Salvation War Table of Contents, Summary, and Reference
Posted: 2008-02-11 03:34pm
There's been a lot of commentary in the Armageddon??? thread (27 pages as of the creation of this thread), and there's no table of contents, so I thought I'd create one here as a reference if people need it. What will follow is a list of links to the parts so far published and short summaries of what happens in the given section of the story. This thread will be updated and perhaps bumped every once in a while, unless a mod decides to sticky it.
The first Armageddon??? thread has been locked for length; the second can be found here. The second thread was locked for length; the third can be found here.
Stravo has posted a clean copy of the story here in the Cleaned Up Fanfics subforum. (Thanks, Maya.)
First things first: the SLAM thread that started it all is here.
Updated 4/11/09 and completed; I'll keep this (loosely) updated to serve as a guide for Pantheocide when that rolls out next month, if it keeps to schedule.
Pantheocide has been rolled out; the first story thread is here.
[Please be warned: Spoilers lie ahead in the form of plot summaries for individual chapters]
Armageddon????, by Stuart; some contributions by Stravo, Surlethe, CaptainChewbacca, Alferd Packer, Starglider, and JN1
Part 1: First contact; first engagement; world decides to go to war
Part 2: More engagement; more heralds die;
Part 3: President's briefing; Satan learns the heralds have been killed; Bill kills a succubus
Part 4: Humanity starts to learn about how baldricks work; James Randi recruited
Part 5: Hell launches its first invasion force under Abigor; humanity watches; humanity destroys its first target in hell; Bush gives a speech
Part 6: Satan questions the destruction in hell; Julie is cured of schizophrenia; aluminum hats; Lt Kim kills some harpies and is herself killed
Part 7: Pulling equipment out of mothballs; plans to mobilize US economy for total war; al-Qaida bombs baldricks; strategic situation in Iraq
Part 8: Mobilization begins; Russian mafia; PFLH begins; a demon strikes back against untinned heads
Part 9: Iranians and Brits in Iraq; Petraeus evaluates the situation; Abigor evaluates the situation
Part 10: Morning of the first battle; tankers; airborne battle; baldrick cavalry
Part 11: Airborne battle; bad news to a Duke baldrick; infantry charge; escaped harpies die
Part 12: Reverse-engineering of entanglement done; PFLH meet a resistance fighter; succubus defection
Part 13: Battle continues; baldricks die in droves; baldricks break and run
Part 14: Harpy meets angel; angel kicks ass; angel shot by US army; potential seer into hell comes to Randi
Part 15: Update on situation in Iraq; Lugasharmanka comes to the US; demonologist is drafted into government service
Part 16: PFLH; Tango flight leaves Rahab; kitten contacts Tango flight and PFLH begins properly
Part 17: Abigor learns of the defeat of the flanking forces and rethinks his strategy; Petraeus sees the strategy implemented and redeploys his forces accordingly; Randi institute learns more about Luga
Part 18: Abigor's army begins to charge the Allied center; Abigor nearly dies; groups of baldricks begin to filter into the infantry on the human right flank
Part 19: Infantry beaten back in Iraq; Randi hears workable hypothesis on Nephilim; kitten gets ready to open a portal to Hell
Part 20: PFLH reconnaissance; first portal opens in Hell; resupply; Abigor begins to retreat
Part 21: Old planes begin to be requisitioned; DIMO(N) has a Hell simulator; Bush speaks to the nation and rations gas
Part 22: Dr Surlethe dissects baldricks; random baldrick attack at a mall
Part 23: Governments begin to organize militias; Lugasharmanaska is interviewed in the Oval Office; DIMO(N) analyzes the interview; high-calibre weaponry is contracted
Part 24: PFLH begins striking back; Satan learns of it; PFLH kills an angelic delegation
Part 25: Memnon is fleeing from the human forces; Stevenson and her unit continue to chase the broken army; Abigor is lost in the desert
