peeping tom retarded neighbor, and a werewolf.

February 2015

LDB Chapter 3
Romeo awakens and is shocked by the events of the previous month.  He then joins the Ark.  The Cabal meets with Rosie and Joseph (vampires) and have tense conversations as they get to know each other at Wayfairer's.  Calliope and Cerberus discover a murderer who matches Urban legends from Land o Lakes high school.  They eventually kill it, but not before it kills an old man and his adult son.

Story: "The enemy of my enemy..." [EoE]
Chapter 1
The clutch of vampires believes someone is sabotaging the construction of Vendetta and endangering the contractors they've hired.  They requested the assistance of the Cabal to help them ferret out the culprit.

March 2015

Story: "Daughters of the Dead" [DoD]
Chapter 1
Roc unexpectedly loses his mundane job at Florida Hospital.  That night, after a drinking bender, Maria is attacked by the retarded neighbor.  In his drunken rage, Roc goes overboard, casting dangerous magic and almost killing the man.  Only by his own Cabal's violent intervention does the neighbor escape death.  Unfortunately, Roc's faked death now forces him to forfeit all of his worldly goods.  How will the Cabal handle Roc's infraction and will they protect Maria from the truth or guide her towards enlightenment?

May 2015

The Cabal's undead associates manage to get Roc his property back, but in return ask their full support in the upcoming conflict.  Over the next few weeks, violence seems to slowly spread around the Bay area.  The War officially begins when Sencha is assasinated.

July 2015

The Throne begins its assault in earnest and the Concilium has already suffered multiple deaths.  On the vampire front, club Visage has burnt to the ground, and two of Rosie's pack mates were destroyed.  Like many of the Concilium, they cut and run, going into hiding.

September 2015

The war reaches it's Zenith and it becomes obvious to the Pentacle that they cannot win against the Throne while they are allied with a faction of vampires, especially after the death of three out of the five counselors.

December 2015

Things begin to calm and the odd occurrences in the Bay area end.  The Throne is declared the winner.

January 2016

With a complete lack of Adamantine Arrow leadership in the Bay Area, and conflicts erupting elsewhere in Florida, Cerberus is relocated/stationed and leaves the Cabal.

July 2017

With over a year passing after the war, some of the doomsday plans put in place by the orders begin to activate.  A significant Master begins reaching out to identify surviving members, and to test their loyalties.

September 2018

Having temporarily satisfied herself, Gabriel sends signs and messages to let those she's been watching know that she has survived and is still working in the region.

October 2018

The Guardians of the Veil begin to mobilize new members, beginning the arduous task of freeing Tampa from the grip of the Throne.