ArmageddonMUSH timeline: 2000

Note: the information on this page is an OOC compilation. For IC records, check with the other players. Some characters have kept diaries. Some organizations also have records, for example the Abbey Chronicles. Some of the events listed here may be well known in the IC world. Please use some common sense in determining if your character should know about something. Check with the player in question if you are uncertain. (Assuming they are still around.) Entries have been edited by Taisch. All dates are RL, not MUSH time.

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1-January-2000
The University of Babylon opens, under the leadership of Claribel Vidriani, President of the Infernal Solidarity League. Mirabella Bianci, a former Lost Soul, appointed as a dean. Meanwhile, the fae necromancer Damonias posts a flyer around the city suggesting that those like himself step forth as deities, that everyone else choose him rather than the slavery of being Blessed or Damned.
4-January-2000
Search parties dispatched from the Abbey to find Klefkn.
5-January-2000
Earth: violin-playing class offered at the University.

Hell: The Tomb of Duke Baphomet splits open. His assassin escapes upwards through a hole in Hell's sky.

6-January-2000
Rumor: Angels and Blessed mortals are changing into their own opposites, though still of the same affiliation.
7-January-2000
Earth: Isarael, the assassin who earlier escaped from Hell, materializes in Market Square, where he is attacked by Citadel forces and dark-clad 'Templars' wielding blades. Lady Fehu forces him to flee to the bridge, where she cleaves him with her metallic arm. He is cast into the Chasm.

Later: meteor shower strikes the city from above, shards of stone from below. Stone envelops St.Brigid's chapel, raising a fortress: the New Spire.

Hell: Something strikes the shore of the Lake of Fire, leaving a smoking crater. The Lightbringer, Claribel, and the Infernal Archivist, Malenkost, enter the crater, emerge with Duke Baphomet, who departs immediately for Avernus. Later he formally announces his return.

9-January-2000
Earth: "Adluo", former lady of the Citadel, accompanied by one called David, is denied entrance to the Abbey.

Hell: Cho'Gall: The Creator (the Nameless) calls everyone to the Lake of Fire.

10-January-2000
The Citadel: a number of prisoners and Guards are executed on the rooftop by a powerful, unnamed demon. Meanwhile, notices go up: personnel required for the reconstruction of the city.
13-January-2000
Cho'Gall holds a ceremony at the Lake of Fire, but it goes out of control. Massive tremors shake the realm. Fire and burning spirits erupt from the center of the Lake. Diviners whisper that 100,000 souls are missing.
15-January-2000
The search for Klefkn ends in failure. They return with a man recovered from under several feet of earth, but no angel.

Hell: Duke Baphomet appears, pronounces Lords Fehu and Cho'Gall to be promoted to the rank of Baron.

16-January-2000
Dorion Drago gives speech: New Deal promises housing and jobs. Tent city set up north of St. Jude's Square.
17-January-2000
The IBI and 83rd Legion cease hostilities towards the Citadel.

Message in the sky: Klefkn the Truthsayer has returned.

4-March-2000
Laveau Investigations opens.
6-March-2000
Hell: At the command of Lord Asmodeus, Nialus's encampment around the Lake of Fire departs for the Wastelands. Rumor: Asmodeus' legions are disbanding for good. Later: tremors, a wave of lava devastates the shore of the Lake, only a few imps surviving. Claribel retrieves a lone, burnt human from the wave. Later: a single column of flame erupts from the Lake, accompanied by a scream.
14-March-2000
Abbey: shaken by the tremors, a geyser opens up in the Cloisters, shooting up blood, then vanishes, leaving permanent stains.

The angel Wrenchiel returns, as the Masked-Raver.

16-March-2000
Minor earthquake shakes the city. At its epicenter, the Stone Tower raised by the Blessed in the NE sector tilts, sinks into the ground.
19-March-2000
The Seraph Vretil comes to earth, is confronted outside the Abbey by Fehu and Baphomet, and annihilated.
21-March-2000
Shack explodes on Cathedral Road.
22-March-2000
Baroness Fehu and Duke Baphomet invade the Abbey, whose inhabitants all rally to repel the intruders. Violence ensues. Self-proclaimed paladin Matthew Slater leads novices against Baphomet. Lexus tends to the wounded. The Elohim Zephiel duels with the Duke, but falls. Baphomet falls to the other defenders. Fehu's body taken away.
24-March-2000
The Bank of Babylon re-opens, under the management of J. Tolbrook.
11-April-2000
At the Abbey: the Elohim Zephiel announces that the Hashmallim Raguel has placed the Abbey under a state of emergency.
12-April-2000
Second proclamation by Rezaphazaal: Abbey personnel will not be sent out to the plains to execute people. The Abbey will not become the Citadel.
29-April-2000
Wade takes over the Boat Shop by the Sea.
2-June-2000
Ball held at the Gallowglass Arms Ballroom, masquerade dress optional.
6-June-2000
Ian Walker appointed Public Works Supervisor for the Department of Power by the Bank.
11-June-2000
Two of the winners, a woman named Tera and a small girl, of the Costume Contest at the recent GA Ball, accompanied by GA owner Eleanor, use their prize money to buy and free two slaves (rumored to be political prisoners).

University Book Drive: President Claribel Vidriani orders all books and reference material in the Univ. available for copying, requests copies of past literary works that others may have.

22-June-2000
Slade puts up flyers in the Unchosen sector: Come and support your kind! Take a stand while you still can!
23-June-2000
Mysterious dark-robed stranger appears in Market Square, zombie in tow, toys with Madeleine, then kills a bystander who comes too close.
25-June-2000
Shining silver message in the Abbey, calling for a meeting of the Blessed.
27-June-2000
Earthquake swallows the Stone Fortress of the Blessed in the NE sector.
28-June-2000
Flyers distributed: Cathedral active again under new management --- Immanitas.
29-June-2000
A fifty-foot dragon, reminiscent of Draken Slythe, appears in the Northern sector of the city, captures, then releases, a human female. Are the Spawn back?
23-July-2000
Hell: Barons Cho'Gall return from a dive into the Lake of Fire possessed by the spirit Baalan, a prophet and herald of the Morning-Star. Khelkhet, the Dark Lady and Queen of the Spawn, agrees to aid Baalan in his quest to defeat the Host. Lucius, commander of the 83rd, and the reclusive 'Dark One', follow suit. Claribel confirms Baalan's identity (at least his belief in it.)

Earth: message in blood on a wall: Join the Cause of Hell, contact the demons. Serve us and we will give you power.

26-July-2000
The Citadel's grip tightens, in response to the rumors out of Hell of a united front and a coming battle. Recruiting drive.
27-July-2000
The howls of the Spawn are heard at night. In Hell, they are seen in greater numbers.
31-July-2000
Hell: Rumor: Baalan is raising an army from the lost souls trapped in the Lake of Fire.
6-August-2000
Ads: Come see exotic dancers Zoe and Kayla at the Last Chance!

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