Arcane
English
32 pages
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1: Arcane #1 - Recollections (I of III)
359 views • Aug 07, 2024
Fourteen-year-old HOGAN SERRANO is in a new town with a new school and the same old problems... plus a new one. Awaking into a living nightmare, it turns out that the teen has become embroiled in a paranormal catastrophe. What happened? Hogan's memory is spotty, but a bedraggled "sorcerer" claims to know what to do. Can Hogan trust him? And does he even have a choice?
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2: Arcane #2 - Recollections (II of III)
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Fourteen-year-old HOGAN SERRANO accidentally touched THE OCULUS and gained the memories of the thousands who bore that ancient artifact before him.
Saved from undead STITCHERS by a wandering, self-proclaimed sorcerer named JOE AUCOIN (who had hoped to use the oculus himself), Hogan must find a way to control the secrets in his mind before he goes insane.
Who resurrected the stitchers? Hogan doesn’t know: all he can do is await the return of Joe, who has promised to help Hogan with his “problem”... but at what cost?
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3: Arcane #3 - Recollections (III of III)
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Fourteen-year-old HOGAN SERRANO accidentally touched THE OCULUS and gained the memories of the thousands who bore that ancient artifact before him. That act created a flare on the ETHEREAL PLANE, bringing down a horde of STITCHERS controlled by a NAMELESS DRIFTER empowered by an UNKNOWABLE EVIL to perform a single mission: get the Oculus (and its secrets) at any cost.
Hogan has been separated from JOE AUCOIN, a sorceror who grudgingly promised to help the teen. With more stitchers on the way, Hogan searches the catacombs beneath the willow wood coffins of a potter's field for the grave of ANTONIA FREEMAN, a prior bearer of the Oculus. Joe promised that the dirt of that locale would mask Hogan's newfound abilities, though Hogan has no clue how...
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4: Arcane #4 - Somewheres and Somehows (I of II)
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Fourteen year-old HOGAN SERRANO accidentally touched THE OCULUS and gained the memories of the thousands who bore that ancient artifact before him.
That act created a flare on the ETHEREAL PLANE, bringing down a horde of STITCHERS controlled by a NAMELESS DRIFTER empowered by an UNKNOWABLE EVIL to
perform a single mission: get the Oculus (and its secrets) at any cost.
A self-proclaimed sorcerer named JOE AUCOIN saved Hogan’s mind and life; in
exchange, he now expects the teen to work for him in the man’s decades-long quest for vengeance and justice in the hidden world of the occult. Unable to tell anyone about what has happened for fear of being institutionalized, Hogan now searches for
any way to escape his fate.
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5: Arcane #5 - Somewheres and Somehows (II of II)
69 views • Sep 04, 2024
Unable to tell anyone about his newfound powers, Hogan Serrano has been searching for a way to get rid of the Oculus, leading him to a charlatan of a psychic, Madame Savoir. In an attempt to impress a wealth benefactor and occultist, Clayton Morrow, Savoir performed a fake ritual that was meant to aid a group of magick practitioners across the Veil to the second plane of existence. Instead, due to Hogan's "help," Savoir accidentally created a portal through which the entire proceedings were pulled, to parts unknown...
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6: Arcane #6 - Foreshadows
20 views • Oct 09, 2024
Self-proclaimed sorcerer, JOE AUCOIN has saved Hogan and now expects the teenager to work for him in the man’s decades-long quest for vengeance in the hidden world of the occult. Hogan has survived run-ins with undead STITCHERS, a NAMELESS NECROMANCER, and an interdimensional implosion, but has yet to find a way to escape this twisted world and find a way back to normalcy. Now, as events in the street and underneath it begin to strip Hogan from his humanity, his greatest threat will come not from the immaterial world but from his own home...
