1682 JUNE 9TH In the mixed-monster village of Yserriane, just barely south of Royal Makai, a succubus named Lilith is born to the town leader Ariesielle, one of several wealthy traders bankrolling a Hornet warlord who has a grand ambition to see himself on the throne of Royal Makai. Said warlord, Kharnaxis, has a more realistic goal than most Demon Lords. Instead of the usual disorganized mass-extermination or subjugation campaign against the human race as a whole, Kharnaxis’s goal was the decapitation of The Order’s leadership, by cutting a swath to the Capitol City and innovatively sieging it from land, sea, and air. 1692 FEBRUARY 14TH Arch-Inquisitor Mervin Cross seduces his guardian Angel as part of a plan to grant his bloodline heavenly abilities. Her pent-up libido is thankfully quenched by a most loyal follower, but fearing a public shaming and possibly even banishment for giving into carnal lust, the Angel stays in the mortal realm for the duration of her pregnancy. 1692 NOVEMBER 18TH The Angel whose name is lost to time, gives birth to her only child, Adam. She would abandon the infant shortly afterwards to rejoin the heavenly host, leaving him in the care of The Inquisition and his father Mervin. 1693 JANUARY 28TH The current Chief God, once a rare male Houri, retires and self-fades into the afterlife after naming a certain Angel as his successor. His final hope had been that her time spent among humanity and acquired motherly instincts would grant her a more benevolent view towards their mortal followers. She doesn’t, and continues ignoring her child out of embarrassment, but still keeps an eye on him from afar. The new Chief God makes plans to explain everything to her son only AFTER he succeeds in destroying the current Demon Lord. 1716 NOVEMBER 18TH After years of training and small-time patrols around The Order’s capital city, ordained Hero Adam Cross celebrates his 24th birthday, and is finally declared ready to go on a crusade to defeat the newest Demon Lord, a Hornet by the name of Kharnaxis. Adam hand-picks a team to travel alongside him. His absentee father Mervin makes claims of “being far too engrossed in his work,” to spend time with his son beyond a single farewell handshake for luck, as Adam sets out on his quest. 1717 SEPTEMBER 6TH Adam’s entire team, save him, is killed in action against a particularly large onslaught of Werewolves and Wyverns on the eastern edge of the Polove Desert. Adam alone reaches an oasis and proceeds to make a last stand, only to manage to obliterate the monster legion with the shockingly unexpected help of another monster that had been secretly following Adam and his adventuring party over the previous two weeks. This “good” monster, a disgruntled Succubus named Lilith, had deserted her post of infiltrating Dragonia’s ruling house. Lilith’s decision to leave the Demon Lord’s employ came from a personal investigation (conducted shortly after her thirty-fourth birthday six months earlier) into the life her father had led in Dragonia before his search for gold that resulted in being kidnapped by Lilith’s mother. Lilith would undergo the shocking revelation that her father had prayed so badly to have a daughter to care and love for, only to suffer a monkey’s paw for his wish. Her conception had come from his final orgasm, only seconds before death by soul-draining. The final nail to her mind was the discovery that her paternal grandparents had “died of broken hearts” from losing their only child, never realizing that they had a granddaughter all along. The Succubus and Hero would then travel together in their quest to defeat the Demon Lord, gaining and losing many monster and human allies along the way. 1720 JANUARY 3RD The Demon Lord Kharnaxis is defeated and killed in the main hall of his palace at Royal Makai. His slayers, Succubus Queen Lilith and The Ultimate Hero Adam Cross, seize the throne for themselves, acquiring Lilith its mantle for herself. The Chief God appears to Adam that night to congratulate him for his victory, only to be shocked at the triple-whammy that there was already a replacement Demon Lord, that it was a succubus of all creatures, and most importantly, that this succubus had just become her daughter-in-law. In this final battle, most of Lilith’s home-village perishes in battle after reluctantly siding with her. The casualties included her own mother. 1720 JANUARY 4TH Ignoring the pleas of his mother to stop this absolute blasphemy while she’s still willing to give him a chance, Adam Cross undergoes a fertility ritual with his no-longer-secret lover Lilith. Now husband and wife, The Ultimate Hero and the Demon Lord lock their hands together and proceed with missionary-position sexual intercourse for the purpose of procreation. Upon Adam’s first occurrence of spilling his seed into Lilith’s womb, the spell is cast, and the world of Kenkou is forever altered. Using the palace itself as a sort of tuning-fork, a wave of energy emanates from it to reach every corner of the globe. Its purpose was to defuse all succubi by placing a hard-lock on their capability to drain souls, but the actual effect was far, far more powerful than either husband or wife would possibly expect It completely succeeded in its original goal, but the energy wave also transformed all other female monsters into more “pleasant” succubi-like forms. The male monsters, whom had already suffered a major depopulation due to attrition in battling the current era’s crusades, were all rendered sterile. Many would commit suicide from despair within the decade, or simply choose to die with honor by intentionally picking unwinnable fights with soldiers of The Order, mercenaries, and even each other in some recorded cases. 1720 OCTOBER 31ST Demon Lord Lilith and her husband Adam welcome their first of many, many daughters into the world, Lilianne Cross. Having decided that this deviation from the original Chief God’s worldplan had gone on long enough, the current Chief God attempts to terminate her abomination of a granddaughter, and is repulsed from Royal Makai for good after losing a duel to her no-longer-negotiable son. 1722 MARCH 1ST The Demon Lord and her husband welcome their second daughter, Carol, into the world. It is at this point where scholars in Royal Makai’s direct employ begin to notice Lilianne and Carol’s inherited difference from normal succubi, leading to their classification as a new form of monster, the “Lilim.” 1723 FEBRUARY 14TH The third Lilim, Druella, is born at a clinic in western Royal Makai, with Baphy-sama serving the Demon Lord as a midwife. Her seers expect great things to come from the Third-Born Princess. 1744 AUGUST 1ST Arch-Inquisitor Mervin Cross is confronted at his home by his eldest granddaughter Lilianne, in their first and only meeting. Secretly happy that his son had moved past their mutual abandonment by the Chief God, but realizing that he could no longer hide the rumors of Adam’s “corruption” and defection, Mervin hangs himself from his office rafters shortly after his granddaughter leaves, rather than be burned at the stake by overly-ambitious underlings and/or an angry dogmatic mob. In his final will and testament, he begs his son and grandchildren to forgive his paranoia-induced verbal abuse towards Adam all throughout his childhood, and the ensuing neglect after becoming an adult. The Chief God allows her husband to stay at her side in Heaven rather than to ascend into the afterlife in the normal human fashion. Mervin declines, and the Chief God banishes his soul to Pandemonium in a fit of rage after Mervin’s repeated insistence that the two must accept that Adam was now completely beyond their control, and that she had ought reconcile with him if only for the sake of their innocent granddaughters. 