Time Line

-23 Years
October 12 - Jesse Truant is born Horace Buford Jackson. He is raised by two Aunts, from a strange backwater sect of the Verbena (Hyacinth and Muriel Jackson, two octagenarian twins).

-20 Years
May 15 - Hiro Stice is born to two average, middle-class parents in a suburb of Portland, Oregon. Neither are mystically inclined; his father Jason Stice is an electrical engineer working for Pacific Bell, his mother, Saori,  is a valium-popping den mother.

-12 Years
September 30 - Horace is withdrawn from the local schools.
December 5 - Horace awakens, opening the door in his Desmesne to where his Avatar is waiting for him.

-8 Years
Dec 31 - Horace's Aunts begin the family ritual which is meant to awaken the boy. It involves a ritual death and rebirth. Horace misunderstands and burns the house down around his Aunts heads.

-7 Years
Jan 1 - Horace admitted to a Knoxville, TN Psychward, in restraints.
October 12 - Horace escapes as John Doe. As part of the deal Horace cut with the denizens of the dream realm, he traded his name for his freedom. He cannot remember the name Horace Jackson, no matter how hard he tries.
October 20 - Jimmy Dee meets Sneaky Pete in Philadelphia. Begins to apprentice as a roper for the short grifts.

-4 Years
September 6 - Hiro begins his senior year in highschool.
November 27 - Xi Xiung, a Thigite infomancer, recognizes Hiro's potential and takes him under his wing; preparing him for eventual Awakening. Xi studies information networks -- such as the internet -- and seeks to learn the names of the aggregate systems: believing them to be conscious beings in their own right.

-3 Years
January 16 - 'Jake', an ex-ecstatic turned entheogenic alchemist, takes note of Hiro. He intervenes, becoming Hiro's confidant, supplier, and trip-guide. Xi remains unaware of the intervention.
Febuary 8 - John Tycho arrested in a casino in Reno, NV, for attempting a Con Game on an undecover officer. Sentenced to 2 years in Carson City.
March 15 - John's cellmate Voodoo Eddie, a Caipoeria Practitioner and ex-Akashic, notices John's latent talents and begins training him. He also explains the nature of the world,
March 15 John is initiated into The Invisible College.
July 6 - Hiro is pushed by Xi into an awakening. He is unaware of the fact that Jake -- knowing what Hiro's mentor planned -- has loaded him up in advance with smart drugs and mescaline. Xi congratulates Hiro on his performance -- having passed his initiation test in record time. 
July 7 - Jake puts Hiro  through a second rite of passage: forcing his avatar to permanently manifest. He names it 'Linus', after the creator of the linux operating system.
September 12 - Hiro enrolls in Portland community college, major undeclared.
December 9 - Jake dissapears. Shortly thereafter, Hiro drops out of school.

- 2 Years
Febuary 2 - Hiro moves to San Francisco with Xiu in order to continue his training at the Thig chantry there. Under more strenuous observation, the unusual nuances of his magical beliefs become obvious to the other students, and eventually Xi. Tensions develop.
Febuary 8 - John Tycho released from prison. Leaves Nevada on a Greyhound bus.
Febuary 11 - Jesse Truant arrives at the Crossed Rose, a San Francisco bookstore, where he meets Johnny Irish. Johnny introduces Jesse to Donatien. Jesse tries his best to fit into House Ex Misc.
March 15 - Hiro and 'Kid Sinister' -- aka Jesse Truant -- meet during a gig running light and sound at a renegade rave in an Oakland industrial district.
March 15 Hiro is initiated into the Invisible College.
June 1 - Jesse and Hiro move into a decrepit frathouse and christen it The Invisible College.
December 5 - Hiro severs his connection with Xi Xiung, and the Thigites. He goes MIA, dropping off the house's radar. At Xi's urging, he is not formally excised from the Tradition.