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Welcome to the newest incarnation of ArcMage.
Arc News:
Beginning with Chapter Three, there are a few digressions in the form of "Easter Eggs". Run your mouse around the page to find them. In some cases, these provide some further depth and background for the story, in some cases they're pure self-indulgence on the author's part. If you hate this sort of thing, rest assured, you aren't missing anything crucial to the story if you ignore them.
Vanishing and reappearing things is a staple bit in stage magic, but entertaining tho it may be onstage, it's not something you want happening with your web pages. Maybe it's our choice of subject matter or venue, but sometimes it seems like Arc is just destined to vanish and reappear alot. Some of you may recall that some months back we were down for a few days while McBride Magic was having trouble with their server. The whole story about that incident was laid out in The Vanishing Website.
Well, as a result of that glitch, we set up an ArcMage mirror on Duncan Eagleson's design site. Now the mirror site has been down for a week, different server, different troubles - the gory details are in Son of Vanishing Website. The short version is, we've got a new host for the mirror site, and that shouldn't happen again.
New Readers:
If you're new to these pages, and want an overview of what you're letting yourself in for, if you don't mind a couple of minor spoilers (real minor, we promise), you might want to start with the Introduction. If you're accustomed to print comics (as we were when we started this project), and like to see a Cover (pictured above), you can start there - just be patient, if you aren't on a very fast connection, as the cover is a rather large graphic.
If you'd rather just jump right in, go for Part One.
The current chapter is Part Three of our first Arc, "Secrets".