1937 AUGUST 18TH In the furthest northern habitable reach of Dragonia, lies a village known as Kurgania, where a human girl named Eydis is born to a professional large-animal hunter named Volrik, and his taxidermist wife Signe. The both of them were quite wealthy, thanks to the major influx of business that came with the village being a major staging ground for crusaders and adventurers in The Order’s futile attempts at reconquering Dragonia. 1942 AUGUST 27TH Having finally had enough of Orderite activity in the area, Empress Deonora calls for a liberation of Kurgania. A veritable legion of varied Mamono husband-seeking adventurers heed her call, and assault the village. Kurgania falls within hours, as tragedy strikes Eydis’s family. Her mother, having just been monsterized into a Selkie, tackles her father as he arms up inside of a stockade. Dropping his torch on a barrel of high-explosive Dwarven dynamite, they die instantly within direct view of their sole daughter. The explosion is so massive that it sends the orphaned girl flying for meters into a snowbank. Seeing that her hometown was doomed, the huntress-in-training runs off into the wilderness, having no real plan due to still being in utter shock regarding the demise of her parents and the complete upheaval of her life. She falls asleep in a burrow after beginning to feel the effects of frostbite, and passes away in her sleep from hypothermia. Eydis awakens in The Chief God’s realm, where a multitude of Angels and Cupids greet her and extend their sympathies, explaining that she was dead. Accepting an invitation to an audience with The Chief God, the deity makes her an offer. Move on into the afterlife and reunite with her parents, or stay behind and avenge them as a vessel of Her Blessed Wrath. Eydis chooses vengeance, justifying her choice by proclaiming that she would ensure that no human child would suffer her fate so long as she drew a blade in Heaven’s name, and so the soul of Eydis is transmogrified on the spot into a Valkyrie. Her training would begin that very same day. 1953 SEPTEMBER 2ND After expending a massive amount of energy in yet another attempt to alter the original succubization energy wave, Demon Lord Lilith’s water breaks four days early, giving birth in the royal bedchambers to her thirty-fourth daughter, Azneth. Due to Lilith’s weakened state, Azneth is born a Lesser Succubus rather than a full-fledged Lilim. 1961 OCTOBER 30TH The Fallen God, Lilith, The Chief God, Ares, and Baphy-sama all sense a brief energy spike in the void between the various planes of existence. Baphy-sama and The Chief God both begin to investigate the spike’s source. Unknown to them for now, this tear in the fabric of known reality had originated from a magicless planet where humans were the sole sentient race, a planet known as Earth. The spike had been caused by the Soviet Union’s nuclear airburst detonation of the 50-megaton Tsar Bomba, over Severny Island. The explosion had been recorded as so utterly powerful, that windows would shatter 600 miles away and American spycraft well within Norwegian airspace had their paintjobs scorched. While the earlier 15-megaton CASTLE BRAVO test detonation in 1954 had barely bent the fabric of reality, the Tsar Bomba had completely torn through it. 1964 AUGUST 28TH After twenty-two years, Valkyrie Eydis's training is declared complete. Sent back into the mortal realm, she would serve The Chief God as a hatchetwoman, a mass-executioner sent in when innocent human children would pray to her “employer” for deliverance from monsters (read: lived in good homes that didn’t require Bogey intervention). With The Chief God’s blessing to let her deal with personal unfinished business, Eydis’s first course of action as a full-fledged Valkyrie would be to raze her monsterized hometown to the ground, leaving no survivors save for two captured still-human men that hadn’t been claimed by a Mamono yet. From there, her legend as the Scourge of Kurgania began. 1966 AUGUST 14TH Druella abruptly and speedily conquers the once-thought-impenetrable Kingdom of Lescatie, after creating an inner circle by monsterizing the most disgruntled of the city’s most physically and/or influentially-powerful women. A local well-regarded guardsman named Elt, begins his rise to Kingship by way of a forced (not really) marriage to Princess Francisca M. Lescatie. He would end up taking eight more wives by next daybreak. This event would begin Royal Makai’s final stage of world domination, as word of Lescatie’s fall gave any monster with an iota of ambition an easy game-plan for toppling just about nearly every single Order-aligned kingdom. 1967 DECEMBER 31ST A fact-editor (read: truth-falsifier) of The Order’s Inquisition deserts his post in the Capital City, deciding to go on a quest to document and publish a truthful encyclopedia on every single race of Mamono there is, allowing his readers to make up their own well-informed minds on whether to accept their love or not. 1968 NOVEMBER 19TH After publishing the first Monster Girl Encyclopedia, the man now known as The Wandering Scholar lays low from Order hitmen in the Demon Realm of Lescatie, where he would interview Druella, Queen Francisca, King Elt, and the rest of his harem to accurately write the truth of how Lescatie fell, publishing a new book titled Monster Girl Encyclopedia World Guide I: Fallen Maidens, on the conquest’s third anniversary. Allegations would continue well into the present day that TWS and Druella had briefly entered into a carnal relationship that didn’t work out, which both have vehemently denied. Most of Druella’s siblings know the truth, but keep from blabbing out of respect for not wanting poor Saphirette Spherica to be known as “the woman that put a ring on the Third-Born’s sloppy seconds.” 1969 JULY 20TH The Chief God’s partial psychic connection to the human race finally leads her to Earth, after being guided by the worldwide feeling of goodwill emanated from the live broadcasting of Neil Armstrong’s “giant leap for mankind” as he took his steps on the surface of The Moon. She was disgusted, as a single day of scrying on Earth was enough for her to understand why exactly the original Chief God had smited the original Pharaoh by creating the mantle of Demon Lord. Without any gods to personally intervene, or any natural balance checks such as monsters, this strain of the human race was right in the process of ravaging their world’s environment through rampant industrialization, and the subsequent warring amongst themselves using ever-increasingly powerful weaponry. Her viewing of Apollo 11 brought her to conclude that this version of humanity was planning to cheat their way out of paying the wages of their sins, by spreading to other worlds. The Order was a weak house of cards waiting for a strong wind to blow it all away, her humanity was on its way to a well-deserved doom by Incubus-Mamono population