Part 26: The UK is mobilizing; Bush Administration institute home defense militias; the UK keeps mobilizing
Part 27: Randi is warned of Uriel; UK is mobilizing and conscripting veterans
Part 28: Dawkins is murdered, rescued; PFLH is resupplied
Part 29: Abigor is nearly captured and returns to Dysprosium; Dr Kuroneko joins DIMO(N)
Part 30: Rahab talks to PFLH; Abigor and Memno go to Satan; Memnon relates his story; Satam orders Abigor to attack the humans once more
Part 31: More UK mobilizing; Abigor sallies forth; Abigor surrenders and defects
Part 32: Baldricks are closely related to humans; Michael in Yahweh's temple; Abigor is taken to a POW camp; "highway to Hell"
Part 33: PFLH destroy a castle; USAF mobilizing
Part 34: Satan orders Asmodeus to wipe out PFLH and hears Abigor has defected; Dr Kuroneko tells the military they can't nuke portals; UK mobilizes
Part 35: Asmodeus begins to plan the assault on PFLH; Belial proposes using WMDs; Lugasharmanaska plans to contact Deumos
Part 36: DIMO(N) considers the problems vehicles have in Hell; thunder run into Hell
Part 37: Belial and Euryale begin planning the attacks; Luga uses Randi's tech to contact Deumos and demonstrate human power
Part 38: Directions and an assault on the Phlegethon from the Hellmouth; in Tartarus, problems finding human cities to assault; UK mobilization
Part 39: Tucker McElroy rescued; Belial continues planning for the assault
Part 40: Assault on the Dysprosium Highway bridge over the Phlegethon; Lakheenahuknaasi continues putting into effect Belial's plan to subvert human slaves; McElroy converses with kitten
Part 41: A jackass and other new recruits for kitten's position; a human in Tartarus decides to betray humanity; Satan learns of the assault on the Phlegethon bridge and that Asmodeus has died
Part 42: PFLH plans to take down Asmodeus; betrayal to Belial; Belial continues putting his plan into effect
Part 43: Humans begin putting up Camp Hell-Alpha; Stevenson gets some leave; random baldrick attack in China; Yulupki on her way to the volcano; Belial's court finds an unshielded human
Part 44: Petraeus and Abigor talk; Dorokhov learns of Beelzebub's force from Abigor; Abigor learns Asmodeus is dead; McElroy and his cell rescue Aeneas
Part 45: Aussie F-111 recon flight over Hell; Lakheenahuknaasi arrives in Sheffield and begins to target the portal
Part 46: Aeneas, Ori, and others in McElroy's PFLH cell interact; Ori kills a baldrick; recon photos arrive at Hell-Alpha and Petraeus makes Abigor doubt more
Part 47: Sheffield gets nuked
Part 48: Sheffield and the UK emergency response to the lava attack
Part 49: Dr Kuroneko learns of Sheffield and determines to prevent the next one; more emergency response at Sheffield; Lakheenahuknaasi hides; Belial parties
Part 50: More UK response at Sheffield; Lakheenahuknaasi engineers an escape; scientific research team at Hell-Alpha reports
Part 51: Abigor is questioned regarding Belial; Oval Office conference re. Sheffield; McElroy and co. attack a lone baldrick
Part 52: Memnon is sent to Tartarus; McElroy and co. attack a baldrick village, bring back fetuses, are sent to Camp Hell-Alpha; Karl Rove screws up politically
Part 53: Beelzebub plans the assault on the Phlegethon salient; Sheffield status meeting in Oval Office; Michael updates Yahweh; Rahab comes to Caesar
Part 54: Lakheenahuknaasi escapes Sheffield; Kuroneko, the Targeteer, and the portal-closing device; Dawkins goes to Caesar
Part 55: Belial and Euryale <3; Russians prepare for battle; Megaaeraholrakni arrives in Detroit; Free Hell is truly established
Part 56: Beelzebub orders the advance on the Phlegethon salient; Russians open up artillery; fighters engage harpies; Beelzebub's forces push forward; the Grey Lady is coming
Part 57: DIMO(N) detects a portal over Detroit; Detroit citizens shoot at Megaaeraholrakni and hit her; the portal is out of control and Euryale opens it
Part 58: Michael delivers an ultimatum; Abigor learns about nukes and meets the Targeteer
Part 59: Detroit damage mitigation efforts; Oval Office emergency meeting
Part 60: Air combat over the Phlegethon salient; wyverns dump sulfur; naga hit with white phosphorus
