Timeline

This page details the **timeline** of The Once and Future Nerd, beginning from when Billy, Jen, and Nelson arrive in Iorden. Special thanks to lamentable-comedy for their original tumblr post of the timeline for Book 1 of *The Once and Future Nerd.*

## Book One

### Day 1

1. The kids arrive in Iorden and meet Yllowyyn, he leaves them in a tavern.
2. The kids get arrested, try to break out and get caught.
	* Brennen has his first prophecy dream and is woken up in the middle of the night.
3. Court convenes in the middle of the night to discuss what to do about the kids.
4. Gunter tells Brennen about Regan and asks him to take the kids to the Elders.

### Day 2

1. Brennen and Yllowyyn leave with the kids through a sewage tunnel very early in the morning and start walking to Armstrungard.
	* At dawn, Arlene tries to leave court, but Ardel stops her.
2. The party make camp by the side of a lake in late morning and deal with the giant bugs.
	* Gwen comforts Arlene and they talk about Ardel. Ardel kicks Arlene out of the bath
3. At the lake, the party eat a goose, sleep for four hours, and continue on towards Armstrungard.
4. The party gets a view of Armstrungard at twilight.

### Day 3

1. Brennen, Yllowyyn, and the kids arrive in Armstrungard in early morning, buy the kids armour, go to the college to speak with Ba'a lo-Ky'yr, where they meet Nia. The kids sleep, then the party (now with Nia) goes to the Bloody Rat in the evening to look for Regan. The party helps Regan in a bar brawl, Brennen tells her that she's Gunther's granddaughter. The party (now with Regan) sneak out of Armstrungard.

### Day 4

1. The party travels to Bowen's farm, they arrive early afternoon.
	* Just after dawn, Gwen and Arlene talk about nightmares that Arabella Corelan has been having.
2. Brennen, starts training the kids to fight with Regan's help. That evening, Regan gives Jen armour.
	* Ardel gives Arlene and Gwen the specifics of a dream for Gwen to lie about having.
3. At night, Gwen lies about the dream to the High Priest
4. Ardel and the High Preist talk about the omens in the dreams while the High Preist voids his bowels.

### Day 5

1. Brennan has his second dream, the kids get more training.

### Day 6

1. More training, Nia tells Nelson and Jen about Selbarin and how magic works. Mercenaries ambush Jen in the evening. A fight between the two bands of mercenaries and the party. Regan kills Bowen.

### Day 7

1. The party searches the Mercenaries' bodies, Jen and Billy talk, then fight. Nelson sorts what they found and talks to Nia and Yllowyyn.
	* Early in the morning, Gwen eavesdrops on Ardel talking about killing someone. She and Arlene talk about it, and Ardel comes in to tell Arlene she's engaged.
2. Gwen helps Arlene get ready to meet Antonin and Arlene tells her about what happened with her cousin and Gwen comforts her.
3. Nelson finds Jen and Billy and they talk about Twitter.
	* Gwen and Arlene discuss what they know about Ardel's schemes.
4. Jen talks to Nia and Regan how they deal with periods, the party leaves the farm in the early evening and encounters the Felghir Camp. They decide to take a secret route through a cave to get around it.
	* Court assembles to discuss Traft, the King learns that he has taken Silberg. Arlene excuses herself.
5. The party arrives at the cave and start to go through it. They find dead bandits and a dying girl who knew Regan. A Redmoor sergeant finds the party and takes them to his camp.
	* Arlene talks with Gwen about soldiers threatening maid Corelan, and Ardel plans.