displacement and replacement. And so the Chief God began hatching a plan to have Royal Makai, The Order, and the humans of Earth all dealt with in one master-stroke. All she needed was the unwitting help of her traitorous son and The Fallen God. 1970 AUGUST 12TH With his fame now spread far and wide, The Wandering Scholar is approached to make some easy money by working alongside a Dark Matter elemental covenanter named Saphirette Spherica. Together, they write the Monster Girl Encyclopedia World Guide II : Demon Realm Traveller’s Guide. Spherica would subtly (not really) use the book to advertise herself as a good prospect of a potential wife, to which The Wandering Scholar leaves numerous snide editorial comments, halfly out of frustration towards Saphirette’s lack of scholarly professionalism, and halfly out of jealousy that the covenanter wouldn’t make a move on him. 1971 AUGUST 12TH While on a research expedition, The Wandering Scholar disappears in the jungles of Zipangu shortly after publishing the Monster Girl Encyclopedia : Volume II. Due to the conditions of his publishing contract with Saphirette Spherica, the Dark Matter-woman gives permission to their mutual professional associate Runya Runya, to finish and publish TWS’s proposed Monster Girl Encyclopedia World Guide III: Sabbath Grimoire. 1973 AUGUST 14TH After a copyright negotiation deal with Ms. Spherica and Ms. Runya, a scholar named William Saga, in the employ of Dragonia’s royal court, receives permission to write supplementary World Guide addendums to the Monster Girl Encyclopedia. His first volume details to great effect his home region of Dragonia. 1974 AUGUST 13TH With his first World Guide a massive success for Dragonia’s tourism industry, a further step is taken as William Saga is hired by Wilmarina Noscrim, to write a biographical account of her long-delayed Dragonian honeymoon with King Elt. 1974 DECEMBER 31ST Hot off of publishing Monster Girl Encyclopedia World Guide - Side 1.5: Wilmarina's Honeymoon, William Saga rides along with Wilmarina and Elt back to Lescatie, where he writes a World Guide regarding the current status of that particular Demon Realm as an elaborate travel brochure. 1976 AUGUST 11TH With The Wandering Scholar still missing, William Saga is hired by Ms. Spherica to write his last addendum, this one regarding the Sea of Asuramis, Monster Girl Encyclopedia World Guide - Side III: Court Alf ~Divas of the City of Water~. 1977 AUGUST 13TH The Wandering Scholar resurfaces in Polove, with a desperate and highly-aggressive Jinko hot on his metaphorical tail. Having reconciled with her internal feelings towards him, Saphirette accepts TWS back into her life as they marry nearly on the spot, which gets the Jinko stalker out of his hair. Mr. Spherica celebrates his return to the scholarly world by publishing his initial notebook on Succubi that he had secretly compiled when he was still working for The Inquisition. 2005 MARCH 7TH While going through a post-life crisis after starting to wonder if her parents had been sufficiently avenged at this point, Valkyrie Eydis takes up a job in The Chief God’s realm as a combat instructor for aspiring Angels, Cupids, Houris, and younger Valkyries, who wished to be sufficiently trained before becoming guardian angels or joining Hero adventuring parties. Since no one tells her that she CAN’T do it, the former-human also coaches her Angel & Valkyrie students on how to seduce male Heroes (or be matchmakers for female Heroes) that they come to care deeply for, rationalizing this with the logic that a Hero in a relationship with a member of the angelic host stands at far higher odds of resisting corruption, than one that isn’t. She’s partially correct, depending on the Hero and their heavenly lover. 1978 DECEMBER 31ST Celebrating eleven years of freedom from The Chief God and her Order, Mr. Spherica publishes his long-awaited treatise on Zipangu and The Mist Continent, Monster Girl Encyclopedia : Volume III. 2010 OCTOBER 31ST Baphy-sama and her Sabbath finally pinpoint the planet Earth. Bringing this information to the Demon Lord, Lilith allows her children to decide among themselves on what to do with this human-dominated world. Azneth is appointed to lead the cultural study team dedicated to documenting the United States of America. 2013 JUNE 10TH For the “crime” of “corrupting their members towards the disgusting ways of the old hag”, The Sabbath ejects their entire membership of Holstaurs, Minotaurs, Youko, Demons, and Princess Azneth. Azneth takes this in stride, as she had simply been using the Greila Group’s researchers as a means toward her own end. She would hire the rest of the rejects to join her pet project on studying the culture of North America. 2017 MAY 25TH Having had just enough of Lilith’s “insufficiently inadequate” progress towards defeating her mother-in-law and fixing the male birth dilemma, The Fallen God attempts to overthrow The Demon Lord and take the mantle for herself. In a literally-unholy temporary alliance, The Chief God sides with her son and daughter-in-law as a “devil you know rather than the devil you don’t” deal. Most of the Automaton race would be “hacked” by the forces of Pandemonium, as lines were drawn and the most bitter struggle Lilith’s regime had seen yet would begin. 2018 FEBRUARY 20TH Known narcotics addict Wyatt Collier breaks into the Non home in Juneau, Alaska, intending to steal Shila Non’s jewelry to fence for easy drug money. He comes across a 16-year old Adam Non, home alone. High as a kite on psychedelics, he becomes instantly convinced that Adam was a giant mouthless black winged monster, Wyatt grabs a carving knife and rushes towards the teenager with the intention of slicing him to ribbons. Unfortunately for him, Adam’s father Joshua had left a loaded Remington 870 Marine Magnum shotgun in the dining room. Adam grabs it and blasts a chunk out of Wyatt’s chest. In utter panic, he then continues to expend the entire magazine tube, turning Collier into a splatter of bloody gibs all over the living room. With police sirens closing in due to various neighbors calling 911 about the gunfire, Adam has a nervous breakdown and runs into the family bathroom to curl up in the bathtub, fetal position, while waving around his older brother’s Freedom Arms 97 revolver. Acting within his authority as a Juneau PD officer, Adam’s father would enter the family home first, easing his son back to his senses and getting him to hand over the loaded handcannon. Thinking him to just be understandably acting in the heat of the moment, Joshua decides not to send his middle child to any therapy sessions. 