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Spirals of Fate

NCsoft's City of Heroes and City of Villains, massively multiplayer online games, provides the setting for Spirals of Fate, a fictional tale told in serial form on GameZone.com. Each Friday GameZone will present another installment in this story that involves villains and heroes struggling to find their place in these city-based worlds. NCsoft has given our writers, Michael Lafferty and Matthew Eberle, permission to use their settings as the background for this story and while it takes place in environments based within the world, the story does not reflect gameplay elements or even the story arcs within the actual game world. This is a work of fiction, presented for the entertainment of GameZone's readership.

Spirals of Fate - Chapter One (Enter Mosaic, Part 3)Spirals of Fate: Chapter One  (Enter Mosaic) - Part One

The Zigg holds prisoners with superhuman powers. But just when things appear to be going very well, it all goes wrong, with prison doors opening, and an massive escape in full swing. Two prisoners, Vincent and Mara, take their first tentative steps toward freedom..

 

 

 
The path to freedom, through the riot-marred halls of the Zigg, is not without danger. Vincent and Mara continue to try to find a way out of the prison toward possible freedom when they are meet with resistance and, perhaps, a new ally.

 Spirals of Fate - Chapter One (Enter Mosaic) - Part 3

With Mosaic now joining Vincent and Mara, will the three leave the Zigg behind? Wounds must be tended to and trust is a fragile thing in the confines of the prison. This concludes the first chapter of this tale.
 

Spirals of Fate - Chapter One (Enter Mosaic, Part 3)

Spirals of Fate - Chapter Two (Where Heroes Walk) Part 1

In Chapter One of Spirals, the villains were escaping from the prison known as the Zigg. Chapter Two introduces the other side of the equation - heroes - and in particular, three who will be called on to defend their city from the criminal element.


 

Three young heroes, new to the Heroes Corp, are trying to find their place within the organization when a call comes in of a massive breakout at the prison used to hold those with super abilities.

Spirals of Fate - Chapter Two (Where Heroes Walk, Part 3)
Chapter Two wraps up as the breakout at the Zigg is in full force with Snowman and Lumiare on the scene. Just as trouble rears its ugly head, the third member of the team arrives to join the battle.

Spirals of Fate - Chapter Three (Harsh Environments, Part 1)Spirals of Fate - Chapter Three (Harsh Environments, Part 1)
The focus shifts back to the villains, who arrive at an Arachnos base with the promise of a new future, but too quickly circumstances intervene with any chance for Vincent and Mara to escape what seems to be their fate.


 

Spirals of Fate - Chapter Three (Harsh Environments, Part 2)
It was supposed to be a new start, but soon violence erupts and Vincent confronts it head on. Mara tries to slip into the background, to move away unnoticed, but that, too, is not to be. Violence seeks her out.

Spirals of Fate - Chapter Three (Harsh Environments, Part 3)
And the lions shall be separated from the lambs ... As the violence in the courtyard begins to calm down, Arachnos Seers exert control over the scene only to find their intended domination met with defiance.

Spirals of Fate: Chapter Four (Shadows of the Future) - Part One

Spirals of Fate - Chapter Four (Shadows of the Future, Part 1)
A  minor arrest turns into a discussion about use of force between Charger and Snowman as the Spirals of Fate serial story heads into its last two chapters.

 

 

As the heroes are discussing strategy as a team, our three main villains think about what lays ahead en route to a bank to steal an artifact.
 
The alarms at the bank have gone off with Vincent and Mara engaging security while not far away, three young heroes get the call to respond to the trouble.

Spirals of Fate - Chapter Five (Spiraling out of control, Part 1)

Three new heroes rush to the scene of a robbery and encounter more trouble than expected in the form of Vincent and Mara. This is the first of the two-part conclusion to the Spirals of Fate serial story.

 

 

The conclusion of the Spirals of Fate serial story on GameZone.com with the battle between Vincent and Mara and the three newest members of Hero Corps hitting its finale.

 

This is a  fictional story is based on the intellectual property of City of Heroes and City of Villains. That property was used as a backdrop for this story with the permission of both Ncsoft and Cryptic Studios. While this story uses that world as a backdrop, it is not meant to reflect either gameplay or storylines with the massively multiplayer online world. Some of the images used with Spirals of Fate have been taken from the game and modified to suit the illustrative purposes of this story. This story is intended for entertainment purposes only.