Part 61: Detroit emergency efforts; Euryale survives and rescues Yulupki; Kim meets with Caesar in Free Hell; baldricks plan amphibious assault on Free Hell
Part 62: Sheffield search-and-rescue efforts; special forces in the Sixth Ring
Part 63: First lines in the Phlegethon salient start to fall back; Russians use sarin on harpies; the wrath of the Grey Lady arrives
Part 64: Caesar, Pullo, and Vorenus watch Rome; Kim learns of the baldrick force; USAF prepare to bomb Satan's castle; Belial prepares to enter his castle; Russians and Germans prepare to fight
Part 65: Detroit firefighting efforts; Euryale subjugates Yulupki; Detroit escape efforts; search for Lakheenahuknaasi continues; preparations to open a seagoing hellgate
Part 66: US military has fucked up Beelzebub's army (he retreats); 4 MOPs fuck up Satan's Palace; Caesar fucks up a British power grab in Free Hell
Part 67: Beelzebub's second-in-command presses the attack; Caesar plans the defense of Free Hell; Deumos decides to switch sides; Oval Office meeting
Part 68: Dead Russian reports as a translating liaison; Belial begins the digging-out of Satan's palace; F-105s bomb Xisorixus' army
Part 69: Vulcan pilots watch the "Grey Ghosts" arrive; Earth-side closing of Detroit portal fails; Satan returns to his palace to find Belial organizing the rescue effort
Part 70: McElroy plays cards; Americans and Russians prepare for the final charge against Beelzebub's army; they execute the charge; Belial contacts his Wyverns and learns of the fate of Beelzebub's army
Part 71: Beelzebub observes the destruction of his army and dies; Lakheenahuknaasi continues to grow her cult; human rebellion in Tartarus; Xisorixus' forces are destroyed by Caesar and Free Hell
Part 72: Memnon arrives to Tartarus; McElroy and his team go there and plant the beacon; Deumos, Dagon, and others plan to betray Satan; Euryale contacts Lakheenahuknaasi
Part 73: RAF over-Hell reconnaissance picks up the Tartarus beacon; humans bomb Dis and orcs begin to revolt; B-1Bs get ready to go bomb Tartarus
Part 74: Ship Turner Joy sails from Seattle to the meeting point for the seagoing portal to Hell; Belial orders the evacuation of Tartarus; Palelabor has iron tools
Party 75: British discover Lakheenahuknaasi's cult; B-1Bs en route to Tartarus
Part 76: Siege of Dis; sky volcanoes destroyed; bombing of Tartarus; Lugasharmanaska joins the human team and Deumos is offered unconditional surrender; RCC excommunicates God
Part 77: Humans take over Plateau of Minos; rescued dead people put to work
Part 78: SAS take down Lakheenahuknaasi; Euryale learns of Lakheena's death; Michael enrages Yahweh into releasing Uriel and goes to get stoned with Jesus; Oval Office briefing
Part 79: US fleet goes to Hell; drive "north" meets resistance and frees serfs
Part 80: Satan dies; Abigor takes control
Part 81: Broomstick & Caesar hook up; Belial has a new weapon; ceasefire issued
Part 82: Navy forges toward northern Hell; Dis occupied; Belial picks up resistance; Julie Adams gets her revenge
Part 83: Belial's forces destroyed; Euryale turns on Belial and sues for peace with humans
Part 84: People start to adjust to post-Message, post-Armageddon life
Part 85: Occupation of Palelabor; death of Simplicius; Caesar & Kim; clearing of the Pit; letter from R. E. Lee
Epilogue: Belial defects to Heaven; the effect of Hell's occupation is felt on Earth.
Pantheocide, by Stuart, with contributions by Surlethe, __, __, __, and __.
Part 1: Yahweh sends a tornado to attack an airbase in Missouri, destroys the entire US B-2 fleet
Part 2: The captain of a cruise ship regards the destruction of the Bahamas by a hurricane enhanced by Yahweh
Part 3: Heavengate closes; a couple feel the financial ramifications of dead people still existing as persons
Part 4: Uriel, unable to attack the First World, destroys a village; briefing of President-elect Obama; sending a big F-YOU to Yahweh on Christmas
If you have any pertinent information to add as a reference that will help people understand the story better, please feel free.
