<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">C.  Do I know where Madder is too ask her to join the operation?  </blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I don't know.  We don't really have a timeline of events and people are writing from all over the place.  Madder is keeping her head down, though, as far as I'm aware.  At least until her magic has reached the point where it's so obvious that hiding is no longer useful.<br/><br/>I didn't know Gears was trapped anywhere.  Last I heard, she was talking to Madder after she was attacked.<br/><br/>Edit: Though I guess going on just what her tiny djala friend has to say, it might be reasonable to get the impression that she is in trouble.<br/><br/>It might be nice to get a timeline of events going on, though, when and where people are located and when they are doing the things they're doing, etc.  For example:<br/><br/>RY 763: Madder's political campaign fails under threats of violence against her life.  She goes into hiding, and she Exalts.<br/>RY 764: Madder leaves Chiaroscuro, traveling into the desert on her way into Malfeas.<br/>RY 764-767: Madder studies in Malfeas for three years.<br/>RY 767, Resplendent Fire: Madder returns to Chiaroscuro, activates Chirality Prohibition Index in the basement of the Black Tap in the Undercity.<br/>RY 767?  Early 768?: Madder meets Gears in the Black Tap following an attack beneath the city.<br/>Late 768?: Shizune and Lodestar flee to Chiaroscuro in search of asylum<br/><br/>I imagine that final point should be the 'end point' from which we proceed into the story proper.