### Day 8

1. Brennen has a dream, the party eats breakfast with the Redmoor men, Regan takes Brennen aside to warn him about overhearing the soldiers plotting to kill him.
	* Arlene's betrothal to Antonin Mooncrest is announced.
2. The party continue their breakfast and a soldier talks to Nelson and Billy.
	* Gwen finds murdered Guernatal soldiers.
	* Arlene watches Gunther's arrest.
	* Ardel has Gunther arrested with the Lord Treasurer's collusion on the basis that he tried to give the Talisman of Dominion to House Felghir. Redmoor men dress in Guernatal uniforms and form blockades on the roads to the castle.
3. Billy and Nelson play football using a rock, accidentally starting a fight with a soldier and killing him. Regan kills the soldier who witnesses this and the party decides to split up. Nelson and Billy freak out about murder and Regan tells Jen a story about her cats. Brennen discusses his dreams with Nia and Yllowyyn.
4. The kids, Nia, and Yllowyyn go back to Armstrungard.
	* Brennen and Regan head to Castle Guernatal.
5. Brennen and Regan stop by a creek and discuss Billy and Nelson killing the soldier and their reactions to it.
	* Smith the Smith arrives in Ironhertz around noon.
6. Brennen and Regan encounter the barricade in the late afternoon.
	* Traft and Smith the Smith talk about power structures and dominant narratives.
7. Standoff between Regan and Brennen and the guards.
	* Gwen shapes Arlene’s ears, they comfort each other and Gwen kisses Arlene.
8. Emergency court meeting to decide what to do with Brennen and Regan. Brennen and Regan are put in prison.
9. At night, the kids, Nia, and Yllowyyn arrive at Bailey’s brothel. Billy and Nelson talk about killing a man, Jen and Nia talk about electricity, Nia gives one of the men who works at Madam Bailey's errands, and she and Jen protect his younger sister from McShane.
	* Brennen and Gunther talk in prison about Ardel's betrayal and Regan. Regan escapes.
	* Traft's army ambush guards with the weapon stash Smith told them about.
10. The party discusses what to do about McShane.
	* Gwen and Regan run into each other near the secret exit.
11. Nia has a dream, Jen and Billy talk about masculinity.
	* Regan breaks Gunther and Brennen out of prison. They start to leave the castle, Gunther dies, Brennen does a rage slaughter, Regan and Brennen escape.

### Day 9

1. At dawn, Jen tries to get Nia to stop McShane.
	* At dawn, Regan and Brennen wake up, Brennen pledges his fealty to Regan, they talk about monstrousness.
2. In her room, Jen has a flashback to her experience with the coach. She stabs McShane and the party leaves Madam Bailey's.
	* Brennen and Regan give Gunther a funeral.
	* Arlene comforts Gwen after her confrontation with Regan, Ardel takes Gwen to be debriefed.
	* General Kerr and his men prepare for Traft’s arrival at Blackhold
3. The kids, Nia and Yllowyyn arrives at the Lemming, Jen washes blood off in the washroom and plays with lightning and starts a fire, party escapes through tunnel.
4. The party arrives at Crab’s Claw, Jen wants to have sex and Billy is concerned and turns her down, Nia talks to Jen, Yllowyyn tells racist jokes. The party moves on to the monastery .
5. Brennen and Regan arrive at Madam Bailey’s. They hear about McShane's death and see the smoke from the Well-Groomed Lemming. They look at the ashes and theorize about what could have happened.
6. Regan and Brennen follow the arrowheads and visit the Crab’s Claw Inn, Regan sleeps with Angie and Jackie to get news about McShane, finds out Jasper Frieshelm is looking for Jen.
7. Regan and Brennan follow Frieshelm’s tracks and theorize some more, decide to go to the monastery.
	* Ardel and Arlene have dinner with Antonin.
8. Regan and Brennen make their way up to the monastery.
	* Frieshelm kills the monks.
9. During an after-dinner horse ride, Arlene falls off her horse and Antonin yields the right to a purity test.
10. Nia has a dream, talks to Jen, Frieshelm arrives and fights the party, Jen shoots Frieshelm with lighting and gets injured. Brennen and Regan rejoin the party, Brennen kills Frieshelm. The party decides to go to the White Forest and disposes of bodies. Regan knights Brennen and names her swords.
11. Traft's army fight Kerr's army. General Kerr tries to kills himself and Traft stops him.

### Day 10

1. Party buys a cart and leaves Armstrungard, Nia talks to Peter. They travel towards the White Forest and Brennen tells the story of how he met Gunther.