2018 DECEMBER 8TH The Pandemonium Uprising comes to a bitter end, as the dimension of Pandemonium implodes on itself as a middle-finger to The Fallen God’s most powerful enemies. The extreme majority of the Shoggoth and Automaton races had been annihilated by the implosion, along with most of the pantheon of gods. By the time the smoke cleared, only Lilith, The Chief God, Ares, and Eros were still alive. And of high sadness to the Second-Born Princess Carol, her realm of Wonderland was destroyed as well, with her using the majority of her magical powers to save the lives of all its inhabitants, by sending them into the normal world just in the nick of time. As Pandemonium began to collapse, a strange occurrence happened to The Ultimate Hero and Lilith. As Lilith and her husband made a run for Eros’ portal back to Royal Makai, they fell into a wormhole created by The Fallen God as a final fuck-you. The wormhole would take them to a strange storage room with an extremely thick yet smooth concrete floor. As the two explored this room, Lilith’s scanning spell would trigger some kind of loud alarm machine due to the spell’s energy being of a sulphuric nature. Two human men in strange dark-blue coveralls would enter the room, evidently assuming that the alarm machine was signaling a false positive. Upon seeing the Hero and Demon Lord, they unsheathed strange-looking pistols and began pointing them at Lilith, believing she was some sort of Ryu due to her wings and horns. Absolutely not in the mood for any more bullshit today, Lilith nonchalantly blasts the two men with a typical incubization spell. The two security officers proceed to begin furiously masturbating to her near-immaculate presence, as a team of seven men wearing rubbery black/yellow coats and red hats entered the room. They immediately panic, as five of them unholster their axes to bumrush The Ultimate Hero. Lilith blasts them as well with another incubization spell, as the remaining two males rush back out the door. An even louder alarm begins to sound off, as red lights begin blinking across the storage room’s ceiling. Lilith empowers herself and her husband with a translation spell, to which they understand that this place was some sort of transportation hub, that the first men to enter the room were luggage security guards, and that the second wave of men had incorrectly assumed that Lilith was trying to burn down the building. An attempt to get everyone to calm down completely fails, as a massive contingent of woodless musket-wielding men wearing splotchy green/brown/lime/black uniforms would breach every entrance into the building and begin shooting at the two. As Lilith decided that now was a good time to go home, she began preparing a portal while The Ultimate Hero ran around this “hangar” doing what he does best. And that’s slashing people with his Demonic Silver bastard sword. Lilith would finish the portal safely, and the husband-and-wife team would leap through back to their bedchambers, just as two treaded iron carriages with cannons on top blasted their way inside through a thin sheet-metal wall. The Ultimate Hero would spend the next decade trying to understand just what the fuck happened with all those strange humans. Lilith would write it off for a time, thinking that The Fallen God had sent them to the distant past when the civilization that created the Automatons still existed. Now disconnected from her brand of mental influence, The Fallen God’s remaining forces would be welcomed back into Lilith’s fold with loving arms. 2019 MAY 1ST With 11th grade now over, Adam Non decides to plan for his future a year ahead of most of his peers. Deciding that he would be great at helping people stuck in a jam, he goes to a job fair at Juneau’s city hall to volunteer with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. His ulterior motive is to use this summer of volunteer work as a springboard towards making friends and getting his professional foot in the door. 2020 MAY 3RD Impressed by his performance while volunteering the previous summer, FEMA Sector 10 Regional Administrator Yolanda Mous e-mails Adam Non a plane ticket to Anchorage, inviting him to her office for a permanent job interview. 2020 MAY 7TH Non arrives right on time to Mous’s office, where she subjects him to a surprise aptitude test. Concluding that he really does have the zero-hesitation-to-shoot killer instinct that the Collier incident’s report suggested he had, Mous hires the young man on the spot to work for her as an administrative assistant (read: enforcer for her shady operations committed under FEMA’s aegis). Non uses his salary advance to help pay for a dorm in Anchorage, his University of Alaska tuition already mostly subsidized by virtue of his status as a person of Inuit descent. 2021 JULY 27TH In a panic after President Joseph Biden’s declaration of an upcoming total withdrawal of America’s presence in Iraq, Yolanda Mous unshelves an operation she had drawn up, its ulterior motive being the gaining of major political capital with the Department of Defense. With a dwindling window of opportunity, she sends Adam Non and the newly-hired John Quentin Public to lead a fact-finding mission across the timeless sands of Babylonia. The mission’s goal was for FEMA to write up a well-detailed study of the bunker system that Saddam Hussein had constructed across the regions bordering Syria, Turkey, and Iran. Perhaps there was something to learn from there that could be re-applied to the USA’s own fallout shelter system that dated mostly from the 1950s to the late 1970s, and now desperately needed a mass renovation overhaul. The most high-priority of the bunkers to study were the ones known to have been built in the late 1980s, up until the Baathist regime’s collapse in 2003. 2021 DECEMBER 7TH With two days to spare before the official American regional withdrawal ends, Operation Trap-Door Spider ends in a shattering conclusion. The entire research team and their Academi PMC escort unit had been wiped out to a single man, just one day after finishing a study on the last bunker on their list. The sole survivor, Adam Non, would stand before a Congressional subcommittee to testify that their local guide for the northeastern section of Iraq, had sold them out to a band of highly-equipped Kurdistani marauders. Claiming that his full-band radio pleas for assistance had been graciously answered by the Syrian Army, he declines to mention that he had traded a copy of his mission’s entire research files to a local Russian FSB military advisor, in return for the Syrian “cavalry rescue.” John Q. Public had also survived, by virtue of being nowhere near the area at the time. He had luckily missed out on the final bunker mission after being bit by a camel spider on the second-to-last survey, and was recovering at a UNICEF clinic in Baghdad. 2021 DECEMBER 20TH Non’s preparations for going back to Juneau to celebrate Christmas with his family, receives a major interruption as CIA agents manhandle him while taking out the office trash, and black-bag him away in the back of an unmarked van. After being tranquilized and rudely awakened in a basement of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Non is extensively grilled on just how exactly did Operation Trap-Door Spider’s classified research survey surface in the Kremlin the day before, and just why exactly did a double-agent state in her report that Non was directly quoted as a professional source all over a series of paperwork regarding Russia’s own plans for a fallout shelter renovation program. Non had already planned for this possibility, and already had a plausible alibi ready to go. He successfully pins blame for the leak on two of his now-dead coworkers, claiming that they were trying to set Non up as their own fall guy. The man from Juneau gets away scot-free, after convincing the CIA that he had “uncovered his co-workers’ treason”, but was unable to report this due to the Kurdistani-caused massacre that had just begun. 