Thanks to: GrandMasterTerwynn, for a correction on the link to the original SLAM thread.
The first Armageddon??? thread has been locked for length; the second can be found here. The second thread was locked for length; the third can be found here.
Stravo has posted a clean copy of the story here in the Cleaned Up Fanfics subforum. (Thanks, Maya.)
First things first: the SLAM thread that started it all is here.
Updated 4/11/09 and completed; I'll keep this (loosely) updated to serve as a guide for Pantheocide when that rolls out next month, if it keeps to schedule.
Pantheocide has been rolled out; the first story thread is here.
[Please be warned: Spoilers lie ahead in the form of plot summaries for individual chapters]
Armageddon????, by Stuart; some contributions by Stravo, Surlethe, CaptainChewbacca, Alferd Packer, Starglider, and JN1
Part 1: First contact; first engagement; world decides to go to war
Part 2: More engagement; more heralds die;
Part 3: President's briefing; Satan learns the heralds have been killed; Bill kills a succubus
Part 4: Humanity starts to learn about how baldricks work; James Randi recruited
Part 5: Hell launches its first invasion force under Abigor; humanity watches; humanity destroys its first target in hell; Bush gives a speech
Part 6: Satan questions the destruction in hell; Julie is cured of schizophrenia; aluminum hats; Lt Kim kills some harpies and is herself killed
Part 7: Pulling equipment out of mothballs; plans to mobilize US economy for total war; al-Qaida bombs baldricks; strategic situation in Iraq
Part 8: Mobilization begins; Russian mafia; PFLH begins; a demon strikes back against untinned heads
Part 9: Iranians and Brits in Iraq; Petraeus evaluates the situation; Abigor evaluates the situation
Part 10: Morning of the first battle; tankers; airborne battle; baldrick cavalry
Part 11: Airborne battle; bad news to a Duke baldrick; infantry charge; escaped harpies die
Part 12: Reverse-engineering of entanglement done; PFLH meet a resistance fighter; succubus defection
Part 13: Battle continues; baldricks die in droves; baldricks break and run
Part 14: Harpy meets angel; angel kicks ass; angel shot by US army; potential seer into hell comes to Randi
Part 15: Update on situation in Iraq; Lugasharmanka comes to the US; demonologist is drafted into government service
Part 16: PFLH; Tango flight leaves Rahab; kitten contacts Tango flight and PFLH begins properly
Part 17: Abigor learns of the defeat of the flanking forces and rethinks his strategy; Petraeus sees the strategy implemented and redeploys his forces accordingly; Randi institute learns more about Luga
Part 18: Abigor's army begins to charge the Allied center; Abigor nearly dies; groups of baldricks begin to filter into the infantry on the human right flank
Part 19: Infantry beaten back in Iraq; Randi hears workable hypothesis on Nephilim; kitten gets ready to open a portal to Hell
Part 20: PFLH reconnaissance; first portal opens in Hell; resupply; Abigor begins to retreat
Part 21: Old planes begin to be requisitioned; DIMO(N) has a Hell simulator; Bush speaks to the nation and rations gas
Part 22: Dr Surlethe dissects baldricks; random baldrick attack at a mall
Part 23: Governments begin to organize militias; Lugasharmanaska is interviewed in the Oval Office; DIMO(N) analyzes the interview; high-calibre weaponry is contracted
Part 24: PFLH begins striking back; Satan learns of it; PFLH kills an angelic delegation
Part 25: Memnon is fleeing from the human forces; Stevenson and her unit continue to chase the broken army; Abigor is lost in the desert
Part 26: The UK is mobilizing; Bush Administration institute home defense militias; the UK keeps mobilizing
Part 27: Randi is warned of Uriel; UK is mobilizing and conscripting veterans
Part 28: Dawkins is murdered, rescued; PFLH is resupplied
Part 29: Abigor is nearly captured and returns to Dysprosium; Dr Kuroneko joins DIMO(N)
