Timeline

The following **timeline** exists to compile all known events within the universe of ***Project Anemoia**;* the existence of time as a malleable phenomenon, however, contributes to timeline obscurity.

# Timeline

## Modernity

### 1778

* Colonists arrive to the southern portion of what would become Atkins County. Initially called "Southern Atkins", the township of Cedarcrest is slowly created.

### 1875

* Martin Gruer attains a doctorate in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania thanks to his work on the intersection between human sense, fear, and the unknown.

### 1915

* Route NY-143 is extended westward to connect the Albany and Atkins counties.

### 1950

* **February 3** — Archer Nathaniel Wood is born.

### 1960

* **October 13** — The Mullins Experiment occurs under the supervision of renown particle and paraphysicist Dr. James T. Mullins within the Advanced Particle Physics Laboratory in Otero County, Colorado.
	+ **10:22 a.m.** — The particle collider used in the experiment undergoes an unforeseen and catastrophic runaway reaction; a spatiotemporal anomaly, latter dubbed the "Mullins Portal", manifests within a compartment of the collider.
* **October 15** — The Department of Defense is formally handed control over the APPL. The Anomalous Research and Intelligence Office is delegated full responsibility to investigate the portal and what lies beyond after reformation; the Mullins Expedition gradually begins.
* **October 20** — The Mullins Expedition officially begins, headed by Colonel Albert Barron.

### 1967

* **May 17** — James Rodney Felton is born.

### 1972

* The **1972 Shining Lights Incident** occurs.
* **February 14** — Kaitlyn Brooks is born.

### 1985

* James R. Felton enlists in the United States Coast Guard.

### 1986

* Edward Santos, a retired FBI agent from New Mexico, is interviewed by Jeffrey Kissinger regarding the 1972 Shining Lights Incident in Alamogordo.

