Victor has arrived in the city of Mission, in the Country of  Mass bordering Delphi & Haven on the Continent of  West shore.

Modern Day organizations

Monks of Sabbat / Covenant / Chrysalis Enterprises
The Monks of Sabbat have become scientists of Law, using technology as a weapon against the demons and devils. Their main business is now called ;- Chrysalis Enterprises though they also have a secret organization known as The Covenant.

The Soul Sanctuary "SS"
The Devils (mutated Blood Stars (Vampires) run a business /organization called The Soul Sanctuary. They own churches and are trying to fuel people's beliefs in the supernatural as an alternative to the pure Science of the Covenant. In secret though, they experiment with Science and Magic, trying to bend the two to their own secret agenda.

The Lodge
To make things more complicated, there are Renegade Devils calling themselves Angels. These "converted" Devils / Chaos servants wage a war of publicity with the Devils, condemning science whereas the Devils use and abuse it. The Angels have a loose group structure called The Lodge, but generally act alone.

The Cabal
Group of two dozen underground psychics dedicated to the evolution of the human genome and exploration of psychic destiny. After the Soul Sanctuary banned unlicensed use of psychic abilities in 1176, the Cabal have operated outside of the Law.

People
President Lomax, currently Political leader of Mass.
Overseer Kalath, Lomax’s R-hand, also OverLord of the Soul Sanctuary.
Mordred, The Cleansing flame. Secret avenger of the Covenant. Hi-tech gadgets / body armor.
Farmegian, The covenant's AI Battle suit and secret weapon.
Kit Myst, (f) Psychic with extraordinary powers, being head-hunted by The Cabal.
Sarasanja, (f) Devil woman of the SS.
Astrad, Psychic leader of the Cabal.
General Kodor, leader of the First Protectorate of Mission.
Darian Ghazon, Head of City Enforcement.
Keth, bodyguard to Kalath. An immense and terrifying man with more a dozen demons under his skin wanting to get out.
Sinsifel - Kutal's child / of blood.

After reaching the street, he continues stumbling along through the strange city, trying to keep a grip on his sanity.
He decides to find someone to help him and meets Mandy, a local escort girl. Completely taken by his Godlike looks, Mandy takes him back to her apartment where he shares his nature with her. At first she is shocked, then frightened out of her wits, then finally curious.

Victor spends the day sleeping in her wardrobe, having strange dreams of Mandy doing stuff like cooking, getting dressed and watching tv.

He then goes back to Mandy's and watching a bunch of movies - including one Vampire movie called "Appointment with Dr. Death."
He sleeps in her wardrobe again but the daydreams grow more bizarre.
He dreams of an Angelic faced girl wandering the streets; of blood and a slaughter house full of animals; of a gargoyle killing a man; of a bank raid with lots of gunshots; of someone down an alley biting someone else's neck (not a Vampire) and finally Valris...

Victor has a vision of Valris; she appears to be deep underground about a hundred miles out of the City of Mission and entombed in a block of opaque crystal. Kneeling in front of her is a completely charred figure. This figure has not only lost its skin, but its eyelids, fingernails, hair and genitalia. The only thing that appears intact is its pair of fangs.

As it turns to look up at him, his dream suddenly ends.
The creature is Sabare - The Black Monk and it has been guarding Valris' body for many centuries, feeding off of the only part of her exposed from the crystal, her fingertip.

The fight lasts about 7 seconds, resulting in Victor passing out.

Because Sabare thinks Victor is “just” a devil, he “kills” him, but doesn't do anything else. If Sabare knew Victor could regenerate from “death”, he would carry Victor's body somewhere and let it dissolve. However Sabare's insanity is Victor's saving grace because after an out of body experience, Vic wakes up in the city morgue.

Two goons (Artek and Palis) are sent by the SS to retrieve Victor's body. Both half demons, they sneak in at night, hiding their true natures behind “normal” appearances (Only people sensitive to aura’s can perceive them,) and arrive just after he awakens. Victor breaks his way out of the morgue, confronts the two goons draining both of them dry before stumbling onto the street.
Wearing Artek's black trench coat and carrying Palis' id (which includes a strange electronic key card with complex circuitry and five other alias cards), Victor slips into the night, but not unnoticed. He is seen leaving by a private detective called Caleb Krishnin. Krishnin has already followed the two goons to the hospital morgue and mistakes Victor for one of them leaving.
But he doesn't figure with Victor's incredible awareness and it isn't long before he's standing face to face with the supposed goon..
Krishnin attempts to draw his gun but this is no ordinary goon, this is Victor and Victor can move blindingly fast. Before the P.I. knows it, his gun is in Victor's hand and a Vampire claw is pressed to his throat.
Victor and Krishnin form a precarious alliance; Caleb is convinced the two goons were hit men for the Soul Sanctuary which interests Victor. Why would the SS want Victor's body? They sit in a nearby café discussing the evil machinations of various organizations.

