Part I: The Forge of Light

Each AAE story is broken down into "chapters" of approximately 100KB of ASCII text per file. SPOILER WARNING: The summary after the chapter links is intended for those who want to find out what happened in this section without reading the full archive. It will contain spoilers. You have been warned :-).

It starts in a bar, when a Stranger is attacked by a horde of blaster-wielding aliens. Seeing a potential good time, several Patrons -- many of whom are more than they seem -- jump in to help. Little do they realize that three universes hang in the balance.... (ran 2 Sep 96 through 9 Dec 96)

Writers (in order of first post, writers with multiple characters are only mentioned once, by their alias or primary character's name):

• Stranger
• Xzerrion
• Randy Martens
• Roland X
• Harker (aka John Edwards)
• DJ
• Anam (aka Bruce E Golightly)
• John F Davis
• Silence & Shadow (aka Rose)
• Seosaidh
• KnightShift (aka Mike Knight)
• Paul de Anguera
• kitten (aka barbara trumpinski)
• BetNoir
• Lady Cheron
• Sasquatch
• Linda Wilkinson
• Starknight
• SirFox
• AJ (aka andral1)
• Nyarlathotep
• John the Wysard
• Pixel
• Wolfman (aka BEREK)
• Gian-Paolo D Musumeci
• Morgan O'Daire (later Morgan Greywolf-Phoenix)
• Dion P. Marshall
• Driscoll
• Stardragon (aka Dane)
• Dhyrclhanc the Sentinel Lensdragon
• Alaric (aka The Renaissance Man)

Summary: (pending)