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| Arc 3
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6 January 2018
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25 January 2018
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Glare is the third arc in Ward. It is preceded by Flare and followed by Shade.
Summary
Victoria travels to New Brockton to have a conversation with Tattletale. Tattletale is not directly involved with the Hollow Point villains, though she does owe them intel. She suspects that their niche will soon be consumed by bigger players, and states that Victoria has no place in that balance. The whole conversation was recorded by Kenzie, and the therapy group decide to progress regardless. Apart from Rain (who was running late), they train together through a match of capture-the-flag, with Tristan, Sveta, and Victoria against Ashley, Chris, and Kenzie. After a close game with clever usage of powers, Sveta manages to pull off a victory, and Ashley storms off, furious over the loss. Rain arrives and they all agree that his safety should be the top priority. Tristan proposes sending Ashley into Hollow Point as a double agent, with Chris as backup. Even if their plan doesn’t evolve to completion, they’d at least acquire valuable information which they can sell to other hero teams.
Victoria is suspicious of Rain’s living arrangements, and begins to follow him back home before calling it off in respect for his privacy. Back at Crystal’s apartment, Victoria’s dad shows up and tries to apologize for going along with Carol’s scheme at the barbecue. Victoria eventually agrees to meet with her mom at the Wardens HQ, strictly for the purpose of finding a legal counsel for the new team. Victoria, Tristan, Kenzie, and Sveta arrive at the HQ and learn that a counsel may be available in a few months, though otherwise the meeting is hostile and unproductive. The group then runs into Moonsong, who claims that Tristan is a power-hungry sociopath. Byron and several members of Foresight intervene to avert further conflict. Foresight is tentatively receptive to the Hollow Point espionage plan, and agrees to provide costumes for the new team.
In the interlude, Dot, an unsavory creature, rummages through an abandoned supermarket overrun by murderous machines. Dot learns from a dying heroine that ‘her king’, who can heal her people, is imprisoned on Earth Gimel. She hitches a ride on a train and narrowly evades capture from Ratcatcher, finally making it to the secure facility where her king is guarded by ‘Alice’ and ‘The Red Queen’. King Rinke has no desire to fight the humans, so Dot decides to invent her own destiny, and discovers a new ally in The Red Queen.
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| Shade
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| Arc 4
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Date started
27 January 2018
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Date finished
22 February 2018
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Shade is the fourth arc in Ward; preceded by Glare and followed by Shadow.
Summery
The group puts their plan into motion with Cedar Point, stirring the hornet's nest. Victoria finds her way into the group.
Meanwhile Rain and his cluster are explored.
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| Shadow
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| Arc 5
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Date started
24 February 2018
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Date finished
10 April 2018
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Shadow is the fifth arc in Ward; preceded by Shade and followed by Pitch.
Summary
In this corner a tenuously united group of heroes and in this corner a moderately tied group of villains. Let's get ready to rumble!
The attack ends in ignominious retreat lets try setting it up for another round, everyone lick your wounds and hug your beaus.
Lets try this again, in this corner a tenuously united group of villains and in this corner a cult of fanatic world-ending monstrosity worshipers. In the middle is the finest and not so finest mishmash of heroes civilization has to offer. It's going to be bloody folks so place your bets!
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| Pitch
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| Arc 6
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Date started
14 April 2018
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Date finished
11 May 2018
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Pitch is the sixth arc in Ward. It is preceded by Shadow and followed by Torch.
Summary
Whats after the twilight of the gods? Can it get worse? Because things are definitely getting worse.
The Fallen continue to be more puissant then initially believed.
Even after defeat they try to spite their "opressors".
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- Pitch is an arc title with numerous meanings relevant to its events:
- With the standard theme of darkness and light, it can be shorthand for the color pitch black
- the pitch in pitch black, in turn, refers to an extremely dark and viscous type of tar
- Pitch is a measure of frequency, and can apply to both light and sound, such as in descriptions of the well-known Doppler effect dealing with rising and falling pitches.
- Pitch can also refer to a playing field such as a baseball field, and the act of throwing an object.
- Pitch is also part of several escalation and conflict-related idioms in English, such as "fevered pitch" meaning an agitated state (especially of a group or collective activity), or a "pitched battle" for large-scale violent combat
- In business jargon, pitch has several additional idiomatic meanings- for example a "sales pitch" is an attempt to convince someone to agree to a purchase or deal, and an "elevator pitch" is a proposal summarized such that it can be delivered to the captive audience on an elevator before it reaches the destination floor.
