Summer, 1997. Failing art student and thriving social engineer Jason Whitehouse experiences a series of vivid, tactile hallucinations - experiences a ghost tells him are a form of past life regression. Has Jason gone mad, or is he experiencing glimpses of a past life?
Spanning ten pages and three years, Observer Effect is a compact introduction to the world of Among the Chosen. The events of of this installment reverberate throughout Dead City Radio and The Dualist. If you'd like to know what ATC is all about, start here!
Meet Jason Whitehouse: failing art student, amateur radio enthusiast and social engineer. Jason isn't your typical art student - he's about six years older than most of his peers, and he's subject to the occasional extremely vivid "hallucination."
The energy of Jason's regressions draws the attention of Jesse, a young Templar agent installed in the student apartments on an unspecified assignment.
Spring, 2002. Five years after the events of Dead City Radio, the Sabrosa arrives in earth orbit- probing psychological defenses, awakening Thad and initiating a physics-defying psychic event. The Dualist is a story of cause and effect - a study of the results of a single decision made at the climax of Dead City Radio, and the effect of that decision on several seemingly unrelated groups of individuals.
Raven and Tantek take advantage of a 1969 bureaucratic loophole to recruit the ex-Templar John West. General Grij struggles with the Sabrosa's long-range communications hardware while Thad's identity crisis takes a turn for the strange.
Greymalkin shows the remaining Terrans why he's the boss. Hard decisions are made in an instant, stuff blows up, and a lot of people die.
A pair of backwoods Americans are thrust into an interstellar human society that's been living in space since the 14th century. Hilarity - and insanity - ensues.
Transitional Voices is a direct continuation of The Dualist. This story is effectively chapters 9-12 or "part three" of The Dualist, though it is a separate entity in terms of production values and story focus.
