“The 13th Step” is Dionysus’ final broadcast — speaking to whoever’s still listening. He talks about Yukio Mishima, about the maize god and Osiris, about the strange arithmetic by which a man becomes a myth and the myth outlives the man who carried it. By now, he’s the last one left to tell it.

They came to the Black Hills to bury their dead and make a last stand — and the desperate, the faithful, and the merely doomed came with them, thousands strong, turning a funeral into a final gesture. 

In a cold interrogation room, Agent Trevino finally has one of them across the table — and she could not be less afraid. Lilith answers his questions about plans and targets with stories about ant colonies and reincarnation and slowly turns the interrogation into something he never authorized and can't control. 

“Rushmore” brings two opposing forces into the same valley at last, and something is about to break. Mythology and manifest destiny collide on profaned, once sacred ground.

Rewind to 2007 — before the band, before the bus, before the bodies. A burned-out corporate infiltrator called Bradley the Buyer spends his days gaming the stock of the pharmaceutical giant that employs him, and his nights wondering why the whole world feels so deeply, structurally wrong. The answer arrives in a boardroom — and it’s a great deal stranger than he bargained for.

When Lilith and Jesus peel off for a midnight joyride, a routine stop at a roadside diner turns on a single ugly word. “Stray Bullets” is about how violence finds the people who go looking for it and the people who don't — and how one tired federal agent learns that the cleanest way to hunt a movement is to invent the war you need to justify the hunt. Their gonzo roadtrip gets decidedly darker.

Somewhere on the endless American interstate, a tour bus the size of a whale carries a band that is becoming something closer to a religion. Babylon plays for crowds that arrive like pilgrims, and behind the throbbing bass and the body paint, its members are starting to suspect their dreams are bleeding into one another — and into something far older. Meanwhile, a federal agent named Trevino sifts through the wreckage they leave behind, certain it adds up to more than bad music and felony theft.

A single bulb swings in a hotel room that looks like a crime scene — which, more or less, it is. 

Mike checked in as a freelance web developer; a week later he’s broke, strung out, cornered, and holding a small object that every cartel on three continents wants back. Every exit he reaches for falls apart in his hands. Then there’s a knock at the door... 

Season 6 of the Fallen Cycle Mythos opens on the night Mike stops running from his life and looks for a way to cash in. A drug-soaked noir overture about debt, dumb luck, and the strange comfort of becoming no one, “How To Disappear Completely” is a new perspective into everything that follows.