Editing AlphaOmega/Timeline (section)

==September 2007==
*'''Troile''' awakens, assumes command of Sins of the Father
*Liz meets her online penpal, '''Dale Grimsby''', at a parkour convention in Las Vegas
===Thursday, September 27===
*'''Malevolent Fate''' gets a temp job as a poker dealer
*Tony Figarelli calls Darius & John to the Lucky Stars
*Sins of the Father plants germ-warfare bombs around the greater Las Vegas area
*"Boss" Ferroviccio of Clan Ventrue(?) attempts a takeover of the Lucky Stars; at the same time, Sins of the Father plants a bomb at the Stars
*7 Exalted unite for the first time, fighting off Sins of the Father and disabling the bomb at the Stars
*The Ellipse split up to foil Sins' plans
**Wu Jian & John disable the bomb at the Velvet Room
**Darius & Gabe disable the bomb at Palo Verde High School; Darius defeats Technocratic agents, and the Exalts meet '''Peer & Omegas''', Tradition mages teaching magick to Gabe's students
**Liz, Rob, and Cassidy arrive at Sins' church, discovering an infestation of Brujah vampires; the infestation is dealt with
*The rest of the Ellipse meets at the church; Rosa, a grandchilde of Troile, is sworn to answer the Ellipse's questions by binding Eclipse oaths
*The one remaining bomb, at a military base, goes off, infecting the base with Anthrax Leprosy Mu
*The Ellipse journeys to the Red Mountain Caern to meet with representatives of the Garou Nation
*The spirit of the Caern is awakened, recognizes Cassidy, and gives Rob an orichalcum ring from his First Age mate
*Sui Mae arrives in America
*The Ellipse discusses matters and their role in the universe under the watching stars....
===Friday, September 28===
*Sui Mae makes her way to the outskirts of Las Vegas
*Zombies leave the military base, attack & kill the town of Henderson
*The Ellipse has troubled dreams
*The Technocracy has Cassidy, Rob, Darius, & John declared terrorists
*Wu Jian receives a letter of introduction from Sui Mae
*Gabe is offered a job by the Technocracy
*Liz & Darius both fight off Technocracy agents; Liz escapes, but Darius is captured
*John makes it out of Las Vegas and back to the Caern
*Rob, Cassidy, and John consult with Sings-The-Wyrm's-Defeat & the Ringbearer, learn of the Mokole & the First Age
*Wu Jian goes to meet Sui Mae
*Gabe and Darius attempt an escape; Darius is hit with an Essence Inverter, gets blasted into the Umbra
*Sui Mae & Wu Jian spar, then destroy a group of zombies
*Rob, Cassidy, & John drive to Henderson; at the same time, Liz arrives there with a bus of refugees
*Wu Jian and Sui Mae takes a helicopter into Las Vegas
*Gabe has further job offers from the Technocracy
*Sins of the Father snipes Xander, escapes into the Umbra
*Malevolent Fate appears as Darius' heavenly attorney, gives some questionable advice
*Zombies invade Las Vegas
*Cassidy inspires half a dozen Hunters
*Troile pulls a Ringu, infiltrates the Technocratic compound
*Peer and Omegas (along with Gabe's students) stage a rescue; Omegas loses a hand in the process
*John, Liz, Cassidy, Rob, and the Hunters return to Las Vegas
*Sui Mae gets the press's attention by flaring her anima in downtown Las Vegas
*Darius confronts Rex Mundi (aka the Wyrm, aka Malfeas) in the ruins of the Jade Pleasure Dome in Yu-Shan
*The convoy is stopped by a vampiric barricade; a fight immediately breaks out
**Rosa and representatives from clans Giovanni & Ventrue intervene, ask John for assistance in throwing off Troile's influence; he agrees
*Darius duels Hate, an Abyssal/Infernal serving Rex Mundi; he loses, but is thrown back into the physical world by the rest of the Celestial Exalted
*Cassidy controls, drives off the zombie horde with a rendition of Thriller.  The world stops in disbelief for a moment.