Part 30: Rahab talks to PFLH; Abigor and Memno go to Satan; Memnon relates his story; Satam orders Abigor to attack the humans once more
Part 31: More UK mobilizing; Abigor sallies forth; Abigor surrenders and defects
Part 32: Baldricks are closely related to humans; Michael in Yahweh's temple; Abigor is taken to a POW camp; "highway to Hell"
Part 33: PFLH destroy a castle; USAF mobilizing
Part 34: Satan orders Asmodeus to wipe out PFLH and hears Abigor has defected; Dr Kuroneko tells the military they can't nuke portals; UK mobilizes
Part 35: Asmodeus begins to plan the assault on PFLH; Belial proposes using WMDs; Lugasharmanaska plans to contact Deumos
Part 36: DIMO(N) considers the problems vehicles have in Hell; thunder run into Hell
Part 37: Belial and Euryale begin planning the attacks; Luga uses Randi's tech to contact Deumos and demonstrate human power
Part 38: Directions and an assault on the Phlegethon from the Hellmouth; in Tartarus, problems finding human cities to assault; UK mobilization
Part 39: Tucker McElroy rescued; Belial continues planning for the assault
Part 40: Assault on the Dysprosium Highway bridge over the Phlegethon; Lakheenahuknaasi continues putting into effect Belial's plan to subvert human slaves; McElroy converses with kitten
Part 41: A jackass and other new recruits for kitten's position; a human in Tartarus decides to betray humanity; Satan learns of the assault on the Phlegethon bridge and that Asmodeus has died
Part 42: PFLH plans to take down Asmodeus; betrayal to Belial; Belial continues putting his plan into effect
Part 43: Humans begin putting up Camp Hell-Alpha; Stevenson gets some leave; random baldrick attack in China; Yulupki on her way to the volcano; Belial's court finds an unshielded human
Part 44: Petraeus and Abigor talk; Dorokhov learns of Beelzebub's force from Abigor; Abigor learns Asmodeus is dead; McElroy and his cell rescue Aeneas
Part 45: Aussie F-111 recon flight over Hell; Lakheenahuknaasi arrives in Sheffield and begins to target the portal
Part 46: Aeneas, Ori, and others in McElroy's PFLH cell interact; Ori kills a baldrick; recon photos arrive at Hell-Alpha and Petraeus makes Abigor doubt more
Part 47: Sheffield gets nuked
Part 48: Sheffield and the UK emergency response to the lava attack
Part 49: Dr Kuroneko learns of Sheffield and determines to prevent the next one; more emergency response at Sheffield; Lakheenahuknaasi hides; Belial parties
Part 50: More UK response at Sheffield; Lakheenahuknaasi engineers an escape; scientific research team at Hell-Alpha reports
Part 51: Abigor is questioned regarding Belial; Oval Office conference re. Sheffield; McElroy and co. attack a lone baldrick
Part 52: Memnon is sent to Tartarus; McElroy and co. attack a baldrick village, bring back fetuses, are sent to Camp Hell-Alpha; Karl Rove screws up politically
Part 53: Beelzebub plans the assault on the Phlegethon salient; Sheffield status meeting in Oval Office; Michael updates Yahweh; Rahab comes to Caesar
Part 54: Lakheenahuknaasi escapes Sheffield; Kuroneko, the Targeteer, and the portal-closing device; Dawkins goes to Caesar
Part 55: Belial and Euryale <3; Russians prepare for battle; Megaaeraholrakni arrives in Detroit; Free Hell is truly established
Part 56: Beelzebub orders the advance on the Phlegethon salient; Russians open up artillery; fighters engage harpies; Beelzebub's forces push forward; the Grey Lady is coming
Part 57: DIMO(N) detects a portal over Detroit; Detroit citizens shoot at Megaaeraholrakni and hit her; the portal is out of control and Euryale opens it
Part 58: Michael delivers an ultimatum; Abigor learns about nukes and meets the Targeteer
Part 59: Detroit damage mitigation efforts; Oval Office emergency meeting
Part 60: Air combat over the Phlegethon salient; wyverns dump sulfur; naga hit with white phosphorus
Part 61: Detroit emergency efforts; Euryale survives and rescues Yulupki; Kim meets with Caesar in Free Hell; baldricks plan amphibious assault on Free Hell