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| Torch
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| Arc 7
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Date started
15 May 2018
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Date finished
30 June 2018
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Torch is the seventh arc in Ward. It is preceded by Pitch and followed by Beacon.
Eclipse is the concurrent interlude arc, that recalls events of the Boston Blowback.
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Aftermath.
New therapist.
Trial chapters.
Eclipse begin
Ashley has a trial. Turns down the video Kenzie made for her. Ashley has people talk in her defense. She goes to containment and meets up with her sister.
Eclipse end
Kenzie is her regular amazing self.
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- Similar to the Migration Arc and the Anniversary interludes; Eclipse was written and posted over sequential days, despite risks to health, sanity, format and spelling.
- Whereas the rest of Ward uses the '⊙' circled dot symbol to separate sections within chapters, the Eclipse interlude arc uses the '☽' quarter moon symbol for this purpose.
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| Beacon
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| Arc 8
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Date started
3 July 2018
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Date finished
18 August 2018
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Beacon is the eigth arc in the Ward series. It is preceded by Torch and followed by Gleaming.
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| Gleaming
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| Arc 9
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Date started
21 August 2018
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Date finished
20 October 2018
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Gleaming is the ninth arc in Ward. It is preceded by Beacon and followed by Polarize.
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The group gets ready for the meeting with Goddess, trying to take every reasonable precaution but are "aligned" by Goddess. They also realize that Amy Dallon is working with Goddess helping her achieve her goals.
Breakthrough helps Goddess breaking into the parahuman prison to collect new recruits and her specific target, a former multi-trigger that was part of her cluster. Breakthrough is able to stop Teacher from killing all the prisoners and helps Goddess capture her new recruits.
After leaving Monokeros in the old prison pocket dimension, Goddess is killed by Cryptid in a form that prevents her alignment. Cyrptid and Amy convince the prisoners who made it out to join them to go to Earth Shin.
Interspersed through out this book is a flashback to the Vera twins history from their trigger to when Tristan tried to pretend that Byron had been killed.
The final interlude offers a window into the routine of Valkyrie in her constant attempts to remain sane.
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| Polarize
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| Arc 10
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Date started
23 October 2018
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Date finished
15 December 2018
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Polarize is the tenth arc in Ward. It is preceded by Gleaming and followed by Blinding.
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| Blinding
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| Arc 11
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Date started
18 December 2018
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Date finished
5 February 2019
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Blinding is the eleventh arc in Ward. It is preceded by Polarize and followed by Heavens.
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| Heavens
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| Arc 12
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Date started
9 February 2019
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29 March 2019
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Heavens is the twelfth arc in Ward. It is preceded by Blinding and followed by Black.
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- It is the first arc to start with an interlude chapter in both Ward and Worm.
- Heavens.all also breaks the associated patterns, it is non-interlude chapter from multiple non-lead points of view.
- E and F interludes also are a smaller break in the pattern, since their indexes continue previous interludes of Rain that appear as PoVs of his clustermates.
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| Black
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| Arc 13
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Date started
2 April 2019
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14 May 2019
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Black is the thirteenth arc of Ward. It is preceded by Heavens and followed by Breaking.
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An unknown actor frames Victoria with a fake diary that Dragon discovered on her computer. The Wardens don't trust her anymore. Tattletale helps with the investigation to prove her innocence.
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| Breaking
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| Arc 14
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Date started
18 May 2019
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Date finished
29 June 2019
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Breaking is the fourteenth arc of Ward. It is preceded by Black and followed by Dying.
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| Dying
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| Arc 15
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Date started
2 July 2019
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Date finished
10 August 2019
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Dying is the fifteenth arc of Ward. It is preceded by Breaking and followed by From Within.
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| From Within
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| Arc 16
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Date started
13 August 2019
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28 September 2019
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From Within is the sixteenth arc of Ward. It is preceded by Dying and followed by Sundown.
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| Sundown
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| Arc 17
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Date started
1 October 2019
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12 November 2019
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Sundown is the seventeenth arc of Ward. It is preceded by From Within and followed by Radiation.
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