Krishnin takes Victor to the Cyrus building - home of Cyrus Enterprises (a subsidiary of Chrysalis). There they meet with Krishnin's contact, a senior scientist (and a bit of whizz) called Cylo Leen. Into modern Eternium rock music, Cylo isn't your typical scientist but does impress Victor with his knowledge.

Examining the strange key card Victor took from one of the goons, Cylo says "It's the most complex piece of micro engineering I've ever seen. This goes way beyond anything currently on release and I like to think i'm privy to some of the tasty stuff. It's got to be some sort of prototype hardware from Chrysalis itself !"

Meaning nothing to Victor, Cylo tries to activate the card by running a low electrical current through some of the thing's I/O ports. The result is spectacular.
A portal forms above the card releasing a humanoid fire demon into the room. Machinery starts exploding from proximity to the portal and the sprinkler system starts jetting gas into the room to quench the flames.

Victor pounces on the creature and stabs it through the head with his claws before it can do too much damage. At that point it vanishes, leaving Cylo and Caleb in a state of shock.
Having fired his gun with no effect (except making holes in the walls), Caleb decides it's time they high-tailed it out of the building. As Cylo buys them some time by trying to bluff security over the telephone, they head back onto the street, grabbing the now normal key card on the way out.

Taking Caleb's telephone number Victor heads back into the night, alone. There he watches the people of Mission from high above its streets, basking in their mortal world and imagining himself among them, leading a simple life. It is this desire for something down to earth and untainted by blood that brings him to Kit Myst's door.
He decides to seek solace with someone who he thinks can  understand his pain, traveling outside of the city until he reaches her village.

Midnight Reminisce
Kit lets him in and they stay up and talk.
When Victor starts telling Kit about Valris, Kit offers to try and locate the place from Victor's mental images. He agrees and she sends her mind northeast. It isn't long before she finds Valris' tomb and her immortal guardian, The Black Monk Sabare.

Sabare's paranoia of losing his Queen has over the years caused him to develop a heightened mental awareness. This awareness alerts him to Kit's presence and allows him to snap off a tiny part of her mind. She feels a brief stab of pain, waits a few minutes and then tries again, noticing that Sabare is no longer in the tomb. A little worried she tries locating him.
Her fears are confirmed when she sees the blackened creature flying towards Mission. "Oh my God. He's coming for me."
Victor and Kit try desperately to come up with a way to escape. Kit says she can teleport out of Sabare's way and keep teleporting if she needs to but that's not the best solution - how does she know this creature won't follow her for years. What sort of life will she have, forever looking over her shoulder?

Kit suggests they wait till the creature is a lot closer and then that she teleport both of them to Valris' tomb. Maybe Victor could awaken Valris and then face the blackened creature together.

Animating the Queen.
Victor can't think of a better idea so half an hour later he finds himself standing in front of the strange crystal holding Valris' suspended body. He notices the only part of her exposed from the crystal is her left index finger (the crystal cracked when the bomb went off several centuries ago).

First he tries breaking the crystal with Sinsifel but it doesn't even scratch, so he tries a more subtle approach instead.  Cutting his finger and then Valris' (noticing her regeneration is now more powerful than his) he puts the two together so their blood intermingles. The effect is instantaneous. As the blood fuses together he makes contact with Valris' mind and shares experiences with her. 
Her mind awake, she exercises her new strength and breaks out of the crystal.
Valris' Vampire blood has matured by 1200 years compared to Victor's 68 or so, making her blood now more concentrated and powerful and than his.
At first she is completely disoriented, leaving the tomb and staring blankly at a nearby road and its passing traffic. Then, after several minutes, a man stops his car, gets out and walks up the verge to the edge of the ruins. Standing before her, he suddenly collapses, drained of blood; the blood traveling through the air in a red cloud to enter Valris' body through her skin without a trace.

Sabare descends, overjoyed (or as overjoyed as a lunatic can be) to see his Queen alive and moving. He takes a step towards Victor, ready to sacrifice the infidel, but Valris puts up her hand to stop him. She recognizes Sabare, half remembering his presence over the centuries, watching over her. She tells them both to "get along."
"I need time Victor. Time to learn about this new world. Give me time," she says. Valris then scoops him up in her arms and flies to Mission, depositing him on a street corner. "I will find you when I am ready."
Then she leaves and Victor returns to Kit's house to sleep.

It doesn't take them long to pinpoint the key card Victor is carrying in his coat pocket and while Kit is out getting some groceries, they send in a magically outfitted S.W.A.T team to take him down.

When Kit returns the last thing she remembers before passing out from knockout gas is her dog lying dead with a hole in its head. Poor mutt.

After Kalath has finished for a while, Victor is left alone with his wounds.

Meanwhile Valris is exploring the New World. She has tremendous power now, but doesn't feel too alive, flying around and learning what she can of things. Eventually she knows she will return to Victor as he is the only thing remaining of the old world, but for the time being she enjoys her freedom. She tries approaching one of the Angels, but frightens the poor woman half to death. She easily reads its mind, probing one of the Soul Sanctuary's portals as well.