2026 JUNE 3RD Having just acquired his master’s degree in political science, Non is rewarded for his years of loyalty to FEMA Deputy Director Mous, by receiving a promotion to Sector 10’s Regional Administrator. John Q. Public would take a promotion as well, to become Mous’s personal assistant at her new main office at the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center in Virginia. 2026 AUGUST 17TH Having intentionally timed the siege to begin on an anniversary of the fall of Lescatie, The Order’s final stronghold, the Capital City, falls to The Ultimate Hero. In a case of complete irony, he had heavily relied on invasion plans drawn up during Kharnaxis’s regime over three centuries earlier, that were never able to be implemented due to his untimely demise. With her remaining followers now scurrying to hide in the deepest corners of the world, the Chief God decides that the time to punish and discipline her wayward son is now or never. The War in Heaven began and ended in just one day. The Chief God was defeated once and for all. After committing suicide-by-proxy via psychologically manipulating her son into use a lethal sword against her in their final duel, the dying Chief God now began to fade back into her original form of a plain Angel. In her final moments, she would sincerely apologize to her son for having neglected him as a child and a young man. She was, however, not sorry at all for anything and everything she had done since Adam’s marriage to Lilith, taunting him with her awareness of the human world of Earth, and that the continuing male birth crisis would cause a clamor across all of Royal Makai’s lands for conquest of that planet. Simply put, Adam had utterly failed to truly stop the cycle of monster-human warring. In fact, she was darkly proud that her son and granddaughters had now escalated the cycle to a multi-planar level far, far beyond any of their wildest dreams. Adam’s mother would die in his arms, mocking him to the end with a dispassionate hug. Her spirit faded into nothingness, leading to a widespread conspiracy theory among the Sabbath that believes she had reincarnated either on Earth as a human, or as a Dark Angel somewhere on their homeworld. With The Chief God’s realm beginning to fade away as all of its remaining uncorrupted inhabitants began to flee the dimension to escape Royal Makai’s forces, Valkyrie Eydis would use an emergency portal that brought her straight to Eros’ main temple. Begging the Goddess of Love for protection from Lilith, Eros rejected her, stating that the Scourge of Kurgania deserved nothing but corruption, as punishment for all the couples and families she had torn to pieces during her time as an enforcer of The Chief God’s wrath. But out of respect for the piety her parents had shown to her, and for all the help Eydis had given to her Angel and Valkyrie students in finding worthy husbands, the Goddess of Love would let the Scourge of Kurgania walk away without a fuss, and give the Valkyrie a head-start on evading her more aggressive Cupids. 2028 JANUARY 21ST One of President Morris O’Grady’s first actions in office is to promote Yolanda Mous to National Security Advisor. Mous taps Adam Non to take her place as Deputy Director of FEMA. In practice, the proper Director Victor Stapleton was a chairwarmer, a rubber-stamping puppet of Mous and now Non. 2028 DECEMBER 8TH On the ten-year anniversary of The Fallen God’s defeat, The Ultimate Hero would call upon a team of Mindflayers in Azneth’s employ to help him investigate the extreme wormhole incident. After cross-referencing his memories with a bit of Google-sleuthing, they concluded that Lilith and Adam had actually appeared on Earth inside of an airplane hangar. The heavily-armed men that surged into the room were United States Marines; their distinct lowland ERDL uniforms and M48 Patton-type tanks indicated that the incident occurred at some point between the Earth years of 1969 and 1975. Azneth would be tasked with finding any records of Lilith and her father’s incursion. 2028 DECEMBER 18TH After ten days of deep investigation into the most-classified of NASA and the Marine Corps’ files, Azneth had found absolutely nothing. She would conclude that her parents had been involved in what she called an “Old Tannen-type” time paradox. The incident in that hangar literally no longer existed, as someone from further into the future had altered the past before 1969, deleting that timeline from existence which left her parents the only existing proof of that incident having ever occurred. This was all very confusing to The Ultimate Hero until Azneth drew a branching-timeline demonstration diagram on a chalkboard. 2030 NOVEMBER 10TH With all evidence of unusual plasmasphere interference pointing towards intelligent alien life infiltrating Earth, NASA Administrator Harald Vogner makes a gamble and meets with the chief of NATO’s intelligence division, Elias Panoglu. Both men joyously discover that neither is compromised, and so they set out on recruiting others into their inner circle. 2031 FEBRUARY 1ST Upon determining that she can indeed be trusted, Administrator Vogner recruits Eve Palmieri, the chairwoman of the US House Strategic Forces Subcommittee, into their conspiracy against the impending invasion from Royal Makai. 2031 FEBRUARY 5TH Having met with Druella at one of her safehouses in Annapolis, Yolanda Mous decides not to fight against the right side of history. She quietly resigns from her position as National Security Advisor, retiring to her family home in northeastern Oregon. Hoping to get political brownie points for alleviating his abysmal approval ratings, President O’Grady appoints Adam Non to replace Mous, hoping to increase his chance of scoring the Democrat voter base through stacking his Cabinet with minorities, himself being of Irish stock. Non in turn promotes John Q. Public to be his top deputy. In Europe, Panoglu recruits British House of Lords member Blaine Danner, Earl of Armagh, a crackpot with a dream of seeing feudalism return to Great Britain. He is particularly selected on account of Elias’s division’s awareness that Blaine was an active participant in The Troubles as a Ulster Volunteer Force terrorist, and that to this very day he was using his political capital to lean on MI5 for continued cover-ups of anti-Catholic activities in Northern Ireland and Scotland. 2031 FEBRUARY 19TH Aware that Mous had been convinced into quitting by a Lilim, NATO intelligence chief Elias Panoglu and Florida Congresswoman Eve Palmieri put Non under two weeks of intense scrutiny to see if Druella planted him or not. His loyalty no longer in question, Elias summons him to a secret chamber at his division’s headquarters in Brussels, to debrief him on the existence of Mamono and their impending invasion. With his assistance, trustworthy individuals within France and Russia’s governments are selected and approached. Panoglu recruits French Overseas Territory Minister Lexi Dubois, aware of her secret affiliation as a Bonapartist with ambitions to once again see France reign uncontested over continental Europe.. Non recruits Russian Minister of Culture Sergei Walentinov, appealing to their mutual ulterior motive of using the Mamono invasion to have the People’s Republic of China dealt with once and for all. Appealing to Sergei’s ego via his direct ancestral link to Genghis Khan, also went a long way towards convincing the Tuvan to hop onboard. 