### 1989

* James R. Felton transfers to the United States Coast Guard reserve force.
* **October 11 —** An abnormal chill descends over Central New York, bringing a premature snowstorm to the area.
* **October 12** — The **1989 "Hell's Staircase" Incident** occurs.
	+ **6:16 a.m.** — ***Wood begins his ritual of translocation.***
	+ **7:07 a.m.** — ***The Descent to Paradise is completed.*** Archer Nathaniel Wood dies as a result.
	+ **7:10 a.m.** — The Atkins County Sheriff's Department receives 911 calls from the community of Burnettville regarding a towering plume of "smoke and fire" rising from the grounds of the abandoned Lakeview Inn & Resort.
	+ **7:32 a.m.** — The first deputies arrive and discover the ritual aftermath. One of the first responders, Deputy Ernest Gleason, disobeys radio orders from the sheriff and phones the FBI due to the intensity of the scene. The PIB intercepts the call.
	+ **7:40 a.m.** — Raymond Shepherd, SAIC of the Albany division of the PIB, mobilizes a Special Preternatural Reaction Unit squad from Albany using transferred HH-60 Pave Hawk aerial transports.
	+ **7:55 a.m.** — PIB Pave Hawks touch down near the Lakeview Inn & Resort; Shepherd gives the order for local sheriffs and state police to switch to cordon enforcement as the SPRU secure the immediate area.
	+ **8:49 a.m.** — PIB researchers and agents arrive by unmarked land-based vehicles to the crime scene. A surveillance plane takes an aerial photo of the ritual's aftermath.
	+ **9:00 a.m.** — A PIB team finds the collection of Archie's journals in a shed nearby the ritual location, thus exposing his true identity post-mortem.
	+ **9:07 a.m.** — A deep fog descends over several counties, including Atkins County. The police cordon is dissolved as Shepherd advises the local sheriff's office and state police to switch towards attending to "any new incidents".
	+ **9:30 a.m.** — Cumulonimbus clouds form over the area, despite no large-scale reservoir of ground heat being apparent. Albany, Atkins, Schoharie, Schenectady, Otsego, and Montgomery county sheriff offices report increased volume of 911 calls pertaining to unknown noises emanating from forests and unidentifiable persons seemingly stalking individuals.
	+ **9:50 a.m.** — The Integrated Public Alert and Warning System is activated, specifically the Emergency Broadcast System, for the state of New York. The six aforementioned counties are placed under mandatory curfew at the behest of the government of the State of New York due to "public safety threats".
	+ **10:00 a.m.** — The home of Dominic Climaco in Cedarcrest is broken into by an unknown home invader. His dog, Xavier, goes missing while chasing the source of the sound. His wife, Mutya, calls the police during the break-in. A live transcript is recorded and intercepted by PIB agents, and local police are blocked from responding.
	+ **10:19 a.m.** — PIB agents arrive to Climaco's residence around the same time that Dominic is returning to his home from work. They briefly detain Dominic while they move in to secure the home - Mutya is found safe in a closet, hiding from whoever had broken into the home. Xavier is nowhere to be found.
	+ **10:35 a.m.** — Shepherd leads a composite agent and SPRU team that raid Archie Wood's home in Cedarcrest after finding his journals in the Lakeview Inn. He finds it abandoned, but a search of the property unveils the sedan used in the murders prior to Deputy Marshall John's death.
	+ **12:00 p.m.** — The Deputy Director of the PIB, Robert DeWitt, authorizes a request by Shepherd for the investigation of the pit created for the ritual. DeWitt also issues a nationwide informational blackout for all events occurring in Central New York.
	+ **2:00 p.m.** — After several field tests, Shepherd confirms that the pit has transformed into a portal to an unknown location, and that the remains of Wood cannot be found. The hamlet of Burnettville, near to the Lakeview Inn & Resort, is subsequently placed under direct lockdown by the PIB due to the extreme risk of anomalous activity. Officially, the excuse used is the "possibility of accomplices for the recently uncovered serial murder plot".
	+ **6:00 p.m.** — The curfew begins as local police forces are bolstered by reinforcements from neighboring counties and the New York State Police.
	+ **7:00** **p.m.** — A 911 call is placed from somewhere within the Ladd State Forest, east of the Ringwood Quarry. However, the actual contents of the call are undecipherable by the dispatcher and even by the FBI later on. A SPRU team is sent into the forest to investigate.
	+ **7:25 p.m.** — The SPRU team does not return from the forest and does not engage in further communications. A lockdown is ordered by Shepherd for the entirety of Atkins County.
	+ **8:00 p.m.** — Special Agent Wolff Copesland returns from the Ladd State Forest, being the only one to do so from the original SPRU team of four. He is verbally catatonic. Shepherd subsequently orders a do-not-transgress order on the entirety of the Forest regardless of situation and requests for seasoned SPRU squads to be sent to Central New York.
	+ **10:02 p.m.** — A veteran SPRU task force under the command of Supervisory Special Agent Oswald Robinett is flown into Albany and transported to Atkins County by Pave Hawk. Sleet begins to rain all across the affected counties and intensifies as the night progresses.
	+ **10:30 p.m.** — Robinett's task force, codenamed FEVER DREAM, overtake all operations in Central New York. His personal squad touches down near the Ladd State Forest and he commences a direct action operation to recover the three missing SPRU troopers. Further air travel becomes untenable due to the storm.
* **October 13**
	+ **12:14 a.m.** — Robinett returns with the three missing troops and his full squad and reports to Shepherd the presence of an entity in the area as reported by Brugmann Devices. The rescued troops also display similar verbal catatonia akin to agent Copesland, which leads Shepherd to believe that it is an effect of the entity rather than being a trauma.
	+ **12:45 p.m.** — A hysteric mother from Pinecreek, Caitlyn Monroe, reports to police that her daughter, Jocelyn, has gone missing after being tucked into bed three hours prior. She does not return calls after a sudden hang-up.