"Let me lead you by the hand"
After Victor has been lying strapped on the metal bed for some time, he hears a familiar deep voice by his ear. He looks around to see Kûtal (in human form) smiling at him with a mouth full of fangs. "Hello Victor my chum. I've got something to show you. Would you like to see?"
Before Victor can tell the Chaos Lord where to go, his spirit is yanked out of his body and dragged up through the ceiling, through floors of stone, metal and people, out into the naked night. But not stopping there, Kûtal whisks him up through the atmosphere, out into the starry void and through tunnels of light to a far off world.

Kûtal shows Victor a vision of Eternium in the future; a world devastated by war and completely barren of life. "This is Eternium after Tharizden has finished with it. Tharizden was created by the Lords of Law and Chaos to be being of pure evil and destruction. He doesn't know how to create, how to be merciful or how to negotiate. He only knows how to destroy and utterly consume. With Chaos and Law at least you've still got something left at the end of it all - but with Tharizden, nothing remains. He is the Devourer of Worlds."
Next Kûtal hurtles Victor's spirit through the cosmos to other worlds. "Here again, Tharizden's work. Another world devoured. Where is the Law in this? Where is the scope for Chaos and Entropy in nothingness? You must stop him Victor. That shall be your quest, but not alone, oh no, you will need others, great heroes indeed to travel with you. I suggest you start with the Skarrion stones. Using them you'll be able to control time - pluck whoever you need from whenever and form a band to defeat this evil."
At first Victor is skeptical - How can he do all these things? Why should he?
"If you don't, no one else will and Tharizden will be unstoppable. I'm not asking you to do this for me; I'm a Lord of Chaos - Tharizden cannot harm me. I'm thinking about the billions of other beings that will suffer and cease to exist. And, you did release him, didn't you. If it weren't for you and your brother, he'd still be locked up safe and sound... wouldn't he?"

Daughter of Blood.
Finally Kûtal lands Victor on another world, just outside of forest cabin. Entering, Kûtal shows Victor a mother and newborn child. As he watches, the mother dies of blood loss and Kûtal take the girl child into his powerful arms. "My child. Who shall care for her now?"
Suddenly Kûtal's head swells in size and before can protest, the Chaos Lord swallows the baby whole. Then as if something has caught between his teeth, Kûtal draws out a glowing shortsword - hot and steaming as if fresh from a forge. "Meet my daughter Sinsifel. I want you to look after her in her new form. She'll need feeding on a regular basis, lessons in how to behave and an interesting, varied education. I don't want anything happening to her you hear?"
With that, Kûtal grabs Victor's hand and presses Sinsifel into his flesh. The sword suddenly merges with Victor's spirit, disappearing from view. "There, she'll always be you. Know that only I can remove her for the bond I have made between you is unbreakable. Let nothing keep you from each other, as my will be done. Just call her forth from your spirit and she shall manifest."
Not knowing what to say to that, Victor silently curses all Chaos Lords. Then in a heart stopping return journey, Victor descends back into his own body and confinement. As a parting gift, Kûtal causes a distraction outside Victor's room that allows Kit (imprisoned nearby) to contact him mentally. In moments she telekinetically undoes Victor's bonds.

Flight for Freedom
Kit locates Mandy (brought in for questioning) and frees her too but the young woman is unconscious and in a bad way. So while Kit tends to Mandy Victor starts stirring up trouble. He chases various machine gun toting guards up and down the corridors, avoids a few hand grenades and engages some hard military types in hand to hand combat. Eventually though Kalath gets on the blower and issues an ultimatum. "Surrender now and no one will be harmed. I'm interested in meeting you both in person. Please come up to my suite."
With nothing else to lose (and maybe able to get at the big boss himself) Victor agrees and all three of them get into an elevator.

Within moments Victor is joined by Kalath and his bodyguard Keth. Kalath is dressed in a simple dark blue suit and shades. Keth, (standing just over 6’6” is swathed in black robes, with only his head exposed). Kalath does not dismiss the guard escort, preferring to keep them close by, guarding the only visible exit.

Kalath remains polite, asking a few more questions but not expecting (or getting) any answers. Eventually the SS leader decides that Kit and Victor should have a chance to freshen up before dinner (especially as Victor is coated in blood again).

Shown to two adjoining rooms, two floors down, Kit puts Mandy to bed and comes back in to see Victor. Not convinced of Kalath's sincerity, Victor has been trying to listen to Kalath's conversations with his far-ear but run into some sort of magical barrier. Something in the way the SS building is made seems to interfere with his ability.

He decides to get some shut eye with Kit watching over him as he does. When he awakens, she has had an idea. Testing the barrier around the building with her mind she thinks she can escape taking Mandy with her, but the strain breaking the barrier might be too much for her to come back for Victor. Victor tells her to do it and Kit reluctantly accepts this is the best course of action. With Kit and Mandy safe, Victor intends on taking Kalath down.