### Day 11

1. Rickard comes to talk to Arlene and explains how Antonin coerced him into raping her.
2. Brennen starts the story of how he met Traft and the party talks about avatars.
	* Antonin tells the lead actor to do a different play that will imply Ardel had his sister raped and killed the king. The actor refuses.
3. Arlene confronts Ardel about holding Gwen and demands that she be released.
4. Ardel finds Rickard and cuts his tongue out.
5. Brennen tells the story of how he met Traft.
	* The Templars conduct a ritual for Traft and fortell the Stormbringer. The Templars ride east, Traft’s forces follow.
6. Nia prays over Brennen in the wagon, they discuss avatars some more.
	* Traft tells the (partially fabricated) story of how he met Dagmar.
7. The party continues towards the White Forest.
	* Gwen is released and goes back to Arlene. Arlene sings to her so they can deal with the screaming.
	* Rickard is put in the room next to Gwen and Arlene. He wakes up and starts screaming.
	* Traft tells the rest of his story to Smith.

### Day 12

1. Elves attack someone in the Black Mountains before sunrise.
2. Gwen and Arlene wake up, they talk about leaving and admit their feelings. The conversation ends around 10 in the morning.
3. Party reaches the gates and Yllowyyn negotiates their way in. Jen and Brennen are taken away for treatment.
4. The rest of the party waits for Jen and Brennen while they’re treated.

### Day 13

1. Nelson and Nia talk about dreams, Billy gets tossed out and he and Nelson talk about elves being douchey. Brennen wakes up.
2. Jen wakes up, the party establishes their story. They discuss their plan for the council meeting. Yllowyyn invites them to dinner.
	* Redmoor men have Rickard drawn and quartered.
3. Antonin talks with his uncle about Ardel and Rickard, and expresses concerns about Arlene.
4. Yllowyyn talks to his parents, the party enters the hall. Yllowyyn introduces the party to his parents.
	* Arlene gets dressed for her wedding.
5. The party eats dinner with Yllowyyn’s family. They talk about the origin of the elves, Yllodyk comes in high, interrupting Brennen’s attempts to explain what’s happened, and they get news that Ry’y has returned.
	* Arlene and Antonin get married; during the celebration, Gwen flirts with guards.
6. Gwen flirts with another guard to start a fight, Arlene and Antonin dance, Ardel is a piece of shit to Arlene. The guard fight disrupts the dancing and Gwen and Arlene escape.
7. Regan and Jen chat by a waterfall. Regan asks for her advice and they talk about trauma.
	* Arlene and Gwen escape in a cart.
	* Antonin goes to bed and finds that Arlene isn’t there.

### Day 14

1. Brennen, Regan, Nia, and Yllowyyn are given an audience before the High Council of the White Forest at dawn. Brennen explains things to the council and asks for help. Ry’y says they won’t help unless there’s a viable line of succession. Regan lies about there not being an heir, and Ry’y denies them help. The council recalls Yllowyyn from his duties as Kalth'yr.
	* The kids hang out with Yllodyk. She talks about disagreeing with the adult elves and offers them cannab root.
2. The party gets ready to leave, Yllowyyn argues with his parents and leaves with the others. Brennen and Regan talk about Regan’s decision. Ry’y sends them to the Cairn of Evil Untold and gives them new equipment.
3. Antonin explains not being able to find Arlene to Julius, they decide to talk to Ardel.
4. Bryce finds Arlene and Gwen, they try to talk him into letting them go.
5. The party stops at Bailey’s inn and discusses Ry’y quest. The kids decide to stay at the inn while the others decide to go to the Cairn of Evil Untold.
6. Regan spends all night practicing with her new crossbow.
	* The kids get drunk and decide to trick college kids into giving them info. They play a drinking game with three Armstrungard students and Billy goes looking for snacks.
	* Antonin has dinner with his father.
7. Billy finds the Templar's jerky and the kids all eat some. Jen and Billy talk about hitting on the college guys and going home, the kids all pass out because of the jerky and the Templars arrive.
	* Gwen and Arlene finish explaining to Bryce. An outrider warns Bryce about the commotion in the inn. He discusses it with Clarence and the Professor.
	* Antonin confronts Ardel about Arlene and challenges him to a duel.
8. A Templar starts giving a speech, Bryce and his men shoot the Templars, and the kids pass out. The Professor figures out what’s happened to the kids, Bryce decides to get them help, Gwen and Arlene get jobs.

