Phase Two
Let Them Go
Gothic Survival Melodrama in this ideal place to start the New Century Multiverse. It takes place over one long Halloween in 1872, the year this world changed forever. Two sisters visit their aunt in Cornwall, England, for the reading of their father’s will, only to find their lives in deadly danger.
1. The Messages
2. Little Drops of Water
3. Back to Ravenwood
4. Charles Wolverton’s Will
5. The Garden
6. Hypothesis
7. Course of Action
8. After Life
9. A Quiet Moment
10. A Man’s Work
11. Preparations
12. Breaking Point
13. Light of the Past
14. A Haunting Decision
15. In the House
16. Thy Shade
17. A Woman’s Work
The Cartographer’s Handbook
Over the next ten years after the 1872 events of Let Them Go, the world changes radically. This artefact from the alternate history describes the events that led to where we are now.
1. The Creatures
2. Process of Infection
3. Weaponry and Equipment
4. Initial Encounter
5. The First Year
6. The Story of Weirwood
7. Reclaiming Our Cities
8. Duties as a Cartographer
9. Accounts from the Field
10. The Director
11. The Wider World
12. Beyond America
Secret Rooms
A Southern Gothic ghost story with a sci-fi twist. Picking up in 1872 in West Virginia, we follow the stories of James Penrose and Abigail Grey, two kids caught up in the savagery of the Wendigo plague. Sheltered by Katherine Holloway in her mansion fortress for ten years until the coming of the Cartographers looking for new recruits.
1. The Lonely Boy
2. The Children of Clearwater
3. The Old House
4. The Optimistic Mathematician
5. The Doctor’s Bottle
6. The Cartographers
7. The Incident on Rutledge Road
8. A Day in Elkview
9. The Solitary Pianist
10. The Desolate Cave
11. The Old Timer
12. The Unabandoned Town
13. The Abandonment
14. The Painted Wall
15. Without
16. Within
17. The Found Letter
18. The Other House
19. Pandora’s Box
20. The Game Changes
21. Mysteries in the Dark
22. Shadow and Flame
23. Settling Dust
24. The Pages Unriddled
The Christmas Thieves
A retelling of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol through the lens of The Princess Thieves. It is Yuletide of 1882 and the ruthless Captain Baltus is badly in need of a visitation from three spirits. The wizard Merlene and his irascible equestrian life-partner The Nag are the only two that are insane and powerful enough to stage this Christmas heist.
1. Stave I Part I: Ambrosius Baltus
2. Stave I Part II: Marlowe’s Ghost
3. Stave II: Christmas Past
4. Stave III: Christmas Present
5. Stave IV: Christmas Yet to Come
6. Stave V: The End of It
7. Stave VI: Beyond the End of It
Castle of the Moon
Set one year after Let Them Go, this tale answers some major questions from New Century.
1. Flaming Red Hair
2. Beyond the Reflection
3. Strangers on a Train
4. What She Did in the Shadows
5. Here Comes the Sun