Kit vanishes taking Mandy with her, just as Kalath's dwarf comes to fetch them for dinner.

After commenting on Kit's strange disappearance, Kalath of the Soul Sanctuary shares his vision with Victor;

"One day, all the world will be linked by portals… portal technology will spread like a disease across all the continents until the portals take on a life of their own… I discovered the portal technology about 30 years ago. The first portal machine was larger than this building but it was sufficient for me to meet with one of the Overfiends (or Demonic Entities if you prefer). Her name was Sarasanja and she offered me everything I could possibly want.

Now our portals can literally be portable (a simple relay unit can target a localized portal accurately down to five feet.) We are nearing the time when machines will no longer be needed. The portals will sustain themselves, as each portal releases a field of Null-energy, feeding other nearby portal. The world will become full of portals causing the fabric between this plane and the next to tear and all the creatures waiting on the otherside to rush in and devour. This place will be the only Sanctuary for souls. We will be free to travel to other realms of existence. For the sacrifice of this one, we will gain countless more. Eventually each world will be invaded, but our own numbers will swell. The greatest minds and powers will join the Sanctuary. Sarasanja has promised us 100 years of complete freedom on each world. Think, that means perhaps thousands of years.

The price…. Those worthy to survive will, those pitiful existence's, those who work, sleep and do little else, will be wiped out. It's going to happen whether we like it or not Victor, so we might as well save what we can."

Victor thinks Kalath is insane.

Uninvited guests
Suddenly, well timed as usual, Sabare smashes through Kalath's shock proof glass with a sonic boom. He has heard Kit's call for help and responded, eager to please his mistress but not so eager to save Victor's skin.
"Defy ye not the One True Blood, for Death comes in many guises," Sabare announces with his mind.

Stunned to have his security compromised, especially 26 floors above street level, Kalath activates his own portable portal device and vanishes. His bodyguard Keth first backs up to get some room, then starts summoning some powerful demons with simple hand gestures.

Victor finds himself confronted by two nasty creatures seeking to cover Keth's escape. One, a huge demonic giant, begins stamping cracks in the floor and hurling furniture around like cannonballs. The other, a multi-armed bone swords woman, dazzles poor Victor with a blinding flurry of attacks.

Victor shouts to Sabare for help, but Sabare just leans against the wall, watching. In truth, Sabare is quite happy to watch Victor get carved up, swallowed and spat out again.

Realizing this, Victor concentrates on the matter at hand. He manages to kill the sword woman with Sinsifel then luckily knock the giant out of the window, standing with  Sabare to watch it hit the pavement with a satisfying squelch.

Now Victor should have made his escape then and there, but Victor being Victor, he chose to hang around talking to Sabare, trying to provoke some sort of answer. It gave Kalath's troops enough time to move something into the elevator.

Ping.
Victor sees the lift doors opening. Because he's watched a few movies, he has an idea what the device inside is, leaping out of  the window in the nick of time. Sabre on the other hand, doesn't recognize a bomb and actually takes a step closer.

The bomb blast destroys three floors of the Soul Sanctuary building. A trifle excessive on the part of Kalath's security but as Kalath later comments to his bodyguard Keth, "An explosion can never be too loud or too bright."
Sabare is obliterated into tiny bits, too many for his regeneration to ever stick back together while Victor is thrown clear of the building, losing consciousness almost immediately and falling thousands of feet away onto the top of a set of high rise flats.

Queen of Shades
With no one else to turn to and no sign of Kit anywhere, Victor tracks Valris down. He finds her wearing a midnight blue dress and dark sunglasses (at night), sat outside a cafe.
Dropping unceremoniously off of a roof and landing in an unimpressive heap, Victor walks over and sits down ready for the worst.
The worst happens. Valris has had a few days to come to terms with his return. It's something she has found very difficult to do.
Vic explains about Kalath, about Kit and everything else that has happened but Valris doesn't seem to be bothered. She has had an insight into Victor's mind and it's a corker. She blames Victor for everything that has happened to him, beginning to quote all the times Kutal has asked him or offered him a choice. Each time it is Victor who has decided to take a particular course of action - not Kutal. She says "You can't keep blaming others for your choices. They're your choices. The only person who can change you is you." She doesn't think Kutal has any power over Victor, only what Victor gives. She's right. After hitting him pretty hard with her words, she says she's leaving. "We'll not meet again."
Victor's feelings are a turbulent river and he feels suddenly lost in its rapids. He can't understand or get close to Valris because she seems to have changed so much, not just physically or in her abilities, but mentally.
She gets up and walks away, after planting a kiss on his forehead.
He's about to follow her when Kit's thoughts come shrieking into his mind. "Victor ! Help me !" By the time he recovers, Valris is airborne and almost out of sight.