### Day 15

1. The kids dream while they get treatment from The Professor.
	* Regan, Brennen, Nia, and Yllowyyn arrive at the Cairn’s entrance and go inside and find the chest and a bunch of bodies. The corpses come to life, there’s a battle and Nia stops the corpses. Renault shows up to be a misogynist. A second fight starts and Nia uses magic to get rid of the corpses and then rejects Renault definitively. The party takes the chest and leaves.
	* Traft marches toward Freehold.
2. The Professor watches over the kids and Bryce gets ready for battle. Nelson wakes up.
	* Regan cleans Nia's wounds and the group discusses how the kids are doing.
	* Antonin eats supper and is stabbed by two pages who come to ostensibly deliver Ardel's response to Antonin's challenge. He fights back and kills them.
	* Renault rises.
3. Billy wakes up. He goes to Jen’s side and helps her though her dream.
	* Gwen and Arlene have their first shift, Gwen picks up Regan’s vial, Arlene has a hard time. Gwen suggests that Arlene sing for the tavern.
	* Julius and his men look for Antonin and find the evidence of the fight.
4. Traft's army arrives at Freehold and start scaling the wall. Jen wakes up.
	* A tavern brawl breaks out in Madam Bailey’s inn, Arlene starts singing and calms everyone down.
5. The kids get ready to go into battle, Jen gets ready to do some lightning.
	* Arlene and Gwen go to bed and they say that they love each other. Sex is implied.
6. Traft gives his people a pep talk.
	* Bryce prepares Freehold, the Professor tells him to put Jen up front. Bryce leads a parlay.
7. Traft and Bryce parlay, Traft offers Bryce a chance to join him.
8. The kids prep for battle, Bryce returns from the parlay and gives them a talk. The battle starts. Jen zaps Traft’s army. Traft’s army retreats, Jen dissociates because of Templar magic.
	* The Templars open a chest full of black powder.
9. Renault and Mag Uidhir look for Arden.
10. Julius plans a siege and Antonin’s funeral. Antonin attacks a guard for stealing from a kid and returns the kid’s money.
	* Renault and Mag Uidhir find Arden encased in ice in a cave.

### Day 16

1. Battle has renewed, Jen continues zapping, she hears Templar voices trying to tempt her. Elephants show up, Jen does a big lightning strike, and Freehold’s wall collapses. The kids decide to stay with the first line of defence. The Knights of the Wood arrive with the rest of the party. Traft flees.
	* Regan, Nia, Brennen, and Yllowyyn regroup and treat their wounds, Nia tries to translate the tablet.
	* Ardel and the High Priest talk about ill omens casting doubt on Ardel’s regency. They find a bloody dagger with a severed hand on it in the great hall.
2. Gwen and Arlene wake up. Gwen goes to the river as a part of her duties and talks to a rabbit before finding a dying mountain folk woman who begs Gwen to save her child.
3. Nia + Regan reunite with the kids. Ry’y, Brennen, and Yllowyyn show up and Ry’y talks with Bryce and the party before departing to round up and kill more mountain folk, refusing any help.
4. Bryce hosts a victory feast.
5. Brennen, Nia, Yllowyyn, and Billy have a dream together about Nelson. Jen can't sleep and finds Regan investigating the elves' trail. Regan leaves to go after the elves and see what they're up to.

### Day 17 to 19

1. Regan tracks the Th'ar lo-Hyyl to try to figure out what they're up to. On the evening of day nineteen she falls asleep in a tree.

### Day 20

1. Regan wakes up and watches the elves slaughter mountain folk women and children.

## References

Timeline by lamentable-comedy

It is possible that the day the kids were summoned to Iorden was Wednesday, September 26, 2012. This is because Jen says the last tweet she got on her phone was a retweet from Stacy Wallace, aka "crazy Jesus girl" who hangs around the cheerleaders' practice and calls them the "slut squad". Stacy Wallace retweeted this tweet from the rapper 50cent.