2031 FEBRUARY 24TH House Representative Palmieri inducts the final politician into their conspiracy, Chairman of Japan’s Public Safety Commission Tetsunori Umewaka. His skin in the game is his ambition to take advantage of a crisis to start a coup and become Prime Minister, or perhaps even weasel his way into the Imperial Family. 2031 FEBRUARY 27TH The Kuiper Group convenes for the first time in a conference room at the United Nations’ headquarters in NYC, hidden from prying eyes as the room is officially listed as a vacuum maintenance closet. Their first order of business is to come to an agreement on mutual non-interference with each of their ulterior political motives. Their second order of business is a unanimous agreement on coordinating a nuclear strategy against the monsters’ homeworld, and a counter-nuclear strategy in case North Korea, Israel, Iran, China, Pakistan, and/or India cause any geopolitical funny business in the meantime. 2031 MARCH 2ND Despite President O’Grady having already made up his mind on handing over the USA to the Lilim when the time was right, he could not just let their spy network run wild across the country. Fully aware that the Joint Chiefs of Staff, or his Secretary of State, or his National Security Advisor, would all be happy to whistleblow and arrest him on the spot for the highest level of treason, Morris is left with little choice but to covertly establish a black-operation for apprehending or terminating any Mamono that get too close to the public eye. Inspired by the hit tabletop RPG known as Delta Green, he forms Task Force Epsilon Lime. Non and Delta Force’s commanding officer Raphael Menendez are put in charge of the task force, and the two immediately get to work on poaching members from Delta Force and NASA’s ERT. Recruiting from the U.S. Space Force would be too obvious. 2031 MARCH 4TH Epsilon Lime acquires their first defector, a Werecat named Elinora. After concluding that while The Order of the Chief God had deserved everything that they had coming, the Radical’s methods of liberation were cruel & unfair against the people of America. Non buys her loyalty by giving her John Q. Public as a husband. John had a catgirl fetish for as long as his fellow Alaskan had known him, so it was a win-win situation. 2031 APRIL 17TH Aware that Epsilon Lime’s force projection was limited to North America and Hawaii, the rest of the Kuiper Group began to assemble their own anti-Mamono covert operations. France would hand-pick recruits from their Navy and Foreign Legion, Russia from their FSB, Great Britain from the UVF and MI5, and Japan from their National Public Safety Commission. 2031 MAY 5TH After receiving NSA Adam Non’s attention from his reading of her groundbreaking treatise, Evidence Of Extraterrestrials: On Mars! (And More Likely Than You Think Elsewhere), Dr. Hildegaard Krafthausen of the University of Augsburg is hired through the Centers For Disease Control under the official cover of a consultant on possible disease-bearing microbes being discovered in Antarctica. Unofficially, she is brought into the Epsilon Lime task force as their head genetics scientist and chief Mamono dissector. Using the Human Genome Project as a baseline, Dr. Krafthausen would begin her primary work on mapping the genomes of the various Mamono races, for the purpose of creating an all-in-one libido-surpressing retrovirus that would also block Lilith’s mental influence. Her work would begin on DNA samples taken from captured Red and Blue Oni. 2031 MAY 11TH The Scourge of Kurgania, Valkyrie Eydis Volriksdottir, sneaks her way to Earth through an open portal in the Lescatie castle courtyard. Materializing in the Meadowlands of New Jersey, she sets out to contact the supposed anti-Lilim conspiracy and offer her assistance. 2031 MAY 14TH Knowing how Mamono operated, Eydis decides to make contact with the only single man in the inner circle of America’s leader. Her hunch is proven correct, as National Security Advisor Adam Non is indeed a member of the conspiracy she was looking for. Paying close attention to Non’s alcohol addiction and nihilist attitude towards battling the Lilim, she decides to give the man a more tangible motivation by seducing him. 2031 JUNE 15TH To better coordinate their spy networks and recruit disaffected Earth humans, the Queen of Hearts, her ambitions set on conquering the British Isles, creates an online chat room called “Wonderland Two” using an app-service known as “Discord.” 2031 JULY 19TH A young Dragon girl named Valdra, disaffected by how the Radical faction had been the cause of all her family problems, defects to the United States. Offering the location of an Indianapolis safehouse that she and a Radical spy-ring was operating out of, Non arranges for her death to be faked. She becomes the Fort Sumter facility’s newest person in protective custody. 2031 JULY 28TH Eydis, armed with the knowledge of the remaining Order outposts, begins creating short-term portals to evacuate them to Earth. Her ulterior motive is to get them up to speed on Earth’s modern armaments and eventually put her full effort into assisting them, should the Kuiper Group become neutralized. She gives out orders for all of them to cooperate with their host nations and lay low until the time is right, but few of them listen to these instructions. With help from NSA Director Ian Chesterfield, Non uses a series of encrypted burner phones and laptops to infiltrate the “Wonderland Two” Discord server under the username-alias of “Milkshaker Unit-02.” 2031 AUGUST 20TH After spending enough time with the Alaskan to see Non’s attitude drastically change for the better compared to his sorry state when they first met, Eydis realizes that she was becoming too fond of him to classify their relationship as professional. She fails to work up the courage to discuss her feelings with him, but it would be a moot point within the week. Non uses Israel as a proxy to sell a bundle of nuclear torpedoes to Taiwan, in case of a Chinese amphibious invasion. At the same time, he sells ICBM schematics and surplus Los Alamos fabrication equipment to South Africa, reigniting a nuclear weapons program that had lain dormant since 1994. 2031 AUGUST 26TH A Centaur interdiction mission goes horribly south, reopening old trauma for Eydis. Adam Non approaches her on his own volition to understand what made her the Valkyrie she is. After proving his worthiness in her eyes by fairly understanding and not judging her for her actions as the Scourge of Kurgania, they come to terms by admitting their feelings for each other. Recognizing that the very basest nature of Demonic Energy meant that their relationship would have to stay a secret outside of Epsilon Lime, Eydis comes up with a cover identity so she can be seen with Adam in public. They’re terrible at hiding their mutual love, and none of their Kuiper Group associates believe for a minute that the man and Valkyrie are “just close professional colleagues”. 2031 SEPTEMBER 20TH Eydis’s left hand goes against the right hand, as the first battle occurs between The Order of the Chief God and the Kuiper Group. Lexi Dubois and her forces unleash a crackdown on Order members in France. This comes after a GIGN investigation points to The Order being the cause behind a recent major wave of Islamic terrorist attacks. 