Recorded Story Events

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Originally a proof a concept, now a way to keep up with the story's timeline once established as an official comic series. Here are events that define these people as they live their day-to-day unusual lives. For easier reading, they are separated into categories for reader reference. They may morph to and fro from text only to including comic panels within. Separate story arcs are in named categories.

## Mass Collection of Present Events

### Developing Connections (2015-2016)

#### **Withdrawal**

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The inconspicuous serial murderer Jacob Wright rallies the support of the unassuming Aki Yamada and Ren Kimura, unknown to the fact that they are more concerned about conspiring against him.

#### **Release**

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Surprising to Aki, Jacob springs her from prison and plans an elaborate escape route for her to follow, leaving by helicopter to California for good.

#### **Abyss**

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Nate Hamilton and his newly-met savior Kari Frost encounter a surprising individual while escaping apocalypse-ridden mainland Europe, and the outcome is better than expected.

#### **Caught**

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Jacob discovers a traitor in the midst of trusted individuals, leading Aki and Ren to finally cut themselves from dealing with him. From this severance Ren divulges a plan on the fly.

#### **No Mercy**

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Aki plans to mug Ashton and Alex Mason, two brothers living in Los Angeles. Instead, she feels something a bit more and becomes interested in them.

#### **Image Corrupter**

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Aki phones Dr. Simon Peterson, an old friend from the days of her international criminal experience.

#### **Drop Zone**

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Aki and Ashton start an odd relationship together, coarse at first.

#### **Decade Dance**

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Jacob, curious of Aki and Ren's sudden departure, calls Aki.

#### **Evil Eye**

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Halloween of 2086. The LA gang goes around pranking people in costume, Jacob has one last get together with Ren and Aki that they wish they weren't there for, Kari has a relaxing night with Nate, and Aaron Maximus finds himself targeted by a cursed spirit.

#### **Harbinger of Destruction**

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Aaron visits Nate and Aki in Los Angeles despite Nate's grudge against him. Aki finds Aaron kinder than Nate made him seem and thinks he's overreacting.

#### **Ho Ho Ho**

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Everyone from places vast and near get together to celebrate Christmas, a day late given the number of people attending. Another visitor uninvited makes their way to this event.

#### **Your Best Nightmare**

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Soon after Aaron is haunted by Isha the Doctor, Nate finds himself in a similar torturous fate.

#### **Apocalypse**

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Jacob finally tracks down Nate once and for all, to which Kari finds herself greatly underestimated by both of them.

#### **Megalovania**

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Kari is found sad at Nate's lack of finding peace in LA so close to everyone else, and to prove his point Ren uses a request from Aki as an excuse to check in on them.

#### **Collapsing**

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Kari finds herself tolled by living with what she encountered long ago when she found Nate, and Nate finds out.

#### **Bring It In, Guys!**

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Simon calls a meeting with close and important people, and expresses his dismay and disappointment in them all.

#### **Bitter End**

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Ren guides newcomer Leila Evermist to the incredible mansion of Aaron Maximus, to which Aaron expresses his remorse to those willing to go out of their way to seek them.

### Nothing Left to Lose (2018-2019)

#### **Kakero the Bluff**

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More annoyed than anything else, Kari plays Grace Nam in a battle of wits- in blackjack.

### To Find Oneself, Ascendance (2019)

#### **Promise**

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Kari drives across the German countryside with her newly ascended Anima, Sweet Dreams Requiem.

#### **Running in the 90's**

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A flashback to Kari's first ever street race, and a moral to remember and not to relive the past.

#### **Made in Heaven**

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With an ascendant Anima newly profound, Kari tests SDR's might against an entire army in a dire situation.

#### **Shine on You Crazy Diamond**

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Ren reaches out to Kari, hearing about SDR, to ask a very personal favor.

#### **Epitaph**

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Aki reaches out to Kari, hearing what she did for Ren, as Kari makes a moral decision her past self wouldn't.