	+ **1:00 a.m.** — PIB agents under the guise of normal FBI, in conjunction with state police, begin a county-wide search. Officers arriving to the Monroe household do not find Caitlyn nor Jocelyn, further devolving the situation.
	+ **1:05 a.m.** — DeWitt authorizes Shepherd to block all 911 calls to normal dispatchers in Central New York, and instead reroutes them to PIB dispatchers that have been set up in concordance with information control operations.
	+ **1:15 a.m.** — FEVER DREAM is tasked directly by DeWitt with the combing of the affected counties for any anomalous activities with approved neutralization of found threats.
	+ **1:24 a.m.** — A PIB two-car convoy is attacked by an unknown force while using access roads near the Longbay Reservoir through a disabling of their vehicles and equipment sans their Brugmann Devices. They are kept inside their vehicles by their fear and the raging sleet storm outside.
	+ **1:30 a.m.** — The convoy are able to send an emergency distress signal to the rest of the task force in the area; Robinett mobilizes his nearby squad to insert into the area.
	+ **1:50 a.m.** — Robinett's squad is unable to locate the convoy, but uncover their road tracks that lead to an abrupt end.
	+ **2:24 a.m.** — The convoy reappears right on NY-143 one hour after their attack and subsequent disappearance, and are found by state police. None of the agents in the convoy can confirm what exactly happened. Their watches read 1:32 a.m.
	+ **3:00 a.m.** — Shepherd is personally subject to the sight of something distorting the skies above the Lakeview Inn; he orders a full scale retreat of all PIB and police assets from the area. No one can confirm exactly what it was, but Shepherd himself states that it seemed as if "a face was peeking through thin air".
	+ **3:02 a.m.** — A 911 call is placed from Ashleighville, but the contents of the call cannot be deciphered. Robinett orders the immediate dispatch of a contingent of FEVER DREAM into the hamlet for investigation.
	+ **3:15 a.m.** — Shots are fired from within the hamlet as the SPRU squad encounters what would become known as the "Ashleigh Thing" emerging from a house, with its name originating from frantic SPRU communications. Robinett orders the bulk of FEVER DREAM to report to the hamlet to contain the malevolent entity.
	+ **3:20 a.m.** — The EBS sends out another official warning on television and radio warning that "dangerous persons" have been spotted in the township of Cedarcrest and that the mandatory lockdown over Atkins County would continue.
	+ **3:26 a.m.** — Agent Copesland, having finally retained the ability to speak, visually identifies the entity being recorded live in Ashleighville as the same entity that tormented his team in the Ladd State Forest.
	+ **3:27 a.m.** — The first PIB casualty of the operation occurs when Special Agent Joseph Noble disappears after being dragged by the entity into an empty house.
	+ **3:28 a.m.** — The second and third casualties occur when Special Agents Conrad Ray and Gregory Long are killed by an unknown pressure wave, throwing them several meters across the street into another house. The commander of the squad, Todd Glover, orders the hamlet's residents to be forcibly evacuated as his troops pull back. Reinforcements sent by Robinett arrive and enforce a perimeter.
	+ **3:52 a.m.** — An M939 truck carrying an experimental Galloway Resonance Device arrives in Ashleighville after all known residents of the hamlet are evacuated. DeWitt gives authorization for its activation.
	+ **3:57 a.m.** — The GRD is remotely activated. The subsequent pulse knocks out all electronics in a ten mile radius for a period of seven minutes.
	+ **3:59 a.m.** — PIB agents and SPRU troops re-enter Ashleighville in pursuit of the entity. It is never found.
	+ **7:07 a.m.** — The portal on the grounds of the Lakeview Inn & Resort dematerializes.
	+ **7:36 a.m.** — The storm that has hung over central New York for nearly a day fades away.
	+ **7:45 a.m.** — DeWitt orders the exfiltration of all SPRU from Central New York and to hold at SPRU garrison facilities until further notice. He also orders Shepherd and the rest of the conventional PIB to resume analysis activities at the Lakeview crime scene.
	+ **8:00 a.m.** — Those evacuated from Ashleighville are allowed to return with increased police presence.
	+ **9:00 a.m.** — The curfew is lifted after an EBS broadcast confirms the "cessation of all known threats in the area".
	+ **12:00 p.m.** — News stations across the United States are finally given clearance to report on pieces of information provided by the FBI regarding the events in central New York. *Officially*, mother Caitlyn Monroe and daughter Jocelyn Monroe had went missing due to the intense and sudden snow and sleet storm that passed through the area, and police in conjunction with the FBI had uncovered the apex of the Tri-County Butcher's actions through the uncovering of thirteen corpses, matching the purported thirteen missing women that had been abducted over the course of three years. The official identity of the killer, Archer Nathaniel Wood, was released. It was also reported that accomplices of Wood may exist, and that all within the state of New York and surrounding states must be vigilant.
* **October 14** — The remains of Xavier, Dominic's pet dog, are found a kilometer into the Edward State Forest by an FBI team. The skin and internal organs were found wrapped around seven trees forming an impromptu heptagon, with his bones deposited in the center. There are no prints or disturbances of vegetation indicating who had placed Xavier in such a state.

### 1992

* David Hiers finishes his Coast Guard service and returns to New Orleans.

### 1993

* James R. Felton officially leaves the United States Coast Guard and is now considered a civilian, returning to New Orleans.

### 1997

* **January 1** — James R. Felton travels to Cedarcrest, New York to meet his old Coast Guard friend, David Hiers.
* **January 8** — Kaitlyn Brooks moves to Cedarcrest from New York City.
* Edward Santos dies from natural causes.