2031 OCTOBER 3RD After much deliberation and thought put into her choice, 34th-born Royal Makai Princess Azneth makes her final decision on a man to claim as husband. Aware that she was gambling with her life by competing and sharing with a Valkyrie, the Princess selects the handsome and virtuous (relatively speaking) Adam Non, believing that the hard work and magnanimous altruism he had displayed as FEMA’s Deputy Director, would serve Royal Makai well in their pacification of Earth and integration with Kenkou. Queen of Hearts Carol asks a favor to Eros, requesting that she send in her most elite Cupid warriors to bring Non to Azneth, and gang up on this still-pure Valkyrie named Frejya that’s been seen operating on Earth. The Goddess of Love refuses, stating that her hands were tied. Since this Valkyrie had found true love with this Adam fellow, Eros would not dare do anything to interfere with their relationship. 2031 OCTOBER 31ST In Los Angeles, NSA Non is lured out to the big D of the Hollywood sign for a planned meeting with an informant, which turns out to be a set-up. Thanks to his experience with noticing blacked-out vans from the CIA kidnapping years earlier, Non barely escapes being neutralized by several of King Elt’s granddaughters, on orders to bring him to Lescatie and an awaiting Princess Azneth. He would then get arrested for speeding away by oblivious LAPD traffic officers, get his charges dropped, and black out from excessive alcohol imbibing at a Halloween party. Eydis, undercover as a USAF warrant officer named Frejya Volriksdottir (she used her real last name as it was unknown to the Lilim), becomes enamored with the concept of remote-controlled attack robots after a full combat demonstration is made on her behalf by representatives of Boston Dynamics. She would immediately begin throwing her (read: FEMA’s black budget) money at BD to develop a counter to Automatons. 2031 NOVEMBER 4TH Sergei Walentinov and his private army turn on The Order, in retaliation after finding out that the Chief God-worshippers were the culprits behind yet another catastrophic Muslim uprising in Chechnya. Lord Blaine Danner does the same to Orderite cells in Great Britain, not because they’re a significant threat to him, but rather just because forcefully co-opting their equipment and magic would be a major boon to the UVF for future anti-Catholic operations. Over in Langley, CIA Director Roy Kinnear and Deputy Director Rick Wayne become aware of the existence of magic and Mamono, having wiretapped one of Non’s burner phones on suspicion of selling classified information to Indonesia. He is found innocent of that charge, but the two spymasters overhear an entire Kuiper Group meeting. 2031 NOVEMBER 24TH Eydis, using her Frejya persona, accompanies her lover to Juneau, intending to meet his family and celebrate Thanksgiving. She gets along well with Adam’s father, younger brother, sister-in-law, and nephew, who all readily accept her into their family. Adam’s mother and older brother see right through her disguise, knowing that “Freyja” is older than she claims to be, and that she certainly isn’t a real military officer. Adam’s father also sees through her, but cuts Eydis slack on account of the positive impact she’s had on his son, and also out of complete sympathy as Joshua’s own mother had spent 29 years hiding behind an alias during the Cold War. Calling Adam out on that he had been seduced by an sketchy old baby-desperate hussy that was some sort of barely-hinged professional murderer, his mother Shila and older brother Joshua Jr. cause an emotional breakdown. Finally snapping after the resurfacing of too many repressed bad memories of a childhood filled with verbal haranguing from Shila and “well-meaning reality check” beatings from Joshua Jr., Adam takes “Freyja” by the hand and angrily brings her straight back to his current home in Arlington, Virginia. Using a spare ring that his grandfather had been unable to gift his grandmother, Adam proposes to Eydis that they get married whether they defeat Royal Makai or not, to which the Valkyrie whole-heartedly accepts. 2031 DECEMBER 1ST Azneth finally makes her appearance on Earth to personally help Druella in making sure that the liberation-corruption of North America goes along swimmingly. She would materialize from a portal in Montreal, and slowly make her way south across the Atlantic coast, on a planned beeline for her chosen husband’s office in the northwest corner of the White House’s West Wing….. Kinnear and Wayne confront Non at his White House office, as the three come to an informal agreement. The CIA has its own agenda and plans for fending off Royal Makai, and that they’ll keep to themselves if the Kuiper Group stays out of their way. 2031 DECEMBER 19TH After a risque webcam-sex session with her young lover, Dr. Krafthausen finishes packing up her equipment and files pertaining to a nearly-finished anti-monsterization vaccine that she’s code-named “World Without End.” After leaving her primary laboratory in Huntsville, Alabama, she begins driving northwards to re-settle into a new lab within the CHARON Station bunker. While driving through Nashville, she is falsely-arrested and kidnapped by Orderites disguised as Tennessee State Police officers. Hildegaard and all of her research is handed over to their top collaborator in the region, Governor Luc Van Carver. Luc imprisons her in the basement of the State Capitol building, forcing her to continue the development of “World Without End”. Not as a weapon to freely distribute around the world, but as a political bargaining chip to threaten the Lilim into negotiations with him alone. 2031 DECEMBER 25TH With enough information from multiple sources all pointing towards Royal Makai’s D-Day being January 4th of the next year, NSA Non calls a quick meeting of the Kuiper Group to advise that everyone should clean house and cut off all loose ends starting that day. Non begins by breaking into Victor Stapleton’s house, shooting him to death with a silenced pistol after informing Victor that he knew FEMA’s director was the leak that had been using a Cabinet proxy to give the Lilim every top-secret personnel file on everyone involved in Epsilon Lime. After dumping his cement-covered body in the Potomac River, Non would leave a fake message on Stapleton’s answering machine that claimed the both of them were “on an indefinite trip to Kuwait City for classified reasons,” sending the Radicals tasked with surveillance of Non on a wild goose chase at the other side of the planet. 2031 DECEMBER 26TH Having left behind even more disinformative home-phone messages, Non packs up his irreplaceable belongings from his house in Arlington. After using a body double to switch vans under an overpass-tunnel near Richmond, Virginia, Adam conceals himself using a glamour mana-marker that Eydis had given him in case of an emergency. Ditching the decoy’s borrowed vehicle in Newport News, he would board a Epsilon Lime Chinook helicopter disguised as a Coast Guard transport, bound for Fort Sumter. He would spend a week laying low there, mostly helping John Q. Public and Elinora ready themselves for their first kitten’s birth, and do his best to be a surrogate father to Valdra. Major General Menendez would continue working on the termination of loose-ends. Eydis would begin double-checking the operational status of her android berserkers that had been supplied by Boston Dynamics, along with finishing up on teaching a group of trustworthy DARPA scientists on how to create portals. She was well aware that several of these scientists were double-agents for the Central Intelligence Agency, but she considered that irrelevant. CIA Director Rick Wayne was certainly no friend of the Lilim, and thus was deemed to be of no possible threat to the Kuiper Group….. 