#### **Nights in White Satin**

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Kari takes a vacation with Nate after a long month of stress, and also proves her own worth in contemplation.

#### **[Log: Nocturn SAU | 3 Entries]**

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On her follow up trip to Los Angeles, Kari finds herself challenged by a determined Aki and her newly founded special forces.

#### **King of the World**

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Returning to Los Angeles, Kari finds an odd request from Alex.

### Operation Black Light (2019)

#### **Shining Lights, Even in Death**

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Kari pays Aaron a visit on a momentous occasion before she pays a visit to someone else.

#### **Operation Black Light**

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After a bit of planning Kari makes her way to be the first to discover the location of Simon's secret laboratory, and as congratulations he proposes her a task.

#### **Sonnenfinsternis**

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Kari gathers three individuals she feels she trusts the most and tells of Simon's task and how to take it on, and yet proves her worth against unexpected visitors.

#### **An Unexpected Call**

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Meanwhile Aki manages Nocturn to be as ready as ever, yet she herself wasn't expecting a call and not one so shocking at that.

#### **Operation Save the World**

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Kari, Ren, Nate, and Ashton take on Eclipse Research Group and find out its real truth.

#### **Japan is a Land of Warriors**

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With Pyrrhic victory in hand, Kari fulfills one last request from the endurance of her will despite her own emotions.

### Research Intensive (2020)

#### **King Nothing**

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Kari makes another trip to tell Simon of the outcome of his request, months later.

#### **Unexplained**

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Simon takes Kari's request to heart, and finds the situation be more complicated than it seems.

#### **Dark Shadows**

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More than meets the eye regarding the dark secrets of Kari and her possible clone.

#### **Black Out**

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Simon comes to a scientific breakthrough, enough to ponder the very concept of time and space itself.

### As Ahead, So Behind (2020)

#### **Zeitgeist**

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Aaron takes a look back on all he has done, not knowing what's to come next.

#### **Way Beyond**

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Nate laments on what brought him to where he was, unprepared for decades later when life would catch up to him.

#### **Conquer**

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Simon bides his time in custody, all before chaos rises for the Foundation.

#### **Pure Sunlight**

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Ren tells her tales of woe to admiring listeners as the second hand to the rebellion, simply known then as The Anger.

#### **Atomic**

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Aki tells of troubling concerns she has to Yuuya as a prominent figure in the Japanese mafia.

#### **Speed Car**

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A teenaged Kari expresses to Dominic Brunsmeier and Marius Streicher her worries for the future.

### Two Faces of Janus (-)

#### **Purple Emotion**

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Kari finally meets the one she once thought was dead, herself in the "Aether".

#### **Phantom Racer**

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The newly found doppelganger, known as Kara, proves to be dangerously more powerful than Kari (even in a race).

#### **Operator**

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Kari, concerned with Kara's motives, is forced to put her life in Kara's hands in one last big op.

#### **Starlight Brigade**

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Kari and Kara must stand together against a greater threat to humanity, but choose to elect one last member together.

### **Like Toy Soldiers**

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Aaron decides enough is enough, and aids Kari, Kara, and Voce in finding Nate.

### **Dead Cell**

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The old soldiers stand before an unexpected call of duty, one that spans far back to the beginning of the century.

### **Red Alert**

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Katya grows restless, exercising her power as a pagan deity.

### **Knights of Cydonia**

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Kari, Kara, and Voce stand before Katya, thousands of steps above humanity.

### **Void**

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A trio together, Kari and her two closest allies find themselves in the end times.

#### **The Air Near my Fingers**

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The world is driven to the brink of the apocalypse, Kari and all of her allies do their part the best they can.

#### **Born from Blood, Risen from Ash**

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Kara and Voce stand formidable against Katya, Kari the sole judge, an indominable human being versus a pagan god.

#### **Valkyrie**

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Ascension.