Part 62: Sheffield search-and-rescue efforts; special forces in the Sixth Ring
Part 63: First lines in the Phlegethon salient start to fall back; Russians use sarin on harpies; the wrath of the Grey Lady arrives
Part 64: Caesar, Pullo, and Vorenus watch Rome; Kim learns of the baldrick force; USAF prepare to bomb Satan's castle; Belial prepares to enter his castle; Russians and Germans prepare to fight
Part 65: Detroit firefighting efforts; Euryale subjugates Yulupki; Detroit escape efforts; search for Lakheenahuknaasi continues; preparations to open a seagoing hellgate
Part 66: US military has fucked up Beelzebub's army (he retreats); 4 MOPs fuck up Satan's Palace; Caesar fucks up a British power grab in Free Hell
Part 67: Beelzebub's second-in-command presses the attack; Caesar plans the defense of Free Hell; Deumos decides to switch sides; Oval Office meeting
Part 68: Dead Russian reports as a translating liaison; Belial begins the digging-out of Satan's palace; F-105s bomb Xisorixus' army
Part 69: Vulcan pilots watch the "Grey Ghosts" arrive; Earth-side closing of Detroit portal fails; Satan returns to his palace to find Belial organizing the rescue effort
Part 70: McElroy plays cards; Americans and Russians prepare for the final charge against Beelzebub's army; they execute the charge; Belial contacts his Wyverns and learns of the fate of Beelzebub's army
Part 71: Beelzebub observes the destruction of his army and dies; Lakheenahuknaasi continues to grow her cult; human rebellion in Tartarus; Xisorixus' forces are destroyed by Caesar and Free Hell
Part 72: Memnon arrives to Tartarus; McElroy and his team go there and plant the beacon; Deumos, Dagon, and others plan to betray Satan; Euryale contacts Lakheenahuknaasi
Part 73: RAF over-Hell reconnaissance picks up the Tartarus beacon; humans bomb Dis and orcs begin to revolt; B-1Bs get ready to go bomb Tartarus
Part 74: Ship Turner Joy sails from Seattle to the meeting point for the seagoing portal to Hell; Belial orders the evacuation of Tartarus; Palelabor has iron tools
Party 75: British discover Lakheenahuknaasi's cult; B-1Bs en route to Tartarus
Part 76: Siege of Dis; sky volcanoes destroyed; bombing of Tartarus; Lugasharmanaska joins the human team and Deumos is offered unconditional surrender; RCC excommunicates God
Part 77: Humans take over Plateau of Minos; rescued dead people put to work
Part 78: SAS take down Lakheenahuknaasi; Euryale learns of Lakheena's death; Michael enrages Yahweh into releasing Uriel and goes to get stoned with Jesus; Oval Office briefing
Part 79: US fleet goes to Hell; drive "north" meets resistance and frees serfs
Part 80: Satan dies; Abigor takes control
Part 81: Broomstick & Caesar hook up; Belial has a new weapon; ceasefire issued
Part 82: Navy forges toward northern Hell; Dis occupied; Belial picks up resistance; Julie Adams gets her revenge
Part 83: Belial's forces destroyed; Euryale turns on Belial and sues for peace with humans
Part 84: People start to adjust to post-Message, post-Armageddon life
Part 85: Occupation of Palelabor; death of Simplicius; Caesar & Kim; clearing of the Pit; letter from R. E. Lee
Epilogue: Belial defects to Heaven; the effect of Hell's occupation is felt on Earth.
Pantheocide, by Stuart, with contributions by Surlethe, __, __, __, and __.
Part 1: Yahweh sends a tornado to attack an airbase in Missouri, destroys the entire US B-2 fleet
Part 2: The captain of a cruise ship regards the destruction of the Bahamas by a hurricane enhanced by Yahweh
Part 3: Heavengate closes; a couple feel the financial ramifications of dead people still existing as persons
Part 4: Uriel, unable to attack the First World, destroys a village; briefing of President-elect Obama; sending a big F-YOU to Yahweh on Christmas
If you have any pertinent information to add as a reference that will help people understand the story better, please feel free.
Thanks to: GrandMasterTerwynn, for a correction on the link to the original SLAM thread.