Boxing day, how does it even work? There are last minute gifts to be delivered, and a few last dregs of Christmas spirit to be rung out of the holiday.

With the oncoming New Year, the truly bizzare Dash Princely has disappeared into thin air, and Troy is introduced to the one danger it could never have expected: politics.

Will the kids be able to find Dash? Does anyone even care? And what the heck is even up with those sparkles?

Side chatter

PLAYERS

• James – Tim Rodgers
• Manda - Manny
• Matt - Scott Valle, Caleb “2Dope” Andrews
• Nate - Emma Vaerbond, Etsu Hikane
• Sam - George Fillburn
• Charlie - Nele
• Zach – Eldridge Tsukimono

In 2007, a few months before hostilities between the government and the IRA cease, a young woman is becoming war. A member of an IRA splinter group, Aaliyah finds herself plunged into danger and violence near-constantly.

Thankfully, this is where she thrives.

PLAYERS

• Nate - Aaliyah Rhodes (The Witch). Broken, socially cautious, and relaxed. Aaliyah is a Heinz 57 of social disorders. Her inability to feel bad about justified murder could label her a sociopath.  Upon the resurgence of masks in Prominence, Aaliyah, known by Walker’s men as “The Witch,” fashioned a suit and mask for herself, and used any excuse available to meet these masks — people she instantly idolized.  With her former boss no longer in power.

Christmas was survived, and successful. Unfortunately, nothing stays peaceful these days in Troy.

Eld has an unhappy visitor, Butch has returned from a visit to South America and is looking well the worse for wear, and George and Caleb have an offer for him.

Troy is darkening, and an old evil is stirring in its shadows.

Side chatter

PLAYERS

• Manda - Manny
• Matt -  Caleb “2Dope” Andrews
• Sam - George Fillburn

The spotlight Heroes of Prominence stories continues: Lacey Clark has a date.

Lacey has fought gangbangers, interrogated men to the point of breaking, and been the quiet trigger of justice on the streets of Prominence for months now.

And she just can’t get a night off, no matter how unobtrusive dinner at Applebees might seem.

Sidetalk

PLAYERS

• Manda – Lacey Clark (The Ghost). Seemingly apathetic, though very bright and goal oriented. Lacey gets bored with life extremely fast, looking for thrills to make life worth living. She entered the hero game after hearing stories on her mother’s news reports.  Agile and good with a gun, terrifying to lay your eyes on in a dark alleyway.

It’s a few days before Christmas, and Troy is decked out for the holidays. The spirit of Christmas is in the air, and all of the Frieda’s kids are scrambling to get their shopping done.

But not even Christmas is safe from bizarre occurrences. Something strange is going on in the Troy County Mall, and it has our intrepid heroes wrapped up in its grip.

Can they survive the Christmas Nightmare?

Side chatter

PLAYERS

• James – Tim Rodgers
• Manda - Manny
• Matt - Scott Valle, Caleb “2Dope” Andrews
• Nate - Emma Vaerbond, Etsu Hikane
• Sam - George Fillburn
• Charlie - Nele
• Zach – Eldridge Tsukimono

The first month of middle school in Ichor Falls, 1986, began calmly, with a trip to the Rand Historical Society Museum. For the local kids, it was just one more inundation of the town’s boring history. For four students, newly moved into the town, it was the beginning of something they will be forever unable to explain.

The students found and read a book of local stories, some of which seemed to possess supernatural powers. The story of The Stitched Man brought forth a nightmare into the bedroom of Thomasine Goode. Some dark, malevolent thing has turned its eyes upon the newcomers, and it wants them for its own.

Can the four friends survive the darkness that Ichor Falls brings to bear?

Ichor Falls is written by Kris Straub, and is absolutely worth checking out.

Side Chatter

PLAYERS

• Manda – Thomasine Goode
• Matt – Brian Kim
• Nate – Isa Sa’id
• Zach – Kendra Polidori

The once-abandoned West Virginia mining town of Ichor Falls lies always shrouded in mist. It crouches like a slick mushroom in a river valley, brooding. Abandoned by the world for several decades, new inroads are being created. The Elysium Group, the land’s new owners, are attempting to revitalize the near idyllic Falls, welding modern design to repaired turn-of-the-century ruins that slouch in decay.

It is 1986, and four middle-schoolers have moved with their families to take up residence in the new Ichor Falls suburb, Elysia. Their parents have told them that it’s a wonderful new opportunity for them and the family. That things can be different here, no matter what came before.

But Ichor Falls watches the passing of time as a face in a tree. History dwells here, thick and choking and rotten. Stories whispered in the grey light of day become real and inexorable in the night. From the depths of its mist, poised inside the edge of dusk, Ichor Falls waits for a day that comes all too soon.

Ichor Falls is written by Kris Straub, and is absolutely worth checking out.

Side Chatter

PLAYERS

• Manda – Thomasine Goode
• Matt – Brian Kim
• Nate – Isa Sa’id
• Zach – Kendra Polidori

Soon enough our hero finds himself plunged into a break-neck race to find a kidnapper and their victim before time runs out. Can the lone hero triumph against overpowering odds?

Sidetalk

PLAYERS

• Zach - Arraveous “Rave” Varren (Opera). A thrillseeking vigilante in a cheap suit and comedy mask.  He works the south side of the city and enjoys beating up gang members.  Despite having quite a mouth he prefers to stay out of the public eye.

Hackman is defeated. The last major threat of Odyn’s grab for power sits alone in a cell, gibbering, mad. The kids of Mrs. Friedas Halfway Home are triumphant.

Despite the appearances of ghosts and regrets, old and new, it is time to lick their wounds, eat pancakes, and hash out what the hell to do now.

Side chatter

PLAYERS

• James – Tim Rodgers
• Manda - Manny
• Matt - Scott Valle, Caleb “2Dope” Andrews
• Nate - Emma Vaerbond, Etsu Hikane
• Sam - George Fillburn
• Charlie - Nele
• Zach – Eldridge Tsukimono

Wraith and Ghost are breaking into Harold Lee Sound Technologies, investigating elements of the Wraith’s past. His work has continued without him, finding its way into military applications, and out onto the street.

It seems Amy Vasquez is the prime funnel. But who is she delivering the tech too, and why? What awaits the Wraith down this road into his past?

Sidetalk

PLAYERS

• Matt – The Wraith.   Got his Masters in Electrical Engineering with a minor in acoustic design.  10 years back, shortly after beginning employment, his father was diagnosed with Huntington’s Disease.  He got himself checked out and found out that he’s also positive for Hereditary Huntington’s.  With nothing to live for and nothing to lose, he decided to take down the mob before he died. That was great until he messed up.  Bad.  Now, he is a man with no name.  He works odd jobs under strange names and heads around town leaving notes, making sure that everyone knows they’re not alone in this city.
• Manda – Lacey Clark (The Ghost). Seemingly apathetic, though very bright and goal oriented. Lacey gets bored with life extremely fast, looking for thrills to make life worth living. She entered the hero game after hearing stories on her mother’s news reports.  Agile and good with a gun, terrifying to lay your eyes on in a dark alleyway.