The Future Incarnate
Victor decides to start searching at the Soul Sanctuary HQ in the hope that Kit is being held there. He is not the only one as another powerful being lurks in the sky, using advanced technology to track creatures moving in and out of the building. This same technology reveals Victor, prompting the being take a closer look. A being of stealth, it decides to throw caution to the wind and reveal itself.

Victor goes on the alert as a huge crash resounds behind him. About fifty feet away something has dropped out of the sky like a stone and crumpled the stone work of the roof with its landing.

The being stands over seven feet tall, encased head to foot in the most bizarre and otherworldly armor Victor has ever seen. This is Mordred of Chrysalis wearing a prototype A.I. Cyber-suit called Farmegian and he's out looking for "Abnormalities" in the Reality Cascade.

Seeing Victor as a definite "abnormality" (and who wouldn't), Mordred and Farmegian speak as one (both minds, flesh and liquid circuitry inter linked), "Who and what are you?"
Victor is forthcoming with a lot of information - especially about Kalath's plans, which Mordred listens to intently. Mordred even volunteers to help Victor locate Kit and approaches the SS building under his "Stealth" mode to hack into its mainframe via an outside terminal. When Mordred returns he tells Victor that as far as he can find out, the SS are not holding Kit.
Victor and Mordred exchange a few more minutes of wary conversation, during which Mordred ascertains Victor could be useful by leading him to Kalath. Deciding to let Victor go, he takes to the air with his anti-gravity field and goes looking for more "abnormalities" (demons) around the city.

The Cabal
Still not knowing where Kit is, Victor decides to continue experimenting with his own spiritual powers. Recently discovering how to move his mind to beings that he has just drunk blood from (i.e. sampled blood and therefore spirit from), Victor meditates to get a good idea of Kit's mind, based on past contact with it. Then using this mental imprint he manages to get a direction to travel in.

After a dozen more attempts narrowing her location down, Victor ends up about fifty miles north of the city on a country estate. The only building in the area is a large manor house with windows and doors unable to keep out Victor out. He enters, stalks around and locates where Kit is being held, only to find her mind being besieged by several other minds.
Grabbing her he begins making his escape, threatening and then killing one of the psychics as he goes down the stairs. They're so shocked by his physical strength and mental resistance to their suggestions and illusions that they have to let him go. He threatens to kill them all if they don't.

They are members of the Cabal, a group of psychics operating in secrecy against the Law and the teachings of the SS. Led by Astrad, a visionary of great mental power, the Cabal believe that psychics are the next evolutionary stage of human development. They want to harness all of the mind's potential and unlock all of its secrets, making Kit and her unique abilities (like teleportation and long range illusion) invaluable. "We must get her back, at all costs. She is the key to everything we are and can be. She is key to our mental chains. With her on our side, showing us the way, we will make the Laws," declares Astrad, ordering his members to mentally pursue Victor back to the city.

But things are far from over. After taking shelter in an attic, Astrad and Strombard of the Cabal set fire to the entire building. As it is Midday, Victor has trouble getting down to the ground floor, shielding himself from the windows. However the fire spreads too rapidly threatening to overrun him, so he is left with no choice but to flee out into the street, carrying Kit with him.

They both wind up in hospital. Kit continues to be mentally bombarded by the Cabal; tossing and turning deliriously in a hospital bed on the 4th floor.

There, on the critical ward, room 3, Victor is visited by Kutal disguised as a Doctor. Kutal suspends time in the room, forcing Victor to reconsider his existence and overcome his enormous depression.

During his very long stay in the hospital room (a stay that seems like weeks but is in fact a mere instant of Time), Victor and Kûtal discuss many things. Most of these things stem from Victor feeling inadequate for the challenge at hand, his misguided hatred of Chaos and his moral and ethical confusion over drinking blood and killing people. Kutal cuts like a scythe through this quagmire of emotions ;-

Kutal's Hard truths
"No one else can stand up against Tharizden. You were there when he escaped and have a special connection to his prison. It's your heritage - as a son of Champion Rune of the Balance."
"You have the power within you to sense the Skarrion stones - they're part of your heritage, like the Runestaff. Why do you think I haven't taken your soul… I can't, no one can."
"You enjoy more freedom than most because of your power. I can have you killed, but your soul is one of many prizes in the contest. Which way will it go, Law or Chaos? Your soul is worth more than this poxy world."

Kutal accuses Victor of feeling guilty - It's Victor who feels he deserves punishment so Kutal obliges, transporting Xenon to the Cosmic Court. There he meets Lartus of the Principles of Forethought (his accuser) and Judge Kutal, Father Kutal and "Defending Kutal". After a great deal of recap and observations about Victor, Victor is accused and found guilty of the following;-

Guilty - Of breaking his own beliefs, moral codes and codes of conduct.
Guilty - Of taking the easy options and not taking responsibility for his actions.

They offer Victor the chance to redeem himself. They call him a Knight of Fallen Candor and provoke him into redefining his own existence by swearing upon a Knight's oaths.
Xenon admits to himself that he has always dreamed of being a "Knight of Good Causes"

Kutal says 
"Sinsifel may be a sword but she is like a normal blood star in all ways."

