Timely Encounters

Present - House 2/Timely Encounters

Daydream visits her mother, Ruby Heroux, on the Isle of Qara, 80 years after leaving with her sister, still completely unaware of the illusion. Towards the end of the events of Timely Encouters, Ruby tells Daydream to return to Qara with her sister, Nightmare. Once both twins are present, as well as the demigod Amber, Ruby will drop the illusion once and for all. They will see the truth of Qara, and Ruby will explain waht happened and how it ended up this way. She will then express her hope to see Einar just one more time, because she knows she is close to death. She may have Henry's power of creation, but she does not have his immortality. The illusion was going to have to come down eventually. In the end, Daydream and Nightmare will track down Einar, now known as the Midnight Reaper, and bring him to Qara to see Ruby one last time.

Overview

Timely Encouters can be split up into three major arcs; A Tragedy Of Twins, Runaway, and Unburdened. A secret, fourth arc has been hinted at throughout the adventure, in between each of the three major arcs. Below, I will give a detailed description of everything planned for these arcs, as well as spoilers for how Timely Encounters is set to end. There will also be a bonus section describing the unseen lore behind the first two arcs of Timely Encounters.

The side story begins with Kaden, AJ, Kaitlyn, Mons, and Daydream arriving at the Newport Airport and getting off an airplane. All heck breaks loose when Dorian appears and stabs Kaitlyn, bringing her to a swift death and angering AJ. A fight begins, Cyrus appears, begins to fight AJ, and Daydream takes Mons and Kaden through a portal and to Qara. This is where the adventure begins.

A Tragedy Of Twins

The first major arc of Timely Encounters takes place ten years in the past, when Alicia and Daria were originally killed by a masked assailant in Newport City. Through some lovely intervetion on Kaden's part, the two were saved! The masked assailant, while not revealed at the time, was Cyrus, Alicia's ex-boyfriend and the father of her twins, Dorian and Daria. The assailant was causing earthquakes with his magic after tying the two hostages up at the top of a tall skyscraper. While the older version of AJ from that time period fought the assailant, Kaden snuck to the top of the building, releasing the hostages and saving them from their incoming doom. In the end, the building still topples, but now, the two hostages are safely far away from it.

Runaway

In the second arc, Kaden travels to a much earlier time period, where he finds out Alicia is his adopted older sister. He runs into her just as she is running away from her family. His family. He follows her through the alleys of Newport to find her making a deal with a young, teenage Cyrus. Cyrus runs a gang and Alicia is signing herself up to join. After talking to Alicia for a while, Kaden seeks ot Cyrus. In the end, Kaden convinces Alicia to return to her family instead of running away. Annoyed, but not giving up, Cyrus disbands his gang and goes home with Alicia, pretending to be a decent boyfriend in hopes that his plan can still go through.

Unburdened

Now honestly, I don't know much about the third arc, because that was AJ's arc, not mine. All I know is that it was set to end the Save Star and all the problems it has caused. That's why it's called Unburdened. This final arc takes place much farther back than the first two, going all the way back to around the House+ era. That is, literally all that I know. Moving on!

Hidden Lore

In order to understand what has actually been going on with Cyrus and Dorian, we'd have to backtrack many, *many* years earlier. Cyrus's mother/twin sister, Cynthia, was found by AJ and Kaitlyn in a random cabin in the woods. This was the story Kaitlyn told Kaden when she was bedridden in the cabin. The one with the girl's out of control magic and tiny bug wolves or whatever they were. Now you may ask, how in the world can Cynthia be both his mother and his twin? Well that's quite simple. Magic. Duh. Long story short, when Kaitlyn and AJ left her in a children's home in Newport, her magic was still out of control. In a desperate attempt to discharge some of her overflowing magic energy (without destroying the children's home), she created another living being. Cyrus is not human, he is pure magic power. He is the result of a failed attempt to save Cynthia's life. You see, she expended all that energy to create Cyrus, but it was not enough. Her uncontrollable magic still ended up killing her. In front of him. From then on, all he knew is that Kailtyn and AJ dropped Cynthia off at this home without fixing her magic first. All he knew is that it was they're fault he was created and Cynthia died.

Now, the real question, is why was Cynthia's magic out of control to begin with? And that, my friends, is the connection to Savvy mentioned on the main page. Head on over to the Salvation (Savvy) page to learn more about Cynthia's backstory.