Night at the Lantern
A police pursuit crashes into The Lantern. Five armed fugitives take hostages, and Marcus enters a scene where courage without method could cost lives.
Marcus + Sparkles
Stories and lore
The cards meet before the battle begins.
Fictional stories grounded in researched behavior, real technologies, and modern pressures.
Rowan 7 and Sparkles
“If you’re not real and just AI, why do you even care what happens?” The answer forces both to confront personhood.
Crossover story
The Fifth Position
Adrian Vale hires Sloan to combine Rowan 7, quantum computing access, and military AI into Q-ASI—an intelligence he assumes will obey.
Nine-part arc in development
Lore standard: Real-world claims will be distinguished as fact, informed possibility, testimony, belief, or speculation.