The Codes of Conduct.
Victor swears upon ANU of the Balance, agreeing to 3 acts of redemption and 5 codes of conduct as punishment.

1) Defeat Tharizden
2) Heal  any pain or harm he has brought to those close to him through lack of purpose.
3) Take responsibility for Sinsifel and raise her to be everything he is and more.

1) Respect women and treat everyone as equal.
2) Accept responsibility for his actions.
3) Only kill for a purpose, good reason and just cause.
4) Protect the innocent or those unable to protect themselves.
5) Believe in himself and his power to succeed.

Returning from the Cosmic Court, Victor now feels a bit better about himself. He says good-bye to Kutal and sets about escaping the hospital before anyone comes to ask awkward questions. Knocking a policeman unconscious and donning the uniform, Victor heads upstairs to try and find Kit.

When he finds her she is still in a bad way with three of the Cabal assailing her mind. He doesn't move her until the following night, hiding inside a ventilation duct until his disappearance has blown over.

Victor needs blood, so examining Sinsifel, Minnow sheds some light on the Chaos sword's abilities. Victor learns how to use Sinsifel's Law and Chaos sense to "see" trails / tracks left in the air / planal fabric. In this way, Minnow cruises around the city following Victor's directions until they find Demons.

The first thing they find is a Chaos gargoyle that dives for Victor, flattening him into a bloody smear on the sidewalk. When Victor eventually regenerates he jumps up to meet the creature in midair and takes its head.

The next batch of Chaos they track down resides in a Night club called The Garage. Victor goes in but feels he is outnumbered as more and more Chaos servants turn up for a Midnight meeting. Minnow however has different ideas. While Victor looks after Kit (stuck in the back seat of the convertible and thoroughly confused), Minnow enters the club with his short sword and starts a fight.

Immune to normal attacks (like fists and metal bars) Minnow soon piles up the bodies attracting the attention of the club's bosses. By now though, the police have turned up outside and the club has been evacuated in a stampede of panic, causing Victor to re-enter the club.

Victor doesn't wait around, taking down 3 out of the 4 Chaos servants before chasing the fourth into the sewers and running the man through.

They drive around Mission for a few hours, eventually stopping and getting a suite in one of the city's poshest hotels. Minnow has by now discovered cash point machines and again, using his power as the Eternal Key, gets unlimited access to money.
Minnow stops off to spend some of it at a local mall, buying supplies and clothes for all three of them (though his dress sense is a bit odd).

Once settled (Minnow already wanting to fiddle with the hotel's en suite computer system), Victor decides to find the Cabal members tormenting Kit's mind. Using his recently learned power of "seeker sense", he tracks their mental signatures back to an apartment building on the east side.

Applying pressure.
Leaping out of the window, then from building to building he soon arrives in position opposite the Cabal's room. He stalks in through an open window and puts his claws to one of the men's throats, saying "Leave her alone or you all die."

After Victor has gone, the man freaks out, waking his companions. An argument ensues but the leader of the Cabal, Astrad, calms things down. Suddenly Victor returns, spectacularly jumping through the window and showering glass across the room. Like an Angel of Death he again states his threat.

This time the leader Astrad tries to stop him but Victor is too fast. Astrad's head rolls from Victor's steel like Blood star claws. The other Cabal members scream and cry like children, at this point, taking Victor's threat very very seriously. He lets them live but tells them to leave the city and never return.

Victor leaves them both for a while to hunt. Whilst out he encounters a Demon Shuggan and learns what it thinks is going on in the city. It's revelations disturb Victor, who lets it live and go on it's way.

According to the Shuggan, instead of everyone being slaughtered when its master arrives, demonkind and humankind will just swap bodies in a Great Shift. Demons will get to live with the fancy phones, fast cars, experience love, marriage, having children, growing old etc - all the things they don't have at the moment whilst in return, all of Eternium's human population will know immortality, demonic powers, other worlds, other realities and absolute freedom from society. Of course it does have its down sides too. Some demons don't want to get married, or work, pay taxes etc whilst a lot of humans will find being trapped in disgustingly ugly demon body with strange appendages and even stranger lusts not to their liking either.

Minnow, Kit and Victor go out clubbing to the Steampipe. Getting completely pissed, Minnow makes contact with a dodgy chap who sells him a highly illegal lap top. 

(As Minnow is not of Eternium, his mind and body continuing to adapt to Eternium's reality. He is "remembering" skills and abilities as his soul settles in, the World literally filling in the blanks of his character as a result of the following paradox - he doesn't belong in existence but nevertheless exists.)

A Triangle one side too many.
Kit gets drunk too, sitting next to Victor and going all gushy over him. She asks him if it is all over between him and Valris. He says he doesn't know. Kit at this point says she likes him a lot. "I want to be your friend and if possible, something more. But if you're still with Valris, I understand. I don't want to ever lose you as a friend, because you're special."
Victor squirms, unable to make up his mind. He obviously likes Kit and sees himself having a relationship with her. But what sort of relationship? He is after all, immortal. In her favor, she makes him feel normal - like the hero he would like to believe he is.

