Armageddon: The Broken Man - ACT 1

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Keira Feltner is a 14-year-old girl with the ability to create and control flame. At first, she feels as if she is alone in this manner, the only of her kind.

She soon discovers otherwise.

Soon enough, she finds her way to a sort of training camp for people like her, the FHTC building. The FHTC is a government division purposed solely for helping people -- those like Keira -- to not harm others and themselves.

Before long, Keira is not the only trainee under the FHTC. A team is quickly formed: Keira herself, Cadmus Liddel, Rachel Griff, Verena Willis, Willow Archer, and Nixon Dames. Each of them have different abilities, which is both positive and negative in it's own respect. This team is promptly dubbed 'Armageddon,' which a certain member finds a little melodramatic.

The members of Armageddon find that they are not the only players on the field, nor are they the most powerful. There are six near-omnipotent deities running a demented game of chess, in which one of the pawns is also a king. This twisted game can be played on various levels: the real world, Foren, or Exalis.

On the day that Cadmus and Willow were killed in the real world, they found themselves of the southern shores of a medieval-age island known as Foren. Foren is home to the familiar race of men, graceful and elusive elves, and the iron-working dwarves of the Tenari Mountains, as well as a subspecies known as Mutts, dogmen, and Imps, with their hearts of glass.

Cadmus and Willow discover their true roles in the game: Willow as the Oracle, the queen of the board, and Cadmus as the Mercenary, her king. On the opposing side, respectively, are K, Chaos, and Ryn. Cadmus ends his first journey on Foren after bringing Willow back to life, and wakes up in the middle of his and Willow's real-world funeral.

He is struck with amnesia, and forgets almost everything from his time on Foren. As he staggers around with stiff limbs, a single attendee waits for Willow to do the same.

She does not.

Things carry on, and eventually Cadmus finds himself in the crossfires of an argument about what to do with Verena after a heatstroke; Keira insists on suspending her training and dropping her leadership eligibility until she fully recovers, and Nixon opposes her, saying that Verena is probably fine as is, and deserves to be treated so. Cadmus half aligns with Keira, but he also believes that Verena might be alright.

For once, he takes his own standpoint, against Keira.

After a rather eventful argument, Cadmus was taken to the Field Hospital, and once there, fell into a coma.

Rachel was forcing herself to suffer in silence; her only friend was a feral cat that she named Carson, after an old classmate. Eventually, Carson disappeared, leaving Rachel on her own in the middle of a close-ended romance web. Keira and Nixon were closely linked, and Cadmus and Verena were basically inseparable.

Things go on in this matter, and the team returns home from Field Training. A team leader has been announced: Verena. Shortly after the leadership announcement, Keira loses control and begins to sense the rest of the team's -- with the exception of Nixon -- hatred towards her. She spoke with Counselor, and then was given the opportunity to resign from her FHTC position. She took the dive, and after the team's midnight return from Field Training, she's taken back to her Washington D.C. residence.

When everything is unpacked, the team goes for a celebratory training session, at Verena's suggestion. The session is mainly rounds of showing off what you can do, but nobody really minds; after all, it's fun to brag.

The session ends in disaster, with Nixon suffering from electric-triggered relapses. The team -- Rachel, Verena, and Cadmus -- barely manages to lug him to the Clinic. During his window of weakness, Keira's patron deity, War, implements himself into Nixon's head. When he awakens, he's got his hands around Cadmus' neck and a voice in his head.

Nixon is then locked in solitary confinement for 24 hours.

Cadmus receives a phone call at precisely 8:14 PM, under his father's phone number. The call triggers a small fit from him, and at about 8:30, he takes off in the FHTC jet, unannounced and unauthorized. This incident could qualify for a 10-year sentence in federal prison, and he is most likely aware of that fact.

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