*Sui Mae & Wu Jian reunite with the Solars & Lunars, prepare to attack Todd Brown's church
*Troile blood-bonds Gabe; Gabe triggers a holy bomb, is teleported out by Peer & Omegas at the last possible second
*The Ellipse takes down three elder vampires
*The combined animas of the Ellipse and Sins of the Father tear down the Gauntlet completely, throwing them all into the Umbra
**Darius, Rob, & Sui Mae end up in a casino, battling greed-spirits and Banes
**Wu Jian & Cassidy meet up with Malevolent Fate and Zefrel, City God of Las Vegas
**Liz & John encounter Sins of the Father; they defeat him and bind him with Eclipse oaths to both seek vengeance on them, and to forever forswear vengeance against them
*Gabe and a group of Tradition mages summon the Archangel Gabriel, who is distinctly unhelpful
*Cassidy pierces the Gauntlet and helps fight off the undead horde; Wu Jian stays in the Umbra and seeks out Liz & John
*The Red Star appears and attempts to attack the archangel; he fails, and reverts to the form of Nick Scratch before Gabe & the mages' eyes
*The Warriors Three return to the real world, only to encounter Troile; she badly wounds Darius and mind-controls Rob & Sui Mae into attacking their allies
**Rob slaughters several Garou, only to be snapped out of it by Cassidy's influence
**Sui Mae crosses into the Umbra, kills an elder vampire, and attacks Liz & John; the two of them successfully fend her off until Wu Jian can bring her out of her Troile-induced rage; Sui Mae swears an Eclipse oath to never betray Liz or John again
*Malevolent Fate talks with Gabe; on the spirit's advice, he asks Omegas for (and receives) the White Treatise of 1st Age sorcery
*'''Keiko & Qin''', Sui Mae's servants, retrieve Darius from his temporary sanctum
*Troile Embraces Liz's friend Dale Grimsby
*Troile converses with Malevolent Fate
*Gabe cures the mage Cadaverine of the zombie plague
===Saturday, September 29===
*At dawn, the Ellipse reunites at the Lucky Stars
*Cassidy and her Imbued talk; she then talks with Nick Scratch
*Rob makes amends with the Garou
*Darius, John, and Omegas collect weapons
*Sui Mae summons Li Bei, a potent fire god
**Li Bei appears to immolate Liz; in reality, she is taken into the Umbra, where she meets with Malevolent Fate, Dumb Luck, and Blind Justice
*John gets a few hours of rest, meets with Malevolent Fate in his dreams, and learns of the Mandate of Heaven
*The Technocracy triples the sun's power; however, Troile's power at her stronghold is enough to resist it
*A War Council is held
*The Ellipse and their allies swear an Eclipse oath to never willingly betray each other, to be loyal to each other, to protect each other, and to stand against the darkness
*The Ellipse arrives at Troile's tower; Troile uses a Presence-based attack to turn her enemies against each other; however, they are able to overcome its power
*The Mourning Star fights off a childe of Troile; Liz fends off the attacks of a turned Dale Grimsby
*The Ellipse journeys into the depths of Troile's tower
*Darius is killed while slaying Nimrod, Troile's strongest childe
*The Ellipse wounds Troile; the combined Essence expenditure is enough to tear open the Gauntlet once more
*In the Umbra, Troile attempts to flee, but is stopped by The Mourning Star's power
*The Ellipse strikes as one and slays Troile
*The Ellipse and its allies flee Las Vegas on Sui Mae's jet
*The Technocracy drops nuclear bombs that obliterate Las Vegas in both the physical and Umbral realms
*Congress (and the Technocracy pulling its strings) declares most of the western US under martial law, makes the president President-for-Life
*Youtube explodes (metaphorically) with video of most of the Ellipse doing obviously supernatural things; the Veil/Masquerade suffers a major debilitating hit
*The Technocracy's Overseer for California orders Iteration X to activate the very ominous-sounding "Project: ALCHEMICAL"
*Malevolent Fate appears on the jet, and delivers cryptic warnings
*The jet lands in Los Angeles, and is met by representatives of the New Promise Mandarinate, and Sui Mae's cousin
*John discovers that the Ellipse's quarters are bugged, and informs Gabe, who disables the devices and informs everyone else
*Liz goes for a run
*John consults with Peer and Omegas about the demon Lytek and other potential allies
*Cassidy converses with the many aspects of Nick Scratch
*Sui Mae challenges Liz to a duel
*Gabe begins studying Dale Grimsby at Liz's request, trying to find a cure for Troile's final curse
*Sui Mae asks Wu Jian out on a date

===Sunday, September 30===
*Liz & Sui Mae duel; after an intense combat, Liz barely prevails
*Sui Mae & Wu Jian have their first date