Cruising the city again with Kit and Minnow, Victor follows Minnow's advice and tries to locate the Runestaff. Minnow says "It's a part of your heritage, like the sword of Dawn - Try searching for it with your heart and soul, not your mind."

After a few failed attempts, Victor receives a vision of the staff, locked away in a display case. Only an obscure portrait coupled with Minnow's new computer skills help him pinpoint its location; the Sanctity Farms golfing club, founded in honor of Lord Kaspian Kalamar and the Rose Order.

As the night is getting on and Kit has passed out, Minnow and Victor head back to the hotel. Once inside, Minnow lays a guilt trip on Victor, saying "Give the girl a break, (meaning Kit), sort this thing out between you and Valris. Because until you do, you're useless to me and everyone else. You're like a loaded gun in the hands of a blind man - focus yourself. Talk to Valris, find out the score and if need be, move on with your life."

Minnow's words break through Victor's walls of indecision. Victor nods, lying down to send his mind along that intimate connection he shares with his fledgling.

Victor sends his mind thousands of miles to the strange Kalaymanye jungle. Once there, Valris freezes his mind so that it doesn't snap back to his body and they talk over their relationship issues.
Some of things Valris says;-
"You gave me this immortality. I thought we would live forever, together. How naive I was."
"Do you know how many times I nearly killed myself? But each time I nearly did, I thought, maybe tomorrow will be the day Victor returns."
"I don't want to live. I have no existence; haven't had any for a long time."
"I have had to come to terms with being immortal and alone."
"You were my soul."
"You never even left me with a belief or cause to follow." "All I wanted from you back then was something to keep me going if you died or went away."
"I only know black and white. I can't have it any other way. It either is, or isn't."

After a lot of soul searching, Victor and Valris decide the following;- Valris will wait for Victor to reach the same level of understanding about life that she has. She doesn't care if this takes Victor a hundred or a thousand years. "I'm not going anywhere Victor. When you are ready, find me. But when you do, make sure it's for keeps."
Victor returns to the hotel room and sleeps right through to the next night.

The Chaos Car
Out and about in the great city, Victor spies a trail of chaos and follows it. He comes across a speeding car with one man driving two women. As they're going too fast to keep up with, Victor just follows their trail, bemused when suddenly the car comes hurtling back in the same direction, minus the two women.

As he watches it pass, the side of the car gleams with supernatural light revealing a woman's face pressed up against the metal. It's enough for Victor, who immediately jumps into the back of the car.

Things get even more wierd when a woman's hand writhes beneath the surface of the seat. Evidently alive, this Chaos car seems to have consumed the two women, so Xenon shoves Sinsifel into the upholstery to see what's inside.

He doesn't expect what happens next. The entire car convulses in pain, crushing its fleshy seats up against his chest in an effort to swallow him. He cuts and slashes causing the car to crash into the central barrier and knock another car off the road as well. Then, leaping clear, he watches the chaos car from a distance. It tries running him over but he shoves his sword into its engine, causing black viscous oil to seep out as the car finally dies.

He saves the driver's of both cars, takes some blood from both men and then leaves them for the ambulance. When he gets back to the hotel, via a dip in the river to wash off most of the car's goo, Kit and Minnow send him to the shower.

Minnow talks about his theories on Duridiam - the metal threaded throughout the structure of the Soul Sanctuary building. It is the Duridiam that will cause the entire building to resonate at the same frequency as the Sanctuary's portal - thus enabling the whole building to plane shift. 

Victor, Kit and Minnow prepare to raid the golf club and steal the Runestaff. Kit first scouts the place out with her mind, pinpointing where the alarms are and what the security guards are doing. When everything is clear, Victor and Minnow enter through the front door (Minnow unlocking and locking the doors behind them) and take the staff from its display cabinet.

As soon as he grasps the staff, Victor receives a vision. He sees that the staff is made up of runes and each of those hundreds of runes made up of a thousand more and so on. The vision gives him a headache but symbolizes how the Runestaff is its own Universe of Complexity.

Cosmic Visionary = Paracetamol.
Through experimentation with the staff, Victor manages to gain several more visions; some of the visions of his brother Han, a couple of Shole and a few more of Minnow. It soon becomes apparent that the staff not only gives visions related to one particular time and place, but spanning the entire Universe and its Timeline.

Some of the visions...
Shole sat by a fireplace and quite obviously pregnant.
Nynsagul juggling his eyeballs.
Han getting drunk in some inn.
Minnow as The Blank and then Minnow wearing the Armor of Saints.

Eventually Victor discovers how to get visions of the 4 Skarrion Time Stones - the stones Kutal has told him to get in order to defeat Tharizden. One stone appears like an 8 sided prism, another like a cube, the third like a sphere and the fourth like an oval - all 4 are transparent and diamond like.

