PTC # Laurs

Balance was disturbed, however, when a new Director of Light came into power when the old one retired. This new Director was very opinionated, and those opinions involved restructuring the balance. He named himself the Inquisitor. He believed that balance was only achieved when Darkness was eliminated. Light became Good, and Darkness became Bad. Bad must be stamped out, or forced to live within the constraints that the Light permitted. Freedom was caged by new laws; laws which became more constricting on a weekly basis.

In the beginning, commands were treated with grumbling and complaining, and the Light Agents did their best to warn the Dark Agents and work with them as peacefully as they could to enforce the new laws.

Dark Agents were shocked, offended and very upset by the new regime, as was to be expected. For a time, they tried follow the constraints, not wanting the long friendships that had been forged to shatter. But commands became worse and worse. The strain of both sides quickly reached the breaking point. Friends became enemies, and every Light Agent who obeyed, soon took to hunting the Agents of Darkness like criminals. Angry at the treatment, the Dark Agents, responsible for keeping the Dark Citizens safe, retaliated. The battle began in earnest when the Dark finally put their collective foot down.

War broke out.

Cities became segregated. Then, they became all Light or all Dark. Supremacists took sides and went for one another's throats. Balance exists in all things, and even war between the two elements could not be won; only struggled through with losses on both sides. Factions began forming, and the unity of the Agencies fractured. The war grew worse, with more casualties, as no one could unite for any decisive decision.

Where was the Agency of Balance in all of this? Thrown into chaos. Agents of Balance were either "Missing In Action," or else "no longer with the Agency." It should be no surprise that the ones who went missing were trying to aid the Dark in regaining equality.

But there is one faction doing better than any of the others... one rumored to be hiding in Shadowglen forest. They say a mystical Sanctuary has appeared, and sympathizers are gathering...