2031 DECEMBER 31ST Lord Danner begins to make his move on solidifying the House of Lord’s supremacy, by setting up and detonating a bomb inside the House of Commons that terminates most of its membership just before they all leave for the New Year’s holiday celebrations. As the House of Lords’ membership begins to panic like headless chickens, the Earl of Armagh would quietly slip out of London and board his private jet on a flight bound for Castle Gosford in Northern Ireland.. Lexi Dubois corners a major Order cell in the fortress-city of Carcassonne, as she and her escorts prepare to hunker down in preparation for January 4th….. Sergei Walentinov fakes leaving for a conference in Geneva, Switzerland, instead actually taking a convoluted series of connecting flights and layovers from Vladivostok to Christchurch, New Zealand, before a final flight to a command & control bunker inside of Novolazarevskaya Station on the coast of Antarctica. Eve Palmieri does the same thing as Non, sending her family away to the Raven Rock presidential bunker as she stays at The Pentagon to render whatever assistance she can to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Harald Vogner quietly puts NASA’s affairs in order at his secondary office in the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, as his personal aircraft’s (a Space Shuttle Carrier Boeing 747 that had been refitted into a poor man’s Air Force One) crew readies for a shakedown flight before taking their boss to a bunker in northern Arizona. Since neither he nor Eve had been involved in any way with Epsilon Lime, thanks to smart compartmentalization advice from General Panoglu, not a single member of the Radicals pays any mind to what he and Palmieri are doing. Elias Panoglu continues to do his job in Brussels, deciding to wait until the last minute of January 3rd before making any slick moves. This would prove to be a stupid idea by the next morning…. The Ultimate Hero and the Demon Lord make love one last time before World War Three’s start, as the Hero leaves Royal Makai afterwards to fulfill his promise to escort Azneth and spend some quality father-daughter adventuring time. 2032 JANUARY 1ST Having impulsively decided to make her move four days early, Druella begins the Profane Crusade at 8:00 AM, Eastern Standard Time, by unleashing a wave of Demonic Energy in the middle of the city’s New Year’s Day wrap-up parade in Times Square. Within two hours, all five boroughs of New York City would be converted at her hands into a Demon Realm, with her intention of making The Big Apple her capital city. Millions of Mamono and Incubi would begin marching their way eastwards across the continent. As Druella would head north to make a circle of corruption around Boston, Portland, Quebec City, Montreal, Toronto, Buffalo, Albany, and back to Manhattan, Azneth would follow her lead from the Smithsonian Natural History Museum to neutralize Washington D.C., personally leaving behind an array of traps in her chosen husband’s White House office. Non would hurriedly say his goodbyes and leave John, Valdra, and the rest of Fort Sumter’s inhabitants. He would then board a real Coast Guard patrol boat to enter the active warzone of Charleston, commandeering a sports car to blast his way northwards across the interstate highways towards the Pentagon. That sunset, The Ultimate Hero would arrive on Earth at the north base of Liberty Island to a small greeting ceremony befitting his status. He would then make plans to rendezvous with Azneth in Washington D.C., starting by cutting a swath across Staten Island into New Jersey…. 2032 JANUARY 2ND By noon of that day, Azneth would have functional control over the District of Columbia that was on the north side of the Potomac River. Non would arrive at his secondary office in the Pentagon to put his professional affairs in order, and record a full confession of the truth behind Operation Trap-Door Spider and his litany of crimes committed since he started working as a FEMA enforcer, until the present day. Palmieri would do the same, but it would be far shorter since the only crimes she had ever committed was the taking of a few bribes from military-industrial megacorp lobbyists. Dr. Krafthausen puts her “World Without End” anti-monsterization vaccine through its preliminary human trials, injecting Governor Van Carver’s inner circle with her first batch. Only time would tell if it works, and results are likely to vary irregardless. As Azneth was busy reining in Annapolis and Baltimore before turning her hungry eyes south of the Potomac, Non slipped northwards across the river, to get his hands on The Nuclear Football and eliminate all loose ends of the Executive Branch. The now-incubized Secretary of State ambushes Non at the National Archives with the intention of terminating him in Lillith’s name with extreme prejudice, only to die trying. The Pentagon would fall at that time, as Eve Palmieri is captured and taken to the West Wing’s bottom floor, to be tied up in preparation for a mass orgy that was to be broadcast live for demoralization purposes, as per Azneth’s orders. Royal Makai would have no idea that a Kuiper Group member was right under their noses. Non would next head over to help evacuate the Supreme Court, only to show up just in time to watch the last “uncorrupted” Supreme Justice and his son kill his corrupted compatriots with white-phosphorus grenades. Thanks to Victor Stapleton, Epsilon Lime’s location is pinpointed, and the entire unit (save for Non, Eydis, and Menendez) is shortly thereafter ambushed and incubized while driving as a singular convoy into Dayton, Ohio. Eydis (who had spent the previous day and this morning setting her and her fiance’s plans for Alaska in motion, along with helping out Order cells across California and Japan) would teleport right into the White House’s main rotunda to assist the outgunned and severely outmanned Secret Service agents that hadn’t been corrupted yet, using a proxy to task an agent named Emilio Gutierrez with locating the Valkyrie's betrothed, to bring him to safety in her arms. As Azneth returns to D.C. to reconvene her command staff at the Smithsonian Castle and rendezvous with her father, Non would dash across First Street Northeast and use up his last glamour to get into the Capitol Building without grabbing any attention, posing as a random civilian straggler. He would then hide in the South Carolina Senate chambers, and leave one last video-recording message (this one directed towards the general public), feeding them a lie about his masterplan, and half-truths about Epsilon Lime, Royal Makai, and the nature of Mamono and Incubi. With his glamour now worn off, he would exit the Senate chambers upon the recording’s completion & outwards e-mailing, to be tracked down seconds later by USSS Agent Guiterrez. And so the adventure begins…….