Only after meditating on the images does Victor gain some inkling of where one of the stones is. Then combining Minnow's skills at the computer with his gut feelings and extrasensory experiences, they narrow the stone's location down to the northeast of Mission and a technologically advanced business estate.

Victor comments on the staff, "Maybe it's all just some sort of Balance symbolism. Maybe everything is connected to the Balance in some way or other...." Minnow cries out, "Praise be, he has seen the light !"

He and Victor have a brainstorming session to try and figure out what is going on between the Soul Sanctuary, Chrysalis Enterprises and the Rose Order; they don't make much progress.

Minnow plants a message deep inside the highest level of security in Chrysalis' mainframe saying, "Mordred, we must meet with you. We are servants of the Cosmic Balance and know things about yourself and Chrysalis, the monks, the Skarrion time stone and Kalath's plans for Eternium. Come alone to the Sanctity Farms Golfing club, by the lake at Midnight, tonight."

Meeting Mordred
With Kit parked nearby in Minnow's car, Minnow and Victor proceed to the meeting place. At the stroke of Midnight, Mordred, wearing the Farmegian armor, strides across the green towards them.

Mordred is annoyed; it isn't every day that someone hacks their way into the Chrysalis mainframe, gaining access to all their top level plans and technological breakthroughs. The first thing he does is demand who did it and how.

Minnow admits to everything but not exactly how. What really gets Mordred's attention is when they mention the Time stone. "You will come to my headquarters. Both of you and your psychic companion," says Mordred, glancing skyward to where Kit is watching mentally. 
Minnow, blagging himself some protection replies "Of course, but take note, if anything happens to us, all the files I've downloaded from your system will be made public knowledge."
Mordred buys Minnow's threat and nods, marching off into the darkness, giving them one hour to reach the business estate - his headquarters.

They are met by a geeky scientist type called Mason who leads them through several chambers and levels of decontamination. At the end they put on special suits, gloves and hoods before proceeding into a high tech flight control center filled to the brim with computers and monitoring systems.

Ignored by the vast majority of the hundred or so scientists present, Victor and Minnow nose around and ask questions. It soon becomes apparent that something is amiss in the control room.

Some scientist blurb;-
"We're picking up anomalous readings on the Steinberg Vector.
The Reality Cascade is fluctuating. Switch off number 4 reactor to see if it bottom's out."

Victor has only been in the room about thirty seconds when;-
"The Cascade appears to be stabilizing without reactor 4! The instability in the Primary Binome appears to have corrected itself. This is incredible."

Minnow learns that the Skarrion stone started playing up at exactly the same time Victor entered this Timeline - the 9/11. After decades of research into the stone without a single blip from it, suddenly three weeks ago it came alive. Now, after weeks of experimentation it miraculously stabilizes - something they've been trying to accomplish round the clock for 3 weeks. It is no coincidence that Victor is in the room.

Mordred arrives on the scene, asking what's going on. When Professor Kirkrin explains, Mordred tells Kirkrin to push for 100% stability. "Go for it Kirkrin. We may not get another shot at this."
Suddenly two other figures enter the room. An impressive robot carrying a portable photon cannon and a black robed, hooded figure that speaks in hushed tones to Mordred. Victor overhears them exchange the following;-
"Report Mordred."
"98.7% stability Master with a degradation of 0.3% cumulative every minute."
"Can this be duplicated?"
"Negative Master. We are unsure how this occurred."
"Then we must use this phenomenon to our advantage. Prepare the portal. The opportunity to fulfill our purpose is at hand."

The scientists then activate an interplanal portal in the adjacent Core room and begin evacuating people from its vicinity. Mordred wastes no time, seals his armor and steps into the Core.

Now during all this, Minnow, Victor and Kit have pieced a few things together. A scientist has said, "This is no ordinary portal. This is a portal in Time!" Not wanting to see his Time stone used by anyone else, Victor makes a move for the core as well. Just at the massive door is about to seal shut, he picks up Kit and leaps through the narrow crack after Mordred. Minnow shields them from the robot's photon cannon but is trapped on the otherside of the collossal door.

Putting Kit down, Victor finds himself facing off against Mordred.
"You are interfering in things you do not understand anomaly," grates Farmegian through Mordred.
Victor dodges a few of Mordred's energy bolts before closing to melee. The two of them dodge one another and begin exchanging blows but in the background, the portal suddenly blooms into activity.
"See you on the other side!" shouts Victor, running for the portal. At the last moment he tries grabbing the Skarrion stone at the portal's center but everything goes white.

Mordred follows him through the portal.

Meanwhile Minnow uses his power as the Eternal Key to break the seal on the massive door. As he does, sirens start sounding and alarms flashing. "Evacuate the area. We have a core breach in progress!" booms out over a tannoy.

"Oops," goes Minnow, grabbing Kits hand and heading for the portal. The two of them jump in